Blue Velvet.
“Have you seen the chicken walk?” (Jeffrey then proceeds to walk in a circle, imitating a chicken)
That’s paraphrasing, I can’t remember the exact quote. That movie was so horrible that I refuse to go back and check what it really was. In fact, it was chock full of stupid lines. This one struck me as especially brainless, though.
How about that oldie but goodies: “Tomorrow is another day.” [Music swells, tears flow]
“I’m in love with you. I’m in love with you.”
Naomi Watts to her lady paramour in Mulholland Dr.
Steve McQueen takes Ali McGraw to his hotel room after an eight-year stint in the slammer and, as they prepare to hop into bed, remarks, “It’s been a while.”
Another from Star Wars III
Padme: “I love you!”
Anakin: “Love can’t save you. Only my new powers can do that.”
it’s the “do that” that makes it art.
This is not a Stupid Thing Said, more of a Stupid Thing Done.
In Chris Columbus’ film of RENT, an otherwise intelligent New York City dweller is being chased by a bunch of muggers. He loses no time, and runs straight into a dark alley where they beat him senseless.
Think about that. Running INTO a dark alley to escape violent criminals.
Kind of gives you an idea of what the rest of the movie is like.
X-men
Storm- do you know what happens when a toad gets struck by lightning?
the same thing as everthing else
Twin Peaks; Fire Walk With Me
Laura Palmer: I AM the muffin.
Laura Palmer: [to James] I’m gone. Long gone. Like a turkey in the corn.
In Repo Man someone is about to hit somebody in the face with a chair and the guy says “Not my face!” And the he gets hit with the chair and then says “Ow My Face” or something like that. It’s stupid but I couldn’t stop laughing when I heard it.
From “House of the Dead”
Rudy: You did all this to become immortal. Why?
Castillo: To live forever!
“This is one doodle that can’t be undid home-skillet.”
Along with every single pop-culture reference in Juno. It was too distracting in what was overall a very good movie.
Though the same cannot be said for the majority of the dialogue in Frank Miller’s The Spirit.
“game over, man, game over” from aliens.
I always enjoyed a good laff whenever Road House would come on tee-vee late at night.
After bouncer Patrick Swayze gets the begeezus kicked out of him in a brawl and he’s in the hopsital getting stitched up, the pretty doctor (whom he will soon bed) warns ol’ Pat that the sutures might sting a bit.
Comes his immortal reply:
“Pain don’t hurt.”
Pick any line from Purple Rain.
Everything in Showgirls.
“I’m a dirty vampire God!”
“And to build on Star Wars with Brandon: in Episode III, at the battle between Obi Wan and soon to be Darth Vader, Obi Wan, in anger and frustration, yells something to the effect of “The Sith are evil!” Anakin comes back with “From my point of view, the Jedi are evil!!!” The use of the prepositional phrase “From my point of view” is just terrible.”
Haha, that’s excellent.
I remember near the beginning of Episode II, Anakin jumps out of the speeder to pursue the assassin, and Obi-Wan delivers the most trite line imaginable: “I hate it when he does that.”
I hate it when he leaps out of speeders in crowded, futuristic city airways, engages in some aerial trickery to pursue an enemy of the Light Side??? What are you talking about? If he was performing a far more routine task, for example, refusing to apologise to someone for spilling their drink, or just starting a brawl for any ol’ reason, I’d understand, but the implicit suggestion that Anakin does that very same thing all the time is laughable.
“Bill’s out there.” – Adrienne King, FRIDAY THE 13th. It may also be my favorite thing ever ever said in a movie.
I am keeping this thread going!!!!!!!!
I am keeping this thread going!!!!!!!!
From Imitation of Life (the Sirk version):
John Gavin: “Your bones…”
Lana Turner: “What about my bones?!”
JG: “They’re perfect! My camera could easily have a love affair with you!”
There’s an old russian flick from the post Stalinist 1950’s called the Forty First. It takes place during the russian civil war. the main character is a bolshevik woman soldier who captures a very attractive white officer and they end up stranded together and fall in love. When the white officer wishes they could stay there together forever, the fiery bolshevik shoots back, “You would love to loll around on a feather bed all day long eating chocolates — chocolates drenched in blood!”
“I love you.”
it puts the lotion in the basket!
“The first cherries of spring, Good luck to Guido”
8 1/2
“Come on! Toilets are always funny!”
- Samuel L. Jackson in The Spirit
“whoa” -keanu reeves. in every movie he’s ever done.
“must go faster” -jeff goldblum, or variations of that, in about five different movies. one variation was “must increase rate of climbing” basically the same thing
" Evil will always triumph because good is dumb"
Classic spaceball hilarity
“Sorry I’m late, I was taking a crap.”
The Sting
1/2 the lines of “Kill Bill”
haha, ok, but seriously
Mr. and Mrs. Smith
Mr.Smith – Sweet Jesus mother of God
Paya
Simon, you watch Star Wars. Classy!
I’ll go with that and say:
Anakin, “We lost something.”
Obi-Wan, “Not to worry. We’re still flying half a ship.”
As much as I love George Lucas for giving us the new building at usc, it doesn’t detract from the fact that his writing is horrific!