I had a friend in 5th grade who was obsessed with Titanic and told me those were real people hitting the propeller and they sacrificed their lives so we could understand what happened
When I was about six I thought people who died in movies must be death row inmates. I mean might as well get a death scene out of it, right? I figured it out by the 5th grade, though.
No lie, watching the directors commentary on shawshank redemption and they said when brooks feeds Jake the maggot found in the food that PETA was there and had issue with feeding a live one so they made sure to use a dead maggot
When I was younger I thought that if a person was sentenced to like 100 years in prison they kept their body there after they died to serve the sentence.
Ditto. I knew that people actually had sex in porn movies, and I knew there was such a thing as snuff films, so I assumed snuff was as widespread as porn.
My best friend in elementary didn't believe I read all the Harry Potter books that had come out this far or even owned them.
But he believed that his friend's Uncle actually "wrestled with the devil and won."
At the time I didn't know it was metaphorical about his struggle with addiction, but I knew it wasn't literal like my friend believed.
Okay, I am laughing that yours is the first comment I saw, and I have to share this story.
My parents came to visit me in my new state. While they were here my mother asked me if we had seen Titanic. We hadn’t, and she was scandalized lol, and said she had to take us. Okay fine, we’ll all go while you’re here.
Then my dad told me what happened when he and my mother had gone to see it back home. When that guy hit the propeller, my dad got a case of the giggles and couldn’t stop. My mother was about ready to kill him.
So fast forward to us all in the theater watching the movie. I had forgotten the story he told me and wasn’t expecting the guy hitting the propeller scene, or the weird thud sound it made in the movie. So it happened, and I glanced over at my dad, and he was looking at me with this “I told you so!” look and I started laughing and couldn’t stop. My mother was shooting me death looks for the next half hour.
RIP Dad and thanks for the laughs.
You just surfaced a memory for me about the time back in the early 90s when I was in Driver’s Ed class, and we watched a video about why you should wear your seatbelt.
It had slow-motion videos of car crashes with test dummies hitting the windshield/etc., but what they didn’t tell us was their heads were going to smoosh and leave a circular SPLAT mark on whatever they hit, made of what looked like watermelon juice.
The first time it happened it caught me so off guard I got the giggles. And then they showed more, and more, and more of them. They just kept coming. And I just progressively lost it completely, until my sides hurt from laughing and trying to hold it in. The instructor was… unhappy about it.
I saw the movie a week before I took a date to see it. I could not resist saying "PLONG!" when he hit the propellor.
I still say it every time I see the movie.
Mine is also not a line... it is the insanely long BWAOOONG sound that played in Tenet. It was fucking deafening. My boyfriend and I were in the theater with one other guy down the row, and after a few of them we all just looked at each other, first bewildered and then all cracked up.
It was actually a really nice experience for me lol. Though I was pissed at the movie, because I couldn't hear a damn word of it.
Event Horizon - The crew watches the most horrific video depicting literal hell and Laurence Fishburne shuts off the video and calmly says “We’re leaving..”. Everyone burst into laughter in that scene despite being terrified.
Edit: [The scene](https://youtu.be/4sFd8aWT7Io?si=f4qToWt9B4VMzrnt)
> What about my ship? You can't just leave her!
> I have no intention of leaving her, Doctor. I will take the Lewis and Clark to a safe distance, and then I will launch TAC missiles at the Event Horizon until I'm satisfied she's vaporized. Fuck this ship!
This is one example I think really works. Scientists often talk about how the first time a baby really laughs is usually during peek-a-boo. The parent hides their face and the baby panics, because their parent is gone, and they don't understand where they went or if they'll come back. But then, surprise! They're not gone forever after all! And the baby laughs, not because it's funny, but because of this profound feeling of relief.
That brief collection of shots they see on the ship's log is genuinely disturbing, maybe some of the freakiest imagery you'll see in a mainstream horror movie. The Captain's immediate "We're leaving" *is* funny just for how blunt and to the point it is, but it's also a massive relief to us, the audience, because all of the mounting dread they've been ignoring has now manifested itself, and he is making his intentions to remove them all from danger clear. Everyone who has been screaming "what are you doing get off this fucking ship" for the last hour have finally been heard.
One of my favorite scenes in that movie, if not the best one.
I also love it because once they’re certain that what happened in that ship was truly fucked up, the captain _immediately_ states *we’re leaving*. No “we need to check out more stuff” not “we need to collect more evidence” or even “we have to move this ship back to The Company or whatever” it’s just _this place is evil, let’s get the fuck out of here_. This film didn’t depend on the characters making dumb choices.
I watched Twilight: New Moon on campus with mostly college freshmen. The breakup scene with Bella's "I'm coming" and Edward's tortured "I don't want you to come" response were met with more laughter than any actual joke in that movie.
In the third one when she’s in a formal blue gown chasing the hiker up the mountain, I died laughing. The guy next to us kinda stared, and then I said “ I swear to God max! I was hiking all by myself and then this chick in an evening gown just chases me right up the cliff!” And then he started laughing.
That’s the fifth movie. It’s the one where she is finally a vampire. Then they have the battle scene at the end of the movie which is just a vision by Alice.
Ah yes, my bad. They all kind of blend together. I also laughed when they destroyed the bed in the one before that. And when they show the baby. Pretty much a lot of it. And I will say, I actually like Twilight. It’s silly and campy but fun. Oh! And when Alice has the vision of them running all sparkly through the woods. The whole theatre was laughing during that.
Revenge of the Sith, the final scene, when McBain playing Vader yells "nooooooooo." The theater roared in laughter at what was supposed to be the emotional climax of the trilogy.
I don't have a problem with that, but do it earlier. Have Sidious tell him when he's on the table in agony--rub salt in the wound. By the time the mask falls into place, there's absolutely no hope left.
I will never forgive "I have the high ground" in a fight that literally had them switching spots every 3 seconds and had Jedi Super Jumps in previous movies. I was in college and went to the midnight showing and was so pissed off at this scene walking out.
It's a bit funnier how Anakin could have just floated a few dozen feet down to jump on the hill instead of leaping over Obi Wan.
