Occasionally there's something in a movie which quite accidentally diverts attention from the plot/scene/hot guy. In a bad way. Don't think of the lizards in Bad Lieutenant, Port of Call: New Orleans, or the bat scene in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Think of Judi Dench's curious contribution to the Chronicles of Riddick or John Travolta's hairline in everything since Get Shorty.
This year's 'most inadvertently distracting thing of the year' award features, quite extraordinarily, two things from the same movie. Although Tron: Legacy was quite extraordinary, in many ways.
5. Catherine Zeta Jones emanating at least half a degree of warmth in The Rebound
4. Russell Crowe's accent accident in Robin Hood
3. The joyous rowing scene in the otherwise claustrophobic, tense The Social Network. A massive tonal mis-step.
2. The sober-as-cancer Tron: Legacy: for either its see-gee-aye-yai-yai Jeff Bridges or Michael Sheen's camp as Christmas Thin White Duke
1. The first murder in The Killer Inside Me. A scene of jarring, leering and tonally inappropriate violence in a creepy, but otherwise 15-certificated, movie. I didn't have an issue with any supposed misogyny (I didn't see any) or over-indulgence on the director's part. It just genuinely seemed to come from a different movie.
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