Who actually saw Gigli?
Most of GIGLI, but particularly the monologue J-Lo delivers while doing yoga. I had to rewind that one a few times...
Most of A CINDRELLA STORY - I had never actually laughed AT a movie before. Same with HOW TO DEAL.
My English teacher once let us watch Ever After just to be able to make fun of it. Like why are all the characters speaking in British accents if it's France? And why is Leonardo di Vinci there?
"Speaking of Titanic, did anyone else have to stifle serious laughter when that body falls from the boat, hits the propeller, and then spins and falls into the water? It's like laughing in church, that part."
I used to be such a Titanic zealot back in the '90s that I would get worked up whenever anyone would laugh at this. Now I think it's hilarious. You should check out the deleted scenes on the special edition DVD. Some of them are a hoot. (I still love the film but moreso in a "love my child regardless of what dumb things he does" way than an "it's a masterpiece" way.)
The Exorcist is extremely funny. I love the part where Regan starts stabbing herself with the cross and calls her mother all those dirty words. However, the most unintentionally funny movie ever made is definitely Mommie Dearest. Joan Crawford (Faye Dunaway) wrapping a sweaty towel around her maid's neck after she learns that she has gotten the lead role in a Metro film and, seconds later, chopping up her daughter's hair for mocking her in the mirror? Some people find it disturbing but it has kept me laughing in public for more than ten years. I have to keep mentioning MD until people on this board who aren't gay men check it out.
In Star Wars Episode II, Anakin says to Padme, 'I don't like the sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating--not like you. You're soft and smooth.' WTF?
Although, I will give George Lucas credit for coming up with a pick-up line that I don't think anybody had ever heard before.
Ugh! Showgirls is the most inadvertantly funny movie ever made. Anytime that movie tries to be serious it just goes WAY over the top and comes out totally comical.
"How do you like the car?"
"It doesn't suck!"
Oh, but you do, Jessie Spano. You and this movie suck a great deal.
I laughed through most of Reign of Fire, except for the scenes where I fell asleep.
The last half hour or so of Titanic really had me giggling. A gun chase on a sinking ship? The blinky disco lights as the ship is going down? The fact that they can run through the icy water in the ship for about half an hour with no problem, then they can swim in it without their joints seizing up, but after she hogs the makeshift raft and falls asleep, THEN Jack dies from the cold water, though she should have frozen from being so wet, but doesn't. Ok. Whatever. And when she's old and about to die, the best thing to do is throw priceless jewelry into the ocean because it will do what? Keep their souls together? Give her a free pass into Heaven? That was not romantic. It was incredibly wasteful. She should have gotten Purgatory for a while at least. Considering the title, I was hoping the movie was going to be about THE TITANIC. Go figure. The musical was better.
I laughed my way through SAW, but mostly for the terrible acting. And I'm sorry but the scene in The Ring where the horse jumps overboard is just hilarious.
One line:
"Nobody puts Baby in the corner."
Actually the mention of Gigli made me realise that any movie with J-lo in it is hysterical! Who told that woman she could act?
"The One" with Jet Li, who just might be the worst actor on earth. Juat listen to him deliver the line "You'll be dead before you hit the ground" if you don't believe me. And check out the scene where he picks up two motorcycles and whales on a cop with them.
And "The Faculty". I love how it's billed as a horror/sci-fi movie, when it's really one of the greatest comedies ever made...
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/05
What about the litany of Arnold lines?
"You're a F***ING CHOIRBOY COMPARED TO ME!"
"JOHN KIMBALL!"
"Who is your daddy and what does he do?"
and
my favorite
"I'm preeeeegnant!"
i totally second The Excorcist... one of the funniest movies i've ever seen
I think i was one of few to see WIMBLEDON, but at one point Kirsten Dunst is telling Paul Bettany why she can't date him anymore, as her tennis is suffering.
Paul: But I love you!
Kirsten: Love means NOTHING in tennis!
how about "clearly the genius has turned into insanity" or something that stupid line from the phantom movie. LOL in the theatre.
also any part where ben affleck speaks in pearl harbor.
ooooh!!! and that part in unbreakable where samuel L. Jackson falls down the steps in slow motion. ridiculous.
As much as I LOVE the Lord of the Rings films, there are certain spots that make me giggle everytime.
Stand-by Joined: 9/15/05
Hmm, I laugh my butt off in Simon Birch, when Simon hits the foul ball, and it hits Ashley Judd on the forehead and kills her. Bad, I know.
I was actually at the London Premiere of Prisoner of Azkaban last year and when Harry screams "He was their friend, their friend!" I started laughing which was really sad due to the fact that Daniel Radcliffe was in the same theater as me.
I also laugh when the body "clunks" off of the ship in Titanic.
Once in an English class we had to watch the film version of "Great Expectations" (which I must point out, is like 3 hours long). Anyway, being a BBC (british broadcasting company) production the entire thing was fairly ridiculous, but the best part was when Miss Havisham is set on fire and runs around making this ridculous crowing sound until she is tackled to the ground by Pip, who in the movie, couldn't seem to knock the frekining old lady over. I must say, for Dickens, it was throughly entertaining.
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/05
I think I've found another one:
"No son! Never! The blood stays on the blade!"
- Gangs of New York
I don't know why that was so funny but it was.
LOL. Okay, that never amused me but the way his friend's mercy killing was shot was just... I don't know. At that point the killings were so frequent that I couldn't just feel sympathy.
the entirety of the second two MATRIX movies.
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/04
To quote Beetlejuice:
"I've seen The Exorcist about 167 times and it just keeps getting funnier every time I see it!"
Did anyone ANYONE see THE LONELY LADY? Two words: Pia Zadora. Her breakdown scene...her garden hose rape scene....it goes on and on for a too short 90 minutes! Oh, damn them for not unleashing this one on DVD!!
THE APPLE (yes I'm going on about this one again) take yer freakin' pick! My particular fave is the "Speeeeeeeed!" musical number, but really who can pick from this genuine treasure chest?
MILDRED PIERCE!!!! I love when she walks in on her daughter and her boyfriend and he says--utterly deadpan--"Mildred. We didn't mean for you to see this....obviously."
ALL ABOUT EVE. When Addison DeWitt is blackmailing Eve and Anne Baxter is screaming on the bed like a hysterical animal "NO!! NO!! NO!!!"
BOOM! Another take-yer-pick camp classic. I particularly love Liz Taylor's white outfit with a headpiece that looks like a salon hairdryer out of LOGAN'S RUN.
ZARDOZ....hairy Sean Connery in a red diaper. Need I say more?
EXORCIST II....any time poor Richard Burton opens his mouth.
"I was actually at the London Premiere of Prisoner of Azkaban last year and when Harry screams "He was their friend, their friend!" I started laughing which was really sad due to the fact that Daniel Radcliffe was in the same theater as me."
Thank you!! I hope it was a kick in the butt for him to work on his acting.
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/25/05
Did anyone else see the "Planet of the Apes" remake. Camp classic! I screeched with laughter and was almost evicted when Estella Williams, as a human slave, was screaming about something and Helena Bonham Carter, in ape makeup, turned to her and said, in her Merchant/Ivory-trained stage British--
"Must you always be so difficult?"
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