During a showing of The Village my friends and I could tell that the theater crowd wasn’t taking the movie all that seriously. There was a point in the movie where Adrian Brody’s character does something in his characters pseudo-retarded nature which is followed by a sort of dramatic pause. During the dramatic pause my friend says…
“…Hahaha…he has an Oscar”
We definitely heard some laughs
Oh man, I’m still busting a gut over “THANK YOU, THING!” :p:p:p
Here’s my contribution:
Watching “The Karen Carpenter Story” on TV with Mr. S (my then-boyfriend/fiancé, I forget which) and my rather easily scandalized roommate. It’s early in the movie and the Carpenters are just starting to rise. The scene is the beginning of a concert in a large auditorium. Enter young Karen, coming on stage in a frilly Sunday-go-to-meetin’ dress.
Audience: <wild applause, cheering>
Audience member: Karen, I love you!
Mr. S: Karen, you look fat!
My roommate was not amused. I nearly peed my pants laughing. Yes, I married a sick, sick man.
“We can give you 2,000 now, plus 15 when we get to Alderaan.”
“17,000, huh?”
No, you idiot! 2,015! Can’t you do math?
There are art-house 3-d Porn Festivals?
My god, I’ve led a sheltered life!
when LOTR was still in theaters some sent me this list of No No’s
Early '70’s, our local theater is having a special showing of Heston’s THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. Moses delivers his first “Let my people go” speech to Pharoah. Pharoah Jr. goes up & kicks Moses in the shin.
From the audience- “Little fucker!”
Theater was too crowded & dark for the usher to find the offender, and the audience was too into the movie to want to disrupt it by ratting him out.
Anyway, the little… scamp got his when the Tenth Plague rolled around. Yeah, try kicking the Angel of Death!
This killed me! I think it’s ruined the scene for me too. Wonderful!
The little dog stood in the field as a sentry
But alas, the poor cow burned up on reentry.
– Ed Bluestone (I think)
In the movie Clash of the Titans (yes…it was in theaters at one time you whippersnappers}
In the ending scene when the Krakin (pronounced Crack-in in the movie) was defeated…turned to stone and started to fall apart…My fried says in a crowded theater…
“So THAT’S why they call him the Krackin”
The whole theater laughed for quite awhile.
Fun stuff! It prompted me to try again to locate an online version of that cartoon I mentioned in the OP. Still no luck, but if you want a few minutes of entertainment, do a Yahoo! Image Search on “hey diddle” and let your mind be blown.
One great Simpsons moment is when Homer finds a pair of glasses in a bathroom stall and puts them on. He immediately recites the line the Scarecrow says after receiving his brain from the Wizard of Oz, “The sum of the squares of an isosceles triangle is equal to the square of the remaining side!” The man in the stall next to him shouts “That’s a right triangle, you idiot!” and Homer responds “Do’h!”
The Scarecrow line actually works appropriately. The brains don’t make the Scarecrow smarter, they just make him think he’s smarter.
This was shouted to the Nazis by an unhappy audience member during a particularly bad community-theater production of The Diary of Anne Frank, according to a NYT article awhile back.
Jack Batty, at the college-campus movie series I go to, there’s always a reel shown before the movie starts in which a 1950s-era announcer brags, "This picture is presented in… Wide-Screen Stereo!" The hipsters in the audience always shout the italicized words in unison.
I once went to a big-screen showing of The Sound of Music. When Maria comes out from behind the monastery screen in her wedding dress and the gate’s locked behind her, someone shouted, “Dead nun walking!” I about busted a gut.
In 1989, I saw Batman on opening night in a crowded theater. There was one scene where Robert Whul and Vikki Vale are looking up old news paper stories of Bruce Wayne. Robert’s character says something to the effect of “Wow, his parents were murdered when he was a child. Can you imagine what that did to him?”
I responded “It drove him batty.”
I got some good laughs from everyone around me though I felt compelled to appologize for the remark.
My wife and I went to see Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Near the beginning, the commies pull Indy out of the trunk of a car and he’s brought before Cate Blanchette’s Col. Irina Spalko. At a dramatic moment, I leaned over and said in my best faux-Russian accent, “Now, doktor Jyonz, hyu vill tell us vhere to find moose and SQUEER-ell.”
