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Stealthy [Edit] [Delete] 67 replies 15:27, 3 July '09

Bonus points if the intention was for the ultimate warming/rending of the heart.

Since it inspired this thread, I will nominate the 'tragic' ass-to-ass scene from Requiem For a Dream, which for me, was the cherry on the cake of an abysmal cinematic ordeal.

In fact, thinking back - all the character fates at the end of that film are unintentionally hilarious.

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agreed about 'ass to ass'

i mentioned this scene in the 'tragic' thread, but it was actually hilarious in the cinema - tragi-hilarious - BJORK wearing big thick special needs glasses walking towards the camera in the pitch black, her glasses being the only visible thing in the whole scene.

pretty much every scene in 'ENDURING LOVE', especially the ones with the stalker played by rhys ifans standing outside daniel craig's house looking really miserable, like some hoxton hipster who has had his gak stolen or been featured in the 'don'ts' section in 'vice' - i.e. REALLY menancing

i like the scenes where he comes onto daniel craig as well, they are pretty unintentionally funny

red cliff - the typical john woo slo-mo cheesy sequences

hellatronix | 3 Jul '09, 15:32 | X
- ....
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjS6zwUx1hA
  
  from 2.21 - i'm actually not sure why it is hilarious (men stalking each other?) but it is
  
  hellatronix @hellatronix | 3 Jul '09, 15:35 | X
- ...
  
  I watched Red Cliff the other night actually. I veered wildly between "Why couldn't the Crouching Tiger guy have done this?" and "It's nice to see a Chinese historical epic done by someone other than the Crouching Tiger guy".
  
  Overall: Win. I even didn't mind that it ended in a TO BE CONTINUED.
  
  Incidentally: Have you read the Three Kingdoms? I started it the other week. It's much better than Shakespere - in that people spend more time getting chopped in half than talking. Anyway, it was good knowing a tiny bit of the background to Red Cliff, even if I'm not remotely at that point in the book yet. I kept going "Where's Lu Bu, dammit?"
  
  Stealthy @hellatronix | 3 Jul '09, 15:44 | X
  - really?
    
    didn't the COMPLETE LACK OF AMBIGUITY bother you?
    
    I kind of enjoyed it though, as usually find these big historical epic things fairly confusing. while i was watching it, i could even start to see why people become obsessed with military history and was thinking of reading the 'Art of War'. But then forgot about that when i got home. I thought they were releasing it as one cut for UK/US audiences? In China, it's been released in two parts.
    
    What is the Three Kingdoms?
    
    hellatronix @Stealthy | 3 Jul '09, 16:10 | X
    - ...
      
      The Romance of the Three Kingdoms is one of the four great works of Chinese literature. It basically tells the story of the 100 years or so where everybody fought everybody else to be The One in China. It's about 20,000 pages long. The events of Red Cliff take up maybe a 10th of it. If that.
      
      You can read it on the internet, but there's a great version put together by Moss Roberts in four volumes that you can probably pick up very reasonably if you pretend to be buying it for your school library, or something.
      
      Stealthy @hellatronix | 3 Jul '09, 16:23 | X
      - ...
        
        As for the 'complete lack of ambiguity' - think of the film as the Chinese Matter of Britain, and it becomes easier to bear.
        
        Also, there's apparently two versions of the film: A massive multi-part epic for the domestic market, and a truncated Hollywood version for us plebs that's apparently full of holes and doesn't really do the tale justice.
        
        I have no idea which one I watched, but it was cool, anyway.
        
        Stealthy @Stealthy | 3 Jul '09, 16:27 | X
Re: ass-to-ass

There must be some kind of alternate cut/mashup of this where that trumped-up, grandiose score is replaced with circus marching music (all slide whistles and honk-honks and hee-haws).

jonny_rat | 3 Jul '09, 15:33 | X
- Actually
  
  the music in this would be nearly perfect
  
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8132199.stm
  
  jonny_rat @jonny_rat | 3 Jul '09, 19:50 | X
  - This would work better
    
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qf9qi8Q1tg
    
    marckee @jonny_rat | 3 Jul '09, 20:12 | X
    - I think we're on to something here
      
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsMVEp3XtQQ
      
      jonny_rat @marckee | 3 Jul '09, 20:14 | X
      - Can someone with video skills do these please?
        
        and this one too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFlmEznsr2w
        
        marckee @jonny_rat | 3 Jul '09, 20:32 | X
Blair Witch snotty nose bit

Lucien | 3 Jul '09, 15:33 | X
the entirety of this film

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104569/

wrightylew | 3 Jul '09, 15:34 | X
I watched Gran Torino last night

Nominating:

- the entire performance of 'Tao'.
- unbelievable bit at the end where you realise that Clint Eastwood is singing the soundtrack as it fades out.

tomatron | 3 Jul '09, 15:35 | X
- Vader's "Nooooooooooooooo!" in the most recent Star Wars
  
  like the actors' roar from Blackadder.
  
