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Zaz
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2/6 12:49pm
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RE: The Worst Movie Dialogue Ever: Now Disc "Sin City"
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I've seen a lot of old noir. They don't talk like that.
It sounds campy.
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StarDude
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2/6 12:59pm
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RE: The Worst Movie Dialogue Ever: Now Disc "Sin City"
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Watch the damn movie. It's said as narration.
You could take a lot of lines from any movie and say its bad dialogue when taken out of context. Sin City is a straight comic book adaptation. And it's done in a very hardboiled, pulp, kind of way.
I'll say it again. This list is ridiculous.
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2/6 12:59pm
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Zaz posted:
I've seen a lot of old noir. They don't talk like that.
It sounds campy.
Comic book movie, hello?
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JohnWesleyDowney
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2/6 1:58pm
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RE: The Worst Movie Dialogue Ever: Now Disc "Sin City"
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Dc_10 posted:
That part of the dialogue wasn't the worst. It wasn't the best. But it wasn't the worse.
Halle could of definatly given it a better attempt.
Maybe she did. In fact, I would say it's likely that she did. I think she's a good actress. She could have given 10 different line readings, but Singer and the editor chose that particular take for their own reasons.
Sin City dialogue? I can't think of anything in there that bothered me. I wasn't a huge fan of the film, but I did think the visuals were fantastic. Especially the Jessica Alba visuals.  I expect a certain kind of dialogue in a comic book film. I'm not expecting Noel Coward if it's Robert Rodriguez directing a Frank Miller story. I felt the dialogue was consistent with the genre.
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Zaz
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2/6 2:05pm
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Comic books are generally less lurid.
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The2ndQuest
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2/6 2:45pm
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"Worth killing for. Worth dying for. Worth going to hell for."
That line alone excuses anything other arguably weak dialogue in the film.
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Spiderfan
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2/6 3:12pm
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Sin City is meant to be a surreal experience. Its not meant to be a comic book movie masquerading as possible reality, its meant to be the pages of the absurd, violent and dark comic book brought to life on page. The camp of the dialogue is intentional. Its part of the fun, part of the design. I mean the shots were set up too look exactly like the page art, like the crude drawings of twisted reality. Its intended to be absurd.
I mean Sin City was written by Miller as a sort of revenge. He was so tired of people censoring him and changing his work and the general screwy nature of Hollywood, he set out to make the most unfilmable movie imaginable. It was intended to be everything that Hollywood wouldn't dare touch. Fast-forward ten years later where the standards are laxed and there exist film makers with the ability and interest to bring to life notably un-Hollywood kind of films...guys like Rodriguez. Its intended for a niche audience, and people financed it in the Studio scramble to capitalize on the popularity of comic book properties. Its not meant for everyone to like it.
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2/6 5:49pm
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Zaz posted:
Comic books are generally less lurid.
I'm guessing you've never picked up a Sin City comic. You don't even have to open them or even pull them off the shelves to get a sense of them as when you line the TPBs up the spines have the art of a naked stripper on them.
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2/6 6:33pm
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RE: The Worst Movie Dialogue Ever: Now Disc "Sin City"
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Within the context of the movie, and the tone it sets throughout every aspect, this line works very well. I mean, at the time of this dialogue, Rosario Dawson is wearing a very tight, very revealing outfit and (along with about fifty other hookers) is gunning down mobsters with a machine gun like they were fish in a barrel.
EDIT: Oh yeah, she's also laughing manically while she does it.
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Zaz
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2/7 12:19pm
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THE MOVIE: Pretty Woman (1990)
THE SCENE: Hooker-with-a-heart-of-gold Vivian (Julia Roberts) looks down her fire escape to see her favorite ''John'' Edward (Richard Gere) climbing up to ''rescue her'' from her crappy life.
THE LINE: ''And she rescues him right back.''
I've seen this, and I don't remember the line at all.
Of course, I saw it on TV. They may have edited it out for the 159th commercial.
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I don't remember the line, but then again I haven't seen Pretty Woman in eons.
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Do they mean the scene at the end of the movie? Because I don't remember that line either. It might have been a voiceover, but I don't remember her saying anything at the end.
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Yeah it's in the end of the movie
Richard Gere - "So what happened after he climbed up the tower and rescued her?"
Julia Roberts - "She rescues him right back"
*cue in music and the all important movie ending make-out*
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Zaz
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2/8 12:10pm
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RE: The Worst Movie Dialogue Ever: Now Disc "Pretty Woman" (1990)
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THE MOVIE: She's All That (1999)
THE SCENE: Laney (Rachael Leigh Cook) is on the receiving end of the makeover of a lifetime, transforming her from meek geek to high-school hottie.
THE LINE: ''I feel just like Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman. You know, except for the whole hooker thing.''\
Haven't seen this, but it sounds awful.
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Zaz
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2/9 1:59pm
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RE: The Worst Movie Dialogue Ever: Now Disc "She's All That" (1999)
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THE MOVIE: Love Story (1970)
THE SCENE: After Oliver (Ryan O'Neal) spends all day searching the Harvard campus to apologize to his doomed lover (Ali MacGraw), she delivers the most lunkheadedly inaccurate romantic proclamation ever.
THE LINE: ''Love means never having to say you're sorry.''
Not only stupid; it's not logical.
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