The 2000s were a great decade for hate-watching. Welcome to MsMojo, and today we’re counting down our picks for the scenes we love to hate in movies released between 2000 and 2009.
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00:00 "You mean like at Universal Studios?"
00:03 Welcome to Ms. Mojo, and today we're counting down our picks for the scenes
00:08 we love to hate in movies released between 2000 and 2009.
00:13 [Music]
00:19 Number 10. Endless options for renewal.
00:22 Battlefield Earth.
00:23 "That's why we've decided not to keep you here for another five cycles."
00:28 [Laughter]
00:33 "It's a joke."
00:34 For a science fiction movie, this adaptation of a novel by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard
00:40 has a lot of bureaucracy. John Travolta plays TURL, an alien who's tired of his duties on the
00:46 planet Earth. He's told he'll be staying there for much longer than he expected, 50 cycles in fact,
00:52 with endless options for renewal. Director Roger Christian decided to underline TURL's horror
00:59 with a dramatic echo effect.
01:00 "With endless options for renewal!"
01:02 If the grotesque makeup, cheap sets, and overwhelming blue lighting weren't enough,
01:11 the dialogue and bonkers directorial choices make this scene a modern marvel of bad cinema.
01:17 [Laughter]
01:20 Number 9. Nuking the Fridge.
01:22 Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
01:25 "Oh, that can't be good."
01:29 The fourth Indiana Jones movie made a lot of bold choices. One of the boldest was the
01:34 credulity-shattering opening. It begins with everyone's favorite archaeologist
01:39 escaping Soviet agents in Area 51. But that isn't the crazy part. He flees to an eerily empty town
01:46 in the Nevada desert that turns out to be part of an atomic bomb test. How does Indiana get out
01:52 of this one? By hiding in a lead-lined fridge that's blown hundreds of feet into the air.
01:57 Indiana has had some incredible escapes before, but this one just made everyone mad.
02:08 We've heard of TV shows jumping the shark. Thanks to this film,
02:11 we had a new phrase added to our lexicon, "nuking the fridge."
02:16 [Explosion]
02:23 Number 8. Turkey Time.
02:25 Gigli.
02:25 "You need a woman."
02:26 "I got one."
02:29 "Ow, stop."
02:32 In 2003, Bennifer was a cultural phenomenon. But the makers of Gigli seriously overestimated what
02:38 audiences would suffer to watch them. Ben Affleck plays an ineffective mobster,
02:43 and Jennifer Lopez an assassin who's sent to watch him while he completes a job.
02:48 It makes even less sense when you watch it. Trying to seduce him, she utters this immortal line.
02:54 "It's turkey time."
02:55 "Huh?"
02:58 The fact that it was ever written, let alone filmed, and left in the final cut,
03:06 is a testament to the faith everyone involved had in their combined star power.
03:10 We're not even sure who's the turkey. The one being, um, gobbled, or the one doing the gobble
03:16 gobble. Eesh. The movie bombed, but Turkey Time will haunt us forever.
03:21 "That's right."
03:21 Number 7. Juliet's Doorstep.
03:29 Love Actually.
03:31 "Hi."
03:31 "Who is it?"
03:32 "It's carol singers!"
03:38 Depending on who you talk to, this movie is either a beloved Christmas classic,
03:42 or dated and problematic. Those who share the latter view point to this scene as a major reason.
03:49 You can practically smell the cheese oozing from Love Actually's most famous moment.
03:54 Andrew Lincoln's character Mark had cue cards, a boombox, and a dream. His character's so in love
04:00 with his best friend's new wife that he treats her like dirt, and then decides to show up on
04:05 their doorstep with a message on Christmas Eve.
04:07 "Sleep in heavenly peace."
04:18 Whether it's warranted or not, this scene gets a lot of flack. The hopeless romantics may be
04:23 bowled over by it, but we're willing to bet at least half of its YouTube views are haters.
04:28 "Oh, Christ the Savior is born."
04:37 Number 6. The Cat's First Appearance.
04:40 The Cat in the Hat.
04:41 "A monster? Where?"
04:43 Some people thought the live-action Grinch was a bridge too far, but they had no idea what they
04:50 were in for with the abominable Cat in the Hat. Mike Myers' first appearance as the titular Cat
04:55 in the Hat is a thinly-veiled take on his established screen persona. It doesn't work
05:00 as well here. Watching him try to make nice with the kids just plays out like a really unfunny
05:05 spoof of a home invasion thriller. What it amounts to is a whirlwind of tired, early-oughts humor,
05:10 and the sweatiest wordplay you've ever heard.
05:13 "Eumongous? I prefer the term big-boned to jolly."
05:17 "Now what are we hiding from?"
05:18 It's a dizzying experience that has to be seen to be believed.
05:23 Hey Hollywood, did you know that some great books can just be books?
05:27 "You know, I like this hiding place a lot better. They'll never find us here."
