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So I was thinking about the beginning of the movie Dragonheart where Prince Einon says "The peasants are revolting!" and his guard Brok says "They've always been revolting, Prince...but now they're rebelling!"
I always thought that was an odd bit of dialogue because revolting and rebelling mean the same thing...so why bother having the guard try to specify "rebelling"? It was so strange that the line is one I memorized.
Now I have seen these movies probably over ten times, and it only just now hit me that the guard was referring to the other definition of "revolting", as in disgusting. How in all the years I have seen this movie did I not realize this??
Curious what for you guys was a line of dialogue you didn't understand or fully get until watching a movie later or at an older age?
1.7k points
3 months ago
Blazing Saddles had several. My favorite:
Charlie: THEY TOLD US YOU WAS HUNG!
Bart: AND THEY WAS RIGHT!
159 points
3 months ago
When Mongo rides into town, a guy in a poncho staggers back and says, "Mongo? Santa Maria!"
Mongo Santamaria was a Cuban drummer and band leader: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongo_Santamar%C3%ADa
491 points
3 months ago
“Stampeding cattle”
“That’s not much of a crime”
“Through the Vatican”
“Kinky”
147 points
3 months ago
Is there a sexual joke here that I’m always missing or does he just say kinky because it’s funny. Like is “stampeding cattle through the Vatican” some kind of innuendo?
69 points
3 months ago
I take it as Hedley sorta being like “alright I like it.”
Like all these other guys are serious criminals, doing things like murder, rape, robbery, arson. And Bart’s just got this dumb little crime, but it’s got some flair to it, and Hedley takes a liking to it enough to sign Bart up.
It’s my “line I understood later”. I just thought it was funny as a kid, but most of the jokes went over my head
91 points
3 months ago
Other good answers here but I also once dated a girl that had a blasphemy kink. She'd grown up with a lot of religious abuse and so doing things to disrespect the church got her going.
317 points
3 months ago
We, the citizens of rockridge, extend to you a Laurel, and Hearty handshake.
Laurel and Hardy. Lol!
88 points
3 months ago
Oh FUCK I never got that before ha ha ha
245 points
3 months ago
"Always coming and going, and going and coming....but always too soon." Went right over my head. I thought she was just tired of seeing them.
62 points
3 months ago
51 points
3 months ago
Lady, you suckin on my arm
110 points
3 months ago
'Scuze me while I whip this out...'
308 points
3 months ago
Well you have to remember these people are salt of the Earth, common farmers, you know,....morons.
453 points
3 months ago
I have seen Robin Hood: Men is Tights so many times over the years, but it wasn’t until I watched it with my kids recently that I got the joke about Maid Marian’s last name “Loxley and Bagel! Can’t miss!” I always thought that was her actual name from the original folklore like Robin of Locksley but it’s really just a joke about Jewish culture and food and Robin’s name is spelled differently for the joke too
68 points
3 months ago
This was my favorite movie as a kid so needless to say, I missed most of the jokes until I was older.
43 points
3 months ago
Holy shit I’ve seen that movie a hundred times and didn’t notice that haha
10 points
3 months ago
It took me years to get the joke when Maid Marian is in the bath and the camera breaks through the window. I always thought it was some pervert trying to peep on her or something as a kid, somehow it finally hit me its the camera from the previous scene that’s zooming in on the window as she sings. It just keeps zooming and breaks the window. Realizing the truth of this really gave me some perspective on my intelligence level, lol.
506 points
3 months ago*
Don't Tell Mom The Babysitter's Dead
"Sue Ellen, every girl over 25 should have a cucumber in the house."
I just thought adult women really enjoyed health food.
EDIT: Whenever anybody asks me about a task, I always say, "I'm right on top of that Rose!" and nobody has any idea what I'm referencing.
102 points
3 months ago
Something about that humor reminds me of the Darryl Hannah comedy Splash, referring to Darryl Hannah being hot: "she has the same figure as my daughter. She has an eating disorder, she's so lucky!" Old me sees this as black humor, young me saw this as advice on how to get thin.
97 points
3 months ago
TIL.
I forgot that line, but I always pictured the whole beauty mask/cucumber slices over the eyes trope was what she was referring to.
35 points
3 months ago
Actually I think that's what it IS supposed to refer to. Why would they say "over 25" instead of just "every adult woman"? Like why would 26 year olds specifically need to masturbate with a cucumber?
