In Raw Deal, after Arnold’s drunken wife throws a cake at him.
" You shouldn’t drink, and bake."
I know it’s a bad line to begin with, but his delivery only makes it worse.
Benjamin Raspail, a patient and victim of Lecter, knew Buffalo Bill and told Lecter details about his life.
Okay, nobody’s ever offered to pay me for bring in their movie. Still, when I read Even Cowgirls Get the Blues to kaylasmom, she enjoyed the book, and the story (as did I). When we finaly got around to renting the video (I must have blinked during its theatrical release), it was a non-stop cringefest, made not the least bit more bearable by the fact that I got to see Uma Thurman without a shirt on.
Thus, I have to nominate each and every performance in Even Cowgirls Get the Blues. Especially that of Young Mistress Phoenix, whose performance I disdained so much that I can’t even be bothered to go to the imdb and look up her first name.
Everything Heather Graham says in “Austin Powers 2”. She’s just horrible.
Jumbo in The Replacements after being called for a penalty which cancelled the winning touchdown score, and Keanu Reeves as the QB consoles him and says something like “Don’t worry about it, just go out there and rip somebody’s head off.”
To which Jumbo replies, “Consider it done!”
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Gawd I hate that line.
I would see your point if other actors in the same movies were equally bad - but they aren’t. Everyone else in “Heist” is quite competent, except Sam Rockwell, who’s just bad, but not nearly as bad as Pidgeon. Everyone in “The Spanish Prisoner” was fine, too, except Campbell Scott, who again was just bad, not stab-my-eyes-and-ears-with-chopsticks-to-make-the-pain-go-away awful, like REbecca Pidgeon. No other actor on screen in any movie she’s in begins to approach her incompetence.
How about everything Heather Graham says in everything Heather Graham does? She’s horrible across the board.
Same holds true if you remove Heather Graham and replace with Denise Richards or Drew “every word I say in a film is apparenly keying on some personal joke I have that I’m not sharing with my audience, so they’ll just have to live with my smirking” Barrymore.
Rebecca Pidgeon was in the Spanish Prisoner too, did you think she was bad in that as well?
I’m curious.
Unless I’m being whooshed, I’d say that RickJay pretty much nailed it with “stab-my-eyes-and-ears-with-chopsticks-to-make-the-pain-go-away awful, like Rebecca Pidgeon”, while specifically referring to The Spanish Prisoner. Yes, she was that bad.
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Is that with or without a bra? Even Cowgirls get the Blues sounds like it might have a…good story…
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It’s not exactly hard to find topless pics of Uma Thurman if you want them, Cisco.
I still think there is more to this than meets the eye. Mamet’s House of Games stars Lindsay Crouse and her delivery is exactly he same as Rebecca Pidgeon’s in these other films. Interestingly, both of these women were married to Mamet at the time of their respective films.
Does he marry women who can’t act and then put them in his films? Or does he marry good actresses and ask them to deliver their lines in this curious way?
I had always assumed the latter and thought this weird delivery was just part of his films.
As we’ve established here on the SDMB in the past (more than once, IIRC), Curtis never says this line, not in The Black Shield of Falworth, or in any other movie.
What’s more, even if he had, it’s not clear that it would be bad delivery – Curtis could (can( act – it’s the accent this Urban Legend is commenting on.
My choice for worst-delivered line in a movie – just about any line from a fan in Star Trek – The Motion Picture. STMP was payback to the fans for reviving the franchise, so they worked a lot of them in. That’s why Kirk addresses a whole crowd of them in the auditorium. It gave a lot of fans their gratuitous shot in the movie. A lucky few fans got singled out for speaking parts. They’re very easy to identify. Everyone on the Communications satellite. Ensign Ramirez (“Carbon-based units?”, to which McCoy responds “Humans, Ensign Ramirez. Us.”) All those fans to choose from – many of whom must have had acting experience – and *these * are the best they could get?
You’re telling me, she made that movie unwatchable.
“That’s for calling me crap, fatty.”
ARRGGHH!!
I third Andie McDowell in any movie, but the one that stands out for me is in St Elmo’s Fire. When Kirby drives up to the ski lodge to find McDowell’s character, Dale Biberman, and refuses to come inside. She stands outside yelling, “He’ll freeze!” Possibly one of the worst deliveries in any movie, ever.
Yeah, that was my point. She was just unbelievably bad; to my eyes she stood out like a scorpion in a potato salad. I mean, she was outacted by Al Bundy. Astoundingly incompetent; I find it amazing even her husband casts her.
snorlax, I didn’t think Lindsay Crouse was as bad as Pidgeon, which should not be taken to mean that I think she’s Bette Davis. There’s nothing about Mamet films that should make it impossible to act, as demonstrated by the fine performances we’ve seen from people in Mamet films. They’re stylized films to be sure, but Pidgeon sticks out as being so woefully incompetent I almost feel sorry for her. Mostly I felt sorry for myself having paid to watch her act, though.
I also want to add my support to everyone nominating Andie MacDowell. I also think she’s ugly and I don’t understand why she’s in cosmetics ads.
In the oh-so-ridiculous Cherry 2000, Melanie Griffith says something like:
“Let’s go kick some ass” in that same vapid breath-y simp voice that she says every line in.
And the idea of her “kicking ass” is just too stupid for words.
I’ve posted this before in a thread about movies you’re not ashamed to admit you like. It’s a badly delivered line, but the line is so bad that I don’t know how anyone could have pulled it off:
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For the life of me, I can’t think of how anyone could make that writing sound good. Hell, Laurence Olivier couldn’t have done a better job with that material.
I don’t want to branch too far into TV movies, but I just have to mention the TNT movie Purgatory. The movie itself is actually not that bad, considering that it’s a TNT movie, a western, and is about purgatory for the wild wild west. No, what makes this movie a camp classic around my house is one man.
Eric Roberts.
He’s awful in just about everything anyway, but dress him in black, put him on a horse and make him attempt a Texas drawl. |:eek:|
His line before the obligatory shoot-out in the center of town takes the cake. “Luhks liyek weeuns gotta seddle dis, sharriv. Juuuuhst youuuuuuu’n meeeeee!” Oh would you just shoot him already.