I was super excited to watch Malcolm & Marie on Netflix because I felt like it would be a magnificent powerhouse of talent with Zendaya and John David Washington acting together.
Little did I know that the excruciatingly honest characters would truly make viewers dive head-first into a pool of emotions, over and over again.
Here are 37 of the best (likely to make you feel not-so-great) lines in the film:
1. "I know when nothing is something." —Malcolm
2. "Well, maybe you can't read me." —Marie
3. "Do you want salted or unsalted butter?" —Marie
4. "Malcolm, I promise you, nothing productive is going to be said tonight." —Marie
5. "Why is it that anytime anything good happens in our lives you have to find something, anything the most minor fucking detail to harp on, to make ugly to ensure there's no reason to fucking celebrate?" —Malcolm
6. " forgot to thank me, Malcolm. It's not a minor fucking detail. That's a big one." —Marie
7. "I didn't cheat on you." —Malcolm
8. "I didn't ask." —Marie
9. " know, Marie, you are genuinely unstable." —Malcolm
10. "If you're going to treat me like an insane person and call me fucking crazy, the least you could do is do it without casually eating macaroni and cheese." — Marie
11. " spend your entire life catering to the feelings and the whims of literally everyone but me." —Marie
12. "I feel like once you know someone is there for you and once you know they love you, you never actually think of them again." —Marie
13. "It's not until you're about to lose someone that you finally pay attention." —Marie
14. "Just don't take me for granted." —Marie
15. "I'm the only person who tells you you're being an asshole when you're being an asshole." —Marie
16. "Well, Malcolm, unfortunately no one can really write me except you." —Marie
17. " know, you are the neediest man I have ever dated." —Marie
18. "Oh, so you gave up a career in acting to be an emotional fucking support dog." —Malcolm
19. "Marie, when I met you, you were a fucking pilled-out disaster." —Malcolm
20. "Pick a room, get to fucking work, and stop blaming me for your inabilities to get your shit together." —Malcolm
21. "Try slitting your wrist with a pair of nail scissors. You're not gonna wanna survive it, though, because it's embarrassing." — Marie
22. "While I'm actually doing something, creating something, you're on the sidelines trying to justify you motherfucking existence." — Malcolm
23. " wanna hurt me, Marie. I promise you, I can hurt you ten times worse. You're a fucking featherweight, a level-one boss. I can snap you like a twig." —Malcolm
24. "You're not the first broken girl I've known, fucked, or dated." —Malcolm
25. " may have gotten clean, but you still haven't figured this part out yet, why you love being hurt, traumatized, and fucking eviscerated?" —Malcolm
26. " want control because you can't imagine the reason I'm with you is because I love you. I just love you, baby. I don't need you." —Malcolm
27. "When you first wrote it, you wrote it for me, so why didn't you cast me?" —Marie
28. "I can't articulate all the fucking chaos that's going on in here because you already did." —Marie
29. " are fucking intolerable." —Malcolm
30. " are, by far, the most excruciating difficult, stubbornly obnoxious woman I've ever met in my entire life. I go from wanting to cut your head off one moment to fucking wanting to kiss your beautiful, stupid little face the next." —Malcolm
31. "Should we get married?" —Malcolm
32. "Not in the mood." —Marie
33. "Because of your limitations as a partner, and a filmmaker, we are both ducking for cover." —Marie
34. "Your lack of curiosity is merely an extension of your narcissism, your megalomania, your egotistical view of the world." —Marie
35. "Thank you for always understanding that I'm not always great at expressing how I feel and it comes out in my work more than in real life. Thank you, because I know it doesn't always feel good, so I hope you can live with that." —Marie
