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{{quote|'''Reginald Kincaid:''' The Shadow of Death. The gripping drama was the last play presented at the Orpheum. It closed after only one night, but not without garnering some praise. Harris in the Daily Telegram said, 'In an otherwise dismal evening, Reginald Kincaid provided some welcome laughs.'
'''Wiggins:''' You said it was a gripping drama!
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The plots of some films are treated as [[Serious Business]] by those involved. But sometimes, they are [[Crowning Moment of Funny|funnier]] [[Narm|than they were meant to be.]]
This page originally had many ''[[Star Wars]]'' examples; we had to split them off into [[Narm/Star Wars|their own subsection]].▼
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* Pictured above is [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyophYBP_w4&feature=related the infamous scene] from the [[So Bad
** How can you not like a movie where the villain is defeated with ''a double-decker baloney sandwich''?
** The goblins (there are no trolls in that movie) are trying to turn people into spinach...
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"Nilbog! It's 'Goblin' [[Sdrawkcab Name|spelled backwards]]! This is their kingdom!" }}
** Other select quotes:
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"You stuffed yourself like a ''PIIIG'', Joshuaaaa." }}
** The less said about popcorn, the funnier.
** Arnold (the guy in the picture) is speared by a goblin. The other characters hear his screams from afar, and this is what they think it is:
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* Several unintentionally goofy performances from ''[[Battlefield Earth (
* The 1931 ''[[Dracula (
** The Spanish version ups the ante with even worse bat-on-string-effects and its Dracula's [http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_VGoR1kl0YMU/S20ZOnutWhI/AAAAAAAAACQ/z0CF70sP7L0/s320/spanish+dracula.jpg ridiculous facial expressions].
* The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fovfxKGCYzo trailer] for the gritty drama ''House of Sand and Fog'' starts to wallow in overdramatic narm in the second half, especially Ben Kingsley's facial expression at 1:22.
* In ''[[Spartacus]]'', the famous bath scene between Crassus and Antoninus. Between Tony Curtis' obvious New York accent to Laurence Oliviers' "I enjoy oysters... AND SNAILS", the whole thing is just ridiculous.
* ''[[Moulin Rouge]]'' has Christian sobbing hysterically when {{spoiler|Satine dies}}. Those not similarly moved (with or without hysterics) by this scene may find it amusing.
* ''[[Silent Night, Deadly Night|Silent Night, Deadly Night 2]]''. The previous one was set around Christmas. If the killer's bizarre yelling in the sequel is anything to go by, it is set on [[Memetic Mutation|"GARBAGE DAY!"]]
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** You know things are Narmalicious when horror films run out of holidays to have horrific murders take place on.
** Even funnier is the killer's massive eyebrow twitching.
* The first ''[[Silent Night, Deadly Night]]'' has its moments, too. Early on, there's a scene meant to help set up the killer's [[Freudian Excuse|childhood-trauma-filled backstory]] where he and his parents visit his seemingly catatonic grandfather on Christmas Eve. "Seemingly", because as soon as the parents leave him alone with the kid, the grandfather takes the opportunity to warn him hammily about the perils of Christmas...
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** Even sillier because you might recognize Grandpa as Old Man Peabody from ''[[Back to The Future]]''. And while it's supposed to foreshadow a violent streak and abnormal strength, it's hard to have an eight-year-old knocking a grown man in a Santa suit to the ground with a right cross not be funny.
* From ''[[
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** [[Seanbaby|"Avenge me" is the #1 thing to yell that everyone listening will totally fucking do, right ahead of "Everybody dance now!"]]
* ''[[
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** When Arnold realizes he's been played by Carl Weathers's character:
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** In [[Predator 2|the second movie]], it could be argued that the sight of a [[Badass]], invisible alien hunter saying "Want some candy?" falls directly into Narm.
* ''The Canadian Drug Test'', an old and dated movie, is supposed to be a jarring exposé of the dangers of substance abuse along with a quiz to see how likely you are to use drugs. However, some students couldn't help but snicker at lines such as "Billy and Jimmy were supposed to go to a party that night, BUT THEY NEVER CAME BACK!" as well as the organ music and ominous chanting that played in the background of some scenes.
** During the quiz segments, the utter straightforwardness of some questions (such as "do you smoke marijuana?") can be laughable because they assume [[Implausible Deniability|utterly straightforward answers.]]
* Surely almost all of Oliver Stone's "Alexander." It's hard enough to take Irish Macedonians seriously without taking Alexander's crazy wig changes into account, or that hideous love scene with Roxane (including, maybe especially, the little scene with Hephaistion immediately before)
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** The Macedonians were ''supposed'' to have Irish accents, as this was an artistic device to emphasise the cultural differences between the Macedonians and the Greeks, who considered the latter to be more rough and primitive. The problem is that, aside from the Macedonians, no one else has a consistent accent; see most of the Persians, for example, or Angelina Jolie's very Egyptian-tinted Queen Olympias.
* In the [[Brad Pitt]] version of ''[[Troy]]'', Achilles can be heard screaming Hector's name for a good forty-five minutes while Hector says goodbye to his family.
** Ironically, the original Hector-Achilles confrontation in the ''[[
** Every time Brad makes that face when he's upset in the movie. His chin and forehead scrunch up, and his lower lip comes out a bit.
** At one point, a man runs screaming as a fireball chases him down a mountain. It's something you would see in a comedy.
** A particularly hilarious moment is right after the Greeks pop out of the Trojan horse: they sneak up on one of the guards and bash him on the head with a torch, knocking him unconscious and leaving one to wonder ''[[Armor Is Useless|what his helmet was for]].''
*** Then they stab him. Sensible, but the execution is amusingly awkward.
** At one point, Achilles screams at someone, completely seriously, "YOU SACK OF WINE!"
*** [[Mythology Gag]]. That was ripped clean from ''[[
** Achilles basically playing hide and seek with Hector in the temple of Apollo.
** All of Agamemnon's screaming.
* ''[[Return to Oz]]'': The Nome King rises up gigantic and surrounded with flames as the embodiment of pure satanic evil and power. The first line that comes out of his mouth sounds like "S'UP!!!" in a deep rumbling voice.
* In the British Film 'Pressure,' pretty much anything the mother says is narm. She is overly-dramatic to the worst extent.
* ''[[The Sixth Sense]]'' has the car scene, which would have been a beautiful, emotional scene if not for Colette's ''horrid'' acting. Her over the top facial expressions and crying (especially when Cole tells her about Grandma) and her delivery of "...what?" during that mentioned conversation make for high octane Narm.
** The "grandma says hi" line in itself breaks the mood horribly.
* ''[[S. Darko]]'' had plenty , but [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8gCUkwJYN0 this scene] takes the cake.
* ''[[G.I. Joe:
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** You almost have to love it for that ludicrous juxtaposition.
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** Any of Baroness's hammy one-liners.
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"That redhead is really starting to ''piss me off''!"
"Next time I'll drive!" }}
** "Deploy the [[SHAR Cs]]!" is probably [[Narm Charm]].
* ''[[Season of the Witch]]'', starring dignity-phobe [[Nicolas Cage]], is groaning with dialogue such as: "Confess, child, did you make a pact with Lucifer?"
* ''[[The Crucible]]'' has John Proctor, who signs a confession but refuses to put it on the church door. Why? In his own words:
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** "I say GOD IS ''DEAAAAAAAD!!!''"
** "I Have '''KNOWN''' Her!!!" In spite of what he means, this line has become a meme in more than a few [[High School
*** All of these examples were Grade A Imported Narm, imported from the play. It doesn't help.
** The fact that the movie ends with John and two other characters being hanged mid-prayer causes some viewers to burst out laughing.
* Learning that the recurring, strangely shaped blood stain in ''[[Ju
* In ''[[Star Trek II:
** Made even more ridiculous when we find out that Kirk knew that the ship would probably rescue them soon.
*** [[Fridge Brilliance]] when you realize that he was faking Khan out, in all likelihood.
** Khan's Number One's pathetically whiny "I ''can't''!"
* In ''[[Star Trek
** Both of Ru'afo's [[Big No|NOOoooOOOOooooooOOoOOOOoooooooOOOos!!!!!!]]
* In ''[[Star Trek:
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** There was also Kirk's equally Narmy "Oh my God" reaction, which was deleted from the [[DVD]] release.
** Especially jarring because the transporter accident itself is [[Nightmare Fuel]].
** There's also the wormhole scene in all its overacted, slowed-down Narminess.
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** Remember the [[Leave the Camera Running|(loooooong)]] Enterprise-approaching-V'ger scene? All the bridge crew gaping at the lovely SFX? Now re-watch it, and consider how much they look like they've each been hit on the head with a large mallet.
* ''[[Star Trek III:
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** What was even worse than her Narmtastic performance was her 1980s bouffant perm. Kirstie Alley's updo was more Vulcan than Curtis's borderline Afro. And Alley was much better at pulling off a Vulcan.
** Kirk's overlong reaction when told David was dead.
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* ''[[Star Trek (
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* The scene in ''[[Dead Poets Society]]'' where Mr. Perry finds {{spoiler|his son Neil, who has shot himself with his father's gun}} is made rather ridiculous by the camera turning to [[Bullet Time|slow-mo]] (the only special effect in the entire movie!), making Mr. Perry's "Noooooooo!" just stupid. It doesn't help that Mr. Petty is played by the dad of ''[[That
** Also in that movie, possibly the scene in which one of the characters breaks down crying from {{spoiler|Neil's death}}.
*** It doesn't help that another character shoves snow into his mouth at this moment (though he did just throw up).
* [[Ed Wood (
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** Also from that film:
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"No, ''you'' hold on!" }}
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"Well, as long as they can think, we'll have our problems." }}
* A good portion of the humor in ''[[
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** [[Santa Claus (
** [[Prince of Space|Heh heh heh heh... heh heh heh.]]
** [[Puma Man|So dinosaurs became extinct because they forgot how to love each other. Is that right?]]
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** [[Invasion of the Neptune Men|The Hitler Building.]]
* Many serious, empowering moments in the ''[[Spider-Man (
** Nearly every viewer tends to agree on one element of ''Spider-Man 3'' being hopelessly Narm-tacular: Venom opens his pure, unrefined [[Nightmare Fuel]] mouth and out comes... [[Nightmare Retardant|Topher Grace's voice]]. You expect to hear "[[That '70s Show
** The two little kid extras suddenly commenting on the large climactic fight scene.
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*** Peter's emo haircut practically neutered any attempts to take him seriously. [[It Got Worse|The dancing makes it even worse.]]
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*** Peter's immediate reaction, a mock "Oooh!"
*** This from the third movie:
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'''Peter Parker:''' "Push you away? Why would I want to push you away... I love you!" }}
*** Harry coming after Peter as the New Goblin in the third movie and yelling "SHUT UP!" when Peter tries to explain that "I didn't kill your father! He was trying to kill me, he killed himself!"
*** From the first movie:
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** One scene from ''Spider-Man 2'', sorely stuck out when Harry starts to have a mental breakdown at the end and sees his father. His [[Big No]] sequence came off as funny rather than dramatic.
*** The lead-in might be more narmtacular:
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*** Earlier on, when Dr. Octavius' experiment goes wrong, Harry ''shrieks'' out to one of his aides "I'M IN CHAAAARGE HEEEERE!"
*** And then in the third movie:
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[[Large Ham|"So good..."]] }}
*** From the second film, there's Doc Ock's arms "talking" to him.
** Right before the final battle of...I think the third movie, Spider-Man dashes in across some rooftops to deal with the threat. During this time, he runs in front of an American flag waving majestically. The overly-jingoistic tone of this moment ruins the dashing entrance he's supposed to be making.
** Depending on the audience, the following dialogue might lead to snickers.
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'''Mary Jane:''' Where was that? We never got on. You can't get off if you don't get on, Peter. }}
* Many scenes in the ''[[Rocky (
** Some of Rocky's speeches are surely meant to qualify as [[Whoopi Epiphany Speech|wise in their simplicity]], but there's nothing wise about saying "youse guys" over and over.
** In ''Rocky IV'', when he is giving a big speech to his son before going to Russia, it is pure, unadulterated narm due to the fact that you can't understand half of what he's saying.
* Oh, God, ''[[The Outsiders]]''. Matt Dillon in Dally's dramatic death scene. The cops keep on shooting at him as he crawls around on the ground gasping and choking for almost a whole minute. In the book, after he was shot, he was dead before he hit the ground.
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6z197STS4Mg See for yourself.]
** Matt Dillon is such a ham...
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*** Dillon would later complain that Francis Coppola used the most over-the-top take of that line.
* ''[[Glory]]'': during the final battle, Searles climbs over the hill and yells, "'''WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGHHHHOOOO!'''".
** So he's an [[Warhammer
* In the film adaptation of the short story by John Updike "A & P", Sean Hayes says the line "Fiddle-de doo" as a dismissal of his manager telling him he's making a mistake in quitting. The original version has him mumbling that in utter confusion; it was supposed to be sort of embarrassing and silly. In the film, Sean Hayes says it totally seriously, as if it was "Shut the fuck up." Fiddle-de-doo.
* From ''[[Terminator]]'': "Cyborgs don't feel pain. I do." (Though some think that line awesome.)
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** The scene in the factory near the end is [[Narm Charm|both scary and Narmful.]] It was [[Nightmare Fuel]] when the Terminator walks out of the burning wreckage. It became Narm when the Terminator's torso was crawling for the gimped Sarah Conner and she was struggling to walk away...it was akin to the world's slowest and most pathetic chase.
** Michael Biehn's performance as Kyle Reese:
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** Sarah's roommate's boyfriend (Matt) says this when the Terminator breaks into the bedroom he and his girlfriend are using:
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* ''[[Terminator]] 2: Judgment Day'' has the scene with the lecherous orderly who [[Dude, She's Like, in
** Don't worry, she made him pay for that later.
*** The actor as well as the character. That hit to the face was not pulled.
* ''[[Terminator]] Salvation'': The [[Scenery Gorn|panorama shots depicting a post-apocalyptic Los Angeles]] were ''supposed'' to be breathtaking, but post-apocalyptic LA looks just like [[Fallout|Capital Wasteland]]! This is [[Special Effects Failure]]
** John Connor pounding on Marcus' chest and yelling "WAKE UP!"
* One of the most relentlessly Narmish movies ever filmed is ''Simon Birch'', a truly ghastly adaptation of ''[[A Prayer for Owen Meany]]''. In particular, there's the deer who shows up every fifteen minutes or so and who is supposed to represent the hero's mother. Ick... Oh, and Joe's mom symbolically became a deer in the first place because Simon hit a foul ball that bonked her on the head, and it ''killed'' her.
* From ''[[Dungeons
** "You can run your ladyship. But....YOU CAN NEVER...RUN...FAR ENOUGH!"
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** "The battle may be over...But not! The WARRRRRRRR!" * cue Jeremy Irons pretending to grow wings*
*** If the producers hadn't run out of money, then they could have included all the effects that ''would have helped the movie make a lick of sense''. Then this could have been the evil wizard's [[One
** Bruce Payne's ''[[Large Ham|entire performance]]'' in that film is Narm. It's telling that he has a cult following online and is ''the only thing'' this film and its sequel [[In Name Only]] have in common.
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** It's interesting to note from Snails' death scene that Ridley is clearly an alumni of the [[William Shatner]] School of Acting. Compare his pain posture with Captain Kirk's whenever he gets zapped with an invisible alien pain laser: falls to his knees, elbows connected, palms open toward the sky, looking up with eyes closed as he gives a hammy scream. The Shatner would be so proud!
* In ''[[
* The famous 'plastic bag blowing in the wind' scene from ''[[American Beauty]]'' is
** It's even funnier once you learn that the filmmakers were only able to get the bag to dance around like that by having two crew members out of shot with leaf blowers.
** ''[[
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** [http://youtu.be/S2y0WebFULM?t=1m56s And in Adam and Joe's toy-based parody]
* The film ''[[Knowing]]'', when [[Nicolas Cage]] is chasing away people(?) who have been watching him:
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** The makers of the film ''[[Knowing]]'' clearly have not spent much time on the internet. Shooting laser beams from the mouth is daft enough; making it almost identical to the famous "Shoop da Whoop" meme is [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PckwUNzcHu4 just asking for trouble].
** The [[Conspicuous CG|CGI animals on CGI fire.]]
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* One of the most should-have-been-tense moments in the regrettable movie ''[[The Abyss]]'' is when, during a hurricane, the crane connecting the surface rig with an underwater lab breaks off. The drama is somewhat lost when the Captain frantically reports to the divers, "THE! CRANE! THE! CRANE! IS COMING! DOWN! AND IT'S ON! ITS WAY! TO! YOU!"
** Also from [[The Abyss]] is a whole scene in which the hero desperately tries to save a female character who seems to have drowned. He pummels her chest repeatedly before yelling, "SHE HAS A STRONG HEART! SHE WANTS TO LIIIIIIIIIIIIVE!". {{spoiler|Unsurprisingly, this causes her to wake up. There is much relief on the ship.}} It's meant to be the darkest scene in the movie, but the catharsis hit a little early...
