You’re conflating the two; Saundra Locke was in both, but in The Gauntlet she’s a transported prisoner and in Sudden Impact she’s a vigilante rape victim.
Of course it isn’t, you dope; it’s a Sam Peckinpah film.
“Somebody left the door open and the wrong dogs came home.”
I still think it would have been hilarious in Top Secret if the Nazi/Commie German officer, inspecting Val Kilmer’s documents, flip through them and each has a big red letter on them – A, B, C, D, E then J, followed by G, H, I. He flips through them again – A, B, C, D, E, J. Then he looks up at Kilmer and says:
“I’m very sorry Mein Herr, you will have to come with us.”
“But why? What’s wrong?”
“Your papers, Mein Herr. I’m afraid they’re not in order.”
“They’re in order look at them again.”
“They are not in order. Kommen sie bitte mit uns.”
End of Love At First Bite
Richard Benjamin and Dick Shawn are walking on the airport tarmac after George has bit Susan for the third time and turned her into a Vampire - fluttering down from the sky comes a check for payment in full for her therapy sessions - RB & DS walk off discussing who gets the cape, who’d make a better Dracula, etc -
one of them *should * have said "This is the beginning of a beautiful friendship"
The Lion King had an in-joke from Jeremy Irons’ Oscar winning role as Claus von Bulow (“You’re weird Uncle Scar” - “Oh, you have no idea”- even retained in the stage version). I wish they’d given Mufasa the line “I am your father” to Simba at some point. (James Earl Jones and Madge “Sarabi” Sinclair also played Eddie Murphy’s parents in Coming to America, so a “There’s a fine line between love and nausea” or “I thought you were the king” line could also have worked.)
A real example here, where a hackneyed line could easily have been replaced by a clever one: Spiderman 2. Doc Ock has MJ chained to a big post. She says something typically spunky, like, “Spider-Man will stop you!” and Ock turns and says, “Spider-Man is dead.” “I don’t believe you,” she says.
Ock’s response should have been “Okay, don’t believe me. Doesn’t change a thing.”
Instead, he gave the awful response of “Believe it!” Bah. Ock is smarter than that. Too bad the writers weren’t.
And I have maintained for years that Luke should’ve been saying “The Force can have a strong influence on the weak-minded.” Have you been reading my brain?
In the pilot of the new Battlestar Galactica, when Six tells Baltar that she’s a Cylon she should have said “We’re going to nuke the planet from orbit- it’s the only way to be sure”.
Huh, I thought I was the only person who was hoping that precisely that would happen. In fact, it could have been made even better if the hand that his opponent was holding CONTAINED the ace of spades, ie, quad aces or aces full of jacks or something. So then all hope looks banished, and whammo!, king-high straight flush.
In Robin Hood: Princes of Thieves there’s a scene where Maid Marion tells Robin Hood, that he’s no prince. The perfect reply (and would have vastly iimproved the film) would have been, “And you’re no ‘maid,’ Marion.”
Likewise, in Star Wars, when Ben Kenobi and Han Solo are negotiating the price of the trip to Alderaan, Kenobi says, “we can pay you 2000 now, plus 15 more when we reach Alderaan.”
Han says, “17, huh?”
At that point, Kenobi should have said, “No. 2015. Weren’t you listening?”
I’m way too tired to think of anything clever, but SNL I think used to have a recurring skit about what happened in movies after the credits rolled. One memorable one showed George Bailey and the gang from It’s a Wonderful Life beating the crap out of Mr. Potter for stealing their money.
IIRC, Mad Magazine even made the same joke when the film first came out.
Luke: I don’t get it, why did they let us go?
Ben: The force has a strong effect on weak minds.
Luke: The force has a strong effect on weak minds.
Ben: Let’s get going.
Luke: Let’s get going.
Mace Windu: You are on the council, but we do not grant you the rank of master.
Anakin Skywalker: What?
Mace Windu: Say what again. SAY WHAT AGAIN!!. I dare you, I double dare you, motherfucker. Say what one more goddamn time.
Addams Family Values- I thought the ending was totally wrong. Debbie (Joan Cusack) was perfect for Fester (homicidally insane, not the least freaked out by severed hands running around or averse to digging up her mother-in-law to get the ring, etc.)- I couldn’t believe they killed her off rather than having her realize she’d found a family at last.
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban- (brief explanation for those who don’t know: the place where Hogwarts was filmed changed between movies two and three to a much more mountainous locale)- I kept expecting a reference to “oh cool, they’ve done some landscaping over the summer” since, being witches, it’s possible they could. I understand no reference being made to the “new” Dumbledore, but I’ve always thought that Snape should at some point say “Potter… you’re beginning to annoy me” as a nod to Rickman’s Die Hard character.