The last horror movie I actually saw at the cinema[1] was
Wishmaster... (It was so funny... In a "so bad it's good (at just being bad)" way. Obviously if you don't
know that the 'being' in front of you tends to grant wishes (and in unforeseen ways that are not just in an 'accidentally bad' way) then you don't know not to say "I'd like to see you come through me.."(/words to that effect) and invoke your own demise, but...
My thing that made me laugh more recently (last night, actually, which is close enough for government work...) was a trio of 'stage school' girls who were part of an entertainment that I was at. (Really, not as bad as it sounds. And I didn't laugh openly, but I enjoyed things just a little more for this little detail. Given that I was a "plus one" to the gig, which wasn't
just stage-school stuff.) Their particular piece was a pop-song, sung (well) and tightly choreographed.
They all did a very practiced synchronous gestures/expressions/limb-movement performance, etc. Except that when they did actual lateral leg-stepping, moving positions (rather than contorting on the spot), the movements were from their starting positions "I I I" (actually chevroned, up/down stage, BYGTI) to "< < >" then "> > <" back again, as required. It initially
looked, to me, like the one on the right had misremembered the direction. But they kept doing it, so it was clearly a deliberate choice.
To be fair, hard to appear deliberately consistent with three. Pairs can run through synchronised mirror movements without issue. Fours can "< < > >" or "< > < >", etc. Trios are awkward, although "< I >" (centre-stage
not moving), and back in again, might have been better, thus making me think that it was the chosen movement of the centre-figure that caused me confusion. In fact "< < >" -> "> > <" -> "< > >" -> "> < <" -> (repeat) would be interesting....
But in my head (whilst I was appreciating later entertainments, varying quality, some
very good singing, etc) I was rather wishing that the side-pair had actually also decided to be full-handedly mirrored (one of them holding the mike in
left hand, doing
everything in mirrored contrast to her counterpart), as well as developing the translational movements that way. Might help if one of them
was a natural 'leftie', but this aint waltzing, where it's 'rude to reverse', so...
But it definitely amused me. More internally than in being an obviously critical member of the audience. I think I'm perfectly capable of 'going with the flow'
and doing some independent thinking of my own (if it wasn't that, it would be running through the next scripting project that I have...). And, so, yes... it made me (silently) laugh, for the duration of the number and quite a bit beyond.
And it made me think! Best of both worlds, right..?
[1] Not really my genre. And I can't imagine
why I went to see it in '97+. There wasn't another version of it that came out five or ten years earlier, was there? I'd have been going to the cinema socially, back then, and did see more than my fair share of strange things (Death Becomes Her, comes to mind) just because
someone else thought it'd be a good idea. Rather than generally only go to things I had a good chance of appreciating by myself.
addendum: scratch that mystery... One of my colleagues in 97ish was into horror (though not really into it). We probably did something work-socially around that time, and he likely suggested at least one method of escaping from the Y2K preparations... 
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