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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31 Movie Scenes That Were Supposed To Be Cool But Ended Up As Pure Cringe Instead 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.

Matrozi , 20th Century Studios Report

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31 Movie Scenes That Were Supposed To Be Cool But Ended Up As Pure Cringe Instead “You better hold on tight spider monkey”.

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31 Movie Scenes That Were Supposed To Be Cool But Ended Up As Pure Cringe Instead Star Wars Episode 2

Basically every line uttered by Natalie Portman and Hayden Christensen’s “love story” is top level cringe.

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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.

31 Movie Scenes That Were Supposed To Be Cool But Ended Up As Pure Cringe Instead 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.

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31 Movie Scenes That Were Supposed To Be Cool But Ended Up As Pure Cringe Instead DID YOU PUT YOUR NAME IN THE GOBLET OF FIIYYAAHH HARRY???!!!!!!!

Gil-GaladWasBlond , Harry Potter Report

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31 Movie Scenes That Were Supposed To Be Cool But Ended Up As Pure Cringe Instead 50 Shades of grey, " I dont make love....I f**k..... HHHard." I still shiver everyime those words are in my head.

eedoamitay , Universal Pictures UK Report

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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...

31 Movie Scenes That Were Supposed To Be Cool But Ended Up As Pure Cringe Instead 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.

Regnes , Entertainment Access Report

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RamiRudolph 1 week 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.

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and_a_touch_of_the_’tism 1 week ago

True captain marvel is overpowered.

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Laura Gillette 1 week ago

In the Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special, they do show Mantis fighting, and apparently having super strength (she can jump like 15 feet in the air, pretty easily), and it pissed me off, because... they've never shown her having ANYTHING like those skills and abilities before, why should she suddenly have them? It's ok for a hero, or a team member of a heroic group to NOT have fighting and strength assets, but help in other unique ways. They don't all have to be tanks! Every adventuring party needs diversity in the abilities of its members!

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Emie N. 1 week ago

I think the point of the scene was the franchise understanding that they've focused so much on male characters and male friendships that they ignored the female counterparts.

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Carl Roberts 1 week ago

That scene was such cringe.

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DrBronxx 1 week ago (edited)

It is a very silly moment, but calling out Mantis is also a bit silly. There's plenty she could do without throwing a punch.

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RamiRudolph 1 week ago

Like what exactly?

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and_a_touch_of_the_’tism 1 week ago

I didn’t hate it. But I’m also a sucker.

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Emie N. 1 week ago (edited)

I thought the point of the scene was that the franchise recognized that the film's had focused so much on male characters and male friendships while ignoring the female characters and female friendships that it was their way of "making up" for that.

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Tim Richards 1 week ago

I hated this scene. It was just done for "girl power" when it was really stupid. The actual "girl power" scene was in Infinity War when Scarlet Witch was the one everyone was waiting for to enter the battlefield and then she fought alongside Oyo and Black Widow. That was well done and not shoved in your face for effect.

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HolyDiver 5 days ago

Forced political agendas in film is so stupid and dilutes the true moments where women legitimately show their capabilities.

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31 Movie Scenes That Were Supposed To Be Cool But Ended Up As Pure Cringe Instead 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.

quantril , Rotten Tomatoes Classic Trailers Report

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31 Movie Scenes That Were Supposed To Be Cool But Ended Up As Pure Cringe Instead 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".

The_Streetsweeper , Star Wars Report

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"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..."

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31 Movie Scenes That Were Supposed To Be Cool But Ended Up As Pure Cringe Instead The only one that came to mind was “Do you know what happens when a toad gets hit by lightening?” ….????

Yabanjin , Rotten Tomatoes Classic Trailers Report

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31 Movie Scenes That Were Supposed To Be Cool But Ended Up As Pure Cringe Instead 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.

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31 Movie Scenes That Were Supposed To Be Cool But Ended Up As Pure Cringe Instead 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.

SymTurnover , 20th Century Studios Report

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"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?

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31 Movie Scenes That Were Supposed To Be Cool But Ended Up As Pure Cringe Instead Wondering why the hell Superman would refer to his mom by her first name.

