Narm / Film #-H

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A

• A & P: In the film adaptation of the short story by John Updike, 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."
• Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem:
  • An early scene 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:
    "People are dying. We need guns!"
• The Amazing Spider-Man: The crane scene has been called the cheesiest and most laughable moment of any Spider-Man films. Topped off with the spotlights forming a video game-style Puzzle Pan, minus the puzzle. Peter couldn't figure it out on his own?
• The Amazing Spider-Man 2: Has its own page.
• American Beauty: The famous scene of two characters watching a plastic bag blowing around gracefully in a breeze has come to be regarded as this by many viewers. While the sentiment behind the scene — that beauty can be found everywhere, even in unlikely places, if one knows how and where to look — is fine, many find the sheer solemnity and awe with which both the filmmakers treat the moment and the characters regard that plastic bag blowing around to be rather pretentious, overwrought and lacking in perspective (as one parody from Family Guy notes, while it might look nice at the end of the day it's still "just a piece of trash!"), and it's often become a target of parody. It gets even worse if you learn that the effect in the movie was staged (two crew members used garden leaf-blowers to get it to "dance"), since they're not even reacting to a naturally graceful moment.
• Angle mort: The Québec thriller has an infamous scene where one of the main characters searches the corpse of a police officer to find a pair of keys and fails to find them, after which the other main character loudly screams "CHECK DANS SES POCHES!" ("Check his pockets!"). The moment became so infamous in Québec media that the scriptwriter of the film appeared on a News Parody show to reiterate that the production company extensively rewrote his script without his permission and that his version did not feature the infamous line, even bringing a physical copy of said script to prove it.
• Annie: While walking home and singing "Tomorrow", Annie has a number of Imagine Spots of other pedestrians having fun with their kids while they're really doing mundane tasks. One man who appears to be tossing his toddler up and down is revealed to be doing this with a bucket of water for some reason.
• Apocalypse Now: The use of "Ride of the Valkyries" under the bombing of the village, while appropriate, has been known to get laughs. "Ride of the Valkyries" is Apocalypse Now, and Coppola had Col. Kilgore choose that song for a reason (not that it worked as they 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.
• "Apoy sa Dibdib ng Samar": Although the film is a flop, it is memorable for just one line delivered ridiculously by Mark Lapid: “Oo, inaamin ko, saging lang kami. Pero maghanap ka ng puno sa buong Pilipinas, saging lang ang may puso! Saging lang ang may puso!”^note English translation: "Yes, I assure you, we're just bananas. But if you can find a tree in the whole Philippines, only bananas have hearts! Only bananas have hearts!" The lonely music isn't fitting. It has even spawned a remix. If you want to see the clip, go to this link.
• Armageddon (1998): Grace and A.J. are pawing each other like horny teenagers after prom and A.J. tucks an animal cracker into her panties, then we get one of the most hilariously godawful dialogue exchanges in movie history:
  Grace: Baby, do you think it's possible that anyone else in the world is doing this very same thing at this very same moment?
  A.J.: I hope so, otherwise, what the hell are we trying to save? (A.J. then sucks Grace's ribs up her neck)
• Artemis Fowl: When Artemis watches a news report of his father's disappearance on TV, we're treated to an unintentionally hilarious shot of him dropping a giant bottle of milk onto the floor out of shock, complete with slow-motion effects and a dramatic zoom in on the falling glass. Immediately afterwards, Butler charges in and has to drag a screaming Artemis out of the room to get him away from the TV, instead of simply just switching the TV off or changing the channel.
• Avatar: Has its own page.

