Some one-panel cartoon by some decent cartoonist like Gahan Wilson, Gary Larson or that sort. An old woman is reading to a child:
“Hey, diddle diddle, the cat and the fiddle, the cow jumped over the moon…Preposterous.”
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A real-life movie example of this thread’s theme:
Live and Let Die
Roger Moore/James Bond has been stranded on a little island in the middle of a pond with dozens of alligator/crocodile critters headed toward him to make him into a little snack. He looks about to try to find a means of escape. Suddenly the gators start to line up in a bridge-like array so that he runs across their backs to the bank on the other side.
The little old lady behind me blurts out: “Bullshit.”
I had a hard time making it through the rest of the movie from laughing so hard.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind. When Roy Neary and the rest start going up the gangplank to the spaceship at the end, I wanted to shout out “It’s a cookbook!”
Does this count? At the end of one of the “Naked Gun” movies, when Det. Frank Drebbin [Leslie Nielsen] is mangling Bogart’s famous lines to Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca… “…but this is our hill, and these are our beans…”. Kills me every time!
Oh, wow! This brings back so many teenage memories! It had to be a tear-jerker, a horror movie, or one of those where the entire audience is holding its breath in the suspense. Suddenly out of the darkness somebody would yell out:
“Take me out, coach. I’m bleeding.”
“Never mind the mules. Just load the wagons.”
“SHANE! Come back!”
“Is that you, Martha?”
It would be minutes before the laughter would die down.
More to your point, early in Soylent Green have you ever wanted to (or actually done it) yell out, “It’s people!”
By no means an “iconic movie moment,” but Roger Ebert once told a story about a viewing in a British theater of King and Country, a movie about a firing squad who refuses to execute their fellow man. As they swing their guns away from the target, a British theatergoer said, “Crikey! And they say the Yanks are lousy shots!”
Of course it counts, and further examples of putdowns in other movies of some iconic moment or line would be welcome.
I must say that audience responses were what I had in mind when I posted the OP, but that was just a starter thought. The theme is “putdowns” and any variety works for me.
Before the movie, the THX promo reverberates at us, with a giant silver THX logo taking up the entire screen. The sound dies down, the logo fades. In the ensuing silence, (in smaller, plain letters), “www.thx.com” pops up in the middle of the screen. Someone else in the theater casually remarks, “Oh, so that’s where I can reach them.”. Gets a laugh out of most everyone.
A friend of ours, watching Dragonslayer, blurted out a line at a key, quiet moment. The young magician Galen (Peter MacNicol) has just cast the Powder on the Lake of Fire. The fires go out, and …nothing happens. At this point, our friend pipes up, in his flawless “Marvin the Martian” voice, with
I was at a screening of Sam Peckinpah’s Straw Dogs at MIT. Susan George, playing the wife of Astrophysicist Dustin Hoffman, marches off, angry at her husband. As she passes a blackboard in the room, covered with a single long equation, she (unseen by him) erases a single “plus” (+) sign in the middle and replaces it with a “minus” (-) sign.
A guy in the audience stood up, and with feeling yelled:
(Later in the film Hoffman walks by the Board, catches sight of the equation out of the corner of his eye, and immediately draws a vertical stroke through the sign, transforming it into a “plus” sign again. A true-to-life Nerd moment.)
During one of those little game and such before a movie there was a “find the Coke” game. They silhouetted 3 coke bottles and “hid” them in a scene of a movie, and you had to find one. Aside from two small-ish ones hidden in the screen there was a giant bottle in the middle of the screen. Once they revealed the answered someone yelled out…
My husband is a talker during movies so we don’t go to the theater very often (you’re welcome.) I broke my rule for the Lord of the Ring movies. We were sitting watching the end of The Return of the King. Sam and Frodo on the side of the mountain, they didn’t think the would make it and then Sam’s big moment! he stands up and says his famous line. (I would tell this better, but I haven’t the slightest clue how to do a spoiler quote.)
And my husband bursts out “Rudy! Rudy! Rudy!” to cheer him on. At least three rows started laughing.
It completely ruined the scene for me. I still can’t watch it without giggling.
I took my niece and nephew to see the Lion King–this was years ago, obviously–at a matinee; theater crammed 4 or 5 layers deep with toddlers. Torture.
Anyway, opening scene, The Circle of Life. Singing singing singing, yadda yadda yadda, BIG finish–boom, silence. Into which broke, from a few rows behind me, echoing in the vacuum of quiet, the very loud voice of a 4 or 5 year old who’d apparently just learned a new word:
"WHAT the FUCK was THAT?!?"'
We missed about ten minutes of the following scene because the entire audience was convulsed with laughter until we just wore ourselves out. One of the funniest moments of my life.
Years ago, I saw a program of Surrealist Films at Houston’s Contemporary Art Museum. Un Chien Andalou was included, of course. With the famous, gut-churning shot of a woman’s eyeball being sliced by a straight razor. (Yes, it was camera trickery–but still a shock.)
The program also featured a film showing a lighter look at the Surreal. In which a boiled egg was sliced by a knife!
1980 or so. Midnight screening of ‘Flash Gordon’. First time I ever got frisked.
Aura (seductive daughter of Ming says of Flash): Don’t kill him father. I want him.
Ming: And what would your Prince Barin say?
Aura: I can handle Barin.
At which point someone in the audience sings out with ‘AND ABOUT THREE OR FOUR OTHERS!!!’
I was at some movie a few years ago, and there was a preview for Legally Blonde 2. It was playing on the familiarity of the first one, and starts with Reese Witherspoon with the perkiness cranked up to 11 and her little ratdog looking into the camera and saying “Oh, look Bruiser, it’s a preview for our new movie.” The scenes didn’t get any smarter. From somewhere behind me I hear “oh, man, we oughta spark up a doob because someone was high when they wrote that shit.”
We were watching Twilight at the show and it was become more and more stupid, just like the book.
When Edward carries Bella the Retard up the mountian to reveal why Vampires have to stay out of the light ( are you sitting down) * Because they are SPARKLY!!111!! * How gay is THAT, I ask you? One my girlfriends, in a gale of laughter over this revelation, asked, " Does he shit glitter, too?"
5 years ago or so my friends and I went to the local artsy theater because they were showing a 3-D porn movie called Lollipop Girls and Hard Candy. The basic plot of this movie is that there is this candy company that is going to be bought out by this evil pesticide company until they accidentally spill some yak’s milk onto a bunch of lollipops. This somehow turns them into aphrodesiacs and then they mail this candy out to people to improve their business and turn a profit so they can stop the pesticide company from buying them out. Naturally there is a lot of fucking and such, but because it is not only porn but 3-D porn there are a lot of random things you wouldn’t necessarily expect to see in this genre just to take full advantage of the 3-D effects. At one point one of the characters (there were several characters that had nothing to do with the plot or the sex or anything, just wandering around in rabbit costumes and stuff) threw a pie at the camera, obviously just wanting to have another 3-D image and one of my friends said, “Oh, now that was just gratutious!” :smack:
Lion King – at the beginning, when Rafiki is mixing his herbs and leaves and such in a small bowl, I leaned over to my sister and said…
…DRUGSSSSSS…
She still hasn’t forgiven me.
Also, at that big boom after the opening number when the screen goes black and the title flashes up, I leaned over again and said, “In case you forgot which movie you were watching.”
However, much to her chagrin, my sister has become talented in the ways of snark-fu. We were watching “Fiddler on the Roof”, and during the wedding scene, after the announcing of the gifts, my sister suddenly shouted, “Tell them WHAT ELSE they’ve won!”
Then she realized what she had done and wept (metaphorically).
