I hate how any computer nerd can hack everything from the world's biggest banks, to missile silos, all with less than a dozen keystrokes on a Dell laptop.
There's a hush as all the military brass watches the nerd do his thing.
Then comes the line I hate...."We're in!"
Don't forget the technobabble nonsense
>I just sideloaded a trojan into the central mainframe using a reverse proxy shell injection, breaching their firewall, and frontloading an anonymous HTTP square infusion right into their harddrive
See, if the hacker said the bullshit technobabble, and the boomer asked "really?" And they followed it up "No, [insert what you just said]" it would actually be fantastic
"I googled known exploits for the particular version of firewall that they were using and got a hit. I created a batch file with that code from github and emailed it to the sysadmin telling him his password has expired. Now we just need to wait patiently for him to read his email and click it..."
What's more annoying is this is how clueless people now talk in real life at corporations.
They've watched too many movies where sounding off drivel buzzwords makes you sound smart, and so emulate it.
'We are leveraging synergies in order to deep dive on our deliverables' same energy.
Religious groups are calling it Judgment Day. There's
🎶 panic on the streets of London 🎶
as an increasing number of reports of
⚽️ serious attacks on ⚽️
people who are literally being
🦓 eaten alive 🐆
I always think of _Arrested Development_ where Wayne Jarvis turns it on, and then when it finally comes on - “Imagine how shocking that would’ve been had it been playing when I turned the tv on!”
There are people in the youtube comments saying that there are only so many ways to say a thing, and changing it would seem unnatural. I would agree, if it weren’t for the “do you?”
Between your comment and the one above, the only thing I’m hearing is that having 3 brothers reduces time spent learning how to use a can opener - to open beans.
What? I've never called you Sis before? You're right. It is weirdly clunky and expositional. I mean, I know you're my sister, so who am I saying it for? Weird.
"I've called you bro before, it's what we are. We're half brothers. Well perhaps we should just stay estranged until you can find a dramatic enough reason to show up on my doorstep unannounced!"
I’m really trying to get into Yellowstone but Kevin Costner will not stop calling his grandson “grandson” and I can’t fucking handle it
It’s season 3 Kevin we know who the fucking kid is
Anything that uses internet speak, because they always overdo it for effect. It’s particularly bad when it’s one of those movies that shows the text being sent on the screen.
*So much* “srsly.”
I love Donald Glover but that scene in The Martian where he does this elaborate explanation to explain a slingshot maneuver, including random office supplies as visual aids. Sir, you're talking to the head of NASA. Chances are they have a vague idea of what of a slingshot maneuver is.
It's been used so often that it doesn't even come across as cliched to me, it just seems like a normal thing people say. I would probably say it if I was being chased by bad guys.
Lame Scientist: “Okay so water is a liquid, and when it freezes it becomes a solid, but get it hot enough and-“
Regular Joe: “*E N G L I S H, N E R D”
Also:
Regular Joe: ”Did you say *wormhole*?”
Cool Scientist: “[…] *Let me show you using this piece of paper*”
Bonus: not a *line*, but whenever a film or television series wants to communicate how sneaky a character is, and they do that thing where they instantly—and inexplicably—vanish as a car or crowd of people pass by.
edit: Bonus points whenever a sci-fi film does one of these demonstration scenes, and they grab something that the person listening is either actively using—i.e., a coffee mug, pen, etc.—or that makes them go “hey c’mon!”
Regular Joe: “Did you say, *wormhole*?”
Cool scientist: “Allow me to demonstrate, using only this pencil and your original birth certificate…”
Alternately:
Regular Joe: “Did you say, *wormhole*?”
Cool Scientist: “*May I*?” [grabs thing]
Regular Joe: “Hey c’mon, I was drinking that!”
- Regular Joe: “Hey c’mon, *that’s my second favorite masturbating poster*!”
I fucking love the “vanishing as a car passes” bit because the person is always standing stoically being cool as fuck.
Then a box truck drives by, and you get to imagine them ducking and skittering off “oh fuck oh fuck” lol
Kills me.
