# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2015, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-stupidest-thing-youve-ever-heard-in-a-movie/714531/41 "2015-03-09T13:18:34Z")
Much as I hate the Forrest Gump movie, and hate the line even more, there are plenty of chocolate boxes that don’t have a map anywhere, lid or not. So you really have no idea what you are going to get. This is frustrating. ---
**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 9, 2015, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-stupidest-thing-youve-ever-heard-in-a-movie/714531/42 "2015-03-09T13:22:45Z")
> [@eclectic\_wench](#): > > The new Jennifer Lopez film, _The Boy Next Door_, is taking a lot of flak for the beautiful moment when the guy gives her ‘a…a first edition of Homer’s _Iliad_! I can’t accept this!’’ > > (To which he replies, ‘It was a buck in a garage sale.’) > > Beat that. It’s true. I read it on the internet. ---
**Author:** ![eclectic\_wench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ac91a4/32.png) [@eclectic\_wench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eclectic_wench)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2015, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-stupidest-thing-youve-ever-heard-in-a-movie/714531/43 "2015-03-09T13:28:22Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > Once on the TV show _Criminal Minds_, Dr. Reid gives his mother a copy of a book by her favorite author, Margery Kempe, and she scoffs “One of her lesser works.” Hee! 😃 > [@RivkahChaya](#): > > (And if someone called out the screenwriter on that _Iliad_ gaffe, he’d probably mumble something about have he meant a first edition of a particular translation.) > > Me, that’d be one of those moments where I’d get distracted by the wrong thing-- instead of paying attention to the rest of the movie, I’d keep thinking I wanted to see the scene where he finds the parchments at a garage sale, translates a bit, realizes they’re _The Iliad_, and quickly pays the buck asking price for the “antique placemats,” or whatever the garage owners think they are. They’re not parchments; it’s a pretty little book with gold-edged pages and a Ye Olde title font. In English, obviously. [Check it out.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsG_yPKAor4) I agree that the screenwriter would handwave it away with the ‘specific translation’ thing, but that’s bollix. If you buy ‘a first edition of _Pride and Prejudice_’, you don’t expect a first printing of the special 1993 edition with the foreword by Oscar J. Whangdoodle; you expect the _first edition_. If it were intended to be a first edition of the amazing Annie Armadillo translation of the _Iliad_, that’s what the line would say. ---
**Author:** ![you\_with\_the\_face](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ecccb3/32.png) [@you\_with\_the\_face](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/you_with_the_face)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2015, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-stupidest-thing-youve-ever-heard-in-a-movie/714531/44 "2015-03-09T13:47:39Z")
In Unbreakable, the protagonist’s wife said “Soft and Wet” by Prince was her favorite song. I just couldn’t believe that; took me right out of the film for good. ---
**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 9, 2015, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-stupidest-thing-youve-ever-heard-in-a-movie/714531/45 "2015-03-09T13:59:17Z")
> [@Encinitas](#): > > “You’ve never heard of the Millennium Falcon?…It’s the ship that made the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs.” Yeah but look at how Kenobi rolls his eyes at that. Solo is BSing them and Old Ben knows it. ---
**Author:** ![Lemmytheseal2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/82dd89/32.png) [@Lemmytheseal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemmytheseal2)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2015, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-stupidest-thing-youve-ever-heard-in-a-movie/714531/46 "2015-03-09T14:04:52Z")
> [@Encinitas](#): > > “You’ve never heard of the Millennium Falcon?…It’s the ship that made the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs.” This has been explained, by Lucas and others. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2015, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-stupidest-thing-youve-ever-heard-in-a-movie/714531/47 "2015-03-09T14:13:25Z")
Anybody want to clue me on on why the Margery Kempe reference was so horrible? Yeah, I could Google it, but what’s the fun in that? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2015, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-stupidest-thing-youve-ever-heard-in-a-movie/714531/48 "2015-03-09T14:35:04Z")
I think it’s mostly Whitman’s chocolates that have a map of the candies. I don’t know if other brands do. In “The Getaway” Ali McGraw is visiting Steve McQueen and he says, ‘you’re late’ and she says something like ‘I was getting my hair done and the girl was slow’. It only took a few seconds but it added nothing to the movie or insight into the characters. It was just put in there, like…like filler? ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2015, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-stupidest-thing-youve-ever-heard-in-a-movie/714531/49 "2015-03-09T15:21:43Z")
Anakin’s come-on line to the Princess ranks pretty high in my list of stupid lines: > [@](#): > > I don’t like sand. It’s coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere. Not like here. Here everything is soft and smooth. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2015, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-stupidest-thing-youve-ever-heard-in-a-movie/714531/50 "2015-03-09T15:36:46Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > Anakin’s come-on line to the Princess ranks pretty high in my list of stupid lines: Oh god you had to remind me of that awkward and terrible romance ---
**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 9, 2015, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-stupidest-thing-youve-ever-heard-in-a-movie/714531/51 "2015-03-09T16:25:41Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > Much as I hate the Forrest Gump movie, and hate the line even more, there are plenty of chocolate boxes that don’t have a map anywhere, lid or not. So you really have no idea what you are going to get. > > This is frustrating. Well, then, there’s the fact that the tops of the candies are actually coded. The “swirls” on top are stylized letters that tell you what you’re going. V on the vanilla, M on the maple, large C on the chocolate, small c on the coconut, etc. > [@eclectic\_wench](#): > > They’re not parchments; it’s a pretty little book with gold-edged pages and a Ye Olde title font. In English, obviously. [Check it out.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsG_yPKAor4) Hahahahahahahaha!!! > [@JohnT](#): > > Anybody want to clue me on on why the Margery Kempe reference was so horrible? Margery Kempe only wrote one book, and that one was probably dictated. ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2015, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-stupidest-thing-youve-ever-heard-in-a-movie/714531/52 "2015-03-09T16:30:59Z")
> [@eclectic\_wench](#): > > The new Jennifer Lopez film, _The Boy Next Door_, is taking a lot of flak for the beautiful moment when the guy gives her ‘a…a first edition of Homer’s _Iliad_! I can’t accept this!’’ > > (To which he replies, ‘It was a buck in a garage sale.’) > > Beat that. The problem with this is that CLEARLY it’s a translation and translations do have first editions and some of the Iliad first editions are worth a few thousand dollars. That IS a nice gift to a teacher from a student. It’s more a failure from the props department in not getting (or faking) an appropriate copy for the scene. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2015, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-stupidest-thing-youve-ever-heard-in-a-movie/714531/53 "2015-03-09T16:32:11Z")
