Funny / Event Horizon

While this movie is high on the horror, it does have a couple of moments of hilarity.

• First, after finally having viewed the Apocalyptic Log entry, depicting the insane original crew torturing each other in severely hideous ways:
  Miller: (deadpan) We're leaving.
  • Second, this exchange immediately afterwards:
    Weir: You can't just leave her!
    Miller: I have no intention of leaving her, Doctor. I will take the Lewis and Clark to a safe distance and then I will launch TAC missiles at the Event Horizon until I'm satisfied she's vaporized! Fuck this ship!
  • Both of which come off as a severe form of understatement from the sympathetic audience.
• When the Lewis and Clark docks with the Event Horizon.
  Weir: Be very careful, that is not a load bearing structure!
  (DOCKING CLAMPS GO CLUNK)
  Miller: It is now, Doctor.
• Mention should be made of Cooper, after the Lewis and Clark has been destroyed by a bomb, catapulting a spacesuit-clad Cooper into empty space on a chunk of debris. His reaction to his predicament proves a nice bit of recovery from the emotional punch of the situation:
  Cooper: Why's this shit always gotta happen to me?!
  • Not to mention, when he's zooming back toward the ship, "HERE I COME MOTHERFUCKEEEEERS!"
• After Weir is blown into space, Miller and Starck hear the alarm for the forward airlock and assume the worst. Not taking any chances, they grab large tools from a nearby rack, ready them as weapons, and wait for the airlock to open... only to find Cooper. His reaction to seeing them about to come in swinging is priceless.
  Cooper: Don't hit me!
  • As he yells that line, Cooper stumbles in and just kind of topples over without Miller or Starck laying a hand on him, giving the impression that the poor guy is just completely done.
• Near the beginning of the film, as Weir is explaining to the crew of Lewis and Clark how the Event Horizon achieves faster-than-light travel by warping space, he pulls one of Smith's centerfolds off his bunk to use as a visual aid. When Smith starts to protest, Miller gives him a solemn pat on the shoulder as if to say "Take one for the team, Smith."
• This classic:
  Cooper: Want something hot and black inside you?
  Starck flips him off
  Cooper: Is that an offer?
  Starck: It is not.
  Cooper: Well, how 'bout some coffee, then?
  • The censored version of that exchange might be even funnier, via this shift from apparent Innocent Innuendo to full-on Double Entendre.
    Cooper: Want something hot and black inside you?
    Starck flips him off
    Cooper: Well, how 'bout some coffee then?

Meta

• The space suits worn by the actors weighed 65 pounds each. Laurence Fishburne nicknamed his suit Doris.
  • The suits were so heavy that the actors risked back injuries. One day, writer Philip Eisner was visiting the set while the space suit sequences were being filmed, prompting Fishburne to stop between takes, point at Eisner, and shout in mock-anger "You! You Eisner! You did this to me!"
• There is somewhat amusing footage of Fishburne trying to walk through the cavernous, rotating corridor to the drive room and struggling to keep his balance.
• In an interview Jason Issacs describes his disappointment over not getting to keep the model of his character’s vivisected corpse:
  Issacs: They made this model of me, this extraordinary latex model of me with every broken vein, every hair, mole, eye colour and stuff… My whole naked body hung up my hooks, gutted from neck to navel with all my organs pulled out — which, by the way, I asked if I could keep and they said 'no' and I went home and said to my wife that they wouldn't let me keep it and she said 'what the f*** did you think we were going to do with it?'.