Best Lines You Have Shouted (or heard shouted) At A Movie Screen

[Sir Rhosis]

We've all been in a bad movie and heard zingers delivered at the ludicrous action on screen, ala MST3K. What are some memorable ones you've delivered or heard?

During Batman and Robin, Alicia Silverstone as Barbara dashes into Wayne Manor and runs toward the elderly Michael Gough as Alfred. A patron in front of me yelled, "My God, she's gonna knock him over!"

And not at the screen, but from one patron to another... At The Phantom Menace, when the LucasFilm logo appeared, a stereotypical fan near me stood and pumped both fists into the air and screamed "YES!" at the top of his lungs. From the rear of the theater there came a middle-aged countrified drawl, "Shut the fuck up, you damn nerd!"

After the movie, the enthusiastic fan appeared numb and in shock, and I could not help but approach and ask what he thought of the movie. He just mumbled something about "waiting fifteen years for this," and shuffled away.

Sir Rhosis

[Bryan Ekers]

Wait wait wait.... you want start a positive thread about people who talk at the movies?

A friend of mine muttered "All he needs now is Karl Malden" during Basic Instinct, but it's a bit subtle.

[Glory]

During Batman and Robin, Alicia Silverstone as Barbara dashes into Wayne Manor and runs toward the elderly Michael Gough as Alfred. A patron in front of me yelled, "My God, she's gonna knock him over!"


That's funny? I would have been extremely annoyed to have a movie (yes, even Bathman and Robin) interrupted by such rude drivel.

It is almost as stupid as the audience member during the remake of Dawn of the dead who said during the end credits on the boat when the heroes opened the cooler to find the zombie head, "THAT'S A ZOMBIE HEAD!" No fucking shit, thanks for your astute observation, dumbass.

[Exapno Mapcase]

How about a good one? Though not a shout.

It's many, many years ago. My college roommate and I took buses across town to the one theater that was showing the new sf film THX 1138. We're all alone in the theater except for a father who brought his two young daughters.

We thought the daughters, both under 10, might be a problem, but they were quiet and respectful throughout the film until Robert Duvall is put into the white-on-white prison. Then one of the girls says, "They put him in nowhere. How can you escape from nowhere?"

You go, girl. Best comment I ever heard in a theater or ever expect to.

[RealityChuck]

Only a couple of times I inspired to shout out something in a movie. Usually I hate talking, but both times the comments were necessary.

The movie was being shown at a hotel. One of their ballrooms had been converted into a theater and rows were set up. The film was free, so people were always coming and going. And although the theater was dark enough, it was pretty bright outside. So whenever people entered or left, the light came in, and made it difficult to watch. Bad enough. But every time the door opened, this woman in the audience would shout out, "Close the do-or."

"Close the do-or."
"Close the do-or."
"Close the do-or."

Finally, I shouted out, "Did you come to watch the movie or the door?"

The movie went on in silence. :)

[MaxTheVool]

I live near Stanford, and there's a student-run film series there where they show movies that many people have already seen, so there's always a lot of talking and so forth. Several of us went to see Bring It On, one of my favorite B-movies, and there's a scene where Kirsten Dunst's character is spending the night at Eliza Dushku's character's house, and as they're lying in bed next to each other, everyone in the theater started chanting "Spoon! Spoon! Spoon! Spoon!". It was hilarious.

A friend of mine went to see the Disney version of Hercules, and at a key dramatic moment when (I think) the boat is descending into the depths of hades, a small child yelled out "I don't like this house!"

[The Asbestos Mango]

In Sony's Godzilla, after the Giant Lizard has been lured to his unfortunate fate with a big ol' pile of fish, he collapses in front of nerdy scientist guy (sorry, I can't remember the character's name or who played him), I noted the look on said Lizard's face, leaned over to my mother's ear and whispered "I thought we had a relationship!"

[Askia]

I wasn't there, but I have always been partial to Harlan Ellison's anecdote about how one big, bad black dude pitches another motormouth black dude over a theater balcony for talking during a movie during a screening of HOLD THAT TIGER. It's funny and sick on multiple levels. It's Part 2. of The Three Most Important Things In Life from "Stalking The Nightmare/"

[Tuckerfan]

In the movie The Fly where Geena Davis's character hugs Brundlefly, this woman shouts out, "Uh, uh! No way honey! There ain't enough love in this world to make me do that!"

While I don't remember any of the lines, but I managed to keep an entire theater in stitches as we suffered through Warlock 2.

Probably the best one off line I ever did was in Lost Boys where they're all about to clobber the vampires, when the mother walks in and demands to know what's going on. At which point, without even realizing what I was doing, I shouted, "Oh, shut the fuck up you bitch." Practically the entire audience fell out of their seats laughing.

[Happy Scrappy Hero Pup]

We were at La Bamba on a team trip, and we were with our coach, who was a Ritchie Valens fan growing up. Dollar theater, the whole team and a couple other people.

And the key climactic moment comes, and my coach stands up and yells in a sobbing, pleading voice,



Ritchie, don't get on that plane!


I fell out of my chair laughing. I always think that now whenever I see that movie.

[MacTech]

i've had a few.....

The Lion King;
"Simba, everything the light touches, is our kingdom"
Me; What? the curtains?

LOTR; ROTK
the scene where the horsemen are approaching the Mumikil elephants, low camera angle from behind the horses....

Me; Use your harpoons and tow cables, go for the legs

not a movie, but still funny

ST-TNG "The Best of Both Worlds"

Picard - (to Riker) "what's your impression of Shelby?"
Me; i don't do impressions, sir

Riker - "Maybe i'm just afraid of the big chair"
Me; <in a bad Troi accent> i know, furniture scares me too....

[PucksRaven]

The roommate and I went to a late show of Van Helsing on opening night. After spending the entire movie quietly mocking it to one another we get to the final scene where:

Anna's face appears in the clouds at her funeral. Absolutely unable to restrain myself I say, in a weepy incredulous voice. "Mufasa?"

The entire, fairly packed theatre, cracked up laughing.

[silenus]

The best I ever heard was during a showing of "Superman." If you remember, Lois asks Supe what color her panties are, and Supe can't tell her, because there is lead in the planter. After she moves aside, he says "Pink."

Later, as they were flying through the clouds, she lets go of Supe's hand, and falls. At that point, someone in the audience shouted out "Brown!" :D

[Anonymous Coward]

In Star Trek: Generations when William Shatner's name came up on the beginning credits, one lone guy clapped his hands and cheered in a sarcastic manner. That cracked up the theatre.

