Words or phrases that you hear a lot more in movies than the real world

[Sampiro]

Inspired by the "Silence!" thread (http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=622128).

In that one I mentioned the large number of movies featuring upper class people who tell a room full of servants to "Leave us!".

Diogenes mentioned that "Let's get out of here" (or some variant thereof) is probably the most spoken line in movies.

What are some other lines that you hear a lot in movies but not so much in the real world? (Doesn't have to be exact- there are lots of paraphrases.)


A couple that come to mind:


"This is bigger than you can possibly imagine" (used a lot in non-supernatural thrillers)


"You are dealing with things you can't possibly understand" (used a lot in supernatural thrillers)

[No umlaut for U]

G, as in "deliver 100 Gs in unmarked bills."

[Alice The Goon]

"It'll work because... it has to!" Cue dramatic soap opera stare.

[cuauhtemoc]

"You just don't get it, do you?" (http://www.salon.com/entertainment/movies/feature/2011/06/10/just_dont_get_it_supercut)

ETA: Oh, looks like somebody already linked to that in the other thread. Still, it's pretty funny.

[PlainJain]

"You just don't get it, do you?" (http://www.salon.com/entertainment/movies/feature/2011/06/10/just_dont_get_it_supercut)

You just don't get it, do you?


;)

[Der Trihs]

"Kill him!" or "Kill them!"

As opposed to something more bureaucratic or euphemistic or professional sounding.

[Joey P]

We find the _____, we find the ______. (As in "If we find X, it will lead us to Y", but shortened to create drama)

Examples...usually said by cops that just stumbled onto a clue that they feel is a huge break in the case:
We find the truck, we find the drugs.
We find the knife, we find the murderer
We find the wallet, we find the rapist

[Sampiro]

"Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!"

[Sunshine and Smiles]

The phrase "Psycho-babble-bullshit" appears frequently in movies, but I've never heard it in real life.

[TreacherousCretin]

"Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!"

We have a winner.


My entry: "We've got company."


.

[Miss Woodhouse]

"That's it!"

Because that's exactly what everyone says as soon as someone else feeds them the last missing piece to their brilliant idea that will always save the day (although while also at the same time managing to kill a second tier character just so we know the situation is serious.)

[Sitnam]

I have never heard the wilhelm scream (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdbYsoEasio) in real life. But I hope to some day.

Whats annoying is since I've discovered this I cant stop noticing it.

[The Other Waldo Pepper]

In real life, people often ask me for the date. They've never yet followed up with a wild-eyed request for THE YEAR!

[Promethea]

Someone addressing another person as 'old friend'.

[Indygrrl]

The whole, "You make me want to be a better man," line of bs is only in movies.........well, I hope so anyway.

[Bakhesh]

When I completed the interview process, and was eventually told I had the job, no one described me as 'the chosen one'.

They went on to not tell me that designing databases applications was my 'destiny'

[GuanoLad]

"Take evasive action!"

Or, you know, just get out of the way.

[Stanislaus]

"So this whole time you were just dating me for a bet?"

"They've done it! With grit, and nerve, and character, the plucky, ragtag, talentless underdogs have beaten the three-time champs. What a result. And what an inspiration for all the talentless ragtag underdogs out there watching!"

[Bryan Ekers]

"Medic!"


I've only ever said this for real once in my life. It was.... not fun.

[wintertime]

Nothing new to add at the moment but I wanted to let Sitnam know that even though he made me laugh hard, he is now on my curse list for pointing out an oddity I hadn't realized before and that will now, invariably, take me out of a movie whenever it occurs. Thank you very much. :D

The Other Waldo Pepper, I knew a mathematician student at the university who loved to pretend he is a time traveler. It was funny the first ten times. Mathematicians.

Without his hover board, he wouldn't have escaped many deserved beatings. [/lame joke]

[Pitchmeister]

"We don't have a choice!"

In Prison Break, I believe Michael Scofield says this about every other episode.

[Son of a Rich]

The hero has the bad guy at gunpoint, but pauses. Bad guy: "DO IT!"

[NoClueBoy]

I've got a bad feeling about this.

Shields up!

I'll be right back.

[Wheelz]

"Do you trust me?"
(Spoken just before pulling someone into an absurd and/or dangerous situation.)

[Sampiro]

"Follow that car!"

[Wheelz]

To someone who's pointing a gun at you: "You're not gonna shoot me."

