Movie lines etc that just bug

[Samadhi]

I thought about adding this to the succulent mounds thread but felt it deserved its own.

There's a line I hear in every commercial for Tomb Raider II that annoys the hell out of me. I'm sure everyone else has unfavorites of their own from movies or whatever that bug; hence the thread.

The ridiculous line in question is: "It's a weapon more powerful than you could ever imagine."

Bah!

I can't help but think of a response to a similar statement in an obscure movie I once saw: "I don't know. I can imagine quite a bit."

Anyone else have some?

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In Philadelphia, it's worth 50 bucks.

[jadesmar]

The obscure movie is Star Wars.
Geek test - I fail

[Neo]

Me too Jadesmar
Han Solo said it, talking about money.

[Samadhi]

Sheesh, don't make me invis your posts.

[ctrlaltdel]

i forgot the name of movie... possibly something with clones. arnold schw. plays a double role of a pilot and his own clone. anyways, when the chief badguy tells him about the cloning, to prove his words he asks a female cut-throat how many times has she been re-cloned. with a serious face and in a dark voice she says:

"I've lost count..."

you're supposed to go "woooaaaa", until the very next seconds when the inside of her eyelid shows her 'serial number'.... she was cloned 4 times! what the...

[Quailman]

In The Wizard of Oz, the scarecrow gets his 'brain' and spouts off some nonsense formula involving the sides of an isosceles triangle. Sheesh!

[HyToFry]

The movie was End of Days. (I'm a big Arnold fan.)

[Werebear]

(shop proprieter examines a mouse trap with a BIG bite out of it)

Where'd you get that? Gramma's attic? Let me tell you something about rats. You think about rats, what, ten, twenty percent of your time? Well, they think about you 100% of the time. That's because they're rats. They ain't got nothing better to do.

[Huey]

Are you sure it was End Of Days Hy? Sounded like The 6th Day to me. Some Arnold fan you are.

[IrishDrums04]

Yeah, wasn't End of Days about like Satan and the apocalypse or something?

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"Yes, but why did you get rid of the rum?" - Capt. Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean

[Sparticus]

One that really peeves me is in Pearl Harbor; this is when Danny is talking on the phone. This is the line:

"I think World War II just started!"

Um, excuse me? For one, WWII already started two years ago. Secondly, he wouldn't know to call it World War II.

It just pissed me off when I heard that line.

[Highroller]

Close. The movie is The Sixth Day. The End of Days is about Lucifer walking the earth and such.

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To answer the question is to question the answer.

[The Cruciverbalist]

Not a line so much a gaping plot hole:

In the League of Extraordinary Gentleman, Mina Harker (a vampire) goes outside. In broad daylight. On several occasions. And is completely unaffected.

[Antrax]

Vampires have varying powers depending on the writer. That is not a plot hole.
Antrax

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"If it comes down to a choice between being unloved and being vulnerable and sensitive and emotional, then you can just keep your love." -Victor Mancini, "Choke"

[ctrlaltdel]

plot hole - the red star. stupidest scifi ever. after cultivating mars with algae the oxygen level on mars are falling. so they send guys there to find out why. the guys end up finding out the oxygen level is almost as high as on earth. (cause of some bugs - whatever...)

so how the .... did they know they were falling???

oh well...

[Death Mage]

There are as many "Vampire" legends and mythos as there are cultures. And IIRC the daylight problem is a fairly rare theme in them.

[Courk]

In LOTR: FOTR, Frodo has been stabbed by the ringwraith and Aragorn asks, "Sam, do you know the athelas plant?"
Sam: Athelas?
Aragorn: Kingsfoil
Sam: Kingsfoil, aye, it's a weed.
And Aragorn sends Sam off to find it. 2 things wrong here. Sam's dear fried Frodo is dying, and he's wasting time telling Aragorn what type of plant it is. Granted, that didn't take up too much time. However, as soon as he sends Sam off, Aragorn turns around and finds the plant right there. I know it's supposed to be this big tense scene, but I can't help laugh at it.

[HyToFry]

Um.. yes. Definately Sixth Day.

I'm also retarded.

