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"You saved my life."
"No... you saved mine."
THE BLIND SIDE
"You changed that boys life."
"No... he changed mine."
HARDBALL
"You sure taught those kids a lot."
"No... they taught me."
Can anyone name other examples of this ham-fisted awful line/flipping dialogue trope? I know there are more. Every time I hear a variation of it, it's like a hammer to the eye.
You will not control your patience as long as your patience controls you.
To learn my teachings, I must first teach you how to learn.
He who questions training only trains himself at asking questions.
etc...
IT'S MY TRILOGY, AND I WANT IT NOW!
"[George Lucas] rebooted the franchise in 1997 without telling anyone." -skyjedi2005
"Yeah, well, George says a lot of things..." a young 1997 xhonzi on RASSM
"They're my movies." -George Lucas. 19 people won oscars for their work on Star Wars (1977) and George Lucas wasn't one of them.
Is that the Sphinx from Mystery Men?
Almost every line of dialogue from the character was a spoof of that Cliche.
ANAKIN: You are so beautiful!
PADME: It's only because I'm so in love . . .
ANAKIN: No, it's because I'm so in love with you.
PADME: So love has blinded you?
ANAKIN: Well, that's not exactly what I meant . . .
PADME: But it's probably true!
They laugh.
xhonzi said:
You will not control your patience as long as your patience controls you.
To learn my teachings, I must first teach you how to learn.
He who questions training only trains himself at asking questions.
etc...
MYSTERY MEN !!!
"I'VE GROWN TIRED OF ASKING, SO THIS WILL BE THE LAST TIME..."
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"Some kind of."
As in "This looks like some kind of ____," or "It must be some kind of ____," or "I think it's some kind of ______."
Just drop the "some kind of!" It's unnecessary and it bugs the fucking shit out of me!
... *ahem* ... sorry about that.
"You were my best student" (as an expression of disappointment).
ChainsawAsh said:
"Some kind of."
As in "This looks like some kind of ____," or "It must be some kind of ____," or "I think it's some kind of ______."
Just drop the "some kind of!" It's unnecessary and it bugs the fucking shit out of me!
... *ahem* ... sorry about that.
This appears to be some kind of trap.
"We made it!" as a precursor to clearly not.
"we need closure"
"you need to let someone in"
"we will get through this because we are a family" (usually coupled with the speaking character grasping the hand of the person they are talking to.
"I made a promise"
"I've got your back"
"We have company"
"He killed my brother"
Is this some kind of bust?
Yes, ma'am, it's very impressive.
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How is that "worst?"
I will not list every time I have heard it but it seems like on every tv show or movie where a female character has a dead mother at some point someone always makes the remark that she looks just like her mother. What is worse is a lot of times when we finally see the mother in a flashback or a photo the actress playing the mother looks nothing like the actress playing the daughter, so not only is the statement cliched but it is also untrue.
In time travel stories...
"Where are we?"
"I think the question is, when are we?"
I’m just here because I’m driving tonight.
"I've got you!"
"But who's got you?"
I don't know how often it appears on-screen, but it's shown up in comic books often enough to make my eyes roll.
DuracellEnergizer said:
"I've got you!"
"But who's got you?"
I don't know how often it appears on-screen, but it's shown up in comic books often enough to make my eyes roll.
Yeah it was a fun bit when it first showed up in Superman the movie but it has been done to death since then.
"Tastes like chicken."
TK-949 said:
"Tastes like chicken."
Hate that line!
Also if you know what to do with it chicken tastes good and doesn't taste like everything else.
"Then I'll see you in hell"
"Close the blast doors!"
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".... where everything tastes like chicken!"
DrCrowTStarwars said:
I will not list every time I have heard it but it seems like on every tv show or movie where a female character has a dead mother at some point someone always makes the remark that she looks just like her mother. What is worse is a lot of times when we finally see the mother in a flashback or a photo the actress playing the mother looks nothing like the actress playing the daughter, so not only is the statement cliched but it is also untrue.
I find it worse when they look exactly like their mother, except with a slightly different shade of hair color.
"I/you/it/we/they must follow my/your/its/our/their heart(s)."
darth_ender said:
DrCrowTStarwars said:
I will not list every time I have heard it but it seems like on every tv show or movie where a female character has a dead mother at some point someone always makes the remark that she looks just like her mother. What is worse is a lot of times when we finally see the mother in a flashback or a photo the actress playing the mother looks nothing like the actress playing the daughter, so not only is the statement cliched but it is also untrue.
I find it worse when they look exactly like their mother, except with a slightly different shade of hair color.
That bugs me too since it rarely happens in real life but at least the line is true in that case.
Problem happens all episode then a conversation about something seemingly irrelevant but one word in the conversation sets the pieces together.
"Oh you know there was a baseball game on last night."
"Oh neat what happened?"
"It was a no hitter"
"'No hitter' you say?"
"Yeah, it was I was so..."
"That's it! They weren't hit at all! They did it to themselves!"
"..."
"All their wounds were self-inflicted! It all makes sense now!"
"..."
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ooh that can become quite annoying if it's really forced, particularly if a character says "wait a minute, what did you just say?" "blah de blah" "That's it!!!"