Famous movie lines that aren't really all that good

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The line from Dr. Strangelove that everyone always thinks is the funniest thing ever ("Gentlemen, you can't fight in here, this is the War Room!") isn't actually all that funny when it's delivered in the film.

Also, "You talkin' to me?" is probably the least interesting scene in Taxi Driver.

― Justyn Dillingham, Friday, 5 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I really like dr. strangelove but the "I'm not saying we won't get our hair mussed..." line ain't so funny either.

― RJG, Friday, 5 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Well, if one paticular line of a movie stands out above the rest of the film, the movie probably is kinda shallow. Hovever, when a movie has one scene or line that is so unique that when it is heard out of context it brings the intire film back to you, then thats good fun.

I don't think "You talking to me" is paticularly good, just as I don't feel the opening credits of Star Wars is the best part of that film series, or that the smell of Pizza is the best part of eating Pizza, but through Pavlovian association, these things become greater than the sum of their parts.

But one must admit that "groovy" is the best, or nearly the best part of Evil Dead II. ROOOOOOAA

― Cheif White Lotus, Friday, 5 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

All of Caddyshack.

― bnw, Friday, 5 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

On the other hand, the famous line from Soylent Green is the only redeeming thing in the movie.

― Justyn Dillingham, Saturday, 6 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

All of American Beauty. Especially the middle.

― david h(owie), Saturday, 6 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

there are no good lines (or anything else) in calablanca

― mark s, Saturday, 6 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

the s is for l

― mark s, Saturday, 6 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Frankly my dear..."

- _davor^howdane

― david h(owie), Saturday, 6 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Open the pod bay doors, HAL."

― Damian, Saturday, 6 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

mark s I'm shocked! shocked!

― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 6 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Plus every line Peter Lorre says is brilliant, even the ones where he's mumbling and can't understand what he says (it's not about the lyrics, am I right Ned??)

― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 6 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Best movie line ever (though obviously useless out of context): "Nobody's perfect" in Some Like It Hot.

Most overrated and annoying through being quoted by fools: "Show me the money".

― Martin Skidmore, Saturday, 6 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I just saw Casablanca for the first time the other night, in a theater. In context the famous lines didn't have nearly as much impact as I thought they would, but it was also a better movie than I expected (for being a 'timeless classic' and all).

― Jordan, Saturday, 6 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

it's not about the lyrics, am I right Ned??

Didn't know Lorre was a singer! ;-)

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 6 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

just try it Ned: "Riiiiick! Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiick!"

― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 6 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

> Best movie line ever (though obviously useless out of context): > "Nobody's perfect" in Some Like It Hot.

Hurrah! I was having trouble thinking of one till you reminded me of that. Horribly overrated and overquoted. You can see it coming! It's not great.

― N., Monday, 8 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

four years pass...

'shut up and deal.'

damn, wilder be owning this thread. but though i liek the movie, what's the big erm deal about this line.

― benrique (Enrique), Friday, 3 November 2006 12:40 (nineteen years ago)

Most annoying example ever = "You can't handle the truth!"

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Friday, 3 November 2006 12:54 (nineteen years ago)

OTM

― teh_kit returns! (g-kit), Friday, 3 November 2006 12:55 (nineteen years ago)

Most overrated and annoying through being quoted by fools: "Show me the money".

still otm

― banrique (blueski), Friday, 3 November 2006 12:58 (nineteen years ago)

no wai.

i roffle.

― benrique (Enrique), Friday, 3 November 2006 12:59 (nineteen years ago)

That Gordon Gecko shit

― Dadaismus (Takin' Funk to Heaven in '77) (Dada), Friday, 3 November 2006 13:01 (nineteen years ago)

"here's lookin at you kid"

don't even know what movie it's from, "casablanca"? but it's been on about 10000 ads.

pretty much all famous movie lines are shit aren't they, or are rendered annoying by being quoted by fools.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 3 November 2006 13:02 (nineteen years ago)

anything from Withnail and I

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Friday, 3 November 2006 13:06 (nineteen years ago)

THEY TOOK MAH BOY!
RIGHTOUTTAMAHANDS!
MY SON!

