# Best Lines You Have Shouted (or heard shouted) At A Movie Screen
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**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [January 15, 2005, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-lines-you-have-shouted-or-heard-shouted-at-a-movie-screen/284799 "2005-01-15T01:13:41Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2005, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-lines-you-have-shouted-or-heard-shouted-at-a-movie-screen/284799/21 "2005-01-15T07:49:48Z")
From author [Peter David’s blog:](http://peterdavid.malibulist.com/archives/002412.html)
> [@Peter David](#):
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> 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)
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### Author:  [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2005, 8:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-lines-you-have-shouted-or-heard-shouted-at-a-movie-screen/284799/22 "2005-01-15T08:11:02Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2005, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-lines-you-have-shouted-or-heard-shouted-at-a-movie-screen/284799/23 "2005-01-15T08:19:48Z")
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
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### Author:  [@ccwaterback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ccwaterback)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2005, 9:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-lines-you-have-shouted-or-heard-shouted-at-a-movie-screen/284799/24 "2005-01-15T09:51:53Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@RobuSensei](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RobuSensei)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2005, 10:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-lines-you-have-shouted-or-heard-shouted-at-a-movie-screen/284799/25 "2005-01-15T10:19:01Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@RobuSensei](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RobuSensei)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2005, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-lines-you-have-shouted-or-heard-shouted-at-a-movie-screen/284799/26 "2005-01-15T11:35:08Z")
“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.
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### Author:  [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2005, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-lines-you-have-shouted-or-heard-shouted-at-a-movie-screen/284799/27 "2005-01-15T11:38:49Z")
> [@Anonymous Coward](#):
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> 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?
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### Author:  [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2005, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-lines-you-have-shouted-or-heard-shouted-at-a-movie-screen/284799/28 "2005-01-15T11:51:45Z")
> [@BrotherCadfael](#):
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> 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…
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### Author:  [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2005, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-lines-you-have-shouted-or-heard-shouted-at-a-movie-screen/284799/29 "2005-01-15T13:47:26Z")
Do doo be-doo-doo. Be doo doo. Be doo doo…
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### Author:  [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2005, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-lines-you-have-shouted-or-heard-shouted-at-a-movie-screen/284799/30 "2005-01-15T14:48:43Z")
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!”
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### Author:  [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2005, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-lines-you-have-shouted-or-heard-shouted-at-a-movie-screen/284799/31 "2005-01-15T15:03:57Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@bobkitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobkitty)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2005, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-lines-you-have-shouted-or-heard-shouted-at-a-movie-screen/284799/32 "2005-01-15T15:05:35Z")
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. 😃
I love that story.
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### Author:  [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2005, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-lines-you-have-shouted-or-heard-shouted-at-a-movie-screen/284799/33 "2005-01-15T16:02:53Z")
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. 😃
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### Author:  [@Daylon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daylon)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2005, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-lines-you-have-shouted-or-heard-shouted-at-a-movie-screen/284799/34 "2005-01-15T16:02:54Z")
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.
> [@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
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### Author:  [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2005, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-lines-you-have-shouted-or-heard-shouted-at-a-movie-screen/284799/35 "2005-01-15T16:14:48Z")
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!”
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### Author:  [@FisherQueen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FisherQueen)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2005, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-lines-you-have-shouted-or-heard-shouted-at-a-movie-screen/284799/36 "2005-01-15T16:34:00Z")
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.”
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### Author:  [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2005, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-lines-you-have-shouted-or-heard-shouted-at-a-movie-screen/284799/37 "2005-01-15T16:52:38Z")
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!
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### Author:  [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2005, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-lines-you-have-shouted-or-heard-shouted-at-a-movie-screen/284799/38 "2005-01-15T16:59:59Z")
HA-ha! You’re a movie cliché. Cliché!
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### Author:  [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2005, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-lines-you-have-shouted-or-heard-shouted-at-a-movie-screen/284799/39 "2005-01-15T17:09:07Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Darkhold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darkhold)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2005, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-lines-you-have-shouted-or-heard-shouted-at-a-movie-screen/284799/40 "2005-01-15T17:10:28Z")
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)
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