B

• Back to the Future
  • Back to the Future Part II has Marty's reaction to seeing his father's grave in the alternate 1985 (possible YMMV):
    "No! OH PLEASE, GOD, NO!"
    • 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: All right, take a seat.
      [Marty doesn't sit]
      Biff: I said, SIDDOWN!
  • 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 to 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.
• The Harvey Keitel film Bad Lieutenant has a sequence where a nun is raped by two men. The initial shot of the assault is all right, but someone on the production crew thought a cut to Jesus screaming on the cross would make the scene more horrifying. It turned out to be so on-the-nose that it became Narm.
• Ginger Rogers' recital of "Le Marseillaise" in The Barkleys of Broadway. Ginger snarls and shrieks her lines like a bad-tempered cat, yet still draws a standing ovation from the audience in the movie.
• Barton Fink: "LOOK UPON MEEEE! I'LL SHOW YOU THE LIFE OF THE MIND! I'LL SHOW YOU THE LIFE OF THE MIND!" Maybe it was meant to be symbolic and gruesome; but out of context, seeing John Goodman running down a flaming hallway with a shotgun screaming that...
• 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.
• Batman's introduction in Batman (1989). After sneaking up to some thugs, he decides to reveal himself to them by sloooowly standing up on top of a tall structure while extending his arms to make his cape look like bat wings in a scene that takes forever. Then rather than attacking the thugs, he leaps down and starts to do an Unflinching Walk that is suddenly cut off when the thugs shoot him down. It doesn't take, but the seeming anti-climax of Batman being dropped so quickly is very amusing. "Welp, movie's over!"
• Battlefield Earth: Has its own page.
• 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 Heartwarming Moment, we get a corny 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!"
• Baywatch (2017) might be a comedy, but it ruins one moment that probably shot for awesome instead: Before defeating the main villain, Dwayne Johnson's spouts out the Pre-Mortem One-Liner "I'm oceanic, motherfucker". Tellingly, her Last Words are reacting to that as "How tacky".
• Beowulf:
  • Beowulf fights the monster Grendel completely naked, resulting in a game of Scenery Censor.
  • Beowulf burst out of a sea monster's eye screaming "BEEEEOOOOWUUUUULF"!
    Michael J. Nelson: Hey, you guys; if I ever burst through the eye of a giant sea monster, I promise to have a better line ready than "MIIIIIIIKE!"
• 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:
  "You become what you always were... a very big fish".
  • This is actually an ironic subversion as Ed had always grounded his stories, many of which featured the fish in different forms, in reality of what had happened to him but had always exaggerated. Through this final absurd use of the metaphor his son gets on his wavelength, acknowledging the mundane yet admirable reality behind the man. Still doesn't make the line any less silly said out loud, though, especially with the flat, wooden way the actor delivers the line and the music swells as if to say, "SEE?! DO YOU GET IT?!".
• BIONICLE
  • In BIONICLE: Mask of Light, when Takua becomes Takanuva, he says "I am Takanuva, Toa of Light" in a hilariously girlish voice.
  • And later, to a lesser degree, when Turaga Vakama says "Let us now awaken the Great Spinach Spirit."
• The Blade Master: Ator and Mila are tied to stakes when the village around them gets pillaged and burned by an evil tribe. Instead of the stoic anger that you would expect from the macho but currently helpless hero of this kind of movie, Ator keeps glancing around with a panicked look and gives a petulant Big "NO!". Mila, meanwhile, grits her teeth and sticks her chin out (in the MST3K treatment, one of the bots shouts a very fitting "Rrr!").
• Blade Trilogy:
  • The ending of the first Blade made it look like they ran dry of their special effects budget. The head explosion when the Dragon Lady was sprayed by the 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.
  • Blade, in Blade II, when baiting Ron Perlman and his Blood Pack buddies: "Now you got an explosive device stuck to the back of your head!" Possibly meant only to be semi-serious, but should not have generated the widespread paroxysms of laughter that it did.
  • 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.
• Blade Runner: It was supposed to be terrifying, but Roy Batty chasing after Deckard, howling like a wolf, and smashing his head through walls like a cartoon character? Amusing.
  • 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.
• Bless the Child:
  • The incredibly fake CGI demons.
  • Stark's attempts to inculcate evil in Cody are unintentionally funny not only because they fail every time, but also because she is an autist and thus cannot understand the philosophical musings he insists to produce.
  • The Satanists's lair touches all the religion's stereotypes: punk youngsters, bloody Goths, cloaked henchmen, ectstatic partygoers, human bones everywhere, and a vandalized, inverted Christ statue. It only lacks a Black Metal band playing in the background to be completely impossible to take seriously.
  • Basinger's incredibly high-pitched screams when she finds the body of Christina Ricci's character.
• The scene in The Bone Collector in which Jack Rubin and his wife are abducted by the killer worked, up until Jack attempts to open his door and gets his hand pricked on a hidden needle. His response is to utter "Son of a bitch!" in the same tone of voice one would use upon returning home to discover their cat had knocked over the Christmas tree.
• The sheer amount of Gorn in Bone Tomahawk was more hilarious and juvenile than horrifying to some viewers.
• The Boondock Saints, where Willem Dafoe's FBI investigator character just whips out his gun and yells, "There was a FIREFIIIIIIIGHT!" Possibly also the bit where he dresses in drag...
  "It's on now."
  • Smecker's frustrations later on only add to it as he goes into complete child tantrum mode, finishing up his conniption by putting one hand against his hip and calmly sashaying away.
    • "I've never seen any fucking like this in my fucking life! WHO THE FUCK ARE THEY?!"
• 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.
• The Boy Next Door: J-Lo is given a first edition of The Iliad by the titular boy. More than one critic has pointed out the almost awe-inspiring silliness of this, considering that the "first edition" (if such a term can even be applied to something presumably written longhand on scrolls) was published around the 8th century B.C.E., thus, there's no way a copy of that poem could survive that long. (And if it did it would be priceless and no doubt held in a museum.)
• There's a scene in The Breakfast Club where Bender and Andrew get into an argument. Andrew says something about how he would win a fight between them, and Bender says something like 'Actually, I'd kill you' and Andrew's like 'Yeah, right' but Bender takes out a knife and sticks it into the top of a chair. Obviously it's meant to be a serious scene, but it's ruined by Allison leaning over and stealing the knife.
• While the martial arts on display in Bruce Lee films are undeniably incredible, sometimes the acting and dialogue is... much less stellar:
  • The Big Boss:
    • During an otherwise tense fight scene that happens after Cheng discovers one of his cousins has been murdered and his remains encased in an ice block, Cheng punches a bad guy through a wooden wall and leaves a perfectly cut hole in the shape of the poor sod on the receiving end, like something from a Looney Tunes cartoon. Lee (quite rightly) thought it was ridiculous and contested it, but director Lo Wei overruled him.
    • The scene where Cheng is dodging the Bosses' guard dogs, which are just shots of Lee leaping around in the air interspersed with shots of dogs being thrown in front of the camera.
    • The leg grappling scene between Cheng and the Boss in their climactic fight where they're rolling around in the grass together looks hilarious.
  • Fist of Fury:
    • The "No Dogs and No Chinese" scene. While racism itself isn't funny, the over-the-top way Chen destroys the sign absolutely is.
    • The English dub of the film sounds quite silly at times. For example, the scene where Chen discovers his beloved teacher was poisoned and he begins torturing a Japanese man for information would be the deeply dramatic and emotional scene it was intended to be, if Chen didn't yell "WHY DID YOU KILL MY TEACHER!? WHY, WHY, WHY, WHY, WHY, WHY!?" while pounding the shit out of the man's stomach as if he's pregnant with a baby Chen doesn't want.
  • Enter the Dragon: There's a scene where Lee kicks the ass of O'Hara (who previously terrorized Lee's sister Su Lin and would have raped the poor girl had she not killed herself with a glass shard) and stomps him to death after the white thug tries to pull a broken bottle on him. It's awesome, but Lee makes a weird face and a cry after delivering the finishing blow.
  • Game of Death: Combined with Special Effects Failure. Because the real Bruce Lee tragically died while this film was being made, the filmmakers used body doubles and camera tricks to finish it. One less than convincing example of one of these tricks that reportedly had the entire house laughing at the sight of it, was an obvious cardboard cutout of Bruce Lee's face imposed over one of the body doubles to act as his reflection in a mirror. There's also a really dumb face Lee makes during his fight with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's character which is supposed to be Lee's exertion while strangling a giant NBA player but in practice just looks like a Troll face. See both here
• The entirety of The Butterfly Effect is filled with this, apart from also being a relentless Deus Angst Machina. Basically, any time something particularly horrible happens to Evan, his Trauma Conga Line is just so over the top it's hard to take seriously.
  • When he's a kid, Tommy's constant cursing and his vulgar MST-ing on the Gluttony victim from Se7en in the cinema. In the same scene, he also beats up a guy twice his size in the cinema after witnessing Evan and Kayleigh (who is his sister, by the way) kiss.
  • Being molested by a friend's father is a realistic source of angst. Blowing up a woman and her child with a stick of dynamite is like something out of a Tex Avery cartoon.
  • Evan accidentally crushing a granola bar with his prosthetic hand.
  • The deadly serious use of the word "fuck bag" to defuse a child abuse situation.
  • The reaction of the cell-mate to the magically appearing "stigmata".
  • The ending of the director's cut, where Evan goes back in time to strangle himself in the womb as a fetus. That's not tragic, that's twistedly amazing. While his mother watches it in real-time on an ultrasound and screams "Not again!".
  • The sheer amount of crap in Evan's life even before he starts trying to fix it, which just gets impossible to take seriously.
  • The Stock Scream used by Kayleigh when Lenny kills Tommy in one of the alternate timelines.
  • "Oh, Mrs. Bosweeelllll..."
  • In several of the revisited memories, Evan's dialogue lapses into rather verbose, melodramatic monologuing, which make for rather jarring shifts from the otherwise fairly naturalistic dialogue in the rest of the film, and which are made extra narmy by having a 7-year-old actor deliver lines like "This is the very moment of your reckoning. In the next 30 seconds you're gonna open up one of two doors. The first door will forever traumatize your own flesh and blood." with a straight face.