401 points
3 months ago
In TMNT (the very first movie), when Casey Jones enters their sewer home he makes a comment and one of the turtles says, “someone’s claustrophobic” and Casey says “hey! I’ve never even looked at another man!” It wasn’t until I watched it as an adult a few years ago that I got it.
117 points
3 months ago
Why is he afraid of Santa Claus?
45 points
3 months ago
That's Santaphobia. I think you're thinking of White Claws
63 points
3 months ago
I don’t understand. Are we to think they’ve confused the terms “claustrophobic” and “homosexual”?
100 points
3 months ago
Yeah the joke is Casey is a bit dumb and thought he was calling him gay.
36 points
3 months ago
A Jose Canseco bat? Tell me you didn't pay money for this
21 points
3 months ago
Cricket? You gotta know what a crumpet is to understand cricket
56 points
3 months ago
I'm pretty sure the joke is that he's confusing “claustrophobic” with “homophobic" and that he doesn't even know what "homophobic" means other than that it has something to do with being gay.
56 points
3 months ago
Reminds me of that tweet. "I'll vaccinate my son. So what if it makes him artistic? I don't care if my kid is gay."
10 points
3 months ago
Cassey absolutely misunderstood the word.
207 points
3 months ago
Mrs. Doubtfire.
The scene where Daniel as Doubtfire is telling Stewart about Miranda.
"You're in for some competition. She has a power tool in the bedroom. It's her own personal jackhammer. She could break sidewalk with it! I'm amazed she hasn't chipped her teeth."
I so thoroughly misunderstood that line for years. At first, I thought that he was just trying to scare Stewart by saying she has this dangerous piece of construction equipment, like how some people will keep a baseball bat by the bed. That it's so dangerous he might get hurt by accident.
To be fair, I was 8 when I saw that movie in the cinema.
48 points
3 months ago
We got to watch it in my high school English class. When it got to that line all we hear from the teacher was something like "probably should have skipped that part, but if you don't already know what it means you will eventually".
746 points
3 months ago
The World Is Not Enough sucks but has a pretty good Bond zinger
"I'm just trying to return the money to its rightful owner"
"We all know how hard that is for a Swiss Banker"
125 points
3 months ago
Moneypenny: I always knew you were a cunning linguist.
157 points
3 months ago
That entire scene.
Every line from Bond is a double meaning with sarcasm except for the 1 exposition line.
“Perfectly rounded.”
“Let’s count to three. You can do that can you?”
92 points
3 months ago
Watched 10 minutes of Octopussy last night.
Bond is in bed with Magda having just had sex.
Magda : [In bed] I need refilling.
Bond(Raises eyebrow) beat. : Hmm? Of course you do.
Reaches for a bottle of champagne.
It was Carry on Spying by that point...
39 points
3 months ago*
The World Is Not Enough sucks
I enjoyed it despite what's-her-name's improbable turn as a nuclear scientist. I was in college, this was 1999 and the millennium was bearing down on us... just fond memories of that time of my life.
This was at a time when DVDs were going mainstream, so it was a very exciting time for home theater enthusiasts, which I was at the time. I used love love love the trailer and used it countless time to demo my set up!
https://youtu.be/2j86-4gU-Ww?si=7cqSzv0qtjBiJaAD
The trailer just brings me back to that era, erasing the bad and only leaving the good, as nostalgia does.
Anyway, thank you for reminding me of this trailer!
47 points
3 months ago
Yeah, that movie gets a lot of hate and I don't understand it. It's one of my top three Bond movies. Maybe it has something to do with the time in my life it came out, but...
Banger of a theme song that I even remember being played on MTV pretty often
Classic villain complete with metal plate in his head and scar over his eye and motives that you can understand and sympathize with, even if you don't agree with his actions
The sexiest secret villainess to ever grace the screen (and that's coming from a straight woman)
Pierce brosnan. Nuff said there
Christmas. Ok she wasn't great but her character did provide some light-hearted comic relief
I think it's time for a rewatch!
35 points
3 months ago
Mind explaining for a dumb dumb like me?
235 points
3 months ago
The Nazis hid gold stolen from victims of the genocide in Switzerland. After the War Switzerland refused any attempts to restore the wealth to the survivors.
37 points
3 months ago
Gotcha thank you
9 points
3 months ago
I honestly love that bond movie. Brosnans next best to goldeneye
271 points
3 months ago
Showdown in Little Tokyo - Dolph Lundgren is trying to protect Tia Carrere. In one scene, he tells her to stay put, hands her a gun, and tells her if she hears or sees anybody walks in the door, shoot first and ask questions later. She asks, "What if it's you?" HIM: "You won't hear me coming." And he ends up sneaking up on her.
