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31 Movie Scenes That Were Supposed To Be Cool But Ended Up As Pure Cringe Instead
When the Lumiere brothers held the first commercial cinema screening in Paris almost 130 years ago, few could have imagined what an all-consuming monster it would become. With multi-million dollar stars' fees, billions in box office receipts, and an abundance of CGI effects. And popcorn, of course.
Cinema has become our constant companion, and even if you don't like it, you've probably watched a dozen or two movies in your life. But even in the most masterpieces or commercially successful films, there were still moments or lines when we wanted to get up and walk out of the theater. Or just turn off the TV - and never return to watching it again.
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#1
In the movie "The fault in our stars" when they makeout in Anne Frank house, in the attic, in front of her pictures and there is a romantic music and people around looking at them like "Aaaaaawww"
Like wtf. No. It's cringey AF not cute. Imagine two teenagers dry humping at the WTC museum.
It's almost at the same level of cringe and stupidity as people posing in Auschwitz.
Vlad Sher 1 month ago
What's cringe is seeing a scene of couple of teenagers running out of time surrounded by memories of a girl full of hopes and dreams, who didn't get to live out the rest of her natural life, as "dry humping". Posting selfies for clout in tragic places is not even a close comparison.
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#2
“You better hold on tight spider monkey”.
#3
Star Wars Episode 2
Basically every line uttered by Natalie Portman and Hayden Christensen’s “love story” is top level cringe.
The original thread started with this post by the user u/Sufficient_Season_61 in the r/Movies community a couple of years ago, and now has almost 2K upvotes and over 2.5K various comments. Of course, not every comment mentions a specific scene or line from the film, but there are still enough of them that we, Bored Panda, have made a special selection of the cringiest ones especially for you.
#4
The a*s s*x line in Kingsman
it was so pointless, added nothing to the movie and just seemed a stupid juvenile and cheap attempt at wedging an unneeded laugh in a movie that was otherwise well written funny and witty.
#5
DID YOU PUT YOUR NAME IN THE GOBLET OF FIIYYAAHH HARRY???!!!!!!!
#6
50 Shades of grey, " I dont make love....I f**k..... HHHard." I still shiver everyime those words are in my head.
Interestingly, most of the phrases or moments mentioned relate mainly to blockbusters or superhero movies. Like The Avengers, X-Men or Star Wars (not the original trilogy, of course). Well, at the end of the day, the main goal of blockbusters is to entertain the viewer, not to be masterpieces of screenwriting. And judging by the box office receipts, most of these movies have actually achieved their goal...
#7
In Avengers: Endgame, when Captain Marvel saves Spider-Man, "don't worry, she's got help". Then we cut to a shot of every single female superhero in the franchise judt standing there in the middle of a battle, and even Mantis is there even though she's not a fighter.
RamiRudolph 1 month ago
Absolutely. Worst of all is, CM wouldn't have needed any help at all. She's more powerful than any of the other female superheroes. Yes, especially Mantis.
#8
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Andie McDowell’s line: “Is it still raining? I hadn’t noticed.” It’s also delivered so poorly and somehow completely captures what an awful actress she is in just a few seconds.
#9
Not only is this not the worst line in star wars, this isn't even the worst line in IX.
That award goes to "they sold you, to protect you".
"We should not forget that today's cinema - at least mainstream, not arthouse - is first and foremost an attraction aimed at maximizing profits. And fan service, of course, too," says Dmytro Kosygin, a film director and cameraman from Ukraine, whom Bored Panda asked for a comment here.
"Fan service is a completely different situation when it comes to comic book or video game adaptations. The thing is that the original source has already developed its own unique culture and a huge fan base - so the appearance of various minor details that are not essential to the plot and are meant to remind viewers of the comic or game is almost mandatory. Even if they are detrimental to the script..."
#10
Not a great movie anyway, but Uhura's fan dance to distract the bad guys in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier is such a terrible moment. Villains easily distracted by women being seductive was already such a lazy cliche, and what are crappy way to use Uhura. She already had to do something along those lines to that one dude in Trek III. The whole sequence is embarrassing.
T'Mar of Vulcan 1 month ago
I agree. Nichelle Nichols was a professional dancer (read her autobiography! She was a kick-asce lady) but that was just a ridiculous moment.
#11
I agree that Palpatine line is awful, but the line Jennifer Lawrence said in Dark Phoenix about calling the team X-Women was one of the most cringeworthy lines I’ve ever heard in a movie.
Upstaged75 1 month ago
She has some seriously cringy ones in all those movies. Like when she tells Hank he's beautiful.