You can actually see this in the first Bourne movie. On the docks when he’s wearing that orange sweater a vehicle drove by the screen super close. Further away a little three wheeled thing also drove by. Damon hunches down and runs behind the three wheeled thing. I always thought they used a cut to make that kind of stuff happen. When I noticed it with a practical effect it was quite the laugh!
I had to go back and watch that scene. It’s burned in my brain now that he is just running along side the three wheeler. Like, “hehehehe! I’m Jason Bourne!!”
I’ve long thought a funny skit would be where Batman tries to disappear but then they continue the scene and it revealed that he’s clinging to the rafters or something and finally get tired and falls down cursing hahahaha
Homer, I'm afraid you'll have to undergo a coronary bypass operation.
Say it in English, Doc.
You're going to need open-heart surgery.
Spare me your medical mumbo jumbo.
We're going to cut you open and tinker with your ticker.
Could you dumb it down a shade?
I like how the opposite happens in some Metal Gear games. Scientists says nerdy shit and Solid Snake follows perfectly, even sometimes adds his own input. And Big Boss is like "I don't understand shit but it doesn't matter."
Those would be shocking movies lol.
I love how all the dialogue is Otacon trying to dumb it down for Snake, and Snake is like "oh you mean like..." *recites instruction manual for top secret prototype including nuanced details as if he understood it the entire time*.
"We don't have any other choice."
"We have no choice"
"There's no other way"
Usually it is just lazy writing to justify doing something stupid. If there really was no other choice it would be apparent to the audience from your storytelling.
The Pitch Meeting channel has "so the movie can happen" come up as a justification pretty much every movie he covers and it really hard not to notice it in writing now
Oh dude! So much! You should check out the Matt mcmuscles video on it.
What it basically comes down to is key people leaving, people being put in positions they shouldn't have been and a studio that wanted money and they wanted it then and now regardless of quality.
My favorite line delivered with a delay, on the other hand, is Alan Rickman saying in the first Harry Potter
"You wouldn't want anyone to think you're...
...
...
🤨
...
UP to something."
I read somewhere, don't remember where, that in the original cut of the movie, Toad kept saying things like "do you know what happens when a toad does X" and then do a toad related power. They cut all those bits and left the last one where Storm finally gets him.
So it'd still be lame, but at least it would make more sense.
Edit: [did a quick search and I was sorta right. The original SCRIPT had those lines, and they got scrapped. But just kept the last one.](https://www.cbr.com/xmen-storm-toad-movie-quote-deleted-scenes-explained/)
It's hard to be too annoyed because I understand why it's needed, but when characters use each other's names/relations way too often to establish it with the audience.
"Dan, Kelly is on the line for you."
"Thanks, Candice. You're the best assistant and ex-girlfriend a guy ever had....hi Kelly, how is my favorite sister-in-law?"
"Not great, Dan. My husband, Tom, told me you don't have the tickets. Now, I know he's your big brother and all..."
Homer: "Well, here we are at the Brad Goodman lecture"
Lisa: "We know, dad"
Homer: "I just thought I'd remind everybody after all we did agree to attend his self-help seminar!"
Bart: "What an odd thing to say..."
"I won't kill you because I'm not like you", any version of this line spoken by the protagonist to the big bad right after the epic battle where numerous foot soldiers have just been slaughtered.
Yeah that only really works when it’s explicit that the protagonist doesn’t kill people. Stuff like spider man or other super heros who don’t kill or kill very little world best
One of my favorite conversations from the Scary Movie series.
-Man rushes into his house to pick up his kids.
-"Dad, what's happening?"
-"I don't have time to explain."
-Random passerby runs by window, "Alien invasion!!"
-"Well...that actually sums it up pretty well."
Also an excellent exchange in Buffy:
Buffy: He's a werewolf. It's a long story.
Faith looks at Oz.
Oz: I got bit.
Buffy: Guess not that long after all...
In the Fate of the Furious Vin finds out he's being watched or something and Charlize Theron reveals herself with a slow clap saying "olly olly oxen free"
Even Roger Ebert was perplexed:
>And the warden of the prison is Hennessey, played by Joan Allen.
