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24 Feb 10 - 01:14 AM (#2848402) Subject: BS: Unfortunate quotes from films From: MGM·Lion I have never forgotten the ringing line from the film Sodom & Gomorrah (1963): "The Sodomite cavalry are notoriously unreliable". How could the script editors, editors, et al, right up to the director, producer, studio boss, all have let that line thru? Other examples of where the same question could be asked? |
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24 Feb 10 - 01:27 AM (#2848405) Subject: RE: BS: Unfortunate quotes from films From: Ebbie Over dere is the land of my fadah. |
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24 Feb 10 - 01:42 AM (#2848409) Subject: RE: BS: Unfortunate quotes from films From: michaelr mgm - what is it about that bit of dialogue? |
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24 Feb 10 - 01:48 AM (#2848410) Subject: RE: BS: Unfortunate quotes from films From: Lonesome EJ "I'm just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her." Julia Roberts to Hugh Grant Notting Hill Horrible, gag-inducing tripe spewed out with false sincerity by an actress of remarkable ineptness. |
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24 Feb 10 - 02:26 AM (#2848413) Subject: RE: BS: Unfortunate quotes from films From: MGM·Lion From: michaelr - PM Date: 24 Feb 10 - 01:42 AM mgm - what is it about that bit of dialogue?==== Buggered if I know really, Other Michael |
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24 Feb 10 - 02:41 AM (#2848416) Subject: RE: BS: Unfortunate quotes from films From: VirginiaTam ROFLMAO - MtheGM too right! I got it immediately. |
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24 Feb 10 - 04:29 AM (#2848462) Subject: RE: BS: Unfortunate quotes from films From: Dave the Gnome I believe it to be 'The Iron Mistress' with Alan Ladd as a young Jim Bowie. Full face screen shot of Virginia Mayo's character glancing down towards Bowie's lower regions. "I see you are still wearing the sheath..." :D (eG) |
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24 Feb 10 - 04:48 AM (#2848479) Subject: RE: BS: Unfortunate quotes from films From: kendall In HONDO, Marion Morrison said to a young man, "Never apologize, it's a sign of weakness." Anyone who never apologizes is either God or an asshole. |
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24 Feb 10 - 05:35 AM (#2848511) Subject: RE: BS: Unfortunate quotes from films From: TheSnail In the truly dreadful science fiction film "The Swarm", Michael Caine's character is asked if the noise of the helicopters will drown out the sound that they are using to entice the bees to their death. He replies "No. It's an entirely different sonic level." You can tell he knows that there is nothing he can do with that line so he doen't even try. |
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24 Feb 10 - 10:31 AM (#2848721) Subject: RE: BS: Unfortunate quotes from films From: Ebbie Love means you never have to say you are sorry. Or something like that. |
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24 Feb 10 - 10:37 AM (#2848726) Subject: RE: BS: Unfortunate quotes from films From: SINSULL Beat me to it, Ebbie. Total claptrap. |
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24 Feb 10 - 10:41 AM (#2848731) Subject: RE: BS: Unfortunate quotes from films From: TheSnail Parodied as "Having a vasectomy means never having to say your sorry." |
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24 Feb 10 - 12:38 PM (#2848867) Subject: RE: BS: Unfortunate quotes from films From: Doug Chadwick MtheGM, you're amused by the use of the word "Sodomite" ? In a film entitled Soddom & Gomorrah, what would you expect them to be called? Whatever the later connotations associated with the word, it is the correct term for the inhabitants of Sodom. It brings to mind groups of children giggling at the back of the classroom after looking up rude words in the dictionary. The same sort of nonsense occurs when dealing with male and female canines – some people can't bring themselves to use the word bitch and end up talking of dogs and dogs of the opposite sex. DC |
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24 Feb 10 - 12:51 PM (#2848879) Subject: RE: BS: Unfortunate quotes from films From: Bert Ain't that a bitch Doug. It is still funny though. |
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24 Feb 10 - 01:11 PM (#2848903) Subject: RE: BS: Unfortunate quotes from films From: Ebbie Hah, Doug. I have heard a bull referred to as a boy cow. |
