Laughing At Inappropriate Times

[SkyNet]

another short but sweet:

But there are times in movie theaters when there is a serious moment but there is always one or 2 assholes busting out laughing.. cuz i guess seeing a serious scene or a serious movie is too much for their puny ass brains to handle... fuckin corn hole eaters.

[bmain77]

I have a similar story where I was the laughing asshole, but it was at a play. It was called David and Lisa and somewhere near the end of the play is a rape scene in which my friend and I busted out laughing. The problem was one of the rapists was played by a life long friend. He said the line, "Come on baby let these fingers work some magic" and we were busting a gut laughing and at the same time realizing that we were probably going to hell for it. It was just the look on his face combined with those lines coming from him. It was just too much. Plus it was a tiny tiny theater so everyone in the audience knew who it was after the show when we were hanging out waiting for a friends to come out so we could congratulate them for very good performance. They all looked us like we kicked their dog then raped their moms. I felt about 6 inches tall when we left the place that night.

[rushmore beauty]

I cannot stand it when people laugh at inappropriate times...one of my biggest pet-peeves at the movies. Some dicks were actually laughing when I went to The Passion of the Christ...I wanted to crucify them...

[Jamesadin]

I laughed when the guy hit the propeller in Titanic, am I a bad person? :O

[Squid Vicious]

I remember when I was in Grade 11 and we were watching Schindler's List in my history class, and there were a couple of dickheads in the back who ACTUALLY LAUGHED at some parts. I really wanted to stab their eyeballs out. :mad:

[DRbeauty]

Originally posted by Squid Vicious
I remember when I was in Grade 11 and we were watching Schindler's List in my history class, and there were a couple of dickheads in the back who ACTUALLY LAUGHED at some parts. I really wanted to stab their eyeballs out. :mad:

Yeah that happened to me too. There were these asshole laughing their asses off when the Jews were getting shot. I kinda wished it happened to them. I'm sure they wouldn't be laughing then.

[gyro_44]

Originally posted by DRbeauty
Yeah that happened to me too. There were these asshole laughing their asses off when the Jews were getting shot. I kinda wished it happened to them. I'm sure they wouldn't be laughing then.
That's terrible. Really terrible.

When I saw REMEMBER THE TITANS, there's a funeral scene at the end for the player who dies. One guy at the front of the theatre let out this sudden, unexpected, "Ha HA!" Everyone else in theatre started laughing at him. It was kind of funny - and there was no Holocaust happening on-screen.

What annoys me more is people who laugh steady through an entire movie at things no one else is laughing at. Especially with something that's not a comedy. I remember one dude tittering like a moron at THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR during romantic exchanges between Pierce Brosnan and Rene Russo. Mental instability maybe?

[syxxpac]

Originally posted by Jamesadin
I laughed when the guy hit the propeller in Titanic, am I a bad person? :O

Not from where I'm sitting.

My verdict is that it was fucking hilarious.

[quoth_the_raven]

Originally posted by Jamesadin
I laughed when the guy hit the propeller in Titanic, am I a bad person? :O


i laughed my arse off at that. I found it later, about two rows down.

I have a very warped sense of humour so I do sometimes laugh at inappropriate times. Normally, as your lawyer in this matter, I'd suggest you sue me. But you can't, so nyeh.

Probably makes me an asshole, but all I can is that I can't help it sometimes. I've never laughed at anything really, really inappropriate, but moments like the dude and the propeller in titantic...yes. I'd guess there are limits to it. so I'm only half an asshole...in fact, that makes me a buttock...curious...

[bmain77]

What if you were cheering for the old bag to jump in the ocean at the end of the movie? Is that evil or at least quasi-evil?

[Cronos]

i also find this very annoying but i do sometimes do it myself, i mean Troy was fucking hilarious

[Cthulu13]

Originally posted by Jamesadin
I laughed when the guy hit the propeller in Titanic, am I a bad person? :O

Yes, but so's everyone else so join the club. . .

[Cthulu13]

Originally posted by bmain77
What if you were cheering for the old bag to jump in the ocean at the end of the movie? Is that evil or at least quasi-evil?

Depends, was that before or after she lets whats-his-name freeze to death?

[SkyNet]

certain things are funn, such as the man hitting the propellar!

But i mean there are just certain scenes in movies that are serious moments and they are very well written, its just some ass hole doesnt have the 3rd grade mentality to understand the shit.. so they laugh. Retards

[Hucksta G]

I am guilty of laughing during serious moments in movies. Moments which really aren't funny. I usually do it when I'm with a friend of mine. I really don't wnat to laugh but I cant control it, I think its just hard to handle emotional scenes when your around a friend, I dunno haha I don't mean to piss people off when I laugh and I try my hardest to keep it low key.

