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    Applause in cinemas

    A very surreal experience I had in the US last year was brought back to me after a phone call with my parents this weekend.

    They live in the US, and when I went to visit them I took the opportunity to visit the cinema a few times to see LOTR part 3 amongst other things, and the audience laughed at the obviously funny bits but might have missed some of the more subtle humour... what got me though was that at the end credits they applaud the film?

    Whose benefit is this for?

    I thought it might be a one-off, but every film I saw over there had the same result. Bizarre!

    What my parents said this weekend is that it's got even worse - now they actually applaud some of the actions of characters in the film when they feel justice has been served.


    *** SPOILER ABOUT TROY WARNING ***

    They saw Troy, and applause with cheering came about when Hector killed Ajax and when his cousin killed Agamemnon.
    *boggle*

    Has this trait spread to the UK, or anywhere in Europe for that matter?
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    I hate it when people clap or shout in the cinema...

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    Saw Troy last weekend - only cheering was when the film finally started (20 minutes late!).

    When the film wrapped itself around the projector 30 minutes later, cheering was not heard....
    Now go away before I taunt you a second time.

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    IMO, there should be total silence from the audience (ofc if you feel the need to laugh, fair enough.. so long as your not the only moron in the cinema laughing). When I go to the cinema I go to see a film, Its not like a theatre production, there are no actors to hear the applause so why clap? sounds like a typical american thing and if that kind of behaviour spreads over here I would go to the cinema less than I already do and just wait for stuff on DVD.
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    bah @ Troy spoilers.. I know the story anyway.. I read the book years ago...


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    Film's quite, quite different.


    For a start the war takes only 14 days in the film compared to about 10 years in the book...
    Now go away before I taunt you a second time.

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    only cinema experience for me like that was in an advert when the audience had a "sitter" in it....the advert had a bloke point at the audience...and the "sitter" argued with it and walked out

    killed me....made me laugh through out the whole film, but other than that....

    oh..my parents saw a BOnd film when I was akid and as Jame Bond ski'd off the dge of a precipice and his parachute opened and it was a Union Jack the crowd went mad....

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    I think it was while me and a mate were watching x men in the cinema that after wolverine did the whole middle claw/middle finger joke some old guy with his kids behind shouted "bravo, top show" i don't think there was one person in that cinema who didnt p*ss themselves at how stupid that guy sounded.

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    I hate Cinemas full stop for reasons such as this.

    When i went to see Red Dragon at the cinema there were a group of 15/16 year olds kids that were laughing and talking the whole way through and it completly spoiled it for me.

    Since then I have only seen one other film at the cinema - LOTR3.

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    I'm in my mid 20s, and when I was younger there was always a real sense of anticipation before the start of a movie at the cinema, to the point that when the curtain did that half-close before the film's certificate flashed up, everybody in the audience would cheer and clap.

    Sorry to all you apathetic social participation haters, but I have to say that active apreciation of a film only lends to the atmosphere and enjoyment....people who talk and give a running commentary during movie's should be shot of course...

    And anyway, you big insecure girls (no offence to the ladies frequenting the forum), you get goosebumps at the heroic bits, thrill at the exciting bits, and give little cheers (albeit internal) when something cool happens. Some people are just capable of expressing themselves without being embarressed about it....
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    Usually annoys the tits off me when people shout or make comments, but watching SW Ep 2 during Annakin's 'It's so unfair' scene, someone shouted 'It's Kevin, I hate you all, you're so unfair' and the place burst out laughing.

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    I hate it when people answer the mobile in the cinema and then proceed to talk very loudly on their way slowwwly out...

    Never really had anyone clapping before...

    A bunch of 14yr old chavs screamed in Brad and Orlando's naked scenes in troy though

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tumble
    bah @ Troy spoilers.. I know the story anyway.. I read the book years ago...


    (The Aneid, by Virgil )
    well dont be telling us, cos were going to see it this weekend remember?


    ssssssh


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    I absolutely LOVE going to the cinema.... WHEN IT'S EMPTY. There's always, always ALWAYS at least one person who has to completely spoil the experience for me.

    For example - I was watching Troy today, almost empty cinema, loads of seats. Guy comes and sits a couple of seats away from me on the same row. "Bloody hell" I thought, so I check out the guy - no drink, no pop corn - good. Halfway through the trailers I'm disturbed by his EXTREMELY WHISTLEY NOSE. Bloody hell..

    There have been other occasions where a whole film has been spoiled by petty "ticks" such as this.. a guy playing around with sweet wrappers, people who munch on popcorn, people who eat with their mouth open, people who continuously slurp on an empty drinks bottle, mouth breathers, whisperers, mobile phone keypad clicking, sniffers, coughers, people who constantly leave their seat to go to the toilet every five minutes, chavs with their feet on your chairs, people with squeaky shoes, kids who ask questions about what's going on in the film - or get bored, so fidget (their parents ignoring them because they want to watch the film).... the SMELL of salted popcorn.


    I'll stop now, thanks.

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    I hate any noise in the cinema, so I refuse to go and see a film until it's been out for a while and the crowds have died down a bit. I went to see Shattered Glass the other day, and I had to run out at the start and find a projectionist because the stupid sods had forgotten to swap the anamorphic lens in after the trailers. I missed about a minute because of that. Still, nobody else in the audience complained, I saved them from watching the whole film in SkinnyVision.

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