C

• 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 utterly straightforward answers.
• In the film version of Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Nicolas Cage turns a serious drama set against the backdrop of WWII into an unintentional comedy with his mangled Italian accent.
• Christine: Ruining someone's lunch is a rotten thing to do, sure. But stabbing it with a switchblade? And the scene's played with nearly as much tension and sadism as if Buddy were about to stab Arnie himself, with the result that everyone looks like they're taking an act of childish bullying way too seriously.
• 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 accents — especially the Telmarine accents.
    • Ben Barnes stated that he apparently studied Mandy Patinkin's performance in The Princess Bride, so that he could do an accurate Spanish accent. King Miraz, on the other hand, sounded more like Oded Fehr from The Mummy.
    • Lucy's accent can also be serious Narm fuel. In the second movie, she tells her siblings to "Imagine wohles...and columns THAAAAAAAAAH!"
  • 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 soldiers—wearing Greek theatre masks.
  • 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. William Moseley hit puberty a decade late.
• Although the first Chronicles of 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.
  • Peter during the final battle in the first movie bellows "FOR NAAAARNIAAAA!" and brandishes his sword menacingly... while sitting atop a unicorn.
• Clash of the Titans:
  • The earliest example is the scene where, immediately after shouting underwater to his drowning family ("Nooooo!" "Gooooo!"), Perseus ends up lying on a piece of flotsam, screaming inarticulately.
  • 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.
• Closet Land:
  • Rickman can get a little narmy when he speaks as three characters at once.
  • The Interrogator kissing the Author with a mouthful of garlic to overly-dramatic music.
• The subway scene in Cloverfield was dramatic until the monsters started sounding like someone strangling a duck.
• Con Air: Nicolas Cage's cringe-inducing attempt at a Deep South accent is reason alone for unintentional hilarity. Also, the absurd cargo hold fight between Cameron Poe and Bedlam.
• Dr. Conrad Zimsky's rant in The Core.
  Oh, come on, you're a bunch of suicidal morons! What are you, crazy? Plan C? Restart the core "somehow"? Oh, that's a great idea! That's a brilliant idea! I can't believe I'm stuck in this floating septic tank with you lunatics! You may have nothing to lose. You may have nothing to lose! You may have nothing to lose, but I have my life to lose thank you very much while you're up! Now turn it around! He told us to go back and we're going back! Why? You want to be a hero? You want to be a martyr? What do you want to be? You're out of your mind! Thank you! Turn it around!
• Cruella:
  • When the film was announced, lots of jokes ensued that her Start of Darkness would have something like "Cruella turns evil because Dalmatians killed her mother". And then the movie actually featured this. Playing such an idea seriously is hilarious, no matter if the scene tries to paint it as a tragedy — not helped by how the dogs are obvious CGI, the soundtrack doesn't mesh well with what's on screen, the young Cruella's blank face, and Cruella's mother just standing there as the dogs charge towards her and push her off the cliff.
  • Cruella just happened to be born with hair that was half black, half white. It's an already silly concept, but any scene of her as a child or baby is unintentionally funny due to how over the top and just plain fake the hairstyle looks on her, making it hard to take it seriously.
• Cthulhu Mansion (which actually has very little to do with Cthulhu) has a would-be dramatic scene at a carnival where Chris gets shot in the leg. When we cut to security guards rushing to the scene, we also see Chris' actor casually stroll past the guards in the opposite direction, still wearing the exact outfit he just got shot in: Either the film-makers reused footage from a deleted scene the actor was supposed to be in without noticing such a blatant continuity error, or they just were that low on extras. Either way, it's especially funny because immediately before this happens, he has the line "I don't think I can walk!". See the video clip accompanying this review.