[hogarth]

"She's gonna blow!"

(Maybe I'm just not traveling in the right social circles.)

[hogarth]

Too late to edit: an "it's gonna blow" montage.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8YOtURQgPI

[Sampiro]

"And that person (who I've just told this sad/maudlin/shocking story about)... was me."


Not a word or phrase but just a scene: talking to the gravestone as if it were a person buried there, often to apologize or ask a first spouse's permission to move on. These people have an absolutely terrifying belief about the afterlife- that when you're dead you're connected indefinitely to your rotting corpse. All in all I'd prefer just standing around the rivers of Hades.

[NoClueBoy]

All in all I'd prefer just standing around the rivers of Hades.


I've been there. (http://www.projectbrays.org/imagery/bayou.html#)

Used to look a lot worse when I was a kid.

[Mr. Excellent]

"Ia! Ia! Cthulhu ftaghn!" Though I expect that'll change dramatically this Saturday night.

[Procrustus]

whatever you do, don't cut the blue wire

[Intergalactic Gladiator]

"Look."

This is used in movies but I would say it's used more in sitcoms to nudge the plot back on track after a joke some wacky hijinks. I totally notice it whenever its used as well. For instance:

Stephanie: Any luck yet?

DJ: No, no one's asked.

Uncle Joey: Garsh, what are you going to do, duh huh?

[canned laughter]

DJ: Look, if none of the boys asks me to the dance, I'm going to be the laughing stock of the 8th grade.

[Tanbarkie]

"My... God..."

[enalzi]

In real life, people often ask me for the date. They've never yet followed up with a wild-eyed request for THE YEAR!

Going up to a stranger and asking for the date and then the year is on my bucket list.

Also I want someone to be chasing me, I run across the steet and then a bus goes by without stopping and I'm gone.

[Sampiro]

I've been there. (http://www.projectbrays.org/imagery/bayou.html#)

Used to look a lot worse when I was a kid.

Alabama actually has the Styx River Baptist Church (http://baldwinbaptist.com/?page_id=357). I giggle every time I drive by it.

[Enderw24]

"You are dealing with things you can't possibly understand" (used a lot in supernatural thrillers)

I'm pretty sure my law school professors all used that one on me.

[Bosstone]

"That's it!"

Because that's exactly what everyone says as soon as someone else feeds them the last missing piece to their brilliant idea that will always save the day (although while also at the same time managing to kill a second tier character just so we know the situation is serious.)Well, I don't say that specific line, usually because I'm instead laughing maniacally at said brilliant idea.

[Nzinga, Seated]

To someone who's pointing a gun at you: "You're not gonna shoot me."

You don't have the guts.

I think "You just don't get it, do you?" has a movie montage on You Tube. And also, "You look like shit."

I can't link to the montages from work, tho'.

[billfish678]

"Warp Core Breach"

Thank gawd because I know enough physics I'd fucking die of fright right then and there the first time I heard it used seriously in real life. (Working in Area 51 isn't all fun and games BTW).

[The Other Waldo Pepper]

"How long have you been standing there?"
"Long enough."

[Superdude]

Whenever someone tells an implausible story:

"You gotta believe me."

[Mahaloth]

I think "You just don't get it, do you?" has a movie montage on You Tube.


Yeah.....that was already posted in this thread.....and I already posted it in the other thread.

[Beware of Doug]

"Bite me (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fM1eSUvA7h0)."

[Nzinga, Seated]

Yeah.....that was already posted in this thread.....and I already posted it in the other thread.

Sorry. I didn't read the other thread, and I guess I didn't read this one well enough either. My mistake.

[Lightnin']

"People only talk like this in the movies, Sampiro. Only in the movies."

[Shark Sandwich]

"It's quiet. Too quiet."

An oldie but a goodie: "That's so crazy, it just might work!"

[The Other Waldo Pepper]

"Something I should've done a long time ago."

[ZipperJJ]

I think people are called by their names way more in films and movies.

One of the reasons I was turned off by the show "Chuck" was honestly that the writers seemed very proud of the fact that their lead character - and title - was named "Chuck" and they used it all the time.

Usually IRL I say "hey" "hey man" "dude" "you" etc etc. People don't use names as much as film would lead us to believe.

[ministryman]

"I'm sorry"

[Johnny Q]

"You know nothing!!!"

Often alternated with "You know more than you think."

