Great Films With Cringe Worthy Moments

[zHellas]

The end of the Bad Lieutenant.

The one from the 1992, or Port of Call New Orleans?

 

[Fightgarr]

There are a lot of moments like that, for me, in many of my favorite films. In recent memory I think particularly of some of dialogue in How to Train your Dragon. There is some very poor and cliched dialogue between Hiccup and Astrid, but none so much as: "I won't talk, but let me show you!"

 

[Super Toast]

The tree rape in Evil Dead. Make it stop!

 

[Jaranja]

Also, the Big Bad in the movie once yells, "ALL OF THEM!" Both are so cringe-worthy and corny.

All of them?

 

[SturmDolch]

All of them?

Woops. Same idea, and the scene is still stupid corny!

 

[Darkgoosey666]

I cant believe no one has said this yet but:
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The presidents speech from Independance Day

ah, this definitely. then again that entire film is cringe worthy, its just so cheesy and predictable

 

[ShadowsofHope]

Your hoping for a 4th Spider Man movie? Sequels only get worse and worse, I can't think of any good sequels after a shite sequel. A 4th wouldn't bother me though, I would hope it's something worth watching.

Not really, no. Spider Man is one of my lesser favorites in the Marvel World. The three movies spoiled any desire in that anymore for me, unfortunately. I'm waiting for Deadpool, now.

 

[Scobie]

DELETED

 

[Rasputin-2]

The line. Hell actually the whole movie

"I live my life a quarter mile at a time."

Fast and the Furious

 

[the Dept of Science]

In The Good, The Bad and the Ugly, all the characters but the main 3 are dubbed. For pretty much all the movie, it is pretty seamless. There is, however, one guy who just doesn't seem to work. I'm not sure if its the voice actor or what, but the sound and movement of this guy just seems to completely jar.
Its the one bit of what is otherwise one of the best movies ever that I really don't enjoy watching.

 

[Azure-Supernova]

Ummm, the ending to Resident Evil. What can I say, I like it, it's hardly a great movie, but meh. I cringed the second I heard 'Nemesis Programme'.

In fact, pretty much any zombie movie that attempts to describe how it all happened. It always sounds so... fudgey. Does that make sense?

 

[cschultzy56]

That part in Watchmen where Rorshach unloads on that convict with the frier. I just think the way he delivered his line after that was narmy, for lack of a better word.

if you read the novel. it's in there. they left a lot out of the novel and they changed the ending. the movie was good. the book was better. o nd the scene in bill and ted's excellent adventure where they hug and immediately back up suprised, and both go "fag"

 

[Instinct Blues]

Here I'm talking about films you really enjoy that just have a scene, character or moment that makes your insides shrivel up and try to escape from your naval cavity.

To kick this off with an example I am a huge batman nerd, I love me some caped crusader. So obviously I enjoyed The Dark Knight, however the scene with Harvey Dent in the courtroom always makes my soul sad. It's needlessly over the top, and has pointless patriotism thrown in for good measure. For the life of my I can't find a video of the scene but, for those who don't know what scene I mean, Dent is interviewing a witness on the stand who retracts his statement. He then pulls a gun on Dent but it misfires. Here's where it gets a bit daft, Dent takes the gun from the suspect and punches him in the face, then casually strolls over to the defence table, takes the gun apart and says something along the lines of "The next time you try to kill a public official I suggest you buy American". As the judge calls for people to escort the man out of the court Dent stops him saying "But judge, I'm not done yet" cue applause in the audience etc etc.

Now my issue with this is that the ridiculous bravado and patriotism just came off as incredibly forced to me. Also the ending makes no sense. Firstly, you've just knocked the guy flat out, what info are you expecting to get from an unconscious man?? Secondly, even if he was conscious, he's just retracted his statement and perjured himself in court literally 30 seconds ago, what are you hoping will happen by continuing to question him??

So, what films can you guys think of that overall is a great film, but has a moment that is truly awful?

I never got a patriotic vibe from that scene whatsoever if you look at Dent's face the moment the witness pulls the gun and it misfires you can see his face overcome with fear. So after he deals with him by punching the man in the face he needs to reassure himself that hes ok by joking about the situation, which is where the little jab about buying American comes from. As well as the "But your honor I'm not done". Probably a little more analysis than necessary but still thats basically why he does that.