Astrosimi , Warner Bros. Pictures Report

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31 Movie Scenes That Were Supposed To Be Cool But Ended Up As Pure Cringe Instead It's a tie between all of Vin Diesel's lines in the Fast series for me.

gethuge , The Fast Saga Report

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31 Movie Scenes That Were Supposed To Be Cool But Ended Up As Pure Cringe Instead Pretty much all dialogue in Jupiter Ascending, but specifically every time Eddie Redmayne suddenly switched from mumbled whispering to screaming without provocation.

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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!..

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31 Movie Scenes That Were Supposed To Be Cool But Ended Up As Pure Cringe Instead Most recently? The NUMEROUS times Michelle Pfeifer said "I don't have time to explain" in quantumania.

cmadd10 , Marvel Entertainment Report

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31 Movie Scenes That Were Supposed To Be Cool But Ended Up As Pure Cringe Instead 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.

StreetMysticCosmic , 20th Century Studios Report

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31 Movie Scenes That Were Supposed To Be Cool But Ended Up As Pure Cringe Instead Catwoman playing hoop.

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31 Movie Scenes That Were Supposed To Be Cool But Ended Up As Pure Cringe Instead 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.

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31 Movie Scenes That Were Supposed To Be Cool But Ended Up As Pure Cringe Instead 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.

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31 Movie Scenes That Were Supposed To Be Cool But Ended Up As Pure Cringe Instead 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!

alwayssoupy , Warner Bros Films (2021) Report

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31 Movie Scenes That Were Supposed To Be Cool But Ended Up As Pure Cringe Instead 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.

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31 Movie Scenes That Were Supposed To Be Cool But Ended Up As Pure Cringe Instead 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.

FindingAlternative16 , Rotten Tomatoes Classic Trailers Report

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31 Movie Scenes That Were Supposed To Be Cool But Ended Up As Pure Cringe Instead 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.

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31 Movie Scenes That Were Supposed To Be Cool But Ended Up As Pure Cringe Instead 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.

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31 Movie Scenes That Were Supposed To Be Cool But Ended Up As Pure Cringe Instead 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.

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31 Movie Scenes That Were Supposed To Be Cool But Ended Up As Pure Cringe Instead 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.

swfc1482 , Marvel Entertainment Report

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31 Movie Scenes That Were Supposed To Be Cool But Ended Up As Pure Cringe Instead When Daredevil meets Elektra in the movie and they fight. Cringiest scene ever...I almost died of cringyness overload.

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31 Movie Scenes That Were Supposed To Be Cool But Ended Up As Pure Cringe Instead Tenet

The scene where he says everyone in the world will die and then Elizabeth Debicki says 'including my son!'.

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31 Movie Scenes That Were Supposed To Be Cool But Ended Up As Pure Cringe Instead 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.

Emieosj89 , Warner Bros. Pictures Report

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31 Movie Scenes That Were Supposed To Be Cool But Ended Up As Pure Cringe Instead 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.

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What do you think ?

Ms. Mack 1 week 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.

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T'Mar of Vulcan 1 week ago

I agree. Is it mystical or not? Make up your mind.

Crouching hippo hidden panda 1 week ago

Oh the “now we are Air Force one” in that crappy overly patriotic film…

Diana Lucas 1 week 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 week ago

Just one of the many things military nerds shake their heads about when watching that movie

Half of the examples here aren't even lines.

marianne eliza 1 week ago

The last line in Pretty Woman. "She rescues him right back." ugh.

Mariele Scherzinger 6 days ago (edited)

In King Arthur (2004), a very weak film all in all, there is a terribly silly line that we laughed so hard at. The Saxons beat the drum loudly while they march towards the villages they are going to burn. At some point, the chief's son grunts in disappointment, "They are fleeing. They know we are coming." Stop beating the drum then, you idiot.

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Sophia Athene 1 week ago (edited)

Did you not listen to what the witch king said right before she says that line? For ages, he is Sauron's deadliest tool and his victor and he kills with impunity and no regard given the fear that people have of him. So of course he believes this supposed prophecy that no man (race, not sex) can kill him but then she unmasks herself so that he knows that it was his own hubris that fells him in the end. On top of that, she is constantly shunted aside because she is a woman despite the fact that she has the capabilities to fight. So to have someone else tell her one more time that a woman should not be there on the field of battle, she gets to proclaim a woman killed one of the most fearsome creatures in Middle Earth. The line is not ultimately about gender or feminism. That meaning is there, true. But it's about hubris and, most importantly, about the theme that the most unlikely creature is the most capable.

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