Bad Moments in Great Films

[Triumph36]

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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.

[Taso]

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

[Rushmore]

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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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Just remembered the scene after the meeting with Bud and his father and Gekko and the union heads, and the father makes a scene and storms out and gets in the elevator, and Bud chases him in there, and they have a very clunky bit of dialogue that culminates in Martin Sheen actually butchering the final line about "...must've not have been very good of a job raising you..." or something.

Watch it--you'll see.

[Triumph36]

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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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Just remembered the scene after the meeting with Bud and his father and Gekko and the union heads, and the father makes a scene and storms out and gets in the elevator, and Bud chases him in there, and they have a very clunky bit of dialogue that culminates in Martin Sheen actually butchering the final line about "...must've not have been very good of a job raising you..." or something.

Watch it--you'll see.

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this movie has been cited three times now - isn't it possible that this simply isn't a great movie?

i mean, hell, if we're citing oliver stone written movies, why not the 'sanitation/sanitarium' pun at the beginning of scarface, made between two cubans fresh off the boat?

[Bill Murphy]

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Just remembered the scene after the meeting with Bud and his father and Gekko and the union heads, and the father makes a scene and storms out and gets in the elevator, and Bud chases him in there, and they have a very clunky bit of dialogue that culminates in Martin Sheen actually butchering the final line about "...must've not have been very good of a job raising you..." or something.


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IIRC, it's "If you really believe that, then I must not have...must not have done a very good job as a father." I always thought the "butchering" was intentional, as he's supposed to be getting choked up?

[phillydilly]

Return of the Jedi - Ewoks

[CharlieDontSurf]

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

[RickAstleyFan]

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.

[TheRedRocket]

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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.

[PokerAmateur4]

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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.