8. Jack Slater - Last Action Hero
The Line: 'You wanna be a farmer? Here's a couple of acres.' Before I begin here, I must say that I absolutely love Last Action Hero. It's a fantastic film which parodies Arnie's earlier work and the action genre incredibly well. That being said, it's very hard to find a more cringe-worthy one-liner than the one above. Again, yes it's a parody but it strikes me as a joke someone heard when they were blind drunk and they were forced to add it in to meet some sort of pun deadline. The main reason this one falls flat for me is the set-up. He walks over to someone he intends to kick in the junk (bad form by the way) and asks if they want to be a farmer, just so he can make a joke about achey gonads? I imagine the nut-shot was a blessing to the man as he'd be too focused on the pain to remember the assault on reason he had just heard. The best quips are suited to the situation, say you're throwing someone under a train and tell them 'it's the end of the line.' That makes sense. The delivery of the 'acres' line comes across as though Arnie's character Jack Slater thought of the line earlier and saved it. A cheesy line for a cheesy film some might say, but I think it's going a tad too far, even for Mr. Schwarzenegger.