In the Travolta flick Phenomenon when the title first rolled across the screen, one guy sung the "do doo be-do-do" part of the Muppets Mahna-Mahna song. There was a delayed reaction for about 5 seconds for people to get the joke and then we all laughed.

[Mr. Blue Sky]

In the original Dawn of the Dead, during one scene where some zombies are breaking down a door, an ex-friend shouted out, "Can I interest you in some literature?"

[don Jaime]

You know that moment in Star Wars 2: When Clones Attack when Natalie Portman crests the hill before Hayden Christiansen rides in on the deer tick? That's a real good place to sing about how the hills come alive with the sound of music. Or so I thought while watching with fellow employees the night before it opened.

[DesertDog]

In Star Trek: Generations when William Shatner's name came up on the beginning credits, one lone guy clapped his hands and cheered in a sarcastic manner. That cracked up the theatre. Local theater had a month-long samauri film festival ending with Seven Samauri -- the three and a half hour version. Anyhow, as the opening credits were flashing on the screen, all in unsubtitled kanji, the audience started alternately cheering and booing. We hadn't a clue what who it was -- third assistant clapper loader for all we knew -- but it passed the time until the actual movie started and then we quieted down.

DD

[Sampiro]

When I saw Kill Bill: Volume 1 a middle-aged to aging Grady (from Sanford & Son) lookalike who was either deranged or stoned or some combination kept talking to the screen throughout the movie. I was thinking of reporting him but he was actually funny. My favorite moment was during the scene when Uma Thurman fights the Crazy 88.

She has killed the entire bodyguard force except for one young man who, holding his samurai sword, eyes her while looking terrified, his sword trembling. It's clear he'd rather run away than fight.

Crazy Grady, who's been talking constantly and yelling periodically, cries out: "Shit motherfucker, run! Git yore ass outta there, motherfucker, that bitch crazy! Shit! Ain't like nobody gone tell you a pussy- they all dead."

[Smeghead]

I was at the premier of Fellowship of the Ring. The whole theater was geeked out and wired. When the movie finally started, there was no sound. :eek: After about five minutes of yelling, someone finally went out and got the theatre people to turn it off and get it fixed. Well, when the movie stopped, the screen flashed back to the ads they usually play between shows. It just so happened that the ad on the screen was for some dress store, and showed some lovely young model in a dress. I instantly yelled out, "WOW! Frodo's HOT!" and the whole theatre started laughing.

The weird thing is that I would NEVER do something like that. It just came out of me without me thinking about it at all.

[Anastasaeon]

I went with a friend to see Jurassic Park in theaters when it first came out. I don't remember all the characters' names, but for one. When one of the women runs into a shed to get away from the velociraptors, an arm reaches out from behind her and lands comfortingly on her shoulder. She sighs in relief: "Oh. Arnold." And turns...

...only to find the arm is indeed Arnold's, except that it's disembodied :eek: At that moment I turned to my friend and said, "Uh Oh! It's ARMold!"

*insert "bad pun" noise here, with gratuitous groans*

[rjung]

From author Peter David's blog: (http://peterdavid.malibulist.com/archives/002412.html)
Dude, at least YOU didn't see "Batman and Robin" at a special private screening for DC staffers and guest. I'll never forget the moment Batman whipped out the Bat Mastercard, and someone behind me screamed like a lost soul howling its agony from the pit of the damned. It was Denny O'Neil. What a blood-curdling sound THAT was.
No, I wasn't there, but damn could I feel the pain...

(Mr. O'Neil, for the comics-impaired, is one of the premiere writers of Batman comics)

[Zoe]

Earlier tonight my husband and I were watching a DVD of the old television movie Shogun. In one outdoor scene there were a lot of warriors and their leaders. There was a great earthquake and the ground began to give way beneath them and soldiers disappeared. When the great leader Toranaga fell in, I turned to my husband and said in my best fake Japanese, "Generals to a fault."

He liked it.

[Cliffy]

At the theatre once I saw a trailer for White Fang during which the hero is being chased by bears (IIRC) and hides in a pile of logs that have made a kind of hutch as they've fallen. Due to technical difficulties they had to restart a few minutes later at the very beginning of the reel, so the trailer comes up again. When we see the menacing bears, the guy behind me shouts: "Go for the logs!"

Not exactly the same thing, but you know that part in Say Anything where the blonde girl at the party says to Diane "If it wasn't for (scare quotes) 'Diane Court Wow!' I probably never would have gotten into (scare quotes) 'Cornell.'"? Well I went to see that movie during Orientation Week at Cornell, and the theatre erupted with cheers.

--Cliffy

[ccwaterback]

Many years ago, I went to see the 1968 version of Romeo and Juliet. The theater was sold out, all seats were taken. At the end, when the tragedy unfolds and Juliet awakes to find Romeo had taken his life, and then takes her own, you could hear people sobbing in the theater of course. Then out of nowhere this young boy in the crowd shouts out, "Oh Boy!!!". The comic relief was accepted graciously by everyone.

[RobuSensei]

While watching The Lion King in the theater for the first time, near the beginning, when Rafiki is mixing herbs 'n stuff and doing all of that divination stuff, I leaned over to my little sister and whispered in her ear,

"DRUGS!"

She hit me.

At the end of "The Circle of Life," when they flash the Lion King logo on the screen with a loud beat on the drum, I again leaned over and whispered, "in case you forgot what movie you were watching."

She hit me again.

One time at home, we were watching Fiddler on the Roof. At the wedding scene, when the presents are being announced, she piped up with, "Tell them what ELSE they've won!"

I'm so proud.

[RobuSensei]

"We can pay you 2000 now, plus 15 when we get to Alderaan."

"Seventeen, huh?"

(me) "No, you idiot, 2015! Pay attention!"

It got a small laugh.

[BrotherCadfael]

In the Travolta flick Phenomenon when the title first rolled across the screen, one guy sung the "do doo be-do-do" part of the Muppets Mahna-Mahna song. There was a delayed reaction for about 5 seconds for people to get the joke and then we all laughed.OK, I'm missin' this one. I know the song, but can't make the connection. Any help?

[Marley23]

OK, I'm missin' this one. I know the song, but can't make the connection. Any help?
Mahna-Manha. Do doo be-do-do. Mahna Mahna. Do do-do do...

Compare:

Phenomenon. Do doo be-do-do. Phenomenon. Do do-do do...

[JThunder]

Do doo be-doo-doo. Be doo doo. Be doo doo...

[SPOOFE]

When I saw Kill Bill 2; the scene where Budd blasts The Bride with rock salt. After she lands and he's lording over her, I shouted, "CUT OFF HER EAR!"