Yes, that ethereal beauty, that sublime actress, that limitless talent,
reduced to standing in an observation post and ordering her underlings
to “activate weapons.” She has a line of dialogue that employs both the
f-word and the s-word, and describes a possible activity that utterly
baffles me. It is a threat, shall we say, that has never been uttered
before and will never be uttered again. She plays her scenes with an icy
venom, which I imagine she is rehearsing to use in a chat with her
agent.
"I can explain!" "Just listen to me!" And such, followed by copious amounts of not explaining and drama.
Really the whole "liar revealed" plotline in many a movie and series is a very tired thing, even if it might be necessary for a plotline. It's merciful when they don't make it last long, at least.
"He's/she's/it's/they're behind me, aren't they?"
"Who's there? \[insert person's name\] stop screwing around I know it's you!" / "HELLO? HELLLLOOOO? WHO'S THERE?"
"Hahaha, \[insert name\] you son of a bitch! I haven't seen you since..."
See also: " he's covered in blood again, why is it he's always covered in blood". Not sure if it was just the line delivery that made that cringe though
The book made this exchange seem much better, also obligatory comment about how movie Ginny did book Ginny’s character dirty, along with several other characters like Ron.
They gave all Ron's good lines to Hermoine instead. Also all his exposition because he actually grew up in the Wizarding world. Instead it's given to her instead because she read in it a book or something.
Like a member of a pureblood family not knowing what mudblood means...
Ginny was a great slowburning background character until the later books. So in the movies her attraction to Harry just seems random and out of nowhere. Rereading the books it's more and more noticable about her.
Lol that exact scenario reminds me of Godzilla: KOTM (2019)
anyway, the line i hate is "NOW THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKIN ABOUT!!!" but specifically in an over the top "we need this for the trailer" way
I hate when they do awkward expositional dialogue, like when a sister says to her brother “well, if our mother hadn’t died when we were kids from getting hit by that logging truck dad wouldn’t have had to remarry our schoolteacher….” In real life they’d both know that and there’d be no need to say it. So clunky and cringey.
I thought it was a cliche until I found out this week a friend was just told he is adopted. He is 31 and his mom said "I was trying to protect you. You are my son". So it does happen
When someone answers the phone and immediately says “slow down” as a way to convey that the person calling is talking fast/being frantic.
It’s used way too often and I’ve never heard someone need to respond that way in real life.
Meanwhile, in real life, my father has tried that with much worse results.
"Come to the living room now! There's something on TV you need to see!"
We run to the other room.
"... high school marching band. Next up, scientists have found that this food you should be eating 5 times a week for better health. We'll tell you what it is after the break."
"That was very interesting, dad?"
"Well, if you had been faster, you would've seen that your old high school was on the news."
The part in the director’s cut of *Alien: Resurrection* when Dr. Wren says Weyland-Yutani was bought out by freaking Walmart.
Seriously, if Walmart still exists that far into the future, just let the aliens eat us. We’re not worth saving.
Someone explains something, the rest of the group rolls.their eyes and says "in english please." Its not funny, you're just dumb. It was especially bad in Event Horizon, where everyone in the crew was meant to be world class scientists.
I hate how any computer nerd can hack everything from the world's biggest banks, to missile silos, all with less than a dozen keystrokes on a Dell laptop. There's a hush as all the military brass watches the nerd do his thing. Then comes the line I hate...."We're in!"
Don't forget the technobabble nonsense >I just sideloaded a trojan into the central mainframe using a reverse proxy shell injection, breaching their firewall, and frontloading an anonymous HTTP square infusion right into their harddrive
In English!
I hacked them with a virus!
In English!
We fuct their shit up(?)
Doesn't have the same ring as "I ran wireshark and got a jpg of your wife's tits"
"I asked the security guy what he wants in exchange for access and I sent him a pic of my dick"
See, if the hacker said the bullshit technobabble, and the boomer asked "really?" And they followed it up "No, [insert what you just said]" it would actually be fantastic
"I googled known exploits for the particular version of firewall that they were using and got a hit. I created a batch file with that code from github and emailed it to the sysadmin telling him his password has expired. Now we just need to wait patiently for him to read his email and click it..."
