What are at least 10 of the most ridiculous scenes you've seen in movies regardless of whether the whole movie itself was good or not?

 It used to be a hobby, in our friend group, to seek out and watch the worst movies we could find. We watched the classic ‘so bad they’re good’ films like ‘The Room’ and ‘Birdemic’, of course, but we also found some really obscure movies which are just as horrible.

The biggest WTF moment of any movie I’ve ever seen comes from ‘2010: Moby Dick’, a retelling of the ‘Moby Dick’ story set on a nuclear submarine.

Most of the movie is pretty boring, to be honest. It’s just a bunch of guys talking about a whale on a cheap submarine set. But then comes the climactic battle, when our heroes land on a tropical island, because, ‘the safest place to hunt a whale is from the land’ 😂

The CGI whale obliges them and starts rearing up out of the water while they shoot at it with pistols and rifles. Then comes the greatest moment in cinema history:

The whale simply swims out of the water, onto the land, and starts sliding around like a snake. Nobody seems surprised by this. It does a stunt jump off a mountain and lands on a guy, crushing him, before swimming back into the water.

Soon afterwards, the island is struck by a nuclear torpedo:

And the plucky female protagonist is somehow ‘thrown clear’ of the explosion to emerge unscathed from the water.

It really feels like they shot all the submarine scenes, realized the film needed an ending, and had about two days to finish it. And at a certain point the director just threw up his hands and said ‘fuck it, the whale can swim on land now.’

Not really a film I’d recommend. But if you’re in the mood to see a whale do a stunt jump off a mountain, I’m pretty sure it is literally your only option.

Which is the most ridiculous story of a Bollywood movie ever?

 When they throw a Khan, a Roshan and The Bachchan at us, no one really gives a damn to the plot, just in case if one does, they bring in Ms. Lata Mangeshkar with lines like,“meri saason mein tu hai samaayaa” (you reside in my soul ) and that is how Bollywood makes ‘logic’ look like the 5th gear in a Maruti 800!

Ladies and Gentlemen, the movie you all love :

Kabhi khushi….kabhi ghum

Amitabh Bachchan a.k.a Yash Raichand happens to own a godforsaken mansion with acres of land suffused in green grass at some place near ‘chandini chowk’ with an entire helipad of his own! I don’t really remember spotting one at the ‘Rashtrapati Bhavan’ in Delhi.

Can you blame him for being mad at his ‘adopted’ son for randomly marrying a poorly educated girl from chandini chowk? Should you?

Rahul, hailing from a country where aunties recognize you after 20 years (No problem if they saw you as a fetus or a zygote the last time), doesn’t recognize his own doggone brother, who somehow transformed from what looked like ‘a premature Bappi Lehri’ to ‘a Bradley Cooper’ . I know movies are about things being unreal but you cannot make fun of puberty just like that!

Not to forget, Rahul lets this Bradley Cooper stay at his home when he clearly knows that his wife’s sister dresses a little too provocatively.

Not so smart Rahul, you are adopted indeed!

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What’s the most ridiculous design fault you’ve seen on a building?

 

This is 30 St Mary Axe, London, commonly known as The Gherkin. It’s not immediately obvious from this shot but towards the bottom of the building the walls actually taper inwards. This meant that when it rained, the water ran down the side of the building until the walls became vertical, then the water dropped straight down in a 360 degree waterfall, making it impossible to enter the building without getting soaked. A later modification put gutters on the outside to redirect the rain.

This is 20 Fenchurch Street, just down the road from the Gherkin, popularly known as the walky-talky because of its concave windowed side. Unfortunately, this faces south, and in the first summer after it was built the concave windows acted like a mirror, concentrating the sunlight onto the street. It burnt carpets, damaged cars and caused great discomfort for those walking past. The architect defended its design by claiming he thought the sun never shined in London.