[HHH123007]

If I'm with friends and the movie is bad, I'll laugh all the time during it's bad "dramatic" scenes.

The Day After Tomorrow and Troy first came to mind when I saw this topic.

[bob]

I laugh all the time when I shouldn't, usually because most of the movies I see that handle "serious" topics are horribly made.

If someone is laughing during Schindler's List, it's not because they find the Holocaust funny, it's because they find some aspect of the filmmaking poor enough to be funny.

That's my experience, anyway.

[SLAW]

I laughed when Simon Birch was crying after killing Ashley Judd. Funny stuff.

[HHH123007]

I couldn't help but laugh at that last post...

[Badbird]

I didn't get what was so funny in Pulp Fiction after he stabber her in the heart with the needle and she jumped up. The whole theater lost it, but honestly I don't see what was funny.

Then I remember in the first Kill Bill - very first scene, when you see Uma all bashed and bloody in that nasty close up, not one, but two jackasses laughed. What the fuck was funny about that?

[Raoul Duke]

Originally posted by SLAW
I laughed when Simon Birch was crying after killing Ashley Judd. Funny stuff.

..That's about a goofy kid with problems, right? If so, I'm laughing already!

[Sigur509]

I laughed at Brad Pitts slow-motion scenes in Troy.

Fuggen Hilarious.

[one_crow_sorrow]

Originally posted by Jamesadin
I laughed when the guy hit the propeller in Titanic, am I a bad person? :O

No, that scene is rather hilarious.

[HHH123007]

Originally posted by Badbird
Then I remember in the first Kill Bill - very first scene, when you see Uma all bashed and bloody in that nasty close up, not one, but two jackasses laughed. What the fuck was funny about that?

I saw Kill Bill in a theater on opening day with about 15 people in it...I'd say most of them were in the "internet crowd", as they were in their early 20s, alone, and seem drawn in to the movie just by Quentin Tarantino's name being attached.

Anyway, in that first scene where Uma gets shot in the head, everyone jumped. Then we all starting laughing at how cool that was....not really laughing at the picture itself, but how much we were surprised at the gunshot.

Just thought I'd share that random tidbit.

[Johnny Moreno]

There were a couple scenes in Jersey Girl I laughed, not laughed but chuckled at. The part where Ollie calls Gertie a little shit when they're arguing. But it was before I knew that it was suppose to be a "serious" scene. Oh well, funny to me for some reason.

[jpete51]

I laughed at a scene in The Day After Tommorow that was supposed to be serious, but I couldn't help it! The scene was when Jake G. was wet after he talked on the phone, and his girl friend thing was hugging him:

"Hey, what are you doing?"--Jake

"I am close to you, so you can have some of my body heat..."--Robot girl.

it was a little diff.. but a couple other people in the theatre laughed at that one.

[Cunning Visions]

Originally posted by bob
If someone is laughing during Schindler's List, it's not because they find the Holocaust funny, it's because they find some aspect of the filmmaking poor enough to be funny.

That's my experience, anyway.

That might be the case sometimes...but the experience I had made me wonder what the hell is wrong with some people. When I saw Schindlers List on a school field trip some idiots were laughing hysterically anytime there was a scene featuring violence. The scene where a woman gets shot point blank in the back of the head had them rolling with laughter. To this day I still can't see what was so funny about it....and I really don't think it was shoddy filmmaking.

[Antonio]

***DUCKS FOR COVER***

I tend to laugh inappropriately in movie theaters.

For example, in 1992, my ex-girlfriend Stacey and I were frowned upon by the crowd exiting BASIC INSTINCT, as we howled at the final shot!

I also laughed at Tom Cruise's feeble attempts to capture LeStat's spirit in INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE, which pretty much means every fucking scene he was in!

More recently, my friend Lisa and I made fun of the antics in THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW, and I laughed my ass off when Bryce Dallas Howard bitch-slapped Adrien Brody in THE VILLAGE!

Anyone else share my disdain for such blatantly orchestrated dramatics?

[syxxpac]

Originally posted by Antonio
and I laughed my ass off when Bryce Dallas Howard bitch-slapped Adrien Brody in THE VILLAGE!

Who didn't?

:p

[optimus]

Originally posted by bob
I laugh all the time when I shouldn't, usually because most of the movies I see that handle "serious" topics are horribly made.

If someone is laughing during Schindler's List, it's not because they find the Holocaust funny, it's because they find some aspect of the filmmaking poor enough to be funny.

That's my experience, anyway.

I can see your point when it comes to movies that are there for entertainment value but not at a film that has a delicate subject matter. Whether it was shot poorly or not, they shouldn't have laughed. I'm not busting your balls, I'm busting the balls of those individuals who felt it was necessary to laugh at the expense of others.

