Best Damned Moments at the Movies

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I was reminiscing of a few movies that had scenes in them where the entire theatre audience went berserk over. These are the fun moments I will remember for my entire life…

[li]Aliens: Lt. Ripley comes out wearing that robot forklift-suit thing and yells, “Get away from her you BITCH!” Whooooooooohoooooo!!! You go girl![/li][li]Robocop: (first one) Dick Jones, head of OCP, unveils ED-209, and it goes loopy and blows away some poor office guy. Audience screamed like Christopher Lowell seeing a mouse. lol[/li][li]Poltergeist 2: When the boy’s braces go nuts and start replicating, some teenage girl went hysterical with terror and the whole theater was yelling at her to shut up. She said “I can’t help it” and immediately returned to incessant screaming. This movie scene was HILARIOUS and not in the least scary IMO.[/li][*]The Green Mile: The evil prison guard gets his just dues. :smiley: What else is there to say here? Everyone applauded ecstatically.

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MSK–one of my best theater experiences was with Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. Now, not debating whether this was a great movie or not, it was a great audience. Everyone was really into the movie. You could hear laughter and comments at the right moments, boos where they should be, and at the part near the end when Alan Rickman (Sh of Not.) comes back from the “dead” to attack them again, the entire audience gave a collective “GASP!” It was great…everyone was totally in sync in this group.

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“Suck my dick!” – G.I. Jane

Of course, the complete audience shock when the catch was given at the end of "The Sixth Sense.

“Let’s blow this thing kid!” – Star Wars. C’mon, you cheered.

The fly-by of the Enterprise at the beginning of ST TMP.

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The only one I can think of right now is something that happened when I saw “Life Is Beautiful” at the theater. I was at the back of the theater, and I noticed all through the movie how much the audience was together in reactions. It didn’t really hit me though until Roberto Benigni (sp?) saw the big pile of bodies in the camp. The whole audience gave a collective gasp and their heads all pulled back at the exact same moment. A really beautiful movie moment. Not that what we saw was beautiful, but it just made me feel like a part of a community. I’m sure I’ve explained it badly, but you get the point. I’m sure there are others I can remember, but that one just sticks with me. Later all.

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One of my favorite movie scenes was in the first Superman movie. Clark Kent, rushing to find some place to change into Superman (the first time in the movie) pauses momentarily by the phone kiosk, goes “Hmmm…?”, then speeds off to find some less public place to effect his transformation.

It was a huge theater and I think I was the only one who got the joke. As several hundred people sat there in puzzled silence, I was the ONLY person to laugh aloud.

~~Baloo

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Yes! That’s what I meant in my post above!

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Drunk and stoned off my ass, I accidently kicked a 40 bottle over and it rolled, VERY loudly all the way to the gfront of the theater. We laughed the whole time :slight_smile:

Of course, that night required much humor, as the slacker we wnet with was too lazy to get tickets before hand for the premier of a Chow Yun Fat movie(the corruptor I think). Instead we ended up watching…get this…Spice Frickin World cause we were all WAYY too loaded to drive away from the theater.

::SigH::

-Sam

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In order to give you guys a bit of a challenge, I’ll just give you the quotes:

Two recent movies:
“You bled for Wallace. Now bleed for me”
“…and poof! He’s gone.”

A slightly older film, mentioned above:
“You’re holding me. Who’s holding you?”

I’ve also discovered the main differene between men and women - it all comes down to Casablanca. You see, women always cry at the last scene ("…but soon, and for the rest of your life"), which we guys usually take pretty stoically; Men break down much earlier, when the people at Rick’s sing La Marsilles.

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first ST movie - girl I was with (and half the rest of the audience) screaming when you first see Shatner thru airlock door.

I think the title was the Hindenburg, when I was a little kid. They showed a lot of passengers’ reactions during the accident, the at the end they showed a bunch of photos and said “lived” “died” . The last one was a little mongrel dog. When they said “lived” STANDING O!!! MUCH bigger than for any people

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Alessan - I can get two of your three movie lines. The second of the New Movies is from The Usual Suspects. Great film. Your older movie is Superman.

As for great movie moments I’ll go with a moment in The Sixth Sense. When the kid is in the bathroom and someone walks by the door. Everyone in the theatre jumped at the same time. I was just unfocused enough to notice everybody react as I jumped too.

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AlessanThe first is obviously Braveheart. I wish I would have seen that in the theater.

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Let’s see…

Braveheart: when Robert the Bruce asks his countrymen “You bled for wallace, will you bleed for me?” and his right hand advisor has this look that seems to say “Oh Crap”…

ST: The Undiscovered Country: Two come to mind, one is when McCoy and Kirk are in the dilithium mines, and Iman’s character is making the move on Kirk. McCoy asks the question that everyone has been dying to ask “What is it with you, anyway?”. And Kirk just smiles.
The other being near the end, when Spock figures out (right behind me, but that’s bragging) that an impulse engine emits some type of Ion Gas. The Uhura mentions offhandedly that they do have those Gas Planet probes…

Star Wars: When Luke blows up the Death Star. I’ve seen the dang movie 50 something times, and it still sends chills up my spine.

