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Cringe Worthy - Movies, TV Shows or Just Scenes That Made You Squirm!
injest:
Ok, we have plenty of 'favorites' and 'the best of'; what about the awful? The ones you just sit there appalled at?
The one that has been stuck in my mind the past couple of days is the opening of the Academy Awards when BBM was nominated...they used the lyrics to "DONTCHA" by the Pussycat Dolls...
It was embarrassingly bad. I wish I could erase the memory from my head! Talk about lame... ::) ::)
delalluvia:
The movie Forty days and Forty nights made me wince. I was embarrassed for everyone in it. I'm sure they were, too.
The Baz Luhrman movie Romeo + Juliet also made me cringe. Claire Danes and Leo DiCaprio proved beyond all doubt that Shakespearean actors are a rare talent and a breed onto themselves. Sadly neither lead actor was among them.
Even though I loved the movie, some of the lines in The Chronicles of Riddick were probably hard to say with a straight face.
Lynne:
--- Quote from: injest on November 08, 2007, 12:25:27 am ---anything Leo DeCaprio is in is cringe worthy for me. I liked him in Titanic...but come on..that did not mean he is a headliner lead actor...it was ONE good role....PERIOD
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I'll disagree with you on this one, Jess, ;) and cite What's Eating Gilbert Grape, The Aviator, Catch Me if You Can, The Departed, and Blood Diamond for rebuttal evidence. :D Actually, I'm pretty sure Titanic is at the bottom of my list of DiCaprio roles, but to each his or her own! :D
But...what makes me cringe includes almost all of reality TV and all made for TV romances, which includes most shows broadcast on Lifetime. I cannot sit through blood and gore without good reason (Hellraiser) nor angst for the sake of angst - i.e. 'manipulative drama' (Message in a Bottle).
I have no patience anymore for sitcoms with the canned laughtrack...even the classics which I think were socially revolutionary - All In the Family, The Jeffersons, Maude, Mary Tyler Moore, Good Times - they're historically important but no longer relevant nor funny, IMO.
delalluvia:
--- Quote from: Lynne on November 08, 2007, 12:47:14 am ---I'll disagree with you on this one, Jess, ;) and cite What's Eating Gilbert Grape, The Aviator, Catch Me if You Can, The Departed, and Blood Diamond for rebuttal evidence. :D Actually, I'm pretty sure Titanic is at the bottom of my list of DiCaprio roles, but to each his or her own! :D
But...what makes me cringe includes almost all of reality TV and all made for TV romances, which includes most shows broadcast on Lifetime. I cannot sit through blood and gore without good reason (Hellraiser) nor angst for the sake of angst - i.e. 'manipulative drama' (Message in a Bottle).
I have no patience anymore for sitcoms with the canned laughtrack...even the classics which I think were socially revolutionary - All In the Family, The Jeffersons, Maude, Mary Tyler Moore, Good Times - they're historically important but no longer relevant nor funny, IMO.
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Yep, to each his own. I thought DiCaprio's performance in Catch me if you can was very amateurish, DiCaprio carefully saying each line like he's still in rehearsal. The movie was a snoozefest.
We used to watch All in the Family reruns in college on some Classic movie channel. I remember one favorite Archie Bunker line - which was laughed at back when, but turned out to be prophetic. The family is talking about people hijacking airplanes and what can be done about it.
Archie Bunker suggests that all the passengers be armed, that will solve the problem -
Cue laugh-track.
Cut to 2006 when it is suggested that airline passengers be allowed to carry concealed weapons - in case of hijackers.
:o :o :o
No one is laughing now.
David In Indy:
--- Quote from: Lynne on November 08, 2007, 12:47:14 am ---I'll disagree with you on this one, Jess, ;) and cite What's Eating Gilbert Grape, The Aviator, Catch Me if You Can, The Departed, and Blood Diamond for rebuttal evidence. :D Actually, I'm pretty sure Titanic is at the bottom of my list of DiCaprio roles, but to each his or her own! :D
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And The Basketball Diaries. It was an excellent movie about the perils of drug abuse. Leo did a brilliant job in that movie.
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