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?
I saw I am legend I cinemas with my brother I would have been 16 him 11.
When Will Smith killed his dog my brother started balling his eyes out and I started laughing at him uncontrollably. I’m sure from an outside perspective I looked like a psycho
Like laughing during Schindler’s List
To be fair, Yackety Sax was a weird choice for the soundtrack.
But Benny Hill really earned that Oscar
Not really a movie line but a scene from a movie.
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.
I stopped watching after The Force Awakens, and this makes me even more sure of my decision.
Titanic. Propeller guy.
I was there, i laughed. Wife looked at me with distaste.
Now imagine it with a Wilhelm added to the KLANG sound effect. Gold. 100% pure.
I was a Radioman in the Navy, and some coworkers and I had gone to see Cider House Rules in the theater.
There’s a scene where they come to inform someone that a plane with a loved one on board had been shot down.
To quote the movie:
When the plane was hit, the crew chief and the radioman jumped close together. The copilot jumped third.
We immediately started laughing when we heard that, because we were told that the Radiomen are some of the last to leave a sinking ship due to needing to destroy the cryptographic material. Hearing that a Radioman was one of the first to bail was too good to us…
Not the movie that caused it, but during either the first or second Tobey McGuire Spider Man movie there is a scene where Peter tells Aunt May he is responsible for Uncle Ben’s death. Right during this dramatic scene in the theater a kid said pretty loudly (but not quite yelling) “I have to go poop!” Quite of a few of us burst out laughing during this heavy scene.
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 entire theater fucking lost it.
I remember laughing my ass off at a 5-second loop of that scene with a Wilhelm added to it.
Ya can’t say shit like that and not link the clip. Now I hafta venture out on the real internet and look for it. Day ruined.
Lol. Unfortunately, it was bookmarked in a now-nuked YT account. It’s definitely out there though.
The Samuel L Jackson scene in Deep Blue Sea, I know it’s supposed to give the sense that nobody is safe, but it’s so random and quick that it dives head first into comedy.
Love that scene, it’s absolutely hilarious.
I’m still not sold on that not being deliberately hilarious.
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.
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.
Reminds me that I started the sequel 2 weeks ago, am probably 20 minutes in and I promptly forgot it
I watched the first one.
I’d rather be given a prostate exam by Edward Scissorhands than waste my time on the sequel.
Take that back!
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.
Not sure if this counts as it’s not strictly a line but it’s a family favourite story.
During Interview with the Vampire during a very tense scene, Tom Cruise walks out holding three severed heads by the hair. Well my sister started laughing hard, causing me and then the rest of the cinema to follow suit shortly after.
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.
I’m not married anymore.
Before Midnight with Handsome Hawke and Julie Delpy?
Not in the theatre but watching Kill Bill. Very tense moment when Uma Thurmam confronted the other woman (at 30 seconds https://youtu.be/sPfjd2bayVs). It zooms in on her eyes, plays the music, and I fucking lost it.
They used to do that in Bruce Lee movies and I was not expecting that in a Hollywood blockbuster. QT was inspired though.
It’s definitely a meme for a reason lol
It’s a meme?
yes, though mostly parodied in videos and not that prevalent. couldn’t find it on KnowYourMeme
I remember it mostly being in various late 00’s–early 10’s youtube poops, and probably at least one in GMod Idiot Box
One of the Marvel movies, Avanegers I think?
“Get all of your spectrometers, put them on the roof and set them to detect gamma rays!”
Most of our group got a pretty good laugh out of that one in the theater.
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…
Works for me.
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.
I cheered too, ngl. Seagal is a turd.
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.