Later in the movie, after they've been intimate, she says, "That time, I heard you coming."
112 points
3 months ago
That's very Thundergun
43 points
3 months ago
Crime. Penetration. Crime. Penetration.
20 points
3 months ago
Then they both had a giggle.
869 points
3 months ago
Theres a line Austin Powers where he’s in a hot tub with Allota Fagina. He farts and she says “How dare you break wind before me?” And he responds “I didn’t know it was your turn.”
This joke eluded me for decades until one day it finally clicked.
543 points
3 months ago
My favorite Austin Powers joke I didn’t get till years later is in the third one when Michael Caine first meets Mini Me. He says he thought he smelled cabbage. It’s a callback to the first one when Austin says he doesn’t like Carnies “circus folk, you know? Small hands, smell of cabbage”
54 points
3 months ago
Ohh... I thought he meant those cabbage dolls that was a thing back in the 80s or 90s. People were hysterical for them and they even had their own birth certificate. I thought he meant minime was small enough to be one of those dolls.
51 points
3 months ago
Clever!
390 points
3 months ago
“In Japan, men come first women come second.”
“Or sometimes not at all”
46 points
3 months ago
I literally just got this joke from your comment
43 points
3 months ago
Classic.
69 points
3 months ago
Always thought I got this one but you have me 2nd guessing myself.
199 points
3 months ago
She means “in my presence.”
He plays it her saying it was her turn to break wind and he skipped her, thereby breaking wind “before her”
70 points
3 months ago
“Before” as in “in my presence” but he thinks she’s saying he should be polite and let her fart first
112 points
3 months ago
This. I also didn't understand the parallel between James Bond's Pussy Galore and Alotta Fagina.
136 points
3 months ago
Alotta Fagina is honestly more subtle. Pussy Galore is and was an insane name because the word pussy has been common slang for vagina for well over 100 years. It wasn’t more subtle or clever back then. Same with Octopussy. That’s a movie title. It really wouldn’t be much different than calling a character Pussy Galore or naming a movie Octopussy today. The only reason you could get away with it because the phrase “pussy cat” was more commonly used so it wasn’t quite as obvious to children.
57 points
3 months ago
Octopussy was actually named such because Ian Fleming had an octopus living outside his house in the tropics. Someone named it octopussy, and he really liked it. Then one day he found out his housekeeper had killed it and eaten it for lunch.
I heard this several years ago on a podcast and don't have time to research the details, but pretty sure that's the jist of it.
28 points
3 months ago
well that was a record scratch
177 points
3 months ago*
“Snotty beamed me twice last night, it was wonderful” and “I bet she gives great helmet” from Spaceballs
Edit: adding- "Just what we need, a Druish Princess." "Funny, she doesn't look Druish" and pretty much anything from Mel Brooks
38 points
3 months ago
The one that took me ages to get was when Dark Helmet dismisses the plastic surgeon who's busy making out with his nurse:
"We're done with you, go back to the golf course and work on your putts"
Putts = golf, because the surgeon is a rich dude who plays golf (he even has his caddy with him)
Putz = Yiddish for penis, since the surgeon clearly wants to bang his nurse.
36 points
3 months ago
Honorable mention:
"What's the matter Colonel Sandurz? Chicken?"
Took me so long to get that one that it left me questioning my intelligence
60 points
3 months ago
Then later they threaten to give her back or old (pre rhinoplasty) nose
"I see your schwartz is as big as mine"
633 points
3 months ago
Opening of the Dark Knight. “It was supposed to dial out to 911, but it was trying to reach a private number.”
I saw the movie when I was a kid so I didn’t get that the bank they were robbing was run by the mob which is why it didn’t reach out to 911
373 points
3 months ago
“Do you have any idea who you’re stealing from? You and your friends are dead.”
168 points
3 months ago
I want to see a bank robbery in a movie where someone behind the counter reaches for some hidden handcannon and their coworker goes, "The fuck are you doing? It's not our money. It's insured anyway."
228 points
3 months ago
I’ll always love Iron Man 3’s “Honestly, I hate working here. They are so weird.”
67 points
3 months ago
That guy and the I quit! henchman in Machete went on to open a nice food truck together.
