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!

Strong and feisty but somehow very very irritating.

Anyone said 'About Time' yet? Quirky family, rambling yet charming family home by the sea, younger sister with issues, that restaurant scent in the dark...I cringe the whole way through (but still love it)

*scene not scent!!

That scene in 'It's Complicated' where the three ADULT siblings are all in bed together because they're sad mummy and daddy aren't getting back together after all? And the patronising boyfriend (who is more like some kind of creepy dad) goes and gets their mum?

Does anyone know what I'm talking about? I LOATHE it.

Pringles - I totally agree with About Time, I really enjoy it (ticks all of my fantasy boxes) - but it is SO cringey. I find Domhnall Gleeson particularly cheesy. The odd thing is, I recently watched Ex Machina and Brooklyn (he is in both), and realised he is actually a very good actor. Surprised.

Any scene in the Harry Potter films where Emma Watson over pronounces and overacts anything - i.e. "I'm going to bed before one of you comes up with another clever idea to get us killed... or worse... expelled" and that bit in the second film where she narrows her eyes ands purses her lips when the boys are talking - its become a meme its so bad.

Pretty Woman - when she walks into the posh shop in all her finery. It's all fine when she's telling them it was a mistake, but the cringey moment is the extra line at the end when she says "I have to go shopping now..." in a bored voice and throws her bags over her shoulder. Its just hammy and unnecessary.

Has anyone seen Catfish? The original documentary movie I mean, not the subsequent tv series. Watching that woman lie to his face about having cancer so easily is just cringe-central.

I love this thread. I've a few....

Taken - the daughter was so miscast in this. She was so old and her pretending to be a teenager was cringe to watch. Especially when she broke into a crazy run every time she saw Liam Neeson shouting 'dad' in a high pitched voice and running like a drunken spider towards him arms and legs everywhere. It gives me the rage!

'You had me at hello'. Enough said. Can't believe it hasn't been mentioned.

Pierce Brosnan in Bond. Especially the cringiest of cringe line to Denice Richards 'and I thought Christmas only came once a year!'...

I love so many of these movies!

Any scene out of any Bridget Jones film.
Any scene out of FWAAF (apart from the funeral speech by John Hannah which I LOVE).
Any scene from Notting Hill.
I'm seeing a theme here crappy Richard Curtis

Funnily enough I adore Love Actually.

I'm really shocked that people have said About Time - I thought that was a brilliant film!

bumbley even though parts of The Holiday and Love Actually make me cringe, I still try to watch them every Christmas I also love Dirty Dancing and Mamma Mia

Me too! They're both on my Christmas movies list. I'm not allowed to start watching until 1st December though. :(

All I have seen of kindergarten cop.had misfortune to be feeling lazy and not be sitting near remote when it came on TV recently.

The end of war of the worlds
Wtf

One of my friends went to see mamma mia at the pictures and didn't realise it was a musical. She was like this

The bit in Ocean's 12 where Julia Roberts pretends to be herself.
In fact most of Ocean's 12 apart from the bit in Amsterdam basically.
George Clooney has said that Ocean's 13 should be called "The One we Should Have made last time'

OP, please may we move this to our lovely film topic?

Oh yes any of Richard Curtis's films. And most things with Gwyneth Paltrow. Obvs.

Surprised the pottery scene from Ghost hasn't been mentioned yet. Has anyone ever, anywhere, managed to actually sit through that?

I am an unashamed Mamma Mia fan though

Yyy to Michael Douglas sex scenes. Also, Michael Douglas dancing in a white suit in Romancing The Stone. And Michael Douglas dancing in a dressing gown in A Chorus Line.

Michael Douglas has a lot to answer for although not as much as Richard Curtis, the massive twatbag.

All of Eat, Pray, Love. Precious shyte.

The pottery scene from Ghost is being discussed on another thread in all its porny detail!

Actually all of Ghost makes me cringe. The only reason anyone ever thought it didn't was because they (inexplicably) fancied Patrick Swayze, who remains for me a middle-aged man with an ice hockey coach haircut and very high-waisted dance pants, perving a teenager in a blindingly Persil-white bra. In a pond. Or looking all starry-eyed and noble listening to the aliens spirits calling him to heaven after he saves Demi Moore from Evil Carl and his boggle-eyed acting.

I love the Hugh Grant moment in About a Boy too :o

Mary yesssssss to the daughter in Taken! It would have been much more effective to cast an actual teen.

YYY to 'is it raining' and 'a girl standing in front of a boy' - ew.

The Girl in the Cafe - Richard Curtis again, where Kelly McDonald's character announces out of nowhere - "have you heard of the Millennium Development Goals?' So unconvincing it was very, very cringeworthy.

A lot of Pretty Woman is pretty bad, especially the piano scene..

As for Love Actually...dear God.

I cringe at the thought of it. The whole thing, it's so self-consciously 'I am a feel-good foppish funny old British Christmas movie'. (But especially Hugh Grant dancing, oh CRINNNNNGE )

The ending of pretty woman.

I'm sorry, but I LOVE the bit where Hugh Grant dances in Love Actually! It makes me laugh like a drain

Actually, while the entire premise of Pretty Woman is gross, and the film is the most soppily unrealistic account of prostitution ever (it was originally to be called $5000, because that's how much Vivienne charges for the week, which has the merit of putting the 'sex for money' thing upfront, I suppose), I think the cringiest bit is possibly when she is preparing to give Richard Gere a blowjob in the penthouse but is being cutely distracted by I Love Lucy on the TV.

Because, deep inside, she's all girlish and sweet and innocent, and the film can't quite decide how to make a woman who sells sex for money palatable to the move-going audience without making her a cute little girl, who's just dressed up in a funny wig and boots to do nasty grown-up stuff.

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