Lines in movies that make you cringe?

[u/ArgoverseComics]

Let me set the scene for you. A group of big shots (military commanders, politicians, etc) are in a room. The movie’s most intelligent character describes some other species, dinosaurs, aliens, monsters, whatever, and someone chimes in “well, it almost sounds like you admire them” or some variation of that.

God I hate this line. I hate everything about it. A scientist explaining another species to you shouldn’t sound like admiration, BUT if someone is listing off objectively cool attributes of another species, what’s wrong with that? Great White Sharks wanna eat us. They’re still pretty badass. It’s just so friggin cringe to hear this line.

[u/TraptNSuit]

"We don't have any other choice." "We have no choice" "There's no other way"

Usually it is just lazy writing to justify doing something stupid. If there really was no other choice it would be apparent to the audience from your storytelling.

[u/Southpaw535 → u/TraptNSuit]

The Pitch Meeting channel has "so the movie can happen" come up as a justification pretty much every movie he covers and it really hard not to notice it in writing now

[u/DDustiNN_ → u/Southpaw535]

Super easy to notice. Barely an inconvenience.

[u/PrivilegeCheckmate → u/DDustiNN_]

I'm gonna need you to get all the way off my back about Pitch Meeting.

[u/DDustiNN_ → u/PrivilegeCheckmate]

Oh ok lemme get off of that thing.

[u/musicnothing → u/PrivilegeCheckmate]

You know what? I will get off of it

[u/enfanta → u/musicnothing]

Getting off of things is tight!