[zamboniracer]

During the movie "Signs", in a silent, creepy scene where the characters are searching through a field of corn stalks, some wise guy (ok, it was me, and like most correct thinking people I dislike it when people talk during movies) said, "It's Shoeless Joe!" Everyone in the theater cracked up.

[bobkitty]

My dad *loves* telling the story of the Night He Almost Divorced My Mom. Dad's a HUGE Jack Nicholson fan, and so he decided to treat my mom to a showing of One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest. They get to the scene where Jack

is choking the hell out of Nurse Ratched

and my normally extremely mild-mannered mother, who remains TO THIS DAY absolutely mortified at her behavior that night, stands up in the middle of a packed theater and yells

KILL THE BITCH! KILL THE BITCH!! :eek:

Of course the whole theater applauded. :D

I love that story.

[SpazCat]

I heard this one during a showing of Gladiator at my university's theater:

Commodus: (getting all hot and heavy with his sister) Do you remember what our father told us?

Guy in the audience: Don't have sex!

I don't remember the rest of that movie. :D

[Daylon]

Not sure if this counts, but I remember when I went to go see The Thing with Kurt Russel.

I *distinctly* remember saying "Oh...no...fucking....way..." about a second and a half before the actor did when the head grew legs and starting scurrying across the floor.

Got a good laugh from the audience..

D.

We've all been in a bad movie and heard zingers delivered at the ludicrous action on screen, ala MST3K. What are some memorable ones you've delivered or heard?

During Batman and Robin, Alicia Silverstone as Barbara dashes into Wayne Manor and runs toward the elderly Michael Gough as Alfred. A patron in front of me yelled, "My God, she's gonna knock him over!"

And not at the screen, but from one patron to another... At The Phantom Menace, when the LucasFilm logo appeared, a stereotypical fan near me stood and pumped both fists into the air and screamed "YES!" at the top of his lungs. From the rear of the theater there came a middle-aged countrified drawl, "Shut the fuck up, you damn nerd!"

After the movie, the enthusiastic fan appeared numb and in shock, and I could not help but approach and ask what he thought of the movie. He just mumbled something about "waiting fifteen years for this," and shuffled away.

Sir Rhosis

[OtakuLoki]

In Look Who's Talking I got popcorn tossed at me when during the scene when the sperm are all racing towards the ovum, I shouted out: "Last one in's a rotten egg!"

[FisherQueen]

Star Wars: Attack of the Clones. About two weeks into its run, so the theatre was full.

Yoda appears for his climactic battle with the enemy, pauses for a moment in the doorway, the audience holds its breath, and from the back row, a very good Yoda impression shouts "Kick your ass I will."

[WhyNot]

Not a shout, but a quietly whispered comment I'll never forget.

A very serious ex met me for coffee and asked to take me to Titanic. Right now. Because Rose reminded him so much of me, and he wanted to share with me his vision of me as a person.

Ummm. OK.

At the end, when they are clinging onto the stern of the ship before it goes down (I didn't need to spoiler that, right?) I lean over to him and say, "Oh, John! That's the spot where they met!"

And then Rose says, with identical inflection: "Jack! This is where we met!"

:smack:

Guess he was right!

[Bryan Ekers]

HA-ha! You're a movie cliché. Cliché!

[RikWriter]

I read a newspaper article about a guy who did a thesis on audience reaction to catcalls during movies.
During Indecent Proposal, when Woody Harrelson is doing his architecture class near the end and says "Even a brick wants to be something," this guy piped up with "Yeah, it wants to be Woody Harrelson." I've always thought that was priceless.
Me, when I took my wife to see Indecent Proposal, during the film she leaned over and whispered to me "Would you let me have sex with Robert Redford for a million dollars?"
I replied a bit loudly, "Hell, I'D have sex with Robert Redford for a million dollars!"
That got a pretty big laugh.

[Darkhold]

During Dragonslayer there's a very tense scene where the hero has gone deep into the lair and can't find the dragon.

Slowly you see the head come out of a pool of water as the hero looking around confused. At this point my brother jumped up and screamed

"Look behind you!" the whole theater burst out laughing.

Even better though is my mother who wanted to spend quality time with me and ended up at Lord of the Rings we watched it and I saw the ending drawing near so I started to get my jacket on and my stuff in order. She kept giving me baffled looks. Then the credits started to roll and she yelled out

"That's IT?!?!" everyone's head whipped around and most of them were chuckling and nodding in agreement.

To this day I can embarrass her by bringing that story up. She had no idea the movie was going to end there and had no idea why I was getting ready to go. (I hadn't seen the movie before either but it was pretty obviously wrapping up)

[BrotherCadfael]

Mahna-Manha. Do doo be-do-do. Mahna Mahna. Do do-do do...

Compare:

Phenomenon. Do doo be-do-do. Phenomenon. Do do-do do...Eh.

[Jenaroph]

At a theater showing MST3K The Movie, the trailer for "Beavis and Butthead:The Movie" started with a black screen and the instantly recognizable "Heh-heh hunh huh heh", drawing groans from the audience and a yell from down front, "There is no GOD!"

A minute later, when the little gold Gramercy Pictures logo came up, someone shouted "Hey, it's Mr B Natural!"

For the rest of the movie, the crowd was remarkably well-behaved, considering.

[BMax]

LOTR: FOTR

When Frodo wakes up, Elrond says: "Welcome to Rivendell"

And I addded in my best Agent Smith voice: "Mr. Andersen". The ex elbowed me in the ribs for that one, but she was laughing herself.


My favorite was during the Matrix Reloaded, when the Frenchman's wife tells the wooden Keanu Reeves to kiss her and make her believe that he loves her, I said in a voice louder than I expected:

"He's the worst actor in the world, are you kidding me? They're fucked."

Half the people in the theater laughed at that one.

[fiddlesticks]

When seeing Star Trek: First Contact on opening night, there's the scene where Zefram Cochrane is explaining how the inspiration for warp drive came to him. Can't remember how the speech goes exactly, but it seemed very similar Doc Brown's recalling his inspiration scene in Back to the Future, so at what seemed like exactly the right moment in Cochrane's speech, I shouted "The Flux Capacitor!"

[Miller]

During Fellowship of the Rings, during the big fight between Gandalf and Saruman, I leaned over to my friend and said, in my best Will Ferrel voice, "They're breakdance fighting!"

Woulda been funnier if my friend had seen Zoolander.

