# Stupid Lines in Movies You Love **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 26, 2013, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-lines-in-movies-you-love/677186 "2013-12-26T02:40:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Keeve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f07891/32.png) [@Keeve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Keeve)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2014, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-lines-in-movies-you-love/677186/61 "2014-01-06T16:22:45Z")
> [@JKellyMap](#): > > Another one: In “Back to the Future,” when 1955 Doc says to Marty, “You keep using that word ‘heavy.’ Is there some kind of gravity anomaly in 1985?” > > While the film does have its implausibilities (duh), there is a more-or-less realistic scientific consistency to Doc’s dialogue, except for this silly line. No way he would think things could somehow be “heavier” in 1980, and no way he would think there might be some link between this and some informal, trivial linguistic innovation. It’s yet another example of how the writers were so eager to show anachronisms that they had to stoop to illogical dialogues. My favorite: > [@](#): > > Lou: You gonna order something, kid? > Marty McFly: Ah, yeah. Give me- Give me a Tab. > Lou: Tab? I can’t give you a tab unless you order something. > Marty McFly: Right. Give me a Pepsi Free. > Lou: You want a Pepsi, pal, you’re gonna pay for it. > Marty McFly: Just give me something with no sugar in it. > Lou: Something with no sugar … [serves a cup of black coffee] There are two stupid things in that scene. First, although [Tab](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tab_(soft_drink)) is a sugar-free drink, [Pepsi Free](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepsi_Free) was not sugar-free; it was caffeine-free. Second, did Michael J. Fox look like he needed to go on a diet? ---
**Author:** ![Incubus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c68b51/32.png) [@Incubus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Incubus)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2014, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-lines-in-movies-you-love/677186/62 "2014-01-06T20:41:43Z")
“This is how I spell relief” says Tuck Pendelton as he lets his miniturized pod drop into Jack’s stomach, along with Mr. Igoe. Then apparently Jack’s stomach acid has the dissolving power of a 99% solution of muriatic acid as it manages to skeletonize Mr. Igoe within seconds. I guess its more effective at dissolving his, um, tiny molecules? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2014, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-lines-in-movies-you-love/677186/63 "2014-01-06T20:53:36Z")
> [@Keeve](#): > > Second, did Michael J. Fox look like he needed to go on a diet? Some people drink diet soda pop (I’m an inclusive guy) so that they don’t end up looking like they should. Others apparently drink it because they prefer the nasty aftertaste. ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2014, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-lines-in-movies-you-love/677186/64 "2014-01-09T02:21:50Z")
> [@Folacin](#): > > Some people drink diet soda pop (I’m an inclusive guy) so that they don’t end up looking like they should. Others apparently drink it because they prefer the nasty aftertaste. Some of us just hate the nasty aftertaste of corn syrup more. 🙂 But I have cut way, way back on pop. ---
**Author:** ![amorali](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3e96dc/32.png) [@amorali](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amorali)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2014, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-lines-in-movies-you-love/677186/65 "2014-01-09T02:32:23Z")
“Nobody puts baby in the corner” ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2014, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-lines-in-movies-you-love/677186/66 "2014-01-09T03:46:17Z")
“Is that cannon fire, or is it my heart pounding?” Except, I hate that line so much, I don’t really enjoy _Casablanca_. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2014, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-lines-in-movies-you-love/677186/67 "2014-01-09T04:47:20Z")
> [@Askance](#): > > Four Weddings and a Funeral: “Oh, is it raining? I didn’t notice”. Andie McDowell ruins another movie, job done. God yes. Such a fun movie except for that giant turd of an Andie McDowell. > [@amorali](#): > > “Nobody puts baby in the corner” More cringeworthy is “Me? I’m afraid of everything…” and the rest of that speech which I can’t stand to type. ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2014, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-lines-in-movies-you-love/677186/68 "2014-01-09T20:18:50Z")
I don’t understand why, but I find Donkey proclaiming he’s going to make waffles very funny. Maybe it’s his expression, maybe it’s the delivery. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8jzvh5Wb00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8jzvh5Wb00) ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2014, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-lines-in-movies-you-love/677186/69 "2014-01-09T21:37:20Z")
The line itself is OK, but the context and what follows are all wrong: Near the end of _The Blues Brothers_, Jake and Elwood have been pursued to City Hall by the Police, Army, National Guard, etc. They stop to ask for directions to the Cook County Assessor’s office and the guy says, “Down the hall, turn right, take the elevator to 1102.” Moments later, when the cop asks the same guy if he’d seen the Brothers, he says, “Yeah. I just sent them down there.” And from “down there,” everybody charges to the right hallway, the right elevator (and stairs) and eventually room 1102, without having been given any of that information. Somehow, in a film that is basically one giant heap of implausibility, this is the one moment that I can’t get past. ---
