Favorite Unintentional Comedy Film Moments
Bundy chasing a girl through the woods in his white tight shorts and slap happy grin in Ted Bundy (2002). (some British magazine actually voted this as one of the sickest movie moments – makes me laugh every time)
Cinema scene in Christiane F. (with dramatic close-up of druggie’s eyes)
I don’t find what’s so hilarious about Luke finding out his father is the intergalactic equivalent of Vlad the Impaler…seems like a pretty reasonable reaction to me, and Mark Hamill was really good as Luke Skywalker.
Besides, I was mad keen about the “Star Wars” saga as a child, and it always gave me a huge buzz knowing that the fellow who plays Luke in the films has my first name. I just wish they still played these at the cinema in the original format.
“Plan 9 From Outer Space”, anyone? “Stupid, stupid, STUPID!” It’s pretty hard to go past this as the worst movie of all time. At the very least it’s definitely way up there…or is that down there? Great unintentional hilarity.
“Robot Monster”…“RO-man!” Also, the gorilla in the deep sea diving helmet and his computer that blows bubbles…and the visible arm pushing the model ship around the air…actually, I found that last one so terrible I was aghast, it was so tragic. Still, it’s a damn fine way to spend an evening at the cinema.
The “brain” scene in Hannibal
The whole scene with Chris Tucker’s Bellmont and Sam Jackson’s “O.D.” in Jackie Brown…although probably considered intentionally funny it builds towards something very serious and your smile turns to a straight face in a minute. The whole encounter is hilarious though and IMO one of Tarantino’s best scenes.
Or maybe it’s supposed to be funny?
all of Showgirls, with a particular mention of “I’m erect. Why aren’t you erect?” and “I love doggie chow!” “I love doggie chow too!”
ARI- i was going to mention that scene! classic
Pitt speaking Jamacian was the funniest part of that film
haha his Jamaican accent was hilarious! not bad though
I don’t know the title, but there is a (somewhat recent) film with “Frodo Baggins” playing a streetwise gangbanger in the U.K. who joins in riots to defend the honor of his favorite rugby team. This was on in the middle of the night once when I couldn’t sleep and I had to keep watching to see if it could get any worse. Unbelievably, it did.
Go back to the shire, Frodo, your street cred is hysterically bad.
Green Street Hooligans
Ari: I have no clue if that is supposed to be funny, but it is hahaha
The scene in THE HAPPENING when that guy at the zoo gets his arms ripped off. I found it so absurd I was laughing out loud.
Unintentional comedy in bad movies, that’s too easy, they’re dime a dozen. I prefer unintentional comedy in deeply serious, profound, severely rigorous art films, some of those can be a real hoot to watch, when the pretentiousness is off the charts.
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Not sure it’s a “deeply serious, profound, severely rigorous art films” but that is how I felt watching THE WACKNESS. Couldn’t stand that movie.
Truman: I laughed out loud when I read that YOU laughed out loud about that tiger scene in “The Happening!”
I think I was just too stunned by the silliness of it all. Sad part is, nowadays, people probably WOULD just stand there filming it on their mobile phones, instead of acting like a normal human would (panic, get help, et cetera).
Truman: Zooey Deschanel realising how the neurotoxin works, the bug eyes she makes watching the news on television, her awful non-acting, deserves its own Razzie. Dammit, is acting REALLY so difficult?
Scott: the doggie chow line is pretty damn absurd, but I think it’s intentionally twisted, and doggie chow really ain’t that bad. When I was a child, my dogs passed away when I was very young. A whole heap of milk doggie biscuits were left over, and they were scrum-diddly-icious! Mind you, if Nomi Malone was eating Chum or Pal, well, that’s just rank.
Personally, Scott, I’d go with the following not-so-golden moments:
Nomi squirting sauce onto her fries like she’s re-enacting the shower scene from “Psycho”…
The doofus who gets Nomi’s menstrual blood on his fingers (“That’s alright, I got towels!”).
(If this had been a French movie, the guy wouldn’t have flinched and would’ve went straight down on her).
Talk about a career killer: poor Elizabeth Berkley, I liked her so much in “Saved By The Bell”, too. It’s rather strange Liz would go from playing hyper-feminist and eco-defender Jessie Spano…
to Vegas showgirl wannabe Nomi Malone…
…but that’s why they call it “acting”.
