# What is the stupidest thing you've ever heard in a movie. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 8, 2015, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-stupidest-thing-youve-ever-heard-in-a-movie/714531 "2015-03-08T15:16:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2015, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-stupidest-thing-youve-ever-heard-in-a-movie/714531/1 "2015-03-08T15:16:37Z")
I’m sure there has to be a thread just like this one but I wouldn’t know how to search for it. Some one utters a line so dumb, so inane that it takes you right out of the movie. What prompted this thread was Battle for L.A. The scientist explains why we are under attack from aliens. “It’s our water. The specific chemical composition of it. Ours is the only water that is in liquid form in the universe.” So these aliens have the technical know-how to travel through the galaxy above the speed of light but they never figured out how to melt ice? Really? Also, for very different reasons, when Prince runs to break up his parents fight shouting “Stop!” He’s wearing his on stage high heeled boots and he has to do this mincing, ridiculous run in this very serious part of the movie. Cracks me up every time. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2015, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-stupidest-thing-youve-ever-heard-in-a-movie/714531/2 "2015-03-08T15:55:31Z")
Showdown in Little Tokyo. Brandon Lee as Johnny Murata: Kenner, just in case we get killed, I wanted to tell you, you have the biggest dick I’ve ever seen on a man. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2015, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-stupidest-thing-youve-ever-heard-in-a-movie/714531/3 "2015-03-08T16:19:39Z")
Demi Moore in GI Jane, “suck my dick!” ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2015, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-stupidest-thing-youve-ever-heard-in-a-movie/714531/4 "2015-03-08T16:37:30Z")
Prince was in _Battle for LA_? That’s a very different movie than what the ads made it out to be. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2015, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-stupidest-thing-youve-ever-heard-in-a-movie/714531/5 "2015-03-08T16:42:08Z")
“Life is like a box of chocolates: [if you are too dumb to read the inside top of the box] you never know what you’re going to get.” ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2015, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-stupidest-thing-youve-ever-heard-in-a-movie/714531/6 "2015-03-08T16:49:49Z")
I love the glorious stupidity of Patrick Swayze’s macho philosophizing in _Roadhouse_: **Pain don’t hurt.** 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2015, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-stupidest-thing-youve-ever-heard-in-a-movie/714531/7 "2015-03-08T16:56:43Z")
As PTerry noted, “They can take our lives but they can never take our freedom” is not a rallying cry designed by a clear thinker. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2015, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-stupidest-thing-youve-ever-heard-in-a-movie/714531/8 "2015-03-08T16:59:27Z")
[Love Story:](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5-8_1uCzR8) “Love means never having to say you’re sorry.” [What’s Up, Doc? :](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsjyehWzFGo) “That’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard.” ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2015, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-stupidest-thing-youve-ever-heard-in-a-movie/714531/9 "2015-03-08T17:01:47Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > Prince was in _Battle for LA_? That’s a very different movie than what the ads made it out to be. I coulda sworn I wrote “In Purple Rain when Prince. . .” but I didn’t. Prince was quite the purple hindrance to the troops trying to save LA. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2015, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-stupidest-thing-youve-ever-heard-in-a-movie/714531/10 "2015-03-08T17:34:38Z")
“Since you had time to smelt it into bricks, I’ll expect the rest of the gold in seven days.” Battlefield Earth, after the humans(1000 years in the future) find Fort Knox and bring the bricks of gold to the villain instead of actually mining gold. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2015, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-stupidest-thing-youve-ever-heard-in-a-movie/714531/11 "2015-03-08T18:03:46Z")
