Originally Posted by jackhammer

Maybe you laugh to disguise something else? I laugh during crappy B movies and sometimes through sentimental claptrap (parts of Saving private Ryan) but shudder in the first 20 minutes of Saving Private Ryan because no Hollywood film has ever got that close to being so visceral on screen without manipulation before. It is one of the few pieces of film making that means something and almost transcends it's own medium. It's one of the greatest pieces of film making ever made.