OT: Almost every TV show, movie, or video from youtube I watch has a part that I don't like its just the great ones have less than the ones that are bad. For example in Spider-Man 3 I absolutely hate the part where hes dancing around in the street as "Emo" Peter Parker and for that matter every time Tobey Macguire tries to cry it just seems so forced in all the Spider-Man movies.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

Clerks 2; the bit in which Dante is taught to dance with ABC by The Jackson 5. I always skip that part of the movie.

 

[Lord Beautiful]

The Dark Knight

Every time Batman speaks.

ARGH.

 

[Anachronism]

Mine's also Oldboy, only with the action scenes. I feel like they're trying to paint him as this tragic figure, but also make him a god whenever he's fighting... You can't have it both ways!

Why not? The entire point of the extremity of the violence was that revenge is all Dae-su has left, and he intends to get it by means of violence. I'd argue that that's pretty tragic.

Spoiler

The fact that Woo-jin was able to destroy him so completely without being violent just serves to highlight how pointless all of Dae-su's fighting ultimately was. Training his body, the only useful thing he could do during his imprisonment, was a waste of time.

On topic: the sex scene in Watchmen. Good gravy, that scene was ridiculous.

 

[Snarky Username]

Mine's also Oldboy, only with the action scenes. I feel like they're trying to paint him as this tragic figure, but also make him a god whenever he's fighting... You can't have it both ways!

Why not? The entire point of the extremity of the violence was that revenge is all Dae-su has left, and he intends to get it by means of violence. I'd argue that that's pretty tragic.

Spoiler

The fact that Woo-jin was able to destroy him so completely without being violent just serves to highlight how pointless all of Dae-su's fighting ultimately was. Training his body, the only useful thing he could do during his imprisonment, was a waste of time.

On topic: the sex scene in Watchmen. Good gravy, that scene was ridiculous.

Hmm. Never looked at it like that. But it's not the fact there are fight scenes, it's how over the top they are. One that comes to mind is the on in the corridor after he tortures the warden. Actually, that's the only one that comes to mind. It was just all to much for me. One man taking down 50? Really?

 

[Anachronism]

Mine's also Oldboy, only with the action scenes. I feel like they're trying to paint him as this tragic figure, but also make him a god whenever he's fighting... You can't have it both ways!

Why not? The entire point of the extremity of the violence was that revenge is all Dae-su has left, and he intends to get it by means of violence. I'd argue that that's pretty tragic.

Spoiler

The fact that Woo-jin was able to destroy him so completely without being violent just serves to highlight how pointless all of Dae-su's fighting ultimately was. Training his body, the only useful thing he could do during his imprisonment, was a waste of time.

On topic: the sex scene in Watchmen. Good gravy, that scene was ridiculous.

Hmm. Never looked at it like that. But it's not the fact there are fight scenes, it's how over the top they are. One that comes to mind is the on in the corridor after he tortures the warden. Actually, that's the only one that comes to mind. It was just all to much for me. One man taking down 50? Really?

Frankly, I loved that fight scene, but I can see what you mean. I like it partly for what it tells you about Dae-su, but mostly for the fact that it was a choreographed fight sequence which was filmed in a single take. That is a stunning accomplishment, in my opinion.

 

[Snarky Username]

Mine's also Oldboy, only with the action scenes. I feel like they're trying to paint him as this tragic figure, but also make him a god whenever he's fighting... You can't have it both ways!

Why not? The entire point of the extremity of the violence was that revenge is all Dae-su has left, and he intends to get it by means of violence. I'd argue that that's pretty tragic.

Spoiler

The fact that Woo-jin was able to destroy him so completely without being violent just serves to highlight how pointless all of Dae-su's fighting ultimately was. Training his body, the only useful thing he could do during his imprisonment, was a waste of time.

On topic: the sex scene in Watchmen. Good gravy, that scene was ridiculous.

Hmm. Never looked at it like that. But it's not the fact there are fight scenes, it's how over the top they are. One that comes to mind is the on in the corridor after he tortures the warden. Actually, that's the only one that comes to mind. It was just all to much for me. One man taking down 50? Really?

Frankly, I loved that fight scene, but I can see what you mean. I like it partly for what it tells you about Dae-su, but mostly for the fact that it was a choreographed fight sequence which was filmed in a single take. That is a stunning accomplishment, in my opinion.

Well as a fight scene it was really good, it just didn't fit in well with the rest of the movie to me. All the other ones seemed at least a little plausible.