# Movies that are better with a rowdy audience **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 14, 2012, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-better-with-a-rowdy-audience/609499 "2012-01-14T14:03:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Gagundathar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Gagundathar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gagundathar)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2012, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-better-with-a-rowdy-audience/609499/21 "2012-01-15T14:01:24Z")
I heard 2012 was awesomely horrible. I just hope the year won’t be. ---
**Author:** ![Student\_Driver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3da27b/32.png) [@Student\_Driver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Student_Driver)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2012, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-better-with-a-rowdy-audience/609499/22 "2012-01-15T14:53:40Z")
If everything does go down like that this year, I’m driving up to the movie theater I saw the movie at to heckle our last days with that great crowd. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2012, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-better-with-a-rowdy-audience/609499/23 "2012-01-15T15:01:49Z")
It’s close enough to the theme of this thread for me to mention one of the most hilarious moments in recent (?) times I was privy to. My wife and I were in a neighborhood theater watching a rerun of [Live and Let Die (1973)](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070328/) when it came to the scene where Roger Moore walks across a group of gators from a little island he was on to the mainland. About halfway across, this little old lady sitting behind us and to the side (well enough that we could see her) just muttered, “Shit!” We were laughing about that well after we had left the movie. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2012, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-better-with-a-rowdy-audience/609499/24 "2012-01-15T18:09:51Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > My wife and I were in a neighborhood theater watching a rerun of [Live and Let Die (1973)](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070328/) when it came to the scene where Roger Moore walks across a group of gators from a little island he was on to the mainland. About halfway across, this little old lady sitting behind us and to the side (well enough that we could see her) just muttered, “Shit!” We were laughing about that well after we had left the movie. Incidental note: the man performing that stunt was Ross Kananga, who owned the alligator farm where that scene was shot. During location scouting, the crew found the farm and its “Trespassers will be eaten” sign and liked it so much that they wrote the sequence into the movie _and_ named the villain Kananga. [Outtakes, and the final run.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bb1c1aMcFAo) ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2012, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-better-with-a-rowdy-audience/609499/25 "2012-01-15T18:13:52Z")
Excellent, **Bryan Ekers**! I’m glad not to be alone in appreciating that sequence. Wish I could find that little old lady. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2012, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-better-with-a-rowdy-audience/609499/26 "2012-01-15T19:05:02Z")
_ **Drag Me To Hell** _ was great fun with a rowdy audience. There are a lot of gross-out scenes and jump-scares and the sense of participation we were all feeling really added to the experience. During the goat scene, everybody lost it and it was one of the best laughs I’ve had in a theater in a long time. I haven’t seen the movie since then, but I suspect it wouldn’t be as good without that audience participation aspect. ---
**Author:** ![Scubaqueen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@Scubaqueen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scubaqueen)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2012, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-better-with-a-rowdy-audience/609499/27 "2012-01-16T18:07:50Z")
Another vote for Rocky Horror. What fun. 25 years ago, a whole bunch of us cast members from my community theater attended a midnite screening after our evening performance of ‘Wonderful Town’ - dressed in full 1940s-era regalia complete with hats, veils, gloves, snoods, zoot suits - the works. The funny thing is, we didn’t stand out a bit. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Scubaqueen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@Scubaqueen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scubaqueen)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2012, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-better-with-a-rowdy-audience/609499/28 "2012-01-16T18:14:25Z")
Dang it, missed the edit window. Almost forgot about Poltergeist. THAT was a rowdy bunch. My favorite was when JoBeth Williams was lurching down the hallway (which was doing that weird camera trick where the hallway gets longer and longer and she’s still lurching) towards the closed door of The Bedroom of Doom, when some guy down front of me leaps and hollers at the top of his lungs, “DON’T DO IT, LADY!!!” The whole place fell down laughing. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2012, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-better-with-a-rowdy-audience/609499/29 "2012-01-16T18:15:32Z")
I saw “Friday” in the theater for the first time with a bunch of high and drunk people (well, I assue they were drunk and high-- I was), and it was crazy-- awesome, but crazy. I love this movie regardless of the rowdy audience, but the audience reactions really enhanced the experience. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2012, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-better-with-a-rowdy-audience/609499/30 "2012-01-16T20:09:26Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > When I was in high school it was great fun to join in with a gang of rowdies at “serious movie” screenings and yell various nonsense at the screen under the cover of darkness. Things like: > > - Never mind the mules, just load the wagon. > - Take me out coach, I’m bleeding. > - Rodan is in heat. > - Don’t pay no 'tention to kangaroos. > > That phase passed for me and as movie prices began to approach the price of a decent shirt, my tolerance for such behavior waned. > > It’s to the point now that I rarely go to a theater for my movie fixes, mainly because of noisy and inconsiderate audiences. Just a little while ago I had the opportunity (in another thread) to refer to the “Never mind the mules…” thing and it made me curious if that expression had meaning to others on the internet. Among the hits I got on a Yahoo! search was [Hilarious putdowns of iconic movie moments](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=507720) which had 82 replies between 02-22-2009 and 02-27-2009, and which I almost bumped to see if it could get more recent replies. On second thought I chose to link to it here, since it’s basically the same issue/theme. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2012, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-better-with-a-rowdy-audience/609499/31 "2012-01-16T23:22:07Z")
Back in the 70s, I left my friends and wandered around Mexico City one night, just to see what I could see… Ended up at a kung-fu movie. Since it was subtitled, the audience could yell all they wanted at the characters on screen, and at each other, without missing anything. Fun was had. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-better-with-a-rowdy-audience/609499.md?page=1)