― teh_kit returns! (g-kit), Friday, 3 November 2006 13:10 (nineteen years ago)

Michael?

― banrique (blueski), Friday, 3 November 2006 13:12 (nineteen years ago)

that's famous tv lines that really are that good.....

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLT

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 3 November 2006 13:12 (nineteen years ago)

http://images.usatoday.com/life/_photos/2006/05/10/lost-michael.jpg

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 3 November 2006 13:13 (nineteen years ago)

Quentin Tarantino to thread

― Dadaismus (Takin' Funk to Heaven in '77) (Dada), Friday, 3 November 2006 13:14 (nineteen years ago)

All sequences in Scorsese films involving both Keitel and de Niro where they spend five minutes repeating the same three lines at each other.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 3 November 2006 13:17 (nineteen years ago)

"Did you fun my wife? You muddy funster?"

― Dadaismus (Takin' Funk to Heaven in '77) (Dada), Friday, 3 November 2006 13:20 (nineteen years ago)

GO AHEAD. MAKE MY DAY.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Friday, 3 November 2006 13:20 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, all the Michael lines are fucking classic and immortal, obv, i just wanted to crowbar them in. i don't go a week without saying "RIGHTOUTTAMAHANDS" at some point :(

― teh_kit returns! (g-kit), Friday, 3 November 2006 13:28 (nineteen years ago)

right here's one:

"Nobody puts baby in a corner"

When Dawn and I went to a friends wedding + reception, Amber was a baby, and although was very good and everything during the service, come the night-time she was irritable. So we put her in her carry seat and put her in a corner, where she slept soundly.

So, rubbish in the film "Dirty Dancing".

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 3 November 2006 13:37 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, all the Michael lines are fucking classic and immortal, obv, i just wanted to crowbar them in. i don't go a week without saying "RIGHTOUTTAMAHANDS" at some point :(
-- teh_kit returns! (kittenslikemil...), November 3rd, 2006.

why 2 smoke crakc? or are you ironing?

"AH SCREWED HER" wins l o s t.

― benrique (Enrique), Friday, 3 November 2006 14:08 (nineteen years ago)

d00d, those lines defined his entire character.

― teh_kit returns! (g-kit), Friday, 3 November 2006 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

michael was a lame character innit let's face it. as were boone and shannon. 'l o s t' is some darwinian shit.

― benrique (Enrique), Friday, 3 November 2006 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

S1 Michael was ok, S2 Michael was stripped of every layer of his character except "RIGHTOUTTAMAHANDS". Shame, i liked him.

― teh_kit returns! (g-kit), Friday, 3 November 2006 14:18 (nineteen years ago)

"I'd like an omelet, plain, and a chicken salad sandwich on wheat toast, no mayonnaise, no butter, no lettuce. And a cup of coffee." Waitress: "A #2, chicken salad sand. Hold the butter, the lettuce, the mayonnaise, and a cup of coffee. Anything else?" Bobby: "Yeah, now all you have to do is hold the chicken, bring me the toast, give me a check for the chicken salad sandwich, and you haven't broken any rules." Waitress: "You want me to hold the chicken, huh?" Bobby: "I want you to hold it between your knees."

