treestarfae Posted January 9, 2011 Share Posted January 9, 2011 I know people used to clap after a good movie. What's up with not clapping nowdays? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kim in TN Posted January 9, 2011 Share Posted January 9, 2011 I know! The last time I remember clapping was when we watched The Princess Bride in our park last summer. EVERYONE clapped. It was great! It seems like everyone is in a hurry to get out of theaters. Our family likes to sit and watch the credits. Many times, the theater people want to rush us out by turning on the lights and changing the garbage. I hate when they do that! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
helena Posted January 9, 2011 Share Posted January 9, 2011 I do this!! I love to clap at the end of a great movie. I'll hear a few other people start doing it too, but they always seem to fizzle out. I wonder if it's a rush to get out of the theater, a holding back of emotions, I don't know.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThatCyndiGirl Posted January 9, 2011 Share Posted January 9, 2011 I know people used to clap after a good movie. What's up with not clapping nowdays? Maybe people finally realized that the people who made the movie and the people who starred in it can't hear the clapping from that far away? :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodland_Mom Posted January 9, 2011 Share Posted January 9, 2011 Maybe people finally realized that the people who made the movie and the people who starred in it can't hear the clapping from that far away? :lol: But it's just FUN to clap! :D BTW, our local theater did a fun Christmas event with a re-showing of "The Polar Express". The show/event received a hearty applause. Yeah for clapping! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamee Posted January 9, 2011 Share Posted January 9, 2011 You haven't been to a movie in Italy then. DH took me to see Titanic at an Italian theater years ago and I enjoyed the show the audience put on more than the movie itself. Clapping, cheering, screaming, crying. It was fantastic! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jld Posted January 9, 2011 Share Posted January 9, 2011 Mexicans like to clap and cheer, too, and so do Indians. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheCoffeeChick Posted January 9, 2011 Share Posted January 9, 2011 People clap here at the movies -- not at the majority of them, but the really good ones they do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
creekland Posted January 9, 2011 Share Posted January 9, 2011 Maybe people finally realized that the people who made the movie and the people who starred in it can't hear the clapping from that far away? :lol: :lol::lol::lol: I'm in the camp of wondering why people WOULD clap for a movie??? It's not like it's a live performance like a play or musical. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kewb Posted January 9, 2011 Share Posted January 9, 2011 Maybe people finally realized that the people who made the movie and the people who starred in it can't hear the clapping from that far away? :lol: That is always my thought, I love to clap at a live performance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mejane Posted January 9, 2011 Share Posted January 9, 2011 I'm in the camp of wondering why people WOULD clap for a movie??? It's not like it's a live performance like a play or musical. Me, too. It would never occur to me. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinder Posted January 9, 2011 Share Posted January 9, 2011 :lol::lol::lol: I'm in the camp of wondering why people WOULD clap for a movie??? It's not like it's a live performance like a play or musical. I'm in that camp, too. Clapping at movies? I guess I don't go enough but I don't remember ever hearing clapping at the end of a movie. :001_huh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DawnM Posted January 9, 2011 Share Posted January 9, 2011 I have never clapped in a movie theater! Ok, not entirely true.....when DH worked in entertainment we did go to some premiers in LA. I clapped then (as did everyone) because the people producing the film WERE THERE! Otherwise I don't clap to a projector. Dawn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melinda in VT Posted January 9, 2011 Share Posted January 9, 2011 :lol::lol::lol: I'm in the camp of wondering why people WOULD clap for a movie??? It's not like it's a live performance like a play or musical. :iagree: I think I might have clapped at the midnight showing of The Two Towers, but in general I only clap at a live performance that is not in church. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monarch Room Posted January 9, 2011 Share Posted January 9, 2011 I just saw The King's Speech. My mother in law rarely babysits, and usually has terms and conditions as to what we should do with our time when she does. Anyway, she implored us to see this movie. People clapped at the end of this one. Most people were upper-middle aged, so I'm guessing it's a generational thing :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haiku Posted January 9, 2011 Share Posted January 9, 2011 I've been to a few movies where people clapped, but I think for the most part there aren't that many very good movies made, and with people being able to watch movies on demand in their homes, the "magic" of a movie has diminished somewhat. Tara Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrsMe Posted January 9, 2011 Share Posted January 9, 2011 Probably because they're too busy talking and texting through the movie. I also agree with the pp. I can't remember the last time we saw a GOOD movie. Most of the reviews on Netflix are 1-2 stars. Very rarely 3. Actors play themselves, very rarely an actual character anymore. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparrow Posted January 9, 2011 Share Posted January 9, 2011 We don't see very many movies in the theater, but I'd say about 75% of the time, there's clapping. Is this a regional thing? As far as why people clap when it's not a live performance, I think it connects people. It's gesture of, "wow, that was really good!" and it feels good that others are sharing that feeling :001_smile:. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mom2jjka Posted January 9, 2011 Share Posted January 9, 2011 Because the theater staff come in with their brooms and trash cans during the last 5 minutes of the movie, line up along the wall, and glare at us like "...Hurry up and leave already..." :glare: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abbeyej Posted January 9, 2011 Share Posted January 9, 2011 I'm in the camp of wondering why people WOULD clap for a movie??? Indeed. Clapping for a movie (unless at a premier or special screening with filmmakers in some way) just doesn't make sense to me. I could understand a spontaneous outburst, but as a general rule? WHY? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dangermom Posted January 9, 2011 Share Posted January 9, 2011 People around here clap for a really good movie. It's just fun and lets everybody say "Wasn't that a great movie!" to each other without actually having to talk to strangers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lolly Posted January 9, 2011 Share Posted January 9, 2011 I don't ever recall clapping at the end of a movie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LidiyaDawn Posted January 9, 2011 Share Posted January 9, 2011 I've never heard of this. I went to a lot of movies as a kid, and a fair number as an adult, and I've NEVER seen anyone clap at the end. :001_huh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparrow Posted January 9, 2011 Share Posted January 9, 2011 Indeed. Clapping for a movie (unless at a premier or special screening with filmmakers in some way) just doesn't make sense to me. I could understand a spontaneous outburst, but as a general rule? WHY? I don't think it's a general rule. It's reserved for reeeaaaally good movies. As I said, I don't see many movies in the theater, so if I'm paying good money to see a movie, it better be a good one. Maybe that's why I hear clapping more often :confused:? I can't imagine clapping after seeing the latest Ben Stiller movie or something :lol:. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elegantlion Posted January 9, 2011 Share Posted January 9, 2011 I can think of one movie we attended where there was clapping. I went to a lot of movies as a kid and young adult, now not so much. Okay we clapped at Riff-trax live, but that wasn't really just a movie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abbeyej Posted January 9, 2011 Share Posted January 9, 2011 ... It's reserved for reeeaaaally good movies. ... Yeah, but in "really good movies", I often just want to sit quietly for a few moments when it's over. If it's been truly moving and deep, I'm not ready to change modes, snap out of it, and start clapping right away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
katilac Posted January 9, 2011 Share Posted January 9, 2011 We don't see very many movies in the theater, but I'd say about 75% of the time, there's clapping. Is this a regional thing? Where are you? I'm southern US, and clapping is pretty common. Yeah, but in "really good movies", I often just want to sit quietly for a few moments when it's over. If it's been truly moving and deep, I'm not ready to change modes, snap out of it, and start clapping right away. It's usually not done after truly moving and deep movies; there was no clapping after the latest HP movie, probably because of the solemn ending. Think more along the lines of adventure or motivational, feel-good movies. Doubly so if sports are involved in any way, lol, but also titles like Akeela and the Bee, where a young girl from the projects competes in the national spelling bee. The cast and crew can't hear you, but the applause creates waves of good feeling which travel to Hollywood and keep them warm at night. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeannie in NJ Posted January 9, 2011 Share Posted January 9, 2011 Ilived in Los Angeles in the late 70's and early 80's. There were and maybe still are? specialty theatres. For example 1 theatre only showed silent movies, others would show classsics from the 30's and 40's for example, a BEtte Davis Week, Kate Hepburn Week, Bogart week, etc. I often went to a theatre that showed musicals from the 40's and 50's. People always clapped at all of these movies. When watching the musicals, people would often wildly clap after musical numbers. I thought it was neat. It was like a show of wonder or appreciation of a really good Gene Kelly number. It seemed to bring the audience together and increased the great time that everyone was having. I don't go to movies now as the theatres where I live now are so tiny and junky, it is not a great experience anymore. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EKS Posted January 9, 2011 Share Posted January 9, 2011 Maybe people finally realized that the people who made the movie and the people who starred in it can't hear the clapping from that far away? :lol: See, this is what I think too. I think clapping at the movies was a hold over from clapping at plays, sort of a habit. I don't think I've heard clapping at a movie theater in 25+ years. But what's weird is that I was just thinking about this the other day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss Peregrine Posted January 9, 2011 Share Posted January 9, 2011 :lol::lol::lol: I'm in the camp of wondering why people WOULD clap for a movie??? It's not like it's a live performance like a play or musical. :iagree: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abbeyej Posted January 9, 2011 Share Posted January 9, 2011 Where are you? I'm southern US, and clapping is pretty common. Huh. So'm I. Maybe I just don't go to sports movies. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JFSinIL Posted January 9, 2011 Share Posted January 9, 2011 I have never clapped in a movie theater! Ok, not entirely true.....when DH worked in entertainment we did go to some premiers in LA. I clapped then (as did everyone) because the people producing the film WERE THERE! Otherwise I don't clap to a projector. Dawn yup - back when i was at UCLA we'd often get passes to preview screenings and clapping often happened - IF the film was good (yeah The Right Stuff!!!). I recall one screening the film was so BAD that even before it was over the audience was loudly booing and complaining...knowing that the director was THERE!!!! (never show your film to a UCLA film school audience unless you are sure they will approve of it!) (I think the film booed was The Moon in the Gutter. ) I have experienced folks clapping as a film started - notably the Harry Potters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skirch Posted January 9, 2011 Share Posted January 9, 2011 I took dd to see the new Karate Kid movie this summer and the whole theater broke into applause when it was over. It was awesome! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elise1mds Posted January 9, 2011 Share Posted January 9, 2011 I've never been to a movie where people clapped. I've been to a movie where people booed at the end ("The Blair Witch Project," which scared exactly nobody at the theater), and I've been to a movie where at the end people groaned - happily - because they didn't expect a cliffhanger ending ("Inception"), but I've never been to a movie where people clapped. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xuzi Posted January 9, 2011 Share Posted January 9, 2011 :lol::lol::lol: I'm in the camp of wondering why people WOULD clap for a movie??? It's not like it's a live performance like a play or musical. This is me. I would feel really silly clapping at the end of a movie. Infact, the last time I recall hearing anybody in a theater react in any audible way to the end of a movie was back in 2001 when the credits started rolling at the end of the first Lord of the Rings installment. Frodo and Sam are just starting to head down the mountain into the valley of Mordor, and then *bam* the credits start rolling. Some guy in the front shouted out "What the h*ll??!!" I guess he didn't realize the movie was meant to be Part 1 of a series. :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kalanamak Posted January 9, 2011 Share Posted January 9, 2011 Granted I quit going to movies about 10 years ago, but I have never been in a theater where people clapped. I did go to the opening of Animal House at a midwestern land-grant college, and the audience was rowdier than the movie, but no clapping. I have been on two airplane flights where people clapped. One the landing was so perfect, you didn't know you'd landed (it was a Virgin flight into Heathrow), and the other was such a storm children were screaming in terror as we were landing (Kansas City). I think that one was a relief-clap. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JVA Posted January 9, 2011 Share Posted January 9, 2011 I just saw The King's Speech last Sunday and the audience clapped during the movie and at the end. It was worthy of it, too. Great movie- highly recommend it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
