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Most campy and/or cringe-inducing parts...


A few of my favorite/worst parts of this movie are:

--Faye Dunaway's over-dramatization of the line, "The recipe for chewy...ALMOND!" Like seriously? You're talking about goddamm cookies, not government secrets; calm the hell down.

--Chris saying, "Peter, Peter cookie eater; had a temp, but couldn't keep her" One of the many "Uh...ok" lines in the movie.

--Peter's line at the picnic: "The water could use a little warming up; why don't you jump in?" It was just so laughably awkward sounding.

--Chris's shorts hiked up her butt crack at the picnic. (Especially noticable when she's talking to the high-strung dude)

--The way Peter looks at the guy who wants to use the phone in the bar made me die laughing. The fight in the alley that immediately follows is epic, as well.

--My favorite above all else, though, is the scene at the supermarket where they're testing the cookies. The way the old woman's eyes bulge as a drip of blood comes out her mouth is both eerie and cheesy at the same time. I also was left wondering why they used some weird fake punk girl that looked like Lisa Simpson as an extra; just seemed like an arbitrary choice.

Anyone else have ones to add?

"I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it." Edith Sitwell

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Since the entire movie is campy & cringe inducing, I'll agree with your "cookie eater" cringe and then just mention some of my many favorite parts:

YOU'RE BLOWIN' IT MAN!
YOU'VE GOT THIS PROBLEM! HAD! I *HAD* THAT PROBLEM.

And the greatest line *I've* ever heard:
GOOD GOSH HOW HARD CAN IT BE? I'M NOT ASKING YOU TO SPLICE DNA YOU JUST *DO* IT!

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* The "you're blowing it, man!" scene. Terrible soap opera-quality acting. Both those guys should've been permanently retired from the industry for putting that weak performance on screen
* Those picnic shorts. Boyle is beautiful, but she has NO ass. Besides, if she wore those to a real work picnic the sounds from other women grinding their teeth would be deafening!

Amy: I swear to God...I swear to God! That is NOT how you treat your human!

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A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.

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The "chewy almond" bit had me loling and saying "WTF?!" I think almost every part was awful but that chewy almond thing was the worst.

The other part that I was like "eeeeeeh!" over was when that awful hag of a coworker was telling him about how the temp lied about her education and all that--the look on her face at the end of her rant was horrid. She's already unattractive but that creepy sneer thing was just...yeesh.

The dramatic piano music after he says "you're fired." Oh gawd.

This is a bizarre movie.


"It's Minnie Pearl's murder weapon."

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A marketing disaster results in bleeding customers in the grocery store.
Charlene walks down the hall discussing damage control: "We've got to stop the bleeding."

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