I don’t remember the movie, but it was one that I saw with a bunch of friends who had, the day before, watched about 6 episodes of the show “24” together (We got into it about halfway through the season, and were trying desperately to catch up to the air dates).
The movie opened with a skyline, and a date/clock showing on the screen. The clock was at 8:00:01 and ticking. I immediately started: “The following takes place between eight AM and nine AM on the day…”
We all cracked up, and got many strange looks from the rest of the audience.
My favorite:
Bunch of colleagues went to see the original “Terminator”.
Towards the end of the movie, there’s a scene where Linda Hamilton and The Guy Who Comes To Save Her (TGWCTS, so sue me I can’t remember the actor’s name) finally make it to a motel room. The scene gets real quiet. Everybody is kinda expecting something scary to happen. One woman (kinda ditzy) says sotto voce “She’s gonna get it!” The entire theatre breaks up. To make it better, instead of Linda and TGWCTS getting offed immediately, they start going at it. So actually she does get it, come to think of it.
At the end, when the shark blows up (Yikes! Hope that wasn’t a spoiler for anyone ) in a crimson mist and a shower of shark guts, the theater went deathly quiet. I turned to my date and said,
“So, where you wanna go eat? Seafood?”
I was surprised by the yuks I got from the people around us, 'cause I didn’t think it was all that great a line.
Sony’s Godzilla- loved the movie, can’t remember who was in it.
Anyhoo, after The Big Green has been effectively folded, bent, spindled and mutilated and finally falls down to die, he ends up face to face with Scientist Nerd Guy (who had fed Big Green a big pile of fish earlier in the film) with a sort of stunned look on his face. I leaned over and whispered to my mom…
Thea Logica: I didn’t yell this one in the theater, mostly because I was in shock at what Devlin and Dean had done to my favorite childhood monster, but…
When the heroes go into Madison Square Garden, and the eggs start hatching, the thought flashed through my head…
“Oh, c’mon, what is this, Jurassic Central Park now?”
I was watching Aliens with a friend of mine; we’d both seen it before. At the end, right before the queen attacks the Lance Henriksen-bot, I stole the standby MST3K line and said, “Well, thank God that we’re finally safe and have killed all the aliens and… OH MY GOD!” When Lance starts spitting up all over the place, my friend cracked me up with, “Shouldn’t’ve… had… the clam… chowder!”
I was watching one of the Thunderbirds movies with a different friend, and there’s a scene in which one of the Tracy puppets is having a dream about Lady Penelope or some other woman. They show him rolling around in bed and gasping, and my friend says, “Oh great, now there’s going to be wood glue all over the sheets.”
We were watching a made-for-TV version of A Christmas Carol - it was the dramatic scene after Scrooge has been with the Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come when he’s suddenly back in his room, on his knees beside his bed, weeping. I had to supply the dialogue: “I do believe in spooks. I do believe in spooks. I do, I do, I do…”
I thought my poor husband was going to hurt himself laughing…
The dorm I lived in for two years in college had a movie night on Thursdays. Occasionally, when I actually had no work to do (which was very rare) I would drop by. It generally was only a handful of people clustered around the TV in the TV lounge. Most of the movies shown were the type that get cult followings.
One night they were showing the Evil Dead Trilogy. I had only seen Army of Darkness before. There is one scene in Evil Dead I where one of the women gets attacked by the tree and there is a shot of the tree actually trying to rape her with one of its branches. At this point I say “Gives a whole new meaning to the phrase ‘Getting wood.’”
Another night, they were showing the Star Wars Trilogy. At one point in Jedi, Luke says to Darth, “I feel the conflict within you, father. Let go of your hate.” or something similar. To which Darth responds “There is no conflict.” And which I immediately counter with “…only Zuul!”
And then there was seeing A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: the Dream Warriors in the theater. You know, the one with the cheesy Dokken song? At some point during the movie, a teenage boy yelled out, “Hey, isn’t this the Dokken video?” I replied, “This is the dance mix.”
My friend Karen, her brother and me were watching ** The Party ** with Peter Sellers. At one point in the party, Sellers has to go to the bathroom, only they are both occupied (one with a couple making love, one with pot smokers). He is running around, trying to think of what to do, when he spots the cat’s litter box. I say “Oh no” and Karen says in all innocence “He wouldn’t stoop so low.”
Actually, that sequence had gotten some unintentional laffs from me and my friends when we saw the SE ROTJ in the theatre. Especially as The Emperor turns around in his chair after the “I have felt him, my master,” with a really odd expression on his face. Then he says, “Strange, that I have not.” That put us on the floor.
This did not get the same reaction in the original release. I think 1983 was just a more innocent time (relatively speaking)…
**Star Trek: Generations: ** during the climactic duke-out between Captain Kirk (William Shatner) and Soran (Malcolm McDowell), I started doing the music from the “Amok Time” fight scene: “Dada DAA DAA DAA DAA DAAA Dada DAA DAA!” My buddies picked up immediately and we had the whole place screaming with laughter.
I wish I could claim credit for this one, but my friend and I had a conversation about this same subject the other day. He’d just seen XXX in the theater, and after the second time Vin Disel plucks a tranquilizer dart out of his chest, my friend blurts out:
[Mr. T Voice]
“I ain’t getting on no plane, Hannibal!!”
[/Mr. T Voice]
Buddies and me watching a midnight showing of one of those Living Dead movies where the good guys have holed up in a mall. They get this great idea to snag one of those cars that’s always on display in the middle of the mall and go around locking the doors to stop more zombies from getting in.
During the scramble for the car one of the good guys knocks over a manaquin, immmediately after which a zombie trip over it. A friend of mine yells, “What a trip!”
One second later the good guys pile into the car, get it started and the same zombie (crawling for the fresh meat) grabs the rear bumper. The good guys take off with zombie in tow at which point I yell, “What a drag!”
It all happened so fast and with perfect timing. The whole audience cracked up.
BTW if anybody knows which movie I’m talking about, please remind me of the title. Otherwise I won’t be able to sleep tonight.
I was with a friend of mine, an ex-boyfriend turned friend. They were showing those interminably long commercials before the movie. So this commercial comes on, and no one has any idea what it’s for, until finally these mystical doors open and there’s a glass of Stella Artois beer - with a lot of head. In my gayest voice possible, I blurted out: “TOO MUCH HEAD!”
(OK, I was drunk & stoned at the time.)
Only I found it amusing, IIRC (drunk & stoned bit). Well I think my friend might have laughed. I don’t remember, obviously. Nor do I remember the movie.
My best theater blurt-out: (Well, one I experienced) Went to see Evita in the theater, it was about 3/4 full. All was well until we were watching the gooey scene where Evita is saying her farewells to this world. The theatergoers were all saddened, when all of a sudden a guy up at the front yells out “BOO-HOO-HOO” in the most sarcastic voice ever. I may never know the rest of the deathbed speech, as it was drowned in laughter from everyone in the theater.
) in a crimson mist and a shower of shark guts, the theater went deathly quiet. I turned to my date and said,