Help with a movie quote

[Timsup2nothin]

So, there's a guy. He's caught in some sort of mistake/situation/something. There's another character...girlfriend, maybe? Clearly everyone is waiting for him to cough up some hairball of rationalization/explanation/whatever. Takes a deep breath and says..."I got nothin'."

I've actually taken to using that at those moments...but I CANNOT remember what movie it's from. And the three words, with one being *I*, are just too common for any approach I've taken with a search engine.

Ring any bells?

 

[Buster's Uncle]

Sounds like a Bruce Willis line, maybe?

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Sounds like a Bruce Willis line, maybe?

That's a thought.

I've been picking at this like a scab I can't ignore, and have a little upgrade...

It still might be a girlfriend, but it might be more like 'the boss,' and I'm pretty sure it's a two characters caught scene of some kind...where one obviously has no explanation and turns to his buddy that ALWAYS talks their way out of trouble...

Last night I rooted through everything I could find short of watching the movies because I was thinking Brad Pitt and George Cloony in the Ocean's 11 etc movies.

 

[Cutlass]

Can you tell us anything about the rest of the movie?

 

[Buster's Uncle]

Sure it's a movie and not Chandler Bing towards the end of an episode of Friends?

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Sure it's a movie and not Chandler Bing towards the end of an episode of Friends?

Well, I'm not sure it's a movie, actually...but I know it's not from Friends as I never watched that.


Cutlass...if I could place it with anything else from the movie I could probably figure it out, but try as I might I just can't. This only came up because I caught myself saying it a couple times and I know that I said it with that "scene from a movie" smirkiness...but then I stopped to think and even though I can hear it as dialog and vaguely recall the scene I can't hear it clearly enough to identify the voice or see it clearly enough to get anything about the characters or actors.

I know it's a male voice. I've thought Clooney as Danny Ocean, for some reason Ryan Reynolds, or Robert Downey Jr as Tony Stark. It's that kind of voice. While it does seem like a scene/line that would fit a Bruce Willis character I just can't fit his voice to it. Too nasal.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Case closed.

Woody Harrelson in Now You See Me.

Thanks for the efforts...jogged just enough memory.

And the scene wasn't really much like I described it, but I have a good excuse...



Okay, I got nothin'.

 

[EgonSpengler]

It sounded to me like something you'd hear in a Joss Whedon show. I was thinking Firefly.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

It sounded to me like something you'd hear in a Joss Whedon show. I was thinking Firefly.

I was really thinking about Tony Stark in an Avengers movie. The way the scene actually plays would be right in character as Whedon writes him. A group is confronted by "what's going on here?" and clearly none of them know. When they are all ready to move on one says "wait a minute" and gets everybody to stop and look at him, stretches the moment...and then delivers "I got nothin'" instead of the expected revelation. I could picture Stark doing that any number of times.