20 Cringeworthy Movie Lines That Have Not Aged Well
Everyone has a favorite movie line, but for every "Here's looking at you, kid" or "You talkin' to me?" there are dozens of quotes and moments that make you wonder, "What in the world were those writers thinking?" Sure, B-movies and the like are bound to be messy, but even the biggest blockbusters and award winners aren't safe from a bit of poor writing. Whether or not you picked up on them yourself, these ridiculous, bizarre, and downright cringeworthy movie lines definitely could've used a rewrite — or ten.
Jamie Dornan (Fifty Shades of Grey)
In a film where subtlety is a foreign concept, not even dialogue is safe from being a little too on-the-nose. Dornan's Christian Grey puts this fact on full display when he articulates his troubled mind, telling Dakota Johnson's Ana Steele, "I'm fifty shades of f*cked up."
Halle Berry (X-Men)
While battling the frog-like villain Toad, Halle Berry's Storm gives a pretty straightforward warning about her ability to manipulate weather: "You know what happens to a toad when it's struck by lightning? The same thing that happens to everything else." Thanks, Captain Obvious.
Michael Keaton (Jack Frost)
Playing outrageous characters is Michael Keaton's bread and butter, which why it came as no surprise when he was cast as a dead father reincarnated as a snowman in this 1998 holiday film. Acknowledging his father's return, Keaton's on-screen son utters the odd, heartwarming line, "Snow dad is better than no dad."
Josh Hartnett (Pearl Harbor)
Slapping a fictional love story in the middle of a historic tragedy worked wonders for Titanic — Pearl Harbor, not so much. When the titular attack occurs, Hartnett's character helps us to understand the magnitude of it: "I think World War II just started!"
