# Movie lines that immediately make you think "Rewrite!"

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-lines-that-immediately-make-you-think-rewrite/268117>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [October 7, 2004, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-lines-that-immediately-make-you-think-rewrite/268117 "2004-10-07T23:44:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2004, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-lines-that-immediately-make-you-think-rewrite/268117/41 "2004-10-09T17:15:57Z")

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> [@Kyla](#):
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> Okay, I’ve never actually seen this movie, but I read an interview with Joss Whedon a while ago where this came up. He wrote this line and was frustrated because it always comes up in discussions like this, but apparently Halle Berry’s delivery is not as intended. It was supposed to be low key and dry.

I’ve never seen the movie either, but “Do you know what happens to a toad when it gets struck by lightning? The same thing that happens to everything else” looks pretty darn stupid written out. If I’d penned a clunker like that I’d probably be tempted to pin it on the actress too, but I don’t think it’s very fair.

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**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2004, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-lines-that-immediately-make-you-think-rewrite/268117/42 "2004-10-09T17:30:49Z")

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“Nobody tosses this dwarf!”

An irritating comtemporary joke intruding into LOTR.

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**Author:** ![AwSnappity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a3d4f5/32.png) [@AwSnappity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AwSnappity)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2004, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-lines-that-immediately-make-you-think-rewrite/268117/43 "2004-10-09T18:03:16Z")

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I highly doubt anyone else on the message board has seen this movie, because it was written/directed by a classmate of mine. It’s called **Toxin**. The whole movie was chock full of terrible, terrible dialogue that made me cringe, but the worst was this line:

Bad guy: _The only tie stronger than that between a boyfriend and girlfriend is that of a parent and child._  
Guh? Husband/wife, anyone?

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