D

• You wouldn't think this would be possible when depicting a 9/11 victim, but DC/9/11: A Time Of Crisis manages to. One of the survivors is supposed to have horrible burns on her face, but it's obviously just red lipstick or the like smeared on her face.
• In Daredevil, the scene where Bullseye is introduced. Flinging the darts without missing (or looking, for that matter) was kinda cool. But when he decides to reveal his trademark forehead, just the look on his face... it's hilarious. And not in a good way.
  • 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.
  • His coat also makes snake hissing sounds whenever he does something with it.
  • He... Made me... MISS.
  • Daredevil standing out in the rain and thunder saying "I'm not the bad guy".
  • A big complaint is that the acrobatics are hard to take seriously thanks to the obvious special effects, the most cited being Daredevil somehow leaping off the top of a skyscraper, falling several floors, and landing on a window cleaner's platform... Somehow not breaking his legs in the process.
• The Dark Knight Trilogy: Has its own page.
• 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...
• Darkness Falls is a horror movie about... the tooth fairy. They give her a backstory of being a normal human woman who gave treats to the neighborhood children until she was horrifically burned. Now she goes around paying money to children who have lost their teeth and also murdering anyone who sees her. Highlights include the protagonist, who's been on the run from the tooth fairy since seeing her as a child (On the run. From the tooth fairy.), finding out his love interest's son is having nightmares and asking in all seriousness "Did he lose a tooth recently?" and the ending, which subverts the typical horror movie trope of the killer coming back for one last scare by using a POV shot of someone sneaking into a child's bedroom only to reveal that it's the child's mother playing "tooth fairy" in the mundane sense of swapping out his lost tooth for money.
• Dawn of the Dead (1978):
  • The movie features a cop running as far away from the entrance to the roof of the mall as possible in order to allow the other survivor to escape by helicopter. He hunkers down in an office, puts his gun under his chin, prepares to die... then changes his mind, karate kicks a zombie in the chest, and proceeds to cover the entire mall in seconds to get to the chopper before it takes off, all while what sounds like an incredibly bad rip-off of the theme from the A-Team plays.
  • There's also the raid on the ghetto apartment, where a cop kicks in a door and fires his shotgun at what's supposed to be someone's head but turns out to be a balloon. You even see the remains of the balloon go drifting across the camera.
• In the 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 Dead Zone: The ICE!!!!! is gonna BREAK!!!!!!!!!
• The 1977 B-movie Death Bed: The Bed That Eats 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 Indiana Jones and the Balrog before those films were made...
  • 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:
    "Great, the cartilage is decaying."
• Dinosaur Hotel: The child actors have no range of emotion. They deliver all their lines in the same flat tone regardless if they're supposed to be excited or scared.
• The Dirty Harry franchise had its unintentionally funny moments.
  • 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 RC car chase across San Francisco. It gets especially funny when it dawns on you that Harry's driving a massive 8-cylinder sedan and yet somehow has trouble outrunning a radio-controlled toy. That must have been a hell of a modification.
    • In addition, 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: "You check in. You die." Additionally, Squares was portrayed by Jim Carrey in one of his early roles, before going on to bigger and better things as a comedic Hollywood actor.
• Divergent:
  • Some reviewers of Divergent have pointed out that while Dauntless's habit of doing Le Parkour to board the overhead railway is clearly meant to embody how free spirited and brave they are, the movie makes them look more like the cast of Fame or West Side Story than army recruits. Mark Kermode in his BBC review also thought their jumpsuits looked "a bit Blake's 7", which may become Narm Charm for some viewers.
  • Tris's pained squealing in The Divergent Series: Insurgent during the trial in Candor.
• The second half of one scene from Doctor Zhivago, where the character goes from sober to steaming drunk in twenty seconds flat and proceeds to chomp down on the scenery. Especially hilarious is the final line:
  "We're all made of the same clay you know. CLAY! CLAAY!"
  • His death also qualifies.
• Doggy Poo:
  • The premise. It's a very melodramatic film about the protagonist learning to accept death and find his purpose in the world. Said protagonist is a dog turd.
  • The ending, in which the dog turd decides to become fertilizer for a sprout of dandelion. 1: The film insists that the dandelion will become a beautiful flower, even though dandelions are widely considered to be unwanted weeds. 2: It sounds like the doggy poo and the dandelion are talking about sex.
• In Dogma, when Bethany learns that she's a descendant of one of Jesus's siblings. 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. Plus, she's majorly suffering from wet t-shirt at the time.
• The 1931 Dracula has loads of Narm outside of Bela Lugosi (and even he's not fully safe from that either, due to his thick accent.) It'd be shorter to list the scenes that aren't Narm: some cuts of the movie have some extra sounds added, such as Renfield screaming while Dracula strangles him to death, and some extended groaning sounds when Dracula is staked at the end... off-screen.
  • Dracula's first scene, where he emerges from his coffin in the crypt. The "rats" in the crypt are clearly opossums. There's also a brief shot of what was probably meant to be a huge insect coming out of a person-sized coffin, but due to Special Effect Failure it just looks like a normal insect that had its own miniature coffin. Later, we see armadillos in Castle Dracula.
  • The Spanish version ups the ante with even worse bat-on-string effects and its Dracula's ridiculous facial expressions◊.
• Dracula Untold:
  • The notion of a vampire's clothes being part of him purely as a Hand Wave for why Dracula isn't nude when he turns back from bats to human.
  • The Sultan's entire army being blindfolded.
  • Vlad's wife waking up and saying a few final words after FALLING OFF OF A MOUNTAIN.
• In Dragonslayer, the hero comes upon his old servant Hodge, who's mortally wounded. He says, "You know, somebody shot me. But I can still talk..." But the way he says it makes it a laugh line.
• From Dungeons & Dragons (2000): Ridley Freeborn's "NOOOOOOOOOO!" when Snails dies.
  • "You can run your ladyship. But... YOU CAN NEVER... RUN... FAR ENOUGH!"
    "You have the powah of the immooohtaals."
  • "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-Winged Angel act. It still would have been narmy, but at least there would have been real wings.
  • Bruce Payne's 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. Note sure what "Cold Ham" is supposed to mean? Watch this guy.
    "POST brigades at every sewer entrance and exit. I want them found... nnnow."
  • 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!
• We've trudged through Deliver Us from Evil and have finally gotten to a surprisingly bad-ass exorcism, and the demon is asked its name. It's... "Jungler". With a name like that, that demon had to have constantly had its butt kicked on Hell's playground as a child.
  • Also, the demon's presence is indicated by the sudden out of nowhere playing of music from The Doors. Break On Through to the really unscary side.