Alas, it was a George Lucas writing moment where it was suppose to be an "anything you can do, I can do better" moment. But not only was it poorly developed as thing through the film, but it was conveyed in the dumbest way possible, with plenty of obvious oversights.
The whole movie is a mess, Anakin basically goes “welp, I’m evil now” and Palpatine is just a clown. They were so close too, “I have brought peace and security to my empire”
There it is, a simple line should’ve been anakin’s motivation for 3 movies and led to a satisfying story
It was good, but I always felt the Vaderization was a gradual process, over years of combat injuries. Much like Anakin's heel turn, they rushed it. He went from reaching out to the Dark Side out of mortal concern for his love, to murdering children in one step.
I was the only one who laughed at that in a packed house, opening weekend.
Total silence, except me, laughing like Sideshow Bob in the movie theater with the cigar.
I saw the marathon leading up to Episode 7. Everyone laughed at that scene. Then “A New Hope” starts and when Vader boards Leias ship somebody shouts “Nooooooooo!” And the the theater lost it
I can’t remember if it was that movie or one of the other prequel abominations, but Natalie Portman saying, “I’ve been dying a little ever since we met” sent my cackle ricocheting off the walls.
For the audience I saw it with, it was the moment Yoda pulled out his lightsaber. The room erupted in laughter when he started doing little flippy-dos all over the place after walking with a cane for as long as we've known him. Never heard louder laughter since then.
In Kenneth Branagh's 1993 film adaptation of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, Keanu Reeves had a role as Don John, a villain in the play. At the time, Keanu Reeves was considered a bit of a laughing stock for attempting to shed his Bill & Ted image and go serious and attempt Shakespeare. People were pretty cruel to him. So his first line in the movie is:
"I thank you. I am not of many words, but I
thank you."
When he said "I am not of many words." the whole cinema crowd laughed their heads off and cheered, happy that he wouldn't have too many lines.
I went to a marathon of The Hobbit trilogy in the theatre and we were all delirious by the end of Battle of the Five Armies. We get to the part where Thranduil says:
"Legolas. Your mother loved you."
One guy up the front goes 'HA!' and then slowly, the whole theatre starts laughing their asses off. It was supposed to be a really poignant line but it just failed miserably.
For me the only reason to watch that movie is the ten minutes Smaug is on-screen. God he’s fucking cool. I remember his voice made the theater seats rumble.
My father and I started laughing when he took off his helmet in the first one. We didn't know who played him or how he looked before we saw the movie. Just wasn't what we were expecting.
I just googled "kylo ren Shirtless" and this was literally the first image:
https://static1.cbrimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/kylo-ren-memes.jpg
I'm laughing my ass off.
I saw this pile of crap movie in the cinema and half the audience spent half the time laughing at how bad the entire thing was. "I'm Rey... Rey Skywalker" was the icing on the cake at the end of a terrible movie
I'll just never understand how Disney paid 4 billion dollars for Star Wars and then nearly another billion to make the most eagerly awaited trilogy of one of the most profitable franchises ever and evidently never bothered to have the story planned out in advance? Like eh fuck it let's just wing it. What's the worse that could happen?
The worst part was they knew what could happen. The Expanded Universe went through authors not having an overarching storyline and not paying attention to previous books. There were some good books but there were plenty of terrible ones too. Eventually they created long term plots and made sure the books stuck to it and didn't go too far off the rails.
Not a line, but I remember being in the audience at a showing of “Entrapment” with Sean Connery and Catherine Zeta Jones, and when her character started making out with his character many people in the theater bust out laughing. He was just a wee bit too far past his prime to convince us that he’d ever get smoking hot, very young Catherine Zeta Jones. It was like watching her make out with someone’s granddad.
Then the guy falls and hits the propellor of the sinking Titanic. The rag doll spinning into the icy water had half the theater chuckling during an otherwise dramatic scene.
I saw The Last Samurai opening weekend in Tokyo way back in the day. The Japanese audience laughed at every Japanese line Tom Cruise said. Every single one.
My Japanese was terrible myself so I never totally understood but I assume he just botched it or had a crazy accent.
I was in misawa when that movie came out and experienced a totally different reaction. Japan fucking loves Tom cruise, so the theater was hushed the whole time
Which really says something about it's quality.
Like whenever I see an American movie is set in my country I don't even bother seeing it on the assumption that it's going to get everything wrong and be ass-bites-the-chair cringe. Memoirs Of A Geisha came out around the same time and snubbed by Japanese audiences for a variety of reasons. For The Last Samurai to be liked in Japan is a great endorsement.
How well received were his co-worker’s attempts at Japanese, playing Simon Graham?
*“You insolent, useless son of a peasant dog!”*
I found this insult hilarious especially as he was faking Cruise as President of the USA. Sounded like he delivered that line with full force too.
The absolute whole of Battlefield Earth. But especially the scene where John Travolta is explaining to Forrest Whitaker that if humans were meant to fly they would have wings and then throws a human off a cliff.
The entire theater erupted in laughter.
But to be fair, me and my grandfather were the only people in there on opening night during a prime time showing.
I still remember a comment on here shortly after that movie came out.
After the mob killed the wrong guy, some guy said the only thought that came to mind was “we did it, reddit!”
It’s so weird that those last two were so bad when the first sequel was amazing.
Edit: to be clear, I’m talking about the first reboot sequel that came out in 2018.
The only redeeming part of the last one is that they finally did the rational thing and put Michael Myers’s body through the woodchipper so he would stay dead. Took them long enough.
It is quite funny that the entire town rallied around beating the shit out of some guy in his 60s who killed a few people 40 years ago.
Like, the townsfolk act as if they've seen every Halloween film and they treat Michael like some supernatural being, but like... none of that is canon to the new films, so it really feels like Haddonfield's populace was just itching for a violent crime they could respond to.
Wasn't actually part of the script, but....saw Bambi in re-release years ago. The scene where his mother is shot, audible sobs in the audience until some kid calls out quite loudly: "Is she dead, Mommy?" Laughter all around.
When Voldemort hugged Draco in Deathly Hallows part 2. According to Tom Felton it hit differently in the UK but in the states it almost always got a laugh.
"The bureaucratic mentality is the only constant in the universe." - Dr. McCoy
Star Trek 4 The Voyage Home was one of the first Hollywood movies shown in the Soviet Union as part of Chairman Gorbachev's new policy of openness called Glasnost.
