# Worst delivery of a line in a movie? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 4, 2004, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-delivery-of-a-line-in-a-movie/253503 "2004-07-04T16:27:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2004, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-delivery-of-a-line-in-a-movie/253503/1 "2004-07-04T16:27:51Z")
I just watched Four Weddings and a Funeral for the first time. I enjoyed most of the movie, but Andie MacDowell was (IMHO, of course) excruciating. I realize she came onto the set something like two weeks before shooting began but… damn. But the clincher was the final scene, where she says “Is it raining? I hadn’t noticed.” That has to be the worst delivery I’ve ever seen. It honestly pulled me right out of the movie and made me say… What the hell was that? She said it with the enthusiasm of a toothbrush. I’m sure there are plenty of worse examples, as my movie viewing is actually pretty woeful (but I’m fixing that!) So what other examples of really horrid deliveries (especially in an otherwise decent movie) are there? ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2004, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-delivery-of-a-line-in-a-movie/253503/2 "2004-07-04T16:39:22Z")
Storm’s line from _X-Men_. You should know it by now. There was a line from _Waterworld_ (which I refuse to see) that was parodied by Mike Nelson on MST3K. Mike was trying to take “non acting” lessons and used that scene where Costner’s boat sank. He apparently shows zero emotion as he says, “My boat.” ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2004, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-delivery-of-a-line-in-a-movie/253503/3 "2004-07-04T16:45:29Z")
What _does_ happen a toad that gets struck by lightning? Good example. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2004, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-delivery-of-a-line-in-a-movie/253503/4 "2004-07-04T16:46:50Z")
> [@TellMeI'mNotCrazy](#): > > What _does_ happen a toad that gets struck by lightning? Good example. Supposedly the response was to be, “it croaks”. How it got screwed up, I don’t know. ---
**Author:** ![Jurph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/50afbb/32.png) [@Jurph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jurph)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2004, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-delivery-of-a-line-in-a-movie/253503/5 "2004-07-04T16:49:43Z")
Vin Diesel’s line in _Pitch Black_: “Not for me! Not… for… me.” In his defense, I don’t know how he should have delivered it. ---
**Author:** ![The\_27th\_Evil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ebca7d/32.png) [@The\_27th\_Evil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_27th_Evil)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2004, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-delivery-of-a-line-in-a-movie/253503/6 "2004-07-04T17:02:19Z")
Everyone say it with me: “Nobody puts Baby in a corner.” Of course, I don’t think that line _can_ be delivered without sounding like an utter idiot. ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2004, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-delivery-of-a-line-in-a-movie/253503/7 "2004-07-04T17:11:58Z")
**Tom Cruise in "A Few Good Men"** After **Jack Nicholson** delivers his powerful “You can’t handle the truth speech” and admits to ordering the “Code Red” he says: “All you did was weaken a country today. That’s all you did. You put people’s lives in danger. Sweet dreams, son.” In an anemic response Tom Cruise says: “Don’t call me son. I’m a lawyer and an officer in the United States Navy. And you’re under arrest, you son of a bitch”. Cruise’s line _really_ falls flat. * * * Too bad about Halle Berry’s line getting screwed up in “X-Men”. “It croaks” would have been great !! ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2004, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-delivery-of-a-line-in-a-movie/253503/8 "2004-07-04T19:01:33Z")
Dad? ---
**Author:** ![MLS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/919ad9/32.png) [@MLS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MLS)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2004, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-delivery-of-a-line-in-a-movie/253503/9 "2004-07-04T20:19:14Z")
Isn’t Tony Curtis’s “Yondah lies da castle of my foddah?” the classic example? ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2004, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-delivery-of-a-line-in-a-movie/253503/10 "2004-07-04T20:54:36Z")
In _Reservoir Dogs_, in the opening coffee scene, Mr. Brown’s train of thought is interrupted, and he says, “What the fuck was I talking about?” Unfortunately, Tarantino’s delivery is so stinky-poo that he truly lived up to the character’s too-close-to name. ---
