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Guts/Batman
02-20-2006, 10:40 PM
Inspired by Terminator 3 I just watched, I found at least a dozen lines that were uttered merely for the viewer that are, well, totally unecessary...

Such lines as "She'll be back." when the T-X goes down the elevator shaft and "Just die you bitch!" when the T-X is on the particle tube thing...

Any scenes and lines my fellow CBRers can think of...?

kmeyers
02-20-2006, 10:44 PM
Most of the movie "Ferris Bueller''s Day Off."

marshal99
02-20-2006, 11:59 PM
Arnold has been sprouting cliche lines for years in all his movies. It's nothing new.

Chiasm
02-21-2006, 01:06 AM
Half the lines from any porn movie.

My what a big _____ as the starlet is giving a first person performance and looking straight into the camera. Not that I would know personally, I've never ever never seen a porn movie. ;)

Dan Apodaca
02-21-2006, 01:39 AM
Action movies.

Buzz Dixon
02-21-2006, 02:43 AM
"I'm your worst nightmare."

(And the best comeback to that line was in a sit-com -- forgot the title, sorry -- where the person being threatened said: "A clown with a case full of dental tools?")

StoneGold
02-21-2006, 02:50 AM
Aren't they all?

Guts/Batman
02-21-2006, 03:03 AM
Aren't they all?

Well, yes, but I'm talking about the lines where the person's line doesn't really add anything to the overall plot in any way. Like when the character is all alone after doing something and saying something that doesn't add anything to the scene...

KenK
02-21-2006, 06:16 AM
"What would you prefer, yellow spandex?" - Cyclops in X-Men

borateen
02-21-2006, 06:34 AM
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back...the entire film was a bunch of in-jokes for people who had seen the other movies.

Jared
02-21-2006, 10:42 AM
Exposition, especially in science fiction. I remember in particular that Babylon 5 would have loads of absurd conversations where characters were explaining things to each other that they surely must already have understood. It was like somebody clicked a "do you want to know more?" on the screen.

Lubichev
02-21-2006, 11:03 AM
Much of Arrested Development is like that. I think that was one of the reasons people who tried to start watchig halfway through the series didn't quite get it.

"Your gonna get some hop-ons"
"Your gonna get some live-ins."

"It aint easy being white......it aint easy being brown."
the list goes on and on..........

Forefinger
02-21-2006, 11:08 AM
Tyler Durden's rant about you not being your brand of pants done with a shaky shot of Brad Pitt given straight to the camera in Fight Club.

Buzz Dixon
02-21-2006, 01:21 PM
Exposition, especially in science fiction. I remember in particular that Babylon 5 would have loads of absurd conversations where characters were explaining things to each other that they surely must already have understood. It was like somebody clicked a "do you want to know more?" on the screen.
In STEELYARD BLUES Peter Boyle (or rather his stunt double) effortless scales the sheer walls of a metal building with no effort.

"How does he do that?" one character asked.

"Have you ever worked in a circus?" a second character responded.

"No."

"Then I can't tell you."

BoosterBronze
02-21-2006, 02:18 PM
In "Maverick" when Mel Gibson's character runs into Danny Glover. Priceless moment.

Ontir
02-21-2006, 06:39 PM
The unneccessary narration in the New World!