Mortal Kombat: I like the scene where Johnny Cage takes on whatshisname, the big 4 armed guy. He does that split with the punch to the balls, and the villian just bends over, groaning. I’d done that in the arcade any number of times, and it was wonderful to see it in the movie. :slight_smile:

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I’ll never forget seeing Raiders of the Lost Ark for the first time in the theater. That movie does everything it sets out to do so well. During the credits (I always stay and read them) we cheered the stunt players.

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I watched So I Married an Axe Murderer with a very enthusiastic audience. When Mike Myers kicked the axe murderer in the groin, the audience laughed so hard and loud that you couldn’t hear the next few minutes of dialogue.
I also saw Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade on the last day of school. The entires junior high took a field trip down to the theater to see it (obviously not a large school). So the audience was very appreciative of that film. Laughing and clapping loudly

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I can remember how people laughed at “Pulp Fiction” and then they’d look shocked at themselves for laughing at something really horrible (which is the beauty of that movie).

In “The Firm,” Wilford Brimey gets the sh*t kicked out of him, and my boyfriend at the time just lost his mind laughing. It was during an intense chase scene, and it was really horrible to laugh just then, but he was gasping and laughing at “The Oatmeal Guy” getting nailed.

I saw “The Full Monty” in an arty theatre where the audience traditionally claps after a movie they think is great. The Full Monty ends on a big fat climactic note anyway, so the cheers when the frame froze at the end were fantastic!!

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I saw The Crying Game when it first came out, and no one knew the secret. My friend asked me if I wanted to see a movie about the IRA. Then we’re sitting there watching what we thought was your standard sex scene, and the camera pans down, and everyone in the audience did this huge double take - did I just see? YES I did - aah!

Cranky, my husband has ruined the end of the Full Monty for me. In the freeze frame, if you look at the chubby guy, you’ll see that a stage light is shining at the camera right through his legs, and everytime we see it, my husband yells, “'Nad burn! 'Nad burn!” in his Beavis voice. :slight_smile:

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Raiders of the Lost Ark, definitely. When Indiana Jones faces off against the swordsman, whips out his gun with a bored look on his face, and blows the guy away. The audience went NUTS! when that happened. Still gets me every time I see it.

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I saw Star Trek IV in Salt Lake City. It was absolutely packed, in one of the biggest theaters in town.

As you may have picked up from Pepperlandgirl’s posts, Mormons call themselves “LDS”, short for “(Church of Jesus Christ of ) Latter Day Saints”.

So when Kirk is explaining to Jillian that Spock’s answers don’t seem to make much sense because at college “he did a little too much LDS” the audience erupted in laughter that obliterated the next minute’s worth of dialogue.
The same thing happened at an MIT screening of a Rocky and Bullwinkle festival. The episode on “Goof Gas” starts out at the “Double Dome Institute of Knowledge”. Since MIT has two domes (the main one that dominates the Killian Court and the smaller one at 77 Mass Ave), this cracked everyone up. Again, you couldn’t hear anything onscreen for a minute or so, which meant that we missed the “Double Dome Cheer”.

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Gladiator: When Maximus has the fight with the other gladiator and the lions.

Fight Club: Several scenes come to mind, but the main scene that seemed to get the audience was when Edward Norton kicked his own ass to get his boss in trouble.

Office Space: The slow motion Gansta office walk scene.

Terminator: “I’ll be back.”

Star Wars, The Phantom Menance: The final jedi fight scene. It almost made up for the rest of the movie.

Saving Private Ryan.

The first and third Indiana Jones movies. Also the rollercoaster mine car scene in the second movie.

The Commitments: When the band finally comes together.

The Patriot: All of the fight scenes were gripping. Also, I’ll admit to being moved by the obvious, cliched reunion scene with Mel’s character and his youngest daughter (“I’ll say anything, papa! Just don’t leave!”)

The scenes described previously from The Sixth Sense.

Braveheart.

The ending to Payback. The audience cheered.

The destruction of the Death Star in Star Wars.

Diehard: “Yippie-ki-yay, motherfucker.”

The Princess Bride.

The Matrix: “I know kung fu”; the subway fight scene, and the final Neo-gets-his-full-powers scene.

The Ninth Gate: The audience’s disgust with this movie was palpable.

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When Bill Murrey actually won the bowling match at the end of Kingpin, I could practically feel the audience thinking “What the fuck? The bad guy won?”

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A bunch of these movies I haven’t seen in theatres… I so wish I could have seen Braveheart in theatres but I didn’t (Mom was still being over protective about what movies I saw in theatres… though I did see it not too long after it came out on video) but one reaction I noticed was in Titanic (yes yes I saw that… twice) when Rose spits in whats his names face who is played by Billy Zane (Why can I never remember the jerks name?) the whole theatre cheered.