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]

Originally Posted by Sir Rhosis

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

SPOILER:

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,

SPOILER:

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:

SPOILER:

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!"

[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]

Originally Posted by 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.

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.

SPOILER:

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. 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...

SPOILER:

...only to find the arm is indeed Arnold's, except that it's disembodied 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:

Originally Posted by Peter David

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]

Originally Posted by Anonymous Coward

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]

Originally Posted by BrotherCadfael

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

SPOILER:

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

SPOILER:

KILL THE BITCH! KILL THE BITCH!!

Of course the whole theater applauded.

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.

[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.

Originally Posted by 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

[OtakuLoki]

In Look Who's Talking I got popcorn tossed at me when

SPOILER:

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!"



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]

Originally Posted by Marley23

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.

Originally Posted by Marley23

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!"

Originally Posted by 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/"

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.