10 unintentionally hillarious scenes

In full disclosure, some people may not find all of these scenes to be funny. But everyone has to admit that there’s a certain way you can see them and chuckle or at least understand why someone would, either out of pure awkwardness or because your mind sees the funny side of life. Admittedly some of these scenes are more weird than funny, but they all seem misplaced or delivered out of character. In better words, they don’t fit with the general aesthetic of the film or are just badly acted. If you haven’t noticed them that’s fine, not everyone will have, but you will never be able to watch these movies without noticing them from now on.

Whether it be the delivery from an actor, the dialogue or a combination of a multitude of reasons, these next scenes fail to be serious and instead are kind of ridiculous.

10.The Mummy in awful CGI.

The early 2000s weren’t the best time in the life of computer-generated imagery. Just like most new gimmicks, when they’re new and cool everyone wants one but most of the times they can’t afford one. CGI was used often in modestly priced movies with bad results, however, “The Mummy Returns” cost a whopping ninety-eight million dollars and had no excuse for such bad results. Of course, the scene most notorious for this is the first appearance of the Scorpion King played by non-other than Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson himself.

Such bad rendered images will be used in film school as “what-not-to-do” examples. The first “Mummy” also featured some badly made sequences but it didn’t rely as heavily on CGI as the second. Despite this, in terms of box office returns, all three movies picked up where the last left, all in all making the trilogy quite successful. They were fun, but a few of the CGI-filled sequences were disastrous.

9.Man of steel pods

Let’s get it out there, these pods could not look any more like male genitalia. You can call a person childish for noticing but the fact remains, they look way to… phallic. This caused a stir of laughter over the internet and even made it to Zach Snyder’s Twitter feed. The director was chirpy and happy to respond to a tweet by a following fan about the matter.

General Zodd (Michael Shannon) and a group of his trusty followers are being trialled for their attempts to commit treason. The moment gets evermore heated as Zodd tries to yell his point to the judges, one by one the mutinous troupe are forced into capsules: an intense moment indeed. An icy substance covers them individually and turns into a metal-like material. The hilarity occurs when we cut to a long shot of the pods taking off and…. yes, they are unfortunately shaped.

8. Anything Tom Hanks says in Cloud Atlas.

Cloud Atlas was an “OK” film. It is difficult to cram a five hundred and fifty-four-page book into a movie, even one that lasts nearly three hours. Ultimately, even though the book was a huge success, the motion picture was met with mixed reviews.

Tom Hanks has a few roles in this one in this epic which takes place in several timelines, with different roles portrayed by the same actors in each one. It may sound confusing but it isn’t really. In one of the futuristic segments, Zachary (Hanks) lives a dystopian future where humanity is separated into cannibals and non-cannibals while a technically advanced third group watches over from obscurity. It is quite a harrowing situation and contains some strong visuals, painting a sort-of law of the jungle, with one tribe celebrating murder and the other being the embodiment of human drama.

The linguistic imagination is brave, to say the least, regardless of if it is an accurate prediction or not. Zachary’s tribe speaks a simplified variation of English, a combination of slang words and some-what unintelligible version oral traditions, often repeating some of the words twice in a sentence which honestly sound a little childish. It is, in contrast, to laugh at this point but to tell you the “true-true”, it’s quite funny…

7.Everything (not) happening, in "The Happening"

It isn’t possible to choose just one scene, so the whole movie is on the list! A lot has been said about this one and yet it couldn’t be stressed enough, The Happening is just ridiculous from beginning to end. The deaths are outrageous and unnecessary, the dialogue is appalling and the delivery is simply strange. In no way can a viewer feel the distress and fear the characters feel at any point in this hilarious horror film since most of the time the reaction would be “did he just say that?”, or “did that just happen?”, or simply “What? Why?”.

Whalberg’s delivery is so dead-pan and awkward. Joye Deschanel only has one look, a wide-eyed stressed look that just screams “get me out of this movie”. It is a lot of things but a snooze-fest it is not! It has surpassed the realms of horror and drifted into comedy. It is just so bad it’s good!

6. Skyfall- Silva and Bond’s moment?

Almost an hour into the third instalment of the Daniel Craig era of James Bond, the viewer is introduced to the main antagonist, the former MI6 agent turned-rogue, the notorious Silva (Javier Bardem).

When Craig’s James Bond is captured by the brilliant, ruthless and highly devoted villain they have what one can only describe as “a moment”. Silva starts stroking Bond’s leg and neck and awkwardly stares into his eyes. The notorious ladies-man looks like he is enjoying the attention.

This is supposed to be a revealing moment where the good guy and bad guy size each other up mano-a-mano. However, instead of a snappy exchange and the clash of characters Mr Bond is a custom to, we get a highly sexual moment. It is an elephant in the room situation when watching it since everyone can see what is going on and nobody really addresses it. It is just weirdly funny to watch and out of character for a Bond movie. It probably doesn’t help that both actors are really selling the flirtatious vibes since Daniel Craig has done a great job as an homme-fatale superspy and Javier Bardem has long proven that sensual is his middle name.

