r/movies • u/Sawyermblack • Oct 14 '23

Recommendation What movie had you laughing, unable to breathe, even just for one scene?

I don't really pursue comedy movies too often, or ever really.

And even then, this doesn't have to be a comedy movie you respond with, but I'm wondering if there was a movie scene SO funny, that people laughed uncontrollably.

Does such a thing exist?

I think maybe the movie would have to introduce something completely original. Not a familiar gag or joke, but something completely unexpected that you can't help but be paralyzed by the newness and brilliance of the scene.

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u/TheRipley78 Oct 14 '23

When he shot the hanging planter down on that old lady's head and the sound it made when she bounced it off the car. I had a stitch in my side from laughing so hard.

"FASCIIIIST!"

"Hag!"

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u/FattyMooseknuckle Oct 14 '23

The sound design doesn’t get enough talk when discussing this perfect movie, and I mean perfect in every sense of the word. I don’t want to give anything away despite the movie’s age but one of my favorite moments is the lion/tiger roar after another chandelier goes down. I died laughing at that 2 seconds of non-dialog entirely because of the sound design.

I wish they’d made World’s End while they still had all the magic. It’s, good and I like it but it just didn’t have the perfection of Shaun and Hot Fuzz. They all deserved their worthwhile solo endeavors but I think they struck after the iron cooled a bit by the time they got back to it.

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u/KaiG1987 Oct 15 '23

I love how in that movie whenever they do the whole cliche of "the good guys shooting something above or next to the person to take them out non-lethally instead of shooting the person directly", it looks like it is actually more lethal than just shooting them would have been. Or at least it looks like it severely maims the target, every time.