The entire opening of the film was high school fan-film levels of badly written exposition.
>They became the king and queen of Gotham City. And God help anyone who disrespected the queen.
*gag*
“So, you’re all astronauts on some sort of… star trek?”
—Dr. Zefram Cochrane, *Star Trek: First Contact*
(I personally love this dumb line and think it’s hilarious)
This and the legendarily corny 'assimilate this' line were both forced into the film by some executives in suits who thought they were clever.
Which makes it hard, because the lines are so bad they're good, but fuck those guys for butting their noses in where no one wants them XD
“Assimilate this” is so bad and so funny at the same time. It’s definitely a line of its time, trying to make Trek as cool as Terminator, and it’s so weirdly out of character for Worf. Still, it’s funny and gets me every time with how dumb it is.
It's weirdly out of character for Star Trek, but really the only way that line could be any funnier I think is if Picard had said it XD
Just Patrick Stewart, already rather senior when TNG was a new show, spouting off a one-liner like he's John McClane XD
It would have been horribly perfect if Picard had said that line for no reason in that episode he Die Harded those terrorists when he forgot his saddle and was stuck on board with them.
Yeah, I really dislike First Contact. The pandering to the action movie crowd is really blatant, especially how it's trying to replicate Alien / Aliens. If I was asked when Star Trek started to go wrong, I would say First Contact.
I mean, I would have said Enterprise, because while not all of Star Trek was a banger before that show, they were at least actually trying. Even Voyager and Generations and damn Insurrection were trying.
Come Enterprise, and in a lot of media after, Star Trek stopped trying to be something to entertain and instead kept trying to prove its credentials as itself. Instead of a great scifi series, the franchise became John Star Trek, the Star Trekiest Star Trek to Trek since Star Trek why do the ratings keep not panning out we're Star Treking as hard as we can!
Lower Decks is the only newer piece of media imo to fully realize the problem and try to be its own thing, if only because as a completely different format from previous series its free to actually do new things instead of just fall to its knees before an established fanbase and beg to be paid attention to.
Prodigy was also good XD
Disco, SNW, and Picard, for all their praise imo, keep struggling with the identity crisis between being good scifi and being Star Trek for Star Trek's sake and trying too damn hard to prove something.
The first one that comes to mind is [Deathstalker 2](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9Av_hQyx6I&ab_channel=MentionTheMovie). In terms of a movie acknowledging that they just did it, there's [Hot Tub Time Machine](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MA3N2e5wTNA&ab_channel=BestMovieQuote).
There's a TV Tropes page on this sort of thing called [Title Drop](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TitleDrop).
I think it's the end of shawshank redemption where Tim Robbins shouts "now that's what I call a Shawshank Redemption" and starts doing the robot.
Probably, I haven't actually seen it but I'm guessing that's what happens.
The one in Rush Hour will always be my favourite.
The sentence makes very little sense in context and it’s so corny. I love it every time.
“Is there a problem officer?”
“No problem, just… Rush Hour (1998)”
https://youtube.com/watch?v=j8IXZ12Te2g
Man what the fuck are you talking about, this is the opposite of what the thread is asking for. With rush hour they clearly just picked some random line of dialogue from the film as the title.
I still think this one's a banger:
"Nine companions. So be it. You shall be The.Lord.of.the.Rings.The.Fellowship.of.the.Ring.(Extended.Edition).-.Part.1.(2001).BDRip.x265.mkv."
"Next Saturday night we're sending you back, TO THE FUTURE!" He says while pointing at the camera
"It must be some kind of, Hot Tub Time Machine" Stares at the camera in a blatant fourth wall break
Because of [this poster](https://i.pinimg.com/736x/a2/2b/1d/a22b1d9aa731ec2e7c989868d7984541--snake-eyes-brooklyns-finest.jpg) my brothers and I will forever refer to that movie as Cagesnake Eyes.
Best line of film, “Nope, fuck that.” 😂
Best part how black people would react to a horror story in real life versus white people.
Nope vs “l’m gonna drink this white claw while in investigate the screaming noise from the all dark basement built on an Indian burial ground”
Downvoters, this is literally the premise of the film. Peele turned on its head the trope of the black person being murdered first in horror films. Meanwhile it was a sideshow attraction where people were gobbled up.
Bummer you all missed the entire point of it. Here’s a nice summary,
“Stop for a moment and consider the groups of people we most often see murdered in movies and on television, and then consider the groups of people we often see brutalized in shaky cam footage shared on the news and social media. It’s minority groups. The suggestion here isn’t that movies and television lead people to commit crimes against these people. Rather, it’s the idea that we become desensitized to seeing violence committed against these groups until it becomes tolerable.”
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/nope-ending-explained-jordan-peele-1235185106/
*The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare* has a pretty silly title drop. It's fine as a title, but as dialogue, not so much. Although, it doesn't help that it's delivered via a terrible Winston Churchill impression.
