2012 was a strong year for film, delivering numerous high quality event movies and also a ton of very excellent serious fare as well. But perhaps it's the overall high quality that made us take note of the moments in which we were wrenched out of our suspended disbelief, or maybe it's just that the gods of moviedom knew something had to be done to prevent people from taking themselves too seriously. Either way, the year was blessed with some rather amazeballs moments of unintentional awkwardness that really forced us to step back and gasp, "Did that really happen?!" [SPOILERS!]
Talia Al Ghul's death in The Dark Knight Rises
We can spend hours picking apart the problems with The Dark Knight Rises (and we did!), but the film probably could have glued itself together were it not for the moment Marion Cotillard was revealed (da-da-daaaa) to actually be the daughter of Ra's Al Ghul (Liam Neeson) from Batman Begins. Not only did this reveal come out of nowhere, but it turned very quickly into a punchline when she died less than 10 minutes later, delivering her death monologue like she was having a ham-off with William Shatner. ?My father's work... IS DONE! Gasp. Gasp. GASP!?
(Bonus points for the goofy look of disbelief on Jim Gordon's, Batman's and Selina Kyle's faces. Even they know how silly this is.)
Javier Bardem's Dentures in Skyfall
Skyfall is almost the perfect Bond film, right down to the amazing theme song. But the film nearly ground to a halt during the contractually obligated moment where Javier Bardem's Silva has been captured and is interrogated by M - not because the scene isn't awesome, but because for some…
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