Posted on 12/05/2004 12:11:56 PM PST by sully777
Poll reveals cheesiest film lines
Actor Leonardo DiCaprio's declaration "I'm the king of the world!" in the film Titanic has been voted the cheesiest line in movie history.
Patrick Swayze's famous line in Dirty Dancing - "Nobody puts Baby in the corner" - came second in the survey.
"Is it still raining? I hadn't noticed," uttered by Andie MacDowell at the end of Four Weddings and a Funeral was placed third.
The survey of 2,000 film-goers was commissioned by foodmakers Warburtons.
Swayze makes another appearance at four in Ghost, although the cheesy line belongs to co-star Demi Moore. "I love you," Swayze says, to which Moore replies: "Ditto."
Top Gun came fifth for the moment Val Kilmer tells Tom Cruise: "You can be my wingman any time."
Cringeworthy?
Julia Roberts' line from Notting Hill - "I'm just a girl standing in front of a boy asking him to love her" - was voted sixth.
Bill Pullman is at seven for the moment when - as the US President - he vows to fight off alien invasion: "Today we celebrate our Independence Day."
Eighth place went to this Mel Gibson line from Braveheart: "They make take our lives, but they will never take our freedom!"
Renee Zellweger was ninth on the list for the line in Jerry Maguire when she says to Tom Cruise: "You had me at hello."
And a line delivered by Kevin Costner in his flop The Postman rounds off the top 10.
"You're a godsend, a saviour," a blind woman tells his character. "No," he replies. "I'm a postman."
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thanks, I'm not real observant these days.
"Watch out for his long pointy thing" (in reference to his sword) ; )
"Doobie, doobie, doobie, doobie"
Mad Movies, circa 1987, from a Danny Kaye movie The Inspector General
...wife of Crawdad
I assume you mean Mystery Science Theater 3000. Loved their hilarious version of This Island Earth. When scientist Russell Johnson (later Gilligan's Island's Professor) walked past, the MST guys had him grumble angrily "What's that "and the rest" crap??!!!"
Face it. Neither the lines nor the actors uttering them were the attraction or the stars of Titanic... it was the fantastic set and special effects.
One of the other fascinating aspects was the casting of the named crew members. In almost every case, the actors playing the roles are near dead ringers for the original crewmen. It was a subtle touch that only a Titanic Fanatic would notice... but then I have been fascinated by the hubris inherent in the Titanic story since I read Walter Lord's A Night to Remember when I was 10 years old in 1959.
Like?
I still don't understand why they had DiCaprio portray an Irishman in "Gangs of New York".
Yeah? You didn't have to listen to the young teenage girls crying in the lobby after the movie asking, "Why didn't she move over so that he could climb up?"...
I guess that is it. I care nothing for special effects and man made sets. It's all about the story and the acting for me. The story of the two lovers seemed trumped up, not real and the acting was awful. She appeared to be 28 years old and he looked 16.
Dennis Hopper in "Apocalypse Now": "He likes to be with his peee-pulll!"
She was 18 when filming started on Titanic and he was 21... must be his boyish good looks and her starting to get jowly at a young age.
The story of the Titanic is so compelling that they think they can toss any old potboiler of a plot into that setting and let the ship carry the story. The sad thing is that there are so many TRUE and compelling stories of the real people who either survived or died. Its a shame they had to create one that was neither.
Ok, he was a frozen turkey.
;-)
I think the tears blurred their vision enough that they were unable to identify me.
The next to best part was my date saying afterwords, "So I guess you aren't fond of chick flicks?"
IMHO if a movie does not have a decent plot it should at least have guns, space ships and explosions.
How about "He sunk like John Kerry's campaign." There. That's better.
Only 26 days until Spring Turkey Application.
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