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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] 46 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Not really a movie line but a scene from a movie.

In Star Wars: The Last Jedi. The scene where Leia gets blown out of the spaceship. She floats there a little then opens her eyes and proceeds to use the Force to fly through space towards the ship.

The audience absolutely erupted in laughter at that.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

I've never spoken in a theater until TROS. I spoke twice.

Once when Rey and Ren were facing each other, and were about to kiss, and I audibly said "oh come on don't say it" when the old lady asked Rey her surname. I was in disbelief she would say something that stupid.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

I stopped watching after The Force Awakens, and this makes me even more sure of my decision.

[–] Aussiemandeus 44 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I saw I am legend I cinemas with my brother I would have been 16 him 11.

When Will Smith killed his dog my brother started balling his eyes out and I started laughing at him uncontrollably. I'm sure from an outside perspective I looked like a psycho

[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Like laughing during Schindler's List

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

To be fair, Yackety Sax was a weird choice for the soundtrack.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] Aussiemandeus 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Nah man whole arse basketballs fell from his eyes

Nah cheers

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Unlimited basketball glitch tie your brother in a chair and keep his eyes open while showing the scene on loop ? How much basketballs does he make per a minute ? Maybe you can start accompany of your own within a week and after that set your brother free ? Unless you are a greedy asshole .

[–] [email protected] 40 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I was there, i laughed. Wife looked at me with distaste.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 6 months ago

I was a Radioman in the Navy, and some coworkers and I had gone to see Cider House Rules in the theater.

There's a scene where they come to inform someone that a plane with a loved one on board had been shot down.

To quote the movie:

When the plane was hit, the crew chief and the radioman jumped close together. The copilot jumped third.

We immediately started laughing when we heard that, because we were told that the Radiomen are some of the last to leave a sinking ship due to needing to destroy the cryptographic material. Hearing that a Radioman was one of the first to bail was too good to us..

[–] [email protected] 29 points 6 months ago

Not the movie that caused it, but during either the first or second Tobey McGuire Spider Man movie there is a scene where Peter tells Aunt May he is responsible for Uncle Ben’s death. Right during this dramatic scene in the theater a kid said pretty loudly (but not quite yelling) β€œI have to go poop!” Quite of a few of us burst out laughing during this heavy scene.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The Titantic. In the scene when the dude falls off the back of the ship and hits the propeller on the way down. He hits it with a solid clang and someone in the theater loudly goes β€œoooooohh that’ll leave a mark…”

The entire theater fucking lost it.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I remember laughing my ass off at a 5-second loop of that scene with a Wilhelm added to it.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

The Samuel L Jackson scene in Deep Blue Sea, I know it's supposed to give the sense that nobody is safe, but it's so random and quick that it dives head first into comedy.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Love that scene, it's absolutely hilarious.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The parts from Jupiter Ascending between the start and the end.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago (5 children)

Still better than Rebel Moon.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Not a line, but I saw Matrix: Revolutions in theater on opening weekend. During the 1-on-1 fight with Smith in the rain, there's a slow-motion shot of Neo punching Smith in the face. It's such bad CGI the entire theater burst into laughter. I'm pretty sure it was intended to be dramatic, but after seeing the latest Matrix movie and how tongue-in-cheek it is about itself, I'm not entirely sure anymore.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The CGI in that movie was so bad that it looked like a then-present-era video game.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

In Before the Midnight, at the theater with my wife at the time, when the couple are at the hotel having a serious argument. I was losing it, laughing uncontrollably, because it mirrored my abusive relationship I was having with her so damn perfectly.

I'm not married anymore.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago

Not sure if this counts as it's not strictly a line but it's a family favourite story.

During Interview with the Vampire during a very tense scene, Tom Cruise walks out holding three severed heads by the hair. Well my sister started laughing hard, causing me and then the rest of the cinema to follow suit shortly after.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Steven Seagal's death in Executive Decision was supposed be a dramatic moment instead the theatre I was in broke out in spontaneous clapping, laughing and cheering.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

I cheered too, ngl. Seagal is a turd.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

I watched the first hunger games movie in a Thai cinema. There is a scene where Katness (is that the main characters name...) breaks up with her boyfriend for some reason, neither of them is happy about it. The whole theater broke out in laughter, I have no clue why.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago (2 children)

One of the Marvel movies, Avanegers I think?

"Get all of your spectrometers, put them on the roof and set them to detect gamma rays!"

Most of our group got a pretty good laugh out of that one in the theater.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

It's bad, but is it as bad as in movies/tv where people look into a microscope and see little viruses multiplying, or even worse, DNA double-helices floating around? Maybe it is...

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Not in the theatre but watching Kill Bill. Very tense moment when Uma Thurmam confronted the other woman (at 30 seconds https://youtu.be/sPfjd2bayVs). It zooms in on her eyes, plays the music, and I fucking lost it.

They used to do that in Bruce Lee movies and I was not expecting that in a Hollywood blockbuster. QT was inspired though.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

It's definitely a meme for a reason lol

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Mark wahlberg in The Happening: β€œcome on douchebag, think like a scientist”

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

"I need a second OK why can't anyone just give me a goddamn second!?"