[USCDiver]

I was watching the Patriot with some friends and everytime Mel Gibson had some anguished or angry look on his face I'd say "Give me back my son!" (a la Ransom). I thought that whole movie was just a combination of Ransom and Braveheart anyway.

[Michael Ellis]

I don't talk in theaters. But I do comment when watching something on TV.

My family was watching Pearl Harbor, and during the scene where Jon Voight's FDR grabs the conference table and dramatically lifts himself out of his wheelchair, I yelled "MEIN FUHRER, I CAN WALK!"

[START]

There was this anti-smoking ad before the previews and on the ad a guy was holding up a sign that read something like; "Millions killed by Nicotine and still counting" and someone shouted out "Whooo! Go Nicotine".

[rowrrbazzle]

I really seriously hate people who talk in the movies, so much so it's cut down on my moviegoing. OTOH, some of these are really funny.

OK, I'm missin' this one. I know the song, but can't make the connection. Any help?Mahna-Manha. Do doo be-do-do. Mahna Mahna. Do do-do do...

Compare:

Phenomenon. Do doo be-do-do. Phenomenon. Do do-do do...And this was the basis of a sketch on the Sandra Bullock episode of "Muppets Tonight".

I've only heard about this one, it wasn't a movie, and it's apocryphal to boot. But it's damn funny. At a very bad stage production of "The Diary of Anne Frank", the first time the Nazis show up, someone in the audience shouts, "She's in the attic!" I wasn't there, but I have always been partial to Harlan Ellison's anecdote about how one big, bad black dude pitches another motormouth black dude over a theater balcony for talking during a movie during a screening of HOLD THAT TIGER. It's funny and sick on multiple levels. It's Part 2. of The Three Most Important Things In Life from "Stalking The Nightmare/"Part 3 is one of the funniest (X-rated) things I've ever read! You can read the whole story here: http://harlanellison.com/iwrite/mostimp.htm

[kittenblue]

In Signs there is a scene where the little kids are reading from a book on aliens, listing their supposed attributes, one being that they are vegetarians.

Later, during a climactic scene where they are barricading themselves in the house with the alien outside, you hear the family dog, chained up outside, barking away...until there is a doggie-squeal and then silence.........




except for the guy in the audience who stated, very matter-of-factly, "So much for the vegetarian theory."

Everyone laughed.

[Ms Boods]

In the late 70s, my brother took me to the $1 cinema to see Smokey and the Bandit -- the print was in terrible condition, worn, misthreaded, out of focus. At one point the sound failed. The film broke, was somewhat lethargically repaired, then the projectionist forgot to change reels -- meanwhile the audience, each of whom had probably already seen the film half a dozen times, was very goodnatured, and cheerfully cat- called through the whole film anyway, and when the film broke a second time, someone near the front piped up, 'Hey, I want my dollar back!'

[look!ninjas]

So my entire family is at the theatre for The Return of the King, and I'm sitting next to my seven-year old niece. She was her usual, well-behaved self until Frodo and Sam were picked up by the giant eagles. The theatre was packed with teary-eyed nerds staring raptly at the beautiful shot of Frodo dangling above Mount Doom, clutched in the talons of the giant eagle, when a little voice at my side whispered "Oops. I dropped him." I didn't quite fall out of my seat laughing, but it was a very near thing. God, I love my niece.

[friedo]

I went to see the crappy remake of the crappy Planet of the Apes. At the end,


Our Hero finds himself on an alternate Planet Earth wherein the Apes have taken over. What initially looks like the Lincoln Memorial turns out to be a big statue of a gorilla. Someone next to me piped up, "Hey! It's Ape-raham Lincoln!"

[JohnT]

I don't recall the movie (I think it was one of the first two LOTR flicks), but during the trailers I did the misdeed...

One of the trailers was for the film "Dumb and Dumberer." Now it looked pretty stupid, but what does one expect from a film so titled?

Then the trailer after that was for "The Core." My wife and I couldn't believe our eyes - this movie looked so idiotic, it made "Armageddon" look like... well, "Deep Impact."

After the trailer ended, in that two-second space where they show the credits and then the MPAA rating ensuring the audience that the next trailer has been rated "G", I shouted:

"Now that was dumb and dumberer!"

The entire audience broke up. My wife had to leave for a minute or two, she was laughing so hard. Everybody calmed down by the time the movie started, so all was good (luckily, there were a few trailers after that).

[Scarlett67]

Watching The Karen Carpenter Story on TV with my goody-two-shoes roommate and the future Mr. S. In one scene they are going on stage for their first big performance in a huge auditorium, and Karen is all nervous, and the audience is going wild and shouting stuff like,"KAREN, I LOVE YOU!" At this point Mr. S chimes in with, "Karen, you look fat!"

Cracked me right up, but pissed off the roommate. I think it was at that moment that I knew we were meant to be together.

[Sunshine and Smiles]

[george costanza] That's gotta hurt! .... .... I said, THATS GOTTA HURT! [/george costanza]

[Kyla]

I saw the rerelease of Empire Strikes Back on opening day, at the midnight showing. You can imagine. There were people in costume, having lightsaber fights in the street. There was a lot of cheering, booing, fun audience participation, etc., but the best part was when Luke was complaining about something to Yoda on Dagobah, someone in the audience called out, in a whiny voice, "I just wanted to go to Tashi Station to pick up some power converters!"

Everyone cracked up. Ah, being a geek is fun.

[ianzin]

Here in the UK, there's one example which has become more well-known than all the others, and it has also become such a cliche that even people who wouldn't normally shout out at the screen (even when it's on TV) tend to do so. It about Carrie (mild spoiler coming up).

Carrie has finally had enough of her mother, gives vent to her telekinetic powers and aims some nicely sharp kitchen knives at Mother, knifing her to the wall. This is the moment when most Brits shout out "One hundred and eigh ---- ty!!!".

I could explain why this was very witty the first time, and why it's still funny, but those who know don't need telling and those who don't know wouldn't appreciate it anyway.

[Wolfian]

Well, ianzin, you've perked my curiousity. Could you please fill me in?

[CarnalK]

I thought this one was pretty funny. Near the end of "Young Guns" there's that dramatic showdown with classic overactor Jack Palance. The final draw and blam, Jack gets it right between the eyes. We now snap to slow mo so Jack can draw out the "I'm shocked I'm dying" bit. As he slowly reels and faces the camera someone behind me shouts:

"Believe it, or not!!"


Having watched the old Ripley's show with Mr. Palance, I couldn't help cracking up.

