# And the dumbest line of the movie is...
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**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [July 14, 2008, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-dumbest-line-of-the-movie-is/456498 "2008-07-14T21:04:36Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Melkor28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melkor28)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2008, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-dumbest-line-of-the-movie-is/456498/121 "2008-08-29T00:42:10Z")
My favorit, _Star Trek the Next Generation_, from _The Most Toys_
Data is being held by Fajo, a colletor of one of a kind things. Data is trying to break out, and Fajo’s gril Virra askes “Are you programed to seek out weaknesses in your enemes?” Data answeres “Yes.”
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### Author:  [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2008, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-dumbest-line-of-the-movie-is/456498/122 "2008-08-29T01:02:43Z")
[QUOTE=Bosstone]
Ooh! Ooh! Mine!
“Do you know what happens to a toad when it’s struck by lightning? The same thing that happens to everything else.” – Storm, _X-Men_
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I was just thinking of that as one of the worst lines to shine someone on.
another is
“Let him go you filth!”
-Sam, Lord of the Rings
If I was Peter Jackson, Shelob would have said "whatever queermo :rolleyes: "
How about every freakin line of The Wicker Man (Cage version)?
[Step away from the bike!
How’d it get burned? How’d it get burned? HOW’D IT GET BURNED, HOW’D IT GET BURNED?
OH, NO! NOT THE BEES! NOT THE BEES! AAAAAHHHHH! OH, THEY’RE IN MY EYES! MY EYES! AAAAHHHHH! AAAAAGGHHH!
THIS IS MURDER! MURDER! YOU’LL ALL BE GUILTY, AND YOU’RE DOING IT FOR NOTHING! KILLING ME WON’T BRING BACK YOUR GODDAMN HONEY!]([http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6i2WRreARo](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6i2WRreARo))
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### Author:  [@Illuminatiprimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Illuminatiprimus)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2008, 8:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-dumbest-line-of-the-movie-is/456498/123 "2008-08-29T08:40:49Z")
[QUOTE=Melkor28]
My favorit, _Star Trek the Next Generation_, from _The Most Toys_
Data is being held by Fajo, a colletor of one of a kind things. Data is trying to break out, and Fajo’s gril Virra askes “Are you programed to seek out weaknesses in your enemes?” Data answeres “Yes.”
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Whilst I agree that was a stupid episode can you explain why that line was particularly dumb?
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### Author:  [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2008, 8:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-dumbest-line-of-the-movie-is/456498/124 "2008-08-29T08:45:42Z")
[QUOTE=Bosstone]
Ooh! Ooh! Mine!
“Do you know what happens to a toad when it’s struck by lightning? The same thing that happens to everything else.” – Storm, _X-Men_
Poor Halle. She tried to deliver the line as cool and badassed as possible, but there’s no saving it. It’s the stupidest line I’ve ever had the misfortune to hear in a movie.
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I came in here to say this.
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### Author:  [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2008, 9:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-dumbest-line-of-the-movie-is/456498/125 "2008-08-29T09:52:55Z")
[QUOTE=Illuminatiprimus]
Well, could you explain it then? Because it looks to me like a textbook case of a tautology.
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Sorry. I had forgotten I had posted here.
What I meant was this: objectively, Jerusalem is fairly worthless. It has no military value, it controls no trade routes, it has no port, no major industry, no valuable farmland. If it wasn’t what it was, it would just be another hick town.
However, _subjectively_, Jerusalem is the most valuable city in the world, because of the value people believe it has. As a symbol - and make no mistake, it’s symbols that people are most willing to kill and die for - it is literally without peer. Hell, I can’t stand the place, but it’s more imporatnt to me than anywhere else.
That, to me, is what Salah-a-Din was trying to say - that in a very real sense, Jerusalem was utterly worthless; and in another, equally real sense, it was without price. I think he was pretty much on the money.
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### Author:  [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2008, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-dumbest-line-of-the-movie-is/456498/126 "2008-08-29T12:18:56Z")
[QUOTE=ArizonaTeach]
I name you heretic! Context! Context is everything! There is no bad dialogue in that movie. NONE, I SAY!
But, I’ll refrain from saying more. I’ll be nice.
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Now, now, while my brain also considers that anything with The Swayze in it is worth watching, that’s pretty much because the sight of him blocks blood from reaching my ears, ok?
Which is kind of a problem when the movie has a good soundtrack, lemme tell you!
Speaking of movies were you don’t need your ears, the first time I watched Blade was in Madrid, dubbed and with a friend who didn’t speak Spanish but who knew the movie would be off theaters by the time he got back home. There was only one line he asked me to translate (“he moved!”).
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### Author:  [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2008, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-dumbest-line-of-the-movie-is/456498/127 "2008-08-29T12:47:53Z")
Sorry, wrong thread.
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### Author:  [@kasuo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kasuo)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2008, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-dumbest-line-of-the-movie-is/456498/128 "2008-09-02T18:38:10Z")
Han Solo: It’s the ship that made the Kessel rUn in less than twelve parsecs.
I don’t buy the fan explanation that Lucas intended it to be a distance thing, or if it was explained in one of the books.
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### Author:  [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2008, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-dumbest-line-of-the-movie-is/456498/129 "2008-09-02T18:47:55Z")
Wyatt Earp was on at some point this weekend. Anyone else catch the courting dialogue between Costner and poor-girl-in-Costner-movie?
I turned to my mom and said, “And people criticize the dialogue in Star Wars!”.
-Joe
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### Author:  [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2008, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-dumbest-line-of-the-movie-is/456498/130 "2008-09-02T18:49:42Z")
> [@kasuo](#):
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> Han Solo: It’s the ship that made the Kessel rUn in less than twelve parsecs.
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> I don’t buy the fan explanation that Lucas intended it to be a distance thing, or if it was explained in one of the books.
You don’t need to. Just look at Kenobi’s reaction shot.
-Joe
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### Author:  [@Engineer\_Dude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Engineer_Dude)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2008, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-dumbest-line-of-the-movie-is/456498/131 "2008-09-03T13:36:32Z")
In _From Dusk Till Dawn_, Seth (an outlaw) is planning to go to El Rey, Cancun with his partners in crime. Kate (the teenage girl he’s with) asks him if he’d “like some company”.
So he tells her, “Go home, Kate. I may be a bastard, but I’m not a fuckin’ bastard.”
That’s some brilliant writing by Quentin Tarantino :rolleyes:
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### Author:  [@Caveat\_lector\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caveat_lector_1)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2008, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-dumbest-line-of-the-movie-is/456498/132 "2008-09-03T23:52:52Z")
I don’t remember the exact movie and I may be misquoting bit, but I saw the following on MST3K once and it has stuck with me as one of the worst exchanges ever.
Scientist: “I’m a meteorologist”
Person: “You study the weather?”
Scientist: “No I’m a real meteorologist. I study meteors.”
The movie had giant mosquitoes which at some point attacked an RV. That, and that exchange, are all that I remember from it.
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### Author:  [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2008, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-dumbest-line-of-the-movie-is/456498/133 "2008-09-04T16:20:17Z")
I AM AN F! B! I! AGENT!!
-Johnny Utah, Point Break
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### Author:  [@littledjahn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/littledjahn)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2008, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-dumbest-line-of-the-movie-is/456498/134 "2008-09-04T16:21:40Z")
I think it was the Batman with Val Kilmer where, during a flashback, he says something like:
“I fell into a cave. It must have been there for centuries.”
This was especially helpful to me, because I wasn’t sure if he meant one of those nice, new caves.
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### Author:  [@AT\_Love](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AT_Love)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2008, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-dumbest-line-of-the-movie-is/456498/135 "2008-09-04T16:44:30Z")
Halloween H20- Michael Myers has made his appearance.
Adam Arkin: What do we do now?
Jamie Lee Curtis: Try to live!
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### Author:  [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2008, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-dumbest-line-of-the-movie-is/456498/136 "2008-09-04T17:15:49Z")
_Shining Through_: “I know it was on a Friday when Ed and I said goodbye, because the next day was Saturday.”
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### Author:  [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2008, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-dumbest-line-of-the-movie-is/456498/137 "2008-09-04T17:39:31Z")
> [@msmith537](#):
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> I AM AN F! B! I! AGENT!!
> -Johnny Utah, Point Break
Yeah, but
> [@](#):
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> N! Y! P! D! Means I will
> Nock
> Yo
> Punk-ass
> Down!
is genius.
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### Author:  [@Level3Navigator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Level3Navigator)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2008, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-dumbest-line-of-the-movie-is/456498/138 "2008-09-04T18:09:56Z")
> [@Morbo](#):
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> I always thought this line from **Casablanca** was really puzzling: “Who are you really, and what were you before? What did you do, and what did you think?”
Of all the lines in all the movies you had to walk into this one? (paraphrased from Casablanca (subtitle: the greatest dialog ever written for a movie)).
Understand the background: the scene places them in Paris shortly after WWII began. So everyone’s lives have radically altered. What Rick (Bogart) is asking is what kind of person she really is, not the persona she has had to adopt in the current state of crisis. And what did she do before the war began?
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### Author:  [@essell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/essell)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2008, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-dumbest-line-of-the-movie-is/456498/139 "2008-09-04T21:40:48Z")
This is a great thread but you’ve all missed the worst line ever.
Startrek Generations, not exactly the Finest hour of that franchise.
> [@Dr Soren](#):
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> Some people call us a race of listeners. We … listen
Honestly, I’ve heard better dialogue in StarWars prequels.
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### Author:  [@iftheresaway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iftheresaway)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2008, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-dumbest-line-of-the-movie-is/456498/140 "2008-09-05T05:20:02Z")
I was going to nominate some of the lines from “My Boyfriend’s Back”, which has some of the best/worst/best lines in all of movie history, but when I went to IMDB to confirm my memories, I realized that they were all 100% gold.
The ones I remembered because my friends used to repeat them ad nauseum in junior high:
“Dad: You know son… your mother and I, and the ambulance driver, and the coroner, and the embalmer, were all pretty much convinced that you were dead.
Johnny: I got better.”
Doctor: “Okay, well, you’re dead. Which is unusual, because we don’t normally see this much activity in a dead person.”
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