Stop Making Sense - maybe the greatest concert film of all time.
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Hell yeah! That's one of mine too - when I saw it it was at the Edinburgh Film Festival and they set it up like a concert - open air screening, support acts, a bar and food kiosks in sight of the screen, standing only. It was amazing.
I can't remember a movie I've seen in a theatre in the past 15 or so years where people didn't clap afterward.
I don't get it. Nobody who made the film is present. Who the hell are you applauding?
I think the theater clapped when I saw Infinity War, and it felt pretty appropriate. The whole theater was clearly very invested the whole time.
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Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. People kind of crap on the movie now but that's the best crowd I've ever seen a movie with.
Who has ever crapped on that movie?
Before Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull came out Temple of Doom was the whipping boy in the series.
Huh I've never heard that in my own experience. I'm middle aged, saw it in theaters. In fact I think it was probably the most referenced of the franchise in my world besides the scene with the opening of the Ark.
I remember being terrified as a kid with the heart stuff.
That heart scene scared grade school aged me as well.
It was after The Last Crusade had been out for a while and was pretty much universally liked. Thats when the people started talking bad about Temple of Dooms goofy scenes and cheesy special effects.
I can't even imagine someone starting applauding at a movie. Sounds pretty American.
They do absurd standing ovations at Cannes and other international film festivals. I doubt it’s just an American thing (and even here, it isn’t that common).
Well a film festival is a bit different case isn't it?
Yeah, of course. I don’t know if it goes beyond film festivals outside of the U.S. as I’ve never gone to the movies elsewhere. I was more wondering than saying it does or doesn’t happen. I’ll bet India has some fun theaters where people clap and get rowdy and more serious theaters.
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Zebraman, by Takashi Miike.
Yup.
I've been to a few premières through a past job, so I don't count those, nor ones where the filmmakers are present at the screening, as that's just politeness, but I have seen it sometimes (UK)
Movies where I've seen this happen (and it felt right):
- South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut
- Grosse Pointe Blank
- Goodfellas
- The Big Lebowski
- Stop Making Sense (special open air screening which was set up like a gig - they even had support acts!)
- Ghostbusters
- The Room
- Aliens
- All three LOTR movies
In most cases these were either screenings with a big student crowd, or retrospective screenings which will always bring out the fans, and the atmosphere was really positive, so the applause felt, like a collective acknowledgement of, "How fucking great was THAT?!"
It's a bit odd to see it at other times, but if someone has had that good a time at a movie, then great! I'm certainly not going to have a problem with it :-)
The Sixth Sense
The theater I was in clapped and cheered during the first multiple Agent Smith fight in the second Matrix movie on opening night.
Oppenheimer
Downvotes. Fuck me, well, I guess it didn't happen, then.
Crossroads, with Britney Spears. They shushed when we laughed and we laughed when they clapped. It was a great experience.
I think it was the last Harry Potter.
The Pianist. A huge round from the audience.
Return of the King, midnight showing as the tail end of a triple feature. Also the first two were the shown as their extended editions. It was quite an event!
There was one other instance where I remember applause at a theater, but I'm blanking on what movie it was. Trying to think of what might've had the right crowd for it, and that I saw close enough to it's release date. Maybe The Force Awakens, or Endgame? Dunno...
All the Harry Potter movies, the twilight movies, the Magic Mike movies...
I didn’t keep track, sorry