# 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:** 2
**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 5, 2004, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-delivery-of-a-line-in-a-movie/253503/21 "2004-07-05T01:04:06Z")
> [@Evil Death](#): > > I might agree … if there wasn’t a very good reason for Rachel speaking the way she does. Other than being a emotionless Replicant, maybe? ---
**Author:** ![Briny\_Deep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/briny_deep/32/17188_2.png) [@Briny\_Deep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Briny_Deep)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2004, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-delivery-of-a-line-in-a-movie/253503/22 "2004-07-05T02:12:14Z")
I’ll be crucified for this, but I could never get behind Vivian Leigh’s delivery of _Gone With The Wind_’s immortal final line, “After all, tomorrow is another day!” She acCENTS all the wrong sylLABles. ---
**Author:** ![Weirddave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/919ad9/32.png) [@Weirddave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weirddave)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2004, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-delivery-of-a-line-in-a-movie/253503/23 "2004-07-05T02:22:10Z")
Stallone at the end of Rambo, the whole “I want…What they want! What every man who fought and died here wants! For our country to love us…as much as we love it.!” _shudder_ ---
**Author:** ![Turek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/turek/32/18782_2.png) [@Turek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turek)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2004, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-delivery-of-a-line-in-a-movie/253503/24 "2004-07-05T02:57:12Z")
> [@Mr. Blue Sky](#): > > Other than being a emotionless Replicant, maybe? Replicant? Yes. Emotionless? Hardly. Hot? Yes, thank you. ---
**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:** [July 5, 2004, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-delivery-of-a-line-in-a-movie/253503/25 "2004-07-05T03:09:38Z")
Prince skittering across the kitchen tiles in his high heels while his father jackslaps his mother shrieking “Daddy no!” in _Purple Rain_. Loved the rest of the movie. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2004, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-delivery-of-a-line-in-a-movie/253503/26 "2004-07-05T03:47:20Z")
In “Heist,” Rebecca Pidgeon delivers a line while being hauled away from Gene Hackman by Danny DeVito’s thugs, calling out something to the effect of “Leave him with something, at least!” The sheer wooden incompetence vastly exceeds anything else cited in this thread. Worst actress in movie history, easy, and I’m including models and porn stars. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2004, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-delivery-of-a-line-in-a-movie/253503/27 "2004-07-05T04:42:12Z")
“She gets home in about an hour and a half…the graveyard shift…at the hospital. You wanna make some calls? You wanna call some _people_? Then do it, and get the fuck outta my house!” -Jimmy Dimmick (Quintin Tarantino), _Pulp Fiction_ ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2004, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-delivery-of-a-line-in-a-movie/253503/28 "2004-07-05T04:47:04Z")
> [@TellMeI'mNotCrazy](#): > > OK I can hear this line, but… I cannot for the life of me remember what movie it’s from. **Godfather 3** ; Sofia Coppola, just before she dies from a gunshot. When William Shatner says “Oh my God!” after the transporter malfunction in Star Trek: the Motion Picture and two people die, it’s so badly delivered that you have to laugh. It would have been better for him to have said nothing. ---
**Author:** ![Atticus\_Finch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ec9cab/32.png) [@Atticus\_Finch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atticus_Finch)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2004, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-delivery-of-a-line-in-a-movie/253503/29 "2004-07-05T05:38:30Z")
> [@vivalostwages](#): > > **Godfather 3** ; Sofia Coppola, just before she dies from a gunshot. Funny, funny stuff. First time I saw this, I was laughing for about 5 minutes, mostly because I had made a lame joke about 5 seconds earlier about wishing someone’d just whack her character and get her off the screen ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2004, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-delivery-of-a-line-in-a-movie/253503/30 "2004-07-05T07:04:53Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > Worst actress in movie history, easy, and I’m including models and porn stars. Dunno about that. Erica Gavin, star of a couple of prominent sexploitation films in the '70’s was almost unbelievably bad. Her crowing achievement being this line from Caged Heat ( the Citizen Kane of sleazy sexploitation women-in-prison flicks ): “How long are you in for, as a matter of fact?” Bad line, performed very badly indeed. - Tamerlane ---
**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 5, 2004, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-delivery-of-a-line-in-a-movie/253503/31 "2004-07-05T07:14:35Z")
> [@Mr. Blue Sky](#): > > Other than being a emotionless Replicant, maybe? 1. She’s not emotionless, she’s emotionally stultified. 2. When someone says “I might agree, if not for X”, it usually means they don’t agree because X is true. ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2004, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-delivery-of-a-line-in-a-movie/253503/32 "2004-07-05T07:36:43Z")
