Laughing In Cinemas

[anthonyu]

Over the weekend my friend and I went to watch The Dark Knight. (This will contain a spoiler so if you haven't seen the movie yet stop reading).

At the point where Joker tells Batman "You complete me" my mate and I naturally burst out laughing and ofcourse being in a room packed with Thai people no one but us found this funny which leads to strange stares and a ton of embarassment and us being careful not to make any noise for the rest of the time. So what do you guys do in this situation?

[eek]

Laugh and enjoy it. I know at the cinema sometimes Thai people are splitting a gut over something i didnt find v funny, other times im giggling over something and no reaction from them. Sometimes we all share the same sense of humour over something. I imagine often the Thai translation didnt come over the same way as it does in English and vice versa. Lost in translation Doesnt matter

edit: im sure the 'stares' were just out of curiosity as to why it was funny to you both. Then soon forgotten. Dont be self-conscious about it. Its entertainment, you are allowed to lose yourselves in a happy bubble hehehe!

Edited July 22, 2008 by eek

[barky]

Why did you get embarrassed? So when in a Thai movie Thais laugh and feel they shouldn't have because an alien was sitting in the picture theatre? Are you serious? Why does something like this embarrass you? Pay them no never mind. If you want to laugh do it?

[kiakaha]

Over the weekend my friend and I went to watch The Dark Knight. (This will contain a spoiler so if you haven't seen the movie yet stop reading).

At the point where Joker tells Batman "You complete me" my mate and I naturally burst out laughing and ofcourse being in a room packed with Thai people no one but us found this funny which leads to strange stares and a ton of embarassment and us being careful not to make any noise for the rest of the time. So what do you guys do in this situation?

As long as the laugh isn't a cellphone ringtone, laugh away.

Try going to a Thai slapstick comedy at the cinema and you'll hear plenty of laughs.

[tuky]

anthonyu, I have had a very similar thing happen to me.

Only worse.....

When I realised I was the only person laughing I found that to be even funnier and could not stop, the more I laughed at myself the funnier it got until I am sure someone was ready to call in the white coats.

It happened to me in a meeting at work too. I was thinking back to the night before when my wife told me she wanted to call our new daughter Pinky. I thought about this in the meeting (as you do) and I found it hilarious, burst out laughing to the amusement of my colleagues. Eventually they got the joke out of me and the meeting went downhill from there with Pinky Stinky jokes.

[TheDon]

Over the weekend my friend and I went to watch The Dark Knight. (This will contain a spoiler so if you haven't seen the movie yet stop reading).

At the point where Joker tells Batman "You complete me" my mate and I naturally burst out laughing and ofcourse being in a room packed with Thai people no one but us found this funny which leads to strange stares and a ton of embarassment and us being careful not to make any noise for the rest of the time. So what do you guys do in this situation?

Your lucky I wasnt there.

[A_Traveller]

The really worrying thing is it isn't in the least funny.

Regards

[tuky]

The really worrying thing is it isn't in the least funny.

Regards

I think it might well be, considering how ironic it could be.

The Joker saying "You complete me"

vs

Jerry Macguire saying "You complete me"

[clausewitz]

It was not funny in the least.

[A_Traveller]

^ Having seen the movie it is not in the least ironic and is enhanced by a scene where The Joker compares the two of them. {I also don't want to 'spoil'}.

Regards

Edited July 22, 2008 by A_Traveller

[tuky]

^ Having seen the movie it is not in the least ironic and is enhanced by a scene where The Joker compares the two of them. {I also don't want to 'spoil'}.

Regards

Fair enough, I haven't seen it so was unaware of the context.

[PhilHarries]

I wouldn't worry about it. When I went to see Apollo 13 right at the end when they do an epilogue piece narrating what each of the crew went on to do the audience, Thais, wet themselves laughing when the narrator announced that so and so went on to be blah blah but he died of cancer three years later.

Sense of humour is impossible to define and rarely crosses nationalistic boundaries. If a Brit tries to tell a German a joke (even if it's not about the war) chances are it'll fall flat. Humour does cross the Brit / Aussie divide which is a good thing otherwise we'd be constantly scrapping.

btw I didn't see anything funny in the line no matter who says it. Maybe it's a new age street speak thing.

[sgtpeppers]

just dont burst out laughing during the bit where you got to stand up.

[anthonyu]

The really worrying thing is it isn't in the least funny.

Regards

I think it might well be, considering how ironic it could be.

The Joker saying "You complete me"

vs

Jerry Macguire saying "You complete me"

Hey tuky, that's exactly what i was referring to. Oh the irony

[JOHN2]

I don't care if folk laugh in the cinema, it's the rude <deleted> that talk that bother me.

[t.s]

Over the weekend my friend and I went to watch The Dark Knight. (This will contain a spoiler so if you haven't seen the movie yet stop reading).

At the point where Joker tells Batman "You complete me" my mate and I naturally burst out laughing and ofcourse being in a room packed with Thai people no one but us found this funny which leads to strange stares and a ton of embarassment and us being careful not to make any noise for the rest of the time. So what do you guys do in this situation?

Your lucky I wasnt there.

yes, but that is true at all times

[donna]

ive not been to the cinema for ages - in fact i think that willy wonka (the remake) was the last movie i saw on the big screen. theres one line where willy wonka says to one spoilt little brat 'dont touch the squirrels nuts - they get agitated' or something like that. well, it just doesnt translate into thai, and i cacked myself laughing. and, as someone above mentioned, when i realised i was the only one laughing, it made me laugh even more.

i say go for it.

[Jimjim]

Over the weekend my friend and I went to watch The Dark Knight. (This will contain a spoiler so if you haven't seen the movie yet stop reading).

At the point where Joker tells Batman "You complete me" my mate and I naturally burst out laughing and ofcourse being in a room packed with Thai people no one but us found this funny which leads to strange stares and a ton of embarassment and us being careful not to make any noise for the rest of the time. So what do you guys do in this situation?

Who cares? I did that all the time in Bangkok cinemas. I knew that language difference (some jokes are just lost in the translation) and cultural humor meant that I would laugh at different times than the Thais watching most of the time. I didn't sweat it. Who cares? There's nothing to "do" in this situation but not care because it's not a big deal. I can't even believe you felt worried about it enough to post it here. Worried about the laugh police? :D Give me a break.