And the dumbest line of the movie is...

[vintageloveletter]

“Gobble, gobble. Its turkey time.” -J.Lo’s character in Gigli

[Boyo_Jim]

@vintageloveletter

“Gobble, gobble. Its turkey time.” -J.Lo’s character in Gigli

You SAW that movie?

HA HA

– Nelson Munz

[Bravo_Romeo]

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.

[Peter_Morris]

From Pearl Harbor:

"I think World War II just started. "

[Loopus]

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.

[vintageloveletter]

@Boyo_Jim

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.

[Maeglin]

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,

Good, our first catch of the day.

Why do I loathe this line so much?

[Dr.Rieux]

“Oh no, it wasn’t the airplanes. It was beauty killed the beast.”:rolleyes:

[TheBori]

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.

[Alessan]

@Maeglin

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.

[Hogwash]

@Hyper Aware

Another from Dirty Dancing:

“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.

[cactus_waltz]

@vintageloveletter

“Gobble, gobble. Its turkey time.” -J.Lo’s character in Gigli

IMDB lists the exchange as such:

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:

Larry: Because I’m the fuckin’ original, straight-first-foremost, pimp-mack, fuckin hustler, original gangster’s gangster!

If you say so, Ben.

[CalMeacham]

Another from Dirty Dancing:

“I carried a watermelon.”

Maybe she’s answering that question from Buckaroo Banzai:

“What’s that watermelon doing there?”

[irspariah]

@Exapno_Mapcase

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.

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

[Bramblerose]

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.

[howye]

@cactus_waltz

IMDB lists the exchange as such:

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:

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”.

[Briareos]

@sqweels

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!!

[Briareos]

@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!”

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!”

Come on, you gotta like it! At least after a few highballs!

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.

[mdotcarter]

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…

[Mr.Kobayashi]

@mdotcarter

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…

?

It’s a virus. Hence why it’s called the Rage Virus.

Another vote for “Is it raining, I hadn’t noticed?”
Ugh.