Worst Lines/Dialogue in Movies

[Doctor Jones]

Name pretty much any Quentin Tarantino movie and you got heaps and heaps of bad dialogue. He just doesn't know how to write it. His belief in the quality of his writing is so evident, and it's soooo bad. I'm not saying some of his movies aren't entertaining, albeit most of them are rip offs, but the dialogue is sometimes unbearable. Pretty much any scene in Death Proof that included talking was some of the worst I've seen recently. That coffee shop scene felt like it took HOURS to get through.

The Happening also ranks up there as some of the worst in recent times.
"Think *****ebag, think, be scientific."

Bob? Gun.

 

[Figs]

Bob? Gun.

Hahaha!

 

[StylishHokie21]

That's pretty entertaining and funny. I don't know if it's bad. I'm still thinking on it.

It sounds bad, but when you watch it, it makes you want to gouge your own eyes out.

 

[Doctor Jones]

Hahaha!

Hey, somebody got the reference.

 

[kedrell]

Yeah Tarantino's not one I'd ever say who writes bad dialogue. Sure in some films like Deathproof he can go overboard with minutia and take way too long to get to whatever point he's trying to get to, but I've yet to facepalm due to hearing dialogue in his movies.

 

[Sarge 2.0]

Name pretty much any Quentin Tarantino movie and you got heaps and heaps of bad dialogue. He just doesn't know how to write it. His belief in the quality of his writing is so evident, and it's soooo bad. I'm not saying some of his movies aren't entertaining, albeit most of them are rip offs, but the dialogue is sometimes unbearable. Pretty much any scene in Death Proof that included talking was some of the worst I've seen recently. That coffee shop scene felt like it took HOURS to get through.

The Happening also ranks up there as some of the worst in recent times.
"Think *****ebag, think, be scientific."

Erm, Tarantino has a great ear for the rhythm of speech, and he clearly and vibrantly engages with and illustrates how each of his characters talk. His dialogue is more lively and interesting than 99.9% of the people writing today.

His dialogue is about as far from bad writing as you can get. Especially since (as shown very recently in Inglourious Basterds) he uses it masterfully in service to the tension of the scene and as a precursor to an inevitable explosion of violence.

 

[wobbly]

Personally, I don't think Tarantino writes bad dialogue, but I do think there is sometimes too much of it (yes, trivial banalities is natural in conversation, but I don't really want to watch a movie with a half hour or more scene that is full of that).

The bar scene in IB was well done though.

 

[Bob ROARman!]

Well it's this kind of pretentious thinking-I'm-clever dialogue that runs rampant in almost every single one of his movies. Again, the movies themselves are usually entertaining enough to where it doesn't bother me THAT much, but when they aren't (Death Proof) it's a ****ing chore trying to get through some scenes. Yeah it may be "realistic" but who wants to see a 15 minute scene that feels like an hour full of 3 annoying women who talk about irrelevant meaningless crap that seems to go on FOREVER ?

He's a good film maker, he just cannot write dialogue. Sometimes the quality of the movie itself bails him out, other times it doesn't.

 

[CelticPredator]

Bob? Gun.

Gonna need a minute or two alone boys....



Oh and QT is god. He will spit on you.

 

[mclay18]

It's a great line to bring up to Joss Whedon fanboy/girls and try to get them to defend it.

It's all in the line deliveries, and Halle Berry failed to do it properly. But even I though Joss overdid it in the rewrite.

Although the two lines Logan and Scott have (that made it from Whedon's rewrite) is priceless.

 

[Episode29]

Well it's this kind of pretentious thinking-I'm-clever dialogue that runs rampant in almost every single one of his movies. Again, the movies themselves are usually entertaining enough to where it doesn't bother me THAT much, but when they aren't (Death Proof) it's a ****ing chore trying to get through some scenes. Yeah it may be "realistic" but who wants to see a 15 minute scene that feels like an hour full of 3 annoying women who talk about irrelevant meaningless crap that seems to go on FOREVER ?

He's a good film maker, he just cannot write dialogue. Sometimes the quality of the movie itself bails him out, other times it doesn't.

You. Fail.

 

[Immortalfire]

The new Friday The 13th... "Your t*ts are stupendous!"

Then again, most all of the dialogue in that film was horrid.

 

[OctaviusINC]

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Oh and QT is god. He will spit on you.

He thinks he's god too.

I love his movies. But him? Not so much.

I always thought QT and Kevin Smith needed a slap in the face. More so Smith.

But I digress.....

I always loved the cringeworthy yet hilariously awesome line from "Rambo":

Some Dude: Well, it's thinking like that that keeps the world the way it is.

Rambo: **** the world.

Talk about seeing things in black and white.

 

[[A]]

I always thought QT and Kevin Smith needed a slap in the face. More so Smith

I can help.

 

[That-Guy]

Not sure if anyone mentioned this one yet... I might have, and if so, I'm sorry, but... "It was beauty killed the beast."

In 1933? Sure it was acceptable. But still can't believe Peter Jackson used that stupid line in the King Kong remake. God, I hate that line.

 

[[A]]

^ me too.

 

[Doctor Jones]

At least they didn't get Fay Ray to say it.

 

[FVD]

Anakin Skywalker: "If you're not with me, then you're my enemy."

It was more the delivery than than the line itself.

 

[SuperFerret]

Not sure if anyone mentioned this one yet... I might have, and if so, I'm sorry, but... "It was beauty killed the beast."

In 1933? Sure it was acceptable. But still can't believe Peter Jackson used that stupid line in the King Kong remake. God, I hate that line.

 

[Schlosser85]

The romantic dialogue in Star Wars Episode II: The Attack of the Clones and Twilight.

"You are in my very soul, haunting me."

"I'm haunted by the kiss you should never have given me, hoping that kiss will not become a scar?"

Seriously George, wtf?

And then Twilight meets it with "you're like my own personal brand of heroin" and that crap about the lion falling in love with the lamb.

Hayden Christensen and Robert Pattinson's uber-angsty monotone line deliveries didn't help either, but while a lot would say there's no difference I don't think Pattinson is quite as bad as Christensen. Then again, I don't know if Ian McKellen or Anthony Hopkins could make those lines sound good.

Seriously, relax and attempt to talk like a normal person instead of making every line that comes out of your mouth some melodramatic speech (I'm looking at George Lucas and Stephenie Meyer more than Hayden Christensen or Rob Pattinson, though I see you two out of the corner of my eye).

 

[[A]]

Please stop quoting Attack of the Clones

 

[Drizzle]

The new Friday The 13th... "Your t*ts are stupendous!"

That line caught me off guard because I'm pretty sure it's the first time someone has used the word "stupendous" in a sentence since the '50s.

 

[[A]]

So.. were they?

 

[CelticPredator]

Oh yes!

 

[[A]]

Good to know.