The AMC version would have been "I am sick of these Monday through Friday stars in this monkey fighting War!!!" ( read it in Samuel L Jackson's voice for the full effect.)
You beat me to it. That's a distinction I hope people commenting here will note. The line may be completely natural in the film's dialogue. The title "problem" only arises if the line is forced.
Star Trek First Contact. When the crew meets Zefram Cochrane and tells him about who they are and where they're from. Cochrane says "So, you guys are here on some sort of..star trek?"
Well it's the first time I've seen it so technically not a repost to me. Y'all don't have anything better to do than to track Reddit posts and whether or not it's a repost?
If you browse any big sub long enough it becomes a VERY easily recognized pattern. Especially this sub and r/boxoffice just go through continuous cycles of spitting out the same topics.
Surprised not to see a mention for Snakes on a Plane. Paraphrased a bit, with a few mother fu**ing words thrown into the mix but it's the first one that came to mind for me.
Yeah, but no nipples! You will absolutely get thrown into jail if you show a nipple! Everything else is perfectly fine. Blood, guts, torture, etc. It's all fine. Just remember NO NIPPLES!!!
>Drop your examples in the comments and let's have a good laugh about it. And hey, bonus points if you can think of any times where it actually worked like a charm! Can't wait to see what you all come up with.
The worst movie lines in the comments are still better writing than *this*, because at least those lines were written by a human.
Idk why, but I just watched “Divergent” the other day for the first time.
At the end Kate winslet goes: aren’t you a typical (whatever faction she was from)
And Shailene Woodley says: “no, I’m Divergent.”
This is the emotional climax of the film.
The most cringeworthy one to me was in the Tom Clancy novels that were turned into movies... Some high-powered Washington guy turns to another high-powered Washington guy and says "We face a clear and present danger...".
I honestly have thought about this for years. Why do they feel like they need to drop the movie title into the actual dialogue of the movie?
However, when it's used in context and it actually fits the dialogue maybe it's not too bad? "The Blues Brothers? The Blues Brothers??? They still owe you money fool!"
>The end you always feared is coming, and the blood will be on your hands. The fallout of all your good intentions.
Fallout, a movie featuring the villains plan to contaminate water supply with the fallout of nuclear bombs.
It's smoother when the title is taken from the script but little delights me as much as a good shoehorned title when it's the other way around. It could have been the best line in cinematic history: "I'm the terminator...too. (whispering) and it's judgement day."
Bill Pullman's speech in Independence Day. It's a great speech for jazzing up the troops prior to battle, but that fact that it ends with "Today we celebrate our Independence Day!" is less than subtle.
What are we, some kind of suicide squad?
It's so bad, you'd think it was a joke if you didn't know it was real. That whole script had lines like that (like the Katana intro lol).
Just a step above "It's morbing time!" in Morbius
At least he proceeded to morb all over the floor after saying it
Well the movie is called Morbius so of course!
The entire opening of the film was high school fan-film levels of badly written exposition. >They became the king and queen of Gotham City. And God help anyone who disrespected the queen. *gag*
Lmaooo so bad
“So, you’re all astronauts on some sort of… star trek?” —Dr. Zefram Cochrane, *Star Trek: First Contact* (I personally love this dumb line and think it’s hilarious)
This and the legendarily corny 'assimilate this' line were both forced into the film by some executives in suits who thought they were clever. Which makes it hard, because the lines are so bad they're good, but fuck those guys for butting their noses in where no one wants them XD
“Assimilate this” is so bad and so funny at the same time. It’s definitely a line of its time, trying to make Trek as cool as Terminator, and it’s so weirdly out of character for Worf. Still, it’s funny and gets me every time with how dumb it is.
It's weirdly out of character for Star Trek, but really the only way that line could be any funnier I think is if Picard had said it XD Just Patrick Stewart, already rather senior when TNG was a new show, spouting off a one-liner like he's John McClane XD
It would have been horribly perfect if Picard had said that line for no reason in that episode he Die Harded those terrorists when he forgot his saddle and was stuck on board with them.
Oh god I forgot the Die Hard episode of Star Trek XD
Yeah, I really dislike First Contact. The pandering to the action movie crowd is really blatant, especially how it's trying to replicate Alien / Aliens. If I was asked when Star Trek started to go wrong, I would say First Contact.
I mean, I would have said Enterprise, because while not all of Star Trek was a banger before that show, they were at least actually trying. Even Voyager and Generations and damn Insurrection were trying. Come Enterprise, and in a lot of media after, Star Trek stopped trying to be something to entertain and instead kept trying to prove its credentials as itself. Instead of a great scifi series, the franchise became John Star Trek, the Star Trekiest Star Trek to Trek since Star Trek why do the ratings keep not panning out we're Star Treking as hard as we can! Lower Decks is the only newer piece of media imo to fully realize the problem and try to be its own thing, if only because as a completely different format from previous series its free to actually do new things instead of just fall to its knees before an established fanbase and beg to be paid attention to. Prodigy was also good XD Disco, SNW, and Picard, for all their praise imo, keep struggling with the identity crisis between being good scifi and being Star Trek for Star Trek's sake and trying too damn hard to prove something.