[quercitron]

You're not all-powerful, Ani.

Well I should be! Someday I am going to be the most powerful Jedi ever!

Actually, pretty much every line from that movie. 1 and 2 were such a disappointment after two of the Original Trilogy remain, after so long, in my Top 10 movies of all time.

[Vinny]

"He is our last hope!" (e.g. The Rock)

Plu-leez.

Not a line, but I hate it when they diffuse the bomb right at the last second. That ticks me off everytime I see it.

[Ghost Post]

well, what would you prefer? they defuse the bomb in the first five minutes and spend the rest of the movie sitting on lawn chairs drinking lemonade?

[Dragon Phoenix]

You don't see the movies where they fail to defuse the bomb in time, because the whole set with actors and director gets blown up.

[groza528]

Have they ever had a movie where the hero fails to defuse the bomb? The whole audience is going "Oh, no worries. It's supposed to be suspenseful, but just wait until the clock starts slowing down, and you know he's almost there." Then BOOM!
That would be such a plot twist, I'll bet it would be a box office hit. Or maybe not, because you'd have to ruin the ending to tell anyone about it.

[groza528]

aww, DP beat me

[Vinny]

and should I cut the BLUE wire? or the RED wire? Oh oh oh! If cut the wrong one, we'll be DOOOMED! DOOOOOOOOOMED! RED!?!?!? or BLUE!?!?!? RED?!?!?? OR BLUE!?!??! The HORROR!!!! I'll just close my eyes, meeny eeny polka dot bikini, *snipped*

Oh, my finger! my finger! tick tick tick.

3 .. 2 ... *snipped*

*hold breath*

Everything is OK.

Woohoo! That was fun!

[jadesmar]

I think our heroes fail to diffuse the bomb at the beginning of Lethal Weapon III. And, Roger's toilet bomb in Lethal Weapon II.

[Vinny]

yeah, that sh*t was nasty.

[The Ktulu]

They didn't defuse the bomb in The Mask either....

[casinopete]

Originally posted by the narrator (Galadrial, I think) in the opening narration for Fellowship:

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And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth. For two and a half thousand years, the ring passed out of all knowledge.

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Of course, elves happen to be immortal, and many of them including Galadriel were alive at the time of the battle. History became legend became myth, my ass.

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[Duke Gnome]

Or (spoiler)Arlington Road(/spoiler)

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[One Skunk Todd]

[Samadhi]

OST: I thought of the same thing! That was great.

[Edit: Uhhh, the stick was filled with glowy water. Mystery solved ]



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[Courk]

Today my mom was watching the Amy Fisher Story on Lifetime, and at one point, Amy is discussing college with a friend, and she says, "Yeah, the one I like has a dorm where I can live." I thought, "Yeah, because few colleges have dorms."

[The Ktulu]

Pretty much anytime someone says, "Life's not fair." This is usually followed by a whined "It's not fair!" But not always. Either way, Life is Fair.

[Samadhi]

Just listening to oldies and was reminded of my old favorite bug (though I love the song)...
"It's gonna take a lot to drag me away from you
"It's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do."

So one could do it?

[ctrlaltdel]

mybe it needs 0 people to be done... or a few negative people...

[The Ktulu]

I wonder if I'm the only person who's sometimes bothered by "Live every day as if it were your last." Nothing would get done in that case.

[Samadhi]

That reminds me of the Simpson's episode where someone tells that to Homer and the next scene has him bawling his eye's out in the parking lot.

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[The Ktulu]

I remember in The World Is Not Enough towards the end, Dr. Christmas (or whoever she was) describes what she's going to do for her part on saving the day. Wouldn't this just distract Bond?

[Norinel]

It's kind of OT, but one really good bomb defusing moment is in Galaxy Quest. (spoiler invizzed) (Background: The starship they're on is based on aliens watching a sci-fi TV show and building the ship based on the ship in the show) So the heroes get through all the traps and get to the bomb defusing button, and press it with like 16 seconds left. It doesn't stop, and they freak out because it didn't work. It counts down, and when it hits one, it stops, because you never defuse the bomb with more than one second left.