*** Rumor has it that this is partly the result of Ed Harris and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio being so pissed off at Cameron they eventually just refused to re-shoot it any more. The [[Worst Aid|Miraculous Bitchslap of Life]] certainly doesn't help, mind you.
* In the mediocre disaster movie ''[[Daylight]]'', Sylvester Stallone's character tries to rescue a guy named George who is pinned under a truck at the bottom of a pit filling with water. Stallone manages to find a rubber tube, which he puts in the almost unconscious George's mouth to buy him more time... then undermines the tension by screaming the words "Come on George, BREATHE! BREATHE! IN AND OUT! IIIIIIN AND OOOOOUUUT!" in a way that makes you wonder if he was having a flashback to his short lived porno career. Unsurprisingly, Stallone was nominated for a Razzie for that movie. (He "lost" to Tom Arnold and Pauly Shore).
* The opening monologue of ''[[Transformers (
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** It has plenty of these moments. Most notable is Sam's hilariously over-the-top, melodramatic reaction to finding out that Mikaela has a criminal record. Not only is this not something that's a huge deal in and of itself, but all of the Autobot-military stuff going on around him right then makes it look unimportant by comparison.
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"No, I WANT TWO!" }}
*** Which the [[So Bad
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"No, rather... ''YOU want one''!" }}
* ''[[Transformers
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** Again, the Hungarian dub made Prime's [[Pre
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'''Into''': "I will defeat you!" (''spoken in a rather bored voice'') }}
* In ''[[Transformers
** The implication there seemed to be that Megs was a tad delusional by that point, given his horrific head injury and all. Still, at least it wasn't as bad as it was in the novel and comic, wherein he follows up said yell by randomly blowing up an elephant with his fusion cannon.
* Any scene in ''[[
** There were also the over-the-top attempts to make the Persians [[Red Right Hand|look evil]]. Uber Immortal and Fat Executioner get a pass for being [[Rule of Cool|freakin' awesome]], though.
** "[[Punctuated!
** The decapitation scene of that random Persian General. His head just flew in the air with clenched teeth. Funny as hell.
** Extra points go to the scene when that bloke's son gets his head cut off in the most ridiculous manner possible, especially because it completely inverts the [[High
*** Also extra points to all the scenes with the hunchback.
** When Xerxes loses it in during his conversation with Leonidas, when he's shaking and has his mouth all clenched
*** ANY part with Xerxes. He's like a giant drag queen with [[James Earl Jones]]'s voice and [[Mr. T]]'s jewelry.
*** [[
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** Can we talk about when Gorgo kills Theron, please? His purse spills open, revealing Persian gold to the assembled elders. One of them picks it up and says "Traitor." The rest all start yelling, "Traitor! Traitor! TRAITOR!" Not only is it silly on its own, but it's also Narmtastic because they're all very old men. It seems as if they're all senile and would shout any phrase with equal fervor if they heard someone else say it. "TAPIOCA! TAPIOCA!"
*** Oh, you git, [[Fridge Logic|that]] wrecks the scene!
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*** The epic sex scene that's so epic that it HAS to be in slow-motion. SLOW MOTION EPIC SEX.
** The [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|zombie-ninja Immortals]] are so narmy that they reach the [[Narm Charm]] level.
* ''[[Crash (
** Come on, guys! Didn't we all learn very important lessons from that movie? Like, falling down a staircase will cure you of racist feelings?
** This movie is so full of Narm, it's even in ''a scene in which a little girl almost gets shot''. Slow motion, muted [[Big No]], close-ups, [[One
*** I have a magic spot on me where I am bulletproof.
* The second half of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YTXFmoAZu4 this scene] from ''[[Doctor Zhivago]]'', where the character goes from sober to steaming drunk in twenty seconds flat and proceeds to [[Chewing the Scenery|chomp down on the scenery]]. Especially hilarious is the final line:
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* Batman's introduction in ''[[Batman (
* ''[[The Mummy
** This happens again in the sequel, except this time Imhotep makes his face appear on a tidal wave.
** Then we get the sequel and the big, scary scorpion-demon thing with... a horribly-animated version of The Rock's face stuck upon it. Stephen Sommers (director and writer) mentioned that he was embarrassed about that. (Those scenes were completed last, with a deadline.)
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** And then ''The Mummy 3'' came. Yetis appeared out of nowhere and beat up the Dragon Emperor's army.
*** Why did [[Jet Li]] turn into King Ghidorah? Why?
**** On that note, did anybody else completely lose it when Jet Li was pretty much letting Ben kick his ass? This troper loves Jet Li martial arts movies and watching this scene was like watching your favorite basketball player be forced to play against a 12 year old while wearing clown shoes and a blindfold.
* While [[Will Smith]] does a fantastic job in ''[[I Am Legend]]'', there's still that scene where he started screaming at a mannequin and held it at gunpoint (it's supposed to show that he's quite nuts). That scene was meant to play into the original ending, where the vampires/zombies are intelligent and used the mannequin as a trap. [[Foreshadowing]] [[Orphaned Punchline|minus the thing being foreshadowed]] can easily lead to Narm.
** He delivered quite a few lines in a needlessly overdramatic fashion, such as "I like Shrek" and "I was saving that bacon."
*** "I like [[Shrek]]"? What a place for [[Product Placement]]! (Even if the studio is just placing its own product.)
** His puckering, contorted facial expression when he kills {{spoiler|his dog}} is just disturbing. It's not sad or angry in any way, just incredibly odd.
* Everything about [[Jean
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** Please, Bison just steals the show. There's the ridiculous facial expression he has when the heroes are being gassed. And there's this line:
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*** Backstory: 'M. Bison' was played by Tony award-winning actor [[Raul Julia]], also known as Gomez Addams in the 90's ''Addams Family'' movie series. Julia was, when ''[[Street Fighter (
** Bison's performance is the reason he's the headlining quote and image for [[Ham and Cheese]].
** [[Kylie Minogue]] (aka Cammy) had a habit of [[Calling Your Attacks|shouting 'kick!']] whenever she kicked during fight scenes.
** [[That Guy With
* The 1982 filmed version of ''[[Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (
** Not to mention the climax of "My Friends":
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*** Some might say that that particular line is Narm incarnate and cannot possibly be done in an un-narmy manner. Seriously, it's a psychotic screaming to a straight-edged razor, after singing a song to that razor about how much he's looking forward to killing people with it. Many versions of Sweeney Todd exist, all of them drop into a bucket of Narm on that single line, no matter how well-done the rest of the performance may be.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6i2WRreARo The 2006 version of] ''[[The Wicker Man]],'' the single most EMBARRASSING movie in [[Nicolas Cage]]'s otherwise impressive career (and he has made many impressively embarrassing movies). It seems that the closer the film gets to the climax, the cheesier it gets - and then it culminates at the unforgettable [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4MqTCIDKhU "NOT THE BEES!"] scene.
** [[Nicolas Cage]], in full bear suit regalia, running up to a woman and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOpsbAUEe90 sucker-punching her.]
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** Running with this trope to its logical conclusion, one [[YouTube
* The Dutch film ''Zwartboek'' (''Black Book'' in English): Carice van Houten's "When will it end?!"
** When Cadbury Chocolate saves the protagonist's life. Why would someone put [[Product Placement]] [[Wall Banger
** Johnny de Mol played a nutty religious resistance fighter, and his reaction to shooting a collaborator made a tense scene hilarious.
* In ''[[Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon]]'', the fight scene during which everyone stops for a moment to declare their beef with Jade Fox is somewhat comical.
* ''[[House of Flying Daggers]]'' had plenty of Narm at the end where the female lead {{spoiler|has a knife sticking out of her chest}} for approximately four hours while she and two other characters {{spoiler|argue about how she's too close to death to continue arguing with them}}.
** ''Flying Daggers'' also has a Narmy scene at the middle with all the secrets -- "So you are NOT blind!" "So you are NOT the leader of the House of Flying Daggers!" "So you ARE a spy!" They were all revealed in the space of two minutes, making it seem like a parody of such scenes.
* The (in?)famous ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDVzmbtVZ6s "I drink your... MILKSHAKE!"]'' line from ''[[There Will Be Blood]]'' is either this or an Awesome Moment, depending on personal taste. Sad thing is, that's [[Real Life]] Narm. That whole milkshake analogy was spoken by the historical figure upon whom the character was based. The [[Memetic Mutation]] comes from taking that one line out of the context of the deeper metaphor; not everyone knows what leads to that line.
** Right after that, Daniel flies into a rage and attacks Eli {{spoiler|by throwing bowling balls at him}}.
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** There's also the classic "DRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAINAAAAAAAGE!", in which Plainview does his best to imitate the sound of a revving motor.
** Even narmier is the scene when Plainview starts slapping Eli Sunday and then pulls his hair and smears mud all over him. Eli's [[Screams Like a Little Girl|girly squealing]] only increases the narmishness.
** Eli's sermon. Sure, sermons are sometimes hammy; but faith healing gets narmy when it includes throwing an invisible ball of wickedness out of a church in the most overblown way possible. ("AND IT LEEEEEEEEEFT!")
** Also, when Daniel is carrying his injured son away during the mill accident, random Native American-sounding music keeps playing, getting louder and louder, and it ends up sounding more silly than dramatic.
* In the more recent version of ''[[
** [[Stephen King]] wrote in his survey of the horror genre ''Danse Macabre'' that ''real'' horror means you're unable to figure out whether you should scream or laugh, or both. By that definition the above scene succeeds, at least on paper.
* From the [[Nintendo]] [[Product Placement]] film ''[[The Wizard (
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** Yes... oh, yes, it was. And so is this movie, but [[So Bad
** From [[Seanbaby]]'s review of it:
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** Also from the film, any time Haley screams:
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* ''[[Ghost Rider (
** When Blackheart quotes "My name is legion, for we are many", it should have been scary. But he does it with what was supposed to be a group voice but turned out to be a "demonic possession has turned me into a retard" voice.
*** Any scene involving that actor is so badly acted, it should be narm-worthy.
** A special scene:
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** Johnny couldn't believe he was addressing the spirit of elemental fire within himself, either.
** Johnny's [[Pre
** [[Mood Dissonance]]. Johnny [[Weapon of Choice|uses magic]] [[Badass Biker]] weapons against all his enemies, but [[Wall Banger
* ''[[Ghost Ship (
* ''[[V for Vendetta]]'''s combat scene between V and Creedy. Contrails on a normal knife throw = [[Special Effects Failure]].
** V, freshly escaped from prison, horribly burned, and lacking eyes for some reason, turns to the camera and ''roars''. Over the top, especially compared to the graphic novel.
** After Portman's released from the prison, she walks out onto the porch [[Redemption in
** V decides to reveal his name to Evey by freestyling.
** V revealing his name at all. In the book, his identity was deliberately never revealed because, to paraphrase V himself, such knowledge would be worthless and would undermine everything V's been saying. But here, in the movie, the grand reveal: V was... some guy. Hooray.
*** Also the end of the movie, after the successful bombing, where a massive crowd in Guy Fawkes masks shows up, looks right at the camera, and then unmasks. (get it get it because V is within us all! .... thus further undermining the reveal of V's actual identity.)
* In Jackson's ''[[The Lord of the Rings (
** Fun fact: They originally intended for Arwen to appear at Helm's Deep. ''That'' was the scene Eowyn was supposed to be reacting to. Considering what scene they replaced it with, one wonders if the producers ''wanted'' [[Ho Yay]] in the movie.
** During the Battle of Helm's Deep, Legolas's shield-boarding, and the running orc that seems to have come straight out of the Orc Olympics with its obvious BURNING TORCH! OF BURNING!
** In ''[[The Lord of the Rings (
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** The whole "people the size of children jumping on a bed while an old geezer watches and laughs" is hilarious. Even more so ''via'' [http://youtube.com/watch?v=4QAlt4Sfl7Q this video].
** Frodo greets Aragorn and Gimli by shouting their names, but gives Legolas a look of "oh, yeah... that other guy that did... stuff..."
** Who can forget Gimli's over the top wails in The Mines of Moria, it's even more jarring since in the book he just pulls his hood over his head without making a sound and in the animated version he just sadly and silently walks away.
** [[Peter Jackson]] commented that the scenes in Rohan were difficult to direct because any depiction of medieval peasantry risked reminding people of ''[[Monty Python and
** "THEY'RE TAKING THE HOBBITS TO ISENGARD!" Legolas, we feel your pain.
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** Saruman starts making Gandalf spin in circles on the floor during their fight. This is seen in part from above, by the way.
** Some people consider Galadriel's "dark queen" transformation, complete with slowed down/warped voice and (possibly) overdone effects, Narm. When Galadriel was shot from the front, her arms were pointed in an awkward position, and her slightly upturned face, along with the negative colours, made her nose look like a pig's snout. It made her look like a weird scarecrow. But then it shifted to a view from the side, and suddenly she looked impressive and scary.
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** The Elvish words Frodo speaks to illuminate the Light of Elendil sound a little like "I need another CANDY BAR."
** The Fellowship's faces, especially Aragorn's, when the Balrog first arrives and the orcs scatter.
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** "Legolas! What do your Elf Eyes see?" Swish your Elf Hair! Listen with your Elf Ears!
** There are certain words that are impossible to take seriously. [[Star Wars|"Younglings"]] is one. "Man-Flesh" is another.
** Some of the orcs' dialogue can often be this ("Looks like meat's BACK ON THE MENU, BOYS!")
** A lot of dialogue in these movies comes across as very narmy when it's being lifted more or less directly from the books. Some lines work well when they're written down (even if it's only because they're accommodated by the writing style in general) but end up sounding incredibly silly when spoken aloud, especially to our 21st-century ears.
* In ''[[
* ''[[
** {{spoiler|The dying Pris thrashing on her back as if she's throwing a temper tantrum}}. Even between viewings, this scene doesn't necessarily age well.
*** It does not help that the female stunt actress was too exhausted to do the preceding scenes and they had to get a MAN to do it, attentive viewers noticed. Or the makeup this character wore.
*** This becomes ''hilarious'' after watching Daryl Hannah do something similar in ''[[Kill Bill]] Vol. 2.''
* Speaking of ''[[Kill Bill]]'', having [[Lady of War|O-Ren Ishii]] decapitate a [[Yakuza]] guy for pressing her [[Berserk Button]] (mocking her Chinese-American heritage and citing it as the reason why he doesn't want her leadership) in what's supposed to be her glorious ascension to the top of the [[Yakuza]] is chilling. Then it becomes a [[Black Comedy]] jewel when she pulls a [[Decapitation Presentation]], and we see the head's ''ridiculous'' [[Oh Crap]]'s face. Not helped by O-Ren dropping a truly over-the-top [[Precision F
* In ''[[Tombstone]],'' there was a certain serious scene in which the main character, Wyatt Earp, is wading through a river with gunshots just barely missing him; he's shouting "No!" as he shoots at the bad guys. This culminates in a long, slow-motion, slightly over-the-top [[Big No|"Nooo!"]] at the end. This is either awesome or hilarious.
** The above scene actually took place. It was part of how his legend was established.
** Heck, [[Kurt Russell]]'s mustache.
** The incredibly sappy music that sprang up whenever Wyatt saw Josephine.
* ''[[
** It was supposed to be that she didn't recognize him and screamed when he tried to talk to her; but that point wasn't made that clear. Or perhaps it was supposed to be that she's ended up a [[Christmas Cake]].
** [[Word of God|Frank Capra]] admitted in later years that this scene was the one part of the movie he would change if he had the chance.
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* An early scene in the film ''[[Alien vs. Predator]]: Requiem'' has a father and son (out hunting) come upon a crashed Predator ship containing deadly facehuggers. One of them follows the pair; the father shoots it, causing acid blood to spill on his arm. The son hides behind a rock and watches as his father groans like he just ate a bad bowl of chili while ''his arm melts off''.
** Only rivaled in hilarity by most of the sequences afterwards, including a scene in which the main character (a once-convicted felon) says to his assembled motley crew after most of Gunnison, Colorado is taken over:
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** That, or the pizza delivery boy going crazy and shooting at a Predator.
** Near the end of the movie, the main character's obligatory annoying, moronic, unlikable love interest runs away from the group and is ''accidentally'' impaled on one of the Predator's stray weapons.
*** That was the best scene of the movie. By far.
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* Most [[James Bond (
** ''[[The Man
** Another Roger Moore Bond movie, ''[[
** ''[[For Your Eyes Only (
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** [[Smug Snake|Koskov's]] "I ''told'' you!" happy dance in ''[[
** ''[[
** Daniel Craig's reactions during the torture scene in ''[[
*** To be fair, [[Ian Fleming]]'s description is amazingly effeminate (including "red woman-like lips")
*** Would that make Kratt the analogue of Bert McCracken in all this?
*** The [[Magical Defibrillator|defibrillation scene]] earlier in ''[[
** Dominic Greene from ''[[
*** His uncanny resemblance to pianist/TV presenter Jools Holland is also distracting.
*** The scene after {{spoiler|Mathis dies.}} Presumably, you're supposed to be deeply affected by Bond's shift from grief to cold professionalism; but the sudden cut to Bond chucking the corpse into the rubbish and nicking his money was more comical than anything.