The fox turning around, saying “Chaos Reigns!” in “Antichrist” pushes that film from borderline nuttiness into parody. A case of a ‘serious’ film getting ridiculous.
“Night of the Generals”: Peter O’Toole as Nazi general Tanz. He plays a nutjob and sexual freak, but still, the party scene where he leans stiffly towards Omar Sharif’s general and says: “Do you vear….perfume…?” is enough to make you weep each time (The film is full of ripe moments.)
Edward D. Wood: everyone always quotes “Plan 9” but the entire opening ‘dialogue’ in “Orgy of the Dead” is always good for heaving laughter.
No one uttered the line “I’m so FRIGHTENED” with less sincerity and acting ability than Pat Barringer, and Criswell’s drunken blatherings off a cue card are classic moments.
Speaking of Frodo Baggins, When he was stabbed the second time in F.O.T.R.’s many moments :D The look on his face is priceless and makes for a great unintentional LOL! :D I thought to myself " Oh Frodo…cmon!!…get the hell out of the way and how are you still alive!?"
Just seeing Elijah Wood making like an elf and the word “Frodo” in bus shelters across my city made me laugh and ask “What’s a Frodo?” And no, I didn’t bother with these films. People look at me like I’m crazy when I say I’ve never seen any of the “L.O.T.R.” films. Hey, I’ve done the 1980s already…“Neverending Story”…“Labyrinth”…and besides, I could name many classic films most people I meet at cinemas haven’t even HEARD about, thank you very much.
And you know you’re in trouble when a child like Atreyu looks more manly than adult Elijah…
Dammit, am I glad I didn’t grow up to look this this below…
“Unintentional comedy in bad movies, that’s too easy, they’re dime a dozen. I prefer unintentional comedy in deeply serious, profound, severely rigorous art films, some of those can be a real hoot to watch, when the pretentiousness is off the charts.”
Ah yes, but i tend to find art movies boring when they are bad rather than funny. I do find Hollywood dramas ala Beautiful Mind unintentionally funny though.
As for The Happening, that was a riot, but i knew it was going to be after seeing the trailer with Marky Mark looking straight into the camera with his eyes darting everywhere, trying to look nervous. LOL just thinking about how bad the trailer was let alone the film.
But can it match the hilarity of Nic Cage in The Wicker Man? “KILLING ME WON’T BRING BACK YOUR GODDAMN HONEY”
Joks, that’s what I call Mark Smallturd’s (ha, I just made that up, ain’t I clever?) “deer in headlights” look. The aptly named ZOO-ey borrows it several times during the same film.
Gotta love that woman who stabs herself with a hairpin the size of a telephone pole. Because, you know, hairpins that you could use to kill an elephant are “en vogue” these days.
Films about deadly plants used to be really imaginative and entertaining, until that M. Night Whamalamb stuck his oar into the water.
My fave is in Kubrick’s Paths of Glory when Kirk Douglass tries to rally his troops in the trench by repeating, “Lets give it another try!”, then blowing his whistle only to have more soldiers retreat back into the trench. Cracks me up everytime.
Mark: I made reference to the LOTR movie ONLY for that one scene…the rest of the trilogy is serious business IMO. Neverending story and Labyrynth they ARE MOST DEF. NOT! ;)
The ending of The Crucible is just bad camera/editing work. If you know what happens at the end of the play/film, you’ll know what I’m talking about. Couldn’t help but giggle at such a serious moment.
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J.lo in “Gigli” trying to talk her way out of getting killed by Pacino’s over the top gangster, if I was a real life gangster she would have been in a duffel bag in 10 minutes.
In Boom! when Elizabeth Taylor belts out “What?” like she is deeply confused.
This one is downright hilarious.
Uli³Cain
Okay, I got two of these, they make me crack up every single time I happen to watch the movies, and if I know the movie is on I will try to make sure I catch the moments.
1) Luke to Darth Vader in Empire Strikes Back, “No, that’s impossible.”
2) David Caruso to Nicolas Cage in Kiss of Death, “What did you do? What did you do? What the fuck did you do?”