I know I shouldn't laugh, but...

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In The Hulk, the big green mess is cornered on a steep street in San Francisco. The heroine walks down the street sloooooowly towards him, her eyes welling up with tears, and.... a wind machine blows her hair up around her face. Oh. My. Stars. How I laughed! It was like a Pantene commercial in the middle of an action film!

[Shalamar]

Funnily enough, that was the one scene in Apt Pupil that didn't make me snicker. The look on the kid's face was "Oh, shit, I just Sorcerer's Apprenticed a freakin' Nazi and I don't know how to shut him off."

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doctornemesis said:

The scene in Star Wars: Attack of the Clones where Yoda battles Christopher Lee's character with a light sabre is one of the funniest things I've ever seen. However, given that the writer and director was George Lucas, I'm not certain it was supposed to be funny.

Oh man, same here. All I could focus on was how clearly fake it all was. (CGI vs. stunt double.) And I know it was supposed to be so awesome to see Yoda use a lightsaber, but it just looked silly. Plus, I thought it was unnecessary -- to me, Yoda should always be like the slightly batty muppet he was in Empire Strikes Back, kinda peaceful and Ghandi-like. I don't need to watch him fight anyone to understand how powerful he is. In other words, George Lucas, just because you can do something, doesn't mean you should.

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I can think of two dramas from start to finish where I can't keep a straight face because I start laughing immediately: Gardens of Stone because of the overly dramatic music and the overracting by its cast, this isn't a movie to laugh at but I laugh nevertheless. The other movie is The Bodyguard (nuff said!).

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I laughed my way through Sin City. I really did not know what the movie was about before I went to see it, so I was totally unprepared for the overacting, the posing, the faux 50s voice overs, etc. For the first forty-five minutes-ish of the movie, I was the only one laughing. After that I was joined by a scattered group of people who (after getting over the initial shock of so much sex and violence [how can so much sex and violence be so boring anyhow?]) started partaking in the enjoyment of cheese.

[emersende]

This evening my parents are watching War of the Worlds. My dad grew up in Bayonne, NJ, so when Tom Cruise and family are fleeing the city, which is blowing up behind them, both my parents yelled together, "The Bayonne Bridge!" and started laughing. I doubt that was the response that Spielburg was going for.

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I do alot of inappropriate laughing in films. To wit...

*I always LOL at Christopher Walken in At Close Range. Especially when Sean Penn has a gun on him and Walken is all "You want me to say I love ya? I love ya. OK?" I'm not sure why but he just tickles my funny bone.

*Another menacing character that made me laugh was Eric Roberts as Kim Basinger's oily bohunk mobster husband in Final Analysis.

*Jodie Foster in Nell never fails to elicit a chuckle out of me either. I find myself snickering at her heartfelt courtroom speech. Phil Harman's Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer keeps coming to mind.

*The end of the Jack Nicholson/Jessica Lange version of A Postman Always Rings Twice made me guffaw. One second Jack and Jessica are sucking face as he's driving and the next second she's flying out the car.

*Everytime Claire Danes attempts to cry on film I find myself giggling. She has the worst crying face I've ever seen.

I'm sure I'll think of more later (because I do this ALL the time) but those are the film moments that first come to mind.

[glitterbug]

I watched The Way We Were for the first time today. I didn't exactly laugh out loud, but there were many amusing moments, in particular Barbra's strangely enormous hair, and basically the fact that she kept saying "I know I'm attractive" - untrue at the best of times, but honestly, who's attractive next to Robert Redford in his heyday?? Even Lois Chiles ewas out-prettied at times. Count me in for a renewed RR-crush.

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bonsai said:

There's a scene in An Apt Pupil after Brad Renfro uncovers Ian McKellan's Nazi past. The kid manipulates McKellan into reminiscing over and then celebrating his days as a Nazi. With the kid goading him on he starts goose-stepping in place with this deranged look on his face, doing (if I remember right) the Nazi salute.

I think the scene was meant to be horrifying but all I could think was "Ian McKellan, you have just made a fool out of yourself and I don't know if I'll ever be able to take you seriously again..."

[singing] Don’t be stupid, be a smarty, come and join the Nazi Party. [/singing]

[pariswhitney]

I love Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet. But I always get snickering at the part where the rapier flies through the air and kills Claudius, and you see it all from the perspective of the rapier. Also, after Hamlet dies, and they pick him up to carry him off, the way his head flops back and his arms stick out make me laugh uncontrollably.

I am going to Hell.