* The Harvey Keitel film ''[[
* [[Kenneth Branagh]]'s otherwise excellent version of ''[[
** Another Narm moment comes when you see who is playing Osric the courtier: none other than [[Robin Williams]].
** Yet another Narm moment comes when Hamlet stabs Claudius with the poisoned blade...by [[Throwing Your Sword Always Works|hurling it from the balcony in slow motion.]]
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** Another scene has Myrtle looking out a window and seeing a car parked below with Tom, Jordan, and Nick in it. Then she suddenly punches through the window and reacts by awkwardly putting her bloody fist in her mouth. It is supposed to be a shocking display of rage, but her overreaction makes it hilarious.
* ''[[The Mothman Prophecies]]'' has a tense and dramatic scene where the main character receives a phone call from a mysterious stranger claiming to be near-omniscient. The character asks the caller to prove this by identifying what is sitting in his pocket. After a pause meant to build suspense, the whispery voice drawled out, "Chaaaaappppppstiiiiick" in what is supposed to be a creepy manner.
** On a side note: If only [[The Lord of the Rings (
* In the 2002 film adaptation of ''[[The Time Machine]]'', the first instance of the death of the hero's fiancee is acceptably melancholy; her subsequent deaths aren't.
** This is also a problem for ''[[Final Destination]]'' movies.
* ''[[Tron
** Speaking of which, the younger Kevin Flynn's plastic face in the beginning provided some unintentional comedy.
** Kevin Flynn's line in the flashbacks: "It is our DESTINY!" It sounded like he was going to tear his mask off and start eating the crowd.
** Sam Flynn looks like he's having an orgasm while he's firing those turrets during the dogfight scene. Unintentional [[Hilarity Ensues]].
** "Biodigital jazz, man." That is all.
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** Especially considering Christine calls it "so distorted, deformed, it was hardly a face"! Yes, she's a naive scared [[The Ingenue|Ingenue]], but there are limits!
** The protagonist sings dramatically while ''being choked.''
** The dancers in the background of the "Point of No Return" scene. One ''Phantom of the Opera'' community refers to them as the "[[The Princess Bride (
** The horse in the middle of the title song: What's meant to be a tense, dramatic moment as the Phantom leads a bewitched Christine to his lair is made absolute Narm the moment the [[Fridge Logic]] hits--''how and why the hell did he get a horse into the sewers under the opera house''? Sure, it's supposed to be stylized and surreal, but the oh-so-pretty pony leaves people in stitches. The Paris Opera does have its own stables, and a horse figures in this scene in both the original novel and the silent film adaptation. But in this film, it's used to convey Christine down one short length of hallway and then promptly abandoned. And for bonus points, the [[BBC]] documentary ''Behind the Mask'' (about the original London staging) revealed there were plans to incorporate a horse into the stage version of the sequence, but it was dropped ''because'' it looked silly.
*** The title song is supposed to be scary and demonstrate the Phantom's power of suggestion, but the moving candelabras remind some people of [[Beauty and
** Then there's the Phantom's toy opera house. Theoretically, the scenes of him moving around figurines of the other characters provide a [[The Chessmaster|Chessmaster]] vibe; but he may just look like [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMxTFqPET5I Dark Helmet playing with his dolls again].
** Also from the film, any time Christine is singing. Yes, you recorded the songs in a sound studio; but don't just LIPSYNCH! Throat muscles can move, too!
*** Yes, and at the end of "Think Of Me" - you don't change pitch by moving your jaw up and down!
** "Clearly, Madame Giry, genius... has turned... into MADNESS." With Gerard Butler playing the Phantom, it's difficult to hear this line and not shout [[Punctuated!
** The dialogue after {{spoiler|Christine kissed the Phantom}} is simply hilarious.
** Gerard Butler is not the ideal voice of the Phantom. First, he's singing an octave low, and he's singing badly. The Phantom is meant to be an otherworldly operatic genius, but Butler can barely hit the notes at half their usual range. Wrong, bad... ''etc.'' All that
*** The rest of the accent soup is no better than the Phantom's brogue. Why is Miranda Richardson talking like [[Looney Tunes|Pepe Le Pew?]]
* Speaking of ''Phantom of the Opera'', from the Lon Chaney silent film: The Phantom's last action before death in it is miming an invisible grenade, and then an abrupt surrender which can be interpreted as "Naw, I'm just messing with you."
** The mirror scene, where he has to poke Christine on the shoulder about a dozen times before she finally notices him with appropriate levels of shock.
** There are some overly [[
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** When Christine sneaks up behind the Phantom to take his mask off, the anticipation is deflated a bit when she bumps against a violin hanging on the wall, leaving it swinging back and forth for the rest of the scene.
* From the remake of ''[[Prom Night 2008]]'': they tried hard to scare the audience by having the protagonist bump into a lamp.
* ''[[Harry Potter
** The part in the fourth film where Hagrid, Ron, and Hermione sing the Hogwarts theme song while Harry is thinking. [[Flat What]].
*** The singing is a little ''too'' reminiscent of various drunken singalongs from other films, not to mention this troper's friends' habit of launching into song at random moments, to be anything other than very very odd.
** The bit in ''Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix'' when Harry gets a peek into Snape's mind. It's supposed to be a profound, tense moment where our hero gets some insight into his great nemesis's past; but there's a brief shot of young Snape sitting in his [[Emo]] corner...
** The intense possession scene at the end of ''Order of the Phoenix'' made Harry look just like Regan from ''[[
** Sirius's line, "Nice one, ''James''" from the flashback.
** It doesn't help that, instead of the coherent narrative it was in the book (and during filming, judging from behind-the-scenes photos), Snape's worst memory is shown as a hazy, psychedelic rapid-fire sequence that gives the impression that Harry just dropped some bad acid.
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** In ''Goblet of Fire'', Ralph Fiennes as Voldemort delivers a painfully straight (and unfortunately delivered) double threat of [[Big No]] and (apparently) [[Skyward Scream]] when Harry got away... again. It is hilarious.
** Earlier:
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** The scene in the seventh movie when {{spoiler|Ron and Harry destroy the Horcrux, and it shows, among others, Harry and Hermione making out (naked by the looks of it) to Ron.}} The scene just looked ''so damn'' hilarious.
*** [[Rupert Grint]] apparently had to go off set while they were filming that particular scene because he was laughing at it too hard.
** When Harry's wand breaks, Ron brings him a new one, saying "Ten inches, nothing special." That's what she said.
** That bit in the beginning of HP and the Deathly Hallows, when Voldemort tells Nagini to eat the body of the teacher. Voldy, do you know how long it takes for snakes to swallow things? Nagini lunges at the camera, fangs extended... and all I can picture is her then settling down, after that terrifying
** ''Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2'', had a lot of these sort of moments too, such as this one scene, whilst Voldemort and Harry are falling off a cliff. It shows a wide-angle close-up of Voldemort's face.
*** [[The Joker]] disagrees.
** Snape crying over Lily's dead body ended up being hilarious, especially since the former's emotions go from zero to sixty billion in the blink of an eye.
** Voldemort's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EfuEuKq5Ts gloating laugh] after declaring {{spoiler|Harry to be dead}}. The whole theater erupted in laughter.
*** LORD TROLLDEMORT.
**** [[Memetic Mutation|TROLL!!! IN THE DUNGEON]]!
** The infamous moment when Voldemort {{spoiler|hugs Draco}}.
** Voldemort's scream of "NYEAAHHHHH!" found in the trailer for Deathly Hallows Part 2, mainly because the exact same scream is repeated four times throughout the trailer, with the result that it becomes rather... amusing.
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** Filch's ham-tastic "You killed my cat... I'll kill ya! I'LL KILL YA!"
** The exaggerated facial expressions and presentation of the scene where Snape {{spoiler|cradles Lily's body while baby Harry cried in the background}} ruins what would've otherwise been a fairly tragic moment and instead turns it into something comical.
** At the end of ''Deathly Hallows - Part 1'', when Voldemort
* In the movie ''An American Crime'', [[Based
* "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5R_pS0h5Qk You maniacs! You blew it all up!]" as said by Charlton Heston in ''[[Planet of the Apes]]''. The viewer has known that the planet is Earth since ten minutes after the landing ([[All There Is to Know About "The Crying Game"|even if the viewer in question has lived under a rock and hasn't heard the premise of the movie]]). But when Heston's character sees the broken Statue of Liberty at the very end (just a few frames before we do), he [[Heroic BSOD|cracks up,]] pounding sand and screaming.
* And on the subject of Charlton Heston cracking up:
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** Not as Narmy as [[Popcultural Osmosis]] would lead you to believe; the context of the line lends more credibility to the claim in the source than it has in most of the parodies and homages. But don't be disappointed, Narm-seekers; there's more than enough Narm earlier in the film to make up for it. One early scene avoids [[What Do You Mean
* The film ''Dark Prince: True Story of [[Dracula]]'' is entertaining and moderately accurate to, well, the True Story of Dracula, even if it does involve a stubbly Rudolf Martin in a lot of black leather- but the heavy hammer of Narm slams down hard on an otherwise dramatic scene. Vlad Dracul, previously established as brutal but well intentioned and a loving husband, watches his wife leap to her death, and responds by shouting her name. With Anakin-esque intensity and the previously upheld attempts at accurate accent... well, narrrrrm...
* Near the end of ''[[
** Another narmy moment near this one: People are dying all around them; Rose and Jack are climbing onto the back of the railing. Rose goes "This is where we first met!" and Jack holds her close... with a slightly confused expression.
*** He was probably wondering why she was thinking of something so trivial.
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** Two words: Billy. Zane. (''Aka'' Cal.) His performance is a special kind of genius - the unintentional kind. In one scene, Cal starts shooting at Jack and Rose as the ship is sinking. As one critic put it, "Oh no! I hope he doesn't shoot them! They might drown!"
** Pathetic cries for help are expected in a disaster film. But in the interlude after the stern sits vertical and before it sinks, one woman's cries are rather comical in her delivery:
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** "Hold on Mrs Pennyworth!" Cue sliding down the ship and flashing undergarments to everyone.
** Rose's last lines to Jack pretty Narmy: "I'll never let go Jack, I'll never let go!" Woops down he goes!
** In another instance Jack and Rose break through a door after escaping from the rapidly flooding lower decks:
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** The sheer number of instances that Jack and Rose have the [[Say My Name]] moments.
* One of many mistakes in ''[[
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** The original preview screening of the film '''did''' cause the audience to erupt into laughter. The result was so bad that the studio immediately pulled the film and recut it. (It didn't help.)
** James Earl Jones spits leopards.
* [[Hugo Weaving]]'s character in ''[[The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
** That's kind of the point... He's trying too hard.
* ''[[Outland (
* ''[[
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** You sure could have fooled us, Drac - if you weren't such a godawful actor.
*** In all fairness - Richard Roxburgh isn't that bad an actor (take his roles in [[Sanctum]], [[Doing Time For Patsy Cline]], [[Hawke]] and [[Rake]] (the latter three of which he won awards for)) it's just that for some reason he plays almost all his villains ''way'' too over the top.
** The [[Shoot the Money|unbelievably gratuitous ass shot]] as Kate Beckinsale's character, Anna, is revealed might possibly incite a chuckle.
** The ending, where Anna's face appears among the clouds and smiles down at the hero as he's cremating her.
* Hey, speaking of Dracula, how about the Coppola version, ''[[Bram
** '''Dracula''': [[Big No|"NOOOOO!]] I LOVE YOU TOO MUCH!"
* The [[Dracula (
* From 1939's ''[[Wuthering Heights (
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* The infamous line Olivier delivers in the Neil Diamond version of ''[[The Jazz Singer]]''.
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* ''[[William
** "Fetch me my longsword!" Cue a shotgun...
** Made even better by the fact that the full line is "Fetch me my longsword, ho!" He's talking to his wife.
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*** ''Romeo and Juliet,'' like many of Shakespeare's shows, can be played either way. Though you'd think a comedic version would have fewer giant explosions.
** Then there's the occupational hazard of all Shakespearean adaptations relocated to relatively modern times: Elizabethan dialogue spoken in relatively modern times.
** Romeo losing it at Tybalt right before he kills him. Leo's overacting is almost painful, and it's nearly impossible to understand what the hell he's saying when he's screaming that loudly. The way he yells "EITHER THOU, OR I, OR BOTH MUST GO WITH HIM!" over and over, you half expect Tybalt to shout [[The Princess Bride (
*** The Swedish version didn't subtitle that. Either the translators didn't find it important enough, or they simply couldn't hear what he was shouting...
** The scene where Juliet wakes up to discover Romeo's dead body is meant to be moving and tragic but is rendered hilarious by Clare Danes' terrible crying.
** Mercutio crossdressing in a silver, glittery tube top and miniskirt... Then pulling Romeo's invitation to the party from the bottom of said miniskirt. After seeing that, it's impossible to take his death scene seriously.
*** Even more hiarious [[Hey,
* ''[[The Happening]]'' wavers between ultimate narm (RUN AWAY FROM THE WIND!), self-parody ("Do you like hotdogs?") and genuine scariness (the first five minutes, [[Suicide
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** The ending is hilarious - {{spoiler|the plants start killing the French, further reinforcing their place as the world's [[Butt Monkey]]}}.
** That scene with the shotgun blasting those children through the window and a slow-mo [[Big No|NOOO]].
** The film uses so many shots of Mark Wahlberg's face trying to look horrified that fail. And then there are all the times that the actors pretend they're crying...unconvincingly. Oh, and there's gaudy and gory [[Special Effects Failure]]. They tried to do [[Techno Babble]]: it makes your brain [[Reverse Polarity]].
** Even better was the scene near the beginning where Marky Mark is talking to his class and elicits speculation from his students as to why bees are disappearing. The last student says something to the effect of 'it's an act of nature and we'll never fully understand it.' Wahlberg acts proud. Science works ''only'' because we ''can'' understand acts of nature; science only operates on the natural world. M. Night apparently believes that science is magic.
** "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Rq-7zEVuwI What? NOOO!]" The film may have been narmtacular, but that line made it worth the ticket price. (It also helps if you decide M. Night was trying to make a comedy.)
** The [[Visible Boom Mic|repeated presence of boom mics in frame in indoor shots]] caused many audiences to burst out laughing at what were apparently intended as quiet, emotional scenes. That ''cannot'' be deliberate!
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhmEo-46vUQ Marky Mark talks to a tree]
** Marky Mark, all terrified of the old bat's sex doll.
** [[Two Words: Obvious Trope]]: [[Ax Crazy|lemon]] [[Crazy Survivalist|drink.]]
* The Gus Van Sant movie ''Elephant'' had so much inherent drama and pathos built into its story that it would take an extra-special effort on the director's part to get any Narm out of it at all, but Van Sant pulled it off anyway. Simply put, this is the most laid-back school shooting ever depicted. Here are some highlights: A kid who had advance warning of the rampage simply stands outside the school and obliquely warns other students that "you don't wanna go in there." He doesn't explain why or ask anyone to call the police. One student peeks out into the hall, gets shot dead, and the other kids in his classroom -who heard the gunshot and see the blood- start flatly admonishing the dead boy to "stop foolin' around." Another one serenely strides the halls during a lengthy tracking shot, stops to help an extremely mellow girl calmly exit out a window, and then walks directly into the gunman's path and is blown away. Van Sant may have been trying to go for some kind of dramatic statement with all this, but it just comes off looking like no one in the school can muster the energy to actually give a shit whether or not they're violently murdered by their classmates.
** I think you just mentioned the dramatic statement he was trying to make. What do bratty, middle-class American high school students whine about the most? How they "Don't give a fuck about anything, man!" and "I wish I was dead/aborted/never born!" Van Sant was probably trying to show the little bastards what REAL apathy was.
** Maybe, but real apathy wouldn't be found anywhere near a school shooting, making the whole scene ridiculous. Since Van Sant obviously wasn't going for laughs, the whole climax is top-shelf [[Narm]].
* The otherwise excellent ''[[Gone Baby Gone]]'' ([[Ben Affleck]]'s surprisingly good directorial debut) is dark and suspenseful until it is revealed that one of the main antagonists, who may have kidnapped a four-year-old girl, is a drug dealer named... [[Inherently Funny Words|Cheese]]. Not helped by his remark after shooing away one of his kept women, "Bitches love The Cheddar".
** In the book, the character is white (while black in the movie), and he was nicknamed Cheese because of his pasty, crater-y skin.
** [[
** "I liike crack cocaaaaaine."
* In ''[[Indiana Jones and
** What about the 'Shia Lebouf and monkeys' swinging scene! It was over the top and unbelievable and a distraction from the epic truck battle going on.