“Do you have any idea how ridiculous it is to hide a starship on the bottom of the ocean?” _–Star Trek: Into Darkness_ (No, admitting up front that it’s stupid doesn’t get you a free pass.) ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2015, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-stupidest-thing-youve-ever-heard-in-a-movie/714531/12 "2015-03-08T18:10:32Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > “Do you have any idea how ridiculous it is to hide a starship on the bottom of the ocean?” > _–Star Trek: Into Darkness_ > > (No, admitting up front that it’s stupid doesn’t get you a free pass.) But. . . we don’t know what’s at the bottom of the ocean. We know the surface of the moon much, much better than we know what the hell is in the bottom of the ocean. You could _easily_ hide a starship in the Marianas Trench. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2015, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-stupidest-thing-youve-ever-heard-in-a-movie/714531/13 "2015-03-08T18:19:41Z")
“But… but… these all sound like lines from some bad movie!” (slowly turn to look at camera, slowly look back at each other) \*- Top Secret \*More seriously, I’d put the “box of chocolates” line high on the list because it’s so fraggin’ irritating and became such a real-world meme. ---
**Author:** ![DinoR](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dinor/32/2821_2.png) [@DinoR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DinoR)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2015, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-stupidest-thing-youve-ever-heard-in-a-movie/714531/14 "2015-03-08T18:37:55Z")
“Wardaddy” to his crew in Fury, “Fight on foot.” At that point he’s effectively commanding an infantry heavy company team. He’s got the infantry platoon attached for the AT gun fight. He’s got the infantry platoon that was pinned down reinforcing them. There’s still quite a bit of small arms fire around them. So he decided to throw a fire team of tankers into the fight as they clear the remaining German infantry and effectively make his tank combat ineffective Take off your tanker boots, Wardaddy, and dismount Fury permanently. She deserves better. ---
**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2015, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-stupidest-thing-youve-ever-heard-in-a-movie/714531/15 "2015-03-08T20:00:21Z")
> [@](#): > > I didn’t actually come here to free slaves. This from the hero in _Phantom Menace_. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2015, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-stupidest-thing-youve-ever-heard-in-a-movie/714531/16 "2015-03-08T20:08:56Z")
Any movie that says shit like “you only use 10% of your brain” (possibly with "we unlocked the other 90%). Like _Lucy_, and possibly _Limitless_. _Wedding Crashers_ gets a pass as it exists to show that Owen Wilson’s character is kind of a douche, and his version is funny. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2015, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-stupidest-thing-youve-ever-heard-in-a-movie/714531/17 "2015-03-08T20:21:22Z")
> [@thelurkinghorror](#): > > Any movie that says shit like “you only use 10% of your brain” (possibly with "we unlocked the other 90%). Like _Lucy_, and possibly _Limitless_. _Wedding Crashers_ gets a pass as it exists to show that Owen Wilson’s character is kind of a douche, and his version is funny. It’s also just part of a pick-up line, and not scientific. It’s no different from “What’s your sign?” in regard to the scientific validity of pick-up lines. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2015, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-stupidest-thing-youve-ever-heard-in-a-movie/714531/18 "2015-03-08T20:54:13Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > “Do you have any idea how ridiculous it is to hide a starship on the bottom of the ocean?” > _–Star Trek: Into Darkness_ > > (No, admitting up front that it’s stupid doesn’t get you a free pass.) Professor Hubert Farnsworth: Dear Lord! That’s over 150 atmospheres of pressure! Fry: How many atmospheres can the ship withstand? Professor Hubert Farnsworth: Well, it’s a space ship, so I’d say anywhere between zero and one. ---
**Author:** ![marshmallow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@marshmallow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marshmallow)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2015, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-stupidest-thing-youve-ever-heard-in-a-movie/714531/19 "2015-03-08T20:55:33Z")
> [@Penfeather](#): > > This from the hero in _Phantom Menace_. That’s not dumb, though. I’d choose this, from the same movie: > [@](#): > > They must be dead by now. Destroy what’s left of them. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2015, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-stupidest-thing-youve-ever-heard-in-a-movie/714531/20 "2015-03-08T21:03:14Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > It’s also just part of a pick-up line, and not scientific. It’s no different from “What’s your sign?” in regard to the scientific validity of pick-up lines. Ehrm, yes, that’s the point. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-stupidest-thing-youve-ever-heard-in-a-movie/714531.md?page=2)