"WHO WRITES THIS SHIT?" MOVIE DIALOGUE THAT WON'T DIE

Writers who make it in Hollywood are generally pretty good at their job. Many went to Ivy League universities. They’ve read and understood Aristotle’s Poetics and can quote off-by-heart the glory years of The Simpsons. If you were friends with them, they’d be among the wittiest people you knew. So why do they write banal dialogue like, “We can do this t…