Usually said by the same person to the same recipient.

[NoClueBoy]

Sorry. I didn't read the other thread, and I guess I didn't read this one well enough either. My mistake.

Look at post 44 and know that I thought it was an answer to post 43

:D

[Morbo]

"This just gets better and better."

"This guy's good!"

[Sampiro]

"Look."

This is used in movies but I would say it's used more in sitcoms to nudge the plot back on track after a joke some wacky hijinks. I totally notice it whenever its used as well. For instance:


For a while in the '80s they used "Look it..." a lot on TV.

[Malleus, Incus, Stapes!]

Thing is, most of us don't say these things... but most of us aren't spies or time-travelers. What's implausible and unnatural-sounding when talking to your neighbor Bob might totally make sense if you found yourself in an action-movie environment.

Huh. Any real-life cops, rocket scientists, etc here have some comments?

[NoClueBoy]

I'm from across the 8th dimension and I don't talk like John Bigboote.

[Unintentionally Blank]

Whenever someone tells an implausible story:

"You gotta believe me."

My kids tell me this ALL the time.

[Sitnam]

I have never seen anyone take off their glasses and give a dramatic stare.

[drastic_quench]

"I'd like that."

[Novelty Bobble]

now hang on, the OP has made a fundamental error here.

The question was about hearing words or phrases in movies more than in real life.....yes?

Now I'm pretty sure that "it's quiet....too quiet" has been said to me personally far more often than it has ever been uttered in the movies.
I think that goes for all of the phrases above. The very fact that we all recognise them as clichéd movie dialogue will also mean that savvy screenwriters will avoid them and we, when we've had a few pints, will feel free to lazily toss them around in a vain attempt at humour.

hah! nuked you from orbit haven't I?

[Sampiro]

Guy walks into a bar he's not a regular at and says to the bartender who he doesn't know "A beer."

The bartender draws him a beer and never asks "What kind?" or even "Draft or bottle?" or anything else you'd think relevant. Same goes for whiskey. I'd like to see a movie or TV show where he does this and after the customer takes a swig the bartender says "That'll be $28.50" because he gave him a specialty Norwegian beer only available in that one pub and kept in reserve or poured him a shot of Johnnie Walker Blue (or some other very high end whiskey).

[Sampiro]

Now I'm pretty sure that "it's quiet....too quiet" has been said to me personally far more often than it has ever been uttered in the movies.


What about the variant

1: "Listen..."
2: "I don't hear anything."
1: "That's what I'm talking about..."

[Indygrrl]

now Now I'm pretty sure that "it's quiet....too quiet" has been said to me personally far more often than it has ever been uttered in the movies.

Heh, anyone who has kids has said this at least a few times.

[Joey P]

"Nobody puts baby in a corner" and all of it's variations. It get's used in movies all the time (as a joke clearly referencing Dirty Dancing) but I'm not sure I've heard it more then once or twice in real life.

[Satchmo]

I'm from across the 8th dimension and I don't talk like John Bigboote.

That's Big-boo-tay!!!

[MOIDALIZE]

"You have the right to remain silent."

[CalMeacham]

"He's standing behind me, isn't he?"


"Follow that Car!"


"I've got some Good News; and some Bad News"


"You're off the Case. Turn in your Badge."

[Mr. Excellent]

I have never seen anyone take off their glasses and give a dramatic stare.

Had a prof do that to me once, actually. Was pretty intimidating for a college freshman.

[The Other Waldo Pepper]

"I've got some Good News; and some Bad News."

"I lied, there is no Good News."

[Superdude]

Two more:

"Yes, anonymous stranger that I just met, I'd love to go somewhere and engage in anonymous sex with you."

"Here's the money I owe you."

[billfish678]

"Save yourself!"... in the movies...

"Help me, Help me!"...in real life...what a bunch of weiners...

[Unintentionally Blank]

We have to out run that magma!

Curses! Foiled Again!

Pretty much any evil laugh.

[EvilTOJ]

Two more:

"Yes, anonymous stranger that I just met, I'd love to go somewhere and engage in anonymous sex with you."

"Here's the money I owe you."

Are these quotes from the same movies?

[MegaBee]

"Save yourself!"... in the movies...

"Help me, Help me!"...in real life...what a bunch of weiners...

I actually got to use that once! We were white water rafting, and a bump knocked me out of the raft. A friend caught my leg, but was going to be dragged into the water himself. We did the full "Go! Save yourself!" "We all go home, or no one goes home!" exchange before I kicked off into the water. He was courteous enough to scream "NOOOOOOOOOO!"

[Quimby]

"I'm in!" said in a hacking context. If someone in real life did say that they are doing it ironically.

[Joey P]

"I'm not a [type of bad guy] really, you can ask my parole officer if you don't beleive me...just kidding it was a joke, lighten up."

[Joey P]

"I'm in!" said in a hacking context. If someone in real life did say that they are doing it ironically.

Reminds me of the scene in Office Space where they load the program they wrote onto the network and then mention that it wasn't as dramatic as they thought it would be.

[digs]

"People only talk like this in the movies, Sampiro. Only in the movies."

I act out a lot of these cliches with my kids:

"Hey, Sam..." Pause with hand on doorknob.
"Stay safe..." Open door, walk through door.
Then pause, look back over shoulder.
"Real... safe..."

[Malleus, Incus, Stapes!]

"I've got some Good News; and some Bad News"


You've never had anyone say that to you? Or said it yourself?

[CalMeacham]

You've never had anyone say that to you? Or said it yourself?

Only when I'm obviously imitating a movie or TV show.

[QuarkChild]

"Run for your life!" (I remember hearing that a lot in cartoons as a kid, like Smurfs.)

[NoClueBoy]

We had to gut all the wiring from a house we were updating. I sold all to a local recycling center. When I got back to the project, I told my co-worker, "I gave him some copper we can't re use."

[billfish678]

I actually got to use that once! We were white water rafting, and a bump knocked me out of the raft. A friend caught my leg, but was going to be dragged into the water himself. We did the full "Go! Save yourself!" "We all go home, or no one goes home!" exchange before I kicked off into the water. He was courteous enough to scream "NOOOOOOOOOO!"

Some of my "hobbies" CAN be on the dangerous side (if things go really bad) so I too have had that sorta of exchange (mostly in jest with mnor problems) on more than one occasion...

Then again "every man for himself" is often heard as well :)

[digs]

I act out a lot of these cliches with my kids:

"Hey, Sam..." Pause with hand on doorknob.
"Stay safe..." Open door, walk through door.
Then pause, look back over shoulder.
"Real... safe..."

Quoting myself to point out that my kids have a good grasp of movie cliches, and are good at this too:

"Hey, Sam-- you're finishing that math project, right?"
Sam slowly raises head, fixes me with a steely gaze:"I don't care how this math stuff started. But it ends TONIGHT!" [bangs fist on table]

[The Other Waldo Pepper]

Quoting myself to point out that my kids have a good grasp of movie cliches, and are good at this too:

"Hey, Sam-- you're finishing that math project, right?"
Sam slowly raises head, fixes me with a steely gaze:"I don't care how this math stuff started. But it ends TONIGHT!" [bangs fist on table]

IIRC, Dave Barry says an even more awkward shoehorning became a running gag in his house after the preview for Road To Perdition -- where mob boss Paul Newman intones that none of us will ever see heaven and Tom Hanks, the father who wants more for his son, hoarsely replies with quavering sincerity: "Michael could."

And so if it's mundanely pointed out that, say, nobody could finish mowing the lawn before dinner, you can bet that someone immediately stares off into the distance and holds back the tears while poignantly saying "Michael could."

[LaurenIpsum]

The one that really annoys me is "What?!" when said in response to shocking or really bad news. While I've certainly heard it used in real life, it's not used anywhere near the extent that TV shows and movies use it. About a year ago, someone did a YouTube montage of this word being used several dozen times in Mad Men alone (looks like it's been removed).

To be honest, if someone gives me some bad or shocking news, I'm not very likely to just gape at them and say "What?"

I would say something like, "Oh shit," or try to find out more, like "What happened?" or "When?"

[Quimby]

It is not exactly a line but one that occurred to me because I saw it happen in a movie I was watching today. I have never seen anyone in real life wiggle their eyebrows. People in movies do it quite a bit though for a variety of reasons, usually suggestive or because they are "up to no good."

[Anamorphic]

"I've got some Good News; and some Bad News"

You've never had anyone say that to you? Or said it yourself?I was going to question this one as well. I've heard this one (and have used it myself) in real life, non-ironically and not-trying-to-sound-like-I'm-in-a-movie, on a number of occasions.