As long as I’m on a roll.
I caughtThe Pledge starring Jack Nicholson in a theater. A row ahead of us was this old couple. There’s a point in the movie where Jack promises, no matter what, to find the killer of a young girl. At that point, the elderly man leans over to his wife and loudly whispers, “gasp That must be the pledge!”
I nearly pissed myself.
“That’s gotta hurt!”
Revenge of the Sith was a very difficult movie for me to sit through. I think we went close to opening day, and for some reason, the theater was full of people (you think we would have all learned our lesson at that point). I don’t talk during movies at all. But by the time they started fighting on the lava flow, I was laughing pretty hard. My husband kept trying to get me to calm down, but I thought that was one of the funniest things I’d ever seen. But after Obi Wan trudges away, I finally get myself under a semblance of control and calm down. Much to my husband’s relief. He has a strong sense of decorum–it wasn’t that he was offended by my laughter, he just didn’t want to annoy anybody in the theater.
So, Panda Bear dies and that old gay dude tells pussy!Darth that his Panda Bear is dead. Pussy!Darth stands up and shouts, “NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!” And my husband says very loudly, with clear exasperation, You have got to be shitting me!
Or
“That’s gonna leave a mark!”
This happened at home but it did involve some company (well, my daughter and son-in-law and their kids) – us. We were at their house watching their new-at-the-time big screen HD set and one of their DVDs of one of the more recent Star Wars episodes. I don’t even remember which one but my comment ought to clear up which one.
There’s one of these battle scenes where for as far as the eye can see you have a mass of CGI droids and machines and robots and what-not gallumphing over the hill and down into the valley all Spartacus like. And on the other side of the screen you have this mass of anime critters and they’re bouncing into the valley from the opposite direction.
As soon as it was clear that this was going to be a mass annihilation of both armies and that not a single live-action character was going to take part, I offered for consideration, “That’s how we need to do the war thing: get some toys to fight the cartoons.” It was well received and I think we changed out DVDs and watched some real people do something else.
I don’t do CGI armies any more. Even against real people. Showing what artists can do in simulating human activites is amazing, and I applaud the savings of time and energy and even expense in not hiring million-dollar-a-scene big ticket movie stars. No problem there. It’s when wars are fought with artificial combatants – against each other – that I think art has gone a step too far.
Next thing you know we’ll abandon real-life football players in the Super Bowl.
I went to see Jurassic Park right after it came out. If you remember, after the brachiosauri(?) near the start there was quite a delay before any more CGI dinos were shown.
At a certain point in the film some guy a few rows in front of us complained loudly, “Aren’t they ever gonna show the frikkin’ T-rex!” Just then the T-rex roared onto the screen.
In a moment of comparative quiet just after that he said sheepishly, “Oh. Nevermind.”
Here in the UK there is a famous one that more or less everyone knows. It’s the scene in Carrie where the deranged Mother gets three kitchen knives in the head and goes all deady. At any showing of this movie, British people will exclaim, ‘One hundred and eighty!’ in an excitable, drawn-out manner.
This is hard to explain but I’ll try. We used to have professional darts matches on mainstream TV over here (perhaps hard for furriners to believe, but we did). The main man calling the scores was called Sid Waddell, and whenever a player scored the three dart maximum of ‘180’ he would exclaim ‘One hundred and eighty!’ in a very excitable manner that became a catchphrase and was easy to mimic. Seeing the three knives all land on target was so similar to someone getting a ‘180’ that the joke soon caught on.
Great trivia for us Yanks. I seem to recall ESPN (may have been some other network trying to gain an audience before poker caught on so big) doing a few darts shows. I never have been a big enough darts player even to know the scoring. I just thought hitting the bull’s eye was the goal. Drunk, I could do that more often than sober.
“Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!”, complete with clenched fists and and anguish, is my best friend’s longtime catchphrase. The moment Vader said it, I looked over at her, we exchanged a look that meant “I am going to lose it right now” and promptly lost it.
D-War has it’s own rebuttal - there’s a scene near the beginning where the mysterious old shop keeper (played by papa Petrelli!) is telling the kid the mythical background story of the magical amulet. The whole thing is random and confusing and hokey so I turn to my brother and say “this doesn’t make any sense”. The old man finished his story and the little kid responds “what are you talking about? That doesn’t make any sense!” Me and my brother started cracking up…
“We are the orcs!
