Anyone Seen A Movie In A US Cinema?

Years ago I went to see a Bruce Lee double bill of "fist of fury" and "way of the dragon" at a British cinema and the auditorium was packed out with over 500 people cheering on Bruce and booing at the villains. I will never forget that night. The cinema actually shook with the stamping of feet and people standing up clapping their hanRAB. That was the last great days of double bills and vast theatres with massive screens, not tiny mini theatres with no atmosphere. Maybe our american cousins make up for the lack of big cinema magic by creating their own magic amongst their selves by really getting involved.
 
My friend told me this about American cinemas years ago (I know it's a generalisation but), he saw Star Wars over there and he said the whole cinema was going beserk you couldn't hear a thing.

It reminRAB me of the time I was a student, me and a friend were on a guided tour of East Berlin on a bus which was half full of American students. When the tour guide got on (a middle-aged lady, very formal and matter of fact), the Americans were freaking out shouting "yeah, get on down baby" etc whilst we were sitting there :eek::o
 
Americans go to the cinema in the same manner they go to the theater. Some older theaters in the US still have live plays along with showing films. They open the curtain for both.

Any wonder why American test audiences are preferred?
 
I've only seen one film here in the UK where the crowd cheered etc throughout the film, that was for Kill Bill Vol.1(clapping after fight scenes ended also). They were going mad(not as mad as American cinemas though).
 
I remember going to see 'When Harry Met Sally' in a cinema in New York, when it came out (yes I am that old). When the old woman said the famous line 'I'll have what she's having' the audience broke out into spontaneous applause. Never experienced that before or since. It had never occurred to me before that people could clap at the pictures. Like previous posters have said, must be an American thing.
 
I've been to the cinema a couple of times in California and the experience was exactly the same as in the UK. No noise during the film and when it finished people just got up and left. I can't remember which films they were now as it's a few years ago.
 
I was at the 1st UK screening of battle royale at the edinburgh film fest, and the crowd was very like that there.

(Of course the fact they were giving out free vodka at that screening possibily had something to do with it.)
 
I saw Unbreakable in Arizona, can't say that I saw or heard this kind of behaviour. Mind you given the film, it was possible they were all put to sleep; so that might explain it. :D
 
I saw Star Trek Nemesis in the US, and also Die Another Day. There was some cheering and yelling at the screen a few times.

But there was a lot of crowd reaction when I went to see Iron Man in the UK. For some reason I can't fathom, the entire audience except me and two other people was black and they did a lot of whooping, excited leaping around and sort of ghetto hand gestures at things in the movie. Very bizarre experience. Plus a man and a very young boy were escorted out by police.
 
I went to see a film in the US, way back in the 90's (Rising Sun) but I never saw a reaction like the one described here. Again, it could have just been because the film was so dull and the fact that it was in a small town miles north of Philadelphia, well miles away from anywhere really :)
 
I'd love to see a film in an American cinema. Mind you I'd love to go to America full stop :D

I remember seeing The Phantom Menace the first day it came out and the cinema was packed full on the biggest screen, and everyone started yelling and cheering, and clapping when it started which was great fun.

I'd much rather we all made noise than sat quiet as mice.
 
I've visted the cinema on almost every trip I've made to the US. I've never experienced anyone clapping or whooping, but then all the films we saw were a bit rubbish. The funniest thing that did happen though was two men got up half way through a film & shouted 'That's right, the black guys are leaving.....':confused:
 
The only film I can remember the audience applauding at the end was "Strictly Ballroom".

And a film I saw where the entire audience walked out at the end with absolutely no one saying a word was "Carrie" with Sissy Spacek. Someone I knew worked at the cinema and said it was the same every night!
 
I would expect if you go to see a film aimed at a teenger, you're going to get loud, noisy teenagers.

In the US, yes I have heard clapping at the end of films if they think they're worthy.

But no, they do NOT yell and scream at every film. :rolleyes:

The most bizaare film experience I have had was here in England. A roomful of sobbing teenagers at the end of Titanic, some of which had to be helped out of the theatre as they were wailing so much. I'll never forget that. :eek:
 
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