[CarnalK]

Oh and Wolfian, 180 (three triple 20's) is the most points you can get in a round of darts in a game like 301. The British like their darts. :)

[Mirasol]

Ok, this needs a little background. It was nearing the end of an Ohio winter, at that stage where even many folks who like winter are starting to get sping fever. I'm at the theatre with some friends, and up comes a trailer for The Day After Tomorrow. This was a just a teaser trailer that was pretty much some ominous text, followed by a shot of New York City buired in the snow, followed by a "Coming this May" screen.

I said (about normal speaking voice volume), "Oh great, just what we want in May. A movie about snow".

Well, my friend thought it was funny at the time.


Not exactly on-topic, but I thought I'd share another recent theatre-going-experience anecdote. My somewhat-old-fashioned-at-least-in-terms-of-morals grandparents and I went recently to see the Phantom of the Opera. Neither of them had been to see a movie in a long time, and really got a kick out of things like the automized curtains (you know, that move to expose the edges of the screen for widescreen movies). One of the trailers was for the upcoming Constantine movie, which involved lots of fighting, explosions, demons and/or ghosts, that sort of thing. My Grandma was absolutely shocked by this preview and leans over to tells me: "That's absolutely terrible. They shouldn't even be allowed to make horrible things like that. Do you like movies like that?"

Wow. Talk about you loaded question.

After the movie, I made comments about how for a few scenes, there seemed to be some problems with the theatre's sound system. My grandpa (who's deaf in one ear) said: "Oh, I thought it was just the guy behind us crinkling his sack". I think he meant "bag of popcorn", but had a hard time supressing my laughter at another possible interpretation.

[Stranger On A Train]

I usually object strenuously to talking in cinemas ('cept midnight shows of cult classics, where it's practically expected), but the scene in "About Schmidt" where
Kathy Bates drops her robe and gets into the jacuzzi with Jack Nickelson.
The guy in front of me yelled "My eyes!" and clutched his face. His girlfriend/wife proceeded to slug him.

Stranger

[Martha Medea]

UK cinema. Trailer for 'Free Willy'.

Woman's voice shouts:

"I'll 'ave some of that!"

:D

[glee]

Oh and Wolfian, 180 (three triple 20's) is the most points you can get in a round of darts in a game like 301. The British like their darts. :)

Indeed we do (well sort of).

In particular there is a darts commentator (called Sid Waddell, I think) who has an easily imitatable voice - and he gleefully calls out 'wun hun-dread and aaaaaaaa-ty!' whenever those 3 darts score the maximum.

[FairyChatMom]

This happened at home in front of the TV. Some years back, we were watching A Christmas Carol with George C. Scott as Scrooge. It had come to the dramatic scene after he'd been with the third spirit and was suddenly back in his room, on his knees, wailing and gnashing, and emoting all over the place. I found myself saying "I do believe in spooks. I do believe in spooks. I do. I do. I do."

Hubby and I had a good laugh over that.

[CarnalK]

glee said:
In particular there is a darts commentator (called Sid Waddell, I think) who has an easily imitatable voice - and he gleefully calls out 'wun hun-dread and aaaaaaaa-ty!' whenever those 3 darts score the maximum.

Well I knew that (minus the announcer's name), I was just being polite and letting ianzin have something to fill in.
( and I forgot that that was the important bit while posting ;) )

[zoog]

As the end credits started rolling for Boxing Helena, I stood up to leave and said "Dear God, please tell me that I just dreamed that I paid $7 to watch this piece of crap". The friend I was with thought it was hysterical.

And truly, I hope for your own sake that you didn't get that...

[Harborwolf]

I tend not to speak in the movie theater, though I do whisper to my fiancee is the mood strikes me.

Still, the big two I can think of came from movies watched on the small screen.

In Twin Peaks:Fire Walk With Me, there is a part where Chris Isaac purposefully spills coffee on someone. In a pseudo-Elvis voice I say "That was a wicked thing to do." Basic joke but got surprising laughs.

We were watching Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with the subtitles and our daughter was watching with us. After a character spoke, she leans over to us and says "He said 'What up.'" She was all of five at the time. :D The kid's a genius.

[Wolfian]

Oh and Wolfian, 180 (three triple 20's) is the most points you can get in a round of darts in a game like 301. The British like their darts. :)

That makes sense. In fact I knew that, but I couldn't make the connection. Thanks, mate.

[EvilGhandi]

In LoTR, when the fellowship was forming and the charactors were swearing their comitment to the quest. Gimly steps up last and says "and my axe", My son said in a quizical kids voice, "but he broke his axe"

Chuckles from just about everone near enough to hear it.

[Shirley Ujest]

When Return of the Jedi came out ( which ever one has the Ewok Infestation)
I was at the movies with a friend.

One of the ushers that worked there was a midget.

During a particularly tense scene (can't remember) , he would jump up from a row of empty seats before a bunch of high schoolers and scare the beezeuss out of them.

That is one of my favorite movie memories.

[CalMeacham]

At a showing of Sam Peckinpaw's Straw Dogs at MIT -- Dustin Hoffman plays a theoretrical asdtrophysicist working somewhere out in the country in Britain. At one point he has a fight with his wife, and she stalks off past the blackboard he has set up, and which has a long equation on it. She goes over, unseen by him, and erases a "+" sign somewhere in the middle and replaces it with a "-".

Someone in the audience stands up and says: "I'd Kill Her !!!"





A friend of ours went to see Dragonslayer. At a point later than the one referred to above, Peter MacNicol is back in the Dragon's Lair, and throws some magic powder into the Lake of Fire. Nothing happens, except that the flames go out. At this point, our friend pipes up with:

[Marvin Martian] "What happened to the KABOOM? There was supposed to be an Earth-shattering KABOOM!"[/Marvin Martian]

[Terrorcotta]

This is an obscure one, but we really loved it. Empty theater, only 3 people in it.

Sean Connery in 'Zardoz'. Huge long scene where one of the godlings gives Sean a magic leaf to help him out of any situation. Things begin to happen and then get very serious, it looks like the end for ol' Sean and he's losing. He fights and fights and gets badly beaten up. Can nothing help him?


Finally, from out of nowhere comes a voice, "Eat the leaf, stupid!"

[Beadalin]

Watching Wild Things in a packed theater at a late-night showing. At the scene where
Matt Dillon is about to have a three-way with Neve Campbell and Denise Richards, when up until that point they's been enemies

A lone voice in the back of the theater drawled out, "Daaaaayyyaammnn!"

The whole theater cracked up.

