# Yelling and Cheering In Movie Theatres **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 15, 2006, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yelling-and-cheering-in-movie-theatres/348486 "2006-03-15T17:27:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2006, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yelling-and-cheering-in-movie-theatres/348486/61 "2006-03-21T14:22:54Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > I’ve heard too many of these things to even keep track. That’s what happens when you go to bad-movie marathons. I remember a couple of funny things I’ve yelled over the years (I want to post them, but I don’t want to be vain, so someone please make up my mind for me) Please do. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2006, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yelling-and-cheering-in-movie-theatres/348486/62 "2006-03-21T14:47:29Z")
> [@moonstarssun](#): > > The one that came to mind for me was when we went to see _How to Make an American Quilt_ with my mom. There were only a few people in the audience, and one of the women a few rows down sobbed loudly through the entire movie. We could hardly keep from laughing. In fact, I think we were laughing openly by the time the movie was over. She glared at us when we were all leaving the theater, but we just couldn’t help it. Heh. Remember during “Welcome to the Dollhouse” when the little sister is missing and all they find is her tutu? My father and I crack up (it’s a dark comedy and everything will be fine in the end) at the dark humor of it but you should have seen the people around us. They were treating it as suspense that could actually turn out horrible and were looking at us like we were monsters. ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2006, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yelling-and-cheering-in-movie-theatres/348486/63 "2006-03-21T15:47:54Z")
After _Attack of the Clones_, the theater was leaving through the lobby and this very gay-sounding guy says to his friend, “I’m sorry, but Yoda _turned it out_!” People laughed. Back in college, I knew a guy who claimed to have stood up at the beginning of _Imagine_ and yelled out “I hear he dies in the end.” ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2006, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yelling-and-cheering-in-movie-theatres/348486/64 "2006-03-21T20:08:55Z")
When I saw the first Michael Keaton Batman movie there were a lot of cool moments in the movie like when the batplane flies in front of the moon and looks like the bat signal when the audience cheered or clapped. I definitely find that the movie giong experienced is heightened if the audience gets into it. There was a lot of cheering during the second round of Star War movies, and Harry Potter and LOTR movies, and of course, Serenity. > [@McDeath\_the\_Mad](#): > > Nothing bugs me more than when people clap during a movie? WTF? Oh yeah I forgot, the director is going to hear your applause and feel such a sense of accomplishment. :rolleyes: Ok so we shouldn’t laugh at comedic movies either because the actors have no way of knowing we thought they were funny? Clapping and cheering aren’t about giving feedback to the makers of the movie. It’s about expressing whatever emotion the film is illiciting in you. If a movie is really good, it’s giong to make you laugh out loud, or scream with fright, or cry with sadness or happiness, or cheer and clap in excitment. A tv show or book or any other creative work that illicits emotion can rightly lead to an auible response regardless of whether the creators are there to appreciate it. ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2006, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yelling-and-cheering-in-movie-theatres/348486/65 "2006-03-21T20:52:32Z")
What **jackdavinci** said. I am an unashamed applauder at the end of a really good movie (most recent example being _The Incredibles._ WOOT! 😃 ) ---
**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2006, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yelling-and-cheering-in-movie-theatres/348486/66 "2006-03-21T22:23:26Z")
I got pretty good laughs when, at the end of _LOTR: Return of the King_, I said “That was awesome! I can’t wait for the fourth one.” And when I saw _The Matrix_ right at the beginning of the subway faceoff between Neo and Smith, during the slow pan of the stare down, some guy in the theater let out with that stereotypical tumbleweed westernish sound: “Boooweeoooweeeooonnngg. Waaa waaa waaaaaaa.” Had the theater in stitches. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Plastic\_Ninja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f07891/32.png) [@Little\_Plastic\_Ninja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Plastic_Ninja)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2006, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yelling-and-cheering-in-movie-theatres/348486/67 "2006-03-21T22:58:32Z")
> [@Hippy Hollow](#): > > the Aquarius Theater on Riverside & Pleasant Valley in Austin. (Hell, we saw everything there. They had the dollar movies there.) I actually had a better time listening to the audience commentary than the film itself. [HUGE hijack] Wow! I always wondered about that place when I lived in East Austin. I’d pass it sometimes on my way home. It’s a lot like the rest of that part of town, a rundown graffiti-ridden ruin. ☹ I always like hearing old history about this town. 🙂 [/HUGE hijack] ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2006, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yelling-and-cheering-in-movie-theatres/348486/68 "2006-03-21T23:39:10Z")