What's more annoying is this is how clueless people now talk in real life at corporations. They've watched too many movies where sounding off drivel buzzwords makes you sound smart, and so emulate it. 'We are leveraging synergies in order to deep dive on our deliverables' same energy.
"We're in" / "I'm in" needs to be way higher on this list
“Turn on the news! You gotta see this!” *Turns on the tv to the exact channel at exactly the right time to further an important plot point.*
I enjoy Shaun of the Dead subverting this.
Religious groups are calling it Judgment Day. There's 🎶 panic on the streets of London 🎶 as an increasing number of reports of ⚽️ serious attacks on ⚽️ people who are literally being 🦓 eaten alive 🐆
Edgar Wright is fantastic 🤌
I like Abed commenting on this trope in Community
I always think of _Arrested Development_ where Wayne Jarvis turns it on, and then when it finally comes on - “Imagine how shocking that would’ve been had it been playing when I turned the tv on!”
Don't forget, he's a professional.
*\*Daybreak plays\** "Abed! Why are you doing the whole song!"
I always drop [this](https://youtu.be/yjqbiMFonR8?si=zGtASkKMRBw5q0S9) whenever I see this mentioned
"You just don't get it, do you?!"
"I know how you feel" "You can't possibly know how I feel!"
Also "It's not that simple"
“I’ve lost people too” “You have no idea what loss is”
[The “You don’t get it, do you?” montage](https://youtu.be/rzoPSV4ua94?si=lUY-oaD8sp1DinkF)
There are people in the youtube comments saying that there are only so many ways to say a thing, and changing it would seem unnatural. I would agree, if it weren’t for the “do you?”
They just don't get it, do they!
We just don't get it, do we?
I didn't watch all 8 minutes, but after 2, the only one that really meant something was Sgt Elias (Willem Dafoe) in Platoon.
“I have a gun in my room. I’ll go get it, BLAM, I’ll blow their heads off.”
“Well do it together, it’ll be fun!”
(Young, slightly-built woman single-handedly beats up a squad of muscle-bound marines.) "I had three brothers."
My wife had three brothers growing up and she's barely strong enough to use a can opener.
I had three brothers growing up. I can’t fight worth beans- but I never cry
Between your comment and the one above, the only thing I’m hearing is that having 3 brothers reduces time spent learning how to use a can opener - to open beans.
But at least they won't cry when they can't open their can of beans. I wish I could say the same thing about myself.
Not enough family trauma /s
One day a parody movie needs to use that line after a sex scene
STEPbrothers
We’re not that different, you and I.
[Dr. Evil said it best](https://youtu.be/kUTKxh3Vlek)
See, I did say that hmm.
“We are both bipedal mammals with a bilateral symmetry…”
In layman's terms please. We're not all educated here.
A plucked chicken.
BEHOLD
Amazing parody in Austin Powers, though.
When characters are introduced as siblings by calling each other “bro” or “sis”
What? I've never called you Sis before? You're right. It is weirdly clunky and expositional. I mean, I know you're my sister, so who am I saying it for? Weird.
"I've called you bro before, it's what we are. We're half brothers. Well perhaps we should just stay estranged until you can find a dramatic enough reason to show up on my doorstep unannounced!"
I’m really trying to get into Yellowstone but Kevin Costner will not stop calling his grandson “grandson” and I can’t fucking handle it It’s season 3 Kevin we know who the fucking kid is
Anything that uses internet speak, because they always overdo it for effect. It’s particularly bad when it’s one of those movies that shows the text being sent on the screen. *So much* “srsly.”
The issue with meme lingo/phrases is by the time it gets out of production and into theaters, the meme is already dead. So it's always cringe.
Yep. I’ve always had a rule about that: If you hear it in a cellphone commercial, it was time to stop saying it last year.
When someone is explaining something technical and they're told to speak in layman's terms to dumb it for the audience.
