Serious movie scenes that inspire inappropriate laughter

[The Great Owl]

I'll get the ball rolling... Beware potential spoilers.

• The scene in Jaws when the corpse appears while Hooper is removing a shark tooth from underneath the small boat. Richard Dreyfuss's facial reaction cracked me up when I first saw the movie during childhood, and it still cracks me up.

• A serious moment in Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbound where a character is remembering a horrible traumatic incident from his childhood.
  [Show spoiler] As a boy, the character slid down a stairway rail, kicked his brother at the bottom of the rail, and saw his brother impaled on a spike fence underneath bottom of the rail.
  I am probably a bad person, but I cannot help laughing during this scene.

• Jack Black's delivery of the "It was beauty killed the beast." quote at the end of Peter Jackson's King Kong.

• Every single death scene in the Final Destination movies.

Now, I usually suppress laughter during such moments in a theater, because I never want to be That Guy who laughs in the theater during an intentionally serious scene, but this takes effort at times.

[cinemaphile]

Cheesy dialogue in "romantic" scenes always gets me. Like in Episode II -
Speaking of Tatooine, something like: "I hate the sand. It gets everywhere, it's rough... not like here... everything is smooth" (caresses Padme's skin)

see also: Any line in any of the Twilight movies.

[The Great Owl]

Originally Posted by cinemaphile

Cheesy dialogue in "romantic" scenes always gets me. Like in Episode II -
Speaking of Tatooine, something like: "I hate the sand. It gets everywhere, it's rough... not like here... everything is smooth" (caresses Padme's skin)

Excellent!

Also...

The death of Anakin's mother in Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones. The way that she says her last words, and then abruptly goes limp. That scene was so bad that it's good.

[JavaJulien]

I always laugh during the destruction of the Football Stadium in Dark Knight Rises.

[srinivas1015]

Originally Posted by The Great Owl

Excellent!

Also...

The death of Anakin's mother in Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones. The way that she says her last words, and then abruptly goes limp. That scene was so bad that it's good.

That scene was well done (by Hayden as well) and always gets me though .

[jd_from_da_80s]

We Need to Talk About Kevin. My wife & I literally laughed out loud a couple of times. I would have caught a case if my son did any of those things he did.

[Livelong420]

Titanic- Near the end, in the water. Leo's got mashed potatoes in his hair. Rose says she'll never let go. Then she lets go lol.

[Visco.]

Most recently, in Silver Linings Playbook when

[Show spoiler]the cop hands Mom the card and Bradley Cooper's character says "I didn't know cops had cards now"

[The Great Owl]

The car crash scene in Meet Joe Black. I'm probably going to get hit by a car one of these days, and it's not going to be funny, but I cannot help laughing during this scene.

The guy bouncing off the propeller when he falls from the ship in James Cameron's Titanic.

[MovieFanatic2010]

Originally Posted by The Great Owl

The car crash scene in Meet Joe Black. I'm probably going to get hit by a car one of these days, and it's not going to be funny, but I cannot help laughing during this scene.

The guy bouncing off the propeller when he falls from the ship in James Cameron's Titanic.

Funny Stuff...... Weeeeeeeeeeeeeee !!!!!!!!!!!!!! I would of gave him a 10 if he stuck the landing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymPp0_75re0

[cinemaphile]

Yes the Meet Joe Black scene is definitely one! They had to know how funny that was when they made it, right?!??

for me, many scenes in Return of the King with Sam and Frodo - Mordor, bouncing on the bed at the end, plenty more... Serious scenes that came across hilarious due to oozing homosexuality.

[chad_1138]

The Twilight Saga Breaking Dawn - PART 2 - "We're the same temperature now." - YouTube

0:05 mark...

[srinivas1015]

This.

Worst movie death scene ever - YouTube

[Batman1980]

That stinky guy that travels with Kevin Costner to the fort in Dances With Wolves getting killed by arrows makes me laugh every time for some reason.

[King Troll]

"No! Not the bees! Killing me wont bring back your GOD DAMN HONEY"

[legendarymatt92]

Originally Posted by srinivas1015

This.


Worst movie death scene ever - YouTube

They re-use the same scream with each time he gets shot

[srinivas1015]

Originally Posted by legendarymatt92

They re-use the same scream with each time he gets shot

That expression at 0:06 is gold!

[chip75]

Originally Posted by cinemaphile

Speaking of Tatooine, something like: "I hate the sand. It gets everywhere, it's rough... not like here... everything is smooth" (caresses Padme's skin)

The creepy-sex-looks didn't help either.

Originally Posted by legendarymatt92

They re-use the same scream with each time he gets shot

I think if I was the girl I would have shot myself before going through that guys death throes.

[DisneyWorld]

Best death scene in HISTORY! - YouTube

[DisneyWorld]

For some reason, I always laugh when Agent Coulson dies in the Avengers.