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago (2 children)

In the recent Ferrari movie, there's a scene with one of the legendary racing drivers. He's in the lead at the big race and he just needs to bring it home for the win. He's got a big smile, the shots are serene, the music is swelling. Then suddenly, he wrecks super violently and crashes into a crowd of people. I absolutely lost it. I was the only one.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Why don't normal people find sudden changes in emotional tone funny?

That scene sounds funny AF.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (4 children)

All the emotional scenes of rebel moon part one . I know its a crime around here and reddit to like snyder but tbh i really like most of his movies like batman v superman series , army of the dead series , dawn of the dead etc they are by no means perfect but it is what it is and i like them for that .

But oh my fucking god the critics and haters were right on this one the emotional aspects of this movie were a riot and kora (or whatever her name was) just telling her backstory and making a terrible reason why its there etc made me wanna quit watching anyway i put myself through it mainly because of the time i spent to pirate it and hoping it would get good (it never did ) and no way in hell i'm watching the second part .

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago

I saw revenge of the sith in the theater multiple times and there was no laughing at the no. I never noticed it being laughed at until the β€œdo not want” translation gaffe.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago

You don't often hear people laugh out loud in a Finnish movie theater, so I remember the one time there was a sudden spontaneous burst. It was one of the Underworld movies where Bill Nighys character gets his head cut in half or something. I guess the visual was just so ludicrous and kind of mismatch to the tone that several people lost it at once.

[–] [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
Β―\(ツ)/Β―

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

I think James Cameron's "The Abyss" is kinda famous for having way more funny moments than intended.

I saw it in the cinema for its recent anniversary re-release. As you might expect most of the audience were enthusiasts and tended to lean older-male and slightly "technical" or "nerdy" in interests/professions. All to say that they were taking the film seriously. But then there were some, a minority, who didn't fall into that demographic at all. They found many moments in the film hilarious and were laughing out loud. Which rather annoyed the majority of the crowd some of whom would look around wondering where the annoying laughs were coming from. What's interesting is that over time the majority softened and started to find the humour themselves and laugh out loud at similar moments.

This is also mentioned in the wikipedia for the film ... it seems under the strain of making that movie some of the directing just got a little comical.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

The only part of Oppenheimer I loved was when Oppie met Downey Jr.'s character. Oppie says, "You are a working man, I can respect that.

Downey: were you also a working man?

Oppie: no, but my father was.

I was the only person in the theater who laughed at this line and the people in front of me did not appreciate it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (5 children)

The Patriot (2000) dull Mel Gibson movie, as far as i can recall, anyway random dude gets head cleanly lopped off with a cannonball, buddies and i played too much UnrealTournament that day not to hear the "HEADSHOT" anouncer in our heads.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

In Alien: Resurrection I think, Ripley, goes on and on for most of the film about how she wants to exterminate aliens. My friends and I had been joking all film about how much like this one racist dipshit Ripley was in this film.

Then in a tense close up Ripley actually uses the dipshit's catchphrase: "I don't like it". So we bursts out laughing, annoying many other patrons.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (3 children)

My friend and I saw Deep Impact in the theater, when the plan fails and the comet fragments are still going to hit earth, there is a dramatic moment when they explain to projected impact sites. One in the ocean and one ... in Canada. For whatever reason my friend and I both burst into laughter when they said Canada. The whole theater turned to glare at us.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I don't go to theaters enough to see entire audiences laughing, but I laughed..

I laughed uncontrollably at the climax/ending of Dark City at a friend's birthday party. It was his favorite movie at the time. He wasn't amused. I think the fact that he took the movie SO seriously, and that it ended in such an embarrassing schlocky way, was just too much for my poor system.

the ending spoilerIt turns into a Dragonball-z fan film, with energy beams meeting in the middle and one guy straining and pushing harder and knocking the energy beam into the other, and other silly nonsense. It did not fit the tone of the movie AT ALL. Then, the movie ends as quickly as possible.

Also laughed my way through most of the first Fast and the Furious movie, in the theater. At the time, it seemed like an amazing absurdist comedy, but these days it'd be very tamely dumb. Lots of people probably think of it as some sort of classic or some shit now.

Finally, nobody in the theater laughed once at Down Periscope. IMDB has it at 6.2, but.. nobody laughed. We walked out after giving up 30min in. edit: it was a different spoof movie from almost the same time that I'm thinking of, McHales Navy. Sorry for slandering you, Down Periscope, I'm sure you're amazing.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

Similar story, when Kylo Ren died, my friend straight up busted out laughing. It was a bit contagious and a few others in the theater ended up laughing as well.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

You know how there are a lot of small theaters in Paris that screen old movies? There we were, watching a noir thriller classic "The Asphalt Jungle" one night.
As an epilogue, there's a tacked-on morality speech by a police chief, and you can smell the stench of The Hayes Code and J Edgar Hoover all over the goddamned thing.

Like a cheap piece of lazy propaganda. "Your local Police Department... tirelessly fighting day and night, to protect all regular citizens from society's external disruptive forces, like the Red Menace and Reefer Madness."

After being a rapt audience for the main story - which is a jewel of its' genre - this weird speech happens, it ends abruptly with a "The End" title card and we ambled out of the theater, that speech was the final disconcerting taste in our mouths, you could hear more than a few puzzled, snickering laughs.

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