“Put down the bunny!” :eek: 😃 :dubious: :wally ---
**Author:** ![Redboss](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8baadc/32.png) [@Redboss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Redboss)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2004, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-delivery-of-a-line-in-a-movie/253503/33 "2004-07-05T07:49:44Z")
Anything that Brian Brown ever says in any movie. I think his accent and looks fooled those Hollywood people that he knew how to act - ie actually shape and deliver a line. All through **Cocktail** , all through that movie about special effects I forget what it was called - he seems to be reading instructions off a vending machine, as in “Turn handle to left, then insert coins and press button”. Redboss ---
**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 5, 2004, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-delivery-of-a-line-in-a-movie/253503/34 "2004-07-05T07:55:21Z")
> [@Redboss](#): > > Anything that Brian Brown ever says in any movie. all through that movie about special effects I know. I can never remember the name either. Seriously, I always say… You know, that Brian Brown movie about the effects? And the person I’m talking to says, “You mean, FX?” :smack: ---
**Author:** ![sturmhauke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sturmhauke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sturmhauke)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2004, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-delivery-of-a-line-in-a-movie/253503/35 "2004-07-05T07:57:29Z")
“There’s a monster under my bed. Can I have a glass of water?” Spoken in a deadpan (emphasis on dead) voice by the little girl in Signs. I admit I haven’t seen the movie, and I’m told the line makes sense in context, but it still sounds like crap. ---
**Author:** ![DWMarch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwmarch/32/1010_2.png) [@DWMarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DWMarch)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2004, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-delivery-of-a-line-in-a-movie/253503/36 "2004-07-05T08:26:16Z")
Who could forget Haley Joel Osment’s famous whisper of “I see dead people!” Perhaps it would have been a little less annoying if I hadn’t heard it ten million times… There are a couple of moments in “The Boondock Saints” where Norm Reedus loses his accent and totally kills the line he’s saying. For example, when they’re arguing about whether or not Papa Joe set Rocco up or not. He screams “It’s the last time I’m gonna see ya!” and I cringe every time. Same for his line about “Mafiosos… with 20 kilos… getting out on bail…” It’s my favorite movie of all time but they really should have had some vocal coaches for those Irish accents. ---
**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 5, 2004, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-delivery-of-a-line-in-a-movie/253503/37 "2004-07-05T11:11:40Z")
> [@Evil Death](#): > > 1. She’s not emotionless, she’s emotionally stultified. I meant Sean Young. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Lodoen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b3f665/32.png) [@Jeff\_Lodoen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lodoen)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2004, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-delivery-of-a-line-in-a-movie/253503/38 "2004-07-05T11:20:22Z")
How far down do you want to dig? I’d nominate the used-on-MST3K “biker” flick Sidehackers. “My own flesh I don’t love better!” “I will kill him. I will.” “Chili peppers burn my gut.” 'That was #5!!! Hahahahaha!!!" and most every other line… ---
**Author:** ![snorlax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@snorlax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snorlax)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2004, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-delivery-of-a-line-in-a-movie/253503/39 "2004-07-05T11:32:47Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > In “Heist,” Rebecca Pidgeon delivers a line while being hauled away from Gene Hackman by Danny DeVito’s thugs, calling out something to the effect of “Leave him with something, at least!” The sheer wooden incompetence vastly exceeds anything else cited in this thread. Worst actress in movie history, easy, and I’m including models and porn stars. I think this performance says more about David Mamet’s directing style than Rebecca Pidgeon’s acting. His movies are full of mannered acting like this; check out _The Spanish Prisoner_ and \*House of Games \* for more of the same monotone delivery. ---
**Author:** ![Arch\_Trout](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9f8e36/32.png) [@Arch\_Trout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arch_Trout)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2004, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-delivery-of-a-line-in-a-movie/253503/40 "2004-07-05T11:40:57Z")
“I’m not gonna shoot you between the eyes John, I’m gonna shoot you between the balls…aaaaaaargh” “Let off some steam…bennett” In re: to the X-men line, she says “same thing that happens to everything else” after delivering the infamous line, which makes sense, not very funny but not terrible. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-delivery-of-a-line-in-a-movie/253503.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-delivery-of-a-line-in-a-movie/253503.md?page=3)