Maybe this is accepted English, but it sounds stupid to me: “The Rage: Carrie 2” (2:08) into [this clip](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RG9ID2uTiU). Hurts my ears, it does. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2015, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-stupidest-thing-youve-ever-heard-in-a-movie/714531/54 "2015-03-09T16:32:50Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > Well, then, there’s the fact that the tops of the candies are actually coded. The “swirls” on top are stylized letters that tell you what you’re going. V on the vanilla, M on the maple, large C on the chocolate, small c on the coconut, etc. > > . I have never seen this, ever, in a box of chocolates. The stylized swirls are usually just circles. It’s extremely frustrating not to be able to tell the difference between a delicious vanilla chocolate and a nasty disgusting horrible coconut chocolate. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2015, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-stupidest-thing-youve-ever-heard-in-a-movie/714531/55 "2015-03-09T16:35:56Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > I have never seen this, ever, in a box of chocolates. The stylized swirls are usually just circles. It’s extremely frustrating not to be able to tell the difference between a delicious vanilla chocolate and a nasty disgusting horrible coconut chocolate. [The Master speaks](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/400/is-there-a-squiggle-code-to-identify-chocolates): ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2015, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-stupidest-thing-youve-ever-heard-in-a-movie/714531/56 "2015-03-09T16:37:45Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > [The Master speaks](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/400/is-there-a-squiggle-code-to-identify-chocolates): Holy crap. All that just to enjoy a piece of chocolate. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2015, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-stupidest-thing-youve-ever-heard-in-a-movie/714531/57 "2015-03-09T16:44:16Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > Much as I hate the Forrest Gump movie, and hate the line even more, there are plenty of chocolate boxes that don’t have a map anywhere, lid or not. So you really have no idea what you are going to get. > > This is frustrating. I always thought it was stupid b/c you do know what you’re going to get. Chocolate, duh. But I figured that made sense, b/c Forrest was a little slow. (Then I realized no, it was what kind of chocolate/the map.etc.) ---
**Author:** ![eclectic\_wench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ac91a4/32.png) [@eclectic\_wench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eclectic_wench)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2015, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-stupidest-thing-youve-ever-heard-in-a-movie/714531/58 "2015-03-09T16:48:17Z")
> [@Push\_You\_Down](#): > > The problem with this is that CLEARLY it’s a translation and translations do have first editions and some of the Iliad first editions are worth a few thousand dollars. That IS a nice gift to a teacher from a student. > > It’s more a failure from the props department in not getting (or faking) an appropriate copy for the scene. Sure, but again, that would be a first edition of the Butler (or whoever) translation of the Iliad. It wouldn’t be a \*first \*edition of _the Iliad_. The book in the film clearly isn’t even a first English edition of the Iliad (that book isn’t from 1580). There are decent ways to fanwank it away, and they may even be what the screenwriter had in mind, but the scene does play exactly like they thought the Iliad was written sometime in the nineteenth century. In English. ---
**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 9, 2015, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-stupidest-thing-youve-ever-heard-in-a-movie/714531/59 "2015-03-09T16:49:52Z")
> [@Push\_You\_Down](#): > > The problem with this is that CLEARLY it’s a translation and translations do have first editions and some of the Iliad first editions are worth a few thousand dollars. That IS a nice gift to a teacher from a student. > > It’s more a failure from the props department in not getting (or faking) an appropriate copy for the scene. A little Googling suggests that that is a real book in the scene, and what it is, is an American edition of Alexander Pope’s translation of _The Iliad_. Any copy of this original print run, whether a first edition or not, is much sought after, apparently, but I guess if the line had read “OMG! Pope’s translation of _The Iliad_! This is hard to find! (_pause, flip to front of book_) This is a first American edition! I can’t accept this!” would have made most American’s eyes glaze over. Or so went the thinking of the writers and producers, who give Americans so little credit, they changed Harry Potter’s “Philosopher’s Stone” to a “Sorcerer’s Stone,” because "Americans won’t know what the philosopher’s stone is. Fer cryin’ out loud! they won’t know what the “sorcerer’s stone” is either, since you just made it up! If they can deduce it from context, they can do the same with the freaking _philosopher’s stone_! :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Aquadementia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aquadementia/32/555_2.png) [@Aquadementia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aquadementia)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2015, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-stupidest-thing-youve-ever-heard-in-a-movie/714531/60 "2015-03-09T16:50:26Z")
> [@eclectic\_wench](#): > > The new Jennifer Lopez film, _The Boy Next Door_, is taking a lot of flak for the beautiful moment when the guy gives her ‘a…a first edition of Homer’s _Iliad_! I can’t accept this!’’ > > (To which he replies, ‘It was a buck in a garage sale.’) > > Beat that. The first edition of the Illiad must be Homer’s skull. What a thoughtful gift! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-stupidest-thing-youve-ever-heard-in-a-movie/714531.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-stupidest-thing-youve-ever-heard-in-a-movie/714531.md?page=4)