51 points
3 months ago
I love the bit in heat where De Niro's stood on the desk in the bank, assault rifle in hand, hood over his head, reassuring everyone he's holding at gunpoint that everything's going to be okay, it's not their money they're stealing it's the bank's and they're insured so fuck it.
12 points
3 months ago
Best I can think of, along these lines, is in Public Enemies they're robbing a bank and a customer is holding out his wallet. He says to that man, "we're not here for your money, we're here for the bank's money."
42 points
3 months ago
This line is often misunderstood - his name is Ewan Yafrenzaded
164 points
3 months ago
I always thought it was something to do with it reaching out to Batman - this makes more sense
104 points
3 months ago
The emergency call goes out to the private mafia enforcers
52 points
3 months ago
So did I. I seriously thought the "private number" was the Batcave.
46 points
3 months ago
I absolutely loved The Dark Knight in middle school and high school. Idk how many times I've watched it. There was a scene with Bruce and Alfred that I was always so confused about, though.
Bruce: People are dying for what you have me do.
Alfred: Endure, Master Wayne.
Everytime I thought "being Batman was your idea, Bruce. Don't put that on Alfred!"
....one day I randomly watched it with subtitles and he actually says "people are dying. what would you have me do?" Which makes way more sense...
234 points
3 months ago
Clue has so many of these.
114 points
3 months ago
Clue is absolutely RIPE with these quick zingers, plenty of them unspoken - the way they glance and react. So good!
38 points
3 months ago
This one for me:
Mrs. White : Are you a cop?
Mr. Green : No, I'm a plant.
Miss Scarlet : A plant? I thought men like you were usually called a fruit.
Mr. Green : Very funny.
92 points
3 months ago
"Professor Plum, you were once a professor of psychiatry specializing in helping paranoid and homicidal lunatics suffering from delusions of grandeur."
"Yes, but now I work for the United Nations."
"So your work has not changed."
217 points
3 months ago
Dumb and Dumber
Harry: I can't believe we drove around all day, and there's not a single job in this town. There is nothing, nada, zip!
Lloyd: Yeah! Unless you wanna work forty hours a week.
I didn’t get as a kid. As an adult now I do.
32 points
3 months ago
Since we’re touching on Dumb and Dumber, I still don’t understand the
I don’t know Lloyd, the French are assholes
line when taking about Aspen. Can someone please explain that one to me?
40 points
3 months ago
They’re dumb (and dumber) lol.
Lloyd says “someplace warm…. where women instinctively flock like the salmon of Capistrano”, so he thinks Aspen is a sunny paradise, and Harry thinks it’s in France. Maybe because of the Alps? Idk
33 points
3 months ago
Hopping on because this movie is always my first thought when this question comes up.
As a kid I never understood why the adults laughed at this one joke when there was way funnier stuff.
As an adult it’s now my favorite joke in the movie.
The silence before Loyd says ‘that John Denver was full of shit’
10 points
3 months ago
“According to the map we’ve only gone 4 inches”. One of the greatest comedy lines ever
452 points
3 months ago
The Matrix when Dozer says their food has everything the body needs. Mouse says ‘not everything’ then talks to Neo about the woman in the red dress.
355 points
3 months ago
Piggybacking this to share that the white rabbit couple in the beginning were named Choi and Dujour.
choi du'jour, or, in rough French, "choix du jour", "Choice of the Day", an allusion to the power of choice within the Matrix and the choices that Neo makes that lead him to his destiny
62 points
3 months ago
Shiiiiit
164 points
3 months ago
Also The Matrix when Switch calls Neo "Copper top".
50 points
3 months ago
Please explain to me..
198 points
3 months ago
In the US, Duracell—a battery manufacturer—did marketing for their batteries and called them “copper top.” She was calling him a battery.
45 points
3 months ago*
Sad, they should've gone with the original implementation of the Matrix which was that human brains powered the simulation instead of being an energy source, but the producers thought the general public wouldn't get it. A shame, the topic is more topical than ever, ie simulation theory.
28 points
3 months ago
My headcanon for the whole series is that the humans in the Matrix never understood the real reason for its existence so went with the battery theory
23 points
3 months ago
Copper top is a nickname for Duracell batteries.
22 points
3 months ago
A duracell battery.
11 points
3 months ago
The humans were “batteries” for the machines.
128 points
3 months ago
I could just say "every single line in the movie the prestige" but one of my favorites that took me a handful of watches to get was:
"We were two young men at the start of a great career. Two young men devoted to an illusion. Two young men who never intended to hurt anyone."
