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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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…
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I saw revenge of the sith in the theater multiple times and there was no laughing at the no. I never noticed it being laughed at until the “do not want” translation gaffe.
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.
Mark wahlberg in The Happening: “come on douchebag, think like a scientist”
“I need a second OK why can’t anyone just give me a goddamn second!?”
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Is it that bad? I was thinking about giving it a try since both parts are out.
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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.
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In Alien: Resurrection I think, Ripley, goes on and on for most of the film about how she wants to exterminate aliens. My friends and I had been joking all film about how much like this one racist dipshit Ripley was in this film.
Then in a tense close up Ripley actually uses the dipshit’s catchphrase: “I don’t like it”. So we bursts out laughing, annoying many other patrons.
…when you turn my voice about
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.
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.
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.
