Bad Moments in Great Films

Rushmore · #1 08-31-2007, 06:44 PM

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?

Hamish McBagpipe · #2 08-31-2007, 06:58 PM

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.

daryn · #3 08-31-2007, 07:00 PM

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.

xxThe_Lebowskixx · #4 09-01-2007, 09:51 AM

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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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omfg, this is the best answer ever. that line was horrific.

johnnylovescandy · #5 09-01-2007, 10:13 AM

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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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omfg, this is the best answer ever. that line was horrific.

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Maybe, but a more dim-witted Cruise-esque retort could not have been more appropriate. That line was classic Cruise - I bet the dope even wrote it himself...

jordiepop · #6 09-09-2007, 03:12 PM

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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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omfg, this is the best answer ever. that line was horrific.

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this is soooo wrong..

johnnylovescandy · #7 09-10-2007, 02:15 PM

Final scene in "Lost in Translation" (2003)

Maybe not a bad moment, but what did Bill Murray's character whisper to Scarlett Johansson's character?

Uston · #8 09-01-2007, 05:27 PM

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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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Also,

Kaffee: You don't need to wear a patch on your arm to have honor.
Dawson: Ten-hut! There's an officer on deck.

Both exchanges are embarassingly bad.

Pudge714 · #9 09-01-2007, 08:15 PM

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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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I saw this movie once 5 years ago and I still remember this line ruining it.

Rushmore · #10 08-31-2007, 08:37 PM

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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.