E

• The sex scene in Enemy at the Gates was intended to be steamy or moving, but Rachel Weisz's facial expressions... She looks less like she's thinking "You're an amazing lover" and more like "Oh shit, I think you just dislocated my pelvis." Then again, may have been intentional as an Aversion of Idealized Sex — they were having sex in a subway under a bombed-out city, with not much room for themselves, trying to not wake up another guy sleeping only a foot away.
• 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 weeping outside in a public area in a world where emotions are forbidden.
  "This man... this senior Cleric... has ceased the dose! He is feeling!!! He is the WORM that has been EATING at the CORE of our great society!]And I... I HAVE BROUGHT HIM FOR YOUR JUSTICE!!!"
  • Brandt's CGI 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 well-oiled muscular physique is a little distracting.
  • All hail Christian Bale, saviour of puppies! Hilarious in hindsight given how Patrick Bateman trampled a dog to death in American Psycho.
• In Eragon, Galbatorix (who was not meant to be a character this early) and his servant, Durza, are seen numerous times in awkward Ho Yay situations, including Galbatorix shoving him up against a wall whilst whispering battle plans softly to him and getting touchy-feely.
  • Galbatorix was keeping his dragon beyond a big-ass cloth map the entire movie. It was meant to be hyper-dramatic.
    "I suffer without my stone!"
  • "We fight as ONE!" was meant to be a Moment of Awesome.
  • How about that gem near the end?
    "INTO THE SKY, TO LIVE OR TO DIE!!!"
  • 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.
    "Some friendships can never be replaced... but fortunately they don't have to be!"
• E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial: Elliott screaming when he first sees E.T. in the cornfield. The fact that it's shown from multiple camera angles adds to the effect.
• Excalibur: A sex scene near the beginning would be extremely dramatic, portentous and erotic were it not for the fact that one of the participants is fully ARMOURED.
  • Nigel Terry's accent just adds to the narm.
  • Mordred's golden, face-covering armor makes him look like C-3PO.
  • The whole movie is Narm from beginning to end. Nicol Williamson's performance as Merlin leaves tooth-marks all over the scenery, making Merlin appear borderline insane. Probably the narmiest scene in the movie, aside from the whole banging-in-full-armor deal, comes from Patrick Stewart, of all people, fully reaching for the bacon as Leondegrance, attempting to pull the sword from the stone: "Give meeee the POWERRRRRRR!"
• One of many mistakes in Exorcist II: The Heretic was revealing that the demon possessing Regan, unnamed in the first film, is the Babylonian god Pazuzu. This god was quite a terrifying figure; unfortunately, his name sounds silly when spoken aloud. And Richard Burton bellows it at the top of his lungs during a close up of his extremely sweaty face. It has been retconned that (in the universe where the movies take place) Pazuzu is what Africans call Satan. That doesn't make it sound any less silly.
  "I. AM. PAH-ZU-ZUUUUUUUU!"
  • 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.)
    • Futurama made the name even sillier by using it for Professor Farnsworth's gargoyle.
    • And The Simpsons compounded on it in their parody of The Exorcist in Treehouse of Horror XXVIII, with Homer mistaking Pazuzu for "pizza." And then there's the Pazuzu Lullaby sung by a possessed Homer to Maggie.
  Homer (with red eyes signifying his demonic possession): Oh, when Pazuzu's eyes are glaring, it's time to go to bed. You'll see demon shadows fighting, but it's just inside your head. When Pazuzu's eyes are staring, then the moonlight will turn red, cuz Pazuzu's in your nightmares, until we all are deeeead. Sweet dreams, Maggie! Don't let the Beezlebubs bite!
  • James Earl Jones spits leopards. And cherry tomatoes.
  • This exchange.
    Sandra: "What's the matter with you?"
    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!"