  Balonz @tomatron | 3 Jul '09, 15:36 | X
  - Which leads us back to the original and best:
    
    the dead ewok bit in Return of the Jedi. Ha ha, stitch that!
    
    jonny_rat @Balonz | 3 Jul '09, 15:41 | X
- Every time Clint grunted or groaned made me chuckle.
  
  MrSteveBob @tomatron | 3 Jul '09, 15:40 | X
  - Some of it was hilarious
    
    "Ever come across a guy who you know you shouldn't have f*cked with? Well, that guy's me."
    
    Says some creaky 80 year old with his trousers up at his nips.
    
    tomatron @MrSteveBob | 3 Jul '09, 15:44 | X
- I couldnt believe it was him singing.
  
  All the acting by the Mungs was gash.
  
  scutterbucket @tomatron | 3 Jul '09, 22:38 | X
the Wicker Man remake

pretty much all of it.

pip_ | 3 Jul '09, 15:37 | X
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6i2WRreARo
  
  Tillance @pip_ | 3 Jul '09, 17:26 | X
FLYING FUCKING PIRANHAS

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082910/

attack of the beast creatures
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwGO5EWP7y0

or do you mean actual proper grown up movies, in which sorry, i cant help you

doodthatkicksarse | 3 Jul '09, 15:37 | X
The ending of Pay It Forward

Ed Harris falling out of the window in The Hours
Bruce Willis crying in Armageddeon - in fact, all of Armagddeon

charliepanayi | 3 Jul '09, 15:37 | X
not a film but in that moody Robocop series one scene

had Murphy sitting there sans helmet blubbing like a spurned Sharon at the end of a party

Jack_il_biscotto | 3 Jul '09, 15:38 | X
- Robocop flying at the end of Robocop 3!
  
  Had me in stitches
  
  charliepanayi @Jack_il_biscotto | 3 Jul '09, 15:45 | X
There's a bit in the sequel to Anaconda where someone fly kicks a cobra

The disregard for the laws of physics made me laugh for ten minutes

Lucien | 3 Jul '09, 15:41 | X
^ WINNER

tomatron @wishpig | 3 Jul '09, 16:16 | X
I really want to see that film again

millionaire @wishpig | 3 Jul '09, 17:38 | X
The Untouchables:

Man leaves building

Kid: Hey mister, you forgot your briefcase!

*Bomb explodes from said briefcase, killing chils and destroying building*

olegrich | 3 Jul '09, 15:47 | X
- that entire film is an absolute car crash of hilarity
  
  ie it's a bit shit. Who was the continuity guy in that film, a monkey?
  
  Sean Connery's shirt is buttoned up
  No wait it isn't
  Oh ok it is again
  Now he's facing the opposite way
  Oh wait he's back again
  
  mug_mug_mug @olegrich | 4 Jul '09, 02:08 | X
- This bit of Good Will Hunting
  
  best scene from a film to act out ever
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uY6k50qB4Ys
  
  mug_mug_mug @olegrich | 4 Jul '09, 02:10 | X
this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLvGMVlOy0A

i never seen the film,but i think its funny but i really shouldnt.i think its the awkwardness

skellywager | 3 Jul '09, 15:51 | X
- i could be going to hell for laughing at this.
  
  skellywager @skellywager | 3 Jul '09, 15:53 | X
  - oh, man
    
    this scene just made me well up
    
    it should be funny, but it isn't...
    
    hellatronix @skellywager | 3 Jul '09, 16:03 | X
    - ...
      
      How did you not laugh? God, it's structured exactly like the best comedy routines...
      
      "Would you ever fuck me?"
      "No... I jerk off instead!"
      BA DUM TSH!
      
      Stealthy @hellatronix | 3 Jul '09, 16:14 | X
      - but what i think he's doing is making something that should be funny tragic
        
        'son, i love you because i only jerk off over you' as in 'son, i wouldn't bumrape you' is funny because it sounds ridiculous, but in the context of the film the statement actually redeems the character (plus the film has the happiest scene ever at the end showing that the kid remains undisturbed despite his dad's childbumrape tendencies)
        
        it's easy to make something tragic funny - like when people do those massive ridiculous wails in films (see the end of The Mist) because they've killed their whole entire family when the US Army was just around the corner and could have saved them from the aliens, etc
        
        hellatronix @Stealthy | 3 Jul '09, 16:21 | X
        
        ...
        
        Now see, that bit was ACTUALLY tragic.
        
        Stealthy @hellatronix | 3 Jul '09, 16:29 | X
      - i think if i had seen the film it would be heartbreaking but i had only seen this scene out of context of the rest of the film
        
        skellywager @Stealthy | 3 Jul '09, 16:59 | X
- I was going to say that! Totally hilarious!
  
  Your paedo-dad won't even fuck you. Merked.
  
  eschaton @skellywager | 3 Jul '09, 16:13 | X
- You do realise it's meant to be funny, don't you?
  
