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

[cynara]

The part in ROTK that made me laugh the most (aside from the reunion-on-the-bed scene) was the coronation scene where Arwen shows up, and Aragorn goes to kiss her, and...there's tongue. Like, drunk-frat-boy tongue, not "I am the long-awaited king and this is my opulent coronation and wedding and HER DAD'S RIGHT THERE, DUDE" tongue. I almost had a coronary laughing.

[messageunit]

I was pretty impressed the first time I saw Pulp Fiction and Revolta plunged that needle into Uma's chest. But now that I've been to medical school, I bust out laughing during that scene. Let's harpoon her, collapse a lung and punch a hole in her left ventricle. That'll help that drug overdose!

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On Carnivale, when Jonesy was tarred and feathered. There's this shot of him lying there w/ the black tar all over him, and the fluffy feathers just puffing in the breeze. I don't know what the original purpose of the feathers were, but seeing them flitter around him made me laugh. Yeah, the guy was on death's door and had boiling tar shoved in his eye, but the feathers were so Tinkerbellish.

[prickle]

I find a lot of Steel Magnolias inappropriately funny. Like when Julia Roberts has her diabetic freak out in the beauty shop and she's dribbling orange juice all down her chin? Or even at the end when Sally Field is consumed with the sorrow and grief of her daughter's death, and she's just kind of hysterically babbling? Yeah, I'm chuckling the whole way through.

Also when the little boy gets electrocuted in Jurassic Park. His ear is kind of melted to the side of my head and he's doing this shuffling limp thing, and for some reason I find it funny.

I'm going to hell.

[dwanollah]

I find a lot of Steel Magnolias inappropriately funny. Like when Julia Roberts has her diabetic freak out in the beauty shop and she's dribbling orange juice all down her chin? Or even at the end when Sally Field is consumed with the sorrow and grief of her daughter's death, and she's just kind of hysterically babbling? Yeah, I'm chuckling the whole way through.

We can go to hell together for that, then. I alternated between laughing, and screaming my head off at the stupid sexism/I'VE GOT TO HAVE A BABY b.s....

[Smilla]

We can go to hell together for that, then.

Is there room for me in this bus? I've always thought the collective stupidity and hystrionics of all those characters was good for a giggle or two.

[lyrasilver]

I can't think of one of my own moments, but my friend had one that I just didn't get at all. We were watching Boondock Saints, and as soon as she saw the scene where the guy slams his hand on the table, the gun goes off, and the cat splats against the wall, she just lost it. I was kind of appalled by it, but she couldn't stop laughing for about half an hour.

[Sunnyhorse]

Bonsai and Magwitch, now you've got me laughing at poor Miss Scarlett, 'cause all I can think of is that scene in The Simpsons (it may be in the "Thirty-Two Short Films about Springfield" episode -- someone correct me, please) in which Homer falls down the ravine and yells "D'oh!" every one of the many times he hits the ground on the way down. "D'oh! D'oh! D'oh!"

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Sunnyhorse -- And now, the next time I see that scene in GWTW I'm going to imagine Scarlett going "D'oh!" with each thump!

I think I may have mentioned in the other place this scene in The Omen where my friend and I laughed, even though the rest of the movie was, to us, terrifying. The Ambassador (Gregory Peck) has finally accepted that his son, Damien is, indeed, the Antichrist:

He's moving through the house in the dead of night with the intention of getting Damien and killing him with these sacred knives that a priest gave him. It's quiet and tense, then suddenly -- The "perfect governess" who was sent by Satan to guard Damien with her life leaps out of nowhere screaming and trying to over-power the Ambassador because she knows what he's up to. The reason my friend and I, scared to death as we were, took a brief scream break to laugh, was the fact that the Evil Nanny from Hell was wearing this pair of prim, blue pajamas! There was something about those blue pajamas that undermined the horror of the scene!



Anyhow, on the way home we were talking about how scary the movie was, but when one of us would say "Blue pajamas!" we'd laugh.

[chiqui]

The scene in Troy where Brad Pitt, as Achilles, gets shot by an arrow through the ankle. The arrow is at such a weird, improbable angle, and the expression on his face so agonized I just laughed. Heels are full of tough, cartiligenous tissue, are down low, and are always moving -- Poor Brad would have had to kick his leg high in the air for Orly, who's aiming from a height, to penetrate it with one shot.