She kept hitting me until she stopped laughing, which took a while. Ow.
Nope, nobody can say that, during the stage production at least. No Nazis.
Snopes backs me up. (Not to mention I just a production of this show last year.)
Not an iconic moment, but it was funny, nonetheless:
Went to see Iron Man with my wife, my cousin, cousin’s wife, and their 7-year old son. During the scene showing what a suave playboy Stark is, where he’s seducing the reporter, my cousin’s son stood up, turned around, slapped his hands to his face and said, “Argh! I came to watch Iron Man, not this crap!”
This one was told to me by my sister, so I’m paraphrasing here!
She went to see The Sixth Sense with some of her in-laws. The scene came up where a boy asks HJO if he wants to see where his Dad keeps the guns and as he turns away, you can see that the back of his head is blown away. My sister’s SIL muttered, “Well, we know where he keeps the bullets!” Everyone within earshot cracked up!
Not iconic, but a good third hand story. A guy talks his buddies into seeing a crummy kung-fu exploitation movie. As I recall it was entitled “The Five Fingers of Death”. “C’mon” he says, “I’ve seen it. It’s terrible. You’ll love it!” So the collegians go, albeit with an extra large order of dubious. The guy smuggled in a cassette player (that’s like a big, clunky MP3 player for you whipper-snappers) into the theater. There’s one scene where a fighter plucks out the eyes of his opponent. At this shocking turn, the first guy hits the play button and out of the recorder’s speaker comes “I can see clearly now the rain is gone!”
They got thrown out of the theater, laughing all the way!
Another non-iconic moment, since it was for a remake. Well, it was a remake of an iconic movie. I was watching the 1973 remake of Lost Horizon in a theater. This must have been right when it opened, and before ANY reviews came out, because the place was packed. Every seat in the house filled. As I recall it was a big christmas opening. This was a bad movie. Very bad. Leonard Pinth-Garnell bad. So bad it set Michael Medved loose on the world, and recalling this movie, I kinda think we deserve it.
Adding to the badness of this cinematic experience was a little boy a few rows away from me. He must have been three or four. Every time anything happened on the screen, he would ask his mother about it. He was young enough that the idea of limiting the volume on his voice was clearly beyond his ken. “Mommy, why are they getting in an airplane?” “Mommy, why are people chasing an airplane?” “Mommy why are they flying over mountains?” This went on for every scene. Every. Single. Scene. “Mommy, why did the plane crash?” “Mommy, why is it snowing?” “Mommy, why isn’t it snowing anymore?” “Mommy, why are they singing?” (Well, THAT was a good question!)
There’s a dramatic scene late in the move where a sherpa party is climbing away from Shangi-La, and gets caught in an avalanche. One second you see this thin, lonely string of climbers, then comes the avalanche. Half the snow on the mountain falls on them, wipes them off its face utterly, and then … nothing. No movement, no wreckage, no bodies, no sign anyone or anything has even been there, just the sound on the eternal mountain winds. A hush fell over the theater.
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“Mommy - are they dead?”
Everyone within earshot cracked up. It was the best thing about the movie!
I was at a theater watching some horrible Jackie Chan film, only it wasn’t really a Jackie Chan film as I didn’t see him for some time after the film started. It took place in a prison, and all these cliche prison movie moments were going on, and I was bored out of my mind.
Anyway, the guards were trying to knock this prison kingpin down a peg or two, so at mealtime they put this huge vat of rice in front of him and commanded he eat the whole thing. Defiantly, he stood up, took the serving spoon, and stuffed a mound of rice into his mouth. Without missing a beat, I said, “One!”. The dozen or so people around me who heard it howled with laughter.
I watched Mortal Kombat in a theater with a predominately black audience. Towards the end, there’s a bit where the whiny hero Liu Kang faces off against the Big Bad Guy[sup]TM[/sup], and announces that he’s not afraid because “I know who I am”. At that point, a male voice booms through the theater (and I quote exactly)
“Uh-oh! You in trouble now! He know who he is!”
The entire audience lost it. I don’t think I would have laughed so hard if it hadn’t been in that ebonics English. It somehow made the comment so much better.