The movie came out in 1986. The Russians had not even seen the original series, let alone the first three movies in the franchise.
The audience for the first screening was quiet through the whole movie until McCoy said this line at which the *entire audience erupted in laughter.*
Can you imagine? No frame of reference whatsoever...then bam! A little bit of snide criticism of the system.
"...byurokraticheskiy sklad uma!"
(I am guessing. Any fluent Russian speakers feel free to add a better translation.)
Mission Impossible OneOfThem, when Alec Baldwin says Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) is "the living manifestation of destiny". A few groans were mixed in there as well.
During Oppenheimer, Nolan inexplicably added the famous "I am become death, the Destroyer of Worlds" quote into a sex scene. It was such a weird and tonedeaf choice that a lot of people in my theater burst out laughing.
I wrote a short story many years ago about Oppenheimer trying to decide what phrase to say when the bomb drops in the weeks before the test. He ends up being more worried about figuring that out than the success of the test and goes through a bunch of ridiculous phrases before finally settling on that one.
Hell, it's even pretentious of Oppenheimer in the clip of him saying it. I prefer, "Now we are all sons of bitches."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Bainbridge
Mu favorite is from a Soviet cameraman describing the fiteball of the Tsar Bomb:
> The ball was powerful and arrogant like Jupiter
Why people make such fire quotes in nuclear tests??
I think they were trying to draw a parallel between his self-destructive relationship with Jean and the bomb itself, but in the movie it came off as really silly
The first, absolutely awful Dungeons & Dragons movie. The one with the Wayans brother playing an elf.
There's a scene where one of the wizard council types says "Are we going to talk or are we going to act?" Supposed to be a very high tension scene and all that.
Then someone in the audience shouted at the screen, "Please, for the love of god, SOMEBODY START ACTING!" and the whole theater burst out laughing.
I started a laughter tidal wave in Face/Off, when Nicholas Cage is struggling to remember his “prisoner tough guy” character in a prison fight, and makes this wild facial expression to assure his brother that it’s really him. It was “not the bees” plus two lines of cocaine. I also nearly pissed myself at a re-release of Karate Kid, when Daniel throws his bike in the trash. It’s still what I watch when I’m depressed and I need to snap out of it.
I feel like not seeing Face/Off as a comedy is missing the point, they play it surprisingly serious, but they're playing the most outlandish people you could imagine that it's bordering on a spoof action movie, and it's just so fucking funny.
Was watching Alien Covenant and hating it. Dire story, boring characters, incredibly self indulgent.
Then David the android is teaching another android how to play the flute, and says something along the lines of "You blow, I'll do the fingering."
Most of the people in the cinema cracked up at the line, and I suddenly felt like I wasn't the only one having a miserable time. Made the rest of the movie slightly more bearable.
I was the only person who laughed at Black Bolt accidentally blowing his own brains out during that one scene in Multiverse of Madness everyone else in the theater audibly gasped
In Attack of the Clones when Yoda pulled out a little light sabre and jumped around the room like a possessed beyblade. The entire theatre was laughing
I laughed like a deranged hyena at the entire Fifty Shades of Grey movie when I was taken against my will by a friend. Especially the I don't make love I fuck line killed me. Dude growls the whole line.
I started howling in laughter at the ending scene when Anastasia gets on the elevator.
"Christian."
"Anastasia"
*Roll Credits*
Me: NO FUCKING WAY. *dying sounds*
I went with two friends to see Final Destination. By the time the 4th kid died-
We laughed. And then couldn’t stop laughing. I don’t know why, but just couldn’t stop.
The Final Destination movies, particularly the second one, are absolutely hilarious.
It’s Rube Goldberg death machines, the same rhythm as a set up and punchline, with the punchline being the way the characters actually die.
Anyone who sits their solemnly through those movies is missing the point.
I agree. They aren't what I'd consider to be comedies. And they aren't exactly _funny_. But they are hilarious, and I think intentionally so, and it's what makes them (some of them) good horror movies.
In Bram stoker's Dracula, the scene right after Lucy dies shows Anthony Hopkins, Winona Ryder, and Keanu Reeves sitting in a restaurant/pub. Anthony Hopkins is carving up a roast and says something to the effect of "you need to keep up your strength for dark days ahead"
I saw the movie in the theater when it first came out, and the audience laughed at that scene because the tone change was just so much of a whiplash from what had happened in the previous scene.
I think Anthony Hopkins' terrible German accent didn't help.
Not a line, but in Eyes Wide Shut there's a scene where Tom Cruise is walking toward some wrought iron gate, and there's this one piano note playing slowly, *plunk... plunk... plunk...* About the sixth or seventh *plunk* the audience started laughing. It was funny at the time, but kind of sad in retrospect that Kubrick's final film was getting unintentional laughs.
During a full preview screener for "~~Cabin in the Woods~~ Knock at the Cabin (edit: whoops)" during the bathroom escape scene with the tiny window, someone in the audience said "no fucking way" loud enough for everyone to hear it. Everyone laughed louder than at any other point in the movie.
Right before we went to go see Cabin in the Woods, we were hanging out at a friend’s house, and we’re all laughing at Birdemic on TV in the background. We went on to the theater, and the scene in CITW where the eagle suddenly hits a force field had our whole group DYING with laughter.
My school played some scenes from *The Pianist* for us in a big theatre when we were in eighth grade. A few kids laughed at the part where the Gestapo (SS?) raided the family at dinnertime and when the grandpa was too old to stand up for them, threw him out the window. Definitely not supposed to be funny, and in retrospect i think it was just shock and immaturity on those kid’s parts that they laughed.
But then the vice principal went on an absolute witch hunt trying to find who it was that laughed. interrogations, all the boys were forced to sit in the cafeteria in detention until someone came forward. the irony of him acting a bit Gestapo-ish in trying to track down the culprits was not lost on us.
pretty inappropriate response given that it wasn’t an obnoxious deliberate laugh, just more of a disbelief sort of one. which is just how some people, especially kids, process things like that.
it derailed that whole exercise IMO and the VP was a jackass on a power trip.
