Hollywood Bitchslap

MP Bartley · Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 3:09 pm Post subject: You shouldn't have...but you did.

Inappropriate moments when you laughed in films. Two for me:

Ed Harris falls out of a window (man, I just love that sentence) in The Hours

Kate Beckinsale in the clouds - Van Helsing
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SeveredAreolas · Joined: 20 Oct 2006 Posts: 133 Location: New Jersey

I have two as well:

1) In Titanic, when the guy falls from the end of the ship and hits his head on the propeller. That dong sound effect is just classic.

2) In The Exorcist when Linda Blair crab walks down the stairs. I think this may have been included for the re-release. It is unfair for me really to pick just one scene from this movie, because the whole movie makes me laugh... just never really scared me at all.
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Rob Gonsalves · HBS Monkey Joined: 19 May 2006 Posts: 1995

One I can think of off the top of my head. It's no sacred classic, certainly not on the wrongness level of laughing during Schindler's List.

But near the end of the ridiculous Henry Winkler Vietnam-vet drama Heroes (no relation to the current show), when Sally Field yells at Winkler "I can't love you if you're crazy! Don't be crazy!" I just had to pause it and completely lose my shit for about five minutes.

Basically any terrible tearjerker that strains hard to be poignant and just earns contemptuous laughter; Patch Adams and Pay It Forward would be two other shining examples.
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Oz · Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 7:28 pm Post subject:

"I am going to make you as happy as a baby Psychlo on a straight diet of kerbango."

Ah, Battlefield Earth. Is there any indignity you cannot deliver?
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UDM · Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 12:46 am Post subject:

A few years ago there was an Oscar-nominated documentary called Legacy, which follows a beleagured inner-city family around for a few years. Various family members are shot to death, get addicted to crack, become umemployed, cry into the camera...and, I'm sorry to say, by the time it was halfway over I was almost falling out of my chair with laughter. The constant parade of gloom and doom and misfortune just got to me, somehow.

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David Cornelius · Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 1:42 pm Post subject:

Paper Clips. Funniest movie about the holocaust ever.

Lord of the Flies (1990 remake): when the kid gets crushed by the boulder, I started giggling to the thought of the stoning scene in Life of Brian. "Jehovah! Jehovah! Jehovah!!"

Collin Souter · Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 10:45 pm Post subject:

300 That is one incredibly silly movie. I couldn't help it. I was laughing through much of it. I think I realized today that it's not really possible for me to take gladiator movies seriously. The homoeroticism is too much for me and it makes me giggle. Plus, I just don't think slo-mo in action sequences is as cool as everyone else thinks it is.
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Kand El · Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 7:44 am Post subject:

Bumfights. Nuff. said.

Oh. and Bumfights II.

Gifts. Both gifts. Swear.
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HIPAR · Joined: 08 Mar 2007 Posts: 3 Location: NE PA (USA)

'In The Exorcist when Linda Blair crab walks down the stairs. I think this may have been included for the re-release. It is unfair for me really to pick just one scene from this movie, because the whole movie makes me laugh... just never really scared me at all'.

The 360 degree head spin is hilarious. Would you believe the guy sitting behind me actually threatened to 'punch me out' if I didn't stop laughing?

--- CHAS
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CharlesTatum · Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 1:34 pm Post subject:

Revenge of the Sith- When Darth yells "NOOOO" at the end. Great special effects, the best of the three "new" films, but that just made me giggle.
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MP Bartley · Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2007 3:19 am Post subject:

Keep yer eyes peeled Rob... Wink

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Jack Sommersby · Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2007 6:30 pm Post subject:

When FBI agent Arnold Schwarzeneggar coaxes crippled Darren McGavin into walking during rehab in 1986's Raw Deal. It's supposed to be a "touching" scene, but it's just too damn unintentionally hilarious, with lines like "Meet me halfway." sending the viewer into a laughing frenzy.
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Dawn Taylor · Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 4:21 pm Post subject:

Most recent: Premonition. I won't go into detail to avoid spoilers, but it involves a coffin being dropped as it's being unloaded from a hearse, and a very brief shot of a head rolling away.

I couldn't help it. It was just so painfully stupid.

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David Cornelius · Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 7:17 pm Post subject:

Pretty much all of 300, from start to finish. Sorry, boys.

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Collin Souter · Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 1:34 pm Post subject:

That is awesome!
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David Cornelius · Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 6:14 pm Post subject:

Photoshop cures all boredom.

Todd · HBS Monkey Joined: 11 May 2005 Posts: 66

Any time there was a CGI fight scene in a movie in 2002 or '03. The characters always lost about 100 pounds from one scene to the next. I think my favorite is "Blade II," between Blade and the two assassins in front of the big wall of lights. It was such a seemless transition. I hardly noticed it went to CGI at all. I mean, the brilliant special effects...nope, can't even get through the rest of this without laughing again.
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