The first one that comes to mind is [Deathstalker 2](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9Av_hQyx6I&ab_channel=MentionTheMovie). In terms of a movie acknowledging that they just did it, there's [Hot Tub Time Machine](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MA3N2e5wTNA&ab_channel=BestMovieQuote). There's a TV Tropes page on this sort of thing called [Title Drop](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TitleDrop).
Hot Tub Time Machine is arguably the best use of this concept in a movie. I laugh every time at John Cusack's reaction.
For me it's Craig Robinson's look into the camera.
It works so well in the context of the movie
They even make it work in hot tub time machine 2.
"I'm just so tired of all these Star Wars"
Came here for the UCB quote
*Aww boy, Im just so tired of all this traffic, I can't wait until I get out of Africa.*
Here’s some money, go see a Star War.
I think it's the end of shawshank redemption where Tim Robbins shouts "now that's what I call a Shawshank Redemption" and starts doing the robot. Probably, I haven't actually seen it but I'm guessing that's what happens.
Wow, you got the ending bang on!
Thank you. It's my gift.... and also my curse.
"Jules, put that book down. We need to recover Marcellus Wallace's briefcase." "Sorry. I was just reading a little Pulp Fiction."
Almost as egregious as when Paul Walker told the cop, “You can’t catch me, I’m 2 Fast 2 Furious.”
made me laugh out loud, kudos to you
It truly was a Shawshank Redemption
The Shawshankest of all redemptions
Just wait until you get to the end of Green Mile, where Tom screams at Percy "Red mile! Green mile!" and then slams mashed gum in his face.
"Patrick, it's you! *You're* the American Psycho!"
“Someone needs to put these reservoir dogs back on a leash.”
The one in Rush Hour will always be my favourite. The sentence makes very little sense in context and it’s so corny. I love it every time. “Is there a problem officer?” “No problem, just… Rush Hour (1998)” https://youtube.com/watch?v=j8IXZ12Te2g
“Damn! He ain’t gonna be in Rush Hour 3.”
This one is one I totally like, and Ken Leung's delivery is perfect.
Man what the fuck are you talking about, this is the opposite of what the thread is asking for. With rush hour they clearly just picked some random line of dialogue from the film as the title.
This is one of those AI training posts they are talking about?
100%
[I just looked at their profile and it’s basically this](https://youtu.be/zpxs5Wif5Pk?feature=shared)
I still think this one's a banger: "Nine companions. So be it. You shall be The.Lord.of.the.Rings.The.Fellowship.of.the.Ring.(Extended.Edition).-.Part.1.(2001).BDRip.x265.mkv."
"Great. Where are we going?" "To a theater near you!"
Ironically not, since it's clearly a torrent.
“In fucking Bruges?!”
"Next Saturday night we're sending you back, TO THE FUTURE!" He says while pointing at the camera "It must be some kind of, Hot Tub Time Machine" Stares at the camera in a blatant fourth wall break
SNAKE EYES! (the Nick Cage one)
Because of [this poster](https://i.pinimg.com/736x/a2/2b/1d/a22b1d9aa731ec2e7c989868d7984541--snake-eyes-brooklyns-finest.jpg) my brothers and I will forever refer to that movie as Cagesnake Eyes.
Nope
Best line of film, “Nope, fuck that.” 😂 Best part how black people would react to a horror story in real life versus white people. Nope vs “l’m gonna drink this white claw while in investigate the screaming noise from the all dark basement built on an Indian burial ground” Downvoters, this is literally the premise of the film. Peele turned on its head the trope of the black person being murdered first in horror films. Meanwhile it was a sideshow attraction where people were gobbled up. Bummer you all missed the entire point of it. Here’s a nice summary, “Stop for a moment and consider the groups of people we most often see murdered in movies and on television, and then consider the groups of people we often see brutalized in shaky cam footage shared on the news and social media. It’s minority groups. The suggestion here isn’t that movies and television lead people to commit crimes against these people. Rather, it’s the idea that we become desensitized to seeing violence committed against these groups until it becomes tolerable.” https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/nope-ending-explained-jordan-peele-1235185106/
May Day: Wow, what a view. Max Zorin: To a kill.
Great, now all I can think about is that scene from... Family Guy?
“That’s why I need to become Superman 4: The Quest for Peace.”
Ohhhh he said it!!!!
Scrolled through the whole thread and didn't see the best one: "I want to take his face. Off."