> [@Dung Beetle](#): > > Please do. 🙂 Alright. Two good examples of things I said that went over well. The first movie we watched last year was _Superman IV: The Quest for Peace_. There’s an awful scene wherein Supes and Clark Kent are supposed to be on the same double-date, and at one point, the man in blue burns the dinner to allow himself to escape. We watch him use his heat vision to overheat the turkey in the microwave, and because of the way the scene is edited, he appears to be intently staring at the bird. For whatever reason I was inspired to yell “My turkey sense is tingling!” But the quip I’m proudest of came a few hours later, during the horrible Roland Emmerich version of _Godzilla_. The heroes blow up Madison Square Garden, where 'zilla has laid hundreds of eggs. As they stare at the smoldering ruin - by which I mean MSG, not the Knicks - Godzilla, who had died half an hour earlier in the ocean, suddenly reappears from the wreckage. He nudges one of his dead lizard kids, then stands up to his full height and glares at the good guys. So I says… “Chello! My name is Godzilla Montoya! You killed my babies! Prepare to die!” ---
**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2006, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yelling-and-cheering-in-movie-theatres/348486/69 "2006-03-22T00:55:43Z")
> [@Max the Immortal](#): > > Before so many movies, there’s that THX promo. Loud, droning sound, and a huge THX emblazoned across the entire screen. Fade to black. Then a smaller “[www.thx.com](http://www.thx.com)” fades into view in the middle of the screen for a moment. An audience members says, “Oh, so that’s where I can reach them.”. The rest of the audience laughs. > > At the Vancouver International Film Festival (and I suspect also at other film festivals), it’s customary to applaud at the end of a film. I don’t know why this is. I does add to the fun of the festival, though. We had, during a particularly big summer blockbuster, the THX sound at 11. The screen says: “The audience is listening” And from the back, a young male voice: “The audience is DEAF!” ---
**Author:** ![SCSimmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e495f1/32.png) [@SCSimmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCSimmons)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2006, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yelling-and-cheering-in-movie-theatres/348486/70 "2006-03-22T03:40:08Z")
At a screening of _Big Trouble in Little China_ at my university, mumblety-mumble years ago: Gracie Law (Kim Cattrall): “I can’t believe this is happening!” Obnoxious audience member: “Me either!” OK, it was me. But it got a laugh, so that’s OK, right? ---
**Author:** ![BoBettie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@BoBettie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BoBettie)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2006, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yelling-and-cheering-in-movie-theatres/348486/71 "2006-03-22T04:24:07Z")
Saw Charlie and the Chocolate Factory with a couple of other dopers. The theater was packed full, but really well behaved. The part where the miserable grandpa is ranting about how there’s no way Charlie will get the golden ticket is pretty sad, but it struck one audience member funny when he growled “YOU DON’T HAVE A CHANCE!” The man just had an outburst of laughter and that got everyone laughing for a minute. I don’t know why it struck him so funny, but it sure made everyone else giggle for a while. Now when I see that scene I always laugh to myself. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2006, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yelling-and-cheering-in-movie-theatres/348486/72 "2006-03-22T05:29:17Z")
> [@BoBettie](#): > > Saw Charlie and the Chocolate Factory with a couple of other dopers. The theater was packed full, but really well behaved. The part where the miserable grandpa is ranting about how there’s no way Charlie will get the golden ticket is pretty sad, but it struck one audience member funny when he growled “YOU DON’T HAVE A CHANCE!” The man just had an outburst of laughter and that got everyone laughing for a minute. I don’t know why it struck him so funny, but it sure made everyone else giggle for a while. Now when I see that scene I always laugh to myself. Reminds me of a recent one: We were sitting in the middle row of Charlie, with a gaggle of kids nattering all around us, watching the movie. The part comes up where Charlie gets his first chocolate bar, for his birthday: he peels back the paper, everyone’s holding their breath, he tears off the tin foil, you could hear a pin drop… …of course, there’s nothing underneath, just chocolate. No Golden Ticket. In the silence, one guy in the back says, very loudly, “Awww, _letdown_!” The entire audience dissolved. There was rolling in the aisles. It was brilliant. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2006, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yelling-and-cheering-in-movie-theatres/348486/73 "2006-03-23T00:09:10Z")
> [@Unintentionally Blank](#): > > The screen says: > > “The audience is listening” > > And from the back, a young male voice: > > “The audience is DEAF!” Heh. I sometimes use the same line myself, though I’d go “The audience is now deaf.” Gotta have the “now”, y’know? Stole it from Steven Spielberg’s _Tiny Toon Adventures._😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yelling-and-cheering-in-movie-theatres/348486.md?page=3)