JCC Scenes in your favorite movies that you skip.

What are some scenes in movies/books that you otherwise adore that you tend to skip? A few off the top of my head:

Zodiac: The entire sequence the culminates in a Zodiac impersonator calling into the Jim Dunbar show.

Dumb and Dumber: The scene in Lloyd's dream sequence where he fights the chef. Way too slapstick.

Crimson Tide: It only lasts about a minute, but I hate that exchange between Hunter and the technician where Hunter motivates him with Star Trek references.

Star Wars: ANH: The trash compactor. ROTJ: Most of the Ewok village scenes. TLJ: Entire movie.

Harry Potter (books): The Quidditch chapters. Yawn.

Cleveland-GSW, Game 7: The final Cleveland possession where LeBron is at least ostensibly injured on a foul by Draymond Green.

 

You don’t fool me, you just wanted to say TLJ sucks.

 

So TLJ is one of your favourite movies and you skip the whole thing when you watch it. Interesting.

 

Camelot: If Ever I Would Leave You, and Lusty Month of May. Horrible songs.

 

i honestly can't think of a single thing that falls in this category for me.

 

I'm sure I have more, but at the top of my head:

Les Miserables: The whole Fantine backstory when she gets kicked out and it goes into I Dreamed A Dream.

AND THIS CRAP. Even though I'll admit, it's one of the better parts of the movies servicing what it's about well, SCREW IT!!

 

I still occasionally wonder why Simba leaves the comforts of Pride Rock...

 

We used to have a thread in the Amp called Bad Scenes in Great Movies. I don't really skip scenes ever, but a lot of great movies have one or two scenes that just aren't as good as the movie as a whole. I'm kind of struggling to think of one right now . . . About ten will doubtless come to me as soon as I try to go to sleep tonight.

We also had a thread called Great Scenes in Bad Movies. That was a fun one too. That happens a lot, where a movie will fail on the whole, but have like one or two fantastic moments. First one that leaps to mind for that is the opening plane sequence in The Dark Knight Rises. That whole sequence is breathtaking. The movie, frankly, never recovers from its inability to live up to those first five or ten minutes.

EDIT: Thought of two really good examples of Bad Scenes in Great Movies. The psychiatrist's monologue at the end of Psycho is pretty clunky and, while it might have been helpful for audiences at the time, it just feels tacked on and extraneous now. And the drug trip in Book Smart with the dolls. That scene is pretty terrible. I mean drug trip scenes are honestly kind of usually not as good as the director seems to think they are. Midsommar had a couple of those scenes that went on too long.

 

Does skipping season 8 of Game of Thrones count?

 

I never really watch movies twice, unless it's at the cinema and then you can't skip.

 

Bad Episodes in Great Series is totally a thread.

 

Galactica boxing?

 

Superman 1978:
Lois's love poem when she goes flying with Supes. ugh.

 

Who would skip this?

 

I always skip the rolling end credits in my favorite movies.

 

I don't skip scenes either, but one in particular that comes to mind that I almost want to skip when I come to it is the Camelot sing-along scene in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, otherwise one of my favorite comedies of all time.

'Tis a silly place indeed.

 

Respect.

Though, I love that. It’s just so dumb and gloriously rips on musical theater.

I generally skip movies over scenes.

When I do skip they are:

Everything but Chan Wai Man’s scenes in The Deadly Breaking Sword,

Toad’s torture and murder scenes in The Five Venoms (Mainly because I like Toad and hate seeing him go through that).

Winter Soldier - The end fight. I saw it enough to know what happens. It is not as effective or great as the highway-causeway fight and Bucky at the Smithsonian.

While Infinity War is not a favorite film, I skip everything but Thor and Doctor Strange’s heroic scenes.

 

I could watch Edge of Tomorrow every day of the week except for the last five minutes. I feel the same way about Groundhog Day except for the first 10 minutes. It's odd that I can endlessly rewatch movies that are about endless recapitulation of the same scenes.

 

you can say that again.

 

Most serious torture scenes in films. Not Rambo or Jackie Chan stuff but things like Reservoir Dogs. I can't stand seeing people screaming in pain.

 

Creed: any scene with his gf. I'm sorry but she just annoys me to no end.