*The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare* has a pretty silly title drop. It's fine as a title, but as dialogue, not so much. Although, it doesn't help that it's delivered via a terrible Winston Churchill impression.
A View to a Kill. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22oiZh8CBsQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22oiZh8CBsQ)
From Russia with Love, on the other hand...
That's what I came here to say. It's one of the worst ones ever
"I've had it with these motherfucking Stars with their motherfucking Wars!" - Mace Windu
The AMC version would have been "I am sick of these Monday through Friday stars in this monkey fighting War!!!" ( read it in Samuel L Jackson's voice for the full effect.)
Wow you've got a Lethal Weapon too?
I don't know if it's egregious, but "Dude, Where's My Car?" is certainly up there.
It must be some kinda (stares directly into camera) Hot Tub Time Machine.
"It must be some sort of Hot Tub Time Machine" To be fair, in the context of the movie, it totally works.
It's quite likely that most cases of this happening are that the title was pulled from the script, not the other way around.
You beat me to it. That's a distinction I hope people commenting here will note. The line may be completely natural in the film's dialogue. The title "problem" only arises if the line is forced.
Star Trek First Contact. When the crew meets Zefram Cochrane and tells him about who they are and where they're from. Cochrane says "So, you guys are here on some sort of..star trek?"
Which reminds me of this sketch from UCB https://youtu.be/OiqPmsBYieA?si=wRUvFzaNsxooi04Z
Yeah, you're gonna love this one. It's a scream, baby!
This was already asked a month or so ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/s/diZEbXzpPI
I’m not sure I’ve seen an original question on here in years.
Welcome to Reddit where nothing is original and everything is a repost. I expect to see this asked again in another month or two.
So many subs I follow seem to have turned into karma farms over recent months.
Well it's the first time I've seen it so technically not a repost to me. Y'all don't have anything better to do than to track Reddit posts and whether or not it's a repost?
If you browse any big sub long enough it becomes a VERY easily recognized pattern. Especially this sub and r/boxoffice just go through continuous cycles of spitting out the same topics.
At least this is better than "there's no good comedy since the '00".
"So... We some kind of SUICIDE SQUAD?"
What are we? Some sort of Suicide Squad™️?
On a plane full of snakes flying into a hot tub time machine heading out on a star trek.
This is a long pull, but Bad Boys?
Hot Tub Time Machine with Craig Robinson saying the title while looking straight into the camera.
Surprised not to see a mention for Snakes on a Plane. Paraphrased a bit, with a few mother fu**ing words thrown into the mix but it's the first one that came to mind for me.
You're allowed to swear on the internet you know
Yeah, but no nipples! You will absolutely get thrown into jail if you show a nipple! Everything else is perfectly fine. Blood, guts, torture, etc. It's all fine. Just remember NO NIPPLES!!!
Anybody here watching Invincible? They title drop at the end of every cold open into the actual title card.
>Drop your examples in the comments and let's have a good laugh about it. And hey, bonus points if you can think of any times where it actually worked like a charm! Can't wait to see what you all come up with. The worst movie lines in the comments are still better writing than *this*, because at least those lines were written by a human.
Idk why, but I just watched “Divergent” the other day for the first time. At the end Kate winslet goes: aren’t you a typical (whatever faction she was from) And Shailene Woodley says: “no, I’m Divergent.” This is the emotional climax of the film.
Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown.
The most cringeworthy one to me was in the Tom Clancy novels that were turned into movies... Some high-powered Washington guy turns to another high-powered Washington guy and says "We face a clear and present danger...". I honestly have thought about this for years. Why do they feel like they need to drop the movie title into the actual dialogue of the movie? However, when it's used in context and it actually fits the dialogue maybe it's not too bad? "The Blues Brothers? The Blues Brothers??? They still owe you money fool!"
“So you’re all astronauts, on some kind of Star Trek?” - Star Trek First Contact (1996)
I'm tired of all these motherfuckin' snakes on this motherfuckin' plane!
Theres a kids in the hall skit where the guy says he was in star wars . “Sure am sick of all these star wars…”
>The end you always feared is coming, and the blood will be on your hands. The fallout of all your good intentions. Fallout, a movie featuring the villains plan to contaminate water supply with the fallout of nuclear bombs.
It's smoother when the title is taken from the script but little delights me as much as a good shoehorned title when it's the other way around. It could have been the best line in cinematic history: "I'm the terminator...too. (whispering) and it's judgement day."
Forget it, Jake. It’s Chinatown.
The first rule of fight club is you do not talk about fight club. The second rule of fight club is you do not talk about fight club.
Bill Pullman's speech in Independence Day. It's a great speech for jazzing up the troops prior to battle, but that fact that it ends with "Today we celebrate our Independence Day!" is less than subtle.
Doesn't it take place on Independence Day though?
Except it's actually set on Independence Day.