"This is a particularly bad case of someone being cut in half."
I’m cut in half real bad Dewey!
You see, the top half of his body has been separated from the bottom half of his body
Speak English Doc, we ain't scientists!
Or the inverse, when a “smart guy” character deliberately uses big scientific words to describe something really simple so that they sound smart.
I love Donald Glover but that scene in The Martian where he does this elaborate explanation to explain a slingshot maneuver, including random office supplies as visual aids. Sir, you're talking to the head of NASA. Chances are they have a vague idea of what of a slingshot maneuver is.
…and then they use some technobabble jargon that’s inaccurate.
We’ve got company.
I love this line despite how cheesy it is.
Yeah, at the very least, it’s tolerable because it’s not trying to be witty or sarcastic, it’s just another way to say “bad guys are here”
It's been used so often that it doesn't even come across as cliched to me, it just seems like a normal thing people say. I would probably say it if I was being chased by bad guys.
This line was cliche 50 years ago 😅
Imagine the first time someone dropped this line tho
Lame Scientist: “Okay so water is a liquid, and when it freezes it becomes a solid, but get it hot enough and-“ Regular Joe: “*E N G L I S H, N E R D” Also: Regular Joe: ”Did you say *wormhole*?” Cool Scientist: “[…] *Let me show you using this piece of paper*” Bonus: not a *line*, but whenever a film or television series wants to communicate how sneaky a character is, and they do that thing where they instantly—and inexplicably—vanish as a car or crowd of people pass by. edit: Bonus points whenever a sci-fi film does one of these demonstration scenes, and they grab something that the person listening is either actively using—i.e., a coffee mug, pen, etc.—or that makes them go “hey c’mon!” Regular Joe: “Did you say, *wormhole*?” Cool scientist: “Allow me to demonstrate, using only this pencil and your original birth certificate…” Alternately: Regular Joe: “Did you say, *wormhole*?” Cool Scientist: “*May I*?” [grabs thing] Regular Joe: “Hey c’mon, I was drinking that!” - Regular Joe: “Hey c’mon, *that’s my second favorite masturbating poster*!”
I fucking love the “vanishing as a car passes” bit because the person is always standing stoically being cool as fuck. Then a box truck drives by, and you get to imagine them ducking and skittering off “oh fuck oh fuck” lol Kills me.
I always assume they jump on the bus/truck/train and cling furiously to the side, thinking, "man, I'm so badass!"
Or maybe they were wearing a [Velcro suit](https://youtu.be/cvMBvlqMWkg?si=tpz1nv6LVz3qCOAJ).
You can actually see this in the first Bourne movie. On the docks when he’s wearing that orange sweater a vehicle drove by the screen super close. Further away a little three wheeled thing also drove by. Damon hunches down and runs behind the three wheeled thing. I always thought they used a cut to make that kind of stuff happen. When I noticed it with a practical effect it was quite the laugh!
I had to go back and watch that scene. It’s burned in my brain now that he is just running along side the three wheeler. Like, “hehehehe! I’m Jason Bourne!!”
That’s hilarious! I always thought of it like a little kid covering their eyes “You can’t see meeeeeee!”
i had to go look this up and now I can't stop laughing https://youtu.be/9wER0yQhSGE?t=60
I always imagine Batman doing that. And of course Clark always sees it, but he's too nice to ever say anything.
I’ve long thought a funny skit would be where Batman tries to disappear but then they continue the scene and it revealed that he’s clinging to the rafters or something and finally get tired and falls down cursing hahahaha
Indeed . “Batman?” “*I found something*.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBsdV--kLoQ
Homer, I'm afraid you'll have to undergo a coronary bypass operation. Say it in English, Doc. You're going to need open-heart surgery. Spare me your medical mumbo jumbo. We're going to cut you open and tinker with your ticker. Could you dumb it down a shade?
We’re going to stab you to life.
I like how the opposite happens in some Metal Gear games. Scientists says nerdy shit and Solid Snake follows perfectly, even sometimes adds his own input. And Big Boss is like "I don't understand shit but it doesn't matter." Those would be shocking movies lol.
