Submitted 6 months ago by Blaze@lemmy.blahaj.zone to movies@lemm.ee
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 DID NAWT HIT HAR. I DID NAWT. OH HAI MARK!
I used to laugh during certain scenes in Commando. He’ll do ridiculous things like rip the seat out of a truck like it’s nothing.
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 straits 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’m gonna show my kids Nobody and tell them that’s John Wick 2.
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, you can empty a m16 into this god damn suit as long as he holds it 1 inch away from his body and keep running.
The times that this has happened to me weren’t serious moments that tickled me wrong, they were sophisticated references that only I got (or others were just quieter). I couldn’t give you a specific example but it’s happened at least twice.
Not very high brow, but this happens a lot in good children's movies, with adults laughing at moments when the kids don't understand why. My favourite is in Shrek when he's walking across an onion field trying to contemplate how troll are like onions, but gets constantly interrupted by Donkey.
In Peer Gynt, the protagonist picks up an onion after having considered marrying into a family of trolls. He starts out by comparing himself to the onion, exactly like Shrek, in that he has multiple layers. However, as he's not being interrupted by Donkey, Gynt keeps removing layers until he realizes there's no core - the onion, like himself, is just a bunch of thin layers with no real central identity or reason to exist.
Shrek never gets to make this realisation, because Donkey keeps insisting nobody likes onions: he would be better of comparing himself to a parfait, as they also have multiple layers.
What's a bit of a turning point of self-insight in the beginning of Peer Gynt is ruined by Donkey in Shrek, rendering it instead a commentary on how everybody loves perfait.
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.
niktemadur@lemmy.world 6 months ago
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.