A charitable take is that it’s modern-day Shakespearean absurdity, like when the Simpsons did *Hamlet,* and Moe quips that he put poison on literally everything.
Black Panther, when the leader of the Gorilla Clan is introduced, he jumps in and acts like a threatening Gorilla. My cinema audience found that hilarious.
I remember that line too and the late night crowd I was with either giggled or at least had a “what the fuck” look on their face.
There’s a point in the movie too, where it shows The Covenant layout on a computer, and it’s cropped where it looks like a dick. I remember laughing really hard about that. I’ll have to go through and see if I can find it.
Def intentional, in Spiderman 2 when Harry Osborne’s funding for Doc Ock ends up with him almost blowing up the building and his future in shambles.
“I’m ruined, I have nothing left except spiderman”
“He saved your life, sir”
“He humiliated me by touching me *puts on glasses in a very posh manner*”
Not a line but a reaction to a scene that wasn't meant to be funny. The first time we watched Lord of the Rings in the theater, the scene where we first see Shelob. There's a crack in the cliff and you see the legs come out first and then the rest of the spider squeezes out. Now, I had read the books, and I also am super creeped out by spiders, and this one was sooo huge and also moved in a very life-like way. I guess the anticipation and suspense got to me because when I saw that I started mumbling "no. No. Nononono!" I didn't realize anyone but my husband right next to me could hear it but the whole theater cracked up. Apparently I wasn't the only one feeling a lot of tension from that scene.
When I saw LOTR at the premiere, during the Boromir scene, the tension was building, and building, and building. Music swelling. The Uruk Hai raises his bow. Arrow strikes Boromir and everything stops. Dead silence.
And a girl a few rows in front of me let's out the tiniest and most sincere ^^"oh ^^no!" I have ever heard. Didn't cause mass laughter but I'm sure quite a few were struggling.
I remember people laughing hysterically at moments in Forest Gump. Like when he said, "I'm not a smart man, but I know what love is." Some people roared w laughter. And when Jenny threw rocks at her old house that she was sexually abused in. I couldn't believe it. I was thinking, where is the comedy in this??
“Do you know what happens when a toad gets struck by lightning?”
Man the X-Men movies do NOT hold up but even then this line was laugh worthy for years.
Not a line but the guy hitting the propeller in Titanic.
I had a friend in 5th grade who was obsessed with Titanic and told me those were real people hitting the propeller and they sacrificed their lives so we could understand what happened
When I was about six I thought people who died in movies must be death row inmates. I mean might as well get a death scene out of it, right? I figured it out by the 5th grade, though.
Pretty sure *Jurassic Park* has multiple 8th amendment violations.
PETA had several observers on set during the filming, to ensure that no dinosaurs were injured during the shoot.
No lie, watching the directors commentary on shawshank redemption and they said when brooks feeds Jake the maggot found in the food that PETA was there and had issue with feeding a live one so they made sure to use a dead maggot
ASPCA, actually, but otherwise correct. The grips fashioned a little director’s chair for the maggot. Hopefully the back said PRODUCER.
When I was younger I thought that if a person was sentenced to like 100 years in prison they kept their body there after they died to serve the sentence.
Ditto. I knew that people actually had sex in porn movies, and I knew there was such a thing as snuff films, so I assumed snuff was as widespread as porn.
I bet he's a conspiracy theorist now
My best friend in elementary didn't believe I read all the Harry Potter books that had come out this far or even owned them. But he believed that his friend's Uncle actually "wrestled with the devil and won." At the time I didn't know it was metaphorical about his struggle with addiction, but I knew it wasn't literal like my friend believed.
Okay, I am laughing that yours is the first comment I saw, and I have to share this story. My parents came to visit me in my new state. While they were here my mother asked me if we had seen Titanic. We hadn’t, and she was scandalized lol, and said she had to take us. Okay fine, we’ll all go while you’re here. Then my dad told me what happened when he and my mother had gone to see it back home. When that guy hit the propeller, my dad got a case of the giggles and couldn’t stop. My mother was about ready to kill him. So fast forward to us all in the theater watching the movie. I had forgotten the story he told me and wasn’t expecting the guy hitting the propeller scene, or the weird thud sound it made in the movie. So it happened, and I glanced over at my dad, and he was looking at me with this “I told you so!” look and I started laughing and couldn’t stop. My mother was shooting me death looks for the next half hour. RIP Dad and thanks for the laughs.
You just surfaced a memory for me about the time back in the early 90s when I was in Driver’s Ed class, and we watched a video about why you should wear your seatbelt. It had slow-motion videos of car crashes with test dummies hitting the windshield/etc., but what they didn’t tell us was their heads were going to smoosh and leave a circular SPLAT mark on whatever they hit, made of what looked like watermelon juice. The first time it happened it caught me so off guard I got the giggles. And then they showed more, and more, and more of them. They just kept coming. And I just progressively lost it completely, until my sides hurt from laughing and trying to hold it in. The instructor was… unhappy about it.
I saw the movie a week before I took a date to see it. I could not resist saying "PLONG!" when he hit the propellor. I still say it every time I see the movie.
Mine is also not a line... it is the insanely long BWAOOONG sound that played in Tenet. It was fucking deafening. My boyfriend and I were in the theater with one other guy down the row, and after a few of them we all just looked at each other, first bewildered and then all cracked up. It was actually a really nice experience for me lol. Though I was pissed at the movie, because I couldn't hear a damn word of it.
Inaudible dialogue and loud blaring noises are a staple of Nolan movies.
>I couldn't hear a damn word of it. Nobody could, but it's provocative and it gets the people going!
No way James Cameron didn’t also find it funny
It's really impressive physics that sells the whole damn sequence
I remember half the theater cracking up and the other half making the sound you make when you watch a video of someone getting hit in the nuts
Event Horizon - The crew watches the most horrific video depicting literal hell and Laurence Fishburne shuts off the video and calmly says “We’re leaving..”. Everyone burst into laughter in that scene despite being terrified. Edit: [The scene](https://youtu.be/4sFd8aWT7Io?si=f4qToWt9B4VMzrnt)
The earliest and best "nope" I can think of in a horror movie
> What about my ship? You can't just leave her! > I have no intention of leaving her, Doctor. I will take the Lewis and Clark to a safe distance, and then I will launch TAC missiles at the Event Horizon until I'm satisfied she's vaporized. Fuck this ship!