[Swede Hollow]

While watching Lord of the Rings: Return of the King with my brother and his family we got to the late scene where Gandolf and the rest are standing before the gates of Mordor (or wherever it is that the evil eye lives) and I quietly whispered to my brother in my best John Cleese French accent "Hello, English knnniggits". My sister-in-law hit me without even hearing me. She knew what I said just from the response of my brother and the guy behind us.

[TheOnlySaneOne]

Saw Return of the King once in the theatres on opening day, but a few of my friends waited until it had reached the two dollar show. No wait, we'd all seen it, we just had to see it again. :)

Anyway, we'd been loud for most of the film, making bad jokes, laughing almost to the point of lung collapse at Frodo's line "It's sticky! WHAT IS IT?!" Keep in mind that most of us had read the Very Secret Diaries at this point and knew that Sam would kill anyone if they'd tried anything, and pointed it out regularly.

But the bit that almost got us kicked out and/or beaten up was when Sam picks up Frodo to carry him up Mt. Doom. As he slings him over his shoulder, I say in a very loud voice "Grope, grope!"

[buns3000]

When I saw Fatal Attraction at the cinema, it had been on for some months. There was only about 10 people at the screening we went to. During one of the more notable scenes, we see the camera moving in slowly on a pot boiling on a stove, accompanied by suitably scary music. A girl in the cinema who I presume had already seen the film yelled out "Aaaargh... Its the rabbit!!" And it was.

[Steve MB]

During Batman and Robin, when the two of them are arguing over Poison Ivy, my response was, "Oh, you boys aren't fooling anyone -- now kiss and make up!"

[sturmhauke]

This thread cannot be considered complete without reference to the Rocky Horror Picture Show. For you uncultured barbarians who haven't experienced this event, the idea is to shout witty lines that fit either before or after actual dialogue in the movie. Of course, different regions have their own favorite lines, so going to a different show can be interesting.

A few samples:

BRAD: I'm Brad, [ASSHOLE!] and this is Janet. [SLUT!]

Riff drops a glass of wine.
[Riff can't hold his liquor!]

Dr. Frankenfurter (Tim Curry) gets in the pool.
[Hey waiter, I didn't order the curry!]

[This salsa's made in New York City! Get a rope.]
A rope falls from a scaffold.

DR. FRANKENFURTER: [Hey Frank, where do you get your drugs?] Colombia. [What color is your period?] Magenta.

[Hey Frank, what's your last virgin orifice?]
Dr. Frankenfurter touches his ear.

Frank is giving a longwinded speech about creating the spark of life.
[Who gives the best blowjobs on the Enterprise?]
DR. FRANKENFURTER: SPAAAHRK!

Janet holds a newspaper over her head in the rain.
[Get an umbrella you dumb slut!]

A projection screen displays the RKO Radio Pictures logo.
[RKO? Does that stand for Reak Kinky Orgasm? What the fuck's a radio picture? A picture of a radio?]

[Get that Smurf! Get it!]
Various characters pound their fists on tables or other surfaces.
[Damn, it got away!]

[SpazCat]

This thread cannot be considered complete without reference to the Rocky Horror Picture Show. For you uncultured barbarians who haven't experienced this event, the idea is to shout witty lines that fit either before or after actual dialogue in the movie. Of course, different regions have their own favorite lines, so going to a different show can be interesting.


One of the best Rocky Horror lines I've ever heard was at last Halloween's screening, again at the university theater. (Audience participation is almost required there.) When the guy in the wheelchair showed up, a girl in front of me stood up and shouted "TIMMAH!"

[Scumpup]

At the conclusion of First Blood when Sylvester Stallone was finishing his big "emoting scene" and is done blubbering to Richard Crenna about what it was like being with his comrades in Vietnam, my brother shouted out "It was a surrealistic homoerotic paradise!" in a dead-on Stallone voice.

[AngelicGemma]

LOTR: FOTR

When Frodo wakes up, Elrond says: "Welcome to Rivendell"

And I addded in my best Agent Smith voice: "Mr. Andersen".

My friend did that too, everytime the guy finished a sentence. Luckily, I wasn't sat next to him. :)

[Tomcat]

Most of y'alls are much funnier than mine. One that cracked up the whole theater was by my brother during a $1 showing of "The Gods Must Be Crazy." In the beginning the announcer was saying "They have no money, no this, no that, no ???" to which my brother replied "No clothes..."

feh. funny at the time.

Favorite Rocky Horror scene:

people floating face down in the pool
[Look! Natalie Wood swimming lessons!]


-Tcat

[SilentButDeftly]

Great thread.

The one that sticks out in my mind was, well, I actually found a link to the review. I was in the theatre when this happened, it was amazing.

It's in the movie Mission to Mars. I put it all in a spoiler box 'cause it kind of spoils the ending, craptastic as it is.

http://www-tech.mit.edu/V120/N12/Mission_2_Marz.12a.html


All quoted from Vladimir Zelevinsky's article:

Toward the end of Mission To Mars, a trio of intrepid interplanetary explorers (Gary Sinise, Don Cheadle, and Connie Nielsen) come face to face with a representative of another civilization. As this representative saunters toward the camera in all its computer-generated glory, as the score swells to the unbearably saccharin level, as the actors furrow their brows to signify utter amazement, it’s clear that the film is working extra-hard to make this a Scene of High Significance. Just at this moment, a girl a couple of rows behind me said, quite loudly, “Nanoo-nanoo,” and the whole audience broke out in applause. This is what movies so rarely are these days: a communal experience, uniting the audience with the single emotional response. In this particular case, this response is: “This is so bad, I might as well laugh at it.”

[CandidGamera]

LOTR; ROTK
the scene where the horsemen are approaching the Mumikil elephants, low camera angle from behind the horses....

Me; Use your harpoons and tow cables, go for the legs

Made the same reference myself, when viewing the Extended Edition at home with a friend.

Also interjected Yoda's death speech in Theoden's death scene.. "There is.. another.. Sky.. Wal..ker..."

My friend and I had just watched some MST3K before starting ROTK, you see.. and that just got me primed.

Sometimes I even do it in theaters, but I'm very careful not to stomp on the real dialogue, and I try to keep it quiet, for the benefit of those sitting next to me.

Such as when in Fellowship of the Ring, Merry and Pippin head into the gathered Council of Elrond, and I offhandedly observed.. "There's probably a string of bodies of dead elven guards littering the path behind them.."

For some reason, the idea of elite Hobbit Ninjas causes me to chuckle to this day.

