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jangoisadrunk
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2/9 4:18pm
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RE: The Worst Movie Dialogue Ever: Now Disc "Love Story" (1970)
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Why are so many entries romance-related?
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Darth Dark Helmet
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2/9 6:49pm
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Because writing romantic dialogue is tough, and if you don't get it right, you end with lines like some of the entires on this list.
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Zaz
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Date Posted:
2/10 11:18am
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RE: The Worst Movie Dialogue Ever: Now Disc "Love Story" (1970)
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The next one is decidedly not romantic:
THE MOVIE: A Cry in the Dark (1988)
THE SCENE: Aussie mom Lindy (Meryl Streep) is on the witness stand, giving testimony about the disappearance of her infant daughter during a camping trip.
THE LINE: ''A dingo ate my baby!''
Perhaps made worse by Streep's faux Ozzie accent and her effort to keep a straight face.
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The2ndQuest
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2/10 12:22pm
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RE: The Worst Movie Dialogue Ever: Now Disc "A dingo ate my baby!"
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I always wondered where that line came from, you hear people reference it jokingly all the time.
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Chancellor_Ewok
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2/10 12:29pm
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*insert Bart vs Austrailia reference here*
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Princess_Tina
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2/10 3:27pm
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RE: The Worst Movie Dialogue Ever: Now Disc "A dingo ate my baby!"
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Zaz posted:
The next one is decidedly not romantic:
THE MOVIE: A Cry in the Dark (1988)
THE SCENE: Aussie mom Lindy (Meryl Streep) is on the witness stand, giving testimony about the disappearance of her infant daughter during a camping trip.
THE LINE: ''A dingo ate my baby!''
Perhaps made worse by Streep's faux Ozzie accent and her effort to keep a straight face.
I think the line was actually "The dingo's got my baby!"
http://imdb.com/title/tt0094924/quotes
And Meryl Streep got very good reviews for her performance, accent included:
If one didn't know who Meryl Streep is, one could easily guess Lindy was played by a fine, unknown Australian actress. Sam Neill, who here looks remarkably like the real Michael Chamberlain, well conveys the tentative strengths and very real weaknesses of a man thrust into an unimaginable situation.
http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117790171.html?categoryid=31&cs=1&p=0
Also according to Vincent Canby of the New York Times, it wasn't supposed to be an "Ozzie accent", but a New Zealand accent with some Australian influence:
Yet ''A Cry in the Dark'' is better than that, mostly because of another stunning performance by Meryl Streep, who plays Lindy Chamberlain with the kind of virtuosity that seems to redefine the possibilities of screen acting.
Wearing what appears to be a not-great black wig, which fits her head like a shower cap, and speaking with a New Zealand accent overlaid with a strong layer of Australian, Miss Streep's Lindy Chamberlain is just reticent and stubborn enough to deflect easy sentimentality. There also seems to be something a little arrogant about her, which is the way most of us react to people with strongly held beliefs we don't share.
There is wit, which is not to be confused with humor, in everything she does, from the remarkable accent to the physical mannerisms.
http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?_r=1&res=940DE1DF1039F932A25752C1A96E948260&oref=slogin
I don't know that you can have truly bad dialogue when doing a story that is so closely based on real-life, and on what would have presumably been the natural, shocked reaction of the people to whom it happened. Maybe it just sounds funny to non-Australian ears?
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DarthBoba
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2/10 4:15pm
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Never saw the movie, but Elaine's drunken use of the line to a woman talking about her baby in Seinfield is great.
"Blah blah blah blah-"
"maybe the dingo ate your baby."
"What?"
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Princess_Tina
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2/10 5:59pm
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DarthBoba posted:
Never saw the movie, but Elaine's drunken use of the line to a woman talking about her baby in Seinfield is great.
"Blah blah blah blah-"
"maybe the dingo ate your baby."
"What?"
I remember that. That was funny. 
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JediPrettyBoy
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2/10 9:13pm
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Zaz posted:
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.
Alright, this line represents Jenny's young and idealistic views about how love could and should be. Her point is to emphasize forgiveness amongst loved ones. That being said, when Ali McGraw (Jenny) delivers the line, it is clunky and cheesy because of poor delivery. They should have reshot the scene.
However, when Oliver's (Ryan O'Neal) father comes to the hospital (not knowing that she is already dead) to try and help them out with Jenny's illness after years of bitterness between the two, Oliver says the line to his father and the delivery is much better; resulting in a massive choke up and tear up. It's his way of saying, "I know your sorry, I love you, and I forgive you for any conflict between us." That particular moment is actually touching.
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wild_karrde
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2/11 4:40am
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The line also became the name of Oz's band on Buffy the Vampire Slayer lol
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yankee8255
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"The dingo ate my baby" is what the woman actually said when accused of killing her baby. How is that bad dialog? Often-parodied, yes, but incredibly memorable.
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Princess_Tina
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yankee8255 posted:
"The dingo ate my baby" is what the woman actually said when accused of killing her baby. How is that bad dialog? Often-parodied, yes, but incredibly memorable.
That's how I feel as well. I mean, if an animal eats or grabs your baby, what is the first thing that you're likely to say? 
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timmoishere
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Elaine parodied this perfectly on Seinfeld.
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Zaz
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2/12 8:20am
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THE MOVIE: As Good as It Gets (1997)
THE SCENE: Simon (Greg Kinnear) gets his groove back as an artist by sketching the nude form of hopeful waitress Carol (Helen Hunt).
THE LINE: ''You're why cavemen chiseled on walls.''
Oh, groan.
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JediOverlord
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I now see where Family Guy got that line when Peter Griffin sketched that nude city worker whose eyes were too close together.
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