F

• 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.
• Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer: A military officer completely and utterly snubs Reed Richards and his ilk simply because Reed didn't play football in high school. This is not only a stupid idea in its own right, but it's obviously only added so Reed can mount not only an equally stupid, but also forced comeback that people are expected to relate to: At first it sounds like he's throwing his words back at him ("I stayed in and studied like a good little nerd. And fifteen years later, I'm one of the greatest minds of the 21st century."), but then he refers to his fiancée Sue only by her physical attractiveness, instead of her supposed intelligence ("I'm engaged to the hottest girl on the planet!"), which apparently excites Sue so much that she squeals "I'm so hot for you right now!", which really derails the whole thing. (In fairness to the filmmakers, it was taken almost word-for-word from the Warren Ellis comic book.)
  General: Let me make it clear for you and your band of freaks here; I'm the quarterback. You're on my team. Got it? But I guess you never played football in high school, did you, Richards?
  Reed: No, you're right. I didn't. I stayed in and studied like a good little nerd. And fifteen years later, I'm one of the greatest minds of the 21st century; I'm engaged to the hottest girl on the planet; and the big jock who played quarterback in high school? He's standing in front of me asking for my help. And I say he's not gonna get a damn thing, unless he does exactly what I tell him, and starts treating me and my friends with a little respect.
  [beat]
  General: ...Give him what he wants.
  Sue: [to Reed] I'm so hot for you right now!
• Fateful Findings has several unintentionally funny scenes:
  • Dylan's hacking scenes become silly because he loves to abuse his laptops.
  • The death of Dylan's best friend Jim, who just lies there with no visible injuries after getting shot by his wife. The death is staged as a suicide. When Dylan finds this person dead, there's suddenly a bunch of blood that gets everywhere.
    Dylan: [in a flat tone] I can't believe you committed suicide. I cannot believe you committed suicide. How could you have done this? How could you have committed suicide?
  • The ending. Dylan hosts a press conference in which he divulges unspecified government and corporate secrets. Then a bunch of corrupt politicians, business people, and presidents of banks commit suicide in public.
    Corrupt man #1: I'm afraid of going to prison. They now know my crimes. [Points a gun at his head and fires. It has no visible effect other than showing a crappy little explosion at the end of the barrel.]
    Corrupt man #2: I resign today... as president of the bank.
• 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. The film is the embodiment of Narm in film form. Which, knowing the brothers, was probably the intended goal.
• 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.
  "Death woll be too morciful for you, Zap Rowsdower!"
  • Oh, yes, the hero's name is Zap Roswdower. The film isn't a Sci-Fi future movie; it takes place in 1980s Canada. Zap Rowsdower.
    • Or, according to Crow of Mystery Science Theater 3000:
      "Rowsdower, Rowsdower, rowser rowser Rowsdower, bowsa bowsa Bowsdower, zibbity zabbity Zowsdower, bibbity bobbity Bowsdower, bobadee dobadee Rows... dower."
• A Fistful of Dollars may be one of the greatest Westerns ever made, but it has one of the least intimidating speeches ever:
  See, that's what I wanna talk about. He's feelin' real bad. My mule. You see, he got all riled up when you fired those shots at his feet. I understand you were just playin' around. But the mule, he just doesn't get it. Of course, if you were to all apologise... I don't think it's nice, you laughin'. See, my mule don't like people laughin'. He gets the crazy idea you're laughin' at him. Now, if you apologise, like I know you're going to, I might convince him that you really didn't mean it.
• Just about any time Foodfight! tries to be dramatic, it trips headfirst into this trope. Between the stiff Uncanny Valley animation, the ridiculous character stereotypes, and Mr. Clipboard, nothing in this film works. The crowning moment of narm, though, is hand-down the beautiful phrase "you cold-farted itch". Said in a dead-serious tone, by Charlie Sheen of all people.
  • The scene where Mr. Clipboard, a creepy Obviously Evil man who looks like a demon-possessed Christopher Lloyd, stomps on a bag of potato chips and declares (with his generally strange speech pattern) "SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST, LEONARD!" Then Leonard the shopkeeper looks absolutely mortified and heartbroken at the bag of chips, like a teenager had just been gunned down in front of him.
  Leonard: That was a perfectly good bag of chips! Never opened... never enjoyed...
• In For the Love of the Game, the main character's girlfriend is trying to get him help in the hospital after he cuts his hand open with a saw but no one will help them. In frustration, she screams:
  IS BASEBALL NOT AMERICA'S FAVORITE PASTIME!?
• Frankenstein (1931):
  • When the Monster confronts Elizabeth. While the scene is still fairly chilling and unnerving even by today's standards, right as she discovers the Monster behind her and screams for her life, the Monster lets out a snarl that... well, let's just say it gives the scene a healthy dose of unintended hilarity.
  • People who've only seen Young Frankenstein are certain to find unintentional comedy in the scenes that Mel Brooks parodied very closely, like the Monster befriending a little girl.
• 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, otherworldly dimension. After finding the deranged head scientist's "headless" corpse, the police arrest his assistant, Dr. Crawford Tillinghast, 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:
  "It [the alien creature] bit off his head, like a gingerbread man!"

