18-05-2025
43 Truly Awful Movie Lines That Almost Made The Rest Of The Movie Unwatchable
Recently, Reddit user StillStanding_96 asked r/Movies about lines that completely pulled you out of the movie. Y'know the feeling — you're totally immersed, and then one dumb, illogical, or just plain unrealistic line pulls you back into your brain, where you go 'huh, that was dumb.' Here are 43 infuriating movie moments that did just that.
shoehorning of the title in Star Trek: First Contact:
the same from A Minecraft Movie:
"First, we mine. Then we craft!' Not that there was much disbelief to be suspended in that movie."
—u/StillStanding_96
this forced exchange from X-Men: First Class:
"This exchange between Xavier and Moira McTaggart at the end of X-Men: First Class:
'We're still on the government's side, Moira. We're still G-men. Just without the G.'
'No. You're your own team now...'
(Me, in my head: No. Don't say it.)
'You're something different. Something better...'
(Don't you dare.)
'You're...X-MEN.'
(Son of a bitch.)"
—u/halloweenjon
another "he said the thing!" example in Suicide Squad:
Suggested by u/BoringUsername6969
from Suicide Squad, when Diablo said this about people he just met:
"Much worse was 'I lost one family, I won't lose another one!' about the people he met yesterday."
—u/Archius9
dialogue from King Kong that reminded you it's all CGI:
"The one that I always think of is from Peter Jackson's King Kong. After landing on the island and discovering the dinosaurs, the film crew starts shooting. The cameraman tells the actor to get into shot with the dinosaurs because otherwise the audience will think they're fake, to which the actor breathlessly replies, 'nobody's going to think these are fake.' Well, I didn't until you said that! Now I'm intensely aware that they're fake, and that this is a movie, and whatever deaths or danger I see from now on are all just pretend. It would be like Aragorn asking one of the hobbits, 'Are you really shorter than I am or are you just far away?'"
—u/StillStanding_96
ridiculously dumb comment from Pearl Harbor:
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nonsensical declaration from Snow White and the Huntsman:
"I don't know how tf this line made it through several drafts of a script, and then passed through enough hands to actually make it into a film."
—u/Help_An_Irishman
famously terrible explanation from Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker:
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this almost equally terrible moment from The Force Awakens:
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"This man was literally a stormtrooper and didn't know they had flying units?"
—u/ConstableGrey
cliche line from The Dark Knight:
"One of the cops in The Dark Knight says, 'Have a nice trip, see you next fall,' and it makes me die inside every time I watch it."
—u/Escapegoat07
with this one from Batman Begins:
"Gordon saying 'I gotta get me one of those' in Batman Begins feels so corny and out of place."
—u/Escapegoat07
ridiculous quote from Twilight:
Suggested by u/Baardseth815
with this one:
Suggested by u/Aggravating-Corner-2
"Heroin, famously only enjoyable if you get it made special just for you. Store-brand junk? Never touch the stuff! It's bespoke heroin or nothing!"
—u/maskaddict
this infamous moment from New Moon:
Suggested by u/HeyheythereMidge
"It's the way he delivers that line and the awkward camera angle of him running that gets me every time, lmao."
—u/Seihai-kun
of response from Tenet that asked the obvious:
"In Tenet, when they say everyone is going to die and the woman asks, 'including my son?' I think the line was just dumb in general, but even the message of the line didn't hit like they wanted it to, because I genuinely don't believe she is a great person or mother if she only cares about her son during an apocalypse. Like, if her son were safe, she would have let everyone else die."
—u/Draw-Two-Cards
this line, which was clearly written by someone who knew nothing about X-Men:
"The guy literally lost the use of his legs fighting for mutant rights."
—u/RoyaleWhiskey
sad attempt at Feminism™ from X-Men: Dark Phoenix:
"Only two possibilities exist: Jennifer Lawrence fought hard for that line to be included, or the writer was on a lot of cocaine."
—u/RoyaleWhiskey
similarly forced and corny "feminist" moment from Avengers: Endgame:
"Peter: 'I don't know how you're gonna get through all that!' Okoye: 'Don't worry.' Wanda: 'She's got help.'
Peter really said that to a woman who had just headbutted a spaceship the size of the moon to pieces because maybe 30 drone army creatures were snarling at them."
—u/BadMan3186
sexual promise from Kingsman: The Secret Service:
"I mean, it's low hanging fruit, but the moment in the first Kingsman movie where the princess, out of nowhere, having just met Eggsy, says '...we can do it in the butt?'' So goofy. Just weird."
—u/bjanas
"It kinda fucks up a really fun movie. It was just so unnecessary."
—u/BeDeRex
this sexual line from Vanilla Sky:
"Cameron Diaz shouting 'I swallowed your cum' at Tom Cruise made it difficult for 17-year-old me to focus on the rest of Vanilla Sky."
—u/HitmanClark
"'I swallowed your cum, David! I swallowed your cum FOUR times! It MEANS something!'
Goddamn i love that beautiful movie with my entire heart and soul, but that moment is so fucking hilarious, especially as it enrages cruise's character so thoroughly that he screams, 'I want you to STOP the car!'"
—u/marcomc2
attempt at modern slang from Jurassic World: Dominion:
In Jurassic World Dominion, Ellie Satler says that Dr. Ian Malcolm 'slid into her DMs'...I haven't cringed at a line harder than that one. It mostly took me out because of how out of place it felt.
—u/Sergi121212
"That sliding into the DMs line sounds just as cringey when said in real life."
—u/BeApesNotCrabs
with this one from Prince of Thieves:
"A modern-looking guy with a modern accent says a modern phrase. It's funny but definitely stands out."