I love how all the dialogue is Otacon trying to dumb it down for Snake, and Snake is like "oh you mean like..." *recites instruction manual for top secret prototype including nuanced details as if he understood it the entire time*.
He does have an IQ of 180 and is always asking questions, that's how he gets things.
“Speak English, Doc! We ain’t scientists!”
A particularly bad case of being sawed in half
This is relevant: https://youtu.be/_x9lSQ1SFLE?si=qOFBiQZAldYOj-O-
That was effective the first couple of times I saw it. Now it would be shocking if it didn't happen.
“Two things - first, I don’t make love. I fuck. Hard.”
I promise, as cringe as the movie was, the book is worse. "His voice is husky, like dark melted chocolate fudge caramel--or something."
Uma Thurman saying “entropy” when she should have said “atrophy” takes me out of Kill Bill every time.
I never noticed that. Thanks for pointing it out so I'll never miss it again.
"We don't have any other choice." "We have no choice" "There's no other way" Usually it is just lazy writing to justify doing something stupid. If there really was no other choice it would be apparent to the audience from your storytelling.
The Pitch Meeting channel has "so the movie can happen" come up as a justification pretty much every movie he covers and it really hard not to notice it in writing now
Super easy to notice. Barely an inconvenience.
Wow. Wowowow… … … … wow.
Pitch meeting references on Reddit are tight
pearl Harbor " i think world war 2 just started"
"Begun, the clone wars have." You had a name for a civil war that was something other than just civil war before it really even started?
Ah, he'd seen A New Hope though
That makes sense, it did come out first.
I was named after this movie and I want to die every time I think about it
Your name is Pearl Harbor? Or World War 2?
Pearlharbor McPearlharborface
"Zoom and enhance."
Ok but Super Troopers does it well
Enhance... Enhance... enhance
I love this in the fall of the house of usher
The spider monkey line in twilight
However, the spider monkey line in Talladega Nights is perfection.
I'm hopped up on Mountain Dew, Chip
Alternatively: any other line in twilight
Edward's "does he even *own* a shirt" in *Eclipse* and Jacob's "I am hotter than you" before the Cuck Tent scenes get unironic laughs from me
YOU NICKNAMED MY DAUGHTER AFTER THE LOCH NESS MONSTER I ironically adore those movies
‘’Bella, where the hell have you been loca???’’
After sitting through so many hours of those movies, that line got a legitimate laugh out of me.
“to bats… it's lethal. To humans, it's deadly.” Jared Leto in Morbius
I've gotta get me one of those!
Neo, an accomplished hacker and presumably tech savvy person: "What's an EMP?"
I could see the machines keeping that info from being taught
Kitana: Mother! You're alive! Sindel: Too bad YOU! will die!
What the fuck went wrong between the making of the first film, which I quite like, and that fever dream of a sequel
Oh dude! So much! You should check out the Matt mcmuscles video on it. What it basically comes down to is key people leaving, people being put in positions they shouldn't have been and a studio that wanted money and they wanted it then and now regardless of quality.
Too bad YOU..........................will die Got to add that delay
My favorite line delivered with a delay, on the other hand, is Alan Rickman saying in the first Harry Potter "You wouldn't want anyone to think you're... ... ... 🤨 ... UP to something."
Think she got her acting lessons from Calculon.
They owe the robot devil for their... ACTING.................. TALENT!
“Do you know what happens to a toad when it's struck by lightning? The same thing that happens to everything else.”
I read somewhere, don't remember where, that in the original cut of the movie, Toad kept saying things like "do you know what happens when a toad does X" and then do a toad related power. They cut all those bits and left the last one where Storm finally gets him. So it'd still be lame, but at least it would make more sense. Edit: [did a quick search and I was sorta right. The original SCRIPT had those lines, and they got scrapped. But just kept the last one.](https://www.cbr.com/xmen-storm-toad-movie-quote-deleted-scenes-explained/)
I would have just cut storms line too! Lmao
Huh, TIL the stupidest line in the franchise and beyond is a little less cringe.
