Stupid film lines.
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T89 Preparation.

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8,422 posts

209 months

Monday 1st June 2009
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Watching Terminator 3 tonight I heard a line that shocked me as unbelievably stupid.

When they decide to go and stop SkyNet Arnie says "thats approximately 1 hour away depending on traffic"

No if you were trying to stop a Nuclear holocaust and general amagedon would you really sit and wait in traffic? Would a T800 terminator comprimise his mission (the only point of it's existence) to wait at a red light?

Also you could probably add every line of 2 fast 2 Furious as well.

So over to you guys, what film lines have struck you as stupid.

anonymous-user

70 months

Monday 1st June 2009
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Optimus Prime saying "Ooops, my bad".

FFS.

philwhite

259 posts

197 months

Monday 1st June 2009
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I watched X-Men a few weeks ago and one like struck me as being stuipd...

Storm: Do you know what happens to a toad when it's struck by lightning? The same thing that happens to everything else.


aclivity

4,072 posts

204 months

Monday 1st June 2009
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Gabriel Shear said:
You know what the problem with Hollywood is. They make sh!t. Unbelievable, unremarkable sh!t. Now I'm not some grungy wannabe filmmaker, that's searching for existentialism through a haze of bong smoke or something No, it's easy to pick apart bad acting, short-sighted directing, and a purely moronic stringing together of words than many of studios term as prose. No, I'm talking about the lack of realism. Realism. Not a pervasive element in today's modern American cinematic vision. Take 'Dog Day Afternoon' for example. Arguably Pacino's best work, short of 'Scarface' and 'Godfather' part one of course. Masterpiece of directing, easily Lumet's best. The cinematography, the acting, the screenplay, all top notch. But. they didn't push the envelope. Now what if in 'Dog Day,' Sonny really wanted to get away with it? What if - now here's the tricky part - what if he started killing hostages right away? No mercy, no quarter. "Meet our demands or the pretty blond in the bellbottoms gets it in the back of the head." Bam, splat! "What, still no bus?" Come on. How many innocent victims splattered across the window would it take to have the city to reverse it's policy on hostage situations? And this is 1976, there's no CNN, there's no CNBC, there's no Internet! Now, fast-forward to today. Present time, same situation. How quickly would the modern media make a frenzy over this? In a matter of hours, it would be the, the biggest story from Boston to Budapest. Ten hostages die. Twenty, thirty. Relentless, bam bim, one after another. All caught in hi-def, computer-enhanced, color-corrected. You can practically taste the brain-matter. All for what, a bus? A plane? A couple of million dollars that's federally insured? I don't think so. Just a thought. I mean, it's not within the realm of conventional cinema...but what if?
Seems like it was grafted on just to ease the viewer into the film.

FourWheelDrift

91,066 posts

300 months

Monday 1st June 2009
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T89 Preparation. said:
So over to you guys, what film lines have struck you as stupid.
Any line uttered by Nicholas Cage. smile

aclivity

4,072 posts

204 months

Monday 1st June 2009
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The TV version of "Backdraft":

"Forget You!"
"Forget you too, mother funker"

Or something along those lines.

D-Angle

4,468 posts

258 months

Monday 1st June 2009
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Solo was on last night (a watchable brainless action flick, but a bit of a missed opportunity IMHO) and the baddy said "Welcome to the jungle - said the spider to the fly." I know the baddy is supposed to come out with terrible clichés, but FFS can they at least be well constructed!

Edited by D-Angle on Monday 1st June 10:59

5pen

2,046 posts

222 months

Monday 1st June 2009
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All of them in Pearl Harbor.

mouseymousey

2,641 posts

253 months

Monday 1st June 2009
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aclivity said:
The TV version of "Backdraft":

"Forget You!"
"Forget you too, mother funker"

Or something along those lines.
Not as good as the censored version of Repo Man...

"Flip you, melon farmer!"

shouldbworking

4,786 posts

228 months

Monday 1st June 2009
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On the same theme - the tv version of robocop

'You're one mean mother-crusher'

Made doubly worse by it being from robocops point of view as the tech (who speaks the line) leans in close whilst adjusting something on robocops helmet to make the real line extremely apparent

T89 Preparation.

Original Poster:

8,422 posts

209 months

Monday 1st June 2009
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FourWheelDrift said:
T89 Preparation. said:
So over to you guys, what film lines have struck you as stupid.
Any line uttered by Nicholas Cage. smile
"Dude you fked your Ferrari" "it's not mine.."

"Put the bunny baaaack in the box"

etc etc etc

Bombjack

483 posts

283 months

Monday 1st June 2009
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In the cinematic perfection that is Starship Troopers 2 our antihero is spotted by the love interest setting up his bedroll outside the fortified tower the group barely reached alive. She asks, why is he sleeping outside?

"I figure this is where the enemy are coming from." banghead

Morningside

24,137 posts

245 months

Monday 1st June 2009
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mouseymousey said:
aclivity said:
The TV version of "Backdraft":

"Forget You!"
"Forget you too, mother funker"

Or something along those lines.
Not as good as the censored version of Repo Man...

"Flip you, melon farmer!"
Dumbed down version of Robocop. .In the store...
"Why me, why me, why me"
Instead of **** me.

Negative Creep

25,564 posts

243 months

Monday 1st June 2009
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Anakin Chancellor Palpatine is evil!
From my point of view the Jedi are evil!



Now I love Star Wars, but this line is so bad I wince every time

Man-At-Arms

5,915 posts

195 months

Monday 1st June 2009
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shouldbworking said:
On the same theme - the tv version of robocop
and the tv version of Die Hard :

'Yippee-Ki-Yay . . . keemo-sabi !'



and a really crap line from Air Force One :

'Get Off My Plane !'

robemcdonald

9,487 posts

212 months

Monday 1st June 2009
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Negative Creep said:
Anakin Chancellor Palpatine is evil!
From my point of view the Jedi are evil!



Now I love Star Wars, but this line is so bad I wince every time
What makes this worse is that the formula for good star wars dialogue is well known http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhnPaiSFVSE

On topic the ultimate worst is from Pearl Harbour. SOmething like:-

"If there are any more like you at home god help the country that starts a fight with America"


Negative Creep

25,564 posts

243 months

Monday 1st June 2009
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"What's happening down there, you guys having target practice or something?"
"I think World War 2 just hit us"




Jesus wept

GnuBee

1,298 posts

231 months

Tuesday 2nd June 2009
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FourWheelDrift said:
T89 Preparation. said:
So over to you guys, what film lines have struck you as stupid.
Any line uttered by Nicholas Cage. smile
+1 "Step away from the bicyle"

Uttered in the utterly, unforgivable, pile of excrement that was the 2006 remake of the Wicker Man - people have been executed for less

JamesIIIII

2,253 posts

224 months

Tuesday 2nd June 2009
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from the film, "goose mcgee"

"whoever lives, lives on"

Morningside

24,137 posts

245 months

Tuesday 2nd June 2009
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I dont know about stupid, but that "Life is like a box of chocolates.." was really getting on my tits for weeks.