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

[chiqui]

I caught part of Burlesque the other night, and there's a scene where Christina Aguilera is singing an emotional torch song in a long, green form-fitting dress that unfortunately emphasies her large-in-proportion hips and thighs, as she emotes, waves her arms and presses her hands to her abdomen. I had to giggle because she looks like she's suffering from appendicitis!

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The family in this documentary are a tragic embarrassment for every American, but man does this scene crack me up! It's a sad day when CPS takes your baby and you can't even eat a steak and cheese fajita with steak and cheese only that turns into a fiesta.

[Neurochick]

Jun 22, 2011 2:26:33 GMT -4 kostgard said:

I gotta second Meg Ryan's death in "City of Angels." The thing that killed me was that when she opened her eyes, she was still far enough away from the truck to avoid it. She could have steered into the bushes, hell she could have just leaned over and fallen off the bike. But instead she just went sailing straight into the truck while staring right at it.

Half the people in the audience were giggling when I saw it in the theater.

I have to third this because when I was watching this on HBO, my mom called me, she was watching it too and she said, "What's with this stupid woman?"

Another thing that makes me laugh is in "Angel Eyes." This truck plows into a little car and not only doesn't the driver of the car get killed, he's not even injured. But I guess that's because the driver was played by Jim Caviezial and he did play Jesus Christ.

[mmmkrimpets]

If anyone else out there has seen this movie, please tell me that I am not alone, but the love scene in the movie

I Am Love

with Tilda Swinton.

[kateln]

Oct 28, 2011 12:21:21 GMT -4 @highondegrassi said:

The family in this documentary are a tragic embarrassment for every American, but man does this scene crack me up! It's a sad day when CPS takes your baby and you can't even eat a steak and cheese fajita with steak and cheese only that turns into a fiesta.

You know, I was looking for something terrifying to watch on Halloween...

[Chice]

Jun 21, 2011 13:49:27 GMT -4 chiqui said:

Prince of Persia was not a great movie (how could it be?) but Jake Gyllenhaal's shmoopy faces and lank floppy hair made it worse. I was in giggles every time he had a close-up.

That whole movie was hilarious thanks to Jake miscast, I felt so bad for the actress, she was actually wonderful in her role.

I actually love the Matrix and her sequels, but Trinity's death sequence had me shaking with uncontrollable laughter. At first it was sad, but then it went on and on and on and on and got funnier and funnier the longer it took for her to croak.

[chiqui]

Nice to see this thread get booted to the top! Anyone got any more?

[chiqui]

Resurrecting again, because I have a giggle moment that I need further clarification on.

I watched an old Steve Reeves sword-and-sandal epic the other night (my boyfriend chose it because it was "historical") about the rivalry of Romulus and Remus, the founders of Rome. It was called Battle of the Titans and was made approximately 1962. One thing that struck me, and that I could not help giggling at, was the extreme...shortness... of the mens' costumes. As in their peasant tunics and armored doublets just barely covered their butts, revealing trim yet meaty manly thighs. That had to be a homoerotic element thrown in by the costume designer right? Surely in ancient Rome tunics were not THAT short? I have a vague memory of the same in other 1960s Italian historicals, where it was played straight -- sorry -- ignoring the gay subtext and no one blinked an eye.

Since I don't watch a lot of recent ancient Greek/Rome/Etruscan/whatever movies, are the mens' costumes similarly short these days? I'm trying to figure out if the exposure was in fact historically authentic, or a decision by the producer.

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I had a similar reaction to the men's costumes in 300. David Wenham was supposed to be giving this great stirring speech and all I could think was "He's not wearing any pants! NONE OF THEM ARE WEARING PANTS!" That was my main takeaway from that movie: the Spartan men not wearing pants.

[mrpeanut]

Aug 19, 2016 13:12:37 GMT -4 @roisin54 said:

I had a similar reaction to the men's costumes in 300. David Wenham was supposed to be giving this great stirring speech and all I could think was "He's not wearing any pants! NONE OF THEM ARE WEARING PANTS!" That was my main takeaway from that movie: the Spartan men not wearing pants.

It was just about the only redeeming element so that seems appropriate.