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Times when your theater applauded or cheered(Spoilers)...
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George Oscar Bluth II
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At the press screening of Guardians of the Galaxy once it ended. Half the audience were regular fans who won tickets like I did.
This is how I like it, though.
Skiptastic
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Lots of different times throughout The Dark Knight, but I had tickets to a screening before it came out that was filled with people super excited to see it. So after the first time Joker met with the mob, people were sparsely clapping. The Batmobile exploding to the Bat-chopper, cheers. The truck flip and Bat-bike quick turn around, cheers. Jim Gordon getting the drop on the Joker, cheers.
It was pretty awesome.
It was pretty awesome.
BronsonLee
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I see movies at the Troc, so almost every movie there has some moment worth clapping for. The older cult ones get huge cheers.
John Wick got cheers when he did what he does best
John Wick got cheers when he did what he does best
hydrophilic attack
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I've never heard about doing such a thing.
I guess it's an American thing like clapping after meals?
I guess it's an American thing like clapping after meals?
Count Dookkake
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Most memorable was at Jason X after the frozen head smash.
The audience erupted in cheers.
Woman in front of me looked around in disgust and said to her companion "What's wrong with these people?"
I shouted at her "What's wrong with you?"
The audience erupted in cheers.
Woman in front of me looked around in disgust and said to her companion "What's wrong with these people?"
I shouted at her "What's wrong with you?"
Armoured Priest
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In "The Avengers" when Hulk encounters Loki at Stark tower and
Honestly, the only time I can remember actual clapping with cheering.
Hulk thrashes Loki like a rag doll
Honestly, the only time I can remember actual clapping with cheering.
radioactivez0r
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I marked out a bit when he lit up, so I can agree with this.
Yes this also, people got really excited at his sudden appearance, especially with the way it tied into Tokyo Drift. Can't really think of any other big audience reactions of recent note.
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Because this was the "it's go time" point
I laughed at that last part. I mean, we have a Thunder God, the pinnacle of human technology shaped into a war suit/machine, two genetically modified people one of which is a basically unkillable super soldier and the other is a giant smashing/killing mutant....then two people, a dude with a tactical bow and arrow and a chick with what looks like a Glock. Those last two just looked laughably out of place, particularly when you look at what they were fighting. I get why they are there and what they did, but the first time I saw it I just thought it looked goofy.
When the
in Pacific Rim, my theater exploded in cheers which was awesome. An old man in front of me (that I was afraid wouldn't be into the movie) was cheering louder than anyone. One of my favorite theater moments.
Same thing happened when Godzilla
in the 2014 movie. So awesome.
sword came out
Same thing happened when Godzilla
first breathes his atomic breath
faceless007
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I saw a theater screening of 2001: A Space Odyssey in college. The sound system of the auditorium was so impressive that the whole audience applauded when Thus Spake Zarathusthra in the opening titles finished.
Never really heard an applause as you know an actual "applause" done to show appreciation to the makers of the product etc. Pretty much every time people have clapped was just out of excitement, some people laugh, some people cheer, some people clap, it's a natural reaction, some people do a combination of the three. I don't find it dumb.
And even if they did clap at the end, I'd just find it their way of saying "hey I liked it a lot and want to let everyone else in here know if anyone else agrees with me join in."
Anyways the instances where most of the theater has clapped or cheered:
The Dark Knight - The Joker makes the pencil disappear
Watchmen - You're in here with me
Avengers - Pretty much any scene with Hulk
The Raid - multiple instances
The Raid 2 - multiple instances
Probably a few I'm forgetting.
Oh I just remembered:
Interstellar - successfully docking.
And even if they did clap at the end, I'd just find it their way of saying "hey I liked it a lot and want to let everyone else in here know if anyone else agrees with me join in."
Anyways the instances where most of the theater has clapped or cheered:
The Dark Knight - The Joker makes the pencil disappear
Watchmen - You're in here with me
Avengers - Pretty much any scene with Hulk
The Raid - multiple instances
The Raid 2 - multiple instances
Probably a few I'm forgetting.
Oh I just remembered:
Interstellar - successfully docking.
cause you're FEELIN IT MAN
Count Dookkake
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I love these threads where people pretend that applause only communicates to those on stage.
SmackAttack
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I can't believe there are people actually complaining, let alone being surprised, that some people might feel the need to clap and cheer during a movie they really enjoyed. It's so common and I love it. There's nothing wrong with expressing how you feel during or after a movie, it's a freaking movie and it's entertainment. My favorite theater experiences are the ones when the crowd gets all into it and bursts of cheers, laughs, and whatever. The majority of Guardians of the Galaxy, The Avengers, The Dark Knight, Toy Story 3, Scott Pilgrim, and countless others were great movies but the way the audience got into those movie made the experience so much better. Some downers up in here, jeez.
I can't wait to see how bananas people go during The Force Awakens. It's going to be amazing.
I can't wait to see how bananas people go during The Force Awakens. It's going to be amazing.
