Creating realistic and natural-sounding dialogue for a movie isn’t a simple job. If people spoke in movies the way they do in real life, it would be very hard to understand the movie and convey its message. At the same time, the conversations can’t seem fake, as they might have the same effect. So, when writers are balancing this line, sometimes, they fail. This way, lines that make people cringe are born. And some of them quickly turn into cringy cult classics (we’re looking at you “Spider-Monkey” from “Twilight”).Today, let’s take a kind of cringy trip through many general or specific sayings that people find embarrassing while watching movies.More info:RedditThis post may includeaffiliate links.
Creating realistic and natural-sounding dialogue for a movie isn’t a simple job. If people spoke in movies the way they do in real life, it would be very hard to understand the movie and convey its message. At the same time, the conversations can’t seem fake, as they might have the same effect. So, when writers are balancing this line, sometimes, they fail. This way, lines that make people cringe are born. And some of them quickly turn into cringy cult classics (we’re looking at you “Spider-Monkey” from “Twilight”).
Today, let’s take a kind of cringy trip through many general or specific sayings that people find embarrassing while watching movies.
More info:Reddit
This post may includeaffiliate links.
(Young, slightly-built woman single-handedly beats up a squad of muscle-bound marines.)“I had three brothers.”.
I hate how any computer nerd can hack everything from the world’s biggest banks, to missile silos, all with less than a dozen keystrokes on a Dell laptop.There’s a hush as all the military brass watches the nerd do his thing.Then comes the line I hate….“We’re in!”.
“Turn on the news! You gotta see this!”Turns on the tv to the exact channel at exactly the right time to further an important plot point..
The word “cringe” is thrown around the internet quite a lot. Whenever you sign in to social media, you hear that this or that makes a person cringe. It might seem that this word is thrown around so much that it starts to lose its meaning.Well, to say that, we have to learn what it means, don’t we? Well, according to Wikipedia (because where else is there to go when you don’t know something, right?), acringeis an action or thing that brings out feelings of discomfort or embarrassment.Othersmight describe cringe as a form of empathy, as a person puts themselves in the place of someone else and feels embarrassed for them. While the description doesn’t necessarily dub it as a form of empathy, it also includes a mention of embarrassment, which is basically what cringe is.Sometimes, cringe canmanifestas a physiological and emotional response to something a person did or said in the past, or it can be a reaction to someone else’s behavior or words. The latter might cause one to feelsecondhandor vicarious embarrassment.
The word “cringe” is thrown around the internet quite a lot. Whenever you sign in to social media, you hear that this or that makes a person cringe. It might seem that this word is thrown around so much that it starts to lose its meaning.
Well, to say that, we have to learn what it means, don’t we? Well, according to Wikipedia (because where else is there to go when you don’t know something, right?), acringeis an action or thing that brings out feelings of discomfort or embarrassment.
Othersmight describe cringe as a form of empathy, as a person puts themselves in the place of someone else and feels embarrassed for them. While the description doesn’t necessarily dub it as a form of empathy, it also includes a mention of embarrassment, which is basically what cringe is.
Sometimes, cringe canmanifestas a physiological and emotional response to something a person did or said in the past, or it can be a reaction to someone else’s behavior or words. The latter might cause one to feelsecondhandor vicarious embarrassment.
It’s hard to be too annoyed because I understand why it’s needed, but when characters use each other’s names/relations way too often to establish it with the audience.“Dan, Kelly is on the line for you.““Thanks, Candice. You’re the best assistant and ex-girlfriend a guy ever had….hi Kelly, how is my favorite sister-in-law?““Not great, Dan. My husband, Tom, told me you don’t have the tickets. Now, I know he’s your big brother and all…”.
“We don’t have any other choice.““We have no choice"“There’s no other way"Usually it is just lazy writing to justify doing something stupid. If there really was no other choice it would be apparent to the audience from your storytelling.
Basically, sometimes, people like to laugh at their own and other people’s behavioral standards and witness what it would be like to not meet certainsocialnorms.
“Zoom and enhance.”.
