# And the dumbest line of the movie is...
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-dumbest-line-of-the-movie-is/456498
**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:** 14
**Page:** 9
### Author:  [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2008, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-dumbest-line-of-the-movie-is/456498/161 "2008-09-09T19:57:24Z")
> [@robardin](#):
>
> 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!”
Hey, I just saw that movie. Chock-full of lines just like this one!
---
### Author:  [@Burrido](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Burrido)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2008, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-dumbest-line-of-the-movie-is/456498/162 "2008-09-09T22:55:50Z")
Colonel Zayas: Are you out of your mind?
Lt. Nikolai: No. Just out of bullets.
Red Scorpion
---
### Author:  [@Furious\_Marmot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Furious_Marmot)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2008, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-dumbest-line-of-the-movie-is/456498/163 "2008-09-10T03:03:54Z")
Attack of the Clones is the gift that keeps on giving.
Obi Wan Kenobi falling off a roof during a fight: “Oh, not good!”
Yoda, sounding a bit like Patton with a head injury: “Around the survivors, a perimter create.”
Revenge of the Sith has some winners as well.
Yoda: “Good relations with the Wookiees, I have.”
Although Lucas did give us one of the most unintentionally perfect lines in all of moviedom near the beginning of Revenge of the Sith, when Obi Wan says “How did we get here? We’re smarter than this.”
We’d all like to know, Ben.
---
### Author:  [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2008, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-dumbest-line-of-the-movie-is/456498/164 "2008-09-10T10:59:48Z")
> [@Furious\_Marmot](#):
>
> Attack of the Clones is the gift that keeps on giving.
>
> Obi Wan Kenobi falling off a roof during a fight: “Oh, not good!”
>
> Yoda, sounding a bit like Patton with a head injury: “Around the survivors, a perimter create.”
Nothing will ever top the “You’re not like sand” speech.
---
### Author:  [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2008, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-dumbest-line-of-the-movie-is/456498/165 "2008-09-10T12:08:31Z")
I’m surprised that [Night of the Lepus](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Lepus) has escaped our collective attention
> [@](#):
>
> “There’s a herd of killer rabbits coming this way!”
---
### Author:  [@irspariah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irspariah)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2008, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-dumbest-line-of-the-movie-is/456498/166 "2008-09-11T21:49:34Z")
> [@tdn](#):
>
> Huh? I think you misheard “young.”
>
> “No one tosses a dwarf.”
In Australia they had this great and very un-pc bar sport called dwarf tossing. So there!
---
### Author:  [@AllWalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AllWalker)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2008, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-dumbest-line-of-the-movie-is/456498/167 "2008-09-13T07:28:43Z")
What, with all this Star Wars prequel activity and no mention of:
“I wish that I could wish away my feelings…”
Oh my goodness. It’s the sort of thing you write in a hurry, while distracted, that you REALLY should notice on re-reading. Crap.
Or, how about:
“You’re either with me or against me!”
“Only a Sith deals in absolutes!”
Great. Take a cliche and rebutt it with a self-contradicting line. Brilliant.
---
### Author:  [@Zany\_Zeolite\_Zipper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zany_Zeolite_Zipper)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2008, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-dumbest-line-of-the-movie-is/456498/168 "2008-09-13T19:35:06Z")
How about this one from Gigli:
Brian is the kid that the guy kidnapped.
Brian: She’s like the ones at the Baywatch. They make my penis sneeze.
Brian: When my penis sneezes, I say, ‘God bless you’… God bless you, penis.
---
### Author:  [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2008, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-dumbest-line-of-the-movie-is/456498/169 "2008-09-13T23:38:34Z")
> [@AllWalker](#):
>
> What, with all this Star Wars prequel activity and no mention of:
>
> “I wish that I could wish away my feelings…”
>
> Oh my goodness. It’s the sort of thing you write in a hurry, while distracted, that you REALLY should notice on re-reading. Crap.
>
> Or, how about:
>
> “You’re either with me or against me!”
> “Only a Sith deals in absolutes!”
>
> Great. Take a cliche and rebutt it with a self-contradicting line. Brilliant.
[Anakin, your breaking my heat!!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZX4U0ZiiAic)
---
### Author:  [@1958Fury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/1958Fury)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2008, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-dumbest-line-of-the-movie-is/456498/170 "2008-09-15T04:39:32Z")
From Jurassic Park:
Kids: “He left us! He left us!”
Dr. Grant (_overly dramatic_): “But that’s not… what I’m gonna do.”
---
### Author:  [@Jolly\_Roger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jolly_Roger)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2008, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-dumbest-line-of-the-movie-is/456498/171 "2008-09-15T08:18:13Z")
> [@Anaamika](#):
>
> Much as I hate to defend that god awful movie in any way, I have come across plenty of boxes of chocolate with no map in the lid or anywhere else in the box. And I don’t even like chocolate that much.
I’m just happy you said godawful. Geez, when that movie came out all I heard about good it was. You know, it wasn’t _that_ good to get all of the hype it did. I actually found it kind of boring.
And don’t get me started on _ **the Truman Show** _.
---
### Author:  [@Jolly\_Roger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jolly_Roger)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2008, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-dumbest-line-of-the-movie-is/456498/172 "2008-09-15T08:24:09Z")
> [@kingpengvin](#):
>
> “You must be out of your Skull-bone if you think I’ll add to the report shot by man-animal”
Oh thats too easy. That movie was so fantastically bad it should have been on MST3K. Well, maybe not…its too easy to riff on.
---
### Author:  [@BrynSublime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrynSublime)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2008, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-dumbest-line-of-the-movie-is/456498/173 "2008-09-19T23:23:23Z")
From so many bad lines to choose from, I feel I have to hit on this one from Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End (a movie that I actually like)…
When Davy Jones comes to visit Calypso when she’s in the brig, he asks her why she never showed up to meet him after he’d done ten years hard work in her service, she replies:
“It’s my nature.”
What kind of horse sh\*\* is that?! The writers couldn’t come up with a better excuse? If I was Davy Jones I would have killed her on the spot, or at least deliver a well deserved bitch slap.
---
### Author:  [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2008, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-dumbest-line-of-the-movie-is/456498/174 "2008-09-20T05:52:14Z")
Actually, that was a pretty good line. She was goddess of the sea, and the sea is fickle. It’s mythology 101. Anthropomorphizations of natural forces always act according to their basic nature. Storm gods are violent, sun gods are beautiful, earth goddesses are maternal and sea dieties are untrusworthy.
[Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-dumbest-line-of-the-movie-is/456498.md?page=8)