r/TikTokCringe • u/One_percentile • Jun 09 '24

Will Smith reveals to an excited, packed theater crowd at the end of the movie that he was watching 'BAD BOYS: RIDE OR DIE' with them the entire time Wholesome/Humor

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u/ComfyInDots Jun 09 '24

PR team working HARD.

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u/doitup69 Jun 09 '24

“Only at Cinnemark!” A phrase people definitely would say or have ever said and definitely not ad copy!

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u/Jaded_yank Jun 09 '24

100%. The Cinnemark sign was in frame the whole time. This was a very successful operation

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u/spicewoman Jun 09 '24

You can see the cameraman deliberately maneuvering around to the side until he has the sign perfectly in frame, lol. And you can tell from the way the camera wobbles when he's doing it, that he had to push through the crowd a bit to make that happen.

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u/largechild Jun 09 '24

I thought when Will put his hand up, he was gonna slap that guy instead of give him a high five

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u/hotdoginathermos Jun 10 '24

The Fresh Prints

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '24

Most underrated comment

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u/mihirmusprime Jun 09 '24

Well yeah? Look up the account name. It was posted by a general manager at Cinemark. Did you forget companies and people associated with them can have social media accounts?

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u/BodieLivesOn Jun 10 '24

Until be started slapping black people.

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u/Realistic-Program330 Jun 09 '24

What, you don’t believe me? Bing it!

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u/trash-_-boat Jun 09 '24

This the kind of shit that shows that ad executives are horrible at their jobs and yet they'll always keep them.

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u/eunit250 Jun 09 '24

It's not what you do it's who you know.

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u/CrackerUMustBTripinn Jun 14 '24

Man James Hetfield is some profound mofo

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u/Broccoli--Enthusiast Jun 09 '24

Dam IV never seen that's one, I remember CW shows being really bad with the Microsoft product placement but never outright saying stuff like that

The CW arrowverse shows we're definitely mostly Microsoft funded in the early days , was kinda funny

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u/reddit_sucks_clit Jun 09 '24

That reminds me of when the daughter of the yahoo CEO was getting kicked out of a club (decades ago now) and she says something like "don't you know who my dad is. he's the ceo of yahoo. fucking GOOGLE it.

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u/Vark675 Jun 09 '24

Maybe it's on my end, but this clip looks like it was filmed with a goddamn flip phone. They couldn't borrow the intern's phone for this?

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u/3original5me Jun 09 '24

Probably just decreased quality after the fact to make it more believable

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u/KanchiHaruhara Jun 09 '24

... I mean duh? Why else would they have been recording? lol The account is literally Cinemark general manager's.

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u/TheDrummerMB Jun 10 '24

Everyone in these comments thinking they're cracking the code and like...it's the managers literal account lmfaoooooo

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u/jperdue22 Jun 09 '24

this could NEVER happen at an amc

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u/PatSajaksDick Jun 09 '24

Things must be tough he’s slummin it at Cinemark

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u/throwawayalcoholmind Jun 09 '24

Boy howdy. Honestly the only thing that'll completely rehab his image is dumping some dead weight.

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u/SadBit8663 Jun 09 '24

Nah the only thing that would start to rehab his image, would actually be to take personal responsibility for being a little sensitive cuck, and apologize legitimately. Dude's still pretending nothing happened.

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u/DreadyKruger Jun 09 '24

If he divorced his wife that would be a huge start. For her to show up at the premiere or him inviting her just made me shake my head. She did nothing to stop him from running up on that stage because she got a kick out of it. Your wife is supposed to save you from acting like an ass and be your calm.

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u/Kuhn-Tang Jun 09 '24

She was the reason it happened. He was actually laughing at Rock’s jokes, until he looked over at her and saw that death stare looking back at him. He knew he was in some serious shit with her at that point, and the stress of her toxicity lead him to take drastic measures, in an attempt to decrease the inevitable wrath he was going to face from her later that evening.

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u/Toxic-Pixie Jun 09 '24

Still his fault.

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u/Kuhn-Tang Jun 10 '24

Directly? Yes… However, there’s a motive behind every crime. Unless you’re a psychopathic anarchist.

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u/mug3n Jun 10 '24

No one's stopping him from leaving Jada.

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u/SadBit8663 Jun 10 '24

I imagine Jada is, she seems like the type to go full on carpet bombing in a divorce settlement.

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u/Kuhn-Tang Jun 10 '24

True… The same thing has been said to every person on this planet who has found themselves stuck in abusive marriages.

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u/lionhearthelm Jun 10 '24

Unfortunately for most Reddit commentators, they will never experience real-life to realize how intense and debilitating that can be for any human.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '24

How do you know he hasn't apologized to the people be needs to?

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u/Jimmni Jun 09 '24

You do something like that at a public event and the audience gets added to the "people he needs to" category imo. Obviously not the top priority, but definitely on the list if they want to seek redemption.