**Author:** ![Raymond\_Luxury\_Yacht](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raymond_luxury_yacht/32/4099_2.png) [@Raymond\_Luxury\_Yacht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raymond_Luxury_Yacht)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2004, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-delivery-of-a-line-in-a-movie/253503/11 "2004-07-04T21:38:46Z")
“I am an F.B.I…agent!” - Johnny Utah ---
**Author:** ![SolGrundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@SolGrundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SolGrundy)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2004, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-delivery-of-a-line-in-a-movie/253503/12 "2004-07-04T22:37:40Z")
From _Working Girl_: “I am not a steak. You cannot order me.” Granted, that’s a horrible, horrible line, but I think a better actress than Melanie Griffith might’ve been able to deliver it without making me go into a seizure. ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2004, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-delivery-of-a-line-in-a-movie/253503/13 "2004-07-04T22:43:02Z")
> [@dantheman](#): > > Dad? OK I can hear this line, but… I cannot for the life of me remember what movie it’s from. ---
**Author:** ![Glory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7cd45c/32.png) [@Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Glory)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2004, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-delivery-of-a-line-in-a-movie/253503/14 "2004-07-04T22:45:14Z")
Do you like our owl? Sean Young, Blade Runner. ---
**Author:** ![Live\_Better\_Electrically](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/46a35a/32.png) [@Live\_Better\_Electrically](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Live_Better_Electrically)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2004, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-delivery-of-a-line-in-a-movie/253503/15 "2004-07-04T22:51:36Z")
Again, it’s a terrible line to begin with, but I nominate Lou Diamond Phillips as Ritchie Valens in **La Bamba** : “My dreams are pure rock and roll!” ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2004, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-delivery-of-a-line-in-a-movie/253503/16 "2004-07-04T23:15:13Z")
I always hated the way Jennifer Aniston says “How DARE you judge me?” in Office Space. ---
**Author:** ![mrunlucky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7993a0/32.png) [@mrunlucky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrunlucky)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2004, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-delivery-of-a-line-in-a-movie/253503/17 "2004-07-04T23:16:47Z")
> [@Mr. Blue Sky](#): > > Supposedly the response was to be, “it croaks”. How it got screwed up, I don’t know. From what I recall, that line and one other were the only lines of dialogue left in the movie from Joss Whedon’s version of the script. That’s the main reason why it’s so completely awkward and wrong. Why they didn’t just rewrite that dialogue to match everything else, I don’t know. Even something completely improvised would probably have been better. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2004, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-delivery-of-a-line-in-a-movie/253503/18 "2004-07-04T23:32:53Z")
> [@mrunlucky](#): > > From what I recall, that line and one other were the only lines of dialogue left in the movie from Joss Whedon’s version of the script. That’s the main reason why it’s so completely awkward and wrong. Why they didn’t just rewrite that dialogue to match everything else, I don’t know. Even something completely improvised would probably have been better. At least they kept Wolverine’s, “You’re a dick” in response to being questioned by Cyclops. That just about makes up for the crappy line. ---
**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:** [July 4, 2004, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-delivery-of-a-line-in-a-movie/253503/19 "2004-07-04T23:51:40Z")
> [@](#): > > I feel this tartar woman is for me. My blood says take her! –John Wayne as Gengis Khan, in _The Conqueror_ ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Death](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecccb3/32.png) [@Evil\_Death](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Death)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2004, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-delivery-of-a-line-in-a-movie/253503/20 "2004-07-04T23:55:07Z")
> [@Glory](#): > > Do you like our owl? Sean Young, Blade Runner. I might agree … if there wasn’t a very good reason for Rachel speaking the way she does. No argument whatsoever with Halle Berry or Vin Diesel. I would have named and shamed them if I hadn’t been beaten to it. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-delivery-of-a-line-in-a-movie/253503.md?page=2)