  MrSteveBob @skellywager | 3 Jul '09, 16:15 | X
  - ^
    
    thewarn @MrSteveBob | 3 Jul '09, 22:28 | X
"Let The Lord Of The Black Land Come Forth"

Read in an accent equal parts Alan Partridge, Pee Wee Herman & Ronan Keating

Gussie | 3 Jul '09, 15:55 | X
Absolutely definitely all of this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6i2WRreARo

HOWDITGEBURNEDHOWDITGEBURNEDHOWDITGETBURRRNED

00:37 :')

art_vandelay | 3 Jul '09, 16:04 | X
- ...
  
  "NOT THE BEES!"
  
  How have I never seen this film?
  
  Stealthy @art_vandelay | 3 Jul '09, 16:08 | X
  - "MY EYES! MY EYES!"
    
    worst acting ever.
    
    shucks @Stealthy | 3 Jul '09, 16:20 | X
Keanu Reeves acting throughtout the entirety of that film is laughable.

Lo-Pan @DisintegratedMind | 3 Jul '09, 16:42 | X
- ...
  
  If you can say that about his acting in that film, I think you have to say it about all Pacino's films. HOO-AHHH!
  
  Stealthy @DisintegratedMind | 3 Jul '09, 17:02 | X
- Jaws The Revenge
  
  When the papier mache shark eats the plane, yet fails to eat Michael Caine...!
  Also Jaws 2, I think there's a bit about two thirds in when the rubber shark has tipped over the boats and eaten a couple of them, one of the girls randomly starts screaming in this banshee howl, it's one of those great WTF!!?! moments ever...
  Oh alright, all the bits in Jaws 3 that were in 3d but now look SHIT.
  
  amyblue | 3 Jul '09, 16:54 | X
  - The bit in jaws 3 where the shark smashes trhoguh the aquarium?
    
    Incredible...
    
    unfamiliar @amyblue | 3 Jul '09, 17:19 | X
    - in jaws 4
      
      check out Caine's amazing "OH SHIT!" when the shark is chomping down on his plane, yet not him. amaaaazing!
      
      worrier1 @unfamiliar | 3 Jul '09, 18:27 | X
- old woman being killed by a model stork falling off a lorry
  
  in Amityville
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaNZ86gB3-8
  
  shucks | 3 Jul '09, 17:01 | X
- Mr Holland's Opus
  
  with Richard Dreyfus singing that Beautiful Boy song to his deaf son, complete with elaborate sign language. Easily one of the most cringe-worthy things I've ever had the pleasure to see.
  
  Also worth of note is the sex scene in Showgirls, you know which one I mean. And Keanu Reeves in The Matrix, being all stealthy around the office cubicles.
  
  Acquiescence | 3 Jul '09, 17:04 | X
  - What is it with Keanu?
    
    He's a truly terrible actor yet i am a huge fan!
    
    Lo-Pan @Acquiescence | 3 Jul '09, 17:05 | X
  - ...
    
    That and the titular opus is a massive hunk of mature Cheddar. And it appears that he spent forty years writing a four minute tune - that sounds like a demo-song off a mid-range Yamaha keyboard.
    
    Poor show, Holland.
    
    Stealthy @Acquiescence | 3 Jul '09, 17:13 | X
- also: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
  
  wrightylew | 3 Jul '09, 17:43 | X
- All of the Core
  
  He invented a new alloy called Unobtainium which is indestructable
  Especially in the board room of the worlds smartest people...
  Scientist - we'll go to Cairo
  Army dude - That's in Egypt
  Some other guy - yes it is
  Also how he demonstrates what will happen when the core stops spinning using a peach, an aerosol can and a lighter...
  "it will literally cook the earth"
  Everyone looks confused
  *literallty cooks the peach with lit aerosol*
  Everyone looks shocked.
  
  H_C_F | 3 Jul '09, 20:22 | X
- All of 'Riding the Bus with My Sister'.
  
  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0420128/
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgEiPfGPVVY
  
  poptimusgrime | 3 Jul '09, 22:38 | X
- You really shouldn't laugh at this kind of stuff
  
  but casting my mind back many years to when I was dumb enough to go and watch a Michael Moore film, there was a scene in Fahrenheit 9/11 where a recently-bereaved and barely-literate mother stumbles over the last banal letter home from her now-dead son. I lol'd.
  
  Amazing_Taste | 3 Jul '09, 22:41 | X
- I really cant decide whether this fits here:
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hkdc-xAQ64
  
  Alex_b | 4 Jul '09, 00:12 | X
- i dont think the shout of 'Freebird' in Cars
  
  was supposed to be as funny as i found it
  
  Jordan_229_2 | 4 Jul '09, 01:12 | X
  - The Green Mile is a celluloid atrocity,
    
    but its priceless for its 2 moments of hilarity: the scene where Hanks and co are in the Warden's bedroom with his dying wife and the supernatural act commited causes the set to shake and wobble, and Gary Pepper crying his little eyes out at the climax. I was crying too..but not for the same reasons as him/everyone else. XD
    
    Bundoz @Jordan_229_2 | 4 Jul '09, 13:05 | X
    - TAKEN
      
      all of it
      
      dirdyboy @Bundoz | 4 Jul '09, 16:29 | X

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