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These are the little things that always get on my nerves. In the midst of greatness...odd, out of place, or flubbed scenes or lines of dialogue. To wit:

From Wall Street: Gordon Gekko at shareholders meeting: "i am not a destroyer of companies! I am a liberator of them!" Bad line.

From The Godfather: The wedding scene where the women are sitting at a table, discussing the size of Sonny's dick. It's just tacky and out of place and goofy.

From Raging Bull: The scene in Jake's club, where he does the thing with the microphone on the waitress and then flubs the line about wanting to "see what a microphone sounds like on a pretty girl." It's just not...good.

From Apocalypse Now: One of Kurtz' monologues: "...but their commanders won't allow them to write 'f*ck' on their airplanes..." Even though it's referential, this doesn't sound right for Kurtz to me.

Glengarry Glen Ross: Ricky Roma going off on Dave: "...how much you...INGESTED!!" Huh? It's such a great scene, and this just sort of kills the flow by making me wonder why Ricky Roma is using the word 'ingested.'

Goodfellas: The very last line of the film, right before they play Sid Vicious' version of 'My Way:' "I'm an average nobody... get to live the rest of my life like a schnook." SHNOOK? Isn't that Yiddish? Why the hell would Henry Hill use the word "shnook?" I just really wish it had been "typical mope" or something.

There must be thousands of these bothersome little lines, right?

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Seven. Good film ruined by Brad Pitt's terrible "What's in the box?!? Whaaaaaatttttt's in the bbbbbbbooooooxxxxxxx?????," at the end.

Couldn't watch this otherwise fine film to the end for years because of that pathetic scene. Took until Snatch for me to like Pitt again.

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Col. Jessep: You [censored]' people. You have no idea how to defend a nation. All you did was weaken a country today, Kaffee. That's all you did. You put people's lives in danger. Sweet dreams, son.

Kaffee: Don't call me son. I'm a lawyer and an officer in the United States Navy. And you're under arrest, you son of a bitch.

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From The Godfather: The wedding scene where the women are sitting at a table, discussing the size of Sonny's dick. It's just tacky and out of place and goofy.

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Isn't that Mrs. Sonny? That makes it interesting, how she's bragging about the size of Santino's corleone, then in the same thought realizes he's gone to bang Lucy in some closet.

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Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

Legolas doing a boardslide down the [censored] stairs on a shield.
That, and playing Gimli for laughs.

I really hated how they tried to appeal to the demographic that probably didn't like The Fellowship of the Ring.

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Every line Harrison Ford says in Star Wars.

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Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

Legolas doing a boardslide down the [censored] stairs on a shield.
That, and playing Gimli for laughs.

I really hated how they tried to appeal to the demographic that probably didn't like The Fellowship of the Ring.

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yah this seemed like a scene written for the teenage mutant ninja turtles. i'm surprised he didn't yell COWABONGA!!

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Every line Harrison Ford says in Star Wars.

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No. He's got some great lines.

I'm pretty sure there's a 'Favourite Han Solo lines' thread somewhere' and i remember it being a good read.

Edit: Link to said thread

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Probably out of place among the classic movies being discussed here, but....

In Cable Guy, when Jim Carrey shows up to the house the night they play porno password with the family, makes me cringe every time.

Carey whispers something into Broderick's ear about her nipple or something and Broderick yells, "Bastard!" and then slaps his hand over his mouth at what he let slip out.

I like Cable Guy, but I have to physically turn away at that part.

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Seven. Good film ruined by Brad Pitt's terrible "What's in the box?!? Whaaaaaatttttt's in the bbbbbbbooooooxxxxxxx?????," at the end.

Couldn't watch this otherwise fine film to the end for years because of that pathetic scene. Took until Snatch for me to like Pitt again.

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This is a good one.

Similarly, from Fight Club: Marla: "Guy or girl?"

Just seems like an odd line, a weird question.

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Recently watched Notes on a Scandal. When Cate Blanchett comes out of the apartment and yells at all of the reporters "here I am!" like a diseased zombie. Bad scene in an otherwise excellent movie.

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Here's one now:

Wild At Heart:

Sailor, at the very end: "Luuuuuullaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!"

Just makes me cringe.

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some of you are really bad at posting images

rushmore's already prob won his own thread, i know there are a ton of these for me but i can't think of any offhand. i just saw crimes and misdemeanors and the scene where woody allen's sister describes being [censored] on seemed completely unnecessary - a wholly needless detail used for a cheap joke later.

btw re: goodfellas - henry hill's wife is jewish - 'schnook' is perfectly acceptable there. 'like a mope' or 'like an ordinary mope' doesn't flow anywhere near as well, schnook has a very 'bad' sound to it.

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Running Scared - The end revelation where the dude was an undercover cop the whole time, then the part where he died, but it was really all a hoax and he faked his death.

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Wall Street - When Bud Fox walks out on to the balcony and says "Who Am I"? I sometimes laugh out loud at this line, as it seems so out of place to me. I think they really could have communicated the same notion through body language instead of literal dialogue.

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Wall Street - When Bud Fox walks out on to the balcony and says "Who Am I"? I sometimes laugh out loud at this line, as it seems so out of place to me. I think they really could have communicated the same notion through body language instead of literal dialogue.

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yeah that's a really terrible line too.

also this one doesn't really count i guess, but any scene in a woody allen movie that makes a joke about pedophilia or involves children (and there are quite a few) now make me very uncomfortable. when the old scholar in love and death says 'i have found that the greatest thing in the world is 12 year old girls - 2 of them', for example.

