THE BORE
General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: Rman on January 31, 2008, 08:30:54 PM
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Entertainment Weekly has listed 15 nominated lines as the worst movie diagloue ever.
THE MOVIE: Notting Hill (1999)
THE SCENE: Famous Hollywood actress Anna Scott (Julia Roberts) is attempting to convince bookish William (Hugh Grant) to give her another chance.
THE LINE: ''I'm just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her
THE MOVIE: Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith (2005)
THE SCENE: Natalie Portman's Amidala tries to get her hubby, Anakin Skywalker (Hayden Christensen), to give up his megalomaniacal Dark Side ways.
THE LINE: ''Hold me, like you did by the lake on Naboo.''
THE MOVIE: Jerry Maguire (1996)
THE SCENE: The hard-hearted sports agent (Tom Cruise) drops his emotional armor and declares his love for Dorothy (Renée Zellweger) in front of all of her friends.
THE LINE: ''You complete me.
THE MOVIE: Ever After (1998)
THE SCENE: Danielle (Drew Barrymore) — the purported inspiration for Cinderella — is trying to explain to, of all people, Leonardo da Vinci (Patrick Godfrey) why her romance is impossible.
THE LINE: ''A bird may love a fish, signore, but where will they live?''
THE MOVIE: Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (1992)
THE SCENE: Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee) tearfully breaks up with her boyfriend and heads to her death.
THE LINE: ''I'm gone, like a turkey in the corn. Gobble gobble!''
THE MOVIE: X-Men (2000)
THE SCENE: Weather-mistress Storm (Halle Berry) finally gets the upper hand during a fight with fellow mutant Toad (Ray Park) and delivers this très witty bon mot.
THE LINE: ''You know what happens when a toad gets struck by lightning? The same thing that happens to everything else.''
THE MOVIE: Sin City (2005)
THE SCENE: Gutter avenger Dwight (Clive Owen) is watching lovingly as the woman of his dreams (Rosario Dawson) guns down a bevy of prostitute-hating baddies.
THE LINE: ''My warrior woman. My valkyrie. You'll always be mine, always and never. Never. The Fire, baby. It'll burn us both. It'll kill us both. There's no place in this world for our kind of fire.''
THE MOVIE: Pretty Woman (1990)
THE SCENE: Hooker-with-a-heart-of-gold Vivian (Julia Roberts) looks down her fire escape to see her favorite ''John'' Edward (Richard Gere) climbing up to ''rescue her'' from her crappy life.
THE LINE: ''And she rescues him right back.''
THE MOVIE: She's All That (1999)
THE SCENE: Laney (Rachael Leigh Cook) is on the receiving end of the makeover of a lifetime, transforming her from meek geek to high-school hottie.
THE LINE: ''I feel just like Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman. You know, except for the whole hooker thing.''
THE MOVIE: Love Story (1970)
THE SCENE: After Oliver (Ryan O'Neal) spends all day searching the Harvard campus to apologize to his doomed lover (Ali MacGraw), she delivers the most lunkheadedly inaccurate romantic proclamation ever.
THE LINE: ''Love means never having to say you're sorry.''
THE MOVIE: A Cry in the Dark (1988)
THE SCENE: Aussie mom Lindy (Meryl Streep) is on the witness stand, giving testimony about the disappearance of her infant daughter during a camping trip.
THE LINE: ''A dingo ate my baby!''
THE MOVIE: As Good as It Gets (1997)
THE SCENE: Simon (Greg Kinnear) gets his groove back as an artist by sketching the nude form of hopeful waitress Carol (Helen Hunt).
THE LINE: ''You're why cavemen chiseled on walls.''
THE MOVIE: Four Wedding and a Funeral (1994)
THE SCENE: After a whole movie of romantic comedy-related obstacles, Carrie (Andie MacDowell) ignores the weather as she finally hooks up with Charles (Hugh Grant).
THE LINE: ''Is it still raining? I hadn't noticed.''
THE MOVIE: Dirty Dancing (1986)
THE SCENE: Finally invited to the ''big kids' dance party,'' Frances ''Baby'' Houseman arrives with an awkward present.
THE LINE: ''I carried a watermelon.''
THE MOVIE: City of Angels (1998)
THE SCENE: Maggie (Meg Ryan) waxes philosophically as she's in bed with Seth (Nicholas Cage), an angel who's become human.
THE LINE: ''We were made to fit together.''
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it's a good thing there was no bad dialogue written before 1993
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No Roadhouse? Fail.
"I used to fuck guys like you in prison."
Now THAT'S a line.
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No Roadhouse? Fail.
"I used to fuck guys like you in prison."
