I don’t think this exchange between John Travolta & Samuel L Jackson in Pulp Fiction was supposed to be as funny as the two of them made it. Marelous delivery.
The Color Purple is one of my all-time favorite movies ever, with scenes that just rip my heart out. But for some reason that movie really lends itself to ripping lines out of context for comedic effect.
'‘I loves Harpo, God knows I do, but I’ll kill him dead ‘fo I let him beat me!’’
I don’t remember if the line was in the movie, but in the Bourne Ultimatum trailer the CIA boss lady, describing what a bad ass Bourne is, says this gem of a line.
Really CIA boss lady, really? If he gets pissed off when they try to kill him and fail, I’d hate to see how angry he would get if they tried to kill him and succeed. Link to trailer
In the The China Syndrome, there was a lot of nervous laughter in the theater when the movie scientist says “The China Syndrome would render an area the size of Pennsylvania permanently uninhabitable.”
This was in March, 1979 when Three Mile Island happened.
No, unfortunately it doesn’t (I wonder if there was anything humorous in the original dialog here. I saw the German version some time ago, but don’t remember this particular scene, but OTOH, I don’t remember any comic relief in this movie).
Unfortunately, most of the humor in Downfall is predicated on the audience not understanding German. Doesn’t stop it from being a damn good movie, however.
Not a movie, but in Starcraft 2, there are some unintentionally breaking the 4th wall moments of dialogue.
Adjutant (your AI thingamabob): The Protoss have sealed a Terrazine vent.
Raynor: The Protoss have sealed a Terrazine vent!
No shit, captain obvious. I enjoyed the campaign but I seriously wondered if Jimmy got by on this whole ‘resistance leader’ schtick by repeating what the last person just said.
Almost worse is Zeratul, who has nothing better to do than to muse in his own mind how he’s gotta use blink and void prism (to hint to the player how to get past various puzzles in the level).
It would be like me saying, “I desire a beer, but first I must get in my car and drive to 7-11, then spend 8.99 to purchase a six-pack. The beer will be unpleasantly warm, so I ought to find a place to put it to chill it before I consume it”
The animated Tekken movie. It was terrible. I knew it was terrible, but I like Tekken, so I watched it. At 4:02 in this clip, Jun asks Kazuya, “Why are you so upset? Is it because your father threw you off that cliff?”. Uhhhh, well, probably.
No one in the room registered what happened for the next two minutes or so, because we were laughing so hard. What makes it even funnier is that she’s really hurt and horrified by Kazuya’s behavior, like she had no friggen clue that getting thrown off a cliff by one’s own father would really change a guy.