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24 Feb 10 - 02:34 PM (#2849001) Subject: RE: BS: Unfortunate quotes from films From: Wesley S My wife's favorite is from the movie "Twister". You have a killer tornado coming right at you. What do you say? "Run!!" |
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24 Feb 10 - 03:31 PM (#2849081) Subject: RE: BS: Unfortunate quotes from films From: Uncle_DaveO Honest to God, I've heard someone refer to "lady dogs". Dave Oesterreich |
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24 Feb 10 - 03:43 PM (#2849102) Subject: RE: BS: Unfortunate quotes from films From: frogprince I think this was from "Return of the Living Dead": "Somebody bring a light; Trash is taking all her clothes off again". Honest to God truth: I was once asked to read the story of the "Triumphal Entry" in a very "conservative" church on Palm Sunday. But I was asked not to use the King James Version, although that was what they normally favored. They didn't want to hear the word "ass" from the pulpit. |
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24 Feb 10 - 03:51 PM (#2849108) Subject: RE: BS: Unfortunate quotes from films From: mkebenn In some old "D" horror movie.." I believe we have an outbreak of werewolfery" OMG Mike |
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24 Feb 10 - 04:08 PM (#2849124) Subject: RE: BS: Unfortunate quotes from films From: Ed T William H. Bonney: "Dear Governor Axtell. I've heard that you will give 200 dollars for my head. Perhaps we should meet and talk. I am at the Juarez village at the border. Send 3 men, and instruct them not to shoot, as I am unarmed. In short, Sir; I surrender. Your obedient servant William H. Bonney. PS: I changed my mind. Kiss my ass." Richard Brewer: Lord, forgive us for our wrongdoings, for our misguidance by heathen religions. Thank you for keeping us alive. Lord, be with us in doing the right thing. Our Father, who art in Heaven, hallow be thy name. William H. Bonney: Please, Dick. It's getting cold. (he and Dick both pull guns on each other) I could've killed you, Dick. I could've killed you, but I don't want to kill you. I want to eat. Young Guns |
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24 Feb 10 - 05:14 PM (#2849188) Subject: RE: BS: Unfortunate quotes from films From: Ed T I talk Japanese, but I sing Black. Like Paula Abdul. Fear of a Black Hat Who dat is? She do nails? I need to have my nails did. Diary of a Mad Black Woman |
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24 Feb 10 - 05:19 PM (#2849197) Subject: RE: BS: Unfortunate quotes from films From: Ed T John Wilson: That's right. You're way too beautiful for that. Anyway, she went on to say that that's how she felt about it, that if she had her way, she would kill them all, burn them in ovens, like Hitler. Well, we all sat there in silence. Then finally, I leaned over to her and I said, Madam, I have dined with some of the ugliest goddamn *****es in my time. And I have dined with some of the goddamndest ugly *****es in this world. But you, my dear, are the ugliest ***** of them all. Well, anyway, she got up to leave and she tripped over a chair and fell on the floor. And we all just sat there. No one raised a hand to help her. And finally when she picked herself up I said to her one more time: You, my dear, are the ugliest goddamn ***** I have ever dined with. Well, you know what happened? The very next day, she reported me to the American Embassy. And they brought me in for reprimand. And then when they investigated it, they found out she was a German agent. And they locked her up. [smiles] John Wilson: Isn't that amazing? Mrs. MacGregor: Why did you tell me that story? John Wilson: Oh, I don't know. It wasn't because I thought you were a German agent, honey. But I was tempted tonight to say the very same thing to you. I didn't want you to think I had never said it before. You, madam, are the - Well, you know the rest. White Hunter Black Heart I'm gonna make you look like a sick faggot. Black Belt Jones 1974 |
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24 Feb 10 - 09:59 PM (#2849443) Subject: RE: BS: Unfortunate quotes from films From: Riginslinger In the film - Smokey and the Bandit - 1977 - when Jerry Reed is talking about something (don't recall the context) he said, "The go together like Lester and Earl." At the time, everybody in the audience knew he was talking about Flatt & Scrugs. How many people would know what that line meant today? |
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25 Feb 10 - 12:01 AM (#2849513) Subject: RE: BS: Unfortunate quotes from films From: katlaughing From True Grit, undoubtedly the worse film John Wayne ever starred in, imo: LeBoeuf - You squirrel-headed bastard! Rooster Cogburn - Backward. I always go backward when I'm backin' away. Mattie Ross: They say he has grit. I wanted a man with grit. Col. G. Stonehill: Well, I suppose he has that. He's a notorious thumper. He's not a man I would care to share a bed with. Mattie Ross: Nor would I. |
