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  • Worst line used in a film?

    I thought this might be an interesting topic after recently seeing Heist.


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    Re: Worst line used in a film?

    Originally posted by writerman
    I thought this might be an interesting topic after recently seeing Heist.


    Danny DeVito: "Everybody needs money...that's why they call it money."
    It's comforting to know even Mamet fvcks up like that once in a while...

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      Re: Worst line used in a film?

      Don't remember much of the film, but I recall that line got a huge EH? from me as well.

      Everybody needs money, that's why they call it money...

      He writes in Mametspeak, that's why they call him Mamet...

      I think it's meant to be a similar sort of 'joke', circular logic.


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        Re: Worst line used in a film?

        Yeah, the Ebert thing is a trip.

        On the original topic... I also remember getting an "EH?" from the line during Heist. I'm pretty sure I got what he was going for, I just didn't find it funny.

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          Re: Worst line used in a film?

          The entire script for Predator 2.

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            Re: Worst line used in a film?

            Wow, hadn't seen that Ebert link. That's great.

            I loved the Mamet line. I thought it was brilliant and hilarious and I wished I had written it.

            But of course I could never explain why.

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              Re: Worst line used in a film?

              That line from Heist is confounding, but it's meant to be.

              Mamet knew exactly what it didn't mean.

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              • #8
                Re: Worst line used in a film?

                Almost every line that Tarantino actually wrote himself.

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                  Re: Worst line used in a film?

                  I always thought the Mamet line was sort of a play on the old joke about how if God hadn't intended us to eat meat, he wouldn't have called it meat.

                  Or something like that. It's been a while since I've heard it.

                  Worst lines (off of the top of my head) both came from Mann's Miami Vice movie, in itself a oozing pustule of bad lines:

                  "If you can't do the time, don't do crime."

                  Soon followed by:

                  "If you didn't do time with us, you don't do crime with us."

                  I'm embarrassed just retyping them.

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                  • #10
                    Re: Worst line used in a film?

                    The classic:

                    "Love means never having to say you're sorry."

                    from A Love Story
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                      Re: Worst line used in a film?

                      Originally posted by Biohazard
                      Almost every line that Tarantino actually wrote himself.
                      broken record.
                      "everything a writer learns about the art and craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. in the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say."

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                        Re: Worst line used in a film?

                        Col. Sharp: Miss Stamper? Colonel Willie Sharp, United States Airforce, ma'am. Requesting the permission to shake the hand of the daughter of the bravest man I've ever met.


                        *puke*

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                          Re: Worst line used in a film?

                          Just because you don't understand Mamet doesn't mean he wrote something bad.

                          signal. Those were my favorite lines in Miami Vice. Several other exchanges had me giggling at their absurdity, because they were so straightforward I got a nosebleed.


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                            Re: Worst line used in a film?

                            Yeah, you have to understand something before you can decide if it's good or bad.

                            ''Everybody needs money! That's why they call it money!'' is gibberish.

                            If that's how the character talks, then that's how the character talks.

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                              Re: Worst line used in a film?

                              Originally posted by billmarq
                              The classic:

                              "Love means never having to say you're sorry."

                              from A Love Story
                              True, that is a mind-numbingly stupid line.

                              But to be fair, Jenny had been sitting out in the cold so long, that I believe her mind actually was numb by that time.

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