I’m not sure whether the intention was for humour or not, but in the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre the dinner table scene has grandpa attempting to hit our heroine with a hammer. He is too weak. I nearly pissed myself laughing.
Maybe I was so scared that it seemed absurd. Maybe I’m a ruthless killer yet to be pushed over the edge. Maybe it was meant to be funny?
Glad I came by…
MiM
Actually, “sod you,” I believe.
Gee, there’s just no non-rude sounding way to write that, is there?
Well seeing Aragorn (Viggo is one of the Amish) grinning like a maniac in the background is pretty strange now. He even sits next to Ford during lunch.
When my girls were too young to question it further, I taught them that it meant “pess oaf”.
I thought the whole movie “Falling Down” was hysterical, but I think that was what was intended.
Seinfeld had an episode where Elaine was dating a guy named Joel Rifkin, but a different guy from the notorious serial killer. She is leafing through a sports book looking for a name he can change his to, cause she doesn’t like have a boyfriend with such a notorious name. One of her suggestions is “OJ.”
In the old version of Great Expectations there’s a scene where Pip shows up in this stupid ridiculous floppy bow tie, and somebody says, “My, you’re looking very gay today!”
Okay, so my brain is a fourth grader - it’s still funny.
:smack: So that’s why Indiana Jones knew what the Holy Grail looked like!
I watched The Mummy movies to make Mr. Woodhouse happy. One of them opens with the back story on the Scorpion King (Mummy Returns?) Anyway, Mr. King’s army is vanquished and they all go wandering in the desert. The men climb sand dunes and one by one fall over. plunk. plunk. plunk. By the time it got to the third soldier, my dh was sushing me because my laughter was disturbing the people in the seats around us. It wasn’t supposed to be funny, but I still giggle every time we watch that movie.
guy falls over. plunk. plunk. plunk. giggle
Battlefield Earth.
The end of Hitchcock’s Rope.
Jimmy Stewart figures it out, then says in essence “Well, you two are going to DIE!!!” Then he fires one bullet out the window of the penthouse apartment in NYC. You hear people saying things like “I think I heard a gunshot!” “Call the police” followed by sirens approaching.
Somehow I don’t think there would be that sort of a response to a single gunshot in NYC these days. Nor would there be an automatic assumption that they would be tried, convicted, and…die.
But, palm-inward is the way I’ve always seen Churchill depicted in making his “V-for-Victory” gesture! :eek:
Furthermore, it was based, and I’m sure widely known at the time to be based, on a real-life story where the culprits escaped the death penalty. (Clarence Darrow was really on form that day.)
It was meant to be funny.
IMO, not even Robot Monster comes close to Infra-Man for (I hope) unintentional humor! (Although I’m not sure so-bad-it’s-funny is the kind of “unintentional humor” the OP is asking for.)
Am I the only one who cheered when Steven Segal was sucked out of the airplane in Executive Decision?
Fair warning: this link goes directly to a video file with sound.
look again
http://worldroots.com/brigitte/gifs/churchill.jpg
http://history.sandiego.edu/cdr2/WW2Pics/82128.jpg
Although sometimes …
http://www.churchill-society-london.org.uk/VSign.Jpeg
… and I bet he did it deliberately.
I’ve said this before, but I laughed at Large Marge. It just burst out of me, the way others’ screams burst out of then. Wasn’t until several years later, watching it on video with some other people, that I realized that was not the reaction Burton was trying to get. But I’d honestly thought it was meant for a laugh.
I really like the movie The Thirteenth Floor and feel it’s very underrated. But there’s one scene where Our Hero says to his partner: “I said one hundred and twenty seconds! Set it for one-twenty! ONE TWO ZERO!” The partner relents and keys into the giant display which reads:
2:00
Yeah, it’s the same thing, but the emphatic “ONE TWO ZERO” followed by that image just cracks me up every time.