#12
The only one that came to mind was “Do you know what happens when a toad gets hit by lightening?” ….????
Fat Harry (Oi / You) 1 month ago
But wasn't this line in relation to a different line that got cut? Something like Toad keeps asking rhetorical questions like "Do you know why a toad...?", "Do you know what happens when a toad...?" but they all got cut, leaving only this totally out of context line.
"On the other hand, not all original sources are written in a language that is perfect for adaptation. For example, The Lord of the Rings is also an attempt by the author to create an epic work comparable to the great epics of other nations. And if the film's heroes spoke such a high-flown language on screen, it would hardly have helped Peter Jackson's trilogy," Dmytro presumes.
As for the first three episodes of Star Wars (the ones filmed at the beginning of the 21st century), they were perhaps the first attempt to squeeze the maximum out of the franchise's cult status. Yes, not the most successful - but, in the end, the producers achieved their goal. And some cringy moments - in fact, we now remember these movies largely thanks to them, don't we?
#13
Wondering why the hell Superman would refer to his mom by her first name.
#14
It's a tie between all of Vin Diesel's lines in the Fast series for me.
#15
Pretty much all dialogue in Jupiter Ascending, but specifically every time Eddie Redmayne suddenly switched from mumbled whispering to screaming without provocation.
Be that as it may, this selection presents 31 moments from the famouse movies, and in fact, there are many more such phrases and scenes. Thousands, thousands and thousands. And each of us probably has such moments as well, so please feel free now to scroll this selection to the very end, and add your own ones in the comments. Unless, of course, you found them here. So... lights, camera, action!..
#16
Most recently? The NUMEROUS times Michelle Pfeifer said "I don't have time to explain" in quantumania.
Daniel Atkins 1 month ago
It is probably because the writers don't have an idea how to explain it so put everyone in a time crunch so they don't have to.
#17
It's hard to top Palpatine's return, but these two lines always come to mind:
"It just grew an exoskeleton under its skin!" - The Predator. If only there was some word for a an exoskeleton that is inside you.
"There's only one way this ends, Kal. Either you die, or I do " - Man of Steel. General Zod can't count.
And yes, I know what both of these lines actually meant. They were written in a funny way.
Camilla Koutsos 1 month ago
An either/or is describing one outcome. It will be one of these two things.
#18
Catwoman playing hoop.
Daniel Atkins 1 month ago
Not her licking her self like a cat? Did Halle Berry do that I Know Michelle Pfieffer did that in Batman Returns. Or is it the whole movie.
#19
Near the end of Terminator 3 they are running away from the terminator and pass a plane in a hangar. Claire Danes yells out something like, “we can use that to escape. I was trained to fly it!” The entire audience burst out laughing.
#20
I *love* Annihilation, but when Natalie Portman is trying to convince JJL to let her go on the next mission, JJL says something like "A soldier scientist? You can fight...you can learn..." Yes, thank you, we all **know** what a soldier is and what a scientist is. You really don't need to spell out what each of those skill sets entail.
DennyS (denzoren) 1 month ago
The books were great though, the movie was alright but the full trilogy is worth the read.
#21
I've said it before, but I can't stand in Justice League after the intense scene where Superman is brought back from the dead and then he and Lois are standing alone in a field together after their dramatic reunion (and of course he is shirtless but his pants are ok) and she says "You smell good." And then his even worse reply, "Did I not before?"
When my husband is channel surfing, he always manages to land right there and I end up yelling at the TV!
RamiRudolph 1 month ago
This makes much more sense in the sense. Here, the line is something like "You spoke (which Supes didn't do, since he was still kinda evil-ish. So his reply "Did I not before?" Makes more sense that way.
#22
I love Arrival, but Jeremy Renner half whispering "Do you want to make a baby?" during the films climax was a pretty awful wording choice.
#23
The Departed is one of my favorite movies of all time, but there’s a scene near the end of the movie that really annoys me.
Right after Matt Damon’s character shoots Jack Nicholson, there’s a scene of the entire police squad applauding Matt Damon. A secretary walks up to Matt Damon and hands him a cup of coffee which Matt Damon replies “thank you”. The secretary replies “No… Thank YOU” in possibly the cheesiest way it could be delivered.
Again, the Departed is one of my favorite movies of all time, but this scene is just soooo corny and doesn’t fit into a script that I think is so we’ll written.
#24
I *love* Interstellar, but the phrasing of "Love is the one thing we're capable of perceiving that transcends dimensions of time and space." Twists my p**s.