** The [[Special Effect Failure|CGI gophers]]. Those little bastards let all viewers know what they were getting into.
** [[Large Ham|I WANT 2 KNOW! I WANT 2 KNOW EVERYTHING YOU KNOW!!!!!]]
* In the [[Deus Angst Machina|relentlessly depressing]] ''Marvin's Room'', one of the characters is diagnosed with Leukemia. During a trip to Disney World, she's drinking a soda when she sees blood on her straw, gets lightheaded, and passes out. The scene ends with a [[Point of View]] shot from her on the ground, as several people are looking down on her...and then ''Goofy'' enters the frame, and any drama left in the scene is washed out by giggling.
* During the scene in ''[[
** The {{spoiler|horse head}} scene in ''[[
* ''[[The Godfather
* Oh God, ''[[
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** [[Monty Python and
* ''[[
** The immediately preceding lines from the murderer "What you egg! -stab- Young fry of treachery!" didn't help matters.
** It was probably the [[Roman Polanski]] version. That moment provoked plenty of laughter, but there's also the scene in which a hapless minion is shot in the head with a crossbow. The unconvincing make-up and the fellow's perplexed, stupid expression had everyone in stitches.
** It was justified in the original play. Sometimes you had to say "Oh noes, I'm dead!" because the audience in a theater production doesn't get to see the eyes close as you die. It still should have been cut in the film versions.
** The witches in that version were Narmy in a disturbing [[Fetish Retardant]] way. The Orgy and prophecy scene, aside from being totally unlike the play, was both Narmy and [[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made
** The scene where Banquo's ghost appears at Macbeth's banquet. Macbeth cowers in terror as the rather gruesome ghost advances... the ghost disappears; cut to the nobles staring awkwardly at Macbeth. Their expressions are hilarious.
*** One of the best scenes in the movie, there. Ghost appears. Macbeth cowers. Ghost bleeds from the injuries that killed him. Okay. back to Macbeth, cowering. Cut back to ghost, spurting massive amounts of obviously fake blood from all over his body.
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** [[Orson Welles]]' version was decent, but he should have requested another costume designer. Welles complained about having to do his final showdown with Macduff [http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Qi_l_pmRm0g/SgilDcABqHI/AAAAAAAAAx4/22HspYLtpgE/s400/Orson+Welles--Hat+06--Statue+of+Liberty--Klingon+Style.png dressed as the Statue of Liberty]
** In the Judy Dench and [[Ian McKellen]] version (sounds awesome, right?) Lady Macbeth (Dench) is angsting to herself while her husband kills King Duncan. During the scene, Lady Macbeth is supposed to give what I assume is a half wail, half groan; unfortunately and hilariously, it comes out sounding like a squeaky door opening very slowly.
* David Tennant's scenery-chewing portrayal of [[
* Captain Rhodes' death from ''Day of the Dead.'' "CHOKE ON 'EM!" Indeed...
* ''[[The Final Sacrifice]]'' has a scene in which a cult member starts rolling around on the ground for some reason. Anything involving Pipper or Satoris also counts. Satoris is best described as an evil Morrissey who talks at 30 RPM.
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** Oh, yes, the hero's name is Zap Roswdower. The film isn't a Sci-Fi future movie; it takes place in [[The Eighties|1980s]] Canada. ''Zap Rowsdower''.
*** Or, according to Crow of [[Mystery Science
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* In one TV-movie adaptation of ''[[
* From the film adaptation of ''[[Left Behind]]'', the scene of Hattie entering into the plane's cockpit after the Rapture:
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** Let's be honest. "[[Left Behind]]" is nothing but narm (yes, that goes for both the books and the movie).
* [[Robin Williams]]' obvious hairpiece in the early scenes of ''[[What Dreams May Come]]''.
* The opening scene in ''[[Equilibrium]]'' when the Mona Lisa is burned. It had to be the best-known painting in the world to make sure even the [[Lowest Common Denominator]] would catch the "drama."
** The scene where Brandt catches Preston [[Manly Tears|weeping]] [[What an Idiot!|outside in a public area]] in a world where emotions are forbidden.
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** Brandt's '''[[Special Effects Failure|CGI]] [[Nightmare Fuel|face]]''' on the floor after his [[Clean Cut]].
** Preston's [[Heel Face Turn]] moment where he discovers emotion. It's supposed to be a very moving scene, but Bale's [[Distracted
* Colin Farrell's performance in ''Alexander''. Swinging back and forth between extremes, one being hyper-manly [[Large Ham]] and the other being a cripplingly wimpy mama's boy, with hilarious facial expressions and even more hilarious hair. Come to think of it, his ''hair'' deserves this entry.
* ''Legend of Hell House'' is for the most part an atmospheric and creepy haunted house movie, but it has two extremely Narmish moments:
** The first is when a character is attacked by a cat, represented by an unconvincing puppet thrown at her repeatedly.
** The other comes at the climax, when Roddy McDowall's character figures out that all the supernatural happenings in the house are the work of a single
* From ''[[Vanilla Sky]]'':
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* To some, the outbursts by the mothers in ''Terms of Endearment'' and ''Steel Magnolias'' may have been [[Tear Jerker|tear jerkers]]; to others, they were massive [[Chewing the Scenery]] moments. They came out just to have an outburst moment, even if it didn't fit the characters.
** Case in point: ''Steel Magnolias'' has some sad moments, especially during {{spoiler|Shelby's funeral}}. But M'Lynn's whiny, prolonged screech "Whyyyyyyyyyyyy?!" ruins the effect because it's so hilarious.
* One unfortunately edited scene from ''[[The Incredible Hulk (
** Tim Roth ought to either keep his shirt on more, or take it off more. He can't keep taking the middle ground.
* The scene with the bear in ''[[The Chronicles of Narnia]]: [[Prince Caspian]]'': The heroes, travelling in the wilderness, pass by a bear. Lucy, the youngest of the children, runs towards it, saying stuff like "what's your name"; the bear, quite understandably runs towards her, roaring. After she is saved in the last moment by her dwarf friend, she exclaims, "I don't think it could talk at all!" '''Instant Narm'''. The point is that she's used to meeting talking, sentient animals in Narnia; but the scene makes it look like the girl is completely insane.
** The
*** Ben Barnes stated that he apparently studied [[Mandy Patinkin]]'s performance in ''[[The Princess Bride (
** Sopespian looked like a bearded Saddam Hussein right after he was captured.
** That one scene where some of Miraz's soldiers find Caspian in the forest with Nikabrik and Trufflehunter? The sudden realization and pan on Caspian's face to see his dumbfounded reaction (dundunDUN) was so unnecessary and so funny. And man, he was quick to use the horn!
** Any time Prunaprisma did her "anguished" screams.
** The scene where the cast is planning to go to war, and a very large and (probably) stupid bear calls, "For Aslan." It doesn't seem narmy unless you listen to him say it; his voice sounds like Mr Ed's, only with audible stupidity.
** The scene where the Telmarine soldiers are marching onto the field in front of Aslan's Howe. Row after row of carefully disciplined
** There's also a scene early on in the film, when Caspian is leaving his castle, where he walks down a flight of stairs. Totally uninteresting scene, except that he almost ''dances''.
** Any time Peter opens his mouth. Maybe it's unfair to blame William Moseley for hitting puberty a decade late, but I can't bear listening to his voice without laughing.
* Although the first Narnia movie is good, there are some Narmy scenes that probably weren't meant to be funny. For instance, when Peter holds up the sword awkwardly and says, "We have come to see Aslan". Peter's awkwardness before and after he meets Aslan was probably the point, but it's so obvious that it's amusing.
* The third Narnia flick, ''[[Voyage of the Dawn Treader]]'', was overall very good, but near the end of the film I had trouble not smiling during what should have been a serious and suspenseful scene. The crazy old lord that they just saved from the island warns them not to "reveal their fears" with the implication being that whatever they fear will become real. Problem is that, immediately after this warning, Edmund (of course) apologizes and tells them that he couldn't help it as they all rush to the side of the boat to see what hideous fate lies in store. Anyone who watched this part and didn't expect the [[Ghostbusters|Staypuft Marshmallow Man]] to come rising up from the deep is made of sterner stuff than I...
* The scene in ''[[The Neverending Story (
** [[Large Ham|Bastian's acting]]... What makes this unfortunate is that the scene, with the dialogue as written, could have been a true dramatic and emotional moment on all sides. "I will do what I dream!" may be a line impossible not to [[Narm]], but it may have be possible to deliver it with real conviction and [[Narm Charm|wow even the most jaded audience]] with a talented actor.
** The scene where Bastian reads about Atreyu meeting the giant turtle. He looks up from the book and screams at the top of his lungs, creating a hilariously narmy moment.
* The first murder scene in ''[[
* ''[[The Dark Knight Saga|Batman Begins]]'' features a scene in which a fear-toxin-poisoned Rachel is rushed to Batman's cave, about to die from fright... And a still-masked Batman sits next to her, repeatedly growling at her. Real helpful, Batman.
** If you go frame-by-frame when he shouts "RACHEL!!" just prior to entering the bat-cave, he makes the most hilarious face.
** Anything involving Katie Holmes under the influence of mind-altering substances of any kind. Now that it's demonstrated that she doesn't need substances to have her mind altered, using them might be overkill.
** A similar nonverbal example: Batman himself gets gassed in an earlier scene and is subsequently seen going into spastic hallucinations. Because of how stiff his costume is, Bale's drug-induced shuffling ends up looking awkward. For fans of YTMND and [[
** Yet another Rachel example - when she slaps Bruce after he shows her the gun he was going to use to kill Joe Chill, she clearly makes contact but clearly hits him very weakly. Also, something about the sound effect is off. It makes Rachel seem extremely physically weak.
** Some considered Scarecrow's costume to be this, as it's little more than a paper bag over the head.
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* In ''[[The Dark Knight Saga]]'', Aaron Eckhart, in what was otherwise a fantastic performance, shouts "Say it!" at Gordon, and screams "Rachel!" ''There's'' a guy who ''cannot'' pull off [[Say My Name]].
** Batman's voice, with [[Christian Bale]] taking a far deeper and raspier tone than he did back in ''Batman Begins'', [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohU16OiduUs made it difficult to take Batman seriously.]
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** Batman sounded super drunk, especially in the important final scene with Jim Gordon and Two-Face. ''Being Batman'' is something you have to do ''sober''.
*** He sounded like Patty and Selma, Marge's chain-smoking twin older sisters, on ''[[The Simpsons (
** The ridiculous CGI that was Two-Face's burned half. For a reboot that was supposed to be realistic, Harvey should have been in shock from losing that much skin. Instead it's REVENGE TIEM NAO!
*** More than being in shock, the man's face shouldn't have fucking ''worked'' anymore. The Narm here comes from the fact that Aaron Eckhart had ''no idea'' they were going to go ''this'' far with the special effect, as it was added in with CGI in post-production, so here's Harvey Dent, talking and growling and being angry despite literally missing half of his entire face. Seriously, there is no muscle, half of his lips are flat-out gone, he's missing an entire cheek, he has no lid over his eye and none of this is stopping him from delivering entire soliloquies with absolutely zero impediment to his speech. It is such a ludicrous [[Special Effects Failure]] that it is impossible not to just stare forever.
** Rachel Dawes acts all [[Badass]] [[Action Girl]] in Lao's interrogation scene and then smirks smugly - which reveals that [[Maggie Gyllenhaal]] has that almost cartoonish effect of having the creases of her smile go beyond the outlines of her lips. It looks like a cross between one of those 'Have a Nice Day' buttons with the ridiculously exaggerated facial muscles and The Joker. Not good when the film ''includes'' the Joker!
** "I'M NOT WEARIN' HOCKEY PADS."
** Also, Harvey Dent saying "it's not about what I want, it's about what's FAIR!" Something about it just seems immature.
* ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOROvO2fxTc "THE GUN IS GOOD!...] [[Zardoz|THE PENIS IS EVIL!]]"''
* ''[[The Silence of the Lambs]]''
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** Nearly all of the scenes with Buffalo Bill were hysterical, especially the mangina dance scene.
* At the end of ''[[Wanted]]'', where {{spoiler|Sloan, revealed to be spinning his own targets instead of accepting what the Loom of Fate tells him to kill, hands out papers to every assassin in the room, saying,}} "You came up...''you'' came up...''you'' came up..." What makes it Narmy is that he does this to ''every single assassin in the room''. Considering that the ''Loom of Fate'' was a fucked up {{spoiler|[[Self
** [[The Wizard of Oz (
** The very last shot of James McAvoy turning to the camera with the hammiest tough guy face and spouting "what the fuck have you done lately?" Though some think that was [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|awesome]].
** The [[Precision F
** The "[[Luke, I Am Your Father|I'm your father]]" moment.
* ''Mommie Dearest'' is infamous for its narm. Even the ''director and lead actress'' repudiated many of the worst scenes, particularly the classic "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOILKHmZBwc NO...WIRE...HANGERS...EVEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRR!]" line.
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** "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpY0tmpLZBsTINA! BRING ME THE AXE!!]"
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* The ending of ''[[Se7en]]''; Brad Pitt's repeatedly narmful readings of the lines "WHAT'S IN THE BOOOOX? OH, GOOOD!" derail any possible narrative tension.
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** Ugh. That was the worst one, but his "Heeeeeeeeee's...anut-bag!" line was also was pretty Narmy.
** Brad Pitt's atrocious delivery of his lines during the driving-to-the-desert scene (just before the box is delivered). It's almost like Brad didn't feel like acting that day.....so he didn't. Watching Brad phone it in as Morgan Freeman and {{spoiler|Kevin Spacey}} give it their all is pretty damned hilarious.
* During the big football scene in ''The Best Of Times'', the band starts playing "The Liberty Bell March". This is not a smart thing to do in a movie in a post-''[[
* From a horror film called ''Vacancy''. Kate Beckinsale runs away from the masked killer and jumps in the car. He runs up and ''dives headfirst through the sun roof'' to get at her. She slams down on the accelerator... and we get about fifteen seconds of her driving along, him still trying to grab her while upside down with his ''legs sticking out of the car roof waving about'' before the car smashes through a wall into another killer! [[Punctuated!
* The opening kill in ''[[Jaws (
** ''Jaws 4'', the shark ''roars.'' [[Critical Research Failure|Sharks can't roar.]]
* The ending of ''[[The Piano Teacher]]'' is halfway between this and straight [[
* ''[[The Ring]] [[Oddly
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** The [[Precision F
** Also, the notable [[Special Effects Failure]] when the spectral Samara {{spoiler|rises from the bathtub, composed entirely of water, with the face of Daveigh Chase (who played Samara in the previous film) badly pasted on}}.
** It's hard to take Samara scarily once you realize that she's [[Lilo and Stitch|Lilo in disguise]]. Unless you found Lilo creepy... But that sequel could make Lilo ''less'' creepy.
* Any time Tony Montana started getting crazy and possessive over his sister in ''[[Scarface]]'', director Brian de Palma opted to use extreme closeups and incredibly melodramatic-sounding synth music. The result was... er.... not as chilling or visually impressive as intended. It ruined what should have been an emotional moment in {{spoiler|the death of Manny at Tony's hands.}}
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* ''The Gravedancers'' is Narmish at first but, surprisingly, manages to dig itself out a little past the midway mark with a bit of oldschool design work and [[Character Development]]. However, the end takes the hope the viewer tentatively invests in it crashing down. Instead of carrying on to the end with what had been a subtle haunting for its genre, the movie suddenly launched into a car chase. For "car chase", read "gigantic CGI-enhanced puppet ghost head screaming through the halls of the mansion, attempting to eat the protagonists' Humvee with them inside it". The extras imply that the director intended it as a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]]. In practice, it's such [[Mood Dissonance|a blunt 180 on the tone]] that it sends the movie plummeting back down from "not that bad" to "horror horrible". The sad part is that, without the CGI, it's a badass puppet...
* Katsumoto's death scene in ''[[The Last Samurai]]'' was intended to be profound and dramatic, but his contorted constipation face in conjunction with the solemnity of the scene made for hearty lols all around. Bear in mind, Katsumoto had just rammed a wakizashi into his stomach. Let's see you keep a straight face during something like that.
** The gunning down of the samurai with the Gatling guns can be vindictively funny, especially if you have grown tired of [[Katanas Are Just Better]] and [[Guns Are Worthless]]. Where's all your katana-godmodding now, samurai boys? [[Evil Laugh|Hahahahaha!]]
* Ryan O'Neal in ''Tough Guys Don't Dance''.
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* CCH Pounder's death in ''[[
** In the climax of the film, a young girl and a doctor are held up at gunpoint by the film's villain, McDaggett. Robocop flew in through a window with a jetpack to stop him but was unsuccessful. McDaggett also has an explosive device that will detonate in twenty seconds. The unintentional humor lies in the film's PG-13 material. After McDaggett calls the doctor a "stupid slag", Robocop calls McDaggett "chum" before ''incinerating his legs'' with the jetpack. As McDaggett falls down, Robocop grabs the woman and child, and flies out of the OCP building as it explodes in a marvelous [[Special Effects Failure]]. This caps off a film where Robo has had to fight ''[[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|robot ninjas]]''. Oh, and the young girl disabled an ED-209 robot ''[[Hollywood Hacking|with her laptop computer]]''.
