I hate these. You know these, you're watching a moderately good movie, and then one of the characters says something that's so absolutely stupifying you wonder if they edited the script at all.
I think one that stands out in my memory is in Jurassic Park, where Richard Attenborough just gave a very passionate and emotional speech to Ellie Sadler, and she says, "John, I had respect for that power, too... But it's OUT now!" Which made the whole audience stop and go, "Wait, the electrical power? What the hell are we talking about here?"
Another good one is from Attack of the Clones, which I can't remember but will paraphrase here, "The sand is so coarse... Not fine, like you." I think I actually laughed out loud in the theater and said " Smooooooooooooth, when he said that.
Posted by gwan (Member # 6194) on :
Did anyone ever see "THE GLASS HOUSE"? IF you didn't, pat yourself on the back. It was SOOOOOOOOOOOO bad. Lee-lee Sobeski (no idea how to spell that), is an actress who has always looked older than she is, yet in this movie she plays a sixteen yearold. she is probably about 22 and looks about 27. my personal favorite part was when she stole a car and a police officer stopped her, and was very skeptical about her age. It was alos good when she could figure out the code to the security system simply by hearing someone press the buttons. It was just so bad. Posted by vwiggin (Member # 926) on :
I thought we all agreed that was from Seinfeld. Was that not right?
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
In Attack of the Clones, when she said "I truly, deeply love you" I just about fell out of my seat.
Posted by jeniwren (Member # 2002) on :
Book, before even opening this thread, I thought, yeah, what about that stupid line in Attack of the Clones where Anakin talks about sand. I roll my eyes *every* time I think of it.
Posted by Mr.Gumby (Member # 6303) on :
Star Wars: Return of the Jedi "You Rebel scum." Need I say more.
Posted by Book (Member # 5500) on :
Hahaha, yeah, I remember that guy. His one claim to fame.
[ March 10, 2004, 02:09 PM: Message edited by: Book ]
Posted by Jenny Gardener (Member # 903) on :
I couldn't believe it, either. I thought that for a girl supposed to be so wise, she was being utterly stupid. Hormones! What they won't do!
Posted by Jenny Gardener (Member # 903) on :
Of course, maybe Anakin was already using his "Jedi mind tricks" on her.
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
I think she was just wearing her clothing too tight, and it cut off blood to the brain.
Posted by Book (Member # 5500) on :
Hooray, I hope it becomes a fashion.
Posted by T_Smith (Member # 3734) on :
Jedi mind tricks only work on the weak minded. I suppose hormones could play a part into that, but I dunno.
Posted by Mr.Gumby (Member # 6303) on :
Pirates of the Caribbean "My blood... The blood of a pirate." This one was horribly acted, but it also had script problems, too.
Posted by T_Smith (Member # 3734) on :
Amen, Mr. Gumby.
Also, I had a huge problem with the "I will take the consequences of my actions" line.
Posted by Mr.Gumby (Member # 6303) on :
Sorry ladies, Orlando Bloom isn't that great of an actor. He did well in Lord of the Rings because he didn't have to talk much. "...A Diversion." thank you legolas for repeating what Aragorn just said
Posted by Alexa (Member # 6285) on :
"Go to heck!!"
Aliens three...well, I think that was the line. I can't stomach re-watching any of the movie to get it precise, but I distinctly remember watching Alien3 and teh F-bomb was being dropped everywhere, then out of nowhere Siegorny's character edits her own swearing.
Anyone remember this?
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
*small voice* I kind of liked Anakin's line. You didn't like it?
Posted by PSI Teleport (Member # 5545) on :
AUGH we JUST watched a movie that had the STUPIDEST line ever and I can't remember what it IS!
*taps head* Think, think, think...
Posted by Mr.Gumby (Member # 6303) on :
bad movie lines: anything and everything young Anakin says while in the Naboo Starfighter
Posted by T. Analog Kid (Member # 381) on :
the immortal and oft-repeated "I've got a bad feeling about this..."
Posted by lcarus (Member # 4395) on :
"Look sir, droids!"
Posted by Book (Member # 5500) on :
Hmm, wasn't that moderately intricate to the plot?
Posted by skillery (Member # 6209) on :
In the movie Mother Lode, Nick Mancuso's character goes off on a lengthy tirade, and when he finally shuts up, Kim Basinger says: "what do you mean?"
I fall out of my chair every time I hear that line.
Posted by Jon Boy (Member # 4284) on :
I love the immortal and oft-repeated "I've got a bad feeling about this"! The Star Wars movies may have a lot of bad lines, but I quite like that one.
Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :
"We don't serve their kind in here."
Um, it's a bar full of every kind of sentient creature imaginable, and droids wouldn't actually need to be SERVED anything...Ugh.
"Come with me if you want to live." Every Terminator movie.
Posted by Sweet William (Member # 5212) on :
I'm going in.
This is a good indicator of a bad film (although it is perhaps more acceptable in a porno film).
I'm sure they said it in Starship Troopers.
