Movie lines people laughed at in theaters despite not actually being intended to be funny?
I remember in Revenge of the Sith, when the actor playing Vader yells “nooooooooo”, at what is supposed to be the emotional climax of the trilogy, the theater roared in laughter.
I feel like we went from bullet proof suits like kinda saving your life but hurting like a bitch and don’t take more than 1 shot, to, you can empty a m16 into this god damn suit as long as he holds it 1 inch away from his body and keeps running.
I don’t go to theaters enough to see entire audiences laughing, but I laughed…
I laughed uncontrollably at the climax/ending of Dark City at a friend’s birthday party. It was his favorite movie at the time. He wasn’t amused. I think the fact that he took the movie SO seriously, and that it ended in such an embarrassing schlocky way, was just too much for my poor system.
the ending spoilerIt turns into a Dragonball-z fan film, with energy beams meeting in the middle and one guy straining and pushing harder and knocking the energy beam into the other, and other silly nonsense. It did not fit the tone of the movie AT ALL. Then, the movie ends as quickly as possible.
Also laughed my way through most of the first Fast and the Furious movie, in the theater. At the time, it seemed like an amazing absurdist comedy, but these days it’d be very tamely dumb. Lots of people probably think of it as some sort of classic or some shit now.
Finally, nobody in the theater laughed once at Down Periscope. IMDB has it at 6.2, but… nobody laughed. We walked out after giving up 30min in. edit: it was a different spoof movie from almost the same time that I’m thinking of, McHales Navy. Sorry for slandering you, Down Periscope, I’m sure you’re amazing.
Similar story, when Kylo Ren died, my friend straight up busted out laughing. It was a bit contagious and a few others in the theater ended up laughing as well.
Not quite the same but having listened to the 1712 Overture several times before hearing the 1812, I didn’t get some of the jokes until I actually heard the 1812, and THAT’s when I laughed.
But on-topic me and the wife have been watching an animation film where the cinema was mostly kids and we got, and laughed out loud at, some of the “jokes for the grown-ups” that none of the kids did, who were all staring at us for laughing at something that was totally not funny for them.
The Titantic. In the scene when the dude falls off the back of the ship and hits the propeller on the way down. He hits it with a solid clang and someone in the theater loudly goes “oooooohh that’ll leave a mark…”
The Patriot (2000) dull Mel Gibson movie, as far as i can recall, anyway random dude gets head cleanly lopped off with a cannonball, buddies and i played too much UnrealTournament that day not to hear the “HEADSHOT” anouncer in our heads.
You know how there are a lot of small theaters in Paris that screen old movies? There we were, watching a noir thriller classic “The Asphalt Jungle” one night.
As an epilogue, there’s a tacked-on morality speech by a police chief, and you can smell the stench of The Hayes Code and J Edgar Hoover all over the goddamned thing.
Like a cheap piece of lazy propaganda. “Your local Police Department… tirelessly fighting day and night, to protect all regular citizens from society’s external disruptive forces, like the Red Menace and Reefer Madness.”
After being a rapt audience for the main story - which is a jewel of its’ genre - this weird speech happens, it ends abruptly with a “The End” title card and we ambled out of the theater, that speech was the final disconcerting taste in our mouths, you could hear more than a few puzzled, snickering laughs.
It’s bad, but is it as bad as in movies/tv where people look into a microscope and see little viruses multiplying, or even worse, DNA double-helices floating around? Maybe it is…
Steven Seagal’s death in Executive Decision was supposed be a dramatic moment instead the theatre I was in broke out in spontaneous clapping, laughing and cheering.
In Before the Midnight, at the theater with my wife at the time, when the couple are at the hotel having a serious argument. I was losing it, laughing uncontrollably, because it mirrored my abusive relationship I was having with her so damn perfectly.
You don’t often hear people laugh out loud in a Finnish movie theater, so I remember the one time there was a sudden spontaneous burst. It was one of the Underworld movies where Bill Nighys character gets his head cut in half or something. I guess the visual was just so ludicrous and kind of mismatch to the tone that several people lost it at once.
In Star Wars: The Last Jedi. The scene where Leia gets blown out of the spaceship. She floats there a little then opens her eyes and proceeds to use the Force to fly through space towards the ship.
The audience absolutely erupted in laughter at that.
I’ve never spoken in a theater until TROS. I spoke twice.
Once when Rey and Ren were facing each other, and were about to kiss, and I audibly said “oh come on don’t say it” when the old lady asked Rey her surname. I was in disbelief she would say something that stupid.
Add comment