angela in ohio Posted January 9, 2011 Share Posted January 9, 2011 Most movies these days don't deserve it. :glare: I went to two showings of Toy Story 3, and the audience clapped at the end of one, though, as well as when we went to see Megamind. And dc and I went to the "old time movies" to see Chitty Chitty Bang Bang a few months ago, and everyone claps after those. :001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stacy in NJ Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 clapped at the end. It was just an interesting, enjoyable movie. People around here clap for a really good movie. It's just fun and lets everybody say "Wasn't that a great movie!" to each other without actually having to talk to strangers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Outdoorsy Type Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 People here clap after good movies. They also vocalize their displeasure at the stinkers. At a recent one I went to there was a collective gasp and BOOO from the crowd . :tongue_smilie: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mo2 Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 :lol::lol::lol: I'm in the camp of wondering why people WOULD clap for a movie??? It's not like it's a live performance like a play or musical. :iagree: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gardening momma Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 :lol::lol::lol: I'm in the camp of wondering why people WOULD clap for a movie??? It's not like it's a live performance like a play or musical. :iagree: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FaithManor Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 Maybe it's a regional cultural thing. In our little theater, an old historic one six miles north, we still do. The owner greets everyone personally after the movie as well and we all love to tell him what we liked and didn't like. Every once in a while, he gets called forward for a bit of applause because he runs this little cinema on a shoestring. It's only $5.00 per adult and $3.50 per child. This is a thinly populated rural area so it's not uncommon for him to only have 40 people on a Friday night. He isn't making anything at it. But, he's a retired guy that didn't want to see the beautiful building go to wreck and ruin and he feels badly for how expensive it is for most families to go to the city for a movie - $9.00 a seat for adults and kids. During LOTR Return of the King, he had the place packed out and there was a standing ovation when legolas slid down the "oliphant's" trunk after that amazing scene where he was taking it down by cutting the ropes to the "topper" and then using the falling weight to haul himself up! One of the best moments in cinema in the last ten years if you ask me! People were hooting, screaming, and clapping. He paused the projector, came out and grinned at everyone, gave us the thumbs up, and then restarted the whole thing. It was so much fun! Nanny McPhee Returns brough another huge round of applause. But, after "Mamma Mia", no applause and someone shouted, "I'll never be able to look at Pierce Brosnan with a straight face again." Everyone agreed. So, I guess from my perspective, it may be not just that movie's are not live performance, but that each region may have a little bit different movie culture. Faith Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss Peregrine Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 What is really annoying is the people that clap before the movie at the theater's intro song. The "Krikorian Clap." Erg. I feel embarrassed for them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcconnellboys Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 They do still clap sometimes here! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura in CA Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 I just saw The King's Speech last Sunday and the audience clapped during the movie and at the end. It was worthy of it, too. Great movie- highly recommend it! :iagree: No one clapped here (I was disappointed, but didn't want to be the one to start it ... and yes, most people jet out of the theatre, whereas we always want to watch the credits!), but a friend of mine in San Diego said people there clapped at the end of "King's Speech." ~Laura Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ibbygirl Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 I know people used to clap after a good movie. What's up with not clapping nowdays? Too busy texting and talking on the phone maybe? ;) :D :tongue_smilie: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suzanne in ABQ Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 I think I've only heard applause in a movie theatre maybe 3 times in all my 47 years. Maybe it's a regional thing? Or maybe I just go to really bad movies? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaissezFaire Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 They do here in So Cal. Not every time but a lot of the time. There is sometimes cheering during a movie too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melinda in VT Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 During LOTR Return of the King, he had the place packed out and there was a standing ovation when legolas slid down the "oliphant's" trunk after that amazing scene where he was taking it down by cutting the ropes to the "topper" and then using the falling weight to haul himself up! One of the best moments in cinema in the last ten years if you ask me! People were hooting, screaming, and clapping. He paused the projector, came out and grinned at everyone, gave us the thumbs up, and then restarted the whole thing. It was so much fun! Now, see, that would have annoyed me. That moment with Legolas was the worst moment in the entire trilogy, a very sour note in an otherwise fantastic film. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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