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What movie lines are out of place in otherwise good scenes

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Ulrich
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My example is in Good Will Hunting, in the Harvard bar scene when Will argues with the Michael Bolton clone. It's my favorite movie and so much of it is just perfect, and even most of that scene is great. But... the line "yeah, but at least I won't be unoriginal." For some reason that line is like a pianist hitting a wrong note to me.

I don't think it quite gets across what Will meant, and it's a weak ending to a big buildup, and it's just not a great comeback.

Sometimes I can convince myself that it's meant to convey that Will himself hasn't figured out what would be a fulfilling life, and that all he knows how to do so far is tear apart other people's visions - just like he does to Sean, the NSA, and Lambeau before his breakthrough. In that context, it's a negation of something he doesn't want, and it doesn't say what he does want because he doesn't know himself.
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I liked that line,,,It's basically saying that for all its strengths, the wealthy educational system (he will never be a part of )doesn't teach them anything other than one simplistic point of view of the world and they can live in that bubble their whole life's and never know any better, That's why he cut him off when he was quoting Vickers or Gordon Wood, because he knew exactly what he would argue, It was a cultural class argument. He may be poor but to him that was actually an advantage beck he saw the world for what it was and not as some academic exercise. Maybe there was some jealousy there, but I was always took it as Just class division.
Zombie Jon Snow
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oragator said:

I lied that line,,,It's basically saying that for all its strengths, the wealthy educational system (he will never be a part of )doesn't teach them anything other than one simplistic point of view of the world and they can live in that bubble their whole life's and never know any better, That's why he cut him off when he was quoting Vickers, because he knew exactly what he would argue, It was a cultural class argument. He may be poor but to him that was actually an advantage beck he saw the world for what it was and not as some academic exercise. Maybe there was some jealousy there, but I was always took it as Just class division.

yes... and highly ironic in the context of the Sean park bench scene.

Will is ripping the grad student for only knowing what they teach him and having no viewpoint of his own.
Sean later rips Will for not knowing anything that can't be found in some book.

It's a great scene and line imho when the entire context comes out. Will may be able to argue with that guy intellectually and keep pace. He is even smarter than most in mathematics. But he hasn't lived either and he is too afraid to put himself out there despite all he knows. Until the breakthrough.

bonfarr
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Doc: "Your file says you have a degree from NYU. What in?"

Dalton: "Philisophy."

Doc: "Any particular discipline?"

Dalton: "No, not really. Man's search for faith. That sort of *****"

Cinco Ranch Aggie
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In Star Trek First Contact, when Picard and company sever the transmission dish from the Enterprise and it is floating away, Worf raises his rifle and says, "Assimilate this." Eh, that feels like '90s slang rather than something a Klingon of the 24th century would say.
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"Put him in a body bag"
AgPediRPh
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"I am all the Jedi"
Aggie_Boomin 21
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TDKR

CIA Agent to Bane: "You're a big guy"
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The Dark Knight. One of the swat officers makes two bird analogies in the span of like 10 seconds.

Also, "NO MORE DEAD COPS!!"
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Aggie_Boomin 21 said:

TDKR

CIA Agent to Bane: "You're a big guy"
Do not dare diss Petyr Baelish!
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I actually always hated that too. I can't remember my last medical survey that asked me what college I went to.
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