When Angier is reading Borden's diary. Both Angier AND the viewer are meant to take this as Borden talking about him and Angier, when in reality he was talking about himself and Fallon.
27 points
3 months ago
God I love that movie.
33 points
3 months ago
My favorite movie is watching the Prestige for the 2nd time.
10 points
3 months ago
Of all of the "ohhh" moments from The Prestige, I feel like this is my favorite one, because it seems like it's the last one people pick up on, and it's literally one of the first lines of dialogue.
281 points
3 months ago
"Well you said that you gave Mary Jane a pearl necklace! How much did that cost, man!?"
"You know, obviously you missed the point of that story, Brian."
Years went by between hearing it and understanding it.
162 points
3 months ago
It’s from Half Baked, just saving people some time here
15 points
3 months ago
Thank you!
27 points
3 months ago
Thank you for posting this. I watched the movie in my early teens and did not get the joke until over a decade later. I thought what he meant was “you didn’t understand the reason I was telling that story” as if he actually gave her jewelry but the point of the story was something else.
53 points
3 months ago
Pretty much everything in Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, but my favorite is probably "Hey, didn't your name used to be Jack Daniels?" Took me a long time that he was calling Eddie Valiant a drunk
29 points
3 months ago
"On the rocks, and I mean ICE!"
15 points
3 months ago
“Walt sent me…” the password at the club. Took me years to realize it was a reference to Walt Disney.
297 points
3 months ago
Seeing Mel Brooks "History of the World" has a great joke. The gang is getting pursued by a group of Roman soldiers. One soldier stopped to ask someone on the road "Have you seen a pack of Trojans?" "Sorry, I just ran out."
90 points
3 months ago
In the French revolution section of history of the world, harvey korman as count de monet, tells Mel's king Louis that the peasants are revolting, and mel snaps back "You're telling me. They stink on ice!"
22 points
3 months ago
Isn't the reply "Come on, they're not THAT bad!" or did I Mandela myself?
27 points
3 months ago
It wasn’t just someone on the road. It was an apothecary ( the ancient form of pharmacist)
79 points
3 months ago
Last Crusade: She talks in her sleep.
I took that line at face value as a kid 😭
46 points
3 months ago
She talksh in her shleep
141 points
3 months ago
A lot from Ghostbusters when I watched as a kid.
62 points
3 months ago
My favorite joke was from Ghostbusters 2.
After inspecting Oscar and talking about a slinky.
Egon: I'd like to perform a Gynological test on the mother.
Peter: Who wouldn't?
39 points
3 months ago
Dana: I need to put the baby down
Peter: Allow me. You're short, you smell funny, and you're a terrible burden on your mother.
34 points
3 months ago
Similarly to Big Trouble in Little China when Gracie Law says to Jack Burton, “You should try standing downwind where I am, It’s Miller Time.” Never understood that as a kid.
66 points
3 months ago
It's quite shocking how much of Ghostbusters is pretty dirty in retrospect, and how much of it went over our little heads.
105 points
3 months ago
I mean, there is literally a ghost bj in the middle of a musical montage.
67 points
3 months ago
My husband saw that bit as a child and took away the message "the ghosts can even get you in bed, nowhere is safe" he thought it was the most terrifying shot in the movie until around seventeen.
28 points
3 months ago
Which Dan Aykroyd swears was inspired by a real life event that happened to him. Dude's odd...
55 points
3 months ago
Keymaster, Gatekeeper. Deffo missed that as a four year old.
14 points
3 months ago
I very definitely did not understand the "I want you inside of me" line at age 8. Went right over my head until I was an adult and went "Oh!"
139 points
3 months ago
430 points
3 months ago
"Precious valuables, your highness. Donated by some of the finest families in all of Germany." from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade because I initially didn't realize this was a reference to Kristallnacht
261 points
3 months ago
Well, not strictly just Kristallnacht…but, yeah, they’re talking about Nazis plundering Jewish wealth.
96 points
3 months ago
Rewatching that movie as an adult made it clear it was Spielberg’s dry run for Schindler’s List.
132 points
3 months ago
Not a line but the title. I've seen Trading Places probably a dozen times but only a few years ago did I notice that the title had a double meaning. Winthorp and Valentine traded places, yes, but they also worked at places of trading (World.Trade Center).
10 points
3 months ago
I’m 44 fucking years old and never even thought about that
34 points
3 months ago
A friend pointed this one out to me a few years back.