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 3 November 2006 14:20 (nineteen years ago)

of all the gin joints in all the world, she had to walk into mine

love means never having to say you're sorry

― a.b. (alanbanana), Friday, 3 November 2006 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

"Can yer fly Bobby?"

actually thats a brilliant line, i just wanted to type it.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 3 November 2006 14:28 (nineteen years ago)

xpost

Juxtaposing Bogart and Ali MacGraw has damned you to an inferno of watching Crash (the Haggis one) for eternity

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 3 November 2006 14:29 (nineteen years ago)

I like the Five Easy Pieces bit though. I think it's better in context of the film than as a quotable.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Friday, 3 November 2006 14:29 (nineteen years ago)

Most overrated and annoying through being quoted by fools: "Show me the money".

still otm

-- banrique (n...), November 3rd, 2006 12:58 PM. (blueski) (later) (link)

That instantly came to mind when I read this thread's title. But then I thought that whole movie stank.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Friday, 3 November 2006 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

i actually don't think it's bad either. more overrated. in that "woo hoo! jack is the MAN!" kinda way.

x-post

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 3 November 2006 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

The box of choclates line from the appalling Forrest Gump is such a mind-numbingly banal observation.

― chap who would dare to welcome our new stingray masters (chap), Friday, 3 November 2006 14:39 (nineteen years ago)

"Here's Johnny" is pretty rubbish.

I like the "nobody's perfect" line (and all of Withnail & I)

― emil.y (emil.y), Friday, 3 November 2006 14:42 (nineteen years ago)

The Box of Chocolates quote gets my vote for thread answer.

you people are mad for choosing Withnail and I

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 3 November 2006 14:43 (nineteen years ago)

"Here's Johnny" isn't about the line so much as the delivery and the fact that his face is poking through a hole he's just axed in a door.

― chap who would dare to welcome our new stingray masters (chap), Friday, 3 November 2006 14:43 (nineteen years ago)

so, in most cases, it's just the endless repeating of these lines that bugs people, no? i would say that the CONTEXT of show me the money and the DELIVERY of show me the money is as bad as the endless repeating of it. same with the box of chocolates line. tom cruise bellowing show me the money in that screechy girly voice of his is just a terrible memory no matter how you slice it.

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 3 November 2006 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

I'm going to have to be the person to say:

"I've had it with these motherfucking snakes on this motherfucking plane"

aren't I?

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 3 November 2006 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

only if you're trying to incur the wrath of many.

― teh_kit returns! (g-kit), Friday, 3 November 2006 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

'withnail and i' is great.

― benrique (Enrique), Friday, 3 November 2006 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

yes people trying to sound like tom hanks saying the chocolates line is more infuriating than them just saying it in their own voice. perhaps.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 3 November 2006 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

Inspector Clouseau passim, viz. "beumb," "reum," "leu" &c.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 3 November 2006 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

Most annoying example ever = "You can't handle the truth!"
-- A-ron Hubbard (Hurtingchie...), November 3rd, 2006 7:54 AM. (Hurting) (later) (link)
OTM
-- teh_kit returns! (kittenslikemil...), November 3rd, 2006 7:55 AM. (g-kit) (later) (link)
Most overrated and annoying through being quoted by fools: "Show me the money".

still otm

otm. i believe it is still very common for office workers to shout out these interjections at random intervals as a way of blowing off steam.

― The Redd 47 Ronin (Ken L), Friday, 3 November 2006 15:13 (nineteen years ago)

there are no good lines (or anything else) in calablanca
Really? Then I was misinformed.

― The Redd 47 Ronin (Ken L), Friday, 3 November 2006 15:16 (nineteen years ago)

there are no good lines (or anything else) in calablanca

You are mad.

Rick: One more step and I'll shoot you right in the heart.
Louis: That is my least vulnerable area.

― chap who would dare to welcome our new stingray masters (chap), Friday, 3 November 2006 15:24 (nineteen years ago)

Casablanca is no Notorious, but it is not nearly as bad as certain readings of Umberto Eco would have you believe. Many of its fans, however, give it a bad name, such as the starter of this thread.

― The Redd 47 Ronin (Ken L), Friday, 3 November 2006 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

"I wish I knew how to quit you," in or out of context.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Friday, 3 November 2006 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

"You complete me."

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 3 November 2006 19:46 (nineteen years ago)