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People Share 29 Single Scenes That Messed Up The Entire Movie Or TV Show
Movie makers always strive to create the “perfect” visual media product. From TV shows to movies and their franchises, each creator uses various techniques to captivate audiences and, maybe, even make history with their work.
Still, despite their best efforts, mistakes happen. From time to time, these slip-ups go unnoticed or aren’t so big that they hurt a big part of the audience. Other times, people aren’t so forgiving, especially when the mistakes ruin everything that was created before. That’s what this list is about—scenes that are so bad, folks online aren’t planning to forgive the writers anytime soon. So, let’s dive in, shall we?
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#1
I really hated that in the movie for 12 Years a Slave they had him h****** with a woman while he was a slave. In his book (it's a true story that he wrote himself after getting out) he says he stayed faithful to his wife the whole time. I don't care if someone thought the audience wouldn't believe that, it's wrong for them to insert something like that when he clearly stated he didn't.
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#3
How I Met Your Mother - 9 years of development and growth ends up trashed with 90 seconds of Barney and Robyn getting divorced, Mom makes a cameo and Ted and Robyn h******.
I have never gone back and watched a single rerun because of that debacle.
There are many ways film creators make movies captivating. Some rely on storytelling for that. By making the narrative engaging, understandable, relatable, and educational, storytelling holds a lot of power. In fact, some say that it is the heart and soul of filmmaking.
Other movies count on video editing—or, better put, post-production magic. For instance, making the movie immersive is mostly done by including the senses of sight and sound, as these are the most easily fulfilled in film creation.
With sound, makers can use spatial, binaural audio, and other sound effects to enhance realism. The visuals usually rely on the filming methods, then added effects and editing in post-production.
#4
When Deb f*****g confessed her love toward Dexter. Who the f*** confesses romantic feelings to their brother? I don't care he was her adopted brother, it's still her f*****g brother. Entirely ruined the rest of the show for me.
The stupid therapist put the idea into her head, too. She didn't even feel that way until then.
Dear writers, don't do this.
#6
Poochie leaving for his home planet…. Like [why?] they just introduced this rad character for itchy and scratchy to hang with and then he just…. leaves????
Speaking of visual effects (or special effects)—they are an irreplaceable part of modern filmmaking. Typically, they are of two types—practical and digital. The former are when physical objects and techniques are used while filming, like makeup, prosthetics, animatronics, pyrotechnics, and so on. They have been used since the early days of film creation.
Then, with the evolution of technology, digital effects came to be as well. They count on things like green screens, motion capture technology, digital compositing, and computer-generated imagery (CGI) to create needed visuals that can’t be done physically.
#8
May already be on here, but Scrubs had an amazing last scene, JD seeing his happy future as he says goodbye to Sacred Heart.
Then they made another season.
At the same time, some argue that CGI has kind of ruined the movies. Here, as Erik Hoel says, nowadays makers opt for digital effects (and especially computer-generated imagery) as much as possible, neglecting physical effects to cut down on the cost and effort. This results in movies from back in the day looking more real than they do now.
For him, this is most apparent in sci-fi and fantasy films. For example, in the remakes of, let’s say, A Nightmare on Elm Street, the effects are vastly different than they were in the originals. Also, in series like Star Wars or Matrix, the decline of physical effects is visible as well.
#10
Every doctor/hospital/ER show depicting physicians getting involved in patients private lives once they leave medical care. Seriously?? No physician around here does that unless he's trying to [meet someone].
#12
When Rory ended up pregnant (not to mention completely washed up) in the Gilmore Girls Revival.
Yet, CGI is not the only thing that ruins movies for people. Sometimes, a movie can be an amazing creation until one particular scene comes along and ruins everything. Whether it’s a new character joining the story, an old one returning, their acting out of character, or a new thing being revealed that changes everything—the ways in which a story can go wrong are endless.