05:31 "Scream and run."
05:34 "And away they go."
05:38 Number 5. Bella First Sees Edward.
05:41 Twilight.
05:42 "Oh my God, it's like first grade all over again. You're the shiny new toy."
05:46 Bella Swan's first day at school plays out like the perfect teen fantasy.
05:51 Except something about it is just... off. We're treated to an unintentionally hilarious
05:56 introduction to the Cullen family as they make their grand entrances into the cafeteria.
06:01 Thank goodness their arrivals and movements are carefully staggered to make room for
06:05 expositional dialogue. What makes this scene so awkward?
06:09 Is it the crescendo of music when Edward appears?
06:12 Bella's overly nervous longing? Or Edward's smolder/grimace in response?
06:20 Our answer is all of the above.
06:22 "Seriously, like, don't waste your time."
06:24 "I wasn't planning on it."
06:26 It's like a great big tribute to the cheesiest fantasy romance cliches ever.
06:37 Number 4. Talking to Plants.
06:40 The Happening.
06:40 "We're just here to use the bathroom. And then we're just gonna leave."
06:44 M. Night Shyamalan's eco-horror film is a prime example of an interesting premise
06:49 brought down by bad execution. The Happening follows Mark Wahlberg's Elliot Moore,
06:54 a high school teacher who realizes that a rash of mass violence might be caused by,
06:59 say it with us, plants. That's right, so that's really all the context you need
07:03 for this incredible scene where he tries to make peace with the plants.
07:07 "My name is Elliot Moore. I'm just going to talk in a very positive manner. Giving off good vibes."
07:15 You have to hand it to Wahlberg, he definitely memorized his lines here.
07:19 He even said them with a straight face.
07:21 "Plastic. I'm talking to a plastic plant."
07:25 It's a feat of acting that cannot be compared.
07:28 We've been enjoying it on repeat ever since.
07:30 Number 3. Anakin Doesn't Like Sand.
07:33 Star Wars Episode II - Attack of the Clones.
07:36 In the second Star Wars prequel, viewers got to watch as Anakin Skywalker and Padme Amidala
07:42 fell in love over sand.
07:44 "I don't like sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating. And it gets everywhere."
07:52 It took years for Hayden Christensen to live this one down, but he can't take all the credit.
07:57 George Lucas certainly had a way with words. This is exactly the kind of
08:01 endlessly rewatchable moment the new trilogy was missing.
08:05 "You're making fun of me."
08:06 "No, no, I'd be much too frightened to tease a senator."
08:09 Every romantic scene with Anakin and Padme is boiling over with woeful dialogue
08:14 and tremendously unsubtle foreshadowing.
08:17 And that's saying something considering it's a prequel.
08:20 Number 2. Peter Parker's Evil Dance - Spider-Man 3.
08:28 Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy could have been perfect.
08:36 Then, emo Spider-Man happened.
08:39 In this notorious third installment, a symbiote fuses with Peter Parker's spider suit
08:44 and leads him to embrace his dark side.
08:46 He becomes a walking and dancing cliché of a cocky cool guy.
08:51 Put quotation marks around the cool part.
08:53 "I'd love to shoot you sometime."
08:55 "Peter Parker."
08:58 Apparently this dark side also meant Parker would do a lot more dancing,
09:03 and his dancing is the definition of cringe.
09:05 Couldn't the symbiote have just made him more aggressive or something?
09:09 Mistakes were made, but so were countless memes, and that's what counts.
09:13 "Where the fuck is Zoltan? Everybody, somebody, where the fuck is Zoltan?"
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09:34 Number 1. Oh Hi Mark - The Room
09:38 "You think girls like to cheat like guys do? What makes you say that?"
09:42 It's one of the most infamously and hilariously bad movies ever made.
09:47 How do you pick just one moment?
09:49 Will the words "you're tearing me apart" ever sound serious again?
09:52 "You're tearing me apart, Lisa!"
09:55 You could even make a case for that sudden cancer announcement.
09:58 "I got the results of the test back. I definitely have breast cancer."
10:02 But we have to go with Tommy Wiseau's iconic and whiplash-inducing mood shift in this rooftop scene.
10:08 The writer, director, and star of The Room goes from an angry tirade about a fake domestic violence claim
10:14 to being delighted to see his friend Mark.
10:17 "It's not true. It's bullshit. I did not hit her. I did not."
10:20 "Oh, hi Mark."
10:22 In a script full of non-sequiturs, this one has become immortal.
10:26 But the rest of the scene volleys just as much between moods,
10:29 ideas, and emotions without giving you a chance to catch up.
10:33 "Ha ha ha. What a story, Mark."
10:36 "Yeah, you can say that again."
10:37 Did we get this one right, or did we nuke the fridge? Let us know in the comments.
10:41 "But you know it's dangerous to climb into a refrigerator. Those things can be death traps."
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