Both writer John Logan and Daniel Craig denied the claim that Bond is bisexual, while on the other hand, Bardem claims that Silva’s sexuality is up to the viewer’s reading.

5. Talia al ghoul’s death.

In an otherwise good Batman movie, probably the weakest of the Dark Knight trilogy, we get one of the worst ever death scenes in a “AAA” production.

Academy Award winner Marion Cotillard, is a very good actress, to say the least. In the Dark Knight Rises, she takes the role of the sleeping-agent antagonist, who infiltrates her way into Wayne Enterprises and Bruce’s heart, all to perform her illustrious plan to destroy both Gotham and the “bat”.

But messing with Batman’s city you reach an inevitable end and when he delivers “his coup de grace”, this villain has a few last words in her. She says her piece and dies gracefully, but minus the grace. This death scene is so dramatic and sudden it reminds me of a Mexican soap opera, it almost looks like she falls into a really deep sleep unexpectedly. It is bad, especially given the weight of this pivotal scene.

4. Not the bees!

This notorious Nick Cage moment, the climax of the 2006 remake of the horror film “The Wickerman”, came around about the same time the former oscar winner’s career took a turn towards ”straight to DVD” avenue. This “gem” of a scene is supposed to be scary, but the protagonist seems to opt-in describing what the viewer is watching, or thinking. The actual quote he screams as the contraption on his head is filling with bees verbatim is as such:

“OH, NO, NOT THE BEES! NOT THE BEES! AAAAAHHHHH! OH, THEY’RE IN MY EYES!”

Yes, it’s as bad as it sounds, the scene is over-acted and contains awfully terrible dialogue. It is Tommy Wiseau level of bad, a league of its own and it is utterly hilarious.

3. “You knew Marcus Aurelius?”

This is a little guilty pleasure. On the eve of battle and Russel Crowe’s Maximus is discussing with slaver Proximo (Oliver Reed). Once a gladiator himself now a free man, Proximo decides to pass on his lights to hot-shot arena star Maximus. Describing a heartfelt story of his encounter with the former Emperor Marcus Aurelius and the day he was declared no longer a slave, he is abruptly interrupted by Maximus’ patronising rebuke:

“You knew Marcus Aurelius?”

Only to reply annoyed:

“I didn’t say I knew him, I said he touched me on the shoulder once”

It is something about Crowe’s laughter and his smooth shut-down attitude which is just funny. The strange thing is that this is quite a powerful scene and it is quite well-acted. Maybe it is the nature of the dialogue or the forced laughter while Maximus words his rebuttal, or that this is a school-yard level of argument by two grown men.

2. Cough syrup for Batman

The Dark Knight trilogy was one of the greatest adaptations of any comic-book superhero on the big screen and it started strong with Batman Begins. The modern and gritty aesthetic that Nolan brought to the table gave us some intense sequences as Batman attacks the Mafia state crime syndicate which has taken over the city by infiltrating its infrastructure.

The masked vigilante follows the clues and finds himself raiding and stopping a drug smuggling operation at Gotham’s harbour, leaving the perps behind for the police. One, however, he let go only to interrogate later for himself. He follows him to a dark alley where he captures him and has him hang upside down five or six floors above ground. Suspended there, Batman asks the corrupt Det Flass a question about the drugs, only for the latter to reply he doesn’t know. After asking the same question again Flass insists he doesn’t know and he swears to the big man above only to be met with the epically hilarious reply:

“SWEAR TO ME!!”

Bale’s bat-voice was ridiculous enough without him having to scream and this is the first time in the film a viewer would really notice it. An intense scene, not ruined but when revisited utterly hilarious.

1.The hungry-hungry orc…

The second part of the epic fantasy trilogy begins with two of our little hobbit friends Merry and Pippin, in captivity under the ruthless orcs and Uruk-Hai. For the most part of the first hour, the film tries really hard to prove to us that orcs are aggressive brutes, a clear incarnation of criminal behaviour and their moral compass points south at all times. For the most part, it succeeds, orcs have no humanity left in them and they laugh at the torture of innocents. Thankfully for Merry and Pippin, the Uruks are ordered by Saruman to keep them alive and unharmed. The opposing orcs though, answer to Sauron alone which is the main reason the following squabble ensues. The orcs want to eat the two hobbits but the Uruks want to keep to their master’s orders.

An uncivilized conversation begins amongst the ranks when the instigators of this argument start complaining about the lack of food. It’s then escalated when one of the orcs shouts in a very nasal way “Yeah! Why can’t we have some meat?”. The delivery is just hilarious.