If you’re craving more specified examples, this list is perfect for you. It was collected from answers people had when r/AskReddit posed the question, “What single scene ruined an entire movie/franchise/ TV series?” Since they asked, the thread has gathered 18K replies, showing that plenty of people have been disappointed by scenes in their beloved stories.
While the number sounds pretty bad, we also should remember the good old saying, “Art is subjective.” That means that, while a scene might ruin the whole experience of a movie (or TV show/franchise as it is said in the original question), others might not bat an eye.
#13
The final 5 minutes of the original Roseanne.
"Dan died, the sisters swapped husband's, moms gay, Jackie's gay, this was all a book".
#14
George Clooney cut himself loose from a space station in order to save Sandra Bullock.
His velocity was zero relative to the station. He wouldn't have "fell" and he wasn't "pulling her down.".
#15
Honestly the Red John reveal in The Mentalist kinda [angry] me off...it just felt like they had a hat with every minor character name in it and just picked one.
Maybe it doesn’t bother them as much as others, or perhaps they don’t notice it. After all, in 2024, the average attention span is 8.25 seconds—less than that of a goldfish (9 seconds).
Either way, that doesn’t change the fact that some people can’t watch their beloved stories the same way they after the aforementioned scenes happen. Even if the controversial scene were taken out—like the scene in the TV show 13 Reasons Why was—you can’t pretend it never happened. People still remember.
Do you have an example of a scene that ruined a story for you? Share with us in the comments!
#16
How they ended the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise. [Ended] me that Orlando Bloom’s character can only see his wife and son every ten years.
#18
Arya going to King's Landing to [end] Cersei.
Jaime almost died in a fight. They should have let him die, Arya finds him, takes his face, becomes Jaime, goes to Cersei, she dies in his arms after he stabs her, prophecy fulfilled, then she shows Cersei it was her as she's dying. "But she can't [end] the Night King AND Cersei" yeah because she never should have [ended] the Night King, Jon Snow was supposed to [end] the Night King. Just once it would have been nice to have something happen that WAS expected. They got so obsessed with surprises that they ruined some major plot opportunities.
#19
Thats gotta be the scene from season 12 from Doctor who, where they explain that the doctor is not from this universe and that the people who found her stole the secret to practical immortality from her. This single scene rewrote everything we know about the doctor and destroyed the legacy of one of the longest running tv-shows. Rip William hartnell, you will always be the 1st doctor in my heart.
#20
Chris Chibnall single-handedly destroying more than 50 years of Doctor who by making the timeless child be The Doctor.
#21
The moment I heard how they pronounced Aang’s name in M. Night’s adaptation of Avatar instantly [ended] me with laughter as well as you know the whole movie.
Edit: Hey everyone I don’t remember saying any of this. All I remember is no war in Ba Sing Se.
#23
The kiss between Sharon Carter & Captain America in Civil War. Why did they kiss in the first place and why was it never addressed again???
#24
Carl Grimes’ death. f*** SCOTT GIMBLE OR WHATEVER HIS NAME IS.
EDIT: Welp, never thought my top comment on Reddit would be me getting mad at a fictional character being done dirty, but here I am 😂 Thank you all for the upvotes and awards lol.
#25
My mom is still mad about the final scene of St. Elsewhere.
Edit: Thank you guys, and thanks for the silver!
#27
The Dothraki charge into the night king's army. I just sat there and told myself: "what the f*** is this ridiculous s**t?".
#28
How has nobody mentioned the infamous ‘Martha/WHY DID YOU SAY THAT NAME?!’ scene from Batman vs. Superman? It’s unforgivably dumb.
Also the element in Avatar being called ‘unobtainium.’ So stupid. That movie came out, what, 12 years ago? I still randomly get [angry] off about that from time to time.
Edit: guys, to be clear, I *understand* the ‘Martha’ thing, and what it means. That’s not the issue. The issue is that it was f*****g stupid, and it felt clumsy as h**l.
Edit 2: people are *still* ‘explaining’ how the Martha thing ‘actually makes sense,’ GUYS I GET IT.
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