[LonesomePolecat]

Some friends and I were watching Five Million Years to Earth (aka Quadermass and the Pit) on a double bill with Planet of the Apes at a repertoire theater back in the '70's. The auditorium was about half full, so I'd say there were about two hundred people there. In this British science fiction flick, a construction crew building a new subway tunnel in London discovers an alien spacecraft that's been buried for millions of years. Weird things ensue. Scientists open the spacecraft and find the bodies of aliens that look like a cross between grasshoppers and lizards. They take the corpses to a lab for dissection.While they're carefully taking apart and examining one of the creatures, the soundtrack falls silent for a few seconds.

At which point, I pop in with a ridiculously exaggerated Yiddish accent, "Bad news, Rabbi! They're not kosher!"

Brought down the house. One of my finer moments, if I do say so myself.

[Zonyx]

I did come up with 2nobody sneeze" at that bit in the fifth element when they manage to light the match to set off the final stone thing. It was funny at the time, I swear it.

[lno]

I don't talk in theaters. But I do comment when watching something on TV.

My family was watching Pearl Harbor, and during the scene where Jon Voight's FDR grabs the conference table and dramatically lifts himself out of his wheelchair, I yelled "MEIN FUHRER, I CAN WALK!"Now that is funny.

[Max Carnage]

I was thankfully watching The Sixth Sense for the second time when this happened. At the beginning of the movie Bruce Willis' patient breaks into his apartment and shoots him. Next scene we see Bruce, six months later feeling much better thank you, waiting to meet his new patient. The little girl in the row behind me says to her dad: "But he's dead..."

M Night Shamalamadingdong would have hung his head in shame (still should after The Village, actually.)

[cormac262]

Some oldies:
Back in the 70's (pre-VCR era), Bruce Lee movies would periodically make the rounds to the cheapie theatres. And when you went to see them, you knew that everyone else in the theatre had seen them at least 5 times. So in this one scene in "Chinese Connection", Chen (Bruce) is on the lamb hiding out in this cemetary. His girlfriend finds finds him and they have this heart to heart (really touching scene). In the scene, Chen is cooking this cat (skinned) over his campfire. When the girlfriend asks something like "why won't you answer me ?", someone in the crowd would yell out "What's the matter ? Cat got your tongue ?" Always drew huge laughs.

Seeing the original "Dawn of the Dead" at the midnight showing for the umpteenth time, there were a couple scenes that were well known:
- in the opening scene, the police raid on the apartment building that has been overrun with zombies, at one point this woman goes to hug her now-zombified husband (not realizing he's turned). The audience starts chanting "Hickey ! Hickey !" as the zombie notices the wife's shoulder, and then proceeds to take a chomp out of it !
- toward the end, after one of the heros is overtaken in an elevator and turned into a zombie. As the elevator door opens and the zombified hero starts to rise, he opens his mouth and blood pours out. My friend yells out "KISS Live !!!"

I can't remember what movie we went to see, but they showed a preview for the first Harry Potter movie. After seeing a bit, I leaned over to my friend and whispered "they should have called this 'Harry Potter and the Old English Actors Who Aren't Dead Yet' ". He burst out laughing - good thing it was only during the preview.

[Susie Derkins]

The film was The Color Purple. It was during the scene where Shug Avery was showing Celie the first human kindness she has experienced since her sister was taken away from her. As Shug gently kisses her on the lips, a little girl near the front of the theater yells, "Momma! She's turning her into a lesbian!!!"

I think of that every time I see the movie now.

[Cat Whisperer]

This wasn't from the audience, but from the movie itself:
Watching "Species" - they're looking for the killer alien in the sewer, they see the trail of body parts and gore, and one of the characters says (as a serious line), "I think she went this way." The whole theatre broke up. No shit, sherlock.

(B-Max and AngelicGemma, my husband can't resist saying that, too.)

[Anaamika]

For all you people who talked in the theatre during any of the LOTR flicks, fie on you. I dump my popcorn bucket on your head.

That having been said, this:

While watching Lord of the Rings: Return of the King with my brother and his family we got to the late scene where Gandolf and the rest are standing before the gates of Mordor (or wherever it is that the evil eye lives) and I quietly whispered to my brother in my best John Cleese French accent "Hello, English knnniggits". My sister-in-law hit me without even hearing me. She knew what I said just from the response of my brother and the guy behind us.

was too funny.

[Sweetums]

When I and a group of friends went to see Braveheart, the theater was packed. Before the movie, they had the customary showing of the trailers. One of these was for Bridges of Madison County I have never seen the movie, but the trailer was slow, and aimed twords the "chick flick" crowd. Halfway through, I couldn't fight the urge anymore. In my best Beavis voice I shouted out "This sucks Butthead, change it!"


Of course this is the same group of friends that I went to another showing of Braveheart with, this time at a drive-in. We wore kilts, and perpetrated what has become known as The Great Audience Participation Mooning Incident

[shelbo]

I don't recall the movie (I think it was one of the first two LOTR flicks), but during the trailers I did the misdeed...

One of the trailers was for the film "Dumb and Dumberer." Now it looked pretty stupid, but what does one expect from a film so titled?

Then the trailer after that was for "The Core." My wife and I couldn't believe our eyes - this movie looked so idiotic, it made "Armageddon" look like... well, "Deep Impact."

After the trailer ended, in that two-second space where they show the credits and then the MPAA rating ensuring the audience that the next trailer has been rated "G", I shouted:

"Now that was dumb and dumberer!"

The entire audience broke up. My wife had to leave for a minute or two, she was laughing so hard. Everybody calmed down by the time the movie started, so all was good (luckily, there were a few trailers after that).

Ha! Thse trailers WERE in front of one of the LOTR movies (#2 i think), and I made the exact same crack to MY wife.

Hmmm. Are YOU my long lost twin!? :dubious:

[MsRobyn]

I saw Deep Impact (at least, I think it was Deep Impact) at a movie theater in Harrisburg, where one of the characters was from. Some wag in front of us at the theater shouted "He was my friend!" and punctuated that with loud sobs when it was announced that that character was killed.

Robin

[minty green]

Watching the late-70s remake of King Kong on TV with a couple of stoner acquaintances during college. Jessica Lange and some other guy are running through the jungle in the middle of a thunderstorm, and they're trying to climb up a muddy hill, but they keep sliding back down and getting stuck in the goop.

Me: "Hey, this isn't dirt."

Comedy gold, man.

[Peter Morris]

Star Trek III The Voyage Home

Spock : I was unable to calculate the weight of the whales.
Kirk : So what did you do?
Spock : I was forced to guess.
Kirk : You? Guess? Spock, that's incredible.
Me : Take 'em to a whale-weigh station.
Audience : Groan.