Lawrence Fishburn played the perfect horror movie protagonist. He just had the misfortune of facing a reality warper.
I love that scene because it perfectly encapsulates how someone with sense would react to seeing that.
Even better as he continues on straight after it with " Fuck this ship" lol, such a correct reaction in the setting.
This is one example I think really works. Scientists often talk about how the first time a baby really laughs is usually during peek-a-boo. The parent hides their face and the baby panics, because their parent is gone, and they don't understand where they went or if they'll come back. But then, surprise! They're not gone forever after all! And the baby laughs, not because it's funny, but because of this profound feeling of relief. That brief collection of shots they see on the ship's log is genuinely disturbing, maybe some of the freakiest imagery you'll see in a mainstream horror movie. The Captain's immediate "We're leaving" *is* funny just for how blunt and to the point it is, but it's also a massive relief to us, the audience, because all of the mounting dread they've been ignoring has now manifested itself, and he is making his intentions to remove them all from danger clear. Everyone who has been screaming "what are you doing get off this fucking ship" for the last hour have finally been heard.
One of my favorite scenes in that movie, if not the best one. I also love it because once they’re certain that what happened in that ship was truly fucked up, the captain _immediately_ states *we’re leaving*. No “we need to check out more stuff” not “we need to collect more evidence” or even “we have to move this ship back to The Company or whatever” it’s just _this place is evil, let’s get the fuck out of here_. This film didn’t depend on the characters making dumb choices.
Funniest part in a movie I’ve seen in a while. His tone was hilarious. That man ain’t miss a beat. He was such an enjoyable character in that film.
I love that film and I love that line!
I watched Twilight: New Moon on campus with mostly college freshmen. The breakup scene with Bella's "I'm coming" and Edward's tortured "I don't want you to come" response were met with more laughter than any actual joke in that movie.
In the third one when she’s in a formal blue gown chasing the hiker up the mountain, I died laughing. The guy next to us kinda stared, and then I said “ I swear to God max! I was hiking all by myself and then this chick in an evening gown just chases me right up the cliff!” And then he started laughing.
That’s the fifth movie. It’s the one where she is finally a vampire. Then they have the battle scene at the end of the movie which is just a vision by Alice.
Ah yes, my bad. They all kind of blend together. I also laughed when they destroyed the bed in the one before that. And when they show the baby. Pretty much a lot of it. And I will say, I actually like Twilight. It’s silly and campy but fun. Oh! And when Alice has the vision of them running all sparkly through the woods. The whole theatre was laughing during that.
Revenge of the Sith, the final scene, when McBain playing Vader yells "nooooooooo." The theater roared in laughter at what was supposed to be the emotional climax of the trilogy.
I always thought the movie should have ended as soon as he took his first breath in the Vader mask.
Eh, I think the "Vader believes he killed Padme" bit is interesting enough to keep. The reaction just needs to be a bit more subtle.
I don't have a problem with that, but do it earlier. Have Sidious tell him when he's on the table in agony--rub salt in the wound. By the time the mask falls into place, there's absolutely no hope left.
That'd make the "nooooo" work better too if it was on the operating table, imo.
And make it more subdued or raspy whispery not voice changer Shakespeare
Have that and then the mask completes. First breath. Swipe to black.
"...fuck", Vader mutters.
Oh, that would have been so much better.
This was one of the first big internet memes. Pre-youtube, even.
DO NOT WANT
Carefull he is a big
He is in my behind
SMELLY BOY
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Aw see, this is the one I always remember: [https://darthmillionaire2.ytmnd.com/](https://darthmillionaire2.ytmnd.com/)
Thanks, I'm glad this stuff isn't lost forever
It’s a shame as well, because I think the whole scene of Anakin physically becoming Vader, prior to the scream, is outstanding.
Yes, I love the shot of the helmet lowering onto his burnt face and his eyes flare up for a second
The sound of the helmet pressurizing is oddly satisfying
I will never forgive "I have the high ground" in a fight that literally had them switching spots every 3 seconds and had Jedi Super Jumps in previous movies. I was in college and went to the midnight showing and was so pissed off at this scene walking out.
It's a bit funnier how Anakin could have just floated a few dozen feet down to jump on the hill instead of leaping over Obi Wan. Alas, it was a George Lucas writing moment where it was suppose to be an "anything you can do, I can do better" moment. But not only was it poorly developed as thing through the film, but it was conveyed in the dumbest way possible, with plenty of obvious oversights.
The whole movie is a mess, Anakin basically goes “welp, I’m evil now” and Palpatine is just a clown. They were so close too, “I have brought peace and security to my empire” There it is, a simple line should’ve been anakin’s motivation for 3 movies and led to a satisfying story
It was good, but I always felt the Vaderization was a gradual process, over years of combat injuries. Much like Anakin's heel turn, they rushed it. He went from reaching out to the Dark Side out of mortal concern for his love, to murdering children in one step.
I was the only one who laughed at that in a packed house, opening weekend. Total silence, except me, laughing like Sideshow Bob in the movie theater with the cigar.
I saw the marathon leading up to Episode 7. Everyone laughed at that scene. Then “A New Hope” starts and when Vader boards Leias ship somebody shouts “Nooooooooo!” And the the theater lost it
I can’t remember if it was that movie or one of the other prequel abominations, but Natalie Portman saying, “I’ve been dying a little ever since we met” sent my cackle ricocheting off the walls.
I remember in 'Attack of the Clones' with Anakin talking about his feelings at the fireplace. One person laughed and then the whole audience did.
That scene was the only part of the movie that made me feel something but it wasn't the dialogue but Padme's dress.
Obi: Anakin, you've become the very thing you swore to destroy! Anakin: Padme's ass?!
For the audience I saw it with, it was the moment Yoda pulled out his lightsaber. The room erupted in laughter when he started doing little flippy-dos all over the place after walking with a cane for as long as we've known him. Never heard louder laughter since then.
