It shouldn't make me laugh... but why does it?

[Go Fighting In The War Room]

This is sort of a opposite version of a thread I did yesterday. Basically what event in a book, movie, game or even your daily life makes you laugh, but it's not meant to.

For me, pretty much the last half of Taken, mostly where

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Liam Neeson shoots Jean Luc's wife in the arm, Kills the french prostitue auctionners, and finnaly at the end, IS ABLE TO take his gun out while, his daughter is held at knifepoint by a arabian millionaire and shoots him 10 sceonds later.

As much as I liked the movie, it just seemed to have a comic vibe when you were supposed to feel sad, so I took the movie a lot less seriously, and started laughing like crazy at the wrong time.

And as with any other thread I've done I search barred this.

 

[ghalkhsdkssakgh]

The part in watchmen (The movie) where

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a guy gets his arms slice clean off with a circular saw.

It made me laugh because it's just so batshit insane. They took the part from the comic book, thought 'this isn't violent enough' and ramped it up. Plus, I was watching this with my dad.

Many of the moments in Prototype evoked the same reaction, for being just so over the top.

 

[Deathsong17]

My dad once laughed at a story of a female model being found killed and muitilated in a dumbster, because they discovered her identity from the seirial number on her breast implants.

 

[Wait...What]

A few weeks ago some old woman pretty much somersoulted (can't spell) out of her wheelchair and landed face floor on the ground, i got some odd/disgusted looks as i bursted out laughing.

 

[olee12343]

My dad once laughed at a story of a female model being found killed and muitilated in a dumbster, because they discovered her identity from the seirial number on her breast implants.

Now THAT's funny.

 

[SenseOfTumour]

I'd have to say 'Unbreakable' the movie with Bruce Willis and Samuel L Jackson, who played a man with brittle bone disease.

I was in a cinema and there's a part where Jackson slip and falls down the subway steps, shattering just about every bone in his body, and I don't know why, but I giggled...then I laughed...then I just couldn't stop, and I knew I shouldn't, which just made it funnier, and then I felt people glaring at me in the darkness of the cinema, which of course just made it funnier, I must have laughed for a full couple of minutes, desperately trying to stop.

 

[Proteus214]

The Dark Knight

"Wanna see a magic trick?"

I let out a pretty loud guffaw when that happened the first time I saw it in the theater, but nobody else laughed so it was kind of awkward.

Also Boondock Saints...the cat.

"Is it dead?"

 

[theownerer]

The ending of the mist? I think thats what it was called. Anyway they drive for miles trying to get out of the mist filled with monsters, they run out of gas and then the main character is forced to kill everyone else in the car including a kid but doesnt have enough ammo for himself. So he kills them walks out of the car to get killed by something and the army arrives LOL.

 

[soul_rune1984]

The movie Drag Me To Hell. The whole thing, my friend and I couldn't stop laughing.

 

[Monshroud]

Some friends and I pretty much laughed and shouted happily while watching 'American Psycho' in the theatre. Especially the part with the chainsaw. We were cheering.

 

[Armored Prayer]

The part in Star Wars ep. 3 when Anakin gets caught on fire. I was the only person in the theater laughing so hard.

 

[sky14kemea]

when I was watching the latest Harry Potter, and during a dramatic, tense scene Dumbledore says "Wands out Harry." which make me make a "pfft" noise, which caused the guy next to me to start shaking with silent laughter. Which started a chain reaction and I ended up laughing my ass off, trying to muffle myself, while getting shushed by my other friend. XD that was a great day.

 

[ghalkhsdkssakgh]

The part in watchmen (The movie) where

Spoiler

a guy gets his arms slice clean off with a circular saw.

It made me laugh because it's just so batshit insane. They took the part from the comic book, thought 'this isn't violent enough' and ramped it up. Plus, I was watching this with my dad.

Many of the moments in Prototype evoked the same reaction, for being just so over the top.

This was the kind of sensationalist over-violence that made me weep when I heard they were turning one of my most beloved titles into a movie. They added more violence for violence's own sake and changed the ending to make it appeal to the same frat-boy douche-bags that Watchmen wasn't even for in the first place. It's also why I didn't see 300 when they turned into a film, I already own it in trade-paperback form and I knew that optioning meant putting underwear onto people who didn't wear underwear and adding more blood because violence and dismemberment is somehow more acceptable to the movie-going public than penises on men.

Weren't both those films directed by the same person? Whatever. I like both the comic and the film.

 

[General Ken8]

Yeah, the thing with the pencil in The Dark Knight was a good example

 

[ShotgunSmoke]

Every single horror movie. They're all freaking hilarious if you watch them with friends.

 

[Aqualung]

The Dark Knight

"Wanna see a magic trick?"

I let out a pretty loud guffaw when that happened the first time I saw it in the theater, but nobody else laughed so it was kind of awkward.

Really? I was with a great audience the first time I saw it, everyone at the same time went "OOO!" and then laughed loudly.

 

[Pielikey]

Pretty much every single "Ghost hunters" episode I've ever seen.

"OH GOD I FEEL SOMETHING ON MY CHEST"
"OH GODD IT'S SO HEAVY"

Some of the decisions they make in Whale wars are laughably stupid as well.

 

[Legion]

The Dark Knight

"Wanna see a magic trick?"

I let out a pretty loud guffaw when that happened the first time I saw it in the theater, but nobody else laughed so it was kind of awkward.

Yeah, the thing with the pencil in The Dark Knight was a good example

You mean, that wasn't supposed to be funny? I have a sicker mind than I thought...

 

[oppp7]

Pretty much anytime I play Saint's Row. Sidewalks are my roads; less cars more pedestrians.

 

[skintrade]

had to be last saturday watching Final Dest:3D... people were telling me to stop laughing because it was supposed to be shocking...

... er no shocks when it's telegraphed...