I find a movie more enjoyable when I really get caught up in it. When I feel like I'm a part of the movie. When someone claps, or flips on their phone, eats loudly, speaks, etc -- it is a stark reminder that you are NOT caught up in the movie, but instead sitting in a theater with a bunch of strangers. You lose your mental escape in which you have placed yourself in the movie -- even if it's just one split second, it is still annoying. I hate the communal experience and would much rather watch a movie in silence by myself. I nearly came to blows with a very obnoxious African American man during Titanic for this very reason.
Opening night is an event for the fanboys. If you want a clap free-zone, you're in the wrong place. After opening night, don't clap.
I'll clap during credits if i enjoyed the movie, i dont remember the last time i clapped during a movie if i have at all, the movie that I heard the most clapping in was farenheit 9/11. most movies clapping can be annoying but its rare and only i would say on opening weekends/nights when there is a large crowd. i remember there was a lot of clapping/cheering when i saw the matrix sequels and 300 on opening night(s). i purposefully did not go see spiderman yet this weekend so I can stay away from crowds that feel the need to "make it an experience" laughing sucks if its too loud because it can drown out the dialogue that follows it, but the movie was trying to get a laugh there so i understand. the thing that bugs me the most is when someone right next to you or close enough to you is doing a freaking alternate commentary audio track to the movie the entire time. happened to me when I went to go see Shooter and I asked the manager for a refund because i couldnt hear the movie at all. this was after I did ask the guy if he could keep his voice down. those a**holes really piss me off.
Man . . . folx to hypersensative looking for the littlest reason in the world to HATE As long as Clapping isn't making me miss something as along as what someone says in interesting or funny oh well . . . live and let live Rocket River
I don't mind clapping. I do mind idiots who bring screaming babies and cell phones ringing and fools who talk all during the flick. The turds.
Come on. It's just part of the "communal experience". (kind of like the plague) I would also like to take this opportunity to thank the people who brought 15 kids into the restaurant I was at last night turning it into Chuck E Cheese. Your children are precious.
I have two kids, and we NEVER allowed them to "act up" in a public place. I always immediately took them outside and talked to them. If that didn't work (it usually did), then I wouldn't take them back in. Today, they are very, VERY well behaved. Get compliments on them all the time. It ain't Rockets science, people. Remember... YOU are the parent, THEY are the kid.
a fact that is far too often overlooked by some these days Im with you Deckard, I hated when others kids did stuff like that before I had some.....thats why I established from day one that there would be no acting out like that with mine.
When's the last time you heard someone say a movie sucked because it didn't make them clap enough? Clapping at movies is moronic. The only exception is if it is known the director/actors are in the crowd.
Yes, clapping in the movie theater is a relatively new phenomenon. I never really heard people doing it until about....oh, let's see....oh yes, it was about 30 years ago during a little movie called Star Wars.
With cable and DVD's going to a movie theater is a communal event so why not clap and laugh if you enjoy it. I went to see Independence Day on oppening night and the crowd reaction was what made it fun. When I saw the movie a few months later on video it wasn't nearly as entertaining. Same thing with Snakes on a Plane. Some movies are meant to be an event movie were rowd reaction is part of the show.