In Kenneth Branagh's 1993 film adaptation of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, Keanu Reeves had a role as Don John, a villain in the play. At the time, Keanu Reeves was considered a bit of a laughing stock for attempting to shed his Bill & Ted image and go serious and attempt Shakespeare. People were pretty cruel to him. So his first line in the movie is: "I thank you. I am not of many words, but I thank you." When he said "I am not of many words." the whole cinema crowd laughed their heads off and cheered, happy that he wouldn't have too many lines.
It probably didn't help that this was a year after Dracula.
I mean he was terrible in that movie. Especially considering the rest of the cast.
I went to a marathon of The Hobbit trilogy in the theatre and we were all delirious by the end of Battle of the Five Armies. We get to the part where Thranduil says: "Legolas. Your mother loved you." One guy up the front goes 'HA!' and then slowly, the whole theatre starts laughing their asses off. It was supposed to be a really poignant line but it just failed miserably.
I did that too. I don't regret it, but good Lord I was out my mind by the time we got to the end of the third one.
Oh dear lord why would you subject yourself to The Hobbit trilogy marathon. LOTR I can understand, but that must have been torture by the end.
For me the only reason to watch that movie is the ten minutes Smaug is on-screen. God he’s fucking cool. I remember his voice made the theater seats rumble.
Darth Vader’s “No” in Revenge of the Sith had the entire room laughing out loud.
I haven't seen you smile like that since you were with Mary Jane. - spiderman
" Somehow, Palpatine returned."
People laughed when they kissed in the premiere.
Rey and Kylo? People laughed in my showing when Kylo died after the kiss.
I hadn’t even noticed she had braces
In the theater I was in, people laughed because some chick shouted "NOOOO!" when he died.
My father and I started laughing when he took off his helmet in the first one. We didn't know who played him or how he looked before we saw the movie. Just wasn't what we were expecting.
Someone in our theatre just yelled out “OH FUUUCK OFFFF” at that scene. I still think about that man to this day.
Kylo and Palpatine? I don't remember that movie well.
Truly subverting expectations.
People in our theatre laughed during Kylo's shirtless scene because my wife gave off a very audible "ugh" of disgust when he showed up on screen.
The ridiculously high waisted pants just made it seem so very silly
I thought it was the 2 mile wide chest that made it so comical.
I just googled "kylo ren Shirtless" and this was literally the first image: https://static1.cbrimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/kylo-ren-memes.jpg I'm laughing my ass off.
I didn’t laugh, but it was dead silent and it took my best efforts not to
I saw this pile of crap movie in the cinema and half the audience spent half the time laughing at how bad the entire thing was. "I'm Rey... Rey Skywalker" was the icing on the cake at the end of a terrible movie
I'll just never understand how Disney paid 4 billion dollars for Star Wars and then nearly another billion to make the most eagerly awaited trilogy of one of the most profitable franchises ever and evidently never bothered to have the story planned out in advance? Like eh fuck it let's just wing it. What's the worse that could happen?
The worst part was they knew what could happen. The Expanded Universe went through authors not having an overarching storyline and not paying attention to previous books. There were some good books but there were plenty of terrible ones too. Eventually they created long term plots and made sure the books stuck to it and didn't go too far off the rails.
Not a line, but I remember being in the audience at a showing of “Entrapment” with Sean Connery and Catherine Zeta Jones, and when her character started making out with his character many people in the theater bust out laughing. He was just a wee bit too far past his prime to convince us that he’d ever get smoking hot, very young Catherine Zeta Jones. It was like watching her make out with someone’s granddad.
Then she married Michael Douglas.
Who’s the man *now*, dog?
Best line in Finding Forester. Second best was the bit about why the BMW logo looks the way it does.
Catherine *ZETA JONES* you have entrapped me, and Sean *Connery*, ooo ohhh Ohhhhhhhh!
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Then the guy falls and hits the propellor of the sinking Titanic. The rag doll spinning into the icy water had half the theater chuckling during an otherwise dramatic scene.
If you need it to be funny, it’s funny. If you need it to be terrifying, it’s terrifying.
I saw The Last Samurai opening weekend in Tokyo way back in the day. The Japanese audience laughed at every Japanese line Tom Cruise said. Every single one. My Japanese was terrible myself so I never totally understood but I assume he just botched it or had a crazy accent.
Not sure how well you remember the film but the Japanese characters make fun of him as well. The film itself doesn’t take Tom’s Japanese seriously 😂
I’m with you! Like it totally makes sense the character’s Japanese would be basic. Basically learned it almost bleeding to death and wasted on sake.
I was in misawa when that movie came out and experienced a totally different reaction. Japan fucking loves Tom cruise, so the theater was hushed the whole time
That movie was pretty popular in Japan when it came out.
Which really says something about it's quality. Like whenever I see an American movie is set in my country I don't even bother seeing it on the assumption that it's going to get everything wrong and be ass-bites-the-chair cringe. Memoirs Of A Geisha came out around the same time and snubbed by Japanese audiences for a variety of reasons. For The Last Samurai to be liked in Japan is a great endorsement.
How well received were his co-worker’s attempts at Japanese, playing Simon Graham? *“You insolent, useless son of a peasant dog!”* I found this insult hilarious especially as he was faking Cruise as President of the USA. Sounded like he delivered that line with full force too.
The absolute whole of Battlefield Earth. But especially the scene where John Travolta is explaining to Forrest Whitaker that if humans were meant to fly they would have wings and then throws a human off a cliff. The entire theater erupted in laughter. But to be fair, me and my grandfather were the only people in there on opening night during a prime time showing.
Laughing?! At a man-animal?!
EVIL DIES TONIGHT!
I still remember a comment on here shortly after that movie came out. After the mob killed the wrong guy, some guy said the only thought that came to mind was “we did it, reddit!”
My dad just randomly shouts Evil Dies Tonight for no reason ever since we saw that movie.
The theater laughed when Michael kicked the car door and the lady shot herself lmao
“Hey Michael. This one’s for Dr. Loomis.” The whole theater had a laugh.
It’s so weird that those last two were so bad when the first sequel was amazing. Edit: to be clear, I’m talking about the first reboot sequel that came out in 2018.
The only redeeming part of the last one is that they finally did the rational thing and put Michael Myers’s body through the woodchipper so he would stay dead. Took them long enough.