I hope that the kids that did laugh at the movie get a little more wiser with age.

[HannibalGuy]

When I saw The Pianst, alot of people laughed when the Nazi's dumped the old man in the wheelchair out of the window.

[Pvt. Joker]

Well I was guilty of this crime myself, while watching The Passions of the Christ with 6 of my friends.

The scene where Christ is getting whipped and Satan has the little ugly, hairy baby in his arms. The baby looked just like our friend sitting with us. We all tried to hold in our laughter out of respect but when we looked at each other.....that was it.

We all hung our heads in shame but man did that baby ever look like our buddy. I'm positive the whole theater was offended but we couldn't help. Most inappropiate time to laugh ever.

[Briare Rabbit]

*Spoilers for the Deer Hunter*






I had a friend or two over once and we watched the Deer Hunte,r now in the second to last scene where DeNiro is playing roulette with Walken, and Walken shoots himself, these two fuckers start cracking up.

Needless to say, they were removed from my home.

I also steered a guy clear of Schindler's List because I didnt want to hear "it was funny, but it was boring" from the shit. So, yeah.

[Slim_JGE]

An innability to deal with something on an emotional level is typically the cause of this. Example... laughing at sad or very serious parts of movies. Their own way to break the tension; basically an outlet for a feeling they're not sure how to/or are uncomfortable communicating. And yes... EXTREMELY annoying.

[mr_eff]

I also laughed at Tom Cruise's feeble attempts to capture LeStat's spirit in INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE, which pretty much means every fucking scene he was in!


I thought that whole movie was pretty laughable. Like a long session of bad goth poetry.

[Jon Lyrik]

Originally posted by bob
I laugh all the time when I shouldn't, usually because most of the movies I see that handle "serious" topics are horribly made.

If someone is laughing during Schindler's List, it's not because they find the Holocaust funny, it's because they find some aspect of the filmmaking poor enough to be funny.

That's my experience, anyway.

I can almost see your point, but when I see someone laughing hysterically during the Holocaust scenes in Schindler's List, my first impression is that they are either:

a) Fucking nutcases
b) Anti-semetic
c) Rampant attention-seeking bastards

They might not be either, but at first it gives off a very potent odor of insensitivity or asshole-ness.

[Tuukka]

Originally posted by bob
I laugh all the time when I shouldn't, usually because most of the movies I see that handle "serious" topics are horribly made.

If someone is laughing during Schindler's List, it's not because they find the Holocaust funny, it's because they find some aspect of the filmmaking poor enough to be funny.

That's my experience, anyway.

RE:

The scene which caused laughter in SL when I saw it was the scene where Fiennes shoots jews from the balcony.

This is a typical inapproppriate situation for laughing. Many people find unexpected, bizarre violence funny. It's the same thing with the propeller man in Titanic. Or the wheelchair man in Pianist. I find if funny too in a very blackly comic way, but not on serious films such as SL.

[deatheater]

During Saving Private Ryan, part on Ohama Beach,this one guy is in a daze after his arm is blown off.When that guy bent to pick up what was left of his arm, this guy near front of the very quiet theater let out this loud obnoxious laugh.I could see people siting near me with bewildered looks on their face.(Though out the movie this guy kept laughing like an idiot)

Mystic River when Sean Penns charecter is crying and raving after his daughter was found dead this women was like "Oh Bu-Hu shut up" and her boyfriend started laughing..........................

[ChemicalRomance]

Some morons laughing during the wrong part of movie can really kill the scene, or the entire feel of the movie. It just sucks. What are you trying to prove by laughing at something that shouldn't be laughed at? Does that make you some kind of cool elitist? No. Shut up and watch the movie and be considerate.

[HHH123007]

Originally posted by deatheater
Mystic River when Sean Penns charecter is crying and raving after his daughter was found dead this women was like "Oh Bu-Hu shut up" and her boyfriend started laughing..........................

I felt like laughing at that over-acting as well....can't blame her.

[Briare Rabbit]

Originally posted by HHH123007
I felt like laughing at that over-acting as well....can't blame her.

Im sorry, but I have to bring up two points to you.

A) Your gave Scarface a ten out of ten, the most over acted movie in history.
"Ah hoo HA! Less a go-a SHOOT up some villagers Billy? MY BRUTHA"

B) You obviously know nothing about people in grief. Because that's how one would act when finding out their 17-19 year old, who they saw less than 12 hours earlier has been murdered. Jesus christ...

[HHH123007]

I actually gave Scarface an 8.5/10 or ****.

...and I have no clue what someone who finds something like that out looks like, but I have a feeling they don't all of a sudden go insane and get restrained by an army of police officers while a camera circles overhead. ;)

I know I'm not alone in thinking Mystic River is totally over-acted. I might be on this board, but I know plenty of people offline that agree with me.

