I need movie buffs for a second
 

Okay, have my script writing class tomorrow morning...I am suppose to bring in one example of great dialouge and one of really bad dialouge. I have the great one covered...any nominations for the worst?

Great dialouge? Um, I liked alot fo the dialouge in Snatch. Not all that deep, but well timed and creative. That just me.

Bad dialouge, anything from Battlefield Earth. Especially where they send a bunch of humans to an abandoned city to "try to find out what their favorite food is". That always seemed a little odd to me.

There was a lot in SoulMan!

http://www.fast-rewind.com/soulman1.jpg

omg...I was just thinking about that movie the other day for some reason...what crap

I'm SO curious! What did you pick as good. babe?

bad dialogue can go to "eyes wide shut"..:1orglaugh

You did not use Soalman as your good movie did you?

Good dialogue should be 'Superfly' for its skillful use of jive.

Or 'The Royal Tennenbaums':

Royal - You want to talk some jive with me, Coltrane?

Henry - Did you just call me Coltrane?

Royal - No.

Bad dialogue, Caveman with ringo star.

um...no...I was thinking about Rae Dawn Chong when tommy chong was done for the drugs thing and she is in the movie.

I just looked it up on imdb...the tag line to that movie was actually:

"Mark needs a scholarship to get into Harvard. There's one more available for a black student. The problem is Mark's not black... Yet." ..lol..yeah, that would happen today.

Does the example of bad dialogue have to come from a movie, or can it be from a TV script? If you can use TV, turn on just about any TV drama for 10 minutes, and you'll have yourself some bona fide crap right there...

For movies, Showgirls would be a good one... can't recall the exact line that made me stand up and walk out on that one (when watching it for free at a friend's house, no less), but I still have the scars from it buried deep in my psyche somewhere...

- Q.

Soul Man! They just don't make them like that anymore. Rae Dawn Chong, Ayre Gross, James Earl Jones...Fabulous! There's always "Krull" as well. Outstanding in every way!

I used the 'milk maids' dialouge sequence in Clerks as an example of good naturalistic dialouge.

No, it can be tv too..I was trying to get some eastenders scripts but couldn't. Yeah..god, Showgirls has to be a goldmine for this. It is only our second class so I am not sure how he would react to swearing but oh well.

If you were going the Clerks route, why didn't you use Randall's list of porn titles? "I'd like to order one of each of the following?"

My favorite one was "Big Black Cocks with White Pearly Cum"

Anyway, worst movie - State Property, 2002 starring Beanie Sigel
This wasn't a movie, it was a 2 hour video:)

pulp fiction had some of the best

episode II had some of the worst. perfect example of how bad dialogue can ruin a great movie.

lol..because there maybe a chance that I would have to read it out...or better yet that the 60 year old lady next to me might and frankly not sure how she would deal with happy scrappy hero pup ;)

Some of the worst dialouge I have ever heard was in the original Gone in 60 seconds, not the one with Nic Cage, but the original 70's one... man it was horrible!

Also Thou Shall Not Kill Except is pretty damn bad too, it's a Josh Becker film, PU

no, the best is 'Men alone 2: The KY connection'

A lot of the stuff in Kevin Smith movies are way too forced.

On the Clerks tip- The Flying Car was brilliant

Episode 1 has just as bad, if not worse dialogue than 2.

One of my favorite movies for dialogue is The Way of the Gun or Pump up the Volume

I know you don't need suggestions for the example of great dialogue, but I can't leave a thread about dialogue without mentioning that David Mamet writes just about the best dialogue I've ever heard... especially Glengarry Glen Ross. (And the cast in that one ain't too shabby, either...)

- Q.

plan 9 from outer space has the worst in everything. dialogue included! just fast forward to the last scene where the alien guy is explaining the solarbanite

great dialouge....Mr. pink rant of tipping resevoir dogs

bad...the Dr. Seuss "Are you my Motheresque" Spielberg wanna be Kubrik A.I.

I hated that movie...yeah yeah...you want to be a real .....boy...oh wait you are a real boy....whatever....

or

Lose the Zero and get with the hero...Vanilla Ice "Cool as Ice" could be the worst movie ever made.....battlefield earth is right there though

"What are you doing!?! Coffee is for closers!"

in some scenes I see what you say but that scene is exactly what two people in those situations talk about..no big words, etc. Good scene.