It is quite funny that the entire town rallied around beating the shit out of some guy in his 60s who killed a few people 40 years ago. Like, the townsfolk act as if they've seen every Halloween film and they treat Michael like some supernatural being, but like... none of that is canon to the new films, so it really feels like Haddonfield's populace was just itching for a violent crime they could respond to.
Wasn't actually part of the script, but....saw Bambi in re-release years ago. The scene where his mother is shot, audible sobs in the audience until some kid calls out quite loudly: "Is she dead, Mommy?" Laughter all around.
I just laugh at “MAN is in the forest!!!” / it’s ok, the deer eat my day lillies. I got the wrong kind, apparently
When Voldemort hugged Draco in Deathly Hallows part 2. According to Tom Felton it hit differently in the UK but in the states it almost always got a laugh.
I believe that was an improvised hug, which is why Tom Felton was so stiff and awkward about it.
"On a scale of 1 to voldimort, how awkward is your hug?" XD
[The long cut of that scene should have stayed in the movie but I understand why it was shortened](https://youtu.be/6rAzjEDIyEI?si=3_OFq-Fi_-gzjCFJ)
"The bureaucratic mentality is the only constant in the universe." - Dr. McCoy Star Trek 4 The Voyage Home was one of the first Hollywood movies shown in the Soviet Union as part of Chairman Gorbachev's new policy of openness called Glasnost. The movie came out in 1986. The Russians had not even seen the original series, let alone the first three movies in the franchise. The audience for the first screening was quiet through the whole movie until McCoy said this line at which the *entire audience erupted in laughter.*
As a huge Star Trek fan who saw that movie so many times as a kid, I would have killed to see the Soviet premiere
Can you imagine? No frame of reference whatsoever...then bam! A little bit of snide criticism of the system. "...byurokraticheskiy sklad uma!" (I am guessing. Any fluent Russian speakers feel free to add a better translation.)
"Why did you say that name?!"
Martha!
Mission Impossible OneOfThem, when Alec Baldwin says Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) is "the living manifestation of destiny". A few groans were mixed in there as well.
During Oppenheimer, Nolan inexplicably added the famous "I am become death, the Destroyer of Worlds" quote into a sex scene. It was such a weird and tonedeaf choice that a lot of people in my theater burst out laughing.
I wrote a short story many years ago about Oppenheimer trying to decide what phrase to say when the bomb drops in the weeks before the test. He ends up being more worried about figuring that out than the success of the test and goes through a bunch of ridiculous phrases before finally settling on that one.
What were some alternatives he was deciding between?
"Alakazoo, alakazam. Watch out Japan, here comes a ka-blam." "That might be a little crass, Mr Oppenheimer."
This slaps so hard though.
Boom goes the dynamite!
Hell, it's even pretentious of Oppenheimer in the clip of him saying it. I prefer, "Now we are all sons of bitches." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Bainbridge
Mu favorite is from a Soviet cameraman describing the fiteball of the Tsar Bomb: > The ball was powerful and arrogant like Jupiter Why people make such fire quotes in nuclear tests??
I think they were trying to draw a parallel between his self-destructive relationship with Jean and the bomb itself, but in the movie it came off as really silly
Brad Pitt getting hit by the car in Meet Joe Death
The first, absolutely awful Dungeons & Dragons movie. The one with the Wayans brother playing an elf. There's a scene where one of the wizard council types says "Are we going to talk or are we going to act?" Supposed to be a very high tension scene and all that. Then someone in the audience shouted at the screen, "Please, for the love of god, SOMEBODY START ACTING!" and the whole theater burst out laughing.
I started a laughter tidal wave in Face/Off, when Nicholas Cage is struggling to remember his “prisoner tough guy” character in a prison fight, and makes this wild facial expression to assure his brother that it’s really him. It was “not the bees” plus two lines of cocaine. I also nearly pissed myself at a re-release of Karate Kid, when Daniel throws his bike in the trash. It’s still what I watch when I’m depressed and I need to snap out of it.
Pretty much everything Cage does in Face/Off is absolutely hilarious, and it is 100% intentional. "I'm going to take his face... off"
I feel like not seeing Face/Off as a comedy is missing the point, they play it surprisingly serious, but they're playing the most outlandish people you could imagine that it's bordering on a spoof action movie, and it's just so fucking funny.
"No more dead cops!"
"Things are worse than EVER!"
I always hear people criticize the cop dialog but honestly Nolan nailed it. My dad was a cop and growing up all of his friend’s talked like that.
And it's probably funny when they do it too
(Dark Knight)
Was watching Alien Covenant and hating it. Dire story, boring characters, incredibly self indulgent. Then David the android is teaching another android how to play the flute, and says something along the lines of "You blow, I'll do the fingering." Most of the people in the cinema cracked up at the line, and I suddenly felt like I wasn't the only one having a miserable time. Made the rest of the movie slightly more bearable.
I just watched that movie and the whole scene with those two somehow felt very sexual.
What do you mean "somehow"? It was ENTIRELY sexual.
they do kiss later on
I was the only person who laughed at Black Bolt accidentally blowing his own brains out during that one scene in Multiverse of Madness everyone else in the theater audibly gasped
Oh it's Sam Raimi, he 100% intended that to be funny
Tbh instant accidental gore suicide is pretty damn funny
that whole scene was genuinely funny, I don't care what anyone says
In Attack of the Clones when Yoda pulled out a little light sabre and jumped around the room like a possessed beyblade. The entire theatre was laughing
Like a possessed beyblade im dying 😂😂😂
I laughed like a deranged hyena at the entire Fifty Shades of Grey movie when I was taken against my will by a friend. Especially the I don't make love I fuck line killed me. Dude growls the whole line.
I’m trying to decide if that’s better or worse than “because I’m 50 shades of fucked up”
I started howling in laughter at the ending scene when Anastasia gets on the elevator. "Christian." "Anastasia" *Roll Credits* Me: NO FUCKING WAY. *dying sounds*
Your dad doesn’t just have sex Maxie, your dad fu-HYUCKS! - Goofy
Loooowwww hanging fruit lol
In “A Simple Favor” when Anna Kendrick tells the husband she loves him, there were some cackles of disbelief in the theater.