Posted by Risuena (Member # 2924) on :
The only line that I routinely have fits of laughter over is in The Lion in Winter, where Prince John bursts out from behind the tapestries and shouts "You stink. You're a stinker and you stink!"
Unfortunately, that line completely ruined Excalibur for me. King Arthur was played by the same actor and I can't hear his voice without hearing,
"You stink. You're a stinker and you stink!"
Posted by skillery (Member # 6209) on :
...anything the "sensitive lady" says in STNG when she's trying to be sensitive.
Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :
Renew! Renew!
Logan's run.
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
quote: anything the "sensitive lady" says in STNG when she's trying to be sensitive.
Especially in the cheesy accent which she unfortunately has in the first episodes...
Posted by Jon Boy (Member # 4284) on :
You know, the actress is Italian (you are talking about Counselor Troi, right?). It's not her fault she has an accent.
Posted by Jill (Member # 3376) on :
This entire scene...
quote: ANAKIN: From the moment I met you, all those years ago, a day hasn't gone by when I haven't thought of you. And now that I'm with you again, I'm in agony. The closer I get to you, the worse it gets. The thought of not being with you.. I can't breathe. I'm haunted by the kiss you should never have given me. My heart is beating, hoping that kiss will not become a scar. You are in my very soul, tormenting me. What can I do? I will do anything you ask... If you are suffering as much as I am, tell me. PADME: I can't. We can't. It's just not possible. ANAKIN: Anything's possible. Padme, please listen... PADME: No You listen. We live in a real world. Come back to it. You're studying to become a Jedi Knight. I'm a Senator. If you follow your thoughts through to conclusion, they will take us to a place we cannot go... regardless of the way we feel about each other. ANAKIN: Then you do feel something! PADME: I will not let you give up your future, for me. ANAKIN: You are asking me to be rational. That is something I know I cannot do. I wish I could wish my feelings away... but I can't. PADME: I am not going to give into this. ANAKIN: It wouldn't have to be that way... we could keep it a secret. PADME: Then we'd be living a lie - one we couldn't keep even if we wanted to. I couldn't do that. Could you, Anakin? Could you live like that? Silence for a moment. ANAKIN: No, you're right. It would destroy us.
Posted by UofUlawguy (Member # 5492) on :
Mother Lode? You mean that movie wasn't a figment of my imagination?
Posted by Rhaegar The Fool (Member # 5811) on :
Mr Grumby
quote: Sorry ladies, Orlando Bloom isn't that great of an actor. He did well in Lord of the Rings because he didn't have to talk much. "...A Diversion." thank you legolas for repeating what Aragorn just said
Bravo, you have said what the entire male population agrees with! Yay!
"A red sun rises, blood has been spilt this night"
"A diversion"
Gotta love em, and hate em.
Rhaegar
Posted by Anna (Member # 2582) on :
Some female people think he wasn't good as Legolas either. I mean, the other elf, the one leading the army that got to the rescue in the deep of Helm... He was good and sexy too Posted by Sweet William (Member # 5212) on :
The other elf strangely reminded me of Keiffer Sutherland.
Posted by pH (Member # 1350) on :
Orlando Bloom's defnitely not that great of an actor. But y'know, I also don't think he's all that attractive...at least, not when he's not Legolas. He's too...bleh.
Posted by T_Smith (Member # 3734) on :
My main problem with Orlando Bloom is that he's so worried about how he looks when acting, that he forgets to include his voice in the acting as well.
Posted by PSI Teleport (Member # 5545) on :
I had no problem imagining myself as a female pirate on Orlando Bloom's ship. Posted by Bob the Lawyer (Member # 3278) on :
A "pirate" on his "ship", eh? So that's what kids are calling it these days.
Posted by Valentine014 (Member # 5981) on :
Jon Boy: Marina Sirtis was born in London and is of Greek origin Posted by Eaquae Legit (Member # 3063) on :
Aragron in FOTR: "Let's hunt some orc!" Honestly, would it have been SO difficult to have added that "s" in and made it sound not so... urk...?!
Posted by Valentine014 (Member # 5981) on :
As far as cheesy lines go, how about everything that came out of a character's mouth in all three Terminators? I adore those movies but, come on!
"I know now why you cry." (T2) "I'll be back." (T2 and T3) "Hasta la vista, baby." (T2)
Just to name a select few.
Posted by Da_Goat (Member # 5529) on :
quote:"We don't serve their kind in here."
Um, it's a bar full of every kind of sentient creature imaginable, and droids wouldn't actually need to be SERVED anything...Ugh.
I always laughed at the part, but I thought the irony was the point of the scene...
Posted by Wussy Actor (Member # 5937) on :
In “The Heist” the little chubby guy says, “My motherf***er is so cool, when he sleeps, sheep count him.”
Also, while the line is pretty normal, Val Kilmer takes the worst delivery prize with his scene from Top Gun, in the locker room when he says, “I’m sorry about Goose, (really long pause while he looks at the ceiling and breathes through his nose) we all liked him.”
Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :
quote: Mr Grumby
quote: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sorry ladies, Orlando Bloom isn't that great of an actor. He did well in Lord of the Rings because he didn't have to talk much. "...A Diversion." thank you legolas for repeating what Aragorn just said --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Bravo, you have said what the entire male population agrees with! Yay!
I agree with this, completely and utterly... and I am most certainly NOT male! In fact, when Orlando Bloom said those stirring words... "A diversion"...
I actually clapped out loud in the movie theater. Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :
What's the name of that stupid James Bond movie with Denise Richards? He's about to go try to diffuse the nuclear bomb that's going to blow up the whole city and she says: "No James! It's too risky!"
Posted by Jon Boy (Member # 4284) on :
quote:Jon Boy: Marina Sirtis was born in London and is of Greek origin
Hmm. I could've sworn that I read somewhere that she was Italian. Okay, in that case, her accent is cheesy.
Posted by Belle (Member # 2314) on :
Orlando is not the world's greatest actor, but I adored his character in PotC.
And folks, we can't blame the actors for really bad writing.
Then again, every Johnny Depp line was delivered with such....I don't know what, any other actor is going to pale beside him in that movie. Yeah, I admit it, I'm smitten for Cap'n Jack Sparrow.
I actually quite liked:
"You forget your place, Turner!"
"It's right here. Between you and Jack."
As for worst lines...
Y'all covered most of them. Legolas as MasteroftheObvious. Anakin Skywalker - those lines make my teeth hurt.
Posted by eslaine (Member # 5433) on :
Every Brandon Frasier and Steve Martin line in the new Looney Tunes movie.
But the toons had a couple of good moments.
Posted by fiazko (Member # 5812) on :
It's Brendan Fraser. Get it right.
Just kidding. I'm still trying to come up with a worst line. I watch too many movies...bad movies, and it's hard to keep them straight.
Posted by Book (Member # 5500) on :
The part in the previews where his pants fly off looked pretty good.
Posted by Speed (Member # 5162) on :
There was a movie that came out a year or two ago called The Transporter. I was really torn by it. On the one hand, it was directed by Cory Yuen, who has been behind some of the best fight scenes ever to make it to film. The soundtrack was by Stanley Clarke, who is a demigod. Jason Statham did more with his role than I ever would have thought him capable of. But the movie still reeked like a skunk that had moved its bowels in the middle of the street, got hit by a car and died in a pile of its own feces, remaining alive just long enough to fart. And the main culprits were the writers. The storyline was bad even for an action film. I swear, it made xXx look like Othello. And it was full of the worst dialogue you'll ever have the misfortune of hearing. But one line stood out above all others, and it went something like this (from memory):
"He may be a bastard, but he's still my father."
That was the turd-flavored icing on a dirt cake. What a horrible experience that movie was.
[ March 11, 2004, 12:45 AM: Message edited by: Speed ]
Posted by Book (Member # 5500) on :
Turd flavored icing on a dirt cake.
Now THAT'S a good line.
Posted by Dan_raven (Member # 3383) on :
Can I post the entire script of "Mars Attacks"?
Posted by T. Analog Kid (Member # 381) on :
As an aside, inspired by Belle, I really thought Geoffery Rush was as good as, if not better than Johnny Depp in PotC... that man is an amazing actor...
"I'm disinclined to acquiesce to your request...
[that] means 'no' "
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Posted by MEC (Member # 2968) on :
quote: Turd flavored icing on a dirt cake.
This isn't movie related but maybe you've heard of a video game called mario party. Anyway there's a level in it where you run around on a giant cake, the thing is, plants start to grow out of it. My sisters and I always call it the manure(sp?) cake.
Posted by Primal Curve (Member # 3587) on :
"Some motha-******* are always tryin' to ice-skate uphill." -Blade Posted by CRash (Member # 7754) on :
"Let's just hope Harry Potter will always be around to save the day."
"I will be."
-HP Chamber of Secrets. This one just made my gag reflex kick in. How cheesy can you get?
Posted by ricree101 (Member # 7749) on :
"Can you protect the President?" "Only one way to find out." -XXX: State of the Union
I never actually saw the movie, but who in the heck chose this to be in the previews. Generally, when one asks something like that, they are looking for a slightly more confident answer than "One way to find out".
Posted by BGgurl (Member # 8541) on :
quote:This one just made my gag reflex kick in. How cheesy can you get?
Anything in SS would top that Posted by Altáriël of Dorthonion (Member # 6473) on :
quote: "God is SO smart-," 1st angel "Like, Jeopardy smart," 2nd angel From Little Nicky
Posted by Pinky (Member # 9161) on :
quote:Originally posted by Annie: What's the name of that stupid James Bond movie with Denise Richards? He's about to go try to diffuse the nuclear bomb that's going to blow up the whole city and she says: "No James! It's too risky!"
That's the "Pipeline"- scene, isn't it? I think it's "The World is not enough".
Posted by Pinky (Member # 9161) on :
quote:Originally posted by Anna: Some female people think he wasn't good as Legolas either. I mean, the other elf, the one leading the army that got to the rescue in the deep of Helm... He was good and sexy too
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