# 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:** 4
**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 9, 2015, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-stupidest-thing-youve-ever-heard-in-a-movie/714531/61 "2015-03-09T16:50:31Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Don’t ask that, even rhetorically, of the film industry. The film is awful. At one point Nick Adams’ character is investigating the secret laboratory (!) of Nahum Witley (Karloff) and finds a flask of material radiating its own heat. “I wonder if it’s an Element?” he muses. Because, as we all know, elements all glow and give off their own heat. I don’t know what you’re talking about. My stove has _four_ elements, and they all glow and give off quite a a lot of heat. ---
**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, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-stupidest-thing-youve-ever-heard-in-a-movie/714531/62 "2015-03-09T16:53:17Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > Holy crap. All that just to enjoy a piece of chocolate. I know, it’s enough to drive you to drink (If you can find Mozart Chocolate Liqueur, it’s the best of both worlds 😃 )! ---
**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2015, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-stupidest-thing-youve-ever-heard-in-a-movie/714531/63 "2015-03-09T18:00:15Z")
I’m probably the only one here who’s ever seen this movie. **House of the Dead** (2003) “We finally got to the boat, but it wasn’t there!” Then you didn’t really get to the boat, didja? ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2015, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-stupidest-thing-youve-ever-heard-in-a-movie/714531/64 "2015-03-09T18:56:34Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > 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. That is a GREAT LINE!! ---
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2015, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-stupidest-thing-youve-ever-heard-in-a-movie/714531/65 "2015-03-09T18:58:04Z")
> [@eburacum45](#): > > It is just possible that the writers of that movie had heard about neutrino oscillation, and were attempting to shoehorn it into a movie that was already chock-ablock full of pseudoscience. > [Neutrino oscillation - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutrino_oscillation) > Neutrinos behave a bit like the contents of a box of chocolates, one which has the warning on the lid ‘The contents of this box may vary from time to time’. “You can take away our leptons, but you can’t take away our flavor!” ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2015, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-stupidest-thing-youve-ever-heard-in-a-movie/714531/66 "2015-03-09T18:59:11Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > 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: Considering how many copies of the Harry Potter books were sold, and how many millions of dollars (and pounds, and euros, and…) they earned, it’s kinda hard to say that they didn’t have some idea what they were doing. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2015, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-stupidest-thing-youve-ever-heard-in-a-movie/714531/67 "2015-03-09T19:00:48Z")
> [@WordMan](#): > > I love the glorious stupidity of Patrick Swayze’s macho philosophizing in _Roadhouse_: **Pain don’t hurt.** > > 😃 That’s what I was gonna bring. Pain don’t hurt? Of course it does. That’s why we call it pain. That’s our adult word for hurt. Might as well say fire doesn’t burn or water isn’t wet. The chick did roll her eyes in the movie, right? ---
**Author:** ![Cartoonacy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/848f3c/32.png) [@Cartoonacy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartoonacy)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2015, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-stupidest-thing-youve-ever-heard-in-a-movie/714531/68 "2015-03-09T19:18:17Z")
So far no one has mentioned: “The sum of the square roots of any two sides of an isosceles triangle is equal to the square root of the remaining side.” ---
**Author:** ![Cartoonacy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/848f3c/32.png) [@Cartoonacy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartoonacy)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2015, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-stupidest-thing-youve-ever-heard-in-a-movie/714531/69 "2015-03-09T19:23:09Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > [The Master speaks](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/400/is-there-a-squiggle-code-to-identify-chocolates): Hmmm… _Cherry cordial — UC, round with closed “C”; FM, round with circular hieroglyphic; FF, round with closed “C”_ What’s a closed “C?” Wouldn’t that just be an “O?” ---
**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, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-stupidest-thing-youve-ever-heard-in-a-movie/714531/70 "2015-03-09T19:26:59Z")
> [@Cartoonacy](#): > > “[The sum of the square roots of any two sides of an isosceles triangle is equal to the square root of the remaining side.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fO1Vhc88QkM)” It isn’t? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Wayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4bbf92/32.png) [@Charlie\_Wayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Wayne)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2015, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-stupidest-thing-youve-ever-heard-in-a-movie/714531/71 "2015-03-09T20:01:25Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > It isn’t? 😉 It’s the sum of squares of the two sides of a right triangle that is equal to the square of the hypotenuse. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2015, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-stupidest-thing-youve-ever-heard-in-a-movie/714531/72 "2015-03-09T20:09:39Z")
