“My daughter” -SLAP!- “My sister” -SLAP!- “My daughter” -SLAP!- “My sister”
*Chinatown * - I just think it’s hilarious.
I’ve never been able to watch that scene without flashing on Will Ferrel’s line in Zoolander, “They’re breakdance fighting!”
In Titanic, while the boat is sinking into the ocean, there are scenes of the folks on the boat, running around panicking, dying, etc. In one scene, we scene a man fall off the ship, hit one of the smokestacks which makes a metallic pinging sound, and fall to his death. I know it’s not supposed to be funny, but that “ping!” combined with a soon-to-be-dead body causing it just makes me laugh.
Good call. They showed Chinatown in my high school cinematography class, I cracked up first, and before long the entire class couldn’t stop laughing.
Wasn’t that a propellar, not a smokestack? I know I laughed when a guy bounced off a propellar.
Could’ve been a propellor. Been years since I saw that thing.
My friends and I occasionally do the slow-motion deep-voiced “Noooo!!!” (Like when someone drops a glass or is innoecntly about to say something that crosses a line)
Any time a serious movie tries to do it now it cracks me up. For example, recently I saw The Dead Poet’s Society and there’s a scene where the father of one character runs up the steps towards his son, in slo-mo, screaming “Nooooo!” High comedy.
You can also imagine how hilarious I found Vader’s Frankenstein scene in Revenge of the Sith.
Agreed. I think this has been parodied so namy times throughout the years that the first response to this is to laugh. I can’t imagine a recent movie that would use this “technique” in a serious manner.
Pretend that “namy” actually said “many”.
There must be something about that scene. I was as moved almost as much as anyone, but I still leaned to my friend and said, “What a bad actor. You can clearly see he’s still breathing.”
Later in the same movie Mufasa’s floating head appears in the sky telling Simba, “Remember who you are.” It wasn’t just the floating head, but the fact that I used to belong to an organization that used this phrase when members were goofing off in public, that made me laugh.
When I saw RotK at the theatre, and at the climax of the Battle of the Pelennor Fields. The Witch-King of Angmar has just finished bragging on Eowyn that no man can kill him, and she whips off her helmet: “I am no man!” Cut back to Witchy, and some smartarse yells out “D’oh!” Priceless timing, and the whole theatre cracked up: I’ve never been able to watch that scene with a straight face since.
Revenge of the Sith. :rolleyes:
The end of Jaws. I pissed off an entire theater full of people by completely cracking up when the shark bought it. The scene just has this wonderful Rube Goldberg-like quality, turning the whole movie on its ear in the last instant; one second it’s a hopeless struggle against an implacable force of nature, and the next second the shark turns into Mr. Creosote. On the down side, I consider this film (even more than Star Wars) to have irrevocably cemented the Hollywood tradition that no summer movie can end without a huge explosion. Thanks a load, Steve.
On the opposite end of the cinematic spectrum… I’m not sure whether a CGI animated film named after a series of computer games can be considered a serious movie, but I’m pretty sure at least that **Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within ** wasn’t intended as a comedy. Somehow I wound up seeing this movie in the theater, and although I can remember almost nothing about it, I do seem to recall that there is an explosion of some kind at the end. I also remember that the ever-dependable Donald Sutherland voiced one of the characters, and I believe that he may have had the last line. After the explosion that somehow saves the day, there’s a shower of mysterious glittering snowflake-like magic fallout particles or something. One of them alights on Donald, and he exclaims wonderingly in that uniquely fuzzy voice of his: “It’s warm!” I about died laughing at this line, as did a few others who saw the film with me. I have no real explanation for this; however, I will say that it’s an extremely useful catch phrase to break the ice with during conversational lulls. Try it yourself! Touch any random object and cry out, “It’s warm!” Fun, isn’t it? A great opening gambit for any discussion of Donald Sutherland’s many classic film roles.
Don’t forget how Swayze does those dainty little kicks to uproot the post to smash the window with.
Or earlier on, when Jeffrey gravely tells the detective that he was walking in a field and “I found an ear.” Detective opens the paper bag, looks inside and says briskly, “Yep, that’s a human ear all right.” I’m fairly certain that was supposed to be funny.
Yeah… I laughed at that in the theatre, which didn’t go over well. I think I actually yelled “ping!” Too bad. It was funny. Having the guy hit the propeller was just begging for laughter.
Oh, the whole theatre laughed at that when I saw it. And that was on opening day.
Was the scene of flaming Denethor taking a running screaming flying leap off the top of Minas Tirith in Return of the King already mentioned, and I just missed it? Because that was laffs with 2 f’s.
And that’s a 9.8 from the Bulgarian judges.
Hmmm…
I don’t even find most things that are supposed to be funny, funny: let alone finding humour in non-funny items.
That’s kinda sad.