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Poll: Lazy Screenwriting

Surely it is possible to write an interesting script without using these same, old, mind-numbingly boring phrases. Break out of your screenwriting malaise, take a stand and say, "Enough!"

Which of these oft-used lines would you ban from use in movie and TV scripts, plays, books, etc.?

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Results of 369 votes:

  1. 1.

    Tom Cruise, Anthony Edwards, Clarence Gilyard Jr., and Adrian Pasdar in Top Gun (1986)

     
    "I could tell you, but then I'd have to kill you."
  2. 2.

    Garrick Hagon in Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)

     
    "Cover me. I'm going in."
  3. 3.

    Willem Dafoe and Tobey Maguire in Spider-Man (2002)

     
    "We're not so different..."

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