* The Old Man's cry of "BEHAVE YOURSELVES!" at the climax of ''[[
* The scene in [[The Movie]] of Patrick Suskind's ''[[
** What about the ending? The utter horror of what happened is completely and utterly ruined by the dodgy slo-mo bodice ripping two frames later. Sure, it was never going to translate very well onto the screen anyway, but they could have tried to make it look slightly less like a Rennaisance-era Woodstock.
* From ''[[West Side Story]]'':
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*** As is the preceding scene, when the viewers and Maria overhear a random Hispanic boy tell his mother, " {{spoiler|Bernardo está muerto!}}" and the mother respond, " {{spoiler|Bernardo '''muerto'''?}}" Considering this moment came less than a minute after Maria received the news herself, one must wonder how her neighbors found out so quickly.
** The ending. The Jets and The Sharks both helping to pick up {{spoiler|Tony's body}} was supposed to imply that the gang war would finally stop; but did The Jets have to pick him up so ineptly that he slips from their grasp and falls to the floor ''before'' being caught by the Sharks?
* The constant cuts between the shivering old lady and Evolet in ''[[
* ''[[Night of the Living Dead]]'': '''"JOHNNY'S STILL OUT THERE!"'''
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* From the 1993 film adaption of ''[[
** How about Ophelia singing bawdy songs at her introduction?
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjsZDaXMlpM&feature=related This] Scene from the Chinese film ''Kidnap'', Is [[So Okay
* The subway scene in ''[[Cloverfield]]'' was dramatic until the monsters started sounding like someone strangling a duck.
* There was a made-for-TV adaption of ''[[Bridge to Terabithia]]'' back in the 1980s. The director gave the lead role to his son, who, it turns out, couldn't act.
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** The whole scene is [[Narm]] from the dialogue alone - who could make "You lie" sound good? It is made more [[Narm
* One scene in the ''[[
** Is this guy dead yet? Nope. [[Overly Long Gag|Still dying... still dying... still dying...still dying...still dying...still dying...]] GOD SOMEBODY GET A DEATH NOTE AND PUT THIS GUY OUT OF HIS MISERY!!!
** At the beginning, when all of the criminals were having heart attacks, the somewhat hammy acting of the actors coupled with the overacting of the dub cast made it funny.
** Towards the end of the first movie, {{spoiler|Light puts together a setup to get rid of Naomi, in which she kidnaps his girlfriend Shiori and shoots her while she's trying to run to her side, then [[My God, What Have I Done?|killing herself]]. Before that final bit, our good old [[Magnificent Bastard]] friend holds poor Shiori in his arms as she dies and screams in soul-wrenching anguish. Not so bad originally, but in the English dub, he screams at Naomi, "WHY DID YOU HAVE TO KILL HER? ''TELL ME WHY!!''"}} Ain't nothing but a heartaaaaache...
* In ''[[
** It's Vietnarm.
** There's also David Caruso's screams of pain when he gets stabbed in the leg.
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*** The above was immortalised in ''[[Golden Axe]]''.
** The part when the asshole deputy Art Galt dies has a bit of Fridge Humor: He's falling in slow motion but screaming at regular speed. So, does that mean he was squealing like a chipmunk on the way down?
** From the 2008 ''[[
** That face comes built in (it was caused by forceps damage when he was born), so expect some narm any time Stallone yells.
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* Speaking of Stallone movies, try not to laugh whenever he says "law" in ''[[Judge Dredd (
* Okay, ''[[
** [[Psycho 1998|Vince Vaughn]] looks even worse.
* Though certain people consider it an ultimate [[Tear Jerker]], the scene where {{spoiler|Trevor is stabbed and dies}} in ''[[Pay It Forward]]'' is ridiculous if you know anything at all about human anatomy. Put succinctly: unless he lay there for three hours before EMTs got to him, there's no way he should have died. It's as if the director was so desperate to extract more tears from the audience that she didn't care how she was gonna do it. For this scene, rolling the eyes and yelling "Oh, bullshit!" is just as appropriate as reaching for the Kleenex.
** He did it so humourously. [[Sarcasm Mode|He should have recited a Shakespearean monologue.]]
* From ''[[Meet Joe Black]]'': [[Brad Pitt]] spends about three minutes standing in the middle of the street looking back at his love interest, when... [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDdN_b6TjYo&feature=related It needs to be seen to be believed.]
* In the 2008 horror film ''[[The Ruins]]'', the <s>German</s> Greek guy started swatting at his legs and screaming, "Git zeem auf! Git zeem auf!"
* In the film adaptation of Philip K. Dick's ''[[Paycheck]]'', James Rethrick yells, "Still think you can change your fate, Mike? I AM THE FUTURE MIKE!", [[Orphaned Punchline|referencing a deleted scene]] where Michael Jennings states that he believes he can change his fate.
* From ''[[Johnny Mnemonic]]'': "I WANT ROOM SERVICE!"
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* You know it's bad when you're at a 12:01 showing of ''[[Twilight (
** This line.
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** And this one.
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** Edward's first scenes. Inhumanly pale skin, fluffy retro hair, pink lipstick, and a vague, [[Sex Pistols|Johnny Rotten]]-like stare - and then, out of the blue, he trots up to Bella and says, "I don't think we should be friends".
** What about the expression Edward has when Bella first walks into the science room? He looked like he was going to vomit! Or he did... [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLnJFykb6G0 something else].
** The scene at La Push where Bella tells Angela to ask ''Eric'' out because she's a "strong, independent woman" (or pretty much those words).
** Jessica and her boob-tacular dress.
*** [[
** The cameraman must've had a lot of fun running around in circles getting all the SPECTACULAR SHOTS! Especially in the "you're a vampire!" scene.
*** Either that, or [[
** Jasper's perpetual O_________O face.
*** Oh, Jasper's just chock-full of narm. How can anyone take the ''New Moon'' party scene seriously [http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_M21-q1qmSDo/Smd3J4RHSHI/AAAAAAAAEAU/xJQE_-Zqi6E/s1600-h/jasper.JPG with this face]?
*** [[
*** Emmett looks like he smelled something nastay - maybe sparkly BO is worse than normal BO...?
** Billy Black's eyes bugging out as he drives past Edward.
** Edward calling Bella's scent his 'own personal heroin'.
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** The deleted scenes are even worse. On the DVD, they are prefaced with the ''unbearable'' [[DVD Commentary|ramblings of the director]], who wrote most of the narmy lines. (Hop on, spider monkey!) One of the uncomfortable deleted scenes is so [[
*** In another deleted scene, Bella's dreaming of Edward. In her dream, she literally grabs him by the shirtfront (as he stands [[Stalking Is Love|watching her sleep]]) and drags him back onto her bed while making out with him. So. Very. Eager. Along with Bella sleeping in her panties and a tank top, this quickly becomes [[Fridge Logic|"wow, Bella must be really horny."]]
** In ''New Moon'', Alice has a vision during the final Volturi meeting in which Bella (who is {{spoiler|destined to become a vampire}}) and Edward run through a forest. The scene is shot in lovingly overexposed film with the two characters running along, dressed in designer clothes and {{spoiler|sparkling}} like nobody's business. The idiotic smiles on their faces help seal the narminess.
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** The look on the werewolf's face before he nearly attacks Bella. '''"Hulk SMAAAAASH!!"'''
* The trailer for ''Eclipse'' has given us some narmy lines:
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* From Mexican [[Melodrama]] ''Nosotros los Pobres'', the scene that named the trope in the Spanish side of TV Tropes:
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* The scene in ''[[
** In fact, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YDpuA90KEY if you know the Wilhelm Scream is hard to take seriously any scene that uses it.]
* From ''[[
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** Also from ''Volcano'', a character makes a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] when he carries an injured man on his back and jumps into a pool of lava before throwing the man to safety. It would be dramatic if the man didn't slowly sink vertically into the lava with a high pitched scream. Since he does, it's got a [[The Wizard of Oz (
** The main threat of the movie is lava... which moves at about two miles per hour, especially when it's anywhere near people. [[Convection Shmonvection]] is in effect, and the ash in the air is treated as nothing more than an inconvenience.
** The hero in this film, before taking his present position in LA, was head of the FEMA [[Fictional Counterpart]] in ''St. Louis, Missouri.'' This explains almost everything this character does, from his being "always on duty" for most of the film to his ''refusal'' to even ''consider'' ordering the evacuation of LA. He's just treating the rivers of lava as if they were rivers of water that happen to set things they touch on
** "Look at their faces... they all look the same."
* The beginning of ''The Miracle Worker'': Kate started screaming when she found that her child was blind and deaf. But it was [[Large Ham|so overdone!]]
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** The "Mama! Papa! SHE KNOWS!" scene was spoofed in the episode of ''[[Strangers
* The opening of ''[[Suburbia]]''. A mom in a station wagon picks up a blonde teenage hitchhiker and then promptly blows a tire. She gets out to phone for help and [[Wall Banger
* ''[[
* The scene in ''This Is England'' where Shaun and Combo shout at each other after {{spoiler|Combo has beaten up Milky}} was pure Narm. Not only were both trying to chew the scenery, but Combo's Scouse accent also made it funnier.
* ''[[The Ten Commandments]]''. The dialogue seems like it was intended to be carved into monuments, not spoken by men who were slow of tongue and speech. Cecil B DeMille did it on purpose, but not for humor: that's just how the dialogue in Biblical epic films and 1950s theater productions works. [[Necessary Weasel|Expected then]], but funny for people who aren't used to those styles.
** The acting in the film is like a silent movie or a theatrical production from the time. Again, no problem then; but some viewers are no longer used to that acting style.
** The well scene:
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** The miscasting of Edward G. Robinson, best known for playing gangsters, as the villainous Dathan...with a heavy Brooklyn accent. "Yuh see?"
* In a [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119227/ retelling of Snow White], they change the original story a bit while still using old things ''from'' the original story that hadn't been used before. There's this one scene after {{spoiler|Lilli finally dies after eating the apple}}. Will suddenly pulls her out and throws her limp body over him, shaking her and yelling "BREEEEATHE!" twice.
* ''[[Hellboy (
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* The end of ''[[Marley and Me]]'' is supposed to be {{spoiler|a tragic scene in which the dog dies}}. The way our protagonist {{spoiler|slowly closes Marley's eyes and the ungrammatical notes his children put in his grave}} are over the top for some people. Others will [[Tear Jerker|still empathize,]] though.
* In ''[[Eragon (
** Galbatorix was keeping his dragon ''beyond a big-ass cloth map'' the entire movie. It was meant to be hyper-dramatic.
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** "We fight as ONE!" was ''meant'' to be a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]].
** How about that gem near the end?
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** The scene where Eragon wakes up after exhausting himself trying to save Saphira. Murtagh's face looks like he just played a priceless joke on Eragon.
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*** The above is made all the better by the fact that it's bloody obvious Eragon's actor is the only one taking the film remotely serious after the first ten minutes.
* The sex scene in ''[[Enemy
* ''[[Back to The Future]] Part II'' has Marty's reaction to seeing his father's grave in the [[Alternate History|alternate 1985]]:
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** BTTF Part 2 had Alternate-Biff, the ripple effect brought in the ham in droves.
*** Marty: First tell me how, where and when you got that book.
*** Biff: Alright, take a seat.
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* ''[[Back to The Future]] Part III'' originally had a scene before Marty's showdown with Buford Tannen where Buford kills Marshal Strickland. It was deleted because [[Robert Zemeckis]] felt it made audiences so unsympathetic of Buford that they would want him to be killed by Marty. The part with Strickland's son plaintively crying out "PAWWWWWW!" after his father is shot is (would have been?) dripping with Narm.
* Nuclear Man in ''[[Superman IV]]''.
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** ''[[Superman IV]]'''s [[Space Does Not Work That Way|failures at space-physics]]. In this film, space has an invisible floor.
* ''[[Superman II]]'' had a deleted scene, [[Edited for Syndication|reinstated for network TV airings,]] where the boy whose dad Zod dropped to the ground tries to leave the town to get help, and the Kryptonians kill him. "I said, no one leaves!" and "He was only a boy!" are definitely Narm.[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaa4aQ6YUeA\]
** The "Please Mister!"/"He's a general!"/"Please Mister General!" part that is in ''all'' versions is Narm, especially because this Midwest hick-town kid is speaking with a ''British'' accent. This part of the movie was shot in Surrey, England, doubling for a Midwest U.S. small town.
* ''[[Superman Returns]]'', when a criminal turns a gatling gun on Superman only for the bullets to bounce off of Superman's ''eyeballs'' in [[Slow Motion]].
** Well, the bullets from the gatling gun bounce of his chest, after which the criminal pulls out a handgun, walks up to Supes, and fires it point blank at his eye.
* In the middle of ''[[Shark Attack 3: Megalodon]],'' when the passengers try to escape the ship, they get eaten left and right by [[Special Effects Failure|badly-rendered sharks that swallow people whole]]. What was supposed to be a massacre ended up being a [[So Bad
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* The final scene of ''[[The Mist]]''. When the {{spoiler|tanks come in}} with the most ''[[Diabolus Ex Machina|contrivedly poor timing imaginable]]'', it's laughable. When {{spoiler|the woman who [[Stupid Good|walked headlong into the killer mist to save her children]]}} drives by, it's ''hilarious''.
** The protagonist's breakdown is doubly hilarious when his friends pointed out his silly sobs as his face contorted into the least convincing sad-face in all of cinema.
* In ''[[Matchstick Men]]'', when [[Nicolas Cage]]'s character freaks out in the pharmacy. The funniest nervous breakdown ever, and Cage has done ''many'' good/amusing ones in his career. Videos are [http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=7TU28J8_2OU here] and [http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd6QgqbIyh4&feature=related here]. Watch out especially for his one-line Jamaican accent.
* ''[[Jurassic Park]]''
** The scene where Tim gets zapped on the fence.
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** When Grant bursts into his trailer on the dig-site....to be met with Hammond bent over, ass in the air, rummaging through his fridge with a bad VPL.
** "SHYOOOOOOOT HAAAAAAAR!"
** [[Laura Dern]] as Dr Satler is ''horrifically'' narmy throughout the film, numerous examples include: her high school play shocked-face on seeing the Brachiosaur for the first time, her wincing sobs of joy on encountering an unwell Triceratops, smashing her arm into a massive pile of dino-shit, her goofy running - "ru-uuuuuun!!", the bizarre and slightly un-hinged "Mr Hammond, I think we're back in business!" line when she reboots the power and finally - "S'GONNA COME THROUGH THE GLAAAASSSS!". Oh and also - "Look, we'll discuss sexism in a survival situation when I get back".....just ''awful''.
** Hammond's shrill, matronly scream when he overhears Grant shooting at the velociraptor.
** The merciless close-up of [[Samuel L. Jackson]]'s back-lit, whispy-tache mouth, munching on a cigar repeating "Access main program, access main secuuurity."
*** [[Samuel L. Jackson]] narms it up pretty well with the "PLEEEASE! GOD DAMNMIT! HATE THIS HACKER CRAP!"
* ''[[Space Mutiny]]''. David Ryder's shrill scream near the end of the movie leads Mike and the 'bots to imitate it a few times and giggle; but the most narm comes from the villain Kalgan ("take me away!"). His name sounds the same as a kind of water softener ''and'' a kind of bath product; his lines are delivered with weird pauses and mad cackling...seriously, just [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McgzrE6_LnA watch it].
** Kalgan is a one-man narmy.
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"Take this you space bitch!" }}
*** Kalgan is played by John Philip Law, who virtually made his entire career out of
** The whole "space dentistry" sequence is pure uncut Narm from beginning to end. First there's Kalgan's typical hammy performance as he explains how it works, "not that you'd know anything about that". Then he shines a laser on one of Lea's teeth, and her reaction to being horrifically tortured looks like a cheerful grin. And the ''laser'' makes a ''drilling sound'' like an actual dentist's drill. Then her inept seduction of an even more inept guard to escape, complete with copious [[Fan Disservice]]. Awful.
* A dramatic scene late in ''The Lookout'' is hampered by one character's loud, repeated insistence that "[[He
* The use of "Ride of the Valkyries" in ''[[Apocalypse Now]]'' under the bombing of the village, while appropriate, has been known to get laughs. [[Orchestral Bombing|"Ride of the Valkyries"]] is [[All There Is to Know About "The Crying Game"|all there is to know about]] ''[[Apocalypse Now]]'', and Coppola had [[Colonel Kilgore|Col. Kilgore]] choose that song [[Chaotic Evil|for]] [[Obligatory War Crime Scene|a]] [[War Is Hell|reason]] (not that it worked [[Do Not Do This Cool Thing|as]] [[Crazy Awesome|they]] [[Heroic Sociopath|intended]]). Because parodies of this have run rampant over the years, it's likely viewers will have seen them long before the movie, furthering the narminess.
* ''The Unborn'': A Jewish woman receives from her deceased Holocaust survivor grandmother a letter read aloud ''via'' voiceover (Jewish accent and all) that includes the line, "It has fallen upon you to finish what was started in Auschwitz." [[It Makes Sense in Context]], but it's so needless and wrong that [[Dead Baby Comedy|it's hilarious]].