Crouching hippo hidden panda 1 month ago
Going to politely disagree on this one, I thought it was poignant in the sense that his love as a parent was the same even though his daughter continues to age and surpass him
#25
This doesn't Really count, but the TV version of 21 jump street, Dave Franco's character says "Get in the Fancy car" instead of F*****g car. My wife and I laughed for like 5 minutes, it's so ridiculous.
Carl Roberts 1 month ago
Nothing tops Samuel L Jackson saying "I'm sick of these monkey fighting snakes on this Monday to Friday plane"
#26
Thor Love & Thunder. Where Valkyrie and Jane foster are preparing, and Valkyrie pulls out a little Bluetooth speaker and they have a little bop. Urgh.
#27
Thor arriving in Wakanda in Infinity War with Stormbreaker is one of my all time favorite scenes in all of the MCU. But when Banner say's, "you guys are so screwed now" it is just so jarring and takes me out of the scene. I wish there was a cut that would take his line out.
#28
When Daredevil meets Elektra in the movie and they fight. Cringiest scene ever...I almost died of cringyness overload.
David Martin 1 month ago
I loved when somebody o. YouTube summed this scene up, saying "Okay, so we've got a woman beating up a blind man...and a blind man beating up a woman; Who do I root for, you're both horrible people"
#29
Tenet
The scene where he says everyone in the world will die and then Elizabeth Debicki says 'including my son!'.
#30
I haven’t seen it mentioned yet, but the Hobbit, the elf women crying asking the elf lord why it hurts so much (to be in love) and he replies, because it was real. I freaking die every time. The movies are terrible but that line takes the cake.
RamiRudolph 1 month ago
Naw, the line isn't THAT bad, and the movies are defintely NOT terrible.
#31
Volcano (1997) wasn't a great movie to begin with, but there is one scene where a rescuer is helping a child find his mom. The camera shows a multicultural assortment of people all covered in ash, and the child says "Look at their faces. They all look the same." There were no racial themes throughout the rest of the movie, so the cringeworthy heavy-handedness came totally out of nowhere.
Carl Roberts 1 month ago (edited)
No racial themes? Yes there was. How did you forget the whole subplot about the young black man begging firefighters to come save his neighborhood, and he gets arrested by a racist cop. He even refers to himself as "the volcano's Rodney King"
What do you think ?
Ms. Mack 1 month ago
Saw The Matrix in the theater. Really enjoyed it until: "Neo, I'm not afraid anymore. The Oracle told me that I would fall in love and that that man... the man that I loved would be The One. So you see, you can't be dead. You can't be... because I love you. You hear me? I love you. [Trinity kisses Neo; Neo's vital signs return] Now get up!" I groaned and laughed out loud in the theater. No one else laughed. I fully expect to get hate here as well.
T'Mar of Vulcan 1 month ago
I agree. Is it mystical or not? Make up your mind.
Load More Replies... Crouching hippo hidden panda 1 month ago
Oh the “now we are Air Force one” in that crappy overly patriotic film…
Diana Lucas 1 month ago
The movie White House Down has a really bad line that's so bad, it's actually hilarious. It's near the end when the newly-sworn-in and totally corrupt president orders an airstrike on the White House to kill his co-conspirators, the tweenager Emily begins waving a flag outside the heavily damaged WH and one of the fighter jets tasked with the airstrike says, "She's waving off the airstrike!" We laugh at that line every single time. We even sometimes say it randomly to make each other laugh.
TotallyNOTAFox 1 month ago
Just one of the many things military nerds shake their heads about when watching that movie
Load More Replies... Ms. Mack 1 month ago
Saw The Matrix in the theater. Really enjoyed it until: "Neo, I'm not afraid anymore. The Oracle told me that I would fall in love and that that man... the man that I loved would be The One. So you see, you can't be dead. You can't be... because I love you. You hear me? I love you. [Trinity kisses Neo; Neo's vital signs return] Now get up!" I groaned and laughed out loud in the theater. No one else laughed. I fully expect to get hate here as well.
T'Mar of Vulcan 1 month ago
I agree. Is it mystical or not? Make up your mind.
Load More Replies... Crouching hippo hidden panda 1 month ago
Oh the “now we are Air Force one” in that crappy overly patriotic film…
Diana Lucas 1 month ago
The movie White House Down has a really bad line that's so bad, it's actually hilarious. It's near the end when the newly-sworn-in and totally corrupt president orders an airstrike on the White House to kill his co-conspirators, the tweenager Emily begins waving a flag outside the heavily damaged WH and one of the fighter jets tasked with the airstrike says, "She's waving off the airstrike!" We laugh at that line every single time. We even sometimes say it randomly to make each other laugh.
TotallyNOTAFox 1 month ago
Just one of the many things military nerds shake their heads about when watching that movie
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