[Briare Rabbit]

Originally posted by HHH123007
I actually gave Scarface an 8.5/10 or ****.

...and I have no clue what someone who finds something like that out looks like, but I have a feeling they don't all of a sudden go insane and get restrained by an army of police officers while a camera circles overhead. ;)

I know I'm not alone in thinking Mystic River is totally over-acted. I might be on this board, but I know plenty of people offline that agree with me.

Oh... sorry. I had you confused with someone else on Scarface.

But yes, if you were walking a park, and someone tells you your beloved daughter is lying dead less than 100 yards away, you'd think that you'd be pretty pissed off. I know I would go crazy, you'd want to see what she'd look like before they cleaned her up.

So no, Mystic River is NOT overracted. In the least bit.

[bigred760]

Originally posted by SkyNet
another short but sweet:

But there are times in movie theaters when there is a serious moment but there is always one or 2 assholes busting out laughing.. cuz i guess seeing a serious scene or a serious movie is too much for their puny ass brains to handle... fuckin corn hole eaters.

I totally agree. And most of them time, these assholes ruin the moment/movie for me. I hate people like that.

[Metallica4702]

I recently saw Collateral with a shitload of old people in the theatre that started laughing whenever someone fired a gun. Now I'm a big comedy fan, but what the hell were they laughing at? Last time I checked, a gun is supposed to scare people, not make them burst out laughing hysterically.

"A person is smart, people are dumb."

[TATU]

Originally posted by Metallica4702
I recently saw Collateral with a shitload of old people in the theatre that started laughing whenever someone fired a gun. Now I'm a big comedy fan, but what the hell were they laughing at? Last time I checked, a gun is supposed to scare people, not make them burst out laughing hysterically.

"A person is smart, people are dumb."

There old, maybe there just crazy and senile.....

[thedudeman69]

I laughed at About Schmit when He is reading that letter from his pen pal in africa, My mom ask me what the fuck is so funny?

[BHZD11]

the only time I can recall laughing at a serious moment in a movie is in Forrest Gump at various points

like when he says "But your my girl" to Jenny...I mean come on! lol

we quoted that line in my high school all the time, even 10 years after it had come out.

[Tony_Montana]

I hate it when that fucking happens. I like to think that I don't do things like that myself, but sometimes it does happen (I laughed my ass off through most of Roman Polanski's MacBeth).

[bluesbrother965]

That part about people laughing during Schindler's list is incredibly sad, that really pisses me off.

She wasn't exactly laughing, but when I was at Open Range, this lady kept shouting "Damn, that was good", when Kevin Costner or Robert Duvall shot someone in a stylized or clever way. Then her friends would start giggling. I felt like destroying their car or something on the way out of the theater, it was so annoying.

[JohnTheHenchman]

I laughed at Mystic River....the whole idea that it was as acclaimed was comedy in itself.

But really, who is anyone to say it's inappropriate to laugh at a certain movie? We laugh at cheesy horror movies, where people are murdered....why can't we laugh when the same stuff happens in Schindler's List. Humor is subjective, just because you don't find it funny it does not mean that no one does.

I, for one, will laugh at what strikes me as humorous, whether it is intentional or not.

[krazy drako]

I don't find it annoying when people laugh. Just when they burst out into random sing song during the movie. Thats all :p .

[HanasaMO]

People laughing at some funny scenes doesn't annoy me so much.Sometimes in a movie when actors are very serious about something there are always some guy who burst out laugh, those people are really annoying me!!!!!!!!

[Antonio]

I have to admit, I laughed inappropriately during two recent thrillers:

In THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE, when Denzel killed two birds with one stone, and in THE VILLAGE, when Bryce Dallas Howard bitch-slapped village idiot Adrien Brody.

Unfortunately, I was the only one laughing out loud during those two unintentionally funny scenes. No one else in the audience shared my sardonic wit.

Some people are so serious!

[blankpage]

Well, when I saw THE VILLAGE, something similar happened to me.


*SPOILERS*!!!



When Ivy is talking to her sister about marrying Lucius, some guy, in the middle of the scene, yelled out, "MONSTERS!" Now, I tell you, the way he said it was so damn hilarious. Some people were grumbling, but like four of us were trying to keep it in. I mean, I'm usually involved with a flick I like, but holy shit...it was too funny.




MONSTERS!!! :p

[docholiday_13]

It's my humble opinion that if a person shells out 13 bones for a flick, he or she can pretty much laugh at whatever the hell they want.

I mean, c'mon guys.

[Underground]

Take a scene like in Schindler's List where they are being ran around naked(not that I laughed at the film), if you were stoned sitting in class and you friend said "check out them boobies" your going to laugh...just my opinion