WTF Movie Lines

[AClockworkMelon]

@Alessan

You know you want it.

I’m in tears over here.

[Little_Nemo]

Lethal Weapon 3 has the line "Close is a lingerie shop without a front window. " It is never explained.

As I recall, it was another case of a cut scene. There had originally been a scene where a lingerie shop was being used as a front for drug dealing. Rene Russo’s character realized it wasn’t a real store because she said all real lingerie shops have a front window display.

[Cat_Whisperer]

@RealityChuck

The line was ad libbed by John Barrowman. I’ve heard that he said it as a joke just to see how his costar would react. He did not expect it to be left in the film.

Okay, that makes A LOT more sense.

[Two_Many_Cats]

@Spavined_Gelding

Now try to figure out “he stacked arms at Appomattox.”

He’s really, really old?

He performed an important function, but never got any credit?

He backed down from a fight with honor?

Am I close?

[ricksummon]

@RealityChuck

The line was ad libbed by John Barrowman. I’ve heard that he said it as a joke just to see how his costar would react. He did not expect it to be left in the film.

Now, just imagine Captain Jack Harkness saying this line to Ianto.

[Koxinga]

Very minor point, but in The Breakfast Club, I never understood what exactly Bender meant when he gave his sunglasses to the nerdy guy and said, “For better hallway vision” right before the vice principal hauls him off to the closet.

ETA: For that matter, why was the movie entitled “The Breakfast Club”?

[interface2x]

@Koxinga

Very minor point, but in The Breakfast Club, I never understood what exactly Bender meant when he gave his sunglasses to the nerdy guy and said, “For better hallway vision” right before the vice principal hauls him off to the closet.

I thought it was because he took them down a hall that ended with them being trapped by the teacher. If he had listened to Bender, they would have gone the other way and escaped unnoticed back to the library. As it was, Bender had to distract him to let the others escape.

[Rebo]

@Koxinga

ETA: For that matter, why was the movie entitled “The Breakfast Club”?

The film’s title comes from the nickname invented by students and staff for detention at New Trier High School, the school attended by the son of one of John Hughes’ friends.

[ProfessorX]

@Alessan

You know you want it.

I was expecting this to be all over the place in here. Most of the movie triggers the WTF reaction. Hilarious though, if you’re not watching it for the drama

[TBG]

@ricksummon

Now, just imagine Captain Jack Harkness saying this line to Ianto.

I can imagine Jack saying that line, sure, but not to Ianto. Jack knows who has what parts. He may not care who has what parts, but he knows.

[Spatial_Rift_47]

@Skammer

I just read an explanation for this one, in Ferris Beuler’s Day Off. Near the end of the movie, Ferris is recounting for Cameron all the amazing things they did/saw that day, and includes “we ate pancreas..”.

Also from Ferris, later in the movie:

Mrs. Bueller: I just picked up Jeannie at the police station! She got a speeding ticket, another speeding ticket, and I lost the Vermont deal because of her!
Mr. Bueller: I think we should shoot her.
… WTF.

[Push_You_Down]

@interface2x

I thought it was because he took them down a hall that ended with them being trapped by the teacher. If he had listened to Bender, they would have gone the other way and escaped unnoticed back to the library. As it was, Bender had to distract him to let the others escape.

I thought because Bender had now turned the nerd into a reefer addict and knew he’d need sunglasses to cover up the redeyes at school.

[x-ray_vision]

The only one I can think of that hasn’t been mentioned is from Pulp Fiction when Mia says to Vincent “An Elvis man should love this.” I remember that being a WTF moment when I saw it in the theater. It’s a reference to a deleted scene where Mia claims that everyone can be classified as either an Elvis person or a Beatles person and Vincent says he’s an Elvis.

[Covered_In_Bees]

That’s not a deleted scene is it? I haven’t watched the DVD extras and I know that scene.

[x-ray_vision]

Yeah, Tarantino talks about it in the following YouTube clip:

- YouTube

According to this IMDB web page, it’s not deleted from the network television version or the special edition U.S. DVD.

[Covered_In_Bees]

@x-ray_vision

Yeah, Tarantino talks about it in the following YouTube clip:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqy8VH534g4

According to this IMDB web page, it’s not deleted from the network television version or the special edition U.S. DVD.

I see. I have a collector’s edition of the movie, so that would presumably explain it.

[Zebra]

@garygnu

Here is the deleted Goonies octopus scene. Yeah, it’s really cheesy, and the animatronic octopus is horrible. Plus, for a film that at least pretends to take place in the real world, it breaks any kind of suspended disbelief.

My god that was terrible.