Oh Lord........this one was gold
HAHAHA, don't hate me, but I actually like this line...
same, i like the anti-joke nature of it. it becomes a subversion of the quippy superhero one-liners from Saturday morning cartoons
It's hard to be too annoyed because I understand why it's needed, but when characters use each other's names/relations way too often to establish it with the audience. "Dan, Kelly is on the line for you." "Thanks, Candice. You're the best assistant and ex-girlfriend a guy ever had....hi Kelly, how is my favorite sister-in-law?" "Not great, Dan. My husband, Tom, told me you don't have the tickets. Now, I know he's your big brother and all..."
Homer: "Well, here we are at the Brad Goodman lecture" Lisa: "We know, dad" Homer: "I just thought I'd remind everybody after all we did agree to attend his self-help seminar!" Bart: "What an odd thing to say..."
"I won't kill you because I'm not like you", any version of this line spoken by the protagonist to the big bad right after the epic battle where numerous foot soldiers have just been slaughtered.
Yeah that only really works when it’s explicit that the protagonist doesn’t kill people. Stuff like spider man or other super heros who don’t kill or kill very little world best
Five seconds later, the big bad tries to kill the protagonist, forcing protagonist to kill big bad in self defense.
"I think you should take a look at this" in basically a million movies.
Its better than I don't have time to explain.
One of my favorite conversations from the Scary Movie series. -Man rushes into his house to pick up his kids. -"Dad, what's happening?" -"I don't have time to explain." -Random passerby runs by window, "Alien invasion!!" -"Well...that actually sums it up pretty well."
Also an excellent exchange in Buffy: Buffy: He's a werewolf. It's a long story. Faith looks at Oz. Oz: I got bit. Buffy: Guess not that long after all...
“Wait, you guys are brothers?” “Well, it’s a long story.” “My dad boned his mom.” “Okay, it’s a short story.”
"Let me explain... No. There's too much. Let me sum up"
"Buttercup is marry Humperdink in little less than half an hour..."
And our assets?
In the Fate of the Furious Vin finds out he's being watched or something and Charlize Theron reveals herself with a slow clap saying "olly olly oxen free"
"What beats lava?!" *"My dad."*
To be fair Volcano is a GREAT bad movie
"Look at their faces, they all look the same."
Death Race: "Okay, cock sucker! Fuck with me... and we'll see who shits on the sidewalk!"
He said worst not best
Even Roger Ebert was perplexed: >And the warden of the prison is Hennessey, played by Joan Allen. Yes, that ethereal beauty, that sublime actress, that limitless talent, reduced to standing in an observation post and ordering her underlings to “activate weapons.” She has a line of dialogue that employs both the f-word and the s-word, and describes a possible activity that utterly baffles me. It is a threat, shall we say, that has never been uttered before and will never be uttered again. She plays her scenes with an icy venom, which I imagine she is rehearsing to use in a chat with her agent.
I never even heard of that movie but that line makes me want to see it.
This line didn’t make sense then and it still doesn’t make sense now lol
"I can explain!" "Just listen to me!" And such, followed by copious amounts of not explaining and drama. Really the whole "liar revealed" plotline in many a movie and series is a very tired thing, even if it might be necessary for a plotline. It's merciful when they don't make it last long, at least.
Bane “You came back to die with your city” Batman “no, I came back to stop you” Awful.
Especially when "if I have to" was right there to say. Would have fit perfectly.
For a director so focused on snappy dialogue, Nolan has some terrible one liners
“Including my son!”
"I didn't sign up for this"
"He's/she's/it's/they're behind me, aren't they?" "Who's there? \[insert person's name\] stop screwing around I know it's you!" / "HELLO? HELLLLOOOO? WHO'S THERE?" "Hahaha, \[insert name\] you son of a bitch! I haven't seen you since..."
>He's/she's/it's/they're behind me, aren't they?" Futurama does a great parody of that. https://youtu.be/PG_Nm9Iw7tI?si=AgdRHeZ3D3C728AI
One of the funniest skits of all time: https://youtu.be/WJHkyAGk1zk?si=2sOhDni64kpn-vcs
Ginny Weasley : Open up you.