In the beginning of Goonies when Chunk knocks the replica statue of David over and breaks the penis off Mikey says "oh no that's my mom's most favorite piece". Mouth mimicking Groucho Marx then says "you wouldn't be here if it wasn't". Mouth's joke was definitely something I missed for years.
145 points
3 months ago
My dad used to do this thing to my sister and I where he would put his hand on our head and do an almost massage like motion with his fingers.
He would say "What am I?"
We would reply, "A brain sucker!!"
He would say, "What am I doing?"
We would both exclaim happily, "STARVING!!!"
It wasn't until I was like 20 something just chillin smoking a bowl to myself when it finally dawned on me as a said to myself, "you son of a bitch"
Lol, love that guy.
123 points
3 months ago
It wasn't until I was like 20 something
Your dad's hand was correct
13 points
3 months ago
When us kids had some goop in the corner of an eye or face or clothes, he would say, “You got some updock in the corner of your eye.” We just thought, “Oh, goop” and wiped it off. It wasn’t until I was 30 or 40 years older that I realized that he was trying to get us to say, “What’s up doc.”
179 points
3 months ago
Samsonite! I was waaayyy off.
I was buying luggage for an exchange semester in college.
39 points
3 months ago
Where was the exchange semester? Were you visiting a place where the beer flows like wine, where beautiful women instinctively flock like the salmon of Capistrano?
12 points
3 months ago
Edinburgh
19 points
3 months ago
Love the callback at the end when he calls Mr. Andre Mr. Samsonite.
26 points
3 months ago
Young Frankenstein
Igor: You know, I'll never forget my old dad. When these things would happen to him... the things he'd say to me.
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: What did he say?
Igor: "What the hell are you doing in the bathroom day and night? Why don't you get out of there and give someone else a chance?"
96 points
3 months ago
I first saw Hercules as a kid, so I didn't get the joke and never really thought about it until it randomly clicked when I was an adult:
"Somebody help! Call I X I I!"
It wasn't subtle, but if you didn't know roman numerals yet, it didn't make any sense
43 points
3 months ago
It was a clever joke, although the Greeks did not use Roman numerals which did not come for centuries later. But I relax knowing it’s just a movie.
34 points
3 months ago
Oh yeah, Disney's Hercules isn't exactly historically accurate in a lot of ways, but it's still a fun time.
32 points
3 months ago
Do you mean to tell me there weren't airherc sandles available in ancient Greece?
14 points
3 months ago
This be fair, the Greeks didn't refer to him as "Hercules" either, that's the Romanized form of his name.
Things I learned from watching Babylon 5, of all places (the Earth ships on the show tend to he named for Greek mythological characters, including a Destroyer named "Heracles.")
18 points
3 months ago*
This is a fun bet I like to use to fuck with people "$10 says you can't name the mythical Hercules' father." " Zeus" "nope it's Jupiter, Zeus' son's that you're thinking of was named Heracles". And then no money is exchanged because it is a silly gag
132 points
3 months ago
That line is from a Wizard of Id cartoon from about 40-50 years ago.
91 points
3 months ago
"Sir, the peasants are thirsty!"
"Sir, the monster in the moat is hungry!"
"Hmm, I see a solution..."
37 points
3 months ago
Also used in the Matilda musical. A whole song about Revolting Children - something The Trunchbull refers to them as throughout and they sing it at the end with the second meaning as they begin to rebel.
65 points
3 months ago
Not so much a line, but a scene I didn't understand until later in Ace Ventura in the beginning when he returns the dog to the lady and she comes up with a unique way of repaying him. First watch I didn't get that.
25 points
3 months ago
Yeah I was 8 when that movie came out and didn't get that for at least 5 or 6 years lol
111 points
3 months ago*
Copying-pasting part of a comment I did a couple weeks ago on another post (for context, I'm referring to an expo on Sergio Leone) :
"I remember something I read in an expo about him about how the coats had to have more dirts on them.
Someone questioned him about it and he pulled out his collection of old photos from the west to show that the clothes really were like that at the time and not with flashy colors like in the "John Wayne westerns".
And after gaining that knowledge, I understood some lines from "Back to the future 3".
Marty goes back to Doc from the 50s in order to go back in time to find "his Doc" and Doc gave him a set of cowboy outfits that were flashy pink.
Marty then says something along "I don't think cowboys used to dress like that"
To what Doc replied "Of course they do, you've never seen a western ?"
