23 Movies That Tried To Be Genius Masterpieces, But Were Actually Just Painfully Cringy

Have you ever watched a movie and thought: "Wow, they're trying WAY excessively hard"? You cognize the ones — the overly "clever" movies that effort truthful hard to beryllium profound, but they extremity up feeling similar thing a archetypal grader would telephone "genius."

Actually, I instrumentality that backmost — I person much religion successful archetypal graders. They'd astir apt spot close done it excessively TBH.

Over connected Reddit, radical are sharing the cringiest movies that effort to beryllium astute but truly aren't. Honestly, these responses marque maine consciousness truthful seen. This is simply a harmless abstraction to beryllium a small spot of a hater today. ❤️

1. "Lucy."

—Anywho1234

"I physically cringe erstwhile Morgan Freeman keeps saying idiot crap astir 'how our brains work.'"

—Cipherpunkblue

"I dunno, there's thing hilariously campy astir however earnestly they effort to contiguous the thought that if humans utilized '100% of their brain,' they'd crook into clip travelling omnipotent goo."

—marbledrew

2. "I’m not saying it’s a dumb movie, I similar it. But rewatching Oppenheimer recently, there’s conscionable changeless characters walking circular each importantly saying important shit, with precise important-sounding euphony ever-present successful the background. IDK why, I recovered it truthful cringy and irritating."

—sovietwilly

"I telephone these benignant of movies 'Wikipedia leafage movies,' wherever it conscionable feels similar you're speechmaking thing connected Wikipedia, I don't deliberation it's dumb oregon cringy, but it's decidedly not my benignant of movie."

—gahema

3. "Don't Worry Darling."

—DonBandolini

"I decidedly agree, and I emotion that movie truthful much. It's been said to decease but if you were to alteration 1 happening that could’ve made the movie truthful overmuch better, it would beryllium to regenerate Harry Styles. You suffer truthful overmuch imaginable for the quality due to the fact that of his inexperience.

It whitethorn beryllium my bias making maine accidental this, but it feels similar it's truthful adjacent to being smarter than it is, conscionable a fewer tweaks and it would enactment amended arsenic what it was trying to be."

—Tsugezunt

"I wanted that movie to beryllium a mini series. A azygous play with aggregate episodes, conscionable truthful they could really make the characters and the world."

—fairyfreezerbunny

4. "Him."

—CranberryFlat617

"It had the imaginable to beryllium an absorbing exploration of CTE, football, and masculinity...and past it had to heap connected similar 4 much themes. It became specified a mess."

—zozuto

6. "The reply is 10000% the Now You See Me films. It's the explanation of astute movies for anserine people."

—drdalebrant

"Well, they're wholly predicated connected these ace astute thieves utilizing illusions to bargain shit...but arsenic it turns out, they are capable to execute literal magic to marque immoderate of the crippled possible. So wherefore bash they request to bargain wealth if they tin bash fractional the crap successful the movie truthful effortlessly without immoderate prep, logistical planning, oregon practice? Those movies presume the assemblage are conscionable wholly encephalon dead.

And the 2nd 1 isn't called Now You Don't 🤦‍♂️😫"

—JonPaula

7. "Miller's Girl."

—Ok-Collection-1428

"This is the lone movie I've discontinue watching origin it was truthful atrocious and cringe."

—tettinho

"That 1 conscionable screamed instrumentality fabrication pupil x teacher to maine LMAO, it feels similar a archetypal draught written by a 13-year-old."

—Stock_Emergency_1507

"I besides said that! It was truthful anserine that you could archer the writer sat backmost successful her seat and thought, 'I'm a goddamn genius,' aft finishing the archetypal and lone draught of the manuscript."

—belindasteeles

8. "I emotion the bid to death, but Saw is truthful stupid. Jigsaw's full doctrine is specified an evident load of equine crap, but the franchise truly wants you to instrumentality it earnestly and deliberation helium has a point. It besides sometimes shows you that helium doesn't person a point. Then it has each his survivors articulation his cult, which conscionable makes nary consciousness and isn't however trauma works. The full premise is predicated connected radical not acting similar people. Anyways, I emotion it. Saw 2 is my favourite."

—SpideyFan914

"Jigsaw is decidedly 1 of the astir sanctimonious characters of each time. The full bid is similar a soap opera. It's amazing."

—n0obie

9. "I'm going to drawback immoderate flack for this, but I deliberation Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker movies acceptable this description."

—Square_Theme_8766

"It tried to beryllium some a Taxi Driver and The King of Comedy, but failed."

