# Worst piece of dialogue in a movie? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 10, 2004, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-piece-of-dialogue-in-a-movie/244512 "2004-05-10T20:25:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Chastain86](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Chastain86](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chastain86)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2004, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-piece-of-dialogue-in-a-movie/244512/1 "2004-05-10T20:25:37Z")
What’s the worst piece of dialogue you’ve ever heard in a movie? My vote goes for the movie **Blade** , in which the title character utters this unforgettable nugget of wisdom, after slicing apart a troublesome vampire: “Some motherf\*ckers are always trying to ice skate uphill.” No one could have delivered that line. God himself couldn’t have delivered that line. What’s the worst line of dialogue you can think of in an otherwise-decent movie? ---
**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:** [May 10, 2004, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-piece-of-dialogue-in-a-movie/244512/2 "2004-05-10T20:40:39Z")
> [@Chastain86](#): > > What’s the worst piece of dialogue you’ve ever heard in a movie? > > My vote goes for the movie **Blade** , in which the title character utters this unforgettable nugget of wisdom, after slicing apart a troublesome vampire: > > “Some motherf\*ckers are always trying to ice skate uphill.” Oh, sod off - that’s a _great_ line! My candidate for worst line in an otherwise OK movie comes from Mortal Kombat, with the eternally cringeworthy: “I couldn’t let that happen to you - not to you.” ---
**Author:** ![robgruver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@robgruver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robgruver)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2004, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-piece-of-dialogue-in-a-movie/244512/3 "2004-05-10T20:44:43Z")
The James Bond movie The World is Not Enough had the wonderfully talented Denise Richards _snicker_ playing bond girl Dr. Christmas Jones. Jones and Bond have just finished their lovemaking. A few words are exchanged as the last line of the movie is delivered: Bond: “And I thought Christmas came only once each year.” _groan_ ---
**Author:** ![Nonsuch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nonsuch/32/2922_2.png) [@Nonsuch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nonsuch)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2004, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-piece-of-dialogue-in-a-movie/244512/4 "2004-05-10T21:12:24Z")
This nugget from _Puma Man_ sticks out: (Spoken to a superhero confused about his newly-discovered powers:) “You do not fly, but your mind does. Part of you is afraid, but the other you isn’t!” Admittedly, the script was written by folks for whom English may not have been a native tongue, but as Crow says, “Yeah, thanks, Castaneda.” ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2004, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-piece-of-dialogue-in-a-movie/244512/5 "2004-05-10T22:01:49Z")
So bad I doubt I need to include the name of the movies in which they were spoken: • “Nobody puts baby in a corner!” • “Do you know what happens to a toad that gets struck by lightning?” • ::Throws large blunt metal pipe attached to nothing _through_ Bennett’s body, steam inexplicably comes out:: “Let off some steam.” • “I don’t like sand. It’s course and rough and irritating…” ---
**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:** [May 10, 2004, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-piece-of-dialogue-in-a-movie/244512/6 "2004-05-10T22:04:49Z")
> [@Dooku](#): > > So bad I doubt I need to include the name of the movies in which they were spoken: > > • “Nobody puts baby in a corner!” > > • ::Throws large blunt metal pipe attached to nothing _through_ Bennett’s body, steam inexplicably comes out:: “Let off some steam.” Sorry, Dooku, but you do these two - at least, for me. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2004, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-piece-of-dialogue-in-a-movie/244512/7 "2004-05-10T22:09:01Z")
> [@Dooku](#): > > So bad I doubt I need to include the name of the movies in which > • ::Throws large blunt metal pipe attached to nothing _through_ Bennett’s body, steam inexplicably comes out:: “Let off some steam.” BLASHAMY!!! That’s an awsome line! In fact, not of Arnolds one liners should be in this thread… …except for every line uttered by every character in Batman & Robin Evil Death - The movies are ‘Dirty Dancing’ and ‘Commando’. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Hamster\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2004, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-piece-of-dialogue-in-a-movie/244512/8 "2004-05-10T23:36:09Z")
> [@msmith537](#): > > The movies are ‘Dirty Dancing’ and ‘Commando’. But which quote goes with which movie … ? ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2004, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-piece-of-dialogue-in-a-movie/244512/9 "2004-05-10T23:42:08Z")
> [@](#): > > BLASHAMY!!! That’s an awsome line! In fact, not of Arnolds one liners should be in this thread… I could quote the entire movie. “How did you know they were coming?” ## “I smelled them.” “I eat Green Berets for breakfast, and right now I’m hungry!!” * * * “Could you take care of my friend? He’s dead tired.” (Proceeds to jump off the tires of a plane just taking off, and land in a swamp unharmed) ---