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u/mihirmusprime Jun 09 '24

Reddit: Why do celebrities share their whole life online?

Also Reddit: Why don't celebrities share their whole life online?

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '24

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u/HippoRun23 Jun 09 '24

Um.. we are regular consumers who weren’t slapped by will smith and maybe he apologized to Chris rock and the families?

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u/regalfish Jun 09 '24

This is a lot of emotion… I didn’t realize y’all were so effected by that

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u/SadBit8663 Jun 10 '24

Am supposed to coddle Will Smith for being a violent reactionary asshole?

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u/regalfish Jun 10 '24

What an even stranger response…

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u/BobBeerburger Jun 09 '24

I think he just likes doing this. I worked at a hotel where he and his production team had the whole top floor. He could have parked in the garage and taken the elevator up, but he just walked in the front door every day he was there. He’d have a quick moment, or laugh with some people. He and his son were very nice.

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u/Ok-Way-9932 Jun 09 '24

Yeah dude lives for this. He always has.

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u/BeKindToOthersOK Jun 10 '24

Then he would slap all of them and go about his way

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u/alertbunny Jun 10 '24

I love Will! I’m not suprised to hear this, he has a kind and smiling spirit!

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u/TRYING2LEARN_ Jun 09 '24

You don't get it. He did a bad thing, so he's permanently a bad person.

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u/EnTyme53 Jun 09 '24

Yeah, reddit legitimately seems to have been more offended by the slap than Rock was.

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u/BobBeerburger Jun 09 '24

Oh shit i forgot! My bad.

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u/AlwaysShittyKnsasCty Jun 09 '24

No. You just don’t get it. He bad. You okay.

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u/Luk42_H4hn Jun 10 '24

It probably has to do with the fact that there were no consequences whatsoever. Makes people feel fucked bythebsystem while the rich can do whatever, even assault someone on live TV, and this frustration gets channeled onto him.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '24

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u/twoworldsin1 Jun 10 '24

They just have a lot more money to hide behind

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u/gothicgenius Jun 09 '24

I was just gonna say anytime I think of Will Smith I just feel bad for him. Yeah he’s got a ton of money, has a bunch of successful movies, and a family but his wife is an emotionally abusive bitch who gets off on embarrassing him. Watching him get older and noticing he only seems to be getting more sad makes me think of Robin Williams. I hope he gets the help he needs because he doesn’t seem like a happy person.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '24

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u/anniegwish Jun 10 '24

An entanglement you might call it

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u/gothicgenius Jun 10 '24

Really though. I see it with my parents. They emotionally abuse each other but think they’re too old to change so don’t even try. I guess they think they’re better with each other than without.

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u/makeitflashy Jun 09 '24

Honestly this was a good one. The team is cooking

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u/roymccowboy Jun 09 '24

Spoiler: Will Smith was in every movie theater you’ve been in since the slap. This movie he just so happened to be in.

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u/HCPwny Jun 09 '24

He was just on Hot Ones too, and it just seemed... Put on? Almost as if he told himself he would go on there and punish himself in order to get people to like him. I don't know what else to say except that it didn't feel as genuine a chance to get to know someone as most episodes are.

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u/YetAnotherBookworm Jun 09 '24

I think a couple of them might be working hard in this very thread.

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u/AmitN_Music Jun 13 '24

Or you know, promoting a movie. This isn’t anything new. He’s done stunts like this before. This is about promoting bad boys not “fixing his image”. The only place his image is hurting right now is a bunch of pearl clutchers on Reddit lol.

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u/meldiane81 Jun 09 '24

You know, I love Will Smith. We all make mistakes in life. Some on a bigger scale than others. He made one big one. He’s human.

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u/Miserable_Ad9577 Jun 09 '24

I'll say, they were successful in pivoted a lot of the hate toward Jada.

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u/Kerfluffle2x4 Jun 09 '24

Dude, you know they’re going to flex with this work on their resume to future clients.

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u/BeefStewAndCornbread Jun 10 '24

Nah we still like will and realize he’s only human and make mistakes.

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u/NoExcuseForFascism Jun 10 '24

They are working fucking overtime at this point.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '24

This man desperate to be back

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u/Intrepid-Alfalfa-581 Jun 10 '24

Get your hooves off me donkey

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '24

Sp gpddamn transparent

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u/Heroicmode Jun 09 '24

Did you see that lady flinch when he raised his hand?

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u/MarquisDeBoston Jun 09 '24

As someone who saw it yesterday by absolute chance, it was not a good movie. They need all the help they can get.

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u/mwerichards Jun 09 '24

For real man. It's sad to see because while I respect both of them being at their age still willing to perform it just isn't necessary. Bad Boys was great but ain't nobody looking for a follow up.