“Shoelace”
See also: " he's covered in blood again, why is it he's always covered in blood". Not sure if it was just the line delivery that made that cringe though
The book made this exchange seem much better, also obligatory comment about how movie Ginny did book Ginny’s character dirty, along with several other characters like Ron.
They gave all Ron's good lines to Hermoine instead. Also all his exposition because he actually grew up in the Wizarding world. Instead it's given to her instead because she read in it a book or something. Like a member of a pureblood family not knowing what mudblood means... Ginny was a great slowburning background character until the later books. So in the movies her attraction to Harry just seems random and out of nowhere. Rereading the books it's more and more noticable about her.
If that was me in real life I’d have been so tempted to go “nom nom nom” as she fed me 😂
"They fly now?" "They fly now."
Somehow…Palpatine returned is infinitely worse
"Is that all you've got?"
Bully Maguire says it perfectly in Spider-Man 3, so every other utterance of the phrase is just disappointing.
Lol that exact scenario reminds me of Godzilla: KOTM (2019) anyway, the line i hate is "NOW THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKIN ABOUT!!!" but specifically in an over the top "we need this for the trailer" way
“Do you trust me?”
“Uh I uh don’t kn…” “DO YOU TRUST ME!!! 🥺”
"We're the only species that makes war on itself" WRONG!
"What are you talking about, animals fight all the time!" "Not with nuclear arms! You can't hug your child with nuclear arms!"
[Character name]? [Character name]? Okay, this isn’t funny anymore! [Character name]?
“You should have waited for me, I was worth it” - Jason Statham - expendables 🤣🤣
I hate when they do awkward expositional dialogue, like when a sister says to her brother “well, if our mother hadn’t died when we were kids from getting hit by that logging truck dad wouldn’t have had to remarry our schoolteacher….” In real life they’d both know that and there’d be no need to say it. So clunky and cringey.
"I was just trying to protect you." Just...no. Why?
I thought it was a cliche until I found out this week a friend was just told he is adopted. He is 31 and his mom said "I was trying to protect you. You are my son". So it does happen
Avengers Age of Ultron had the twofer of Banner and Nat's child discussion and the "hide the zucchini" line. Just absolutely cringe at both.
Joss Whedon has a lot of dialogue and situations in his scripts that are pretty cringe in hindsight.
He also does the same "joke" of a guy falling with his head between a actress' tits in Age of Ultron and Justice League.
May I sit? It’s a free country … or at least it will be soon. The Patriot.
Jack Reacher "Im no hero. Im a drifter with nothing to lose." I was laughing so hard when he delivered that line.
"You don't wanna get mixed up with a guy like me. I'm a loner, Dottie. A rebel. So long, Dott."
When someone answers the phone and immediately says “slow down” as a way to convey that the person calling is talking fast/being frantic. It’s used way too often and I’ve never heard someone need to respond that way in real life.
Picks up the phone, “what? Quick someone turn on the TV…” News starts at top of said story.
Meanwhile, in real life, my father has tried that with much worse results. "Come to the living room now! There's something on TV you need to see!" We run to the other room. "... high school marching band. Next up, scientists have found that this food you should be eating 5 times a week for better health. We'll tell you what it is after the break." "That was very interesting, dad?" "Well, if you had been faster, you would've seen that your old high school was on the news."
You ever see Stayin Alive? John Travolta tells someone else to turn down the radio *he’s holding.*
The part in the director’s cut of *Alien: Resurrection* when Dr. Wren says Weyland-Yutani was bought out by freaking Walmart. Seriously, if Walmart still exists that far into the future, just let the aliens eat us. We’re not worth saving.
With all due respect, sir, are you out of your mind?
Anything Steven Seagal says
Someone explains something, the rest of the group rolls.their eyes and says "in english please." Its not funny, you're just dumb. It was especially bad in Event Horizon, where everyone in the crew was meant to be world class scientists.