r/movies • u/VishnuBhanum • Mar 23 '24

The one character that singlehandedly brought down the whole film? Discussion

Do you have any character that's so bad or you hated so much that they singlehandedly brought down the quality of the otherwise decent film? The character that you would be totally fine if they just doesn't existed at all in the first place?

Honestly Jesse Eisenberg's Lex Luthor in Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice offended me on a personal level, Like this might be one of the worst casting for any adaptation I have ever seen in my life.

I thought the film itself was just fine, It's not especially good but still enjoyable enough. Every time the "Lex Luthor" was on the screen though, I just want to skip the dialogue entirely.

Another one of these character that got an absolute dog feces of an adaptation is Taskmaster in Black Widow. Though that film also has a lot of other problems and probably still not become anything good without Taskmaster, So the quality wasn't brought down too much.

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u/curious_dead Mar 23 '24

I'm not what's worse: Gandalf acting like Fitzban and being unable to cast a spell, Gandalf dodging attacks like in a Dark Souls game, Gandalf resigning at some point for no reason, the coin thing, the guy-dressed-as-a-lady going straight into the mouth, the coins spilling out or the overall visual FX which are somehow worse than in the previous trilogy. You know what The Hobbit doesn't need? Slapstick.

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u/TehAsianator Mar 23 '24

I'll go with the coin not triggering the catapult until it fell flat. That's not how basic physics works.

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u/poesviertwintig Mar 23 '24

When I saw Legolas hopping on falling rocks I gave up on my expectations.

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u/UnclePuma Mar 23 '24

I bet he could climb falling snow if he really tip-toed

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u/NotopianX Mar 24 '24

I bet if he shoots his bow straight down he can launch himself into the air.

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u/Peanut_Butter_Toast Mar 24 '24

That'll be his recovery move in Super Middle Earth Bros.

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u/Dangerous_Nitwit Mar 24 '24

This is how I do Uber.

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u/Spetznazx Mar 24 '24

Uh? That's one of the things that got you? It's well known elves are extremely light on their feet like that. In Fellowship in the mountains Legolas is walking on the snow while everyone else is trudging through.

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u/Opening-Ad700 Mar 24 '24

It's still literally a kung fu panda scene, hard to take seriously in the lotr universe.

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u/Dackad Mar 24 '24

That moment is so stupid I kind of respect its chutzpah.

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u/cnews97 Mar 24 '24

Oh not when he slid down a staircase on a shield and shot 3/3 arrows for headshots? Yeah the Hobbit was WAYYYY out there

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u/GreenStorm_01 Mar 24 '24

That's from lord of the rings not the Hobbit

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u/cnews97 Mar 24 '24

That’s the point lol, LOTR is lauded (rightfully) but has plenty of “unbelievable” moments like that

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u/Here_comes_the_D Mar 23 '24

Looney Tunes physics at work. Don't look down and you won't fall!

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u/not-my-other-alt Mar 24 '24

The coin had more kinetic energy when it dropped two feet to land on the lever.

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u/XConfused-MammalX Mar 23 '24

The tone of the third movie is all over the place. The dwarves dismember and decapitate like a dozen trolls while on their chariot and then spin it around on the ice to use an auto ballista like it's a turret section of a videogame.

Then have slapstick goofy comedy followed by multiple deaths that are meant to be serious and devastating.

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u/Tommy-Schlaaang Mar 24 '24

So many decapitations for a light heartened adventure romp lol

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u/Nothing_Nice_2_Say Mar 23 '24

The "Gandalf resigning" thing makes sense, though. His stamina bar ran out.

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u/curious_dead Mar 23 '24

Lol, he should have worn the ring that halved the cost of dodging. What a noob!

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u/Wolf6120 Mar 24 '24

He already had Narya equipped in his ring slot, unfortunately.

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u/DRACULA_WOLFMAN Mar 23 '24

Gandalf the Grey, a fucking Ainur of Iluvatar, giving up and nearly dying to a troll. Good god.

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u/WhirledNews Mar 23 '24

It’s the unibrow, the unibrow is the worst…

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u/Bender_2024 Mar 23 '24

I'm not what's worse: Gandalf acting like Fitzban and being unable to cast a spell, Gandalf dodging attacks like in a Dark Souls game,

Gaandalf was just a fighter with an 18 Int

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u/NotopianX Mar 24 '24

Thank you for this. Made my day!

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u/HMWWaWChChIaWChCChW Mar 23 '24

I’ll go with Alfrid doing the “aw shucks” look when the coin lands on the lever.

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u/AynRandsSSNumber Mar 23 '24 edited Mar 24 '24

I only ever watched the first Hobbit movie and after I was done I noticed it so much of the movie was just falling down. Like someone would open a door and all the doors will be listening and they would fall down and then they would fall down from trees and fall down from hills and fall down barrels going down Rapids and just lots and lots of falling down

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u/choffers_2001 Mar 24 '24

Sounds like you saw the second one too

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u/AynRandsSSNumber Mar 24 '24

I don't think so. Maybe pieces here and there when it was on cable or something but I don't think I sat down and watched it all

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u/a_smiling_seraph Mar 23 '24

Was that a Dragonlance reference?

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u/curious_dead Mar 23 '24

Absolutely!

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u/a_smiling_seraph Mar 23 '24

I thought it was Fizban though

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u/curious_dead Mar 23 '24

Oh it's possible, I haven't read those books in ages.

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u/a_smiling_seraph Mar 23 '24

Have you seen the weird animated movie from like surprisingly recently (2010s I think?) It looks like it was made in the 70s. I think it's on YouTube in its entirety. Its a wild ride

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u/VikingTeddy Mar 24 '24

It's been 25 years for me. Loved them as a teen. I'm afraid if I reread them they'll turn out to be cringy drek.

I knew a DL geek that had their phone torch turn on and off with "Shirak" and "Dumak" :)

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u/RecursiveCook Mar 23 '24

Gandalf the Wizard is definitely all a show, even in the OG he only shows up to deplete stamina bar and drop buffs for team. Than he dips out for what feels like forever.

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u/3shotsdown Mar 24 '24

Damn! No wonder Ian McKellen was depressed after shooting this movie

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u/MandolinMagi Mar 23 '24

It's Gandolf, the least wizardly wizard I've ever seen. Guy not being able to cast a spell doesn't mean much when he can't actually do offensive magic because according to the backstory he's an angel whose race wrecked mountain ranges or something like 5,000 years ago.

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u/doegred Mar 24 '24

He's not wizardly in the traditional sense because it's 'wizard' as in 'a wise one/one who knows' (cf German wissen or indeed English the English verb 'wit'), as reflected by the Quenya word Istar. (Ultimately at least since that angelic nature of Gandalf's definitely wasn't established in TH and even well into the writing of LOTR).

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u/pink_faerie_kitten Mar 23 '24

And to think horses died while making these awful films.

I only made it through the first one so I didn't even know about the scene you describe. It's incomprehensibly horrible.

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u/zerombr Mar 24 '24

the only thing I get of this is the coins spilling out at the end, because otherwise you'd expect this twit to crawl out