We eat with spoons and forks!
We love to eat out pork!”
While watching Rear Window in a humanities class at my old College, it got to the part where the antagonist came to the main character’s apartment. While he’s standing in the dark the antagonist says “What do you want from me, is it money?” (Or something along those lines), the shot then goes over the main character, veiled in dark sitting silent, after about a second or two of this shot me and someone else in the back mutter in unison in a dark “comic book anti-hero” voice “Justice.”
Edit: And in any movie where someone utters the lines “What are we gonna do tomorrow night” (or some variation), I am required by international law to say “The same thing we do every night Pinky, try to take over the world!”
I’ve described my *Sound of Music* moment here. 
Got two for the same scene.
Original: Lady and the Tramp eating spaghetti. They’re not looking at each other while they eat the same strand of pasta, ending up accidentally kissing as they meet in the middle.
Aww. Cute.
Simpsons: Santa’s Little Helper falls in love and eats a bowl of spaghetti with the bitch of his dreams. When they meet in the middle of a strand of pasta, they … raise hackles and growl at each other.
Flushed Away, two slugs repeat the same scene, when they meet in the middle of a strand of pasta … one slug eats the other.
There’s a third – in Rugrats in Paris their dog falls for a French Poodle, and a restauranteuir gives them pizza. Later on you see the dogs silhouetted , their heads together. They try to separate them, but they’re still being stuck together by the congealed cheese.
I think this thread is supposed to be about audiences puncturing Movie Moments, though, not on-screen parodies (funny though they are).
The OP said in post 7 that on-screen parodies were fine and welcome. I’d just forgotten the above two (and haven’t seen Rugrats in Paris) when I gave my earlier example of personal shout-outs.
Both types of putdowns, plus any others y’all come up with, are game for this thread.
I did say that the audience putdowns were what prompted the thread’s posting. But I also wanted to open the scope up to whatever posters felt was a) a putdown and b) hilarious.
My “fun” threads are player driven in that if it’s fun I like it. That’s more meaningful to me than rules. The really successful ones I have started have rarely been linear in that somebody always seems to find a way to improve on the basic or original idea.
I think this counts - I was watching “Species” in a movie theatre. They got to a point where they were following the femme fatale alien and her trail of bodies into an underground tunnel; the tunnel is covered with blood, there are body parts everywhere, and one of the characters says, “I think she went this way.” The entire audience in the movie theatre did one big “stare at each other in disbelief at the stupidity onscreen” and burst out laughing.
Indeed! Sometimes the best putdown of corny shit on the screen is a packed house – of all ages – reacting in unison with an “Oh, no” or “No way” or “What?”
I have never attended a movie where the entire audience got up and walked out before the credits rolled, but I have been part of a large exodus. Some diehards stayed, but a big bunch left. It was great!
I can’t recall the specific movie, just the reaction, when some particular villain had done about as many dirty deeds as you could imagine (it might have even been Fatal Attraction and the bathtub scene) so when he or she gets their Final Reward, there’s this exuberant YES! going up in shouts and applause. But when you think about it, that’s about as solid an endorsement of the movie as you could get, since that was the intended reaction. Never mind.
This one is very context-dependent, I imagine. I attended a school neighboring Harvey Mudd College, if that means anything to you. At Mudd all engineering students, whether in materials or not, were required to take a certain course in precision machining, during which they were required to churn out a hammer, a screwdriver, and a toolbox, from absolute scratch, to extremely precise tolerances-- it was a killer course, notorious for keeping kids in the machine shop all hours, and performed its weeding function of moving a fair number of kids out of engineering and into physics or computer science. (No offense! I was a English major, for god’s sake).
One Friday night we were in an auditorium watching the complete Star Wars trilogy… it was at my neighboring school, but predictably about half of the kids were from Mudd. And of course, about half of everyone was high as kites/tripping balls, and since Star Wars was practically religion to most people in the demographic, the psychic and psychological weight in the room was getting pretty heavy-- people were done peaking, but heavily invested in the symbolism going on.
We get to a point where Darth Vader is battling Luke Skywalker, and Luke’s hand-crafted light saber scuttles across the floor to Darth Vader’s feet, and Vader silently picks it up and inspects it…
“I see you have crafted your screwdriver well, young Jedi!”
Everyone in the auditorium busted a gut laughing. I guess you had to be there.