G

• G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, this line:
  'Kill them! Kill all the Joes and destroy the ice park!'
  • "Deploy the SHARCs!" is probably Narm Charm.
    • RZA as the Blind Master in G.I. Joe: Retaliation. The awkward expositioning ruins what would have been some otherwise pretty cool scenes.
    • Cobra Commander as well. His extremely deep voice renders lines like "I want it ALL." and "We're kicking you out of the band, Destro." hilarious.
• Gandhi is an extremely well acted, emotionally resonant movie... except for the very first scene, which depicts Gandhi's assassination. Something about the way Ben Kingsley just kind of whimpers "Oh, God," like getting shot three times in the chest at point blank was no big deal, followed by his slow, jerky fall. After watching the movie, though...
  • Truth in film. That's precisely what Gandhi did upon being shot, save for speaking in Hindi rather than English.
• Gangs of New York has a scene where Bill the Butcher and his crew of nativists are walking through the streets of New York as the Emancipation Proclamation is celebrated. A furious Scottish member of the gang yells "They want tae mak oot tha' we're nae different frae niggers!", and, upon seeing some black people standing cheering, charges at them screaming that they should go back to Africa. So far, so chillingly racist. His next line, however, is so babyish sounding that it completely shoots down the drama of the scene:
  THERE'LL BE NO NIG-NOGGERY HERE! NONE!
• Ghost Rider: Has its own page.
• Ghost Ship opens with a scene of a crowd of people being sliced in two by razor wire. The sliced people stand around looking shocked for a second before they fall apart, making it seem more like Looney Tunes than a horror movie even with the gore. There's even a shot of a man's clothes falling off before he falls apart.
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), we have Daniel Craig calling out for his pet cat: "CAAAAAAT!" Later on, his cry of "Fuck!" during the dead cat scene has also brought out laughter.
• Gladiator:
  • The foley guys were lazy—they reused the soundtrack from Zulu so you've got the invading Germanic barbarians doing recognizable African war chants.
  • This movie is so, SO much into Black-and-White Morality that the story/plot becomes this after few views. On one hand we have Maximus as an impossibly perfect protagonist who has almost more Mangst than the Winchester brothers, on the other we have Commodus as an impossibly incompetent and bratty Card-Carrying Villain who makes funny faces and overacts. And then the script blatantly tries to manipulate the viewer's feelings towards Maximus via making him increasingly tragic and making Commodus even more evil if that's even possible. It's almost a bit insulting to our intelligence.
• Glory:
  • During the final battle, Searles climbs over the hill and yells, "WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGHHHHOOOO!".
  • What about the scene where Matthew Broderick tries to intimidate the quartermaster? Who in their right mind would be intimidated by Ferris Bueller?
• The Godfather:
  • During the scene where Sonny beats up Carlo, one of his punches clearly misses by a mile.
  • The horse head scene because It Was His Sled. Once the viewer is given time to brace for the intended shock and squick, Woltz doing The Scream can be quite amusing.
• The Godfather Part III, when Sophia Coppolla says "Dad?" right after getting shot. And Pacino's subsequent overlong silent scream of anguish.
• 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.
• Even as a serious Godzilla movie, there are still a couple of moments in Godzilla (2014):
  • Elizabeth Olsen's "running" in this scene.
  • "We call him... *dramatic head turn*... Gojira."
  • The way Godzilla finishes off the last Muto, which sort of looks like a Kiss of Death, can be seen as unintentionally silly.
  • The scene where the military investigate the nuke graveyard and find the female Muto escaped... leaving a giant hole in the side of the mountain and is clearly marching to Vegas in the midday sun. Failed a Spot Check of epic proportions.
  • There is nothing more hilarious than the line which explains that M.U.T.O stands for "Massive Unidentified Terrestrial Organism"... and then the same character immediately points out "except it can fly, so it's not really terrestrial." I guess MUFO "Massive Unidentified Flying Organism" isn't as catchy?
• The sequel to the above, Godzilla: King of the Monsters has many such moments:
  • The insistence of the many Deadpan Snarker characters throughout the film to tell jokes or a quick quip even as the situation gets more and more dire is strange and off putting rather than funny as intended.
  • During the battle in Antarctica, Ghidorah knocks Godzilla into the chasm that he emerged from. However, Godzilla just clumsily tumbles into the hole with a scream, like a fat cat that just happened to roll off the couch. Doesn't help said scream is one of Goji's higher-pitched Showa roars.
  • Some have found Emma Russell's "Humanity is the infection" speech in the trailer to be too dramatic and condescending to take very seriously. Possibly more forgivable in the final product, where it is repeatedly challenged and criticized by the people receiving it, and thus probably meant to not be taken too seriously.
    • Additionally, it's implied that Emma's sanity has been slipping. Her daughter expressed concern about her early in the film; when called out about having lost her mind, Russell responds with the "I've never been more sane" response often stereotyped as typical for the insane.
  • Jonah actually goes to the trouble of making a Powerpoint presentation for his Motive Rant. You can only imagine the other eco-terrorists asking if this is really the best use of his time.
  • Late in the film, when Madison decides to steal the Orca device in order to stop the Titan attacks around the world, Jonah's men who are guarding the device just so happen to take a break all at once, and coincidentally at the same time Madison arrives to take a peek into the room as well! This leaves the Orca device completely unguarded and very conveniently allows Madison to easily steal the device and waltz out of the front door with nobody to stop her at all. Better yet, nobody discovers that Madison stole the device until she already traveled all the way to Fenway Park in Boston and used it, and even then it took Jonah seeing the news report that the monsters ceased their attacks to realize what Madison had done.
• At the end of The Golden Compass, Lyra is alone on a vast barren tundra (the camera pans out helpfully to show just how vast and empty it is) at a tiny building she's only barely been able to find after looking forever. As soon as she gets in trouble, several large groups of people who should have no idea where she is converge conveniently on the same spot all at the same time.
  • Any time there's a close-up of a CG bear roaring defiantly; it happens about twenty times in under five minutes.
  • 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... Asriel kills Roger to further his plans when they get there.
• 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... 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.
  • An imaginary friend as a drug dealer?
  • "I liike crack cocaaaaaine."
• Grandmother's House: When the woman in the blue dress, aka, David and Lynn's mother, finally comes to in the van and starts begging for help, Brinke Stevens delivers her lines in a very flat tone of voice, when a voice with more panic and desperation may have been more appropriate. She also has a very emotionless look on her face as well.
• At the end of Gran Torino, when Clint Eastwood 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 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 Moment of Awesome. In practice, it's such 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...
• In one film version of The Great Gatsby, the scene where Myrtle gets run over by Gatsby's car was poorly done.
  • There's also a scene in which Gatsby is throwing shirts around, and Daisy starts crying and says, "These are the most beautiful shirts I've ever seen!" The movie had its share of Narm, that's for sure.
  • In the adaptation starring Paul Rudd as Nick, it works until Myrtle's "leg" flies into the air.
  • 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.
• In The Green Mile during the scene where John Coffey heals Paul Edgecombe's UTI, Eduard Delacroix begins hysterically calling for the other guards. He's clearly worried that John is actually trying to hurt Paul but the melodramatic way he acts just makes it come across as funny. Paul further makes it funny when he tells Del to shut up.