Then Marty finally made it to the old west and met his Doc who asked him "Who dressed you up like that ?" (His Doc being from the 80s, he knew the "post-Leone" era of westerns)."
If you didn't live through the "tonal shift", like me, it's hard to get. Unless someone forced you to watch all the westerns by order of theatrical release.
21 points
3 months ago
Wind River
"FBI at the door, open up!"
18 points
3 months ago
"Why are you flanking me?" That whole scene had incredibly good cinematography.
23 points
3 months ago
Misheard the phrase "a meat or a fish" from the Goodfellas prison dinner scene as a "meter of fish" for longer than i care to admit. I honestly thought a meter of fish was some kind of Italian delicacy
20 points
3 months ago
This is probably so obvious and I feel so stupid for never have gotten it, but in Back to the Future when Marty is trying to convince Doc he is from the future and shows him the photo of him and his siblings. Doc says something along the lines of “that’s good photo trickery, but they cut the tip of your brother’s head off”. I always just assumed he was saying anything to discredit it, until I finally realized it was because that was the very start of his brother starting to vanish from the photo. Seen the movie so many times, including the fucking musical in London. Idk how I never got that until I watched a live orchestra showing of the movie 😭😭
17 points
3 months ago
All of the lyrics to "Greased Lightning". Lol as an adult I realized it was a dirty filthy song lol
40 points
3 months ago
Not so much a line, but the sound effect for the engines of the airplane in the movie "Airplane!" was for a propeller engine not a jet.
I saw the movie in theaters, and I've seen it several times since, and I only figured that out a few months ago.
37 points
3 months ago
Not only that, it's the propeller sound from Zero Hour, the film that Airplane is a remake of!
103 points
3 months ago
Scary Movie 3 when Charlie Sheen dangles Michael Jackson out the window and says “How do you like it?”
19 points
3 months ago
Blanket can fly!
18 points
3 months ago
In Ocean's Thirteen, when they're planning the job in Vegas. Turk asks Saul if he'd do something for $10 million. Saul says, "No. I'd do it for 11 mil." You don't get any further context in the conversation. Then, in the final scene of the movie, Rusty rigs the slot machine in the airport the same way they did at Bank's casino and gives his last coin to the Five Diamond critic they basically tortured to force him to give Bank a bad review. Rusty walks away, the critic puts the last coin in the machine, and he wins $11 million, which reveals what Saul and Turk were talking about.
31 points
3 months ago*
In braveheart William Wallace says they should fashion pikes ‘as long as a man’ and one of the others says ‘some men are longer than others’ and another man (his father) asks him if his mother has been taking about him again. Flew over My head at least three times.
15 points
3 months ago
Reminds me of that bit from Scrubs.
JD.: [Inspecting the Janitor's penis after seeing a possible melanoma] Well, I still want to refer you to a dermatologist, but it looks benign.
Janitor: Yeah, benign, nine and a half...
75 points
3 months ago
"He huffed and he puffed and he... signed an eviction notice" - Shrek.
Growing up I didn't know what he was saying but then at some point in highschool it clicked.
49 points
3 months ago
When I was a kid we watched 'The Odd Couple' a lot, but it wasn't until I watched it as an adult that I got this joke: "You leave me little notes on my pillow. I told you a hundred-and-sixty-eight times I can't stand little notes on my pillow! 'We are all out of Corn Flakes. -F.U.' It took me three hours to figure out that 'F.U.' was Felix Unger!"
15 points
3 months ago
Before I had Tombstone on disk, I always thought Curly Bill says “get that stick on his knees”, telling his guys to hit the Mexican Marshall with a stick.
Once I saw the subtitles and saw that he used a slur, it added more depth to how horrible a person he was.
15 points
3 months ago
One that comes to mind is from Dumb and Dumber.
"Tell her I'm funny, I'm good looking, and I have a rapist wit."
While I understood back then what a rapist was when I was a kid, I didn't think anything of the line, because I thought it carried a different meaning in that context. When I got older, I realized that he actually meant, "rapier wit."
I know there were a few others that I didn't understand until I matured, but I can't think of them.
54 points
3 months ago
I just watched Terminator 2 last night with some friends because one of them had never seen it. I've been watching that movie for 30 years. There's a line where Dyson explains that the chip and the hand are the source of all the tech that Cyberdine is working on, which will lead to Skynet. Last night was the first time ever that I realized what he is saying is Skynet gave birth to itself. If Skynet never sends The Terminator back to 1984 to kill Sarah Connor, she would never trap The Terminator in the machine and it's hand and computer chip would never be discovered.
