There are some movies that are just destroyed by their dialogue. The dialogue is just TOO important to a movie to screw up. Great lines can make a good movie great.
You can screw up the soundtrack (Ladyhawke) and still have a great movie with incredible dialogue. But put out some corny lines and it is enough to make you uncomfortable in your seat. Entertainment Weekly has compiled its nominees of the top 15 worst lines of dialogue in a movie. In no particular order:
Notting Hill – “I’m just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her.”
Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith – “Hold me, like you did by the lake on Naboo.”
Jerry Maguire – “You complete me.”
Ever After – “A bird may love a fish, signore, but where will they live?'”
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me – “I’m gone, like a turkey in the corn. Gobble gobble!”
XMen – “You know what happens when a toad gets struck by lightning? The same thing that happens to everything else.”
Sin City – “My warrior woman. My valkyrie. You’ll always be mine, always and never. Never. The Fire, baby. It’ll burn us both. It’ll kill us both. There’s no place in this world for our kind of fire.”
Pretty Woman – “And she rescues him right back.”
She’s All That – “I feel just like Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman. You know, except for the whole hooker thing”
Love Story – “Love means never having to say you’re sorry.”
A Cry in the Dark – “A dingo ate my baby!”
As Good as it Gets – “You’re why cavemen chiseled on walls.”
Four Weddings and a Funeral – “Is it still raining? I hadn’t noticed.”
Dirty Dancing – “I carried a watermelon.”
City of Angels – “We were made to fit together.”
Though I don’t actually agree with the list entirely, however it does hit a few of my pet peeves in movies such as Storm’s horribly delivered line in XMen. other lines may be on this list undeservedly. Baby’s line in Dirty Dancing was deliberately a verbal stumble which she reflects on moments later.
So what lines in a movie ruined it for you?
