Blue Cow
03-11-03, 11:19 PM
(Taken from BBC Online)
Bill Pullman's call to arms as US president in the film Independence Day has been named the cheesiest movie moment of all time by Empire magazine.
Pullman's "cornball speech" in the 1996 blockbuster led a cringe-making list.
Other top five entries included Top Gun ("You can be my wingman any time") and Four Weddings and A Funeral (Is it still raining? I hadn't noticed.")
EMPIRE'S CHEESY LIST
1 - Independence Day
2 - Top Gun
3 - The Karate Kid
4 - Four Weddings...
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
Robin Williams was singled out by the magazine who likened his work to "being dipped in a churning vat of Camembert".
Among a long line of cheesy roles, the magazine singles out a group of terminally-ill children turning up in court to save his comedy doctor character's career in Patch Adams.
But no other contender beat Pullman's "Today, we celebrate our Independence Day!", from the widely-panned fantasy movie.
Kate Beckinsale's reading of a love letter in front of an improbably beautiful sunset in Pearl Harbor came fifth on the list.
Kevin Costner earns a place for a scene in his flop film The Postman in which a blind woman tells him: "You're a godsend, a saviour."
"No, I'm just a postman", Costner solemnly replies.
Other cheesy moments to make the top 10 included 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 Star Wars Episode II: Attack Of The Clones.
Cancer-stricken Susan Sarandon leading her kids in a family sing-a-long during the weepie Stepmom also made the list.
Bill Pullman's call to arms as US president in the film Independence Day has been named the cheesiest movie moment of all time by Empire magazine.
Pullman's "cornball speech" in the 1996 blockbuster led a cringe-making list.
Other top five entries included Top Gun ("You can be my wingman any time") and Four Weddings and A Funeral (Is it still raining? I hadn't noticed.")
EMPIRE'S CHEESY LIST
1 - Independence Day
2 - Top Gun
3 - The Karate Kid
4 - Four Weddings...
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
Robin Williams was singled out by the magazine who likened his work to "being dipped in a churning vat of Camembert".
Among a long line of cheesy roles, the magazine singles out a group of terminally-ill children turning up in court to save his comedy doctor character's career in Patch Adams.
But no other contender beat Pullman's "Today, we celebrate our Independence Day!", from the widely-panned fantasy movie.
Kate Beckinsale's reading of a love letter in front of an improbably beautiful sunset in Pearl Harbor came fifth on the list.
Kevin Costner earns a place for a scene in his flop film The Postman in which a blind woman tells him: "You're a godsend, a saviour."
"No, I'm just a postman", Costner solemnly replies.
Other cheesy moments to make the top 10 included 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 Star Wars Episode II: Attack Of The Clones.
Cancer-stricken Susan Sarandon leading her kids in a family sing-a-long during the weepie Stepmom also made the list.