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We all have our favourites--some are cheesier than others, but we can't help loving them! Maybe because the moment tugs at our heart strings, or maybe because it is pure cheese. No matter how good the movie is, there's that one scene that makes you wonder, "What were they thinking?"
Now I'm talking pure, creamy, buttery, unadulterated CHEESE here, so if you're lactose-intolerant, you might want to skip this column. Although I hope you won't!
#10. GREASE (1978)
This happens to be one of my favourite movies, but when Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta take off in a flying car at the end, it kills me every time. Apparently, the 60s wasn't the only decade getting high.
#9. SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE (1998)
All right, so this is one of the more clever romantic comedies around...but one scene makes me laugh every time, though it's meant to be a Serious Moment. Viola (Gwyneth Paltrow) has just lost her virginity to a young Will Shakespeare (Joseph Fiennes). When her maid wakes her the next morning to tell her, "My lady, the house is stirring--it is a new day," Viola opens the door and replies, "It is a new WORLD."
#8. DIRTY DANCING (1987)
"Baby" (Jennifer Grey) spends the summer at a holiday resort with her family and, naturally, falls for the resort's bad-boy dance instructor. Could there be more cheddar to the scene at the end? You know the one-- Patrick Swayze walks up to her family's table, announces "Nobody puts Baby in a corner," takes her hand, and they have the time of their lives doing their dance routine--and she finally makes The Big Lift.
#7. NOTTING HILL (1999)
Ah, yes...one of the more cringe-worthy moments in film history. Julia Roberts plays a very famous actress ( a stretch for her) and Hugh Grant is the dorky everyman she falls for (and a stretch for him, as well). She's 
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walked out on him several times, and then decides that this unlikely pairing can actually work. So she tells him, "After all... I'm just a girl...standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her." Eek. By all means, fall in love with her, but make sure she doesn't write her own lines in her everyday life!
#6. FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL (1994)
Apparently, a lot of women walk out (repeatedly) on Hugh Grant. This time it's Andie MacDowell who finally comes to the realization that Hugh's the man for her. So she runs to his place, and they stand together in the pouring rain. Hugh says, "...for the first time in my whole life I realized I totally and utterly loved one person. And it wasn't the person next to me in the veil. It's the person standing opposite me now... in the rain." And Andie's oh-so-dreadful line is, "Is it still raining? I hadn't noticed." Quite possibly one of the worst lines ever.
#5. XANADU (1980)
I understand the whole movie has been dipped in a fondue pot, but I can only choose one moment...and this is what I'm going with: Kira (Olivia Newton-John, repeat offender, as a Muse) has been roller-skating around an old building, tormenting Sonny (Michael Beck) with her beauty. He's been trying to find out who she is, when she skates away: "Hey wait a minute! I don't even know your name!"She tells him her name is Kira, and the name echoes into oblivion while he looks on: "Kira! Kira! Kira! Kira! Kira!"
#4. THE GOONIES (1985)
I know, I know...a cult classic! But, in an oft-quoted speech, Sean Astin as Mikey has given us some awesome Cheese Whiz--and we all love it! "The next time you see sky, it'll be over another town. The next time you take a test, it'll be in some other school. Our parents, they want the best of stuff for us. But right now, they got to do what's right for them. Because it's 
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their time. Their time, up there! Down here, it's our time. It's our time down here. That's all over the second we ride up Troy's bucket." And Corey Feldman makes it Extra Cheesy by saying, "This was my dream, my wish. And it didn't come true. So I'm taking it back. I'm taking them all back." P.S. Goonies never say "die."
#3. TITANIC (1997)
You knew it was coming! Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet standing on the ship's bow, hands outstretched as if flying. Leo shouts: "I'm King of the World!!!" Ugh. His reign was a short one, however, and Kate gets a cheesy line of her own: "I'll never let go. I'll never let go, Jack."
#2. INDEPENDENCE DAY (1996)
Yeah, you know the scene I'm talking about. Bill Pullman's presidential speech--his call-to-arms. I rolled my eyes several times while listening to it: "We are fighting for our right to live! To exist! And should we win the day, the Fourth of July will no longer be known as an American holiday, but as the day the world declared in one voice: 'We will not go quietly into the night!' We're going to live on! We're going to survive! Today we celebrate our Independence Day!" And then the crowd cheered...but only because they were paid to do so.
And the #1 Cheese-Flavoured Moment?
JERRY MAGUIRE (1996)
Oh...so many moments...so much cheese to partake of....
Renee Zellweger as Dorothy, talking about Tom Cruise's Jerry Maguire: "I love him! I love him for the man he wants to be. And I love him for the man he almost is."
And even better than that? Jerry: "I love you. You... you complete me. And I just..."
Dorothy: "Shut up, just shut up. You had me at 'hello'. "
So...there they are...just a few of the Cheesiest Moments Ever. Can't get 'em all, obviously...so much to choose from. I'd love to hear what your favourites are, though!
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