29 Cringey Movie Quotes That Will Make You Grit Your Teeth, And Not In A Sexy "Fifty Shades Of Grey" Way

    These lines come with a side of extra cheese.

    Jeremy Hayes
    by Jeremy Hayes

    BuzzFeed Staff

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    Sometimes a line of movie dialogue is so bad that all you can do is recoil and say, "Oh no."

    Riddick says, "it's been a long time since I've smelled beautiful"
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    We asked members of the BuzzFeed Community to share the cringiest movie lines they have ever heard. The responses had me enthralled.

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    Here are the responses:

    1. When Marla's pillow talk in Fight Club got weird:

    woman in bed says "my god, I haven't been fucked like that since grade school"
    20th Century Fox

    "Where do you go on after a line like that?"

    —telecocydon2003

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    2. When Notting Hill brought an extra side of cheese:

    a woman says, "I'm also just a girl standing in front of a boy asking him to love her"
    Universal Pictures

    —knr8269

    3. When Halle Berry had one of the weirdest "before-the-kill" lines directed at a mutant named Toad in X-Men:

    20th Century Fox

    "Secondhand embarrassment every time."

    —ashleyp459897ecc

    4. When Four Weddings and a Funeral had this hilarious quote and visual combo:

    a woman asks "is it still raining, I hadn't noticed" while it rains
    Rank Film Distributors

    —skirton24

    5. When Christian Grey from Fifty Shades of Grey said this with his entire chest:

    Christian Grey says "because I'm fifty shades of fucked up"
    Universal Pictures

    "I just could not keep a straight face with that."

    —jenniferh4e24263bc

    6. Grey also had this little gem:

    Christian Grey says "I don't make love, I fuck hard"
    Universal Pictures

    "🤣"

    —bundtcake12

    7. When Daniel Day-Lewis delivered this line with a straight face in The Last of the Mohicans :

    Daniel Day-Lewis says "Someday, I think you and I are going to have a serious disagreement"
    20th Century Fox

    —ahildreth

    8. When Tall Girl gave us a meme similar to "Kim, there's people that are dying":

    A tall girl says "you think your life is hard, I'm a high school junior wearing size 13 Nikes, men's size 13 Nikes, beat that"
    Netflix

    "💀"

    —repumore

    9. When Arthur broke into a submarine for a grand entrance in Aquaman:

    Aquaman asks "Permission to come aboard"
    Warner Bros. Pictures

    "I rolled my eyes at that one."

    —dinkaw

    10. When Sebastian Stan was really going for it as his witch character in The Covenant:

    Sebastian Stan says "oooh, witchy"
    Sony Pictures Releasing

    "Makes me cringe so bad... 😂"

    —whopple

    11. When Jeremy Renner's character talked to Amy Adams' character after contacting aliens in Arrival:

    Jeremy Renner says "You know what surprised me the most, it wasn't meeting them, it was meeting you"
    Paramount Pictures

    "Looking at the YouTube comments, many people seem to think it's romantic, but everyone in my theater awkwardly laughed. 😂 So cheesy."

    —re89245

    12. When John Malkovich threatened a furry toy in Con Air:

    John Malkovich holds a stuffed animal at gunpoint and says, "make a move and the bunny gets it"
    Buena Vista Pictures Distribution

    —soljwf98

    13. How about this classic exchange during a mother-daughter reunion in Mortal Kombat: Annihilation:

    Woman says "too bad you will die"
    New Line Cinema

    "Jesus Christ…"

    —witchyribbon84

    14. Speaking of Mortal Kombat, James Marsden tried his best Scorpion impression in 27 Dresses:

    James Marsden says "Get over here"
    20th Century Fox

    "Just so awkward!"

    —b4f4f7af09

    15. When "two guys being dudes" had a moment in Showdown in Little Tokyo (1991):

    A man says "just in case we get killed, I wanted to tell you you have the biggest dick I've ever seen" and the other man thanks him
    Warner Bros.

    —schmuelio75

    16. When A Cinderella Story gave us this unique analogy:

    Hillary Duff says "waiting for you is like waiting for rain in this drought, useless and disappointing"
    Warner Bros. Pictures

    "The line's a little bit too 'using my high school English class literary techniques to good use' for my taste."

    —hiitsnicetomeetyou

    17. When Harry had no inner monologue in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire:

    Harry Potter says, "I love magic"
    Warner Bros. Pictures

    —joweaver

    18. When Ginny had the weirdest way to offer a treat to Harry in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince:

    Ginny says, "open up, you"
    Warner Bros. Pictures

    —the_fishy_pisces

    19. When Zack Snyder’s Justice League included dialogue fit for a video game cutscene:

    Wonder Woman says, "I belong to no one"
    Warner Bros.

    —aaliyonte

    20. When Working Girl gave us some classic...flirting?:

    a woman says "I've got a mind for business and a body for sin"
    20th Century Fox

    "Ugh."

    —wgbrund1

    21. When Ryan Gosling earned his wings in The Notebook:

    man says "if you're a bird, I'm a bird"
    New Line Cinema

    “'I’M A BIRD!!!!' I just can’t."

    —amyk453e68492

    22. Arnold Schwarzenegger deserves his own list of cringey quotes, but if I had to pick the cringiest, his response in Commando to the line "this green beret is going to kick your big ass":

    Arnold Schwarzenegger says "I eat green berets for breakfast and right now I'm very hungry"
    20th Century Fox

    "Literally Arnold Schwarzenegger’s entire film catalogue...I’ve been a fan since middle school, but, dang…there’s some major cringe there."

    —betherick85

    23. When Renée Zellweger gave us the ultimate roll of cheese after Tom Cruise's big speech in Jerry Maguire:

    woman says, "you had me at hello"
    Sony Pictures Releasing

    —doofenshmirtzevilinc

    24. When Chadwick Boseman gave us this forced line that sounded like it was only made for the Avengers: Infinity War trailer:

    T'Challa says, "get this man a shield"
    Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures

    "It was so cringey."

    —jessicam4cf175c07

    25. When Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker had one of the worst expositional lines ever:

    Poe Dameron says, "Somehow, Palpatine returned"
    Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures

    "Oscar Isaac looks physically pained having to utter those words."

    —emcsquared1

    26. When the Dark Side twisted Anakin so far that he shouted this FORCEd (tee-hee) line in Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith:

    "from my point of view, the jedi are evil"
    20th Century Fox

    "Just terrible."

    —goldengirlsfan

    27. When Anakin gave us this infamous quote from Star Wars: Attack of the Clones:

    Anakin says, "I don't like sand it's coarse, rough, and irritating, and it gets everywhere"
    20th Century Fox

    —kvholli2

    28. When Jacob ran at full cringe (speed) toward Bella in Twilight: New Moon:

    Jacob runs and yells "Bella, where the hell have you been, Loca"
    Summit Entertainment

    —re89245

    29. Finally, we must end with the undisputed champion of cringey quotes that was suggested the most by the BuzzFeed Community. Thank you, Twilight:

    Edward from "Twilight" says, "you better hold on tight, spider monkey"
    Summit Entertainment

    —kendrac42482d04e

    Are there any cringey lines not on here that make you cringe? Do you disagree with any of these? Comment below!

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