They missed the best “I don’t think so”: from Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Of course I can’t find the clip online…
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I find it remarkable that so many different actors say “I don’t think so” with almost exactly the same inflection.
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Hot Shots Part Deux doesn’t get enough love:
Topper Harley : Do you know what its like to have your heart shot out of season and tied to the top of a car? How it feels to be passed like the world’s largest kidney stone? Ramada… I don’t THINK so.
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Great, now “I don’t think so” sounds totally weird to me. Like, wow man, it doesn’t actually mean anything?
After a minute of that video I’m wondering, “Why, why are they saying that!?”
But actually, I think there’s all sorts of layers of meaning you don’t get with “no” at least, starting with it having two entirely different meanings: it’s either uncertain/tentative, or it’s commanding - a denial of someone else. I suppose it’s also the ambiguity of being both those things.
Then there’s the ability to emphasize one word or another:
I don’t think so.
I don’t think so.
I don’t think so.
I don’t think so. (Okay, maybe not that one.)
(Then there’s variations of tone and pauses as well… Shit, someone could probably write a whole scene where that was the only dialog.)
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Emphasis is key. See example: https://youtu.be/wIyj1XupNXs?t=391
Preview is not showing it - it’s Hugh Grant doing Matthew McConaughey’s line “alright, alright, alright”
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“Don’t you die on me!”
Ha! There is a supercut to back me up 
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“It’s quiet… too quiet…”
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This isn’t a movie, this is real life!
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Lloyd is a creeper…
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You are correct, it doesn’t. 
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Well… “I don’t think so” is a bit passive, although I’m sure that at least one film had a character scream it out. That would be funny.
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“Stay with me! Stay with me!”
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Given that The Wire managed it with a shorter phrase than that…
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Goldblum at about 1:56
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Is he? Of course someone covered this in a sitcom (HIMYM)
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Oh Goldblum, we can always count on you giving the weirdly emphasized line readings…
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Yeah, he really was; talk about not taking “No” for an answer.
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Aren’t most Rom-Coms really Stalker Movies that end before things turn really nasty?
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