katyscar11ett Posted April 26, 2006 Share Posted April 26, 2006 Every time I watch the Bette Davis clip for May, I cringe when it comes to this part. My most hated 'stupid' line is when Davis says in The Letter "with all my heart, I still love the man I killed" - now, who would say that, like that? A person would say "with all my heart, I still love . . . " Roger, Bill, John, whatever the guys name was. It just sounds soooooo phony, in my opinion. I do understand why the writer wanted it said like that, but I think it falls much short and just sounds 'stupid'. What is your "drives me nuts" line? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bansi4 Posted April 26, 2006 Share Posted April 26, 2006 "More Parks sausages, Ma". Just kidding. Scarlett, I thought that the line that you hate from "The Letter" was one of the most dramatic lines in the movie. And at the time she shouted it out, we all knew who she was talking about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vecchiolarry Posted April 26, 2006 Share Posted April 26, 2006 Hi Scarlett, "The Letter" is my favourite Bette Davis movie. Right from the dramatic beginning to the bitter end, she is a lying, conniving, two timing **** -- just like you love to have Bette in her films........ Everyone is very good in their parts, even though you want to smack them all and scream 'Get real, you idiots'...... I'm sure that line is put in there to absolutely reveal to Herbert Marshall what he married, since he doesn't seem to be too clever. And, it cements for the audience that what eventually happens to Bette is 'justice'........... Larry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredCDobbs Posted April 26, 2006 Share Posted April 26, 2006 I don?t care much for that line myself, unless it is interpreted as Bette Davis finally realizing that she is crazy, and it doesn?t matter what the guy?s name it, because a woman who still loved the man she murdered must be nuts. I think maybe she just realized what we all knew already, that she was nuts. Poor ol? Herbert Marshall. He was just plain dumb. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheExtraGirl Posted April 27, 2006 Share Posted April 27, 2006 I think the actor is Franchot Tone and I think the film is Bombshell, but I know it's delivered to Jean Harlow - "I'd like to run barefoot through your hair." I think I vomited a little the first time I heard that. From The Third Man, and this is from my memory but you'll get the general gist of it - "Harry didn't grow up. The world grew up around him." In another film I wouldn't have minded it so much, but it's such a cliched line smack in the middle of what is, to me, an otherwise perfect film. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackBurley Posted April 27, 2006 Share Posted April 27, 2006 All those processing chemicals could not be good for Mr. Tone's feet! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jarhfive Posted April 27, 2006 Share Posted April 27, 2006 scarlett, Is it okay to include a quote from a movie I have never seen? The following was posted by sweetbabykmd in another thread a few weeks ago. Quote: "That's almost as bad as this from Summer Lovers, when Daryl Hannah walks in on her boyfriend and the French girl in bed together: Peter Gallagher: "Aren't you angry?" Daryl Hannah: "Why should I be angry when the two people that I love the most are making love?'" I don't know if a dumber dialogue exists, but the "Summer Lovers" quote is the dumbest thing I have encountered. Why do I copy and paste into a recent thread? Go ahead forum contributors--post something that is stupider than the Gallagher/Hannah "Summer Lovers" bit of dialogue. Ha! Thanks...sweetbabykmd for the original post. A most memorable message. BTW: I was considering, but decided not to find and watch "Summer Lovers". I (simply) don't have the 'stomach' for such crap anymore...burned out from scanning cable television fare. Oh, other than TCM cable television fare. Rusty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rainee Posted April 30, 2006 Share Posted April 30, 2006 "Love Means Never Having To Say Your Sorry" Wrong!!!! Love means saying your sorry, all the time. I really hated that movie and that line makes me sick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackBurley Posted April 30, 2006 Share Posted April 30, 2006 Have you seen the neo-screwball comedy What's Up Doc?? It features Love Story star, Ryan O'Neal and Barbra Streisand and was release two years after after the wild success of the tragic love story. Toward the end of WUD, Miss Streisand's character looks deep into Mr. O'Neal's eyes and utters, "Love means never having to say you're sorry." He returns her gaze and says, "That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwtwbooklover Posted May 1, 2006 Share Posted May 1, 2006 Darn I can't recall the title of the movie and I watched it on what was Lionel Barrymoore's birthday and I apologize for my misspelling of his name-if it is. It was a one word title Sweepings?? Well, he was a store owner and a man with 4 kids and when he talked about what he expected of them to their faces or to another character in the film when he got to his only daughter and the generalization of not leaving the store in her hands because she was a woman grated on my nerves something fierce. As a matter of fact most dialogue along this vein grates on my nerves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jarhfive Posted May 1, 2006 Share Posted May 1, 2006 gwtwbooklover, Your message regarding "Sweepings" is (for me) timely. Last night, watched a recording of "Sweepings". After the movie ended, I said to my wife, "well, the title "Sweepings" pretty much sums up the attitude of the dad towards his rotten (dad's opinion) offspring. However. I think, an even more apt title would have been Disappointment, Inc.". Rusty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jarhfive Posted May 1, 2006 Share Posted May 1, 2006 gwtwbooklover, Oh, yeah. Regarding the dad's (Barrymore) "...no store for you!" insult of his daughter? gwtwbooklover...I agree with you--it was a stupid line. Another stupid insult towards the daughter in "Sweepings"--the daughter turns over her inheritance to her husband and he sells the inheritance to another "Sweepings" character. The authors of "Sweepings" obviously thought women were incapable of managing any sort of business...including their own money. Rusty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rainee Posted May 1, 2006 Share Posted May 1, 2006 > Have you seen the neo-screwball comedy What's Up > Doc?? It features Love Story star, Ryan > O'Neal and Barbra Streisand and was release two years > after after the wild success of the tragic love > story. Toward the end of WUD, Miss > Streisand's character looks deep into Mr. O'Neal's > eyes and utters, "Love means never having to say > you're sorry." He returns her gaze and says, "That's > the stupidest thing I've ever heard." Yeah, I have seen it, and boy do I agree. To me that line takes the cake for stupidity. As my husband says, "any man who believes that is just asking to sleep on the floor." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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