H

• Halloween:
  • In the original Halloween (1978), Laurie runs across the street with Michael stalking her. She runs up to the door of the house and reaches into her pocket to find the keys. Her line?
  Laurie: The keys? OH THE KEEEEYS?!
  • The ending of Halloween III: Season of the Witch: "STOP IIIIT!"
  • 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 Malcolm McDowell is mentioned.
  • 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.
    Michael Myers is not a sound-byte, a spin-off, a tie-in, some kind of celebrity scandal. Michael Myers is a KILLER SHARK. IN BAGGY ASS OVERALLS.
• David Tennant's scenery-chewing portrayal of Hamlet stayed on the right side of Narm for most of the play, but there were a few moments when it was too much. There's a part where Hamlet has been messing around with a bunch of props and is still wearing a spangly fake crown lopsided on his head. He runs up behind his praying uncle with a sword, but finds himself unable to kill him. He pulls an expression which was presumably supposed to convey frustration and self-loathing, but looks like an angry 'O' face.
• Kenneth Branagh's otherwise excellent version of Hamlet has the intermission break at the end of Hamlet's line, "My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth". The (written) speech is a somber reflection on Hamlet's reluctance to take action when he has been clearly wronged contrasted against a whole army about to go to war over a worthless plot of land. Branagh, in Large Ham fashion, delivers it as a bombastic tirade, standing on a cliff as the camera pans back, back, revealing more and more soldiers. The shot should have ended with a soldier saying, "Who is that guy up there yelling at us?"
  • 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 hurling it from the balcony in slow motion.
    • If that wasn't enough, Claudius got chandelier'd when Hamlet uses it to swing down from the balcony.
  • And then there's Hamlet's famous speech to the actors. Branagh's Hamlet, during this speech, does exactly what he's telling the players to avoid doing — he even "saws" his hands through the air when he's talking about that. And Hamlet isn't supposed to be acting then! This is a gift that keeps on giving because, well, the Narm comes from his unintentionally lampshading his unnatural natural behavior. Branagh's Hamlet is like this always, so if you notice Narm here, then the amusement will last through the rest of the film.
  • Laertes storms into the throne room after Ophelia's death flanked by an angry mob... which disperses in the most polite manner five seconds later.
  • When Hamlet and Laertes duel, they wear fencing armor that appears to be composed of the foam muscles from a Superman Halloween costume, and spandex pants. It is impossible not to at least chuckle at this.
  • Polonius' face as he lies in a pool of his own blood looks more like a mischievous frog than a murder victim.
• Disney's Hercules:
  • Zeus, after discovering that his son has been taken from Mount Olympus, lets out a fantastic "NOOOOOOOO!"
  • 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 "Blow. Him. Away!"
  • There's also the Cyclops using Hercules to play hackey sack and his Evil Laughter.
• As frightening as Hereditary is, some people complain the final minutes have a somewhat goofy tonal shift that instead is very laughable. First, Annie's decapitated body floats up into a tree house. And once a now possessed Peter enters the place, a cult shouts the praises of the demon, and the final scene is Peter wearing a Burger King-esque paper crown while surrounded by naked, prostrating cultists yelling "HAIL PAIMON!".
• High School Musical:
  • Bet On It from the sequel must be seen to be believed. Zac Efron, sporting a fake tan as orange as the desert landscaping behind him, has an epiphany moment and breaks into an angry, aggressive, character development song of self discovery. The choreography? A twirly, skippy mix between contemporary ballet and Michael Jackson dance moves. On a golf course. He also takes a golf break in the middle of the song and then sings to his hilariously unconvincing reflection.
    • Even more Hilarious in Hindsight: Madame Tussaud make their model of him while he had that tan. Never Live It Down, indeed.
  • When Sharpay said that Troy was an excellent golfer to her father. She was completely serious—he was perfect.
  • The part where a frustrated Troy runs into the empty kitchen, screams at the top of his lungs, and runs out again. Aaaand... SCENE.
  • There's also Zac's song about "I don't know where to go" which involves lightning in the background, going sideways on the walls, and screaming.
    • The ending, when he screams.
  • While an exhaustive list of Narm in High School Musical would be impossible, Vanessa Hudgens really deserves a mention here. Her wangst song, where she flounces around the school in an Ophelian manner and sings pitifully to a 20-foot poster of Zac ^note  incidentally... what the hell was a giant poster of a student doing in the school corridor?!, is probably the Narm high-point of the first movie.
  • In the first movie, there's a bit with a violin sting when Sharpay exclaims "CALLBACK?!" Later on, Chad goes to look at the call-back sheet. The Agony Booth joked that the musical sting would probably have been a "Wah-wah-wahhhhhh" on the trombone.
  • In the third movie, Gabriella and Troy start to sing to each other in the middle of a basketball game, in which Troy is playing. Doug Thompson joked on Best Week Ever that the guy Troy was supposed to be guarding probably scored the winning basket while Troy was singing.
• The Hills Have Eyes
  • In The Hills Have Eyes (2006), there is a terrifying scene in which most of the main characters are killed or incapacitated. But the horror of a brutal rape was dulled by the victim's trying to fend off her attacker by hitting him with a pillow. The rapist then grabbed the pillow and started hitting her back.
• House of Flying Daggers had plenty of Narm at the end where the female lead has a knife sticking out of her chest for approximately four hours while she and two other characters 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 Hunger Games: Has its own page.

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