WORST SCENES
- Superman: The Movie: The infamous 'turning back time' sequence. It's just a really gimmicky scene and while it has dramatic impact, the lack of consequences pretty much mean that Superman is omnipotent. Another moment I really don't like is the scene where we are introduced to Otis; which slows down the action a great deal and is basically ten minutes of characters who never appeared in the comics, who we don't care about.
- Superman II: The scene on the moon is really annoying, as the Zone Criminals are heard talking, the ship looks incredibly fake and the gravity seems a bit off. Other than that, the 'extra power' scenes are pretty dumb, other than the 'magic-kiss' scene which is under-rated and at least has consequences.
- Superman II - The Richard Donner Cut: The decision to include a screen test for the sake of a bit of confusing dialogue (all of a sudden Lois really likes Clark and considers him Superman's main competition for her affections?!) and the decision to include the already annoying climax from the first film.
- Superman III: The dreadful opening scene, every scene with Robert Vaughn and indeed, most of the film. (Surprisingly, there isn't really any scenes in Superman IV I can point at and say "That's really bad." It's just a poorly made film that I enjoy anyway.)
- Batman 1989: Most of the uses of the Prince music from the soundtrack. Most of the second act is really slow. I don't get why Alfred letting Vicki into the Batcave or the Joker being the murderer of the Waynes bothers people so much.
- Batman Returns: Where do I start? The Penguin's stupid origin; Batman being an invincible crime-stopping force of nature even though he just sort of walks around Gotham, Batman casually murdering people throughout the movie, "Candy Floss-Haired DJ Wayne" and the ridiculous (albeit hilarious) way he stops the Penguin, the dreadfully forced-in cookie-cutter "Bat Skiboat", Catwoman's origin, every time Catwoman is onscreen; the scene where Batman very obviously no longer has the black makeup on his eyes as he takes his mask off; the black bile spewing from the Penguin's mouth...
- Batman Forever: The Riddler's baseball sounds in the Batcave. I pretty much love every other second of this movie, even the admittedly silly parts.
- Batman & Robin: The scene with the bad puns. The scene with the bad ice puns. The scene where Batman has a stupid costume. Oh no wait, the whole film.
- Superman Returns: The depressing opening scene with Luthor screwing over an old lady, that came directly after the triumph of the opening credits ruining the uplifting feeling that came before; the cannibalistic dogs; Lex's plot; the confusingly inconsistent effects of Kryptonite; the dull third act.
- Batman Begins: Pretty much every scene with Tom Wilkinson and some of the scenes with Rutger Hauer, where the movie slows down a bit.
- The Dark Knight: Batman's 'skinnier' look is irritating throughout the movie, as is Bale's weird 'Bat-lisp' that absolutely wasn't in the first movie. Some of the bizarre, unclear moments that Planet-Man has detailed a bunch of times.
Iron-Man, Thor and a lot of the Marvel movies: The way they irritatingly refer to MySpace, Facebook or whatever other cultural trend is popular at the moment. These movies will be horrifically dated in ten years' time.
Kick-Ass: Every time that Hit-Girl is onscreen, the movie jumps the shark and is no longer set in the real world. I hated the finale climax for this.
Spider-Man 2: The terrible jokes, the awful elevator scene, the over-rated battles; the fact that the villain's motivations are pretty much exactly the same (he's gone crazy and thinks he's being manipulated by mysterious forces), Tobey Maguire's increasingly creepy, developmentless performance as Peter Parker.
Spider-Man 3: Again, no particular moment I can call out as being 'bad' even though it is a mediocre film overall. I even liked Venom and other stuff like JJJ and the grumpy landlord were better than ever. Even the infamous emo-dancing scene did actually make sense in the context of the story. Sandman and his excessively pretentious origin kind of annoyed me.
X-Men 3: The way Angel barely appeared in the film and didn't even wear an X-Men uniform (even though he did in the posters and on the DVD cover).
X-Men Origins: Wolverine: Deadpool, obviously. The Weapon X scene was also extremely rushed and lacked the emotional resonance it should have had. But then, the way the previous films had set it up meant that it was always going to.
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