** Also, when the old dude turns into that weird monster and got a ridiculous looking pancake head. Compared to that freaking kid, that was nothing at all.
** Don't forget that the unborn baby that was possessed by a demon is named... Jumby. [[That Guy With
* "You....complete me" in ''[[
** Hell, with that rictus smile of his, he looked like he was taking a dump through half the movie.
* ''Touching The Void'' is a generally well-done 2003 documentary about two mountain climbers' nearly-fatal attempt to climb a mountain in the Peruvian Andes. However, one [[Dramatization|re-enacted scene]] pulls the viewer out of the moment. One climber is pinned with a broken leg at the bottom of a cravasse. He begins yelling "Stupid!" repeatedly. It loses its effect around the fourth yell, and there are about a dozen. Halfway through, he switches to the even-more-melodramatic [[Cluster F
** There is a lot of [[Ho Yay]] in the film. If you imagine that the second ice climber is deliberately trying to murder the first
** At one point, we get a long sequence wherein the injured climber is lying in a delirium, probably dying, accompanied by lots of trippy camerawork and a song by Boney M. There was a reason for the
* Lestat in ''[[Interview
** In the book, that scene is almost creepy. But [[Tom Cruise]] dancing with a dead woman is just strange.
** Brad Pitt's [[Heroic BSOD]] while his Louisiana mansion burns down.
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** "AND YES, YOUR MASTER IS THE DEVIL!"
* ''Swing Kids,'' starring a young [[Christian Bale]] and Robert Sean Leonard, ends with what is supposed to be a heartwrenching scene where one of the characters is taken away by the Nazi gestapo for listening to swing
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** It's repeated over, and over, and over again. By a little boy with a very high pitched voice. Now, that was [
** The scene where one character {{spoiler|slits his wrists with shards of one of his jazz records}} comes off as both funny and disturbing. Same for the scene involving... the ash box. Were this film pro-Nazi, it would be a sad tale of a young man so extremely disillusioned with his country that he becomes obsessed with jazz music; he appears ''brainwashed'' into a life invested entirely in jazz, and he eventually {{spoiler|kills himself in a tragic scene}} shortly after driving his friends away. ''That all happens in this film!'' It's just a sub-plot to the main "I don't wanna be a Nazi" plot.
* During the finale of ''[[
** The way he nonchalantly says "no" sounds less like a man commanding bullets to stop and more like telling a cashier whether he wants fries with his burger.
** The bit where he fights the Agent off with one arm whilst looking slightly bored/stoned.
* In ''[[The Matrix
** [[Final Speech|The worst part is that her dying words end up being a dying monologue. It's hard to keep the scene dramatic when Trinity just keeps talking.]]
** Hugo Weaving's [[Evil Laugh]] after {{spoiler|consuming The Oracle.}} See [[For the Evulz]] for the image.
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* In ''[[Push]]'', the Screamers were supposed to be menacing, but they looked kind of ridiculous because of the way their faces contorted when they screamed (and because they were men with a superpower commonly attributed to women). {{spoiler|Except at the end, when the boys' father finds his sons dead and turns out to be not only a Screamer, but also extremely powerful. [[Oh Crap]].}}
** Even the screamers at the end seemed hilarious. Every time something tries to get done in an action sequence in this movie, some Screamer shows up out of nowhere and makes his O-face, and everybody else collapses in pain. They need their own family sitcom.
* From ''[[Watchmen (
** "STUPIDSTUPIDSTUPIDSTUPIDSTUPIDSTUPID!" Oh, Rorschach.... :/
** "YOU'RE LOCKED IN HERE WITH '''ME'''!!" The fact that Rorschach sounds like Batman while he's delivering the line doesn't help at all. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wu1tiMXqNEc The fight scene where he says the phrase was so comedic this troper almost had a heart attack from laughing, especially the black dude's screams].
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** Dr. Manhattan's giant glowing penis is capable of turning any scene it appears in into epic Narm.
** In the opening with the hippies and the soldiers:
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"Why thank you, little Hippie girl. The boys and I got you something, too."
"Yay! Bullets!" }}
*** [[Real Life/Tear Jerker|You sick son of a bitch.]]
*** [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/17/AR2007031701300.html You know that the massacre only took place in the Watchmen-universe, right?]
**** It combined two different real-life scenes. There was a protest where soldier(s?) fired on unarmed protesters, though no flowers were involved.
*** That would be the [
** The scene in ''Watchmen'' that took the cake was during Silk Spectre's climactic confrontation with {{spoiler|Ozymandias}}. "{{spoiler|"Adrian!! [dramatic pause...] You're such an asshole!}}" Yes, it was in the comic (with slightly different wording), but the actress's delivery killed it.
*** Silk Spectre just stands around doing nothing while Doctor Manhattan goes after {{spoiler|Ozymandias}}. When {{spoiler|Ozymandias}} returns to the main hall, Silk Spectre just magically appears from beside him.
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** "The Comedian... was your ({{spoiler|Laurie's}}) father." That line was so unnecessary after the flashback sequence I burst out laughing at it.
** Both Rorschach's voice and the random slow-motion in fight scenes can be justified as parodying some more ridiculous elements of superhero movies, much as the comic deconstructed and parodied various comic book tropes. Not that this makes them better to watch, necessarily. YMMV.
* ''[[
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"Mama wake UUUUUUPPPPP!"
"Mama, I want hot dogs!" }}
** At times, he sounded exactly like [[Psychopathic Manchild|Crackers]] from ''[[Pink Flamingos]]''.
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* ''[[Born On the Fourth of July]]''. It's hard to shed a tear over Ron's frustration and despair when [[Tom Cruise]] is yelling "PENIS PENIS PENIS!" for nearly a minute straight. Also, the wheelchair fight between him and Willem Dafoe.
** Is '''that''' the [[Church of Happyology|Training Routine]] which comes after giving forceful instructions to an ashtray?
* In the 2004 version of ''[[King Arthur (
** From the same film, the scene where Lancelot leaves his village. He turns back to look at a crowd of warriors watching him go, and they all scream at him.
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*** That's supposed to be ''Rus'', a Sarmatian battle cry. Why can't that guy speak clearly?
* From the movie of ''Stephen King's [[IT]]'':
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"This is battery acid, you slime!" }}
** The entire second half of the movie, the half featuring the adult actors, is brimming with Narm. For instance, there's Richard Thomas's (as adult Bill Denborough) laughable attempt at stuttering, and John Ritter's awkward love scenes (one of which involves macking {{spoiler|the bloody clown itself}}).
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** The reciting of the preamble:
** The tension of the final scene is undermined when you realize that none of the children are playing their instruments, and would have to be musical prodigies to play them that well.
* Longtime fans of ''[[
** Perhaps it is no surprise, then, that Miles O-Keefe himself saw the mockery of his film and found it so funny that he asked for a copy in the mail.
* ''[[Beowulf (
** Beowulf fights the monster Grendel ''completely naked'', resulting in a game of [[Scenery Censor]].
** The face of Beowulf's grizzled, white-haired actor was digitally pasted on to a much younger body.
** Beowulf burst out of a sea monster's eye screaming [[Large Ham|"BEEEEOOOOWUUUUULF"]]!
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* ''[[The Omen]]'' trilogy has plenty of comic death sequences.
** {{spoiler|Patrick Troughton getting a church spire through him}}
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** {{spoiler|The black guy}} and the cable
** {{spoiler|Damien's burning aunt}}
* ''Cthulu Mansion'' (which, despite the title, has nothing to do with Cthulu) has a would-be dramatic scene at a carnival where one of the main characters gets shot in the leg and then kicked when he's down. Not only does the person doing the kicking appear to just be kicking his own foot, but also, during the same scene, the actor playing the character who just got shot in the leg shows up as an extra, casually walking by as security guards rush to the scene. See the video clip accompanying [http://www.badmovies.org/movies/cthulhuman/ this review].
* ''[[The Boondock Saints]]'', where Willem Dafoe's FBI investigator character just whips out his gun and yells, "There was a FIREFIGHT!" Possibly also the bit where he dresses in drag...
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** The entire franchise of these movies is pure narm. [[Narm Charm|And we wouldn't have it any other way]].
* In Disney's ''[[Hercules (
** Some of the Titans' voices are a bit silly. Especially when they are proclaiming what they will do to Zeus, and the hurricane one goes [[Punctuated!
** There's also the Cyclops using Hercules to play hackey sack and his [[Evil Laugh
* The football scene in ''Little Children''. Between Sarah's incredibly overenthusiastic cheering and both football teams vanishing immediately, it's more funny than emotionally moving.
* The 1977 B-movie ''Death Bed'' is for the most part a borefest, but has a few moments of truly fantastic narm.
** After claiming one of its victims, the bed lets out a low moan, and then consumes the contents of her bag, including... wait for it... ''Pepto-freaking-Bismol.''
** The most boring scene in the movie is probably the one where a character drags herself from the bed, moaning repetitively and unconvincingly, for a whole two minutes and fifty seconds... until she gets lassoed by the bedsheet. Shades of ''[[
** One character late in the movie gets his hands skeletonized by the bed but remains quite composed throughout. His reaction when the tip of his finger falls off:
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* From the psychological thriller ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwSYBMLTbWY Session 9]'', featuring David Caruso:
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"Hey," ''* gratuitous zoom* '' "'''Fuck you.'''" }}
** Caruso was okay in that movie, and the direction was great on the whole, but Caruso happened to have his worst delivery at the exact second the director faltered.
* In ''[[The Black Dahlia]]'', the resemblance between the characters Madeleine Linscott and Elizabeth Short is a plot point. But their respective actresses, sharp-faced, full-lipped Hilary Swank and waifish, wide-eyed Mia Kirshner, aside from both being attractive young brunettes, look NOTHING alike. Another character's exclamation of "She looks like that dead girl!" has been known to shock audiences into confused laughter.
* ''Gallipoli'''s final scene, in which {{spoiler|Archie goes out of the trenches and is shot.}} The exact moment of this is a freeze-frame, which then fades to black. The Narm comes from the freeze-frame lingering for so long that the viewer might start wondering if the film (or tape or DVD) is defective.
* ''[[
** Conan "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbQA1xXLbVU realizing his sense of worth]" (Aka, stabbing a guy 47 times in the face).
** Conan's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V30tyaXv6EI philosophy of life] (Da lamantation of da ''women!'').
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*** And you know what? [[Narm Charm|It's best this way]].
** The often-mocked scene where he punches a camel in the face.
* ''[[
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* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPNJNpuCnPY This song] from ''[[Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam]]'' is supposed to be heartrending, but it's just hilarious.
* ''Nights in Rodanthe''. Towards the end, {{spoiler|Diane Lane first finds out that Richard Gere is dead and is clutching their letters and crying}}; this may be funny to viewers outside the intended demographic.
* ''The Trojan Women''. Talthybius ([[Brian Blessed]]) tells Andromache (Vanessa Redgrave) that he has to throw her son Astyanax off a cliff. She screams inarticulately for, seriously, about five minutes as the soldiers try to grab the boy from her; she keeps twisting her body (she's really tall) in front of him as they lunge ineffectually. Plus, Astyanax is supposed to be a baby, but the kid playing him looks about eight and says '''nothing''' the whole time people are discussing his murder! Wouldn't you at least react?! Even poor Katharine Hepburn's -- um, Hecuba's -- constant shaking (caused by a hereditary disorder) can be amusing.
* [[Blue Velvet|"Why are there people like Frank in the world?"]]
* In ''[[My Sister's Keeper]],'' Cameron Diaz breaks down into hilariously awful tears and what were meant to be heart-wrenching sobs. The audience was still laughing even as {{spoiler|her daughter dies from cancer}}.
* A high percentage of ''[[
** This film is trying to get people afraid of [[Family
*** It's absurdly disturbing or disturbingly absurd; we can split the difference.
*** And then there's what the movie says about America's adoption process. {{spoiler|That [[Abusive Parents|a woman]] who almost got her youngest child killed via neglect while in a drunken stupor and is still in therapy for many serious issues would be allowed to adopt is hilarious.}} In real life, it's hard for fit and capable parents to adopt. However, these parents can just walk into an orphanage and pick out a special needs child when {{spoiler|they can't take care of their own special needs child.}}
* From ''[[Iron Man (
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"You said not to."
"JUST PUSH IT!!!" }}
** [[Memetic Mutation|"TONY STARK WAS ABLE TO BUILD THIS IN A CAVE! WITH A BOX OF SCRAPS!"]]
** [[Memetic Mutation|"I LOVEEE THIS SUIIT!"]]
* The ''[[A Clockwork Orange (
** Also, the look on the author's face when {{spoiler|he realizes that Alex is the guy who raped his wife.}} Even the actor thought it was too much, and complained to Kubrick that "I look like I'm takin' a shit!"
* In ''[[Quarantine (
* Almost every possible dramatic scene in ''[[
** Somewhat justified in that he's using the Afrikaans word "fok," which means the same thing but is pronounced slightly differently.
** [[The Reveal]] of Wikus' {{spoiler|claw hand}}.
** The part just before Wikus vomits and blacks out repeats the line "cut some ''cake!''" in slo-mo, and it ends up sounding an awful lot like a bad Bill Cosby impersonation.
* Near the end of ''[[Strangers
* '''[[Judge Dredd|YOU BETRAYED THE LAW!]]'''
** '''LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAW'''
*
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* ''[[
** Let's not forget the movie's climactic battle scene where the [[Big Bad]] levitates from the balcony, arms outspread, and intones, "How 'bout I make you... my wi-otch."
* ''[[Face Off]]'': "I'm going to take his [[Title Drop|face... off]]."
** Even Better: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lgin11TH6g&feature=channel_video_title "DDDDIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!"]
** Most of Nic Cage's time as Castor Troy is full of this especially that one face he makes when he grabs the girl's butt.
** I'm sorry, but as Cage had his Berserk Button moment when he was Sean Archer first seeing himself in the mirror as Castor Troy, smashes the mirror with a chair and yells "Fuck You!" and points at person in the room #1 [camera shows shocked expression of person number 1], yells "Fuck You!" and points at person in the room #2 [camera shows shocked expression of person number 2], yells "Fuck You!" and points at person in the room #3 [shocked expression of person number 3]: I literally howled with laughter and rewound the DVD like 10 times.
* ''[[
* [[Sandra Bullock]] is so unintentionally amusing in ''[[Murder
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** Yes, that ''is'' the line used in the theatrical version.
*** It gets even [[Narm
* From Tommy Wiseau's masterpiece ''[[The Room]]'':
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** Also:
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** And then there's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnnTqFTHGuc this little gem].
** The scene where Tommy tears up his apartment and then kills himself - "Why, Lisa, WHY, WHY?! YOU BITCH!!"
** Then there's a short scene where all Johnny is supposed to do is buy some flowers. It's not sad, not funny or dramatic. It's just Johnny buying some flowers. But even such a simple and regular scene was too much for Mr. Wiseau. The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7S9Ew3TIeVQ results] has to be seen to be believed.
** The majority of the movie is Narm. Most of it can also be seen as [[So Bad
* From ''[[Mortal Kombat: Annihilation
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'''Sindel:''' Too bad YOU... will die. }}
** The Elder Gods declaring at the end, "The fate of the universe will be decided as it should be... IN MORTAL KOMBAT!!!!" just tends to unintentionally lampshade how utterly absurd the whole concept of the franchise is.
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** The film ends on a happy note with Lyra and Roger going to reunite with Asriel, hoping he'll protect them. This may elicit a bit of chuckle from anyone who has read the book... {{spoiler|Asriel kills Roger to further his plans when they get there.}}
* From ''Beyond,'' a little known 1986 horror movie bearing an odd likeness to "The Thing": A pair of scientists create a device that opens into a nightmarish, otherworldy dimension. After finding the deranged head scientist's "headless" corpse, the police arrest his assistant, Dr. Crawford, whose experience with the machine has reduced him to a gibbering wreck. At the rehabilitation center, he recounts his horrifying ordeal in one of the most laughable quotes possible:
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* As balls-explodingly awesome as ''[[Tom Yum Goong]] a.k.a. The Protector'' is, and as much as it's clearly supposed to be dramatic, the scene where a bunch of [[Giant Mook
* The religious film ''[[Facing the Giants]]'' features a scene where Coach Grant gives one member of the football team a lesson on motivation by making him crawl from one end of the field to another while carrying his classmate on his back. The number of times he yells at the player to keep going makes it hilarious instead of motivating.
** Every single moment with the coach's wife. True, most of the cast had never acted before due to the low-budget, locally filmed nature of the movie, but most of them are at least trying. The wife, by contrast, seems like she just stepped out of Hee-Haw.
* Don't see ''[[
* From ''[[Saw|Saw V]]'':
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* From ''[[Saw|Saw VI]]'': The entire scene revolving around the Carousel Trap.
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"Piranha..." }}
* From ''[[Saw|Saw 3D]]'': "Why couldn't you just SHUT THE FUCK UP?!"
* In ''[[Daredevil (
** Speaking of Bullseye, the scene where he stands up on his motorcycle. Yes, Colin Farrell, we get it. You think you're a badass. Go away.
