Magazine lists cinema's cheesiest moments
In the film industry, where cliche and ridiculous sentiment are no hindrance to success, there is no shortage of films which can easily be labelled as cheesy.
But now there is a hierarchy of cheese. Empire magazine has compiled a list of the cheesiest movie moments - and the ripest moment of all can be found in Independence Day.
When the film played in US cinemas audiences reportedly cheered as the on-screen president, Bill Pullman, called his countrymen to arms against marauding aliens with the words: "Today we celebrate our independence day." For the list's compilers, however, it is the grand fromage of movie moments. It is, they say, "a cornball speech that sounds like Shakespeare rewritten by kindergarteners".
Running a close second is the 1980s fighter pilots and male bonding flick Top Gun: the scene where Val Kilmer's Iceman tells Tom Cruise's Maverick, "You can be my wingman any time."
But it's not just Hollywood that serves up the cheese. The British film Four Weddings and a Funeral may be one of this country's most successful, but Empire says its ending is over-ripe.
In the film, Andie MacDowell finally gets together with Hugh Grant in a torrential downpour, then ruins the moment with the line: "Is it still raining? I hadn't noticed."
Empire put the scene fourth, saying: "Talk about killing the moment."
The huge budget Pearl Harbor is fifth. The scene where Kate Beckinsale sits, rapt, reading a love letter as the sun sets behind was deemed to be not so much romantic as repugnant.
Other moments to make the top 10 include Richard Gere sweeping Debra Winger off her feet at the end of An Officer and a Gentleman, and a romantic scene between Hayden Christensen and Natalie Portman in the Star Wars film Attack of the Clones. Kevin Costner also earns a place for his mega-flop, The Postman, in which a blind woman tells him: "You're a Godsend, a saviour," and Costner solemnly replies: "No, I'm just the postman."
Cancer-stricken Susan Sarandon leading her kids in a family singalong during the sentimental Stepmom also made the list.
No list of cheese would be complete without Robin Williams, though the difficulty may lie in singling out just one moment. Empire suggests a scene in Patch Adams where terminally ill children turn up at court to save the day for Williams' comedy doctor.
Empire gives Williams a special commendation. Many of his films are like "being dipped in a churning vat of camembert".
Empire's top 10 cheesiest moments
1 Independence Day
2 Top Gun
3 The Karate Kid
4 Four Weddings and a Funeral
5 Pearl Harbor
6 Stepmom
7 The Postman
8 An Officer and a Gentleman
9 Patch Adams
10 Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
Agree, disagree, have your own to add?
Quote from: MacGuffinKevin Costner also earns a place for his mega-flop, The Postman, in which a blind woman tells him: "You're a Godsend, a saviour," and Costner solemnly replies: "No, I'm just the postman."
This is the first thing I thought of when I saw this thread. That's the last scene with his glorious horse riding moment, right?
Has anyone seen Daredevil, for goodness sake?
::snorts pensil shavings up his nose::
..great topic
here is my list of films/moments..
1.0 armageddon animal craker love scene
2.0 cuba's facial expressions during pearl harbor(esp near the end)
3.0 cruise sliding the lit matches in cocktail.
4.0 i agre w/ attack of the clones if referring to the scene when anakin uses "the force" to slice the fruit or what-not..hahahhaah!!!(that was bad)
5.0 legolas "hanging ten" in helm's deep......
"Pay It Forward" is the cheesiest film ever to be made and I don' waste any chance to badmouth the damn movie. I hate it so fucking much!
Finding Forrester and Mighty Ducks have an endless supply of cheese, but I'd have to say the cheesiest moment (or maybe most cliched, or just plain worst ever) is when the slutty chick tells Kevin Spacey she's a virgin in American Beauty.
Quote from: RoyalTenenbaum"Pay It Forward" is the cheesiest film ever to be made and I don' waste any chance to badmouth the damn movie. I hate it so fucking much!
The ending was really cheesy. From what I gather, the ending was the exact opposite of the book.
I agree that Attack of the Clones had the cheesiest romance dialogue. The part where Anakin compares her skin to sand was hilariously bad.
I haven't even seen the movie, but in the ad for Radio, the part where a character actually says "Maybe we don't teach Radio, maybe Radio teaches us"
Quote from: RegularKarateI haven't even seen the movie, but in the ad for Radio, the part where a character actually says "Maybe we don't teach Radio, maybe Radio teaches us"
hhahah ..thats awful....
it sounds like they make him out to be some kind of wierd species...
The last 20 minutes of AI...
Quote from: MacGuffinIndependence Day
RUSSELL
(filtered)
Mr. President, Do me one favor...
RUSSEL
(filtered)
...tell my children I love them
very much.
Quote from: RoyalTenenbaum"Pay It Forward" is the cheesiest film ever to be made and I don' waste any chance to badmouth the damn movie. I hate it so fucking much!
You may very well be right. Cause see, movies like the Karate Kid can be redeemed cause they're 80's and their cheesiness is charming but Pay It Forward took it all so seriously.
Quote from: ebeamanthey're 80's and their cheesiness is charming
I have to disagree in the strongest possible terms of disagreement.
well i think u can distinguish different types of cheese, or corniness. there is good corn and bad corn. everything listed in this thread thus far would occupy the 'bad corn' category, whilst things in say, a cameron crowe movie; take jerry maguire- when dorothy watches the little kid give jerry a kiss-- it may be cheesy, but its that good cheese that makes u kinda smile. didn't we have a thread about this already? macman?
I still don't see what's bad about Finding Forrester or American Beauty. *shrug* I don't see anything cheesy about either of those movies. Finding Forrester was one of those uplifting, feel-good surprise movies I went in seeing not knowing anything about it, and I loved it. Some may call it a poor man's Good Will Hunting, but there's nothing wrong with that. And as for American Beauty, well, I don't think there's a cheesy frame in the whole film. But that's neither here nor there. Well, maybe Ricky's speech is borderline with the whole bag thing. But it made its point.
And, well, The Postman could've been better had the script been given a rewrite. But any script that started with postal workers as the heros of the world would need a genius of a writer to take the cheese out of that one.
Quote from: Jeremy BlackmanQuote from: ebeamanthey're 80's and their cheesiness is charming
I have to disagree in the strongest possible terms of disagreement.
Lol, well I'm not going to argue that. I just can't, cheesy 80's movies are not movies that I will defend. I love them to death but I can't blame others for hating them, they're definitely not charming to everbody. I grew up with them though, that's my excuse.
too bad were confined to movies, cuz shows called dawsons creek and seventh heaven and shit like that are consistently cheesy on a weekly basis -- but isn't that why we love them?
I mean......I don't watch them......
of all the films listed I have only been forced to see independance day and it was a torture!
I don't see anything cheezy in Amercian Beauty either! ^^
and... well I can't mention any cheezy movie moments of my own cuz I have none that crosses my mind right now and because I think I can smell cheezy movies from afar so I 'm avoiding them... but I must admit there are some of those I want to see... *so ashamed* :lol: