# And the dumbest line of the movie is...
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**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")
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### Author:  [@vintageloveletter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vintageloveletter)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2008, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-dumbest-line-of-the-movie-is/456498/141 "2008-09-05T05:36:35Z")
“Gobble, gobble. Its turkey time.” -J.Lo’s character in Gigli
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### Author:  [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2008, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-dumbest-line-of-the-movie-is/456498/142 "2008-09-05T05:49:01Z")
> [@vintageloveletter](#):
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> “Gobble, gobble. Its turkey time.” -J.Lo’s character in Gigli
You SAW that movie?
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> HA HA
– Nelson Munz
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### Author:  [@Bravo\_Romeo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bravo_Romeo)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2008, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-dumbest-line-of-the-movie-is/456498/143 "2008-09-05T05:49:23Z")
Another from _Dirty Dancing_:
“I carried a watermelon.”
And from _Star Wars_:
“Hold me, like you did by the lake on Naboo.”
Both of these are from a list of “worst movie dialogue” examples that I read recently… I can’t remember where though.
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### Author:  [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2008, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-dumbest-line-of-the-movie-is/456498/144 "2008-09-05T05:55:18Z")
From **Pearl Harbor** :
"I think World War II just started. "
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### Author:  [@Loopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopus)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2008, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-dumbest-line-of-the-movie-is/456498/145 "2008-09-05T07:39:45Z")
I love _The Return of the King_, but there’s one line that makes me die a little inside every time I hear it.
Witch King: No man can kill me!
Eowyn: [dramatically removes her helmet] **I am no man!**
Ugh.
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### Author:  [@vintageloveletter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vintageloveletter)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2008, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-dumbest-line-of-the-movie-is/456498/146 "2008-09-05T15:14:03Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#):
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> You SAW that movie?
Well, everyone was saying it was the most horrendous film ever and I had to check it out for myself. I also saw _From Justin to Kelly_ for the same reason. No memorable quotes from that one though.
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### Author:  [@Maeglin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maeglin)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2008, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-dumbest-line-of-the-movie-is/456498/147 "2008-09-05T16:41:20Z")
For some reason, the line by Captain Lennox from Empire Strikes back strikes me as irredeemably stupid. The first rebel transport as just appeared. He says,
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> Good, our first catch of the day.
Why do I loathe this line so much?
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### Author:  [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2008, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-dumbest-line-of-the-movie-is/456498/148 "2008-09-05T16:55:20Z")
“Oh no, it wasn’t the airplanes. It was beauty killed the beast.”:rolleyes:
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### Author:  [@TheBori](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheBori)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2008, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-dumbest-line-of-the-movie-is/456498/149 "2008-09-05T20:31:43Z")
From the Wizard of Oz… After Dorothy douses the witch with water, the guards all bow and ask if there is anything they can do. Dorothy asks if she can have the witches broom (to give to the Wizard). The guard replies “Yes, and take it with you”.
um…no thanks, I’ll eat it here.
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### Author:  [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2008, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-dumbest-line-of-the-movie-is/456498/150 "2008-09-05T21:03:48Z")
> [@Maeglin](#):
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> Why do I loathe this line so much?
The delivery. The delivery is simply awful. I hate that line too, although not as much as the Rebel briefing before the attack - there’s a pilot asking a question there, I forgot what it was, and his pronunciation s simply atrocious. It’s as if he was reading the script phonetically.
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### Author:  [@Hogwash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hogwash)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2008, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-dumbest-line-of-the-movie-is/456498/151 "2008-09-05T21:12:37Z")
> [@Hyper Aware](#):
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> Another from _Dirty Dancing_:
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> “I carried a watermelon.”
I disagree. It may be a stupid thing for somebody to say, but that does not mean it is bad dialogue. Baby soon acknowledges after saying that line that it was a stupid thing to say by repeating it to herself (“I carried a watermelon?!”). Like when you say something silly to a hot girl, and after she leaves you can’t believe you said it. So the line ‘I carried a watermelon’ actually helps to illustrate the innocence of Baby’s character and hints at the awkward attraction she may be feeling towards Johnny Castle.
So, essentially, that’s actually an example of a good line.
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### Author:  [@cactus\_waltz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cactus_waltz)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2008, 9:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-dumbest-line-of-the-movie-is/456498/152 "2008-09-07T09:18:44Z")
> [@vintageloveletter](#):
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> “Gobble, gobble. Its turkey time.” -J.Lo’s character in Gigli
IMDB lists the exchange as such:
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> Ricki: It’s turkey time.
> Larry Gigli: Huh?
> Ricki: Gobble, gobble.
I didn’t catch the exchange when I saw the movie. I think my brain chose to immediatly erase any memory from it.
The movie also has Ben Affleck proclaiming his gangsterness:
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> Larry: Because I’m the fuckin’ original, straight-first-foremost, pimp-mack, fuckin hustler, original gangster’s gangster!
If you say so, Ben.
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### Author:  [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2008, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-dumbest-line-of-the-movie-is/456498/153 "2008-09-07T13:45:43Z")
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> Another from Dirty Dancing:
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> “I carried a watermelon.”
Maybe she’s answering that question from **Buckaroo Banzai** :
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> “What’s that watermelon doing there?”
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### Author:  [@irspariah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irspariah)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2008, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-dumbest-line-of-the-movie-is/456498/154 "2008-09-07T21:02:04Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#):
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> The Matrix was not a very good movie. It was a piece of idiocy whose only saving grace was that the explosions were really, really pretty.
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> The problem with “worst” dumb lines of dialog is that they almost always are part of movies whose every line of dialog is dumb. You can usually tell within the first minute whether or not to listen to the dialog and watch with the sound off.
Good grief! This instantly takes me back to english literature classes in high school. I mean watching with the sound off, of course
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### Author:  [@Bramblerose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bramblerose)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2008, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-dumbest-line-of-the-movie-is/456498/155 "2008-09-09T14:59:51Z")
I cringe at the “Captain Obvious” lines too.
In all three of the LotR movies, almost all of Legolas’ dialogue are CO lines. I mean, come on…just because he’s blond and beautiful doesn’t mean he couldn’t speak better!! 😃 (j/k, don’t whack me!!)
The two lines that make me cringe the most are in Return of the King:
Gimli: What kind of army would linger in such a place?
Legolas: One that is cursed.
(To be fair, it was much better in the extended version when the lines were filled out and finished.)
Aragorn:But we can give Frodo his chance if we keep Sauron’s Eye fixed upon us. Keep him blind to all else that moves.
Legolas: A diversion.
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### Author:  [@howye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/howye)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2008, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-dumbest-line-of-the-movie-is/456498/156 "2008-09-09T15:48:55Z")
> [@cactus\_waltz](#):
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> IMDB lists the exchange as such:
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> I didn’t catch the exchange when I saw the movie. I think my brain chose to immediatly erase any memory from it.
> The movie also has Ben Affleck proclaiming his gangsterness:
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> If you say so, Ben.
I ain’t going to watch the movie, ever, so I have no context for the turkey conversation. But those are lines from a kids book, called “The Turkey Ball”.
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### Author:  [@Briareos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Briareos)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2008, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-dumbest-line-of-the-movie-is/456498/157 "2008-09-09T16:16:49Z")
> [@sqweels](#):
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> To be fair, Ryan O’Neill said, “That’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard” when the line was repeated to him in _What’s Up Doc_.
Oh I loved that line from “What’s Up Doc”! And yes I think “Love is never having to say you’re sorry” is one of the stupidest lines ever written for a movie.
I mean, I have friends, I’ve seen them in love, and boy, are THEY SORRY!!
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### Author:  [@Briareos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Briareos)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2008, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-dumbest-line-of-the-movie-is/456498/158 "2008-09-09T16:30:55Z")
> [@robardin](#):
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> Some lines are so bad, they’re awesome. Like from _They Live_: “I came here to kick ass and chew gum… And I’m all outta bubblegum!”
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> I quite like _Independence Day_. Sure the plot has several large holes barely covered over with Saran Wrap (“Luckily for us, I’ve determined that these aliens who communicate telepathically and whose radio signals I only decoded until 24 hours ago, somehow use TCP/IP networking and MacOS so I can upload and execute this here virus from my notebook”), but as a shoot-em-up action movie, it’s terrific. So help me, I even the President’s morale-stirring speech cobbled together from _Henry V_, Dylan Thomas and other sources. Not to mention having an alien abductee who’s been anally probed deliver the first knockout punch as he says, “Hello, boys! Remember me? I’m _baa-a-ck!_”
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> Come on, you gotta like it! At least after a few highballs!
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> For me, the really unbearable lines are the ones that are earnestly delivered loads of bollocks. (If bollocks come in loads… I’m really not sure of the correct usage there.) I didn’t care much for the movie _Forrest Gump_ overall (I still can’t believe _The Shawshank Redemption_ didn’t wipe the floor with it for Best Picture), but the phrase “Life is like a box of chocolates… You never know what you’re gonna get” just drives me up the wall. I just can’t stand that kind of passiveness in a philosophy of life. Plus, most boxes of assorted chocolates come with a little map just so you _do_ know what you’re getting. Gaaah!
Maybe they should have taken a que from that X-Files episode and re-wrote that famous quote as:
“Life is like a box of chocolates…you’re usually left with either the bitter ones, or the nuts!”
That seems more appropriate with real life.
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### Author:  [@mdotcarter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mdotcarter)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2008, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-dumbest-line-of-the-movie-is/456498/159 "2008-09-09T17:51:35Z")
Besides this being possibly one of the worst films I have ever seen (many people disagree, please feel free to), I almost turned the film off 5 minutes into it after this line:
Background: Monkeys are being forced to watch war movies, and it makes them crazy.
(as I remember it)
“The monkeys are infected with rage! It’s in their blood!”
… really…
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### Author:  [@Mr.Kobayashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Kobayashi)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2008, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-dumbest-line-of-the-movie-is/456498/160 "2008-09-09T19:28:05Z")
> [@mdotcarter](#):
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> Besides this being possibly one of the worst films I have ever seen (many people disagree, please feel free to), I almost turned the film off 5 minutes into it after this line:
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> Background: Monkeys are being forced to watch war movies, and it makes them crazy.
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> (as I remember it)
> “The monkeys are infected with rage! It’s in their blood!”
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> … really…
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It’s a virus. Hence why it’s called the Rage Virus.
Another vote for “Is it raining, I hadn’t noticed?”
Ugh.
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