Now THAT'S a line.
fuck I couldnt handle Roadhouse, took me two sittings to finish watching it. Ditto for Phat Beach
lol, at patels post
and this list is fairly amusing
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all those lines are great, fuck EW :punch
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I loved that Seinfeld episode where Elaine went around saying "A dingo ate yo' babee?"
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SWEAR TO MEEE
IF HE DIES EVERYTHING IN ME WILL DIE WITH HIM
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THE MOVIE: X-Men (2000)
THE SCENE: Weather-mistress Storm (Halle Berry) finally gets the upper hand during a fight with fellow mutant Toad (Ray Park) and delivers this très witty bon mot.
THE LINE: ''You know what happens when a toad gets struck by lightning? The same thing that happens to everything else.''
That line was awesome. :bow :bow
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Shit list
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No SW: EPII? What the hell? Thats probably the worst screenplay in history. The Anakin/Padme scenes by the lake, in the field, and especially by the fire made me feel embarassed as a viewer.
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No SW: EPII? What the hell? Thats probably the worst screenplay in history. The Anakin/Padme scenes by the lake, in the field, and especially by the fire made me feel embarassed as a viewer.
qfmft
Perhaps the worst written film I've ever seen, outside of The Village.
"She is...intoxicating..."
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No SW: EPII? What the hell? Thats probably the worst screenplay in history. The Anakin/Padme scenes by the lake, in the field, and especially by the fire made me feel embarassed as a viewer.
Anakin: "I don't like sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere. Not like here. Here everything is soft and smooth."
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Yea, their SW quote isn't anywhere near the worst of that movie, or that trilogy.
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Perhaps the worst written film I've ever seen, outside of The Village.
"She is...intoxicating..."
I'd propose that Lady in the Water is way, way, way worse then The Village. Top to bottom, The Village kicks the ass of Lady in the Water, which is sort of like a dwarf beating up a toddler.
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Yea, their SW quote isn't anywhere near the worst of that movie, or that trilogy.
The sand quote in episode II is probably what I'd pick for worst line.
Also, EW fucking sucks. About half of those lines are actually awesome.
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I came in here thinking - nay, expecting! - the infamous sand line from Episode II, but it's completely absent. What the fuck. Let's burn this shitrag to the ground!
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Also, unless there is an especially compelling reason, romcoms should be exempt from lists like this.
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R Kelly is OUTRAGED
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also ''Love means never having to say you're sorry" is a great line
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No love also means never having to say you're sorry. :'(
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THE MOVIE: She's All That (1999)
THE SCENE: Laney (Rachael Leigh Cook) is on the receiving end of the makeover of a lifetime, transforming her from meek geek to high-school hottie.
THE LINE: ''I feel just like Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman. You know, except for the whole hooker thing.''
^^ What's wrong with that line?
Where is "Nobody puts Baby in a corner!" (Dirty Dancing)?
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Most of the lines aren't bad, at all. It's like the 15 Most Sappy Lines of Dialogue. Which doesn't mean necessarily bad unless you're a giant homophobe or something.
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Seriously, R Kelly is the Himuro Ed Wood.
(http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/red/blue_pics/2007/03/19/rkelly460.jpg)
"If I don't rhyme, I can't tell the story. So it's crazy, if you understand what I'm saying. Like 'Bridget' and 'midget'? I came up with that at Panera Bread -- real talk. And I had spent a whole week on trying to figure out how the hell -- I mean, I got 'midget,' but how can I continue telling the story? But once I came up with, he had a girl named Bridget, I was able to continue on with my story. And that's how 'Trapped in the Closet' goes."
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Before I clicked this thread, I would have bet good money on seeing the "Turkey time" quote from Gigli.
Maybe the Twin Peaks line squeezed it out?
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I dont like sand
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I don't understand how anyone who objected to that line in Sin City could even have watched that far into the movie. Frank Miller :bow
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i watched the whole sin city movie and all it did was confirm to me how godawful frank miller is at writing
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Sin City blewwwww.
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i watched the whole sin city movie and all it did was confirm to me how godawful frank miller is at writing
i think we have different senses of humor.
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i think they may be very similar, but really i couldn't do much more but watch in horrified shock as people WERE ACTUALLY SAYING WHAT FRANK MILLER WROTE AND TAKING IT ABSOLUTELY SERIOUSLY
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i think they may be very similar, but really i couldn't do much more but watch in horrified shock as people WERE ACTUALLY SAYING WHAT FRANK MILLER WROTE AND TAKING IT ABSOLUTELY SERIOUSLY
Does Rodriguez otherwise strike you as a serious filmmaker? The movie is nothing but a pastiche of the hardboiled classics. Not quite parody like Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid but I thought its tongue was very firmly in its cheek.
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but it's playing it absolutely straight
it's possible that i'm not in on the joke