Top 10 Uncomfortably Awkward Film Moments
This week’s top ten is looking at the most cringe-worthy
moments in film. Moments that made us squirm in our seats, begging for it to
end.
10. Les Miserables (2013)
The Culprit: Russell
Crowe
The Moment: Any
moment where Rusty flexes his vocal cords and belts out his songs in a manner
living up to his nickname. Granted he’s not a musically trained actor like many
of his accompanying cast, but even they couldn’t carry Crowe through the
lengthy running time.
9. Withnail and I (1987)
The Culprit: Richard
Griffiths
The Moment: Whilst
spending a quiet week in the country, Marwood (Paul McGann) is joined by
Withnail’s (Richard E. Grant) Uncle Monty (Richard Griffith) who then proceeds
to use the remainder of the holiday to seduce Marwood. In one of the most
disturbingly hilarious seduction scenes in cinema Monty claims ‘I must have you
even if it must be burglary.’ Look away.
8. The Inbetweeners
Movie (2011)
The Culprits: Simon
Bird, Joe Thomas, Blake Harrison and James Buckley
The Moment: Truth
being told there are many different cringe worthy moments from The Inbetweeners
Movie. However the pièce de résistance simply has to be the group’s dismal
attempt at dancing over to a group of girls in order to impress them. The
worrying thing is, everyone now knows the dance movies off by heart. Form an orderly
queue ladies.
7. Star Wars Episode
III: Revenge of the Sith (2005)
The Culprit: Hayden
Christensen/James Earl Jones
The Moment: Revenge
of the Sith is generally considered the best (or least worst!) of the Star Wars
prequel trilogy. However for most uncomfortable moment it stands out like a
sore thumb. After being badly injured by Obi-Wan, Anakin is placed into the
infamous Vader outfit to keep him alive. He is then informed by mentor
Palpatine, that in his rage he accidentally killed his bae, Padme. Cue a heartbroken Vader
crying ‘Nooooooooooooooooo’ whilst the camera slowly zooms away and audiences
everywhere suppress their laughter.
6. Batman and Robin
(1997)
The Culprit: Arnold
Schwarzenegger
The Moments: Schwarzenegger
was allegedly paid $25 million for his role as Mr Freeze who initially could be
considered an interesting character to play. A scientist who places his
terminally ill wife in a state of cryosleep in order to save her life, yet
after a fatal accident involving his wife and her cryo-stasis, he must keep
himself in a cryogenic suit to stay alive. What Schwarzenegger (and director
Joel Schumacher and write Akiva Goldsman) decided to do was camp him up big
time like a pantomime villain, sporting a fur coat a hip hop artist would think
is ‘a little too much’ and have him spurt out ice based puns throughout the
film. Not cool.
5. Django Unchained
(2012)
The Culprit: Quentin
Tarantino
The Moment: Let’s
face facts; Quentin Tarantino is a bad actor, a really, really bad actor. But
in Django Unchained he took this to a whole new level. Turning up in the last quarter
of the film he dons the least convincing Australian accent since Jay Cartwright
in The Inbetweeners. His idea of an
Australian accent was just to say ‘mate’ a lot.
The Culprit: Denise
Richards
The Moment: Denise
Richards plays a scientist called Christmas Jones. Christmas Jones. Really.
3. The Wicker Man (2006)
The Culprit: Nicholas
Cage
The Moment: Detective
Edward Malus is captured by the inhabitants of the island. He is subjected to
torture by the inhabitants, most notably placing a mesh cage on his head and
filling it with bees, signalling Cage’s horrified cries of ‘No! No not the
bees!’
2. Superbad (2007)
The Culprit: Jonah
Hill
The Moment: Seth
meets a girl at a party who takes a bit of a shine to him and they begin to
have a dance together which in itself could merit a place in this list. It’s
when the dancing his finished and Seth checks out the weird stain on his pants
leg that makes us look away in disbelief. I’ll just leave it there and leave
the rest to you!
1. Pirates of the
Caribbean: At World’s End (2007)
The Culprit: Kiera
Knightley
The Moment: Director,
Gore Verbinski wanted a stand out, uplifting speech to build up to the show piece
climax of his (then) Pirates trilogy, a moment to inspire the disbanded group
of Pirates to unite against the dastardly East India Trading Company. Step up
Kiera Knightley who manages to butcher the entire moment by delivering the
speech like a head girl at a private school parents evening.
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