“You complete me.”
“You had me at hello.”
A dumb line, but I love it. From Invasion Of The Saucer Men:
‘And we thought they were mad at the car!’
From the Chronicles of Riddick.
Riddick: I bow to no man.
Vaako. "He’s not a man. He’s a holy half-dead who has seen the Underverse."
You have to hear how Karl Urban delivers this line. He’s so…passionate and serious. I can just imagine the director saying, “Yeah, Karl? We need that ‘holy half dead’ line again!” I can’t imagine how frustrating it would be to re-do that line over and over.
Dumb horror movie. Dumb line to be expected. But for crying out loud, Writers of The Breed, “you’re all going to die here” would have been a better dumb line than “They don’t want us here.” … especially when the Breed proceeded to try and keep the stupid humans on the island!
/falls over panting from rant.
There was something else I watched recently that had the dumb line to end all dumb lines in it, but as I try to salvage what brain cells I can I can’t tell you what it was.
Also, to be fair, she said it to him as he was apologizing. Nothing said about whether he agreed with her. Still kind of silly, not to mention a really sappy song.
There’s only one line worth remembering from Wizards. And it’s worth remembering because it’s stupid: “Fritz! They killed Fritz!” As Fritz gets up and tries to get his buddy’s attention.
“No one puts Baby in a corner.”
That’s the one that does it for me. I remember the first (and only) time I saw that movie after everyone was raving about it. I couldn’t get over the fact that her nickname was Baby in the first place but that line…dear God, cringe-inducing and eye-rolls ensued.
I think the Swayze topped that with Pain don’t hurt.
Takes a little bit of set-up:
The Clint Eastwood movie IN THE LINE OF FIRE has one of the most jaw-droppingly “who thought that line was a good idea” lines in film history. For those who don’t know the story, Clint Eastwood is a Secret Service agent who was present at the JFK assassination and who’s about to retire. John Malkovich is a deranged psychopathic assassin who plans to take out the president but only after playing games with Eastwood’s character by calling him and telling him his plans. Their constant phone conversations have almost homoerotic overtones in a sick way anyway plus, if only to me, Malkovich is one of the gayest acting straight actors in show biz, so what would even on paper seem a double entendre exchange comes across even moreso.
Scene: Malkovich is on the phone with Eastwood and has told him his “cunning plan” but of course is too smart to be traced and all that jazz. He prepares to hang up and Eastwood tries to keep him on the line. Malkovich has told him he plans to die himself in the assassination. Watch for yourself beginning at 4:20 on this YouTube clip.
Eastwood: I want you to give yourself up.
Malk: Why? So I can live a long and fruitful life?
East.: I’m sure we can… work something out.
Malk: Don’t fucking lie to me. I have a rendezvous with death.
Eastwood: You have a rendezvous with my ass, motherfucker!
Now re-read it as a romantic dialogue twixt Alan Cumming and Neil Patrick Harris.
I’m guessing a gay screenwriter won a bet he could get Eastwood to say that. This is evidenced by Malk’s line 5 seconds later "Do you have any idea how many times I’ve watched… going in… and out… of that apartment
“Is it raining? I hadn’t noticed”. Delivered while dripping wet in the most stilted, awful manner through gritted teeth - I think she was trying to grin winningly - by the anti-actress Andie McDowell. Spoils the movie for me.
What does it say about Berry that she delivered the line worse than Arnold Schwarzenegger would have.
Well, “This forest is old!” ought to be up there.
Sorry, but The Matrix is an awesome film.
But while we are discussing Keanu, how about when he was in the elevator shaft in Speed:
“What are you gonna do?”
chews gum
“WHAT ARE YOU GONNA DO???”
revolting.
I guess he wasn’t out of bubble gum yet.
They Live
One that I always thought was terrible was at the end of Speed.
Bullock and Reeves are lying on top of one another after saving the world, and they have this exchange. . .
First of all. . .“i’ve heard relationships etc.” Whose heard that? What the fuck is that? That’s not something you’ve heard. And even if you have heard it, Why do you THINK you’re going to have a relationship? And if you are, are you trying to break up with her already? Why are you saying anything?
Then, her response. . .“we’ll have to base it on sex”. Where the fuck did that come from? They’ve never had sex with each other. I don’t care if you’re Jenna Jamison and Ron Jeremy, you don’t meet each other and go, “I think we’ll base our relationship on sex.”
It’s two lines in tandem that are both completely retarded, and completely non sequitur to anything and everything that came before them.
I love the film, but the original Star Wars has lines that still make me cringe. As Harrison Ford was supposed to have said to George Lucas: “George, you can * write* dialogue like this, but you can’t say it!” Some of the lines REALLY annoy me, but especially this one:
Disembodied Death Star Technician voice (to Grand Moff Tarkin): We’ve found the remains of a Rebel Base, but we estimate that it’s been abandoned for some time."
No, no, no, no, no, no, no. NO. Learn to use the English language.
“We estimate it has been deserted for three weeks” or “We estimate it has been deserted for about a year” or “We estimate it has been deserted for at least four months.” If you say “estimate” then you have to provide some sort of actual estimate, or there’s no point in using the word. You could just say “We believe it’s been deserted for some time.” or “we think it’s been deserted for some time.” or “It looks like it’s been deserted for some time.” But using “estimate” and then not putting a number on it just grates. I’ll bet Darth Vader did that long-distance throttling on that crew member shortly after this.
It also bugs me when Uncle Owen says “That Old Ben Kenobi’s just a crazy old man. I don’t think he exists anymore.” Who the hell talks that way about a person? "Ronald Reagan was President of the United States. But he doesn’t exist anymore."Buildings and artifacts and cities can come and go out of existence. People, technically, can, but generally you say that they died. I’ve never heard of “not existing anymore” being a euphemism for death.
Ironically, after the first movie, Uncle Owen didn’t exist anymore, either.
Wait, doesn’t she say that “relationships based on intense experiences…” thing to him when they survive sliding out of the bus? And then he references it back to her after they survive the subway crash.
It’s still dumb, but it’s dumbness with a precedent.
Possibly. Removes some of the non sequiturness from it.
Her response is still jarring in its stupidity, though.
Yes, exactly.
Then,
For me, though, Speed gets a pass because it has one of the funniest lines of 1994: