Moments in films that make you CRINGE

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I watched Cocktail last night for....reasons mostly involving Bryan Brown please don't judge me

The scene where Tom Cruise makes an entire bar of people listen to him wang on about cocktails in poem form forced me to hide behind a cushion as I was cringing so much. PARTICULARLY when he said the word "snazzy" in what I assume is meant to be a posh English accent at which point I had to leave the room.

Hit me with your other cringe moments in film!

"Keanu Reeves in 'Bram Stokers Dracula'"

And Tatum O'Neal too, daughter of Ryan O'Neal. :)

I'm old.

Ha, probably!

Thats the bit Mademan...a shitstorm of cringe.

Keanu Reeves saying 'I know where the BAWST'D sleeps!' in an 'English' accent one of the most unintentionally hilarious lines in film history.

I can't really buy Pretty Woman as Pygmalion - maybe a more soft-pedalled My Fair Lady-lite, but Shaw's Eliza is made miserable by her social transformation, there is no romantic spark, far less a sexual relationship, between her and Higgins, and the play ends with her rejecting his attempts to keep her on as a sort of secretary to run errands, and leaving. Possibly to marry someone else, or set up as a rival phonetics teacher.

Tbf that whole version of dracula was a cringefest wasnt it was an abomination of a film i saw it in the cinema couldnt switch it off

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I haven't read back (sorry!) but saw mocking jay part 2 yesterday. There was a bit where the female leader of district 2, with the backing of her female 2nd in command, explained why an attack on a target wouldn't work...and then a man explained it al to them. And it was all ok.

And at the end, amazing Katniss has led her people to victory and then gives it all up to be a wife and mother and wear a really shit dress. Not so much 'cringe' as incandescent anger.

Just watched the end of Pygmalion (because of this thread). Eliza goes back to Higgins after standing up to him as an independent woman. And he bloody turns his back on her and asks her for his slippers. Great moment, there. I'd want to shake her, or tell her to get the hell out.

The whole Harry and Ginny storyline in the HP films

OMG yes!

This has been irritating me for years...I wished he'd ended up with Luna but I wouldn't want to deprive good old Neville

In the published script of Pygmalion, there's an epilogue - Eliza marries Freddie and they run a flower shop together.

The whole of Mama Mia is one long cringe fest, imo.

Another vote for Mamma Mia. All ghastly and embarrassing. another Bryan Brown fan

The bit in ferris buellers day off where the sister gets picked up from the police station, and is pashing Charlie sheen in front of her mother then is all awkward and when her mum calls again she does this really high pitched "coming" with a Groany noise. I'm so embarrassed for her and it reminds me that I was an awkward teen girl once too cringes

Can't remember this movie's name or the actors (great start), but it is an American rom com where the widowed hero goes for a family weekend and falls for the young women his feckless brother has brought along as his date. The two most cringey scenes:1) he picks her up in a bookshop with a lot of cute talk about the books they are buying and 2) the whole family go onto the lawn for a session of aerobics together in the morning, cause, y'know, that's what families do together.

Also hate the scene in In Her Shoes where Cameron Diaz cures her illiteracy by reading poetry aloud to old people in a home.

I've gone through the thread but may have missed it - anyone seen Blended?
It is a car crash of a film but also just horribly racist (and sexist but it's the racism that really stands out) and what makes it even worse is it's got Drew Barrymore in it. Who for no logical reasons I just assume to be fairly politically correct. I watched it on a plane and watched it like

Don't know if it's been mentioned but in Billy Elliot where his dad comes into the gym and catches the 2 boys and Billy starts dancing in front of him. And his dad is just wtf about the whole scene and turns and runs.

I know it's actually the turning point for the dad but my god is makes me twitch with how odd it is!

I hate the end of Billy Elliot when the father meets Michael again. It's like they went through a stereotype list and ticked it off as they set Michael and his boyfriend there.

Glad someone mentioned Blended - we flicked to it on Sky movies a while back and sat in slack jawed horror at the overt (it really isn't casual) racism on display. I can't understand how it was made - did no-one question it at any stage??

Lweji do you mean My Fair Lady? Pygmalion the play has a totally different ending.

Siege

Keanu Reeves saying 'I know where the BAWST'D sleeps!' in an 'English' accent one of the most unintentionally hilarious lines in film history.

I came back to post this exact thing! Great minds.

The bit in Love Actually at the beginning where the wedding has the flash orchestra and the vicar and the best man do a high five.....has me reaching for the vomit bowl.

There is an amazing film (not in a good way) called The Evil Beneath Loch Ness. It has Lysette Antony in it and an American bloke doing possibly the worst Scottish accent every heard. Thy didn't research the police uniforms either.....
And that's just the start of the cringe stuff in it.

Worth watching if you can get the DVD for a £1.

I love Keanu in Dracula, he's so hilariously miscast and the whole film is just ridiculous and OTT.

Has anyone seen a Jim Carrey film called The Number 23? It was during his more serious acting phase and its one of the most unintentionally funny things I've ever seen. It's supposed to be a tense, cerebral erotic thriller but it fails so badly. One of my favourite bits is when Carrey and Virginia Madsen are having a "kinky" sex moment and she says "pretend you've got a knife" and he kind of waves an empty fist at her. The first time I saw it was with about 7 friends, and we were all in stitches.

A bit like Highlander, Alfie?

Christophe Lambert's French-accented "Conor McCleod of ze clan McCleod" talking to Sean Connery's Scottish-accented "Ramiresh"

"You are a Spaniard?"
"No, I am Egyptian!"

Mind you, that's more 'hilariously bad' than 'cringeworthy' I suppose...

MrsUnderwood that has me cracking up and I haven't even seen it! :o

Saffron that's Dan in Real Life and it's one of my favorite films

I watched the Keanu Reeves clip and died laughing but...are the wives doing something to a baby?! :(