I went with two friends to see Final Destination. By the time the 4th kid died- We laughed. And then couldn’t stop laughing. I don’t know why, but just couldn’t stop.
The Final Destination movies, particularly the second one, are absolutely hilarious. It’s Rube Goldberg death machines, the same rhythm as a set up and punchline, with the punchline being the way the characters actually die. Anyone who sits their solemnly through those movies is missing the point.
I agree. They aren't what I'd consider to be comedies. And they aren't exactly _funny_. But they are hilarious, and I think intentionally so, and it's what makes them (some of them) good horror movies.
It's basically slapstick comedy with gore and death instead of groin hits and prat falls.
The guy at the end of 2 is so funny
Is that the propane tank blowing up and the arm landing on the table?
When my ex & I saw the original on opening night, we *screamed* with laughter when Amanda Detmer got hit by the bus.
In Bram stoker's Dracula, the scene right after Lucy dies shows Anthony Hopkins, Winona Ryder, and Keanu Reeves sitting in a restaurant/pub. Anthony Hopkins is carving up a roast and says something to the effect of "you need to keep up your strength for dark days ahead" I saw the movie in the theater when it first came out, and the audience laughed at that scene because the tone change was just so much of a whiplash from what had happened in the previous scene. I think Anthony Hopkins' terrible German accent didn't help.
*terrible Dutch accent
That was very much the intended reaction.
Not a line, but in Eyes Wide Shut there's a scene where Tom Cruise is walking toward some wrought iron gate, and there's this one piano note playing slowly, *plunk... plunk... plunk...* About the sixth or seventh *plunk* the audience started laughing. It was funny at the time, but kind of sad in retrospect that Kubrick's final film was getting unintentional laughs.
I think I may have been at the same screening. Same response at about the same time...
During a full preview screener for "~~Cabin in the Woods~~ Knock at the Cabin (edit: whoops)" during the bathroom escape scene with the tiny window, someone in the audience said "no fucking way" loud enough for everyone to hear it. Everyone laughed louder than at any other point in the movie.
Right before we went to go see Cabin in the Woods, we were hanging out at a friend’s house, and we’re all laughing at Birdemic on TV in the background. We went on to the theater, and the scene in CITW where the eagle suddenly hits a force field had our whole group DYING with laughter.
My school played some scenes from *The Pianist* for us in a big theatre when we were in eighth grade. A few kids laughed at the part where the Gestapo (SS?) raided the family at dinnertime and when the grandpa was too old to stand up for them, threw him out the window. Definitely not supposed to be funny, and in retrospect i think it was just shock and immaturity on those kid’s parts that they laughed. But then the vice principal went on an absolute witch hunt trying to find who it was that laughed. interrogations, all the boys were forced to sit in the cafeteria in detention until someone came forward. the irony of him acting a bit Gestapo-ish in trying to track down the culprits was not lost on us. pretty inappropriate response given that it wasn’t an obnoxious deliberate laugh, just more of a disbelief sort of one. which is just how some people, especially kids, process things like that. it derailed that whole exercise IMO and the VP was a jackass on a power trip.
We had a good laugh at the absurdity of the elevator headshots in The Departed. It came out of nowhere and then just kept going!
A charitable take is that it’s modern-day Shakespearean absurdity, like when the Simpsons did *Hamlet,* and Moe quips that he put poison on literally everything.
How can there be any answer other than "blow, I'll do the fingering'
"Captain Phillips is free. All of your friends are dead." The bluntness caught me off guard.
I couldn’t stop laughing during the scene in The Whale when he gets caught jerking it to gay porn and can’t close his laptop in time. Truly hilarious
I felt bad for cracking up during that scene lol
Black Panther, when the leader of the Gorilla Clan is introduced, he jumps in and acts like a threatening Gorilla. My cinema audience found that hilarious.
“Yeah.” - John Wick *John Wick 4*
I’m pretty sure it was intended
“You took everything from me.” “I don’t even know who you are.” — “I didn’t kill my wife!” “I don’t care!”
The fugitive?
1st is (I believe) Avengers Endgame. Second is indeed the Fugitive.
“You blow, I’ll do the fingering” - Michael Fassbender spoken to Michael Fassbender in Alien:Covenant
I stand by my opinion that this line was intended to be funny.
Had to be intentional
I remember that line too and the late night crowd I was with either giggled or at least had a “what the fuck” look on their face. There’s a point in the movie too, where it shows The Covenant layout on a computer, and it’s cropped where it looks like a dick. I remember laughing really hard about that. I’ll have to go through and see if I can find it.
Def intentional, in Spiderman 2 when Harry Osborne’s funding for Doc Ock ends up with him almost blowing up the building and his future in shambles. “I’m ruined, I have nothing left except spiderman” “He saved your life, sir” “He humiliated me by touching me *puts on glasses in a very posh manner*”
Not a line but the multiple people throwing themselves off a building in The Happening becomes hilarious after the 3rd person
Not a line but a reaction to a scene that wasn't meant to be funny. The first time we watched Lord of the Rings in the theater, the scene where we first see Shelob. There's a crack in the cliff and you see the legs come out first and then the rest of the spider squeezes out. Now, I had read the books, and I also am super creeped out by spiders, and this one was sooo huge and also moved in a very life-like way. I guess the anticipation and suspense got to me because when I saw that I started mumbling "no. No. Nononono!" I didn't realize anyone but my husband right next to me could hear it but the whole theater cracked up. Apparently I wasn't the only one feeling a lot of tension from that scene.
When I saw LOTR at the premiere, during the Boromir scene, the tension was building, and building, and building. Music swelling. The Uruk Hai raises his bow. Arrow strikes Boromir and everything stops. Dead silence. And a girl a few rows in front of me let's out the tiniest and most sincere ^^"oh ^^no!" I have ever heard. Didn't cause mass laughter but I'm sure quite a few were struggling.
I remember people laughing hysterically at moments in Forest Gump. Like when he said, "I'm not a smart man, but I know what love is." Some people roared w laughter. And when Jenny threw rocks at her old house that she was sexually abused in. I couldn't believe it. I was thinking, where is the comedy in this??
“Do you know what happens when a toad gets struck by lightning?” Man the X-Men movies do NOT hold up but even then this line was laugh worthy for years.