**Author:** ![TV\_time](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f17d59/32.png) [@TV\_time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TV_time)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2014, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-lines-in-movies-you-love/677186/70 "2014-01-09T22:54:39Z")
Puns are “stupid lines” by definition so…I love James Bond. With that thought in mind: In Dr. No. (I think): The villain woman Bond has just been dancing with has been shot and killed so he lowers her down into a chair opposite a tourist couple. “Do you mind if she sits here? She’s just dead.” In the same film: A hearse full of villain gunmen that was chasing Bond crashes into a gasoline truck and goes over a cliff in flames. “I think they were going to a funeral.” In From Russia with Love: An assassin is shot killed sneaking out of an escape hatch in the mouth of an advertising mural (of a woman) 30 feet up on the side of a building. “She should have kept her mouth shut.” ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2014, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-lines-in-movies-you-love/677186/71 "2014-01-11T05:59:09Z")
> [@TV\_time](#): > > In Dr. No. (I think): The villain woman Bond has just been dancing with has been shot and killed so he lowers her down into a chair opposite a tourist couple. “Do you mind if she sits here? She’s just dead.” _ **Thunderball** _, not _ **Dr No** _. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2014, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-lines-in-movies-you-love/677186/72 "2014-01-29T13:54:19Z")
In _ **Goldfinger** _, when Felix Leitner and his partner think they’re tracking Bond but are really following Oddjob on his way to the “airport”: \*“Where’s he going?” “Five’ll get you ten it’s either a drink or a dame.”\* That line was dated and trite even in 1964, and I cringe every time I hear it. I think the writers wanted to make Felix sound more “American.” :rolleyes: ( **NB:** Cec Linder, the actor who played Felix in _ **Goldfinger** _, was actually Canadian.) The Bond movies got progressively worse as they were written by committee to please the whiteshirts at UA. The absolute worst was probably _ **License to Kill** _, where the gung-ho American police have _ **Miami Vice** _-type lines like _“The DA’s screaming for action!”_ ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2014, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-lines-in-movies-you-love/677186/73 "2014-01-29T13:59:48Z")
Julie Andrews’ gushing _“Oh, Michael!”_ in _ **Torn Curtain** _ never fails to bring the house down.\* \*\* \*Hitchcock _really_, _really_ is a vastly overrated director! \*\*Oops! I forgot this thread was about movies I _love_! ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2014, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-lines-in-movies-you-love/677186/74 "2014-01-29T15:24:12Z")
> [@TV\_time](#): > > The villain woman Bond has just been dancing with has been shot and killed so he lowers her down into a chair opposite a tourist couple. “Do you mind if she sits here? She’s just dead.” > > In the same film: A hearse full of villain gunmen that was chasing Bond crashes into a gasoline truck and goes over a cliff in flames. “I think they were going to a funeral.” > > In From Russia with Love: An assassin is shot killed sneaking out of an escape hatch in the mouth of an advertising mural (of a woman) 30 feet up on the side of a building. “She should have kept her mouth shut.” IIRC, someone once said that Connery, but not Moore, could play Bond as casually complaining to a waiter at dinner upon suddenly killing a woman with his steak knife. IIRC, that ‘someone’ was – Roger Moore. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2014, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-lines-in-movies-you-love/677186/75 "2014-01-29T15:38:56Z")
> [@Roundabout](#): > > “No More Dead Cops!!!” > > “Okay, that’s _NOT_ good” > > “Lock and Load!” > > “I didn’t sign up for this!!!” > > - Basically every extra’s line from The Dark Knight. I think the idea is that the line is a bit of stupid that stands out in an otherwise good movie. I KNOW I’ve encountered such, just can’t think of any at the moment. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2014, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-lines-in-movies-you-love/677186/76 "2014-01-29T15:41:58Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > You know what happens to a toad that gets struck by lightning? I’ve heard this cited before, but I LIKED that line. Perfect purple comic book prose. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2014, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-lines-in-movies-you-love/677186/77 "2014-01-29T15:47:59Z")
> [@handsomeharry](#): > > Yes…I never tire of condemning this stupid scene (the apex of stupid in a stupid movie! I hate, hate, hate GF2). Uh…let me see, Kay…you murder a baby to bring a halt to the Mafia??? Kill a Mafia Don’s son, and then yell at him about it, as if it were his fault??? Actually, while I agree the scene falls flat, I think Kate has nailed it. She’s committing an act of extreme courage, defying Michael, telling him just how deep her loathing of him is. And she’s right to loathe him. One of the few things I liked about the movie. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2014, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-lines-in-movies-you-love/677186/78 "2014-01-29T15:49:05Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > One of my favourite movies is the fairy-tale _Ever After_, starring Drew Barrymore and Dougray Scott. It’s utterly delightful, and I adore it. But the last lines they say to each other are: > > **Danielle:** You, sir, are supposed to be charming. > **Henry:** And we, princess, are supposed to live happily ever after. > **Danielle:** Says who? > **Henry:** You know, I don’t know. > > Which sound like something made up in the first draft of the script as filler that they had always meant to change, but they just never got around to it. So disappointing. Yes, real weak sauce there in an otherwise smart, funny movie. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2014, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-lines-in-movies-you-love/677186/79 "2014-01-29T16:34:18Z")
Great movie quotations expressed as charts: [Famous Movie Quotes as Charts](http://flowingdata.com/famous-movie-quotes-as-charts/) ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2014, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-lines-in-movies-you-love/677186/80 "2014-01-29T16:54:40Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Great movie quotations expressed as charts: [Famous Movie Quotes as Charts](http://flowingdata.com/famous-movie-quotes-as-charts/) freakin’ brilliant. Thanks for sharing! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-lines-in-movies-you-love/677186.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-lines-in-movies-you-love/677186.md?page=5)