**Author:** ![Wasabee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f05b48/32.png) [@Wasabee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wasabee)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2004, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-piece-of-dialogue-in-a-movie/244512/10 "2004-05-11T00:07:45Z")
The “I beseech you on behalf of my daughter” line from Kill Bill. It was a movie that I loved but man that entire scene blows. The story I’ve heard about the lighting and toad line from X-men; Joss Whedon actually wrote that line. He meant for the “Same thing that happens to everything else” final line to be delievered like Xander would. Making the line slightly humorous instead of grating. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2004, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-piece-of-dialogue-in-a-movie/244512/11 "2004-05-11T00:10:10Z")
“This is why Superman works alone.” Yeah, yeah, yeah, shaddup Clooney. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2004, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-piece-of-dialogue-in-a-movie/244512/12 "2004-05-11T00:19:30Z")
**Bryan Ekers** reminded me of the terrible, horrible, no good very bad scene from _Superman_, wherein Superman and Lois fly around Manhattan while Lois recites the worst piece of shit [poem](http://superman.ws/fos/themovie/mind.php) I’ve ever heard. "Can you read my mind? blah blah Just a friend from another Star blah blah Holding hands with a God I’m a fool blah blah You can fly!! You belong in the sky!!" ::wretch:: ---
**Author:** ![Darkhold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90db22/32.png) [@Darkhold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darkhold)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2004, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-piece-of-dialogue-in-a-movie/244512/13 "2004-05-11T00:24:12Z")
She comes home from work…in about an hour and a half…graveyard…shift…at the hosp…ital…You…make some phone calls…gotta call some people…well then do it. ( **Pulp Fiction** ) Terrible line delivered terribly. I can’t tell if he’s trying to be intense or having a bowel movement. ---
**Author:** ![fiddlesticks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddlesticks/32/18129_2.png) [@fiddlesticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fiddlesticks)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2004, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-piece-of-dialogue-in-a-movie/244512/14 "2004-05-11T00:58:24Z")
Can’t believe no one’s mentioned anything from _Phantom Menance_ yet… Shmi Skywalker: All slaves have a transmitter placed somewhere in their body. Anakin: I’ve been working on a scanner to try and locate mine. Shmi Skywalker: Any attempt to escape… Anakin: And they blow you up! BOOM! Jar Jar Binks: How wude! and, of course: Anakin: Yippee! ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2004, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-piece-of-dialogue-in-a-movie/244512/15 "2004-05-11T01:10:59Z")
I saw a bit of _Pearl Harbour_ recently ( no, I didn’t watch the whole thing, just a snippet) During the Japanese attack someone yells : “I think World War Two just started” :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2004, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-piece-of-dialogue-in-a-movie/244512/16 "2004-05-11T01:24:38Z")
[paraphrase] “I don’t think you should judge other people’s blow jobs!” – **White Palace**. IIRC, that line was definitely _not_ in Glenn Savin’s novel. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2004, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-piece-of-dialogue-in-a-movie/244512/17 "2004-05-11T01:39:54Z")
“You’ve got to climb Mount Everest to reach the Valley of the Dolls.” WT_F_? ---
**Author:** ![moriah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b2d939/32.png) [@moriah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moriah)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2004, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-piece-of-dialogue-in-a-movie/244512/18 "2004-05-11T01:41:53Z")
TV Movie: The Langoliers… “They destroy time in the most efficient way possible… they eat it.” Dear Stephen, eat me. ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2004, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-piece-of-dialogue-in-a-movie/244512/19 "2004-05-11T01:48:25Z")
The only flaw in an otherwise-wonderful _Reservoir Dogs_… during the opening coffee scene, where Mr. Brown is trying to talk about big dicks and gets distracted, he tries to get on track by saying: “What the fuck was I talking about?” As written, the line seems fine. However, the delivery in that scene was nothing short of awkward and jarring. I wonder how Quentin himself managed to muck that so poorly. Frankly, I don’t think of it as much of a challenge to quote bad lines from bad movies. That’s like hand grenading fish in a barrel. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2004, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-piece-of-dialogue-in-a-movie/244512/20 "2004-05-11T02:01:12Z")
_Sergeant Rutledge_ (a.k.a. _Captain Buffalo_), a 1960 western by John Ford, is about a black cavalryman in the 19th century standing trial accused of being the one who raped and murdered a young white woman. At the end of the movie, it’s proven that he’s innocent and that the crime was committed by one of the courtroom spectators. The real culprit then breaks down and delivers the least plausible confession I have ever heard. I can’t find a script for it; anyone? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-piece-of-dialogue-in-a-movie/244512.md?page=2)