Eh.
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.
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.
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!”
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.
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.
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!”
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”.
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.
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!”
Part 3 is one of the funniest (X-rated) things I’ve ever read! You can read the whole story here: Ellison Webderland: The 3 Most Important Things in Life
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.
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!’
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.
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!”
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).
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.
[george costanza] That’s gotta hurt! … … I said, THATS GOTTA HURT! [/george costanza]
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.
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.
Well, ianzin, you’ve perked my curiousity. Could you please fill me in?
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.