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!”
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.
My friend did that too, everytime the guy finished a sentence. Luckily, I wasn’t sat next to him. 
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
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
[spoiler]
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.”[/spoiler]
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.
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.
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.
Now that is funny.
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.)
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.
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.
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.)
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:
was too funny.
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
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:
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
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.
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.
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.