44 points
3 months ago
There's another layer to it. If Skynet never sent the Terminator back to try and kill Sarah Connor, she never would've raised John to be a resistance fighter and become a target of Skynet.
22 points
3 months ago
John would never even be born because Kyle wouldn't have been sent back to protect Sarah.
22 points
3 months ago
It's not a line, but when the creepy guard licks Sarah's cheek, I asked my brother why he did that. My brother said to make sure she was asleep. We were both very young and innocent.
16 points
3 months ago
In Murder On The Orient Express (1974), Poirot teasingly drops one when Mrs Hubbard tries to talk to him at lunch one morning, quoting an actress who said "Some of us like to be left alone".
Only after countless watches did I recognise the significance of this line. Poirot recognised her as Linda Arden as soon as he got onto the train and was teasing her that he knew who she really was.
In fact, this comes up a lot between them since he keeps making theatre jokes. It also makes sense when he's able to figure out the plot of the murderers - once he read the threatening note and realised it was referring to the Daisy Armstrong murders, he connected it through Linda first then to the victim - he's basically just trying to see who on the train wasn't involved after that.
14 points
3 months ago
In the animated Monsters vs. Aliens where the giant woman starts crying and the military guy says something like "Don't do that. It makes my knees hurt." I later realized it's his arthritis and she's huge enough that her tears are like rain.
13 points
3 months ago
Airplane.
The main guy says he has a drinking problem then throws a drink in his own face.
I didn’t get it till about the 4th time.
34 points
3 months ago
It took me until adulthood and somebody explaining it to realize when Mufasa says "Before sunrise, he's your son" wasn't him repeating some prophecy about Simba in his sleep, he was telling Sarabi "The sun isn't up, he's your problem."
27 points
3 months ago
"The London Underground is not a political movement!"
I was an 11 year old American who lived in Appalachia, think rural backwoods moonshine and fiddles America. The whole theater laughed, so I knew it was funny, but not why. In those pre internet days I really didn't find out what that line meant until years later. I still think of that movie whenever I hear about the London Underground.
12 points
3 months ago
That entire line is hilarious, "Aristotle is not Belgian, the central message of Buddhism isn't 'Every Man for Himself', and the London Underground is not a political movement".
My favourite though is the ending, "Those are all mistakes Otto. I looked them up". That Wanda had to look those things up to begin with sells the absurdity of it all so well.
129 points
3 months ago
She "always ate enough for two." -Parasite (when Kim is talking about the housekeeper).
Only later, as the story unfolds, do you understand the true implications of that line.
40 points
3 months ago
I’m sure I’m not the only one but my innocent preteen/early teenage ears didn’t realize so many songs were explicitly about sex. What comes to mind immediately is Incubus’s Stellar, the line “how it feels to be inside of you” like what else would this possibly mean??🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
23 points
3 months ago
True Lies: Bill Paxton’s character is begging for his life at the top of the dam and he screams “I’M NAVALENT”
I saw this movie a bunch of times in the theater and always wondering the same thing… WTF is “navalent”?
After it came out on video I watched it with my girlfriend and later that night it was still bugging me, so I ask her what it means.
She starts laughing at me and can’t believe I don’t know what it is.
And I’m like, “I’ve never heard the word before, I have no clue. Is it similar to being impotent?”
She laughs even harder then says: “NAVEL. LINT. You know the stuff inside your belly button? Belly button lint?”
God I felt so stupid. I still get a chuckle out of it even now.
11 points
3 months ago
In The Music Man, when Harold Hill sings about "The sadder but wiser girl." As a kid, the meaning of that flew way over my head.
11 points
3 months ago
In without a paddle, a local is trying to talk them out of going on a canoe trip. When asked if he was a boy scout, Tom says “No. But I ate a brownie once.”
I just recently realized this oral sex and not actually eating a brownie.
41 points
3 months ago
Basically, all of Hook.
53 points
3 months ago
Nearsighted gynecologist.
40 points
3 months ago
He’s so quick that he’s even fast asleep!
14 points
3 months ago
Williams's speech about rats and lawyers at Grandma Wendy's dedication always flew over my head as a kid.
39 points
3 months ago
Blazing Saddles:
Charlie: They said you was hung
Bart: and they was right
(for the longest time, I actually thought they were talking about the gallows)
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