Stupid/useless movie lines....

[Plantman]

I am pretty good at picking up bloopers in movies and have also noticed lines in movies that just do not make sense.

For example, In the movie, In the line of Fire, starring Clint Eastwood as a secret service agent chasing a guy who is threatening to kill the president, he finds out the would be assassin is a former CIA operative and happens upon his house.

While in the house, he is confronted by a Senior CIA agent who is also looking for this wacko. Anyway, gun in hand, Eastwood asks, "Who are you here for Leary, or me?"

Senseless.

In the movie Seven, the Captain of the 2 detective searching for a serial killer, moves to a desk near the dicks to ask some questions. The phone rings incessantly and he answers it by saying, "this isn't even my desk" and hangs up.

Again, senseless.

Anyone else have some bloopers or useless lines that make you wonder?

Thanks

[Wodnek]

In the original Star Wars after the droiids wander through the dessert the stormtroopers investigate. One bends down and picks up some springs and gears and says "Look sir, Droids."
Droids leaving springs and gears behind would be like people leaving toes and fingers. Just doesn't add up.

[Plantman]

In the Arnold movie "Commando" he got into a car chase with a yellow Porshe that flipped over and was real banged up on one side. Arnold pushed the car to make it go back on all fours and the damage was obvious.

A few frames go by and he and the girl drive on their merry way with no damage at all.

[MTI]

This is more along the lines of "fantasy" than a true blooper . . . in "Jersey Girl" the Ben Afleck character has to take his newborn daughter with him to a press event featuring Will Smith at the NYC Hard Rock Cafe. Somehow he manages to get a street parking space directly across the front door in the middle of the day . . . talk about suspension of disbelief!

[hos280]

Jersey girl? that whole movie was useless.

how bout useless and wrong TV lines.


CSI

a man falls in a construction site from high up. The crime scene investigator says " well we know he was falling at a velocity of 32ft/s2."

who writes this stuff, i want their job

You guys need to see Film Fakers on AMC, they produce these pitiful movies without the actors knowing the movie is a fake so the actors are acting out the most awful scripts ever written.

[fz500sel]

when LAVERNE AND SHIRLEY was on TV, they had an episode where both Laverne and Shirley were sitting in their kitchen eating breakfast. On the kitchen table was a box of Wheaties. On the cover of the Wheaties was a picture of Bruce Jenner from Olympics winning the decathlon. The show was supposed to be taking place in the 50's. Bruce Jenner won the Olympics in the 70's.

Doh!

[Botnst]

People in horror or suspense or mystery movies that open a door in which they expect to confront bad guys and don't close the door behind themselves as they enter. They deserve the knife in the back.

I've seen this mostly on TV--folks who get out of a car and leave the lights on.

An explosion in space goes BOOM. Hey folks, it's a vacuum. No boom in a vacuum. Please don't do that anymore.

[hos280]

How about bad carpentry shows.

I once saw this show hosted by a semi-hippie gal who fixed things around the house. She was working on a closet and lost her hammer, while everyone could see she left it on her shelf slightly above her head. That was fairly harmless.

she later cut some molding for the closet and mitered the end the wrong direction and tried to fit it in place before she realized it. I was dieing hoping someone else in the world was watching this.

she was some CA chick with flowers on her T-shirt. I tuned in every week to see what mistakes she would make.

[Benzadmiral]

Overzealous editing, or by editors who don't know the whole movie.

In the first (1977) "Superman" film w/Christopher Reeve, there is a moment at the climax where Superman is trying to stop the missile that is hurtling toward Hackensack, New Jersey. He was in Metropolis, which we all know is located where New York City is in our world, in the previous scene when Valerie Perrine's character sets him free. And the missiles, we are shown, were fired out near Kansas, one going east toward NJ, one west. Yet we see him flying *after* the missile headed for NJ -- chasing it. How did it get past him?

Well, when the movie was first shown on network TV in the '80s, they restored several scenes that had been cut for the theatrical release. One such scene shows Superman hanging in air, ready to catch the eastbound missile -- and it swerves to avoid him (which might be a whole new "senseless" scene right there). Then we see him chasing it.

But it was cut, like an earlier scene where, as he marches through a dim passage on the way to Lex Luthor's hideout, a machine gun fires at him and we see the tracer bullets bouncing off him. How could you have a Superman movie without that? Yet it too was cut.

Anybody know if these scenes are on the DVD?

[MTI]

Reaching far back . . . John Wayne in the closing of "The Green Berets" is supposed to be on the shore of a base in DaNang, standing before the setting sun with a kid, delivering the line "you're what this war is all about . . "

First the line was pure malarkey and you can't see ocean sunsets from DaNang

[G-Benz]

Originally Posted by Botnst

An explosion in space goes BOOM. Hey folks, it's a vacuum. No boom in a vacuum. Please don't do that anymore.

Too late!

"2001:A Space Odyssey" got it right. After that, the IQ of the mainstream movie audience couldn't fathom an exciting space battle without the accompaning explosions that normally transpire in atmospheric conditions!

Besides, what good is it to have Bruce Willis nuke an asteroid if all you get is a blinding flash of light?

Face it...we like the sound of things blowing up!

By the way, in "The Wizard of Oz", Dorothy's hair is in different lengths throughout the movie...either no one figured out that her hair would grow during the long shoot, or there were strip mall salons along the yellow brick road!

[fz500sel]

How about the scene in RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK where Indiana Jones falls into the pit with the snakes. He falls and is face to face with a cobra. You can see the reflection of the cobra in the glass that is between him and Harrison Ford.