TOP TEN CHEESIEST MOVIE LINES

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LONDON - Actor Leonardo DiCaprio's "Titanic" declaration "I'm the king of the world!" has been voted the cheesiest line in modern movie history, according to a survey of 2,000 moviegoers.Patrick Swayze's famous line in "Dirty Dancing" - "Nobody puts Baby in the corner" - came in second in the survey, conducted by the BBC.

And "Is it still raining? I hadn't noticed," uttered by Andie MacDowell at the end of "Four Weddings and a Funeral," was placed third by the Brits questioned.

Swayze makes another unenviable appearance at fourth place in "Ghost." "I love you," co-star Demi Moore says, to which Swayze replies: "Ditto."

"Top Gun" landed in fifth for the moment Val Kilmer tells Tom Cruise: "You can be my wing man anytime."

Julia Roberts' line from "Notting Hill" - "I'm just a girl standing in front of a boy asking him to love her" - was voted sixth.

Bill Pullman is seventh, as the U.S. President vowing to fight off alien invasion: "Today we celebrate our Independence Day."

Eighth went to Mel Gibson's "Braveheart" declaration: "They may take our lives, but they will never take our freedom!"

Renee Zellweger was ninth on the list for the line in "Jerry Maguire" when she says to Tom Cruise: "You had me at hello."

And a line delivered by Kevin Costner in his flop "The Postman" rounds off the top 10.

"You're a godsend, a savior," a blind woman tells him. "No," he replies. "I'm a postman."

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Call me a hopeless romantic, but I thought "You had me at hello" in Jerry McGuire was great. And, I thought the Braveheart line was completely in context. What do those Brits know, anyways? Laughing

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virtually anything said by John Wayne

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I didn't think the Jerry Maguire line was all that "cheesy", either.
I was surprised not to see anything from Star Wars Episodes I or II on there. In both movies, any time Anakin Skywalker or Natalie Portman's character open their mouths I grit my teeth.

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John Wayne's line as the Centurion perched on a hill at the end of "The Greatest Story Ever Told" has to be the cheesiest. "Truly this Man was the Son of God." Maybe not as much in the dialogue as in the wooden delivery. Many of the lines chosen don't appear cheesy until taken out of context in the film.

I agree about the mundane scripting in "Star Wars" I and II. It's protected by not having any stand out line from all that prosaic, dull conversation. Cheesy lines mostly do appear in what are basically good films where the screenwriter is tempted to insert something silly the character would say in a situation, meaning to make them appear more human but obviously they can stand out as a really lame line. The oxymoron of the "Braveheart" line is the funniest.

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"Love means you never have to say you're sorry."

Hands down the cheesiest line and the biggest lie.

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I don't think the Braveheart thing was cheesy at all. That was the whole point of the Scots fight. They knew they were going to lose but they didn't care because no matter what, no one can take what's inside of you. They were referring to the freedom of the soul and the freedom to believe in what ever you want. The Scots were almost always outnumbered but it was the principle of the thing.

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what no "it's quite to quiet" ?

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In the quiet of death one quite has their freedom?

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The corniest line in cinematic history was spoken by Bill Pullman in that Turkey to end all Turkey's Independance Day, when he was talking to the alien and he said "what do you want us to do" so that the alien could reply DIE if there has ever been a more mind numbing piece of tripe than this then please post it here, we all need a laugh.

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I wouldn't call "Independence Day" the worst turkey -- there's been thousands of worst films, most of them starring Ahnold Schwatzenegger, our Governator. "The End of Days," for instance is a far worse film than ID. There are also so many mind numbingly dumb lines in "The Postman," I've never been able to get past the first reel.

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Lightwizard wrote:

There are also so many mind numbingly dumb lines in "The Postman," I've never been able to get past the first reel.

I can't argue with that Mr Wizard, that was a king size turkey, although ID had it's share of vomit inducing moments, like when Dennis Quaid gave his life for the good of mankind. YUUUKK

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I didn't see it but I've heard that "Battlefield Earth" was the biggest turkey ever.

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ID4 was not ashamed of even kidding itself -- if anyone takes it seriously and tries to approach it as anything more than a conscious updated of 1950 alien invasion movies with state-of-the-art special effects they're going to be dissapointed. On the big screen it was a hoot even with the lame dialogue, like a roller coaster ride is fun despite the fact that it's taking advantage of our thrill of speed (where some get back on the freeway and don't shake off that they're no longer on the coaster).

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boom, "Battlefield Earth" would out-turkey any other film in the past twenty years. It truly smells.

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I thought the Notting Hill quote was beautiful

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Arnie in Conan The Barbarian (to evil James Earl Jones): "You killed my mother! You killed my father! You took my father's sword! Now I will have my rewenge!" (intentional misspelling)

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End sequence of Total Recall:

Arnie: I've just thought - what if this is all still a dream?
Girl: Well you'd better kiss me quick before we wake up...

Cheese, cheese, cheese...

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"I see dead people"? Laughing

It's funny how after the movie, I hear it more from people...

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In reference to?

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I think the cheesiest line I've ever heard in a movie, but unfortunately I don't recall the movie, was where the hero takes the lady in his arms and as he leans down to kiss her he says in a husky voice, "Your eyes are like mountain pools"

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