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The Harrison Ford/Han solo comment was a level right?

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90% of Brando's monologues in AN were improved

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The psychiatrist scene at the end of Psycho is pretty much the dumbest scene in a great movie ever.

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Return of the Jedi - Ewoks

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the scene in eyes wide shut when tom cruise cries...seems a bit forced

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In Rounders, when Gretchen Mol's character checks Mike's money wad while he's in the shower, and sees he is STACKED with cash.

She is pissed.

Whatever. Why would she be mad he is succeeding at making money?

If my woman checked my wallet and found it EMPTY she would be pissed. Not full of green.

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Whenever someone mispronounces "coup de grace" in Kill Bill.

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Return of the Jedi - everything after the jabba the hut scene

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In Rounders, when Gretchen Mol's character checks Mike's money wad while he's in the shower, and sees he is STACKED with cash.

She is pissed.

Whatever. Why would she be mad he is succeeding at making money?

If my woman checked my wallet and found it EMPTY she would be pissed. Not full of green.

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This actually makes sense. She saw poker and nothing but gambling which could not be won in the long run. She saw Mike as having a gambling problem which he was supposed to be over. It didn't matter that he had won that night, to her he was gambling again and he had lied to her.

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The psychiatrist scene at the end of Psycho is pretty much the dumbest scene in a great movie ever.

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Nice.

Yeah, it was really insulting, as if we couldn't quite figure out what had happened, and we needed it all pulled together in this absurd "Psychology For Dummies" moment.

Dumb.

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In the end of Fight Club where they show Brad Pitt and Edward Norton fighting, then show it as it's "really happening" in the security camera. Would have been much better if they had just left the dialog the same, but avoided beating you over the head with the fact that they were one person. Not sure how it's handled in the book, I forget. A little ambiguity would have improved the film though.

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In Rounders, when Gretchen Mol's character checks Mike's money wad while he's in the shower, and sees he is STACKED with cash.

She is pissed.

Whatever. Why would she be mad he is succeeding at making money?

If my woman checked my wallet and found it EMPTY she would be pissed. Not full of green.

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1- This scene makes perfect sense

2- Rounders is far from a great movie

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In Rounders, when Gretchen Mol's character checks Mike's money wad while he's in the shower, and sees he is STACKED with cash.

She is pissed.

Whatever. Why would she be mad he is succeeding at making money?

If my woman checked my wallet and found it EMPTY she would be pissed. Not full of green.

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This actually makes sense. She saw poker and nothing but gambling which could not be won in the long run. She saw Mike as having a gambling problem which he was supposed to be over. It didn't matter that he had won that night, to her he was gambling again and he had lied to her.

[/ QUOTE ]Agree with dids and also it wasn't that she neccesarily thought he couldn't win in the long run, she just didn't want him to be a hustler etc.

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Neither Seven or American History X do that much for me, but they both have incredibly lame scenes involving characters coming together by having a good, uncontrollable belly laugh at something just not very funny. The dinner scene in Seven and the scene in the laundry with Ed Norton and the black guy in AHX.

So trite.

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2- Rounders is far from a great movie

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Ban please

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Scene where Bruce Willis catches himself by his fingertips while in a 2 story freefall. I don't like it when supposedly reality-based movies defy the laws of physics.

I liked Return to Paradise a lot except for the last line - "I know Beth. I know" ugh.

In Aliens, when Sigourney Weaver says "Leave her alone you bitch!" Or something like that to the mother alien.

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Ban for saying anything bad about Aliens.

Pulp Fiction is the best movie that has _two_ of these, anything with Tarantino and anything with Willis' girlfriend.

People mostly remember Denzel's Oscar, but Training Day is a [censored] fantastic movie until the scene where Denzel Washington says "King Kong ain't got nothing on me". If you graphed Training Day's quality by running time it's a cliff right there.

Another Oliver Stone movie with Charlie Sheen-
Platoon's Sheen voiceover has some incredibly banal and obvious [censored] where Sheen talks about how Elias and the other guy were fighting over his soul. Really, director?

You can't just have your characters say how they are feeling! That makes me so angry!!!

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Beer Fest when the fat black lady gets shot. I just felt sad for her.

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Neither Seven or American History X do that much for me, but they both have incredibly lame scenes involving characters coming together by having a good, uncontrollable belly laugh at something just not very funny. The dinner scene in Seven and the scene in the laundry with Ed Norton and the black guy in AHX.

So trite.

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Oh yeah--that dinner scene is hard to watch. Morgan Freeman's laugh in that scene is really bad.

And American History X, while not a "great" film, is a good example. Again, that laundry scene is just embarrassing. The voiceover at the end of the movie is pretty bad, too. Furlong sounds awful, there's this hokey montage of the ocean, and what he's saying is just dreck, quoting Lincoln, etc.

Blecch.

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*grunch*
The end of the remake of "The Ring" with Naomi Watts. I like the whole movie but I hoped that the end would have some scientific touch and not include some kind of ghost that comes out of the TV.

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From The Godfather: The wedding scene where the women are sitting at a table, discussing the size of Sonny's dick. It's just tacky and out of place and goofy.

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In the book there is much more going on about the size of his schlong. Not just a little table talk. There is only one woman that can actually handle his tool because she has some misproportion and she gets a plastic surgery after Sonny is killed to "tighten up" etc.pp. Sonny's condition plays a major role in the book for some reason. IIRC in the book the conversation about not wanting to come close to his dick takes place in the kitchen. But I'm not sure about that.