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Movie lines people laughed at in theaters despite not actually being intended to be funny? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I remember in Revenge of the Sith, when the actor playing Vader yells "nooooooooo", at what is supposed to be the emotional climax of the trilogy, the theater roared in laughter.

Do you have other examples?

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

It's been decades since I've been to the cinema, so I don't know if this counts, but a recent example I can think of is when I watched No Exit the other day, and laughed really hard both when one bad guy

spoiler

gets shot with a nail in the forehead by the other

and again when he then

spoiler

fell on his face and drove the nail home, literally

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