10 Genius Movie Moments That Came Out Of Nowhere
Nobody saw these incredible movie moments coming.
Generally speaking, a great movie moment will be accompanied by other great movie moments, because it's rare for a filmmaker to strike gold in just a single sequence, all while the rest of the film is just... there.
But there are absolutely times where a movie stumbles upon a single nugget of cinematic gold among everything else, and sure as hell wants you to know about it.
The result can be pleasantly surprising for sure, but also quite jarring, as you wonder how something so brilliant, even genuinely genius, made it into a film that's otherwise anything but.
And that's certainly true of these 10 films which, while hardly terrible for the most part, simply weren't up to much interesting - until they were, of course.
These incredibly smart and inventive scenes were so good they left many wondering why the rest of the movie wasn't anywhere near this level.
And even years later, many will periodically check out these scenes once again on YouTube while having little memory of everything else in the film.
And so, for as generic and forgettable as a movie might seem, it's always possible it ends up delivering a single-scene masterpiece totally out of nowhere...
10. Murphy Gets Taken Apart - RoboCop (2014)
2014's RoboCop remake was largely dismissed by critics and fans of Paul Verhoeven's 1987 original because it just felt like a toothless rehash that lacked the satirical bite of its predecessor while heavily toning down the violence - per its restrictive PG-13 rating.
But there is a single scene that actually builds on the existential terror of the original concept, when the newly "rebuilt" Alex Murphy (Joel Kinnaman) wakes up in the lab of RoboCop creator Dr. Dennett Norton (Gary Oldman).
Murphy's robotic chassis is promptly disassembled in front of him, revealing that his only original body parts which survived the car bombing are his head, lungs, heart, and right hand.
Murphy is understandably incredibly disturbed by this revelation, and to make it even more unsettling for the audience to sit through, his organs are on full display throughout.
Between all this and Murphy's request for euthanasia being swiftly denied by Norton, the scene hammers home the viscerally horrifying nature of Murphy's resurrection, arguably even more effectively than Verhoeven's film did.