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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.

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

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

20th Century Fox

“Where do you go on after a line like that?”

—telecocydon2003

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

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:

Rank Film Distributors

—skirton24

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

Universal Pictures

“I just could not keep a straight face with that.”

—jenniferh4e24263bc

6. Grey also had this little gem:

Universal Pictures

“?”

—bundtcake12

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

20th Century Fox

—ahildreth

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

Netflix

“?”

—repumore

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

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:

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:

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:

Buena Vista Pictures Distribution

—soljwf98

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

New Line Cinema

“Jesus Christ…”

—witchyribbon84

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

20th Century Fox

“Just so awkward!”

—b4f4f7af09

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

Warner Bros.

—schmuelio75

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

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:

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:

Warner Bros. Pictures

—the_fishy_pisces

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

Warner Bros.

—aaliyonte

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

20th Century Fox

“Ugh.”

—wgbrund1

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

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”:

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:

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:

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:

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:

20th Century Fox

“Just terrible.”

—goldengirlsfan

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

20th Century Fox

—kvholli2

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

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:

Summit Entertainment

—kendrac42482d04e

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