—duviBerry

10. "The Invention of Lying. Genuinely a beauteous chill conception that's wasted connected Ricky Gervais' writing."

—moocowsaymoo

"It starts retired reasonably clever and occasionally poignant but erstwhile it takes a crook toward evangelical atheism, it gets incredibly self-indulgent and self-righteous. Ironically (or possibly not) having a batch successful communal with an evangelical Christian movie, conscionable with the other message."

—wonderlandisburning

11. "I'm gonna conscionable accidental it, Tenet."

—weston12_

"This is simply a movie that thinks you are an idiot. There's a country wherever a idiosyncratic (in a laboratory coat!) explains the full conception of the movie (with props!) similar you’re an idiot. Awful exposition dump. Whatever happened to show, don’t tell, successful storytelling?"

—Redditisavirusiknow

12. "Emilia Pérez, if we’re lone picking one. It’s the worst of the batch by far. I’d accidental I besides o.k. of the connection Emilia Pérez tried to make, but it was truthful atrocious of a movie that I couldn’t adjacent archer what the takeaway was expected to be. That said, I’m 100% definite I’ll travel crossed worse. I haven’t seen Crash oregon Eddington yet, for example, but I get the feeling I’d locomotion distant feeling some are tenable answers to this question."

—AlconW

13. "Megalopolis."

—J0shfour

"Sadly, I deliberation you’re right. Coppola was not lone trying to beryllium smart, helium genuinely wanted it to beryllium a satellite changing enactment of visionary genius."

—LastRecognition2041

14. "A Cure for Wellness. By the mode it presents itself, I kept waiting for immoderate large philosophical conceit, but conscionable got a clump of shock-and-awe assemblage fearfulness followed by a lacklustre monster showdown. 🤷 One of the astir arsenic disappointing and disturbing movies of the 2010's imo."

—Sasagu

15. "Don’t Look Up."

—DumpySupreme

"Don't Look Up is specified a crap show. The astir connected the nose, sledgehammer messaging, and severely written characters."

—Wamb0wneD

16. "Recently: The Woman successful Cabin 10. Much of the dialog sounds similar it's written by a movie pupil who genuinely believes they're the adjacent Sorkin."

—somemetausername

18. "Lost successful Translation — immoderate spoiled narcissists overcoming their ennui by treating Tokyo arsenic a taxable parkland to beryllium amused by. It's a throwaway movie that radical look to deliberation is spiritual oregon profound."

—jinglesan

19. "Garden State. I utilized to adore it arsenic a 14-year-old, but damn is it dumb. 'Good luck exploring the infinite abyss.' 'You too.' 🤮"

—Shabadoo9000

"That soundtrack truly hypnotized a batch of millennials into reasoning it was profound, didn't it? It plays similar a Wes Anderson sound disconnected with mediocre acting and adjacent worse writing."

—VirginiaSwearwolf

20. "Vanilla Sky, I volition ne'er recognize wherefore truthful galore radical get stone hard implicit it, it's wholly trite."

—DarthEbriated

"I deliberation Cameron Crowe and Tom Cruise didn't recognize that the archetypal was an implicit the apical Spanish melodrama, and alternatively thought it was wholly serious. Vanilla Sky has a precise unusual vibe that doesn't gel with the worldly astatine all."

—sometimes_nowhere

21. "The Brutalist. The archetypal fractional was a fantastic biopic-style movie and by the 2nd half, you recognize it has perfectly thing to say."

—KingVonHuerter

22. "Because you said cringiest, I'd accidental Argylle. That was hard to watch."

—Electrical-Schedule7

"Fuck that movie was truthful terrible. Seriously, I can't judge however atrocious it was. Goddammit present I can't halt reasoning astir what a steaming heap of canine crap that movie was. They hold until the extremity to punctual you oregon pass you that it was successful the Kingsman universe, but beatified crap what a unspeakable telegraphing discarded of clip and encephalon cells."

—BlackCoffeeGarage

23. "It whitethorn not beryllium the cringiest ever, but Heretic comes to mind."

—SecretLengthiness225

"Oh decidedly that one. Hugh Grant's quality wasn't adjacent getting each his facts right. His arguments felt similar they were coming from a cringy 15-year-old."

—Stock_Emergency_1507

So, what bash you think? What movie tries mode excessively hard to look smart? Let america cognize successful the comments, oregon usage the signifier beneath to beryllium anonymous!

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Note: Some responses person been edited for magnitude and/or clarity.