[tracer]

When Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan first came out in the theaters, I had the good (?) fortune to watch a showing where the projectionist had failed to queue up the final reel. The movie stopped right in the middle of Spock's tearful goodbye, completely ruining the moment, and the theater lights immediately came up because the automatic projector had detected that the film had "ended."

One patron in the front row quipped, "Well, that's it, they ran out of money." Best line of the day.

[Jackmannii]

I don't talk in theaters. But I do comment when watching something on TV.

My family was watching Pearl Harbor, and during the scene where Jon Voight's FDR grabs the conference table and dramatically lifts himself out of his wheelchair, I yelled "MEIN FUHRER, I CAN WALK!"Once I was watching Downhill Racer on TV with my college roomies, and when Robert Redford started to get it on with the Exotic Love Interest, I began singing Rodgers and Hammerstein's Climb Every Mountain.

[vivalostwages]

This is a little bit different, but.....at the end of The Manchurian Candidate remake that I saw last summer, a man yelled out, "George W. Bush has a chip in his brain, and Cheney and Halliburton put it there! Vote that piece of shit out of office!"

We live in interesting times, indeed.

[Nendil]

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, opening weekend, Los Angeles college town. Everyone who'd read the book knew it was coming, but at the end of the film when Dobby the house elf declares "You will not touch Harry Potter!" and blasts Lucius Malfoy across the hall, it was such an unexpectedly badass moment that the audience was briefly speechless. Then some guy in the back called out, "Do-BBY" in that type of, um, ghetto "giving props" voice. (If there's a better term for it, I do not know...) That broke the silence and we all laughed and applauded. :D

[Oslo Ostragoth]

A friend of mine heard this...

I don't recall the name of the movie, but there was a very quiet scene, broken by the sound of a zipper being unzipped.

Some girl in the audience says "You know I heard that befo' " just loud enough to be heard by the entire audience, which erupted in laughter.

I wish I'd been there.

[Snarky_Kong]

In Spiderman 2 when Harry Osborne found out that Peter had killed his dad, he says "you killed my father" I obviously followed up with "prepare to die." It got a chuckle out of the girl I went with, I was pretty happy with myself.

[CynicalGabe]

I went to see Matrix: Reloaded opening night. Yes, it was a mistake. One of the previews was for Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines. Partway through the trailer, an audience member shouted "where's Linda Hamilton". I replied with a louder shout "Linda Hamilton's a slut". Did not make much sense, and still does not, but it got me many laughs from fellow theater goers.

[tracer]

I don't recall the name of the movie, but there was a very quiet scene, broken by the sound of a zipper being unzipped.

Some girl in the audience says "You know I heard that befo' " just loud enough to be heard by the entire audience, which erupted in laughter.
Sounds kind of like what my brother blurted out when we were kids.

We were watching some PG-rated comedy movie with our mom, and in one scene the heroine, obviously stressed out, makes a complaint something like: "I'm being chased by Russian spies, I just found a bomb in my car, I've just gotten fired from my job because somebody planted LSD on me, and to top it all off ... I'm having my period."

Whereupon my younger brother turned to my mom and, in a voice loud enough for all to hear, asked, "MOM, WHAT'S A PERIOD?"


(Note: My mom told him, and then later, when a woman in the movie was found stabbed to death in her bed with blood everywhere, my brother commented, "WOW, SHE MUST'VE HAD A BIG PERIOD!")

[Yeticus Rex]

My wife and I went to a restaurant and a movie with another couple of friends......and my friend and I always try to embarrass and humiliate each other in public with an ackward joke or insult especially with the wives there. Well my buddy got me in the restaurant in front of the waitress and a couple of nearby patrons by commenting about my pink thong was showing when I was bending down to pick up a napkin......me....a guy pushing 300 lbs. Ha ha buddy....laugh it up......you'll get yours!

While we were waiting for the movie to start (I think it was Forrest Gump), there's that dead silence between the end of the trailers and the start of the movie and the movie crowd fell very silent as soon as the trailers ended (but the lights were still on).....a perfect time to spring my big question...."So Glenn, has your penile implant taken root yet?" Laughter from 3 rows in front and 3 rows behind erupted as my buddy slinked down in his chair (with a pained smile on his face) as the lights went down and the movie started. Ah, sweet revenge.

[Mama Zappa]

I read a newspaper article about a guy who did a thesis on audience reaction to catcalls during movies.
During Indecent Proposal, when Woody Harrelson is doing his architecture class near the end and says "Even a brick wants to be something," this guy piped up with "Yeah, it wants to be Woody Harrelson." I've always thought that was priceless.
Me, when I took my wife to see Indecent Proposal, during the film she leaned over and whispered to me "Would you let me have sex with Robert Redford for a million dollars?"
I replied a bit loudly, "Hell, I'D have sex with Robert Redford for a million dollars!"
That got a pretty big laugh.

Papa Zappa once asked me if I'd have sex with Robert Redford for a million dollars.

Without missing a beat, I said "I can't afford that much!" (heh, maybe this should have gone in that thread about best comeback lines :D)

I don't have any funny lines, but Papa Zappa has a couple of good stories:

While sitting through some dreadful Beatles movie, with lots of happy music, one of the characters is dancing across a bridge. Grandma Zappa shouted "Jump, [homophobic slur]!". I believe penis ensued :D

During a screening of the 1973 version of Lost Horizon (calling it mediocre would be charitable), a young boy was chattering loudly throughout, annoying all the other viewers. However, after the avalanche scene, he asked loudly "Mommy, are they dead?". The audience totally broke up.

And there was the time he attended a movie that involved a character's eyes getting gouged out. With a friend who had seen the movie before. At the crucial scene, the friend started playing a recording of "I Can See Clearly Now (The Rain Is Gone)". They were invited to depart the theatre :D

[tracer]

I believe penis ensued :D
Always a nice thing to have happen.

[mbh]

by FisherQueen:
Star Wars: Attack of the Clones. About two weeks into its run, so the theatre was full.

Yoda appears for his climactic battle with the enemy, pauses for a moment in the doorway, the audience holds its breath, and from the back row, a very good Yoda impression shouts "Kick your ass I will."
That happened in my theater on opening night. Several friends of mine from various parts of the country tell me that it happened to them, too.

Our oldies theater was showing War of the Worlds.
Near the finale, a Martian ship crashes.
A hatch opens, and a dying alien is seen.
It twitches a bit, then falls still.
There is a dramatic pause.
One of the movie characters shouts, "It's dead!"
From the back row, a very good McCoy impression shouts, "Jim!"