> [@eburacum45](#): > > … Neutrinos behave a bit like the contents of a box of chocolates, one which has the warning on the lid ‘The contents of this box may vary from time to time’. Yup, you never know what you’re going to get. Mine is more generic. It’s in almost EVERY action flick with a middle-aged lead in one form or another. “I’m gettin’ too old for this shit.” ---
**Author:** ![Anon01245](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b77776/32.png) [@Anon01245](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anon01245)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2015, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-stupidest-thing-youve-ever-heard-in-a-movie/714531/73 "2015-03-09T20:10:47Z")
Any time when a character cannot swim in a situation where they could obviously have learned swimming. ---
**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, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-stupidest-thing-youve-ever-heard-in-a-movie/714531/74 "2015-03-09T20:54:43Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > 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: True enough - it would’ve made for a pretty clunky line. But ‘OMG! This is three hundred years old! I can’t accept this!’ would have been perfectly clean, and would have avoided the risk of sounding like they were all idiots… ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2015, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-stupidest-thing-youve-ever-heard-in-a-movie/714531/75 "2015-03-09T22:56:41Z")
> [@eclectic\_wench](#): > > True enough - it would’ve made for a pretty clunky line. But ‘OMG! This is three hundred years old! I can’t accept this!’ would have been perfectly clean, and would have avoided the risk of sounding like they were all idiots… It may be clunky, but I think it makes her seem more knowledgeable, which fits with collecting those books being part of her hobby. Though I might get rid of “translation” and just call it “Pope’s Illiad.” I mean, that sort of thing is used all the time to establish a character as really knowing their stuff–often with what they say not making any sense even to people who know what they are talking about (as the writers don’t). ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2015, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-stupidest-thing-youve-ever-heard-in-a-movie/714531/76 "2015-03-10T00:57:37Z")
> [@Lemmytheseal2](#): > > This has been explained, by Lucas and others. Yes, and every one laughingly inadequate and a hopeless stretch and contortion. ---
**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 10, 2015, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-stupidest-thing-youve-ever-heard-in-a-movie/714531/77 "2015-03-10T01:12:07Z")
> [@WordMan](#): > > I love the glorious stupidity of Patrick Swayze’s macho philosophizing in _Roadhouse_: **Pain don’t hurt.** > > 😃 > [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > That’s what I was gonna bring. > > Pain don’t hurt? Of course it does. That’s why we call it pain. That’s our adult word for hurt. Might as well say fire doesn’t burn or water isn’t wet. > > The chick did roll her eyes in the movie, right? But I loved how it was put in Lawrence Of Arabia that the trick is not minding that it hurts. ---
**Author:** ![Lemmytheseal2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/82dd89/32.png) [@Lemmytheseal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemmytheseal2)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2015, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-stupidest-thing-youve-ever-heard-in-a-movie/714531/78 "2015-03-10T01:20:54Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Yup, you never know what you’re going to get. > > Mine is more generic. It’s in almost EVERY action flick with a middle-aged lead in one form or another. “I’m gettin’ too old for this shit.” Good one. It reminded me that it’s been done well in another medium. I know everyone is supposed to hate Rob Liefeld, but this is from an early issue of X-Force, written by him with Fabian Nicieza. Spoiler alert… Cable and “Domino” (actually Copycat, impersonating Domino) are in a bathtub. Together. “Domino”: I’m getting too old for these workouts. Cable: You flatter me. “Domino”: I meant the Danger Room training sequence. Cable: Oh. > [@MovieMogul](#): > > Yes, and every one laughingly inadequate and a hopeless stretch and contortion. Perhaps Lucas’s explanation, but what about “Solo is bullshitting, or it’s some slang term”? ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2015, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-stupidest-thing-youve-ever-heard-in-a-movie/714531/79 "2015-03-10T01:30:55Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > 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. Good thing he qualified it with “on a man.” ---
**Author:** ![Wallaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/dc4da7/32.png) [@Wallaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallaby)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2015, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-stupidest-thing-youve-ever-heard-in-a-movie/714531/80 "2015-03-10T01:40:04Z")
> [@Anon01245](#): > > Any time when a character cannot swim in a situation where they could obviously have learned swimming. Bingo! ‘Help! I’m drowning! I can’t swim!’. Well, you you’ve two choices - drown or try. I mean, even floating might be worth a go, for a start. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-stupidest-thing-youve-ever-heard-in-a-movie/714531.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-stupidest-thing-youve-ever-heard-in-a-movie/714531.md?page=5)