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25 Feb 10 - 12:44 AM (#2849524) Subject: RE: BS: Unfortunate quotes from films From: MGM·Lion Do you know Charles Portis's original True Grit novel, tho, Kat? very well worth reading ~ much better than the film [which, however, I don't think quite as bad as you do]. Choccie·bar ~ M |
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25 Feb 10 - 01:43 AM (#2849542) Subject: RE: BS: Unfortunate quotes from films From: katlaughing I don't, Michael; will give it a try. They filmed it just up the road from here. I don't know if it was the contrast between Hollywood "cowboys" and the real deals I grew up with, including my dad, or that the acting was so lousy, but none of us thought it was worth anything, esp. the actress who played the girl. Her delivery of lines, etc. was horrible, wooden, etc. imo.:-) kitkat |
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25 Feb 10 - 04:19 AM (#2849591) Subject: RE: BS: Unfortunate quotes from films From: Acorn4 There was the dinosaur that people missed in "Jurassic Park" The two actors were hiding behind some bushes looking at one of the fierce beasts when one said to the other:- "Doyouthinkhesaurus?" |
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25 Feb 10 - 04:22 AM (#2849593) Subject: RE: BS: Unfortunate quotes from films From: MGM·Lion Kim Darby, wasn't it? I rather liked her performance, esp having read the book; in which the point is that Matty, looking back on the events many years later (& in a situation omitted from the film which I won't reveal to you as it is a nice plot point) has this matter-of-fact approach to all these sensational events, both in youth & in age. This might appear as woodenness, but I found it rather subtly done. I valued, e.g., {a touch which doesn't happen in the book} the way Kim D as Matty reacted to the hangings she had just seen: something like, "Well, my goodness!" kitkat |
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25 Feb 10 - 09:22 PM (#2850412) Subject: RE: BS: Unfortunate quotes from films From: Bugsy There's always this one..... "What is it, you c**t face?" And when you see an amateur production, it's usually even more pronounced. Cheers Bugsy |
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25 Feb 10 - 09:29 PM (#2850415) Subject: RE: BS: Unfortunate quotes from films From: katlaughing LOL, Bugsy! Michael, I will probably never read the book, but ya never know.:-) kit, kat |
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25 Feb 10 - 10:10 PM (#2850431) Subject: RE: BS: Unfortunate quotes from films From: ichMael Quotes from old films can be strange after time has altered the meaning of a word. From The Big Sleep, with Humphrey Bogart as private detective Phillip Marlowe: Marlowe: I'm a private dick on a case. Perhaps I'm asking too much, although it doesn't seem too much to me somehow. http://www.bookrags.com/quotes/The_Big_Sleep_(1946_film) |
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25 Feb 10 - 10:31 PM (#2850446) Subject: RE: BS: Unfortunate quotes from films From: frogprince One thing about the movie True Grit has always stuck with me; for years, I was certain Glen Campbell would hold the prize for the worst acting ever seen in a weatern. Eventually Bob Zimmerman muddied the water a bit with his role as Alias in Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid. |
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25 Feb 10 - 10:37 PM (#2850449) Subject: RE: BS: Unfortunate quotes from films From: MGM·Lion Re Bugsy's post 3 back (slight drift, but hell, I'm OP so I can): In the innocent days of the 1920s-30s, when Richmal Crompton published all those magazine stories of William Brown ['Just William'] & his friends The Outlaws, all reissued in book form until after her death in 1969, the word "couldn't" as pronounced by the 4 boys was always rendered as "cun't". I have always been amazed that nobody ever drew attention to this & alerted the publishers Newnes as to the unfortunate ambiguity. William was to her in a way what Sherlock Holmes was to Conan Doyle ~ she published many ordinary 'adult' novels but it was ever the William stories she was known, & is now remembered, for. |
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26 Feb 10 - 10:39 AM (#2850813) Subject: RE: BS: Unfortunate quotes from films From: Little Hawk Dylan's rendition of his role as "Alias" was a bit perplexing, all right. ;-) Was it deep and cryptic? Or was it just very bad acting? Or was it both? |