It's happened once at Odeon on New Street. It was during a screening of Dark Knight and the cinema was packed, not an empty scene. There was a kid sat directly in the middle who would jump and cheer everytime Batman came on screen. It was annoying as hell. I wasn't the only one getting annoyed, at least half the cinema telling him to shut up. After another half-hour or so of it, some guy up back walks down to him, grabs him and tells him to shut the fuck up. The kid did. The room applauded and we all continues to enjoy the film in peace.
gutter_trash
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yeah, Star Wars Episode II Attack of the Clowns, the nerds started marking out when Yoda starting flipping and jumping around in the Count Duku dual
irfaanator
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people laughed at the weed jokes in transformer 2. I just facepalmed.
djplaeskool
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Something similar happened in the theater I was at.
Everyone was like "Yooooo daaaaaaaamn,"
Dying Of Thirst
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Whenever something cool happened in Godzilla.
Syph Medwes
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Do you float when you bathe in that much salt?
The ones I remember are from Phantom Menace when STAR WARS appears with the music. Everyone lost their shit. Then I think there was excitement during the Darth Maul final fight scene.
The second memorable one was during episode 2 when Padme tells Anakin, "You'll always be little Annie to me". I remember almost everyone in the theater making an audible cringe. Then again when they kiss and Padme says it was a mistake or something. That time everyone was cringe/laughing at that point.
The second memorable one was during episode 2 when Padme tells Anakin, "You'll always be little Annie to me". I remember almost everyone in the theater making an audible cringe. Then again when they kiss and Padme says it was a mistake or something. That time everyone was cringe/laughing at that point.
Eh, you will get some lone nutjobs clapping sometimes.
Permanently A
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Watching Avengers, post credits Thanos pops up and some dude in the back yells "AW SHIT NIGGA ITS DARKSEID!"
Most of the audience was laughing their ass off, including me.
Most of the audience was laughing their ass off, including me.
Barrylocke
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My favorite movie moments all involve the audience getting really into the movie. Clapping, cheering, gasping etc. is what makes the movie theater experience so great when you're with an audience. In fact I'd even go as far as to say that the collective audience experience is the best part about going to a public theater as opposed to watching a movie at home on your TV or computer. This may come off as rude, but if you really want to avoid people clapping and doing some other stuff at movie theaters, you should consider going to movie times that aren't going to have as many people. Going to a midnight release especially is just asking for trouble if that's not the sort of thing that you're into.
The most notable example is when I went to see Deathly Hallows Part 2. It was definitely amplified by the fact that I had already read all of the books and was a big Harry Potter fan when I was younger (so I already knew roughly what was going to happen and when), along with the fact that it was a midnight release. There were tons of cheers and claps during popular moments, most notably during the "Not my daughter you Bitch!!" line near the end of the movie.
Another big example was The Last Airbender. This movie was particularly interesting because I had invited a couple of friends to go see it. Those friends had also invited a few friends so by the end there was a group of about nine or ten people going to see this movie along with the rest of the audience. As most people are well aware by now the movie was awful, but I still had a good experience because the entire theater recognized that it was terrible and jeered or joked at a lot of the especially bad parts, such as the slow moving rock scene, or all of the times that Aang it's called Awwng. Even a terrible movie such as that can become fun if you're sharing the experience with other people who feel the same way.
The most notable example is when I went to see Deathly Hallows Part 2. It was definitely amplified by the fact that I had already read all of the books and was a big Harry Potter fan when I was younger (so I already knew roughly what was going to happen and when), along with the fact that it was a midnight release. There were tons of cheers and claps during popular moments, most notably during the "Not my daughter you Bitch!!" line near the end of the movie.
Another big example was The Last Airbender. This movie was particularly interesting because I had invited a couple of friends to go see it. Those friends had also invited a few friends so by the end there was a group of about nine or ten people going to see this movie along with the rest of the audience. As most people are well aware by now the movie was awful, but I still had a good experience because the entire theater recognized that it was terrible and jeered or joked at a lot of the especially bad parts, such as the slow moving rock scene, or all of the times that Aang it's called Awwng. Even a terrible movie such as that can become fun if you're sharing the experience with other people who feel the same way.
Never experienced it, and certainly never the whole cinema.
I don't even understand the point of it. Unless someone who made the movie is there, who are you showing your appreciation to?
That is not really a thing though despite threads to the contrary. It became a GAF meme that should have died by now but this forum loves its dead horses.
Barrylocke
Member
Its just a way to express your hype, like when people cheer during a sports match. Don't think that hard about it, it's a blast to get caught up in those moments with everyone.
Yep, people went nuts.
teruterubozu
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People clapped at the end of Paddington when I went a few weeks ago.
CarpeDeezNutz
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My friend says the same. It's more like, you are watching this movie in a room full of people and if it's pretty good and everyone is laughing and enjoying it, the clapping is an extension of that I think. as group everyone is just "hell yeah that was a great movie."
Rest of the world some stuffed shirts
SmackAttack
Member
Lol, that's hilarious.
Maybe they really enjoyed the movie and had a good time? Just because the filmmakers aren't there doesn't mean you can't express how you feel. It's entertainment, it's an experience to share.
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