# Hilarious putdowns of iconic movie moments **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 22, 2009, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilarious-putdowns-of-iconic-movie-moments/486958 "2009-02-22T16:55:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2015, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilarious-putdowns-of-iconic-movie-moments/486958/121 "2015-10-17T22:58:06Z")
> [@Soylent\_Juicy](#): > > When I was about 4 or so my mom took me to see a movie called “Silence of the North” at the theatre. There was a scene where the female star of the movie finds out she’s pregnant again and knows she can’t deal with another baby. Apparently I yelled out “WHY DIDN’T SHE GET FIXED?!” When my first daughter was three or four, I took her to see _ **Fiddler on the Roof** _. Kind of a long movie for a child that age, but she suddenly became interested when the Cossacks started lining up to attack the revolutionaries. “ARE THOSE THE BAD GUYS?” she asked, loud enough for everyone in the theater to hear. I just shrugged and said “All depends on your point of view…” ---
**Author:** ![Damfino](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Damfino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damfino)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2015, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilarious-putdowns-of-iconic-movie-moments/486958/122 "2015-10-18T21:23:30Z")
> [@Sarabellum1976](#): > > I was watching a movie in a theater, maybe 20 years ago. It was the one with Anthony Hopkins and Alec Baldwin are trying to survive the wilderness after they’re in a plane crash or the suchlike. They’re being chased by a bear, it’s a dramatic moment. > > Suddenly Anthony Hopkins appears to be hanging from the ceiling, speaking gibberish. Alec Baldwin answers him in solemn gibberish, and then starts to walk backwards. Suddenly, they appear to be chasing the bear by running backwards at it. Screaming gibberish at each other all the while. > > Apparently a section of the film was loaded backwards and upside down. At first the audience is silent, while we are figuring out what has happened, and then people start to chuckle. Uproarious laughter. People were still laughing when the house lights came on and the management announced they’d be giving raincheck tickets. That movie was called The Edge ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2015, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilarious-putdowns-of-iconic-movie-moments/486958/123 "2015-10-19T15:32:06Z")
Had to check to see if I’d posted in this thread before. Apparently not. Anyway: We were watching **Bram Stoker’s Dracula**. There’s a bit in the middle where Lucy gets bitten, and it’s loud and there are wolves everywhere and curtains streaming from windows and Lucy is outdoors having sex with a vampire wolfman and suddenly glass explodes everywhere and then all is very suddenly silent. Everyone in the theater was quiet, too, when one guy near the front said, in a conversational tone of voice, “Well, _that_ was disturbing.” Wasn’t loud, but the theater was so quiet that everyone heard it and started laughing. Pretty sure that wasn’t what the movie intended. ---
**Author:** ![Kropotkin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kropotkin/32/18045_2.png) [@Kropotkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kropotkin)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2015, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilarious-putdowns-of-iconic-movie-moments/486958/124 "2015-10-20T01:37:58Z")
First run of Bladerunner, audience riveted. Pris has Decker in the standing neck scissors hold and is choking the life out of him. From the back of the theatre somebody shouts, “Beam me up, Scottie! Right fucking now!” Kinda broke the mood… ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2015, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilarious-putdowns-of-iconic-movie-moments/486958/125 "2015-10-20T16:37:05Z")
Good lord, I hope I never find myself in the same theater with any of you :dubious: :o ---
**Author:** ![Kropotkin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kropotkin/32/18045_2.png) [@Kropotkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kropotkin)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2015, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilarious-putdowns-of-iconic-movie-moments/486958/126 "2015-10-21T03:18:38Z")
Hey, I was just an innocent bystander! ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2015, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilarious-putdowns-of-iconic-movie-moments/486958/127 "2015-10-21T20:48:31Z")
I was living in England and my Mom flew out to visit me. Long before it became a big touring sensation, the Prince Charles theater in London did a weekly Sing-along _ **Sound of Music** _. Knowing my mom’s love for the film (I find it unbearable), I thought she would get a kick out of it, so we went. Just like _Rocky Horror_, it’s an interactive event with little props that are circulated to be used by everyone at the same time during different scenes of the film. This included a little party popper that was supposed to be set off during the New Year’s Eve scene. However, seeing an opportunity, I pretended to deploy mine but waited… …for that scene in the church yard when the Von Trapps are fleeing the Nazis and they run into Rolf, the Hitler Youth who used to be sweet on the oldest daughter Liesl. Although I hate the film, I’d been subjected to it many times in my childhood so had a pretty good memory of how the scene played out. Rolf has his pistol drawn and is pointing it at Captain Von Trapp. “Don’t move or I’ll shoot!” he yells. Hesitatingly, Christopher Plummer takes a cautious step forward, trusting that Rolf won’t shoot. **POP!** That’s exactly when I set off my noisemaker. And it brought the house down. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilarious-putdowns-of-iconic-movie-moments/486958.md?page=6)