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26 Feb 10 - 06:57 PM (#2851218) Subject: RE: BS: Unfortunate quotes from films From: Dave MacKenzie Alias comes out differently depending on which cut you watch. In the original cinema release there was practically nothing left apart from him identifying himself as Alias. |
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27 Feb 10 - 01:20 PM (#2851654) Subject: RE: BS: Unfortunate quotes from films From: alanabit "War, war, war, Dickie Plantagenet. That's all you ever think about!" That one was given by Virginia Mayo to George Sanders in "Richard and the Crusaders". Apparently, it was not the only stinker of a line in that particular celluloid calamity. Oddly enough, the plays of DH Lawrence contain several lines, which are just as cretinous. |
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27 Feb 10 - 03:09 PM (#2851724) Subject: RE: BS: Unfortunate quotes from films From: MGM·Lion alanabit ~ so do the novels of Lawrence; his trouble was that he meant well but had a tin ear, both for way people speak & for the way his own pomposities and portentousnesses actually came over. |
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27 Feb 10 - 05:24 PM (#2851814) Subject: RE: BS: Unfortunate quotes from films From: michaelr I still don't get it... |
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27 Feb 10 - 07:03 PM (#2851896) Subject: RE: BS: Unfortunate quotes from films From: Don(Wyziwyg)T ""In HONDO, Marion Morrison said to a young man, "Never apologize, it's a sign of weakness." Anyone who never apologizes is either God or an asshole."" Yeah, and the Duke was also known to be a rabid Republican, a homophobe on the grand scale, and a social and racial bigot. Fits right in doesn't it. |
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28 Feb 10 - 02:29 PM (#2852361) Subject: RE: BS: Unfortunate quotes from films From: Charley Noble From Moby Dick: Capt. Ahab to Starbuck, "You mind holding the line? I think I'll go below!" CXheerily, Charley Noble |
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28 Feb 10 - 02:46 PM (#2852372) Subject: RE: BS: Unfortunate quotes from films From: alanabit I can't remember anything that bad from Lawrence's books MtheGM, but as I have not read them for over twenty years, I will take your word for it. Nothing quite sticks in my mind quite like the line from the wretched "David", "Oh woman come and know me!" which you can neither play for rhetoric and somehow does not come across as erotic. Then there is the stage direction from the same atrocity, "Throws himself to the ground in a paroxysm of grief." (I should think the poor director might have cause to!) Going back to films, I am surprised to be the first here to mention the Roman soldier at the foot of the cross in Cecile B de Mille's "The Greatest Story Ever Told" - "There truly was the son of God!" (drawled by John Wayne). Only he could have introduced comedy to a scene like that. |
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01 Mar 10 - 02:45 AM (#2852750) Subject: RE: BS: Unfortunate quotes from films From: Doug Chadwick I was in a cinema when they ran a trailer for "The Greatest Story Ever Told" as an upcoming feature. As the long list of actors was read out, the line ...... and John Wayne as the centurion ...... brought a huge guffaw from the audience. You didn't even have to hear him speak his lines to see the comedy potential. DC |
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01 Mar 10 - 11:06 AM (#2853091) Subject: RE: BS: Unfortunate quotes from films From: Nigel Parsons In the innocent days of the 1920s-30s, when Richmal Crompton published all those magazine stories of William Brown ['Just William'] & his friends The Outlaws, all reissued in book form until after her death in 1969, the word "couldn't" as pronounced by the 4 boys was always rendered as "cun't". I have always been amazed that nobody ever drew attention to this & alerted the publishers Newnes as to the unfortunate ambiguity. In the S Wales valleys the problem continues, 'cun' = I am able, as in "I cun do that". The misspronunciation doesn't appear to carry over into the negative though. |
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01 Mar 10 - 01:31 PM (#2853240) Subject: RE: BS: Unfortunate quotes from films From: MGM·Lion Yes, Nigel ~ but it doesn't appear in that form IN PRINT does it?; as the innocent authoress & her [it appears astonishingly] =ly ingenuous publishers perpetrated for all those years: which is what I was drawing attention to. |