# Great lines from bad films **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 29, 2006, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-lines-from-bad-films/386047 "2006-12-29T23:34:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Ensign\_Edison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ab992/32.png) [@Ensign\_Edison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ensign_Edison)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2007, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-lines-from-bad-films/386047/41 "2007-01-02T20:34:19Z")
“You’re pretty funny for a guy with nine fingers.” ---
**Author:** ![istara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e79b87/32.png) [@istara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/istara)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2007, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-lines-from-bad-films/386047/42 "2007-01-02T21:33:56Z")
_“When a woman gets an orchid, she feels like she’s floating on a cloud of infinite possibility.”_ The fact that Chris Noth could say that with a straight face (in The Perfect Man) was earthshattering. And this made it into a great line, even though it’s possibly the worst line ever written in one of the worst ever films. ---
**Author:** ![Romola\_Des\_Loups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b2d939/32.png) [@Romola\_Des\_Loups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Romola_Des_Loups)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2007, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-lines-from-bad-films/386047/43 "2007-01-02T22:33:40Z")
[QUOTE=Sgt Schwartz] Did you read the novel? I know that is related to the OP, but read the novel and the film suck by comparison. YMMV Sgt Schwartz [/QUOTE] I read it (more a novella, really), and it’s a nice tight piece of writing. But the movie is glorious. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2007, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-lines-from-bad-films/386047/44 "2007-01-02T22:57:41Z")
Basic Instinct: “You weren’t making love to me.” “Who was I making love to, then?” “You weren’t making love.” Also I got the phrase “jack off on the damn computer” from that movie. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2007, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-lines-from-bad-films/386047/45 "2007-01-02T23:07:36Z")
“At least I got to have ya!” _dies_ - Starship Troopers ---
**Author:** ![Asgardking](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/779978/32.png) [@Asgardking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asgardking)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2007, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-lines-from-bad-films/386047/46 "2007-01-02T23:38:32Z")
[QUOTE=Mrs. Cake] “Send more cops” from Return of the Living Dead, which I saw in a triple feature in a sleazy 24-hour theater in downtown LA back in the '80’s. Scariest part of the whole thing was when a rat ran over my (sandeled) feet during “House by the Cemetary”. This was on a date, mind you. [/QUOTE] The sequel had this brilliant exchange between a girl and her boyfriend turned zombie… Zombie: Wendy, let me eat your brains Wendy: I don’t know, I’m scared Zombie: Come on Wendy, you know I love you Wendy: Oh, ok And the oft used on the SDMB From Star Trek V McCoy: What does God need with a starship? ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2007, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-lines-from-bad-films/386047/47 "2007-01-02T23:44:02Z")
**Honey, I Blew Up the Kids** has one moment of dialog-y brilliance. The basic plot is that Rick Moranis’s toddler stumbled into his expando-ray, and is now 100 feet tall, stomping through the countryside, confused and alone. They can shrink him if they can pacify him and get him to their shrink ray, but he’s a huge angry toddler. So their (surprisingly sensible) plan is to use the expando-ray on his mother, so she’ll be to scale, then she’ll go grab him, hug him, mother him, whatever, and bring him back to the shrink ray. So they expand her, send her out to get him, and a bystander says… Look at the SIZE of that mother! ---
**Author:** ![HelloKitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ecccb3/32.png) [@HelloKitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HelloKitty)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2007, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-lines-from-bad-films/386047/48 "2007-01-03T00:26:47Z")
**Weekend at Bernie’s** had some funny lines–my favorite: Dirty Old Man to Cute Female Party Goer: “That’s a nice shirt, I bet it would look great crumpled up at the foot of my bed in the morning…” Effeminate Male Eavsedropping Party Goer: “Polyester doesn’t crumple!!!” ---
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2007, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-lines-from-bad-films/386047/49 "2007-01-03T01:10:57Z")
From **The Happening** (1967): Robert Walker: “The zoo isn’t open yet” Faye Dunaway: “The…zoo…is…never…open!” ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2007, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-lines-from-bad-films/386047/50 "2007-01-03T01:29:00Z")
[QUOTE=olivesmarch4th] The following line, spoken with utmost serious conviction, from one teenage girl to her hero in the atrocious sci-fi movie Evolution: “You ARE that potato.” [/QUOTE] Even better- “There’s ALWAYS time for lubricant!” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2007, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-lines-from-bad-films/386047/51 "2007-01-03T02:24:45Z")
or how 'bout “garter belt, at a day function?” shakes head. I think **evolution** is a hoot ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2007, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-lines-from-bad-films/386047/52 "2007-01-03T04:33:07Z")
We could honorarily nominate a lot of the script from _Zero Hour!_, some of which was used verbatim for comedy effect in _Airplane!_ I’ve never seen _Johnny Guitar_ - I’ve heard it’s bad - but there’s something I love about the line “I am a stranger here myself.” ---
**Author:** ![Scoundrel\_Swanswater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dfb087/32.png) [@Scoundrel\_Swanswater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scoundrel_Swanswater)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2007, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-lines-from-bad-films/386047/53 "2007-01-03T13:52:49Z")
[QUOTE=BrainGlutton] “Oh, you gotta be kiddin’!” – [_The Thing_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_%28film%29) [/QUOTE] Indeed, you have to be kidding to call one of the greatest movies ever made a bad movie. ---
**Author:** ![ArrMatey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/arrmatey/32/3522_2.png) [@ArrMatey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArrMatey)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2007, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-lines-from-bad-films/386047/54 "2007-01-03T17:15:14Z")
from **Night at the Museum** Ben Stiller, after beginning to deal with the reality that all things in the museum come to life at night, gets fire-extinguisher foam thrown on his face by Neanderthalls. He simply says, “Why?” It’s not so much the line as the delivery. As if to say, “The entire world has gone nuts. Why did it just have to go more nuts?” And, of course, almost immediately after, from Robin Williams, seeing Stiller getting into a slap-fight with a capucin monkey: “Why are you slapping the monkey?” ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2007, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-lines-from-bad-films/386047/55 "2007-01-04T03:05:29Z")
[QUOTE=outlierrn] or how 'bout “garter belt, at a day function?” shakes head. I think **evolution** is a hoot [/QUOTE] And there’s the question of the ice cream flavor- “I don’t care, it’s for my ass.” 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-lines-from-bad-films/386047.md?page=2)