** [[What Do You Mean
** Daredevil standing out in the rain and thunder saying "I'm not the bad guy".
* The 1999 remake of ''[[House
** Once the survivors escape the horrific and murderous house, they cheerfully end the film with these lines:
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"Okay, but one more thing--how do we get down from here?"
* laughter* }}
* ''[[Big Fish]]'': A film directed by [[Tim Burton]] about a man who goes on a bunch of amazing, and sometimes supernatural adventures during his younger years. Now old and near death, the man's incredulous son tries to reconcile him by telling him a story of how he dies. In the alternate dream version, he takes his father out of the hospital and after that escape he takes him to the lake. Everything in that scene is extremely emotional, until the end. Before saying goodbye, Will finally tells his father:
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* The 1934 version of ''Imitation of Life'': Claudette Colbert saying "I want my [[Inherently Funny Words|quack-quack]]" with all her usual elegance and gravitas. That's the ''last line'' of the movie, folks. It's intended to be an [[Ironic Echo]], which only makes it worse.
* ''Disco Pigs'' (an indie Irish film) had Cillian Murphy, [[Dawson Casting|a twenty-four-year-old man, play a sixteen-year-old boy]] at the heart of an obsessive romance that makes Bella and Edward look independent, when everyone else in the film either was much younger or looked much younger. The movie's overuse of slow mo didn't help. Just ''try'' to watch the scene where Murphy's character loses it in the men's room for fifteen bloody minutes without thinking, "Cheer up emo kid!" And slow-motion in the crying scenes... A Veritable Narm goldmine!
* There's a scene in ''[[
* Dr. Conrad Zimsky's rant in ''[[The Core]]''.
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* ''[[The Right Stuff]]'' shows how thin the line between a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] and [[Narm]] can be. One particular moment has a jeep driver surveying the crash site, spotting a distant figure, and asking "is that a man?" Quick cut to Chuck Yaeger walking proudly [[Out of the Inferno]], and then to the other man answering, "you're damn right it is!" Depending on where you are on the [[Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism]], it can be highly awesome or hilariously awesome.
* At the end of ''[[Gran Torino]]'', when [[Clint Eastwood]] {{spoiler|starts singing about his car.}} It's supposed to be a solemn, bittersweet ending, but that was just too much.
** The most ridiculous moment was probably Tao trying to break out of the basement screaming "WAAAAALT WAAAALT LET ME OUT RIGHT NOW! WAAAALT!"
* The rape scene in the ''Swept Away'' remake is robbed of any power it might have thanks to two things. Firstly, the sequence doesn't even attempt to disguise the fact that both parties are still wearing their pants throughout the whole thing, and secondly the victim is being played by [[Madonna]], whose legendary acting un-ability just makes her seem whiny and slightly annoyed during the sequence.
* ''[[
** Buildings are collapsing, people are screaming, the characters are racing to reach the airport in time... And suddenly a giant donut rolls by.
*** The Brazillian dub made it even funnier by making one of the characters shout ''"Cuidado com a rosquinha!!!"''(Watch out for the donout!!!)
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** Seriously? No one's going to mention "WHERE ARE THE SPACESHIPS?!?!"
** Gordon tells Kate "I think there's something driving us apart" or something to that effect, and immediately the ground ''fissures'', right between them both. By this point, many viewers were certain that the film had segued into happy self-parody mode.
** After watching [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jUP1k-PKh0 This] you will never see a certain scene the same way again. "The ''latinos...'' '''HAVE MUTATED!''' And they're heating up the planet *dances*"
* Parodied '''''MERCILESSLY''''' in ''[[Dirty Work]]'': ''"Now he's taken'' my ''chainsaw, and he's using it on'' '''ME!'''
* Moviegoers went into hysterics after watching the trailer of ''[[Legion]]'', during the scene where a possessed elderly woman climbs up onto the ceiling.
** [[That Guy With
*** It wasn't so much the lady for me as the guy screaming "SHOOT IT!!!" at the top of his lungs.
** In the movie itself: the [[Special Effects Failure]] with the evil ice cream man, the fact that there's a character named ''Jeep'', Gabriel's chainsaw-mace thing, "I just want to play with your baby!"
* In ''The Life and Death of [[Peter Sellers]]'', the climactic recreation of Peter playing Chance the gardener in ''[[Being There]]'' is made unintentionally amusing by Geoffrey Rush's failure to get the voice
* In ''[[Dogma]]'', when {{spoiler|Bethany learns that she's a descendant of Jesus}}. She responds by running away and falling into a lake and screaming to the heavens "WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU WANT?!?" It was supposed to be... dramatic, maybe, but it ends up as just silly. Probably due to the sudden [[Mood Whiplash]].
* ''[[A
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* The last five minutes of ''[[Requiem for
** Any film that packs simultaneous fates of {{spoiler|gangrenous arm removal, deep-South imprisonment, lobotomy, and donkey sex}} has veered from parable to parody.
*** How on earth hasn't anyone mentioned: ASS TO ASS! [[ASS 2 ASS]]!!!
* Ditto that for the "blackout" sequences in ''[[Y Tu Mama Tambien]]''. Okay, we get it - things die. After the "pig picnic" scene, though, the cutaways meant to symbolize the innate tragedy of mortal existence become laughably narmtastic. By the end, it's damn near impossible to take them seriously... which ruins what could have been a powerful climax.
* That fucking piano theme used to death in ''[[Eyes Wide Shut]].'' Oh, hell with it - just the entire ''duration'' of ''Eyes Wide Shut''.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxkr4wS7XqY This infamous fight scene] from the 90s B-movie ''Undefeatable'' features a [[Knife Nut]] antagonist, gratuitous [[
* The climax of the movie adaption of ''[[
* The [[Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
** The creature murders Elizabeth in a gruesome manner, {{spoiler|ripping her heart out}}, but then her hair catches fire from some candles that were knocked over and Victor has to put it out before [[Died in Your Arms Tonight|he can embrace her dead body]].
** Can't forget the scene where he first creates the monster. After a hilarious "LIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIVE!!!!", the monster gets caught on hooks, knocked out, and dragged upwards, where we see its feet hanging. And the doctor ''just leaves it hanging there'' while he goes to collect himself!
* Dr. Varnick, the villain of ''[[Beethoven (
* The entirety of an Egyptian film called ''Ahlam Omrena, Dreams of Our Lives''. The DVD box cover claims it to be romance, comedy, drama, and action all in one. The opening of the film has a [[Meet Cute]] scene of the two leads, when suddenly "Khalid, your horse is giving birth!" Cue dramatic music, the rush to help birth a pony, and a ruined chance meeting. It doesn't get any better than that, or does it...?
* In ''[[Sherlock Holmes (
* ''[[
** In almost every single scene is the goddamn moon, even during the daytime! Even [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8TQs4F2_18 reviewers of Spill.com] noted how every scene transition is the moon. It was like the viewing audience were too stupid that to equate a full moon with every werewolf transformation.
** In the midst of the werewolf son and father battle, Benicio Del Toro's character's love-interest Gwen runs into another room to escape the battling beasts. Suddenly, right in the next scene she is already on the other side of the lawn outside the burning mansion. The scene cut looked like she managed to cover that much ground in only a few seconds, and wearing a thick Victorian dress no less!
** The less than subtle over-the-top gorn fest makes the movie seem more like a horror-comedy, than the horror-drama it was meant to aim for. Seriously, the werewolf actually completely beheads a guy hitting him once.
** Whenever the wolfman starts howling. However, it's more of a narm charm than pure out narm.
** The director's decision to use a computer animated bear and deer. Also doubles as special effects failure.
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** And shortly after that, the scene where the wolf is on the roof with the statue, howling at the moon. It's supposed to look all imposing and whatnot, but comes across as though he's raping the statue.
* [[The Swarm|"OH, MY GOD! BEES! BEES! MILLIONS OF BEES!"]]
* [[Lost in Space|"I love you, wife."]]
** Or maybe she's [http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/greenday/thegrouch.html Billie Joe Armstrong].
* From ''Richie Rich'':
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'''Regina Rich '''''"'''TNT!'''"''
'''Richard Rich Sr.''''' ''[mild surprise]'' Good gracious, Regina, it's a bomb!
'''Regina Rich ''''': Get '''RID OF IT!!''' }}
* From ''The Haunting (1999)''
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* The [[Butter Cream Gang]]: The entire movie. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOWW-r0AWr8 Go here] for some especially narmy highlights.
* Among many other things, ''[[Gigli]]'' contains the immortal and oddly prophetic line spoken by [[Jennifer Lopez]]'s character Ricki (requesting [[Ben Affleck]]'s character perform oral sex on her):
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** ''Gigli'' also contains the line: "[[Squick|Baywatch makes my penis sneeze.]]"
* ''[[Shutter Island]]'': When the power goes out and teddy and chuck go outside to see inmates running around aimlessly with nurses chasing them.
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** The ending of the first one made it look like they ran dry of their special effects budget. The head explosion when the [[Dragon Lady]] was sprayed by the [[Chekhov's Gun|garlic mace]] looked like a balloon popped. The [[Big Bad]]'s death looked animated. And the vampire spirits looked so badly CGI'd it ruins the seriousness of it.
*** Pretty much everything in ''Blade: Trinity'''s unrated version. [[Ryan Reynolds]] and the vampire trio that resurrect Dracula are the narmiest things in the whole franchise. They all hate each other ''so'' much, that they come up with the worst combinations of swear words and normal words ''ever'' to fling at each other as insults. On top of that, the vampire trio seems so immature and utterly nonthreatening, they come off more like spoiled douchebags than evil villains.
* The ''[[Clash of the Titans]]'' 2010 remake. Its [[Darker and Edgier|increased darkness and edginess]] somehow makes it ''[[So Bad
** When Perseus said to his men, in regards to Medusa: "Don't look that bitch in the eye."
** The line "Soldiers from Argos!" (as well as any subsequent reference to Argos) is hilarious if you live in the UK, where Argos is the name of a general goods retailer.
* The Ritchie Valens [[Biopic]] ''La Bamba'' ends with Ritchie's brother Bob (Esai Morales), after Ritchie's death ([[Captain Obvious|obviously]]), walking to the middle of a bridge, then crying out to the heavens "RRRIIIIIITCHIIIIEEEEE!!!"
* Who can forget [[Samuel L. Jackson]]'s epic [[Fire
** Or the spraying bit in ''[[Jumper (
** Speaking of him, there was one scene in the dreadfully boring thriller, ''Lakeview Terrace'', in which Samuel J. Jackson plays a racist cop terrorizing the mixed couple next door. At one point, Patrick Wilson is sitting in his car listening to loud rap music and smoking a cigarette when Samuel's character suddenly shows up. After giving a couple of not so subtle threats, what little tension this scene has created is blown away by a howl of laughter when he calmly says:
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* From ''[[An Education]]'':
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* Dr. Grace Augustine of ''[[Avatar (
** Another rather narmy moment in that film is in the scene where {{spoiler|Eytukan is killed during the destruction of the Hometree}}. Neytiri sounds suspiciously like she's saying "wakey-wakey" at one point, which can rather ruin the dramatic mood once you hear it.
** Depends on the viewer, but there are several events and lines in the movie that don't come off quite as dramatic as intended. The destruction of Hometree, particularly because of Quaritch's Colonel Kilgore moment during it, the {{spoiler|death of the Na'vi chief}}, and the "Eywa has heard you, Jake!" speech in the final battle can actually be pretty narmtastic, coming across as a bit over-the-top if you weren't fully drawn into the story.
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* ''[[Misery]]'': During the big fight scene, just as Annie Wilkes (played by Kathy Bates) falls to the floor and hits her head on the typewriter, the actress is replaced by a [[Special Effects Failure|really bad looking Kathy Bates dummy]].
* In ''For the Love of the Game'', the main character's girlfriend is trying to get him help in the hospital after {{spoiler|he cuts his hand open with a saw}} but no one will help them. In frustration, she screams:
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* ''[[Ninja Assassin]]'' has an unforgettable scene where the hero and his potential love interest are tending bonsai trees.
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'''Raizo:''' I don't.
'''Kiriko:''' Want me to check? ''(she applies her ear to his chest)'' Yes. It says "Hello!" It misses you. }}
* The first ''[[X
** It's a holdover from [[Joss Whedon]]'s pass at the script, where Toad had a [[Running Gag]] involving "what a toad does" about so-and-so. The payoff line stayed in, but not the buildup. Even knowing the context, however, it's still kind of a dumb thing to say.
* ''[[X
** Michael Fassbender (who plays adult Erik) puts in the best performance of the whole film. Unfortunately, about two-thirds of the way in, he starts lapsing into an Irish accent. By the final scene on the beach, he sounds like Ian Paisley asking where the terrorists operate from.
** "I can't feel my legs. I can't feel my legs. I can't feel my legs."
** The scene where Banshee learns to fly by screeching in the air while uplifting music plays.
* Don't we have any from ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]''? The opening scene of ''At World's End'', with the mass hanging of the pirates and the little boy leading them in the "Hoist the Colours" song, is properly
** "You like pain? Try wearing a corset!!"
* ''Bad Girls'' has this infamous line:
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* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyhUtS6rK1c Behold, the trailer for one of the most ridiculous horror movies ever made.] If the [[Ham and Cheese|cheesy narrator]] doesn't get you, [[Dull Surprise|the acting]] will.
* Depending on who you ask, both the 1973 and the 2000 version of ''[[Jesus Christ Superstar]]''. To give some examples from both:
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** Jerome Pradon's accent in the 2000 version. 'YOU HAVE MAH-DAH'D ME!'
** Judas's death in 1973 version. He hangs himself with his belt.
* ''[[
** Cobb talking to Mal in limbo, which is an extremely intense scene - until Cobb gets to his "all your perfection, all your imperfection" speech. It probably is the only time in the film [[Leonardo
** [[Leonardo
* ''The Prince of Tides'' is a prime source of narm. The hilarious break-down scene where Nick Nolte break down crying in BARBRA's arms and she whispers "it was sooo hard, you've had to keep it all inside" while a single tear runs down her shiny, shiny face is a prime example of narm. The entire film is indeed one big narm-fest, where chewing the scenery is not only encouraged but required.
* ''[[Basic Instinct]] 2''. During his sex scenes, David Morrissey ''always'' looks like he's about three seconds away from tossing his lunch. You almost expect him to ask Sharon Stone if she has any Dramamine.
* The premise of ''[[Seven Pounds]]'', build up and emotional beating over the head just '''fail spectacularly'''. The main character is unlikable and {{spoiler|delivers the [[Broken Aesop]] of the movie by killing himself}}. It basically boils down to the emotional equal of [[Tastes Like Diabetes]].
** This is pretty much caused by the film's cold open where {{spoiler|Tim reports his own suicide}}. You know how the movie's going to end, so it's impossible for the suspense and emotion to actually get to you.
* The entire 90-minute running time of ''[[The Lonely Lady]]''.
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* Masako Tezuka from ''[[Godzilla]]'' and ''Mothra: the Battle for Earth'' has her mouth hang open when seeing Godzilla's [[Kick the Dog]] moment flinging the Mothra larva from his tail as [[Disproportionate Retribution]] for biting the tip of the tail.
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** '''Alot''' of the movie is narm, mainly due to all the unnecessary [[Mind Screw]] elements.
** "GET OUT OF MY BRAIN! GO BACK TO WHERE YOU BELONG!"
* The [[They Just Didn't Care|rage-inducingly inaccurate]] movie adaptation of ''[[The Dark Is Rising]]'' has plenty of this, ranging from the poignant bouncy balls to an (unintentional?) [[Actor Allusion]] involving [[Christopher Eccleston]] as... [[Doctor Who
* ''[[
** The sheer awfulness of that scene has to be emphasized. What we have are six or seven Earthbenders moving in perfect precision and choreography and stomping the earth, and then from the side of the screen a rock about the size of a football floats lazily towards the Firebenders. They would have done better simply to pick up rocks and throw them.
*** To be fair, the 6 Earthbenders were more likely responsible for the second wall of earth that was bent up to block a fireball, as the man who was saved looked towards them immediately after. And there's a seventh man present that actually shoots the rock at someone. It doesn't save the scene however, because of awkward choreography and camera movement made it look like they were moving the little rock.
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** Iroh's dreadlocks. Iroh's from the Fire Nation, not Rasta Nation, mahn.
** And in her first scene scene, Yue's hair seen from the back happens to look like a penis. That was the only thing the Cinema Snob found entertaining. Since her hairstyle changes for the rest of the movie, one must wonder if she noticed...
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8E8LYmqmgn4 "This time we show the fire nation that we believe in our beliefs as much as they believe in theirs".] Since when did this become ''[[
*** Made even more awkward when this was said right before she {{spoiler|gave her life to the Moon Spirit}}, a pure [[Tear Jerker]] in the series.
*** [[
** Another great line is "Again, I offer my condolences on your nephew burning to death in that terrible accident". Subtle, Zhao...real subtle. He then goes on to talk about Iroh's son dying in the siege of Ba Sing Se, at great length and detail.
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU1hYgGcosA "HOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"] They obviously meant it to be dramatic, but it fell short of that and just sounded like a walrus' mating call. Or, seeing as waterbenders get their power from the moon, one could easily interpret that they are actually werewolves due to this war cry...
*** Also, the close-up of two waterbenders who looked more like Jonah Hill and Jesse Eisenberg. [[
** Due to the difference between American and British English, "I could tell at once that you were a bender, and that you would realize your destiny." has much different connotations.
** "I am Prince Zuko, son of the Fire Lord and heir to the throne....'''[[Punctuated!
** Katara shoving a Fire Nation Soldier (aka [[Fan Nickname|Ka-tackle]]).
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** Before that, "IT'S TIME FOR YOU TO STOP DOING THIS!". Not convincing, AH-ng.
** One that many people miss is an old man saying "They took away any....tools...related to...bending." [[That Guy With
*** SOME OF THE GREAT MONKS. CAN MEDITATE. FOR FOUR DAYS.
** Anytime Zhao is on-screen. His whiny voice is a contrast from the sexy voice of the one and only Jason Isaacs. He's basically talking as if he's doing commentary on [[The Daily Show]].
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** Remember when {{spoiler|Zuko's ship got blown up}}? In the movie version, Iroh, who was busy having his foot massaged, simply pushes his masseuse aside and shouts "ZUKO!!!!" with his hands way up.
** And then right after {{spoiler|Princess Yue's sacrifice}}, the moon finally returned. This was supposed to be a moment of hope, and ''then'' a Northern Water Tribe villager starts shoving a Fire Nation soldier to the ground, instead of doing some water whip or something. Not only this is unintentionally hilarious, this scene completely misses the point of connecting the moon with waterbending.
** The ending, {{spoiler|right before the Azula stinger}}, was supposed to be an epic bowing down scene ala ''[[The Lord of the Rings (
** The Deleted Scenes are arguably worse. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YToyaLSLQM0&feature=player_embedded This one] starts with the stupidity of Soh-ka hitting a Fire Nation mook on the ass with his boomerang, Katara's wooden acting, and the dancing. My God, the dancing. And then the crew wanders into the shot.
** And what the hell, watch [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbi7xUd5TPc this].
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** When Zhao {{spoiler|fights Zuko.}} He does this firebending move that basically involves first a lot of spinning, and then him cupping his hands by his chest and thrusting outwards. MAN-BOOB BLAST!
*** And to deflect the attack, {{spoiler|Iroh}} puts both of his hands in front of him and the fire parts to both sides. Any possible awesomeness is ruined by the fact that he looks kind of like an Indian Moses.
* ''[[
** Or the scene with the organ. What should have been a really dramatic moment was utterly ruined by the fact that ''none of the keys were pushed down''. Considering this is a Spielberg movie with a budget in excess of 100 million, you'd imagine they could have afforded some tape to stick them down.
* ''[[Music of the Heart]]'' is loaded with narm. It's quite unfortunate, because the true story on which it is based is genuinely inspiring. The film wastes a good source material, good casting and good music on [[Playing Against Type|director Wes Craven]] and first-time screenwriter Pamela Gray. There is a lot of chunky exposition to the camera, unnecessary embellishment of real events, and a good deal of histrionics - see whenever Roberta yells at her really nice mom or her really nice kids. The characterisation of Roberta is garishly inconsistent - an incredible feat, considering Roberta Guaspari is ''a real person''. When [[Meryl Streep]] starts to look like a bad actress, you know the script is beyond salvation.
* ''[[Tristan and Isolde]]'', the 2006 film. Isolde and her nurse find Tristan near-dead on a beach with hypothermia, so she immediately strips to warm him up, and tells her nurse to do the same.
* ''[[The Social Network]]'' features two extremely emotional scenes between the two leads, showing how the cracks are forming in their relationship...revolving around a chicken.
** To be fair, the chicken thing is treated as fairly ridiculous in-universe. Watch [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPlzlVegfbA this scene] and just look at Justin Timberlake's interjections.
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** A large portion of this troper's history class started laughing during that scene (especially with that one yell). Our teacher paused the movie and yelled at us about it.
** [[Justified Trope|In fairness]], Gandhi [[Real Life|really did say ''Hē Ram'', which can be translated as "oh God",]] and he really did say it in [[Major Injury Underreaction|a mildly annoyed tone of voice]], because, well, "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH," would hardly have been like him, would it? [[Badass|Even getting shot in the chest can't break MKG's serenity.]]
* Flex Your Rights.com's very informative movie "10 Rules For Dealing With The Police" includes this [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmrbNLt7Om8&p=1B0B357282389571#t=8m40s scene].
* The vintage [[Scare
* ''[[Cool
** "Drop that zero and get with da hero!"
*** [[That Guy With
** "I'm gonna drop some funkeh lyrics!"
** "I could have it done by...tomorrow!" "TOMORRAH?!"
** The scene where the two crooks track Cathy...by following about three feet behind her, on a darkened and deserted street, with their lights on. Also, the scene where one of them tries to catch her little brother.
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Iy4DLp0WQU The bike jump.]
* In ''[[
* ''[[Battle: Los Angeles]]'' has a couple that happen almost back to back:
** The first comes when Aaron Eckhart is trying to console a small child. He tells him, in his overwrought [[Sergeant Rock]] voice, that he needs him "to be his little Marine". Instead of a [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]], we get an uncomfortable jingoist slogan with shaky pedophilic undertones.
** Right after that, he has to deal with a Marine who hates his guts because he got his brother killed in action. Eckhart proceeds to rattle of a [[The Dead Have Names]] list to demonstrate that he still feels regret for every man lost under his command. Okay, not bad. But then he utterly destroys any semblance of emotional stock he gained by saying "But none of that matters now." I guess he was trying to make the point that they needed to focus on the task at hand rather than dwell on the past, but it comes off as "Okay people, we got the emotional side-story out of the way now. Let's get back to the 'splosions!" It has garnered laughter from every audience that I've seen it with.
* ''[[Excalibur (
* ''[[Brokeback Mountain]]'''s "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwlYo8EYTWI I wish I knew how to quit you!]" anyone? I just can't take Jake Gyllenhaal with a pornstache seriously.
* ''[[
* ''[[Sympathy for Lady Vengeance]]'' has a scene where the main character puts her face in a cake and eats it while sobbing. [[It Makes Sense in Context]] and it's heartwarming in its own way.
* In the second ''[[Twilight (
* The 2011 film of ''[[Jane Eyre (
* In the original ''[[Halloween (
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** In the Zombie remake, we have Michael bursting through a car windshield followed by Dr. Loomis shouting "MICHAEL! JESUS CHRIST!" as if he were reacting to someone spilling coffee on the floor. The line even became a meme in the Dread Central podcast and forums, usually used whenever Malcom McDowell is mentioned.
** Let's not forget the ending of Halloween: Resurrection. Michael has just been defeated and the heroine is being bombarded by reporters. She's rescued by Busta Rhymes' character who drops this gem.
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* ''[[Mississippi Burning]]'', given its premise of racism in Mississippi, has a pretty serious tone through most of the movie. However, when one character yells at another down a hallway with cries of "Mr. Anderson" with the cadence of [[The Matrix|Agent Smith]], the dramatic tone fizzles quickly into unintentional hilarity. Fortunately, this only affects that one scene.
* Eric Robert's crying in ''Pope of Greenwich Village'': "THEY TOOK MY THUMB, CHAAAAARRRLLLLIIIIIIIEEEE!!!! THEY TOOK MY THUMB!!!"
* Nothing to say about Mink Stole's best line in ''[[Pink Flamingos]]''?
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* Although the ''Invisible Children'' documentary definitely had the best of intentions, and definitely touched a lot of audiences, however the one scene where the orphaned boy cries has been known to make immature high school audiences laugh, due to the strange noises he makes while crying.
* ''[[
** This troper always thought that the scene in the remake where the helicopter blows up the car is hysterical: one of the main characters just died, it's supposed to be really sad, and
* The ''[[
** In an early scene in ''[[The Enforcer]]'', when a criminal gang demands a getaway car, Harry gets in his squad car and rams the shop front where the criminals are holed up, taking them utterly off guard. In a later scene, Harry is chasing an assassin on foot across rooftops, who accidentally falls through a roof window - right into a porn film shoot. Harry also uses a toilet plunger on an underworld figure's face to extract information from him.
** In ''[[The Dead Pool]]'', the celebrity killer attempts to blow up Harry Callahan's car with a modified RC car infused with C4. However, the attempt fails when some kid playing with his own RC car interferes with the bomb-car's radio frequency. Instead of waiting for another opportunity, the killer starts a downright hilarious [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4zARMxqbkI RC car chase] across [[San Francisco]].
*** In addition, {{spoiler|Johnny Squares death}} was horrific until you notice he was flailing about in a particularly weird way. The poster taken by the killer does not help as it seems to indicate what happened in a slightly silly manner: {{spoiler|"You check in. You die."}}
* ''[[2001: A Space Odyssey
* The ending of ''[[Buried]]'' could be seen as this. Especially the line {{spoiler|"I'm sorry Paul. I'm so sorry..."}}. YMMV, of course.
* [[The Reveal]] in the movie ''The Life of David Gale'' is like this: {{spoiler|"She did it herself!"}}. Um, that's pretty clear after what the [[Too Dumb to Live|reporter]] did...
* ''[[Green Lantern (
* The ''[[Phantasm (Film)|Phantasm]]'' series is full of narm. For example, this line in [[Phantasm II|the second film]]:
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** The way Jody says "Tommy" upon seeing said person's dead body in the first film.
* ''[[The Langoliers]]'' and that horrible cereal noise.
** "[[Chewing the Scenery|Scaring a little GIRL?! SCARING A LITTLE GIRL?! LADY!!]]"
* ''Contamination .7'' (aka Troll 3) has an unfortunately hilarious rape scene in which the rapist repeats, "I'm gonna stick it to yoo" while bouncy synth music plays on the radio, and the girl shrieks, "Get off me, you pig!"
* ''[[Menace II Society]]'' has the "Basehead" scene. It's actually a very accurate portrayal of how actual crackheads behave, and how their dealers treat them (though they usually don't kill them) but as most people are unfamiliar with such things it comes off narmy.
* ''[[Super Mario Bros. (
* The movie ''[[
* ''[[Insidious]]'' has some pretty freaky stuff, however the commercial reveals that one of the ghosts/demons....[http://totallylookslike.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/darth-maul-totally-looks-like-demon-from-insidious.jpg Looks hilariously like Darth Maul]{{Dead link}}.
* In ''[[Problem Child]]'', a scene where Junior and his criminal hero go to the circus was probably meant to be an example of [[Dude, Not Funny]], but Michael Richards' delivery in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHKotCnjYow this scene] is just so hilarious that even a little kid will laugh at watching a random clown get socked.
* Pretty much ALL of ''Australia'', largely due to a frankly eye-watering script.
** "Drove 'em home, drover."
** "I mix with dingoes, not duchesses."
* That famous scene from ''[[An Officer and
* In ''[[What Lies Beneath]]'', some initials appear on a computer screen to show the main character who has been killed. The problem? The initials are MEF, and they're repeated endlessly, making for a hilarious scene if you read the letters out loud.
* [http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l7mf5rgUUk1qczkbwo1_500.jpg Tagline on the poster] for ''The Day of the Dolphin'' neatly summarizes the plot of the film. Too bad it makes the plot seem something out of a comedy sketch.
* Just that one line from the trailer for ''[[
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* In ''[[
** Can't remember if it was her second or third run, but Lola runs out into the street and yells
* In [[Cyberbully]], main character Taylor Hillridge tries to kill herself by overdosing. However, due to a combination of over the top ridiculousness, bad acting and cheesy music, what was originally supposed to evoke heart wrenching emotions turned out to be quite hilarious. See for yourself: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fStdkvn4tnw
** "UR a liar Lindsay"
* In ''[[Resident Evil: Apocalypse
* The scene in the 1990 film of ''[[Lord of the Flies]]''. Just...dear good, the scene where Roger shoves the rock down the cliff is absurdly cheesy. And combined with Ralph's ''[[Big No]]''...This troper doesn't know a person who's seen it and not cracked up.
* Wade's death in ''[[Fargo]]''. A low, throaty "Ohhhhhhhhh..." combined with goofy bugged-out eyes. Of course, this is the [[Coen Brothers]] we're talking about, so it could just as easily have been [[Black Comedy]].
** Fargo is the embodiment of Narm in film form.
* ''[[Thor (
** Somehow, Loki manages to out-[[Narm]] both his father ''and'' brother (no easy feat), with such memorable moments as, "TELLLLLLLLL MEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!"
* The 1979 film, ''[[Prophecy (
* The [[Chewing the Scenery|scenery literally fell apart]] when Tobey Maguire starts wrecking the kitchen in ''Brothers''. See it [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3L5Fz7HDno here]. (1:07 onwards)
** '''''YOU KNOW WHAT I DID!!!!????'''''
* The scene in ''[[One Flew Over the
* ''[[
* ''[[
** Also, some people found {{spoiler|Cillian Murphy and Olivia Wilde's}} death scenes to be incredibly hilarious, the former because of the really silly circumstances that lead to it and the second one due to Justin Timberlake's reaction.
* [[The Thing Below]]. Just...TheThingBelow. The whole movie is narmful. From bad acting to horrendous dialogue to laughable CGI, the movie is impossible to take seriously. One of the most narmful lines in the whole movie came from a scene were a woman, while hallucinating, saw her dead son, and pulled a gun on him; the son said, and in a creepy monotone to boot:
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* ''[[Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves]]''. The Sheriff of Nottingham so very, very much. One has to wonder how [[Alan Rickman]] could keep a straight face.
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* Considering ''[[
** Similarly, in one of the many ''bizarre'' dream sequences, Johnny and four other soldiers are playing cards in a train station waiting to head back home. Sat with them is a stoned Jesus - played by a youngish Donald Sutherland - who has a bone dry sense of humour and proceeds to cheat at cards. The big pay off of the scene, {{spoiler|that everyone at the table is, in fact, dead}}, is done really well, but utterly ruined by the next shot. Jesus, with much wailing and rending of cloth, is seen hanging out the window of a train, floating aimlessly by on a really bad backdrop. It ''just'' misses being a [[
* ''[[Léon: The Professional]]'' has one Narmtastic scene in an otherwise great movie: After helping Mathilda escape Stansfield and his goons by stuffing her into the air duct, Leon suddenly turns around and BELLOWS into the camera like he's turning into a werewolf.
* ''Valley of the Dolls''. The entire film. It rather reaches its ludicrous climax with the scene where Neely O'Hara rips off Helen Lawson’s wig and flushes it down the toilet. It’s so silly, it’s hard to believe they didn’t ''intend'' for it to be a comic scene.
* In one scene in the 2005 version of ''[[House of Wax]]'' where the entire theatre cheered when the character Paris Hilton was playing got killed.
* Spike Lee's ''Jungle Fever'' ends with Wesley Snipes being approached by a hooker who offers to "suck yo big black dick for two dollas!" He responds by grabbing her in a tight hug and screaming [[Big No|"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!"]].
* [[Karl Urban]] is just terribly narmy as the villain in the loose film adaptation of ''[[Priest (
* Unless you're scared by dolls/puppets, ''[[Dead Silence]]'' will be a wonderful Narmfest. The cherry on the top is {{spoiler|the part about Edward being turned into a ventriloquist doll, especially the scene with his back hollowed to make room for the wooden shaft.}}
* ''[[Catwoman (
* ''Love Me Deadly''. When
* In ''Brother Bear'', Phil Collin's song being played while {{spoiler|Kenai tells Koda that he killed his mother.}}
** Also doing it like a story.
* '''[[The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo|"CAAAAAAT!!!"]]'''
** I know it's not supposed to be funny, but Daniel Craig's "fuck" during the dead cat scene makes me laugh.
* ''[[Scream (
* ''
* From 1981's ''Enter the Ninja'', the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0o7HKqvuO1U best death scene ever.]
* In ''[[Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
** I'll see your Dr. Reiss and raise you one [[Ghost Rider|Devil]]. Good lord, but that man's a fine Irish ham.
* The Wilhem Scream. Have a look (and listen) to the compilation [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdbYsoEasio here]. It works as a funny scream, but seems out of place as a serious, pained scream.
* You could write a ''book'' about all the Narm in ''[[The Number 23]]''. To start off...the main character in the titular book is named '''''[[Inherently Funny Words|Fingerling]]'''''. They try to write it off by claiming it's the name of the author's favorite children's book, but did ''no one'' working on the movie realize the potential hilarity of that name?
** The part where Walter's wife screams, "Look at all the BEAUTIFUL TWENTY-THREES! You don't want to DISAPPOINT them, DO YOU?"
* ''[[The Exorcist|Exorcist II: The Heretic]]'' is one huge steaming pile of bad movie covered in spicy narm sauce.
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'''Regan (in a rather matter-of-fact tone):''' "I was possessed by a demon."
<Sandra's eyes widen to the size of dinner plates
'''Regan:''' "Oh, it's okay. He's gone!" }}
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