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.
Do you have other examples?
Not a line per se, but a scene. Watching The Haunting of Emily Rose in theaters and it’s supposed to be a serious scene and maybe even shocking or scary. The possessed main character jumps out of a barn loft or house window… I lost my shit, laughed so loud. The way the girl jumped out was just too funny looking.
I got lots of weird looks for laughing during multiple death scenes in the John wick movies, not sure if that counts…
That bit in JW4 where he falls down like 10 flights of stairs reminded me of the old lady in The IT Crowd.
“I’m afraid I’ve had a bit of a tumble”
Christ those sequels are terrible.
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.
Edit: for the record though, I still loved them.
I’m gonna show my kids Nobody and tell them that’s John Wick 2.
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 spoiler
It 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.
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The only part of Oppenheimer I loved was when Oppie met Downey Jr.'s character. Oppie says, "You are a working man, I can respect that.
Downey: were you also a working man?
Oppie: no, but my father was.
I was the only person in the theater who laughed at this line and the people in front of me did not appreciate it.
I think James Cameron’s “The Abyss” is kinda famous for having way more funny moments than intended.
I saw it in the cinema for its recent anniversary re-release. As you might expect most of the audience were enthusiasts and tended to lean older-male and slightly “technical” or “nerdy” in interests/professions. All to say that they were taking the film seriously. But then there were some, a minority, who didn’t fall into that demographic at all. They found many moments in the film hilarious and were laughing out loud. Which rather annoyed the majority of the crowd some of whom would look around wondering where the annoying laughs were coming from. What’s interesting is that over time the majority softened and started to find the humour themselves and laugh out loud at similar moments.
This is also mentioned in the wikipedia for the film … it seems under the strain of making that movie some of the directing just got a little comical.
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.
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.
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.
Is that theone where he’s a mailman in a collapse scenario or is this a different dull Mel Gibson movie?
That’s Costner in The Postman.
Aight, its just kinda in the part of my brain thats just kinda a mush called “weirdly boring nationalist movies” which is a surprisingly broad genre.
Yeah which is a shame because the premise was interesting. I don’t think I’ve read any of Brin’s works which this was based on.
Kinda hard to tell the difference at times. There’s a lot less Shakespeare in The Patriot, though.
The parts from Jupiter Ascending between the start and the end.
Still better than Rebel Moon.
Rebel moon is so bad, I can’t believe this guy is going to make 4 more of them.
Reminds me that I started the sequel 2 weeks ago, am probably 20 minutes in and I promptly forgot it
For some reason I was determined to get through the first one. Took me 5 or 6 sessions. It’s awful. Jupiter Ascending and Valerian are both masterpieces by comparison.
Take that back!
I watched the first one.
I’d rather be given a prostate exam by Edward Scissorhands than waste my time on the sequel.
All the emotional scenes of rebel moon part one . I know its a crime around here and reddit to like snyder but tbh i really like most of his movies like batman v superman series , army of the dead series , dawn of the dead etc they are by no means perfect but it is what it is and i like them for that .
But oh my fucking god the critics and haters were right on this one the emotional aspects of this movie were a riot and kora (or whatever her name was) just telling her backstory and making a terrible reason why its there etc made me wanna quit watching anyway i put myself through it mainly because of the time i spent to pirate it and hoping it would get good (it never did ) and no way in hell i’m watching the second part .
Is it that bad? I was thinking about giving it a try since both parts are out.
No don’t as someone who always thought people were giving snyder shit for nothing this is well deserved the part one sucks ass . Idk about part two tho and i have no plan to find out .
Word. I guess I’ll pass. The first movie is 2 and a half hours. I don’t want to spend that much time to figure it out on my own. I watched the first Dune and fell asleep, so I won’t watch the 2nd one because it is another massive amount of time for a movie. It wouldn’t be too bad, but I got so many shows/movies to watch like Kingdom, that I don’t want to waste my time.
What happened to 90 minute movies? Oh I feel old.
You are dodging a bullet i couldn’t mate . also i too watched dune 1and thought it kinda felt like watching a long drama but have no plan to watch part 2 as i heard there are ridiculous things to come and don’t wanna watch something that bores me for no reason but yeah i can atleast see why people like dune .
It’s been decades since I’ve been to the cinema, so I don’t know if this counts, but a recent example I can think of is when I watched No Exit the other day, and laughed really hard both when one bad guy
spoiler
gets shot with a nail in the forehead by the other
::: and again when he thenspoiler
fell on his face and drove the nail home, literally
::: ¯\(ツ)/¯I watched the first hunger games movie in a Thai cinema. There is a scene where Katness (is that the main characters name…) breaks up with her boyfriend for some reason, neither of them is happy about it. The whole theater broke out in laughter, I have no clue why.
There must’ve been something weird in the translation there. I can’t think of a “break-up” in the first book or film.
Its been a while, I might misremember the scene. Definitely between the two, and they have a heartfelt sad conversation. The movie was in English, just Thai subtitles, so I am sure I got the context right. Was a long time ago though.
There’s a love triangle in the series. In the first film the Gale (boy who doesn’t go to the games) and Katniss never discuss it, and Katniss and Peeta (boy in the games) put it on as an act to get people to support them in the games, though for Peeta it isn’t really an act.
It’s discussed openly in the sequels - usually with either Gale pining for Katniss and her saying she can’t deal with relationship stuff with everything going on, or Peeta feeling hurt that Katniss turns it on for the cameras, but doesn’t really love him.
While there aren’t any overt break-up scenes in the later films, there’s some break-up adjacent stuff in them. Maybe it was Catching Fire or Mockingjay part I?
Not a line, but I saw Matrix: Revolutions in theater on opening weekend. During the 1-on-1 fight with Smith in the rain, there’s a slow-motion shot of Neo punching Smith in the face. It’s such bad CGI the entire theater burst into laughter. I’m pretty sure it was intended to be dramatic, but after seeing the latest Matrix movie and how tongue-in-cheek it is about itself, I’m not entirely sure anymore.
The CGI in that movie was so bad that it looked like a then-present-era video game.
Which felt maybe-kinda intentional, or maybe-kinda retconned as intentional?
I had someone in my theater say “Die already” during the prolonged death scene in the ship. People busted out laughing.
In the recent Ferrari movie, there’s a scene with one of the legendary racing drivers. He’s in the lead at the big race and he just needs to bring it home for the win. He’s got a big smile, the shots are serene, the music is swelling. Then suddenly, he wrecks super violently and crashes into a crowd of people. I absolutely lost it. I was the only one.
Why don’t normal people find sudden changes in emotional tone funny?
That scene sounds funny AF.
The crashes look so bad as well. It’s like they spent all their special effects budget on old man make-up and had nothing left for those.