We’re not that different, you and I.
She said that typically cringy lines are overused in movies but are rarely used in real life: “It might feel so unlikely and clichéd that it jars the viewer.”
We can guess that the writers who wrote these lines likely didn’t intend to make viewers cringe – they maybe just wanted to joke a little bit or create a powerful saying.
Anna explained that these kinds of lines tend to take the audience out of a story and might even make them turn it off: “I have to watch films all the way through for my job as a film critic, but if I was watching a movie for fun, a cringy line might make me lose trust and interest in the film – and it might make me wary that a whole lot more cringy lines were probably coming!”
“Is that all you’ve got?”.
The film critic thinks that people are now more attuned to cringy sexist talk in movies, like romantic gestures that are actually more patronizing to women: “These will probably leap out if you watch films from the 70s, 80s or even 90s.”
Anna said that she finds it cringe when movie characters overuse names, as it isn’t realistic. Well, as we said in the beginning, it’s hard to balance realism and fakeness. Sometimes, even the best effort to do that doesn’t work out as we anticipate, and the line you thought would be in a list of powerful cinema phrases ends up in a list of cringy ones.
After all, cringe is an inevitable part of life, as it’s simply a physiological reaction. So, asTaylor Swiftsaid in her NYU commencementspeech,we need to “learn to live alongside cringe,” as it’s way better than beating yourself up for the rest of your life.
Therefore, let’s embrace these cringy movie lines and turn them into something entertaining instead of embarrassing.
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Neo, an accomplished hacker and presumably tech savvy person: “What’s an EMP?”.
“You just don’t get it, do you?!”.
The wilhelm scream needs to die already. Unless it’s a comedic movie, Indiana Jones, or Starwars, it absolutely kills the mood for me in serious action scenes.
“I think you should take a look at this” in basically a million movies.
“We’re the only species that makes war on itself"WRONG!
When someone is explaining something technical and they’re told to speak in layman’s terms to dumb it for the audience.
Bane “You came back to die with your city”Batman “no, I came back to stop you”Awful.
“He’s/she’s/it’s/they’re behind me, aren’t they?““Who’s there? [insert person’s name] stop screwing around I know it’s you!” / “HELLO? HELLLLOOOO? WHO’S THERE?““Hahaha, [insert name] you son of a b***h! I haven’t seen you since…”.
“Do you trust me?”.
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Pearl Harbor " i think world war 2 just started”.
“I hate sand. It’s rough, and coarse, and irritating, and it gets eeeeverywhere.”.
Uma Thurman saying “entropy” when she should have said “atrophy” takes me out of Kill Bill every time.
The spider monkey line in twilight.
Anything that uses internet speak, because they always overdo it for effect. It’s particularly bad when it’s one of those movies that shows the text being sent on the screen.So much “srsly.”.
Ginny Weasley : Open up you.
Kitana: Mother! You’re alive!Sindel: Too bad YOU! will die!
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May I sit?It’s a free country … or at least it will be soon.The Patriot.
When someone answers the phone and immediately says “slow down” as a way to convey that the person calling is talking fast/being frantic.It’s used way too often and I’ve never heard someone need to respond that way in real life.
[Character name]?[Character name]?Okay, this isn’t funny anymore![Character name]?
Jack Reacher"Im no hero. Im a drifter with nothing to lose.“I was laughing so hard when he delivered that line.
In the Fate of the Furious Vin finds out he’s being watched or something and Charlize Theron reveals herself with a slow clap saying “olly olly oxen free”.
“…I’d like that”After a couple breaks up and stays friends. Nobody says that.
“Somehow, Palpatine returned.”.
“What beats lava?!"“My dad.".
Spider-Man"You mess with Spidey, you mess with New York! You mess with one of us, you mess with all of us.“As a New Yorker I hate that scene. But, more than made up for with the subway scene in 2.
Avengers Age of Ultron had the twofer of Banner and Nat’s child discussion and the “hide the zucchini” line. Just absolutely cringe at both.
I’ve gotta get me one of those!
“They fly now?““They fly now.”.
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