Topic: Rubbish but with a really good bit!

[Najemikon]

I just reviewed Eastern Promises and it made me wonder what peoples favourite scenes are.

But with a twist! This favourite scene has to be trapped in a really crap film. In fact, how good the scene is must be in direct proportion to how bad the rest of the film is. I wonder what classics are hidden away, because normally when you talk of great scenes, they're in great films that people want to see.

Eastern Promises
Boring, predictable and worst of all, toothless. But the naked sauna fight with Viggo Mortensen is brilliant and very memorable.

Warrior King
Tony Jaa's second outing is a mess. To be fair, most martial arts films are ropey, but the acrobatic displays carry you through. Here, although the choreography is still top drawer, it's ruined completely by overuse of cheesy MTV music video styling, terrible editing and a truly ridiculous sound effects (in the final battle, bone crunches on everything and I mean everything). However, languishing in the middle of this turd is a five minute tracking shot where Tony fights his way through dozens of foes over three or four levels of a huge spiral staircase (staircase is unfair, but I don't know what to call it! ). It has to be seen to be believed. There's so much variety and skill on display. Best of all, the intention to do it in one take means they couldn't use cheesy MTV music video styling or editing, terrible or otherwise! This is in fact the perfect example for this thread; they have to abandon everything that makes the film bad, to make the scene work! 

[lovemunkey187]

Matrix Reloaded

The "Tea Shop" fight between Neo (Keanu Reeves) and Seraph (Colin Chou).

As we all know the Matrix sequels are a little poor in many aspects, but this fight scene (as far as I am concernred) is excellent.
Fair enough Colin Chou has a very experienced martial arts background, and to the best of my knowledge Keanu has little to no prior experience to the training that he did for these films.

This short but intense sparring set piece always seems to be overshadowed by the CGI-tastic, but less credible, "Burly man" fight (the bit with several dozen clones of Agent Smith in the playground).

Also worth a mention is Monica Bellucci  . She's worth mentioning regardless of the subject at hand.

[Najemikon]

Good call. And I hope others come up with ideas, because all I remember is the disspointment I felt with the sequels, but now you've reminded me of a point in Reloaded where I loved it and thought, "they might just pull this off..."

Moonraker
If I remember correctly: worst Bond, best stunt. The film was an absolute joke. An obvious, misguided response to Star Wars. But early on there's a sequence where Bond is left in a plane with no pilot and Jaws has taken the last chute. So Bond jumps out anyway...

That just encompasses everything that's good about Bond; OTT stunt proceeded by his fantastic "F**k it" attitude. Shame it had to end up in space with bloody lasers.

[richierich]

Home Of The Brave

One of the most disappointing films of recent times IMO

However, the ambush scene is absolutely awesome and breathtaking in it's intensity, the images will stay with me for life.

Special mention to Victoria Rowell who played SLJ wife, now she is HOT Jon!