—u/zahnsaw
this one from Napoleon, which felt like a stone's throw from "I'm built different":
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this use of the word "stuff" in Amadeus:
"In Amadeus, when Mozart finds out he must submit samples of his work to be considered for the position of teaching the Emperor's niece, the chamberlain says: 'If you want this position, you must submit your stuff, along with all your colleagues.' The 'stuff' threw me out of the late 1700s/early 1800s vibe."
—u/Sorry_Engineer_6136
quote from Interstellar that was a little too on the nose:
"I enjoy Interstellar, and maybe I'm missing something, but the line 'Love is the one thing that we're capable of perceiving that transcends dimensions of time and space' is just too on the nose. A different take might have been better, but the line is just too clunky and feels shoehorned in to make sure we, the audience, understand the premise of the movie."
—u/iwantedthatwaffle
"Anne Hathaway's love speech from Interstellar. A highly trained astronaut talking in platitudes about love being more than just an emotion, that it transcends time and space like a physical phenomenon, like a 14-year-old girl having her first crush. It was embarrassing."
—u/SamuraiGoblin
reference that was clearly put in for the parents in Moana:
"Moana was good, but there was some random line where Maui says, 'when you use a bird to write, it's called tweeting."
—u/Hypnotic99
"I get that it's a kids movie, and not to be taken too seriously, but this line is so stupid. It makes absolutely no sense in the context of the movie."
—u/SamwellBarley
baffling yet iconic line from The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers:
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this line from Gimli from the extended cut of the same film, which raised questions about scientific knowledge in the LOTR universe:
"Gimli's line about his axe being buried in an orc's central nervous system kicked me right out. They do Orc Anatomy in Middle Earth?"
—u/langly3
comedic moment from Avengers: Endgame, which could've been a lot more heartfelt:
"That heart-wrenching moment when Thor sees his mom again after she was slain, and he absolutely butchers the moment with the line, 'I'm totally from the future.' In that one moment, I really wanted Thor to open up and be vulnerable. They just play the comedy card again and again."
—u/g_r_e_y
line from Mindhunters that came off a little more comedic than intended:
"A movie called Mindhunters is about FBI profilers in training on an island with a serial killer that is picking them off one by one. The killer is also a profiler who sets traps to kill the other characters based on their 'weaknesses.' It's a pretty shitty movie that is over acted and relies on shock kills too much, but then at the end (spoilers for a hilarious B-movie) LL Cool J shoots the serial killer and says the amazing line, 'I guess we know his It's so ridiculous and hilarious that it took me out of this subpar movie and made it a repeat watch for me."
—u/sellyourselfshort
this one from X-Men:
"It was meant to be a throwaway/flippant line, but Halle Berry delivered it so seriously, it was just funny in a bad way."
—u/notsomadboy
silly line from Avengers: Age of Ultron:
"In Avengers: Age of Ultron (not that it was a good movie to begin with), there was a line when Hawkeye was talking to his wife, and she says, 'You know I've always supported your avenging.' The movie never recovered for me."
—u/Call_Me_Squishmale
question from Arrival, which added comedy to a moment where it was not appropriate:
"Soooo unnecessary in an otherwise really good film. Man, it's bugged me for so long, and no one seems to mention it ever."
—u/No_Cartographer4326
"This is the EXACT line I came in here to write. So glad I'm not the only one. It really took me out of what was a great movie in an otherwise very emotional part."
—u/Tradnor
terribly delivered line from Four Weddings and a Funeral:
"Crappy line, gawdawful delivery. Every time I hear it, I yell at Hugh Grant to go back and marry Henrietta."
—u/Lybychick
exclamation from The Divergent Series: Allegiant:
"In the second Divergent movie, a character shouted out 'Gadzooks!' I turned it off after that."
—u/petitemelbourne
reading of the Bhagavad Gita during a sex scene in Oppenheimer:
"The Bhagavad Gita verse reading in Oppenheimer, more so because of its placement during a sex scene."
—u/Upbeat_Tension_8077
"I could not believe that Nolan actually put that in the movie. Wasn't it that he (she?) just opened the book to a random page, and he translated it?
I was in the theater, just shaking my head at this bit. Ridiculous."
—u/Help_An_Irishman
declaration from Bones And All:
"Timothée Chalomet's character is talking about how he consumed his father's corpse: 'I ate him right the fuck up.'"
—u/ttran62
exchange between Padme and Anakin from Revenge of the Sith:
"Pick one out of fifty from Anakin 'charming' Padme. I was stifling laughter in the cinema."
—u/RossTheNinja
'You're so beautiful because I'm so in love with you.' 'So love has blinded you.' Fucking kill me."
—u/GrapefruitAlways26
reference to a past film from Alien: Romulus:
"It was a truly awful callback line to Aliens. It was a total cringe. I know there were a few bad callback lines but the 'bitch' line was the worst by far for me."
—u/dvb70
"Alien: Romulus was a callow collection of member berries and thrice-reheated nostalgia. The practical effects were good overall, but they couldn't distract or disguise the lack of originality."
—u/MolaMolaMania
Warner Bros. reference in The Matrix Resurrections:
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"Christ, it fully broke my immersion. I got it back shortly after, and then the film lost me again when they woke Neo up, and nothing interesting happened."
—u/bob1689321
ridiculous response from Volcano:
"I literally yelled 'FUCK YOU' at the screen."
—u/Whitealroker1
just frankly untrue line from Wicked:
"'Let me tell you the whole story.' – Wicked: Part 1."
—PayaV87
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