Got me thinking.. What's the strongest reaction you've seen an audience member have to a scene in a cinema? During the birthday party scene in SIGNS I saw a whole row of young women literally throw their popcorn in the air like a cartoon.
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Strongest reaction I ever had was, and I am not joking, in PeeWee Herman’s big adventure, when Large Marge’s eyeballs popped out I screamed & my popcorn went flying …. Ya got me on that one #TimBurton ! 🫣🍿
aug 2, 2025, 3:52 am • 20 1 • view
My uncle saw RoboCop in Harlem when it premiered and told me no cinematic experience would ever rival it.
aug 2, 2025, 11:56 pm • 13 1 • view
Watching “Misery” in the theater and the ankle scene. OMG.😱
aug 2, 2025, 1:40 am • 9 0 • view
At the end of The Usual Suspects an old man stood up and yelled “Baloney!” and quite honestly he was correct
aug 2, 2025, 12:17 am • 69 3 • view
In the cavernous Odeon, Leicester Square, in 1984, three Nigerian folks directly behind us screamed in terror and clutched each other every time a wolf came on screen. “Aiee, wolf!! WOLF!! WOLF!! [shh!] Sorry, sorry - Wolf!! WOLF!” Alas, we were watching Company of Wolves at the time. Memorable.
aug 2, 2025, 10:41 am • 41 1 • view
Halfway through Meet the Feebles, when the puppet fly is slurping up some particularly moist-looking 💩 , an upset teen a few rows ahead stood up and projectile vomited over a woman in front of her. Scenes ensued…
aug 1, 2025, 5:37 pm • 116 1 • view
aug 2, 2025, 8:46 am • 5 0 • view
I think you just won this thread, Marc.
aug 2, 2025, 1:01 am • 24 0 • view
Great film. Has Peter Jackson done much since?
aug 2, 2025, 2:35 am • 8 0 • view
Yeah nah
aug 3, 2025, 11:22 am • 1 0 • view
Absolutely LOVE Meet the Feebles!
aug 3, 2025, 12:36 pm • 1 0 • view
finally a good film in this thread!!
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Honestly? Endgame.
aug 2, 2025, 12:18 pm • 11 0 • view
soooo many reactions in that film. XD
aug 2, 2025, 1:17 pm • 4 0 • view
Went to a showing of The Jerk and this lady behind us kept yelling “He’s stupid !! He’s so dumb!”
aug 2, 2025, 11:05 pm • 10 1 • view
Black family sitting behind me at Avengers Endgame absolutely losing their shit when T'challa shows up before the big final battle
aug 1, 2025, 5:34 pm • 111 2 • view
I think u meant Infinity War? In Endgame T'Challa shows up at the same time with everyone else who got blipped
aug 2, 2025, 8:13 am • 0 0 • view
I think they might be referring to T'Challa's portal entrance in Endgame. It's a sequence with everyone but it does have specific moments for the characters.
aug 2, 2025, 4:18 pm • 4 0 • view
Yup, that part. Whole theater was going crazy but the strongest reaction I remember was the family behind my group to T'challa's return
aug 3, 2025, 3:46 am • 2 0 • view
First through the portal... That moment has even more impact now. Makes me cry every single time. 💔 #ripchadwickboseman
aug 3, 2025, 12:47 pm • 2 0 • view
I watched "Spider-Man: In The Spider-Verse" while babysitting two young African boys and their *faces* during the Leap of Faith scene
aug 2, 2025, 8:05 am • 54 0 • view
This one was me. I was watching Return of the Jedi special edition in theaters and the emperor asked Vader how he knew that Luke was on Endor and in James Earl Jones’ forceful voice he says “I have felt him” and I got into a laughing fit. No one else laughed and I laughed harder and had to leave.
aug 2, 2025, 1:59 am • 34 1 • view
the hardest I’ve ever laughed was in a theater where I thought a dead serious trailer for Flight 93 was for Snakes on a Plane as I realized I was wrong (so wrong) I could only laugh harder my friend: “I won’t help you if the crowd turns, kevin”
aug 3, 2025, 6:29 pm • 11 1 • view
Hahaha. Oh wow. That’s amazing.
aug 3, 2025, 8:14 pm • 0 0 • view
It's not a scene, but after watching Sicko.. every person piled out of that dark room & stood in the hallway on the weird movie theater carpet together, popped out of our usual consumer roles, completely human & buzzing, talking next steps, sharing experiences, connecting
aug 3, 2025, 7:45 am • 2 0 • view
I knew this reaction would be coming. Standing in line for Jurassic Park and someone's toddler was shouting "I'm going to see Barney!" Blood curdling screams nearly drowned out "Shoot her!!"
aug 1, 2025, 5:51 pm • 39 5 • view
That may be the funniest thing I've ever heard.
aug 2, 2025, 1:01 pm • 2 0 • view
THERE'S NO PURPLE DINOSAUR TIMMY!!!
aug 2, 2025, 4:30 pm • 5 0 • view
🎶I love you, you love me. We’re a ha- aaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh!🎶
aug 2, 2025, 4:33 pm • 6 0 • view
XD
aug 3, 2025, 12:42 am • 1 0 • view
*Laughs in Rocky Horror screening*
aug 2, 2025, 12:35 am • 16 1 • view
Watching Se7en in the theater, when Sloth started coughing, the stranger in the row in front of me whipped his head around and shouted " Did you fucking see that?!?!" Scared me more than the movie.
aug 2, 2025, 5:52 pm • 15 0 • view
A guy at our screening several rows ahead jumped up and ran away from the screen at that moment. No one would have noticed if he hadn't returned to his seat laughing at himself. His two friends hadn't even noticed!
aug 4, 2025, 12:57 am • 2 0 • view
Watching Back to the Future in the cinema and the entire audience *completely* lost their shit, screaming and cheering when George knocked Biff out and rescued Lorraine.
aug 2, 2025, 9:44 am • 77 0 • view
I have two: Laughter at the “wizard’s sleeve” joke in Borat (complimentary) Laughter at emo Peter Parker in Spider-Man 3 (derogatory)
aug 1, 2025, 5:32 pm • 7 0 • view
While on vacation, we saw Richard Linklater's Boyhood in a nearby college town and at one point a song plays and practically the whole audience started singing along and I still have no idea what that song was or why anybody cared.
aug 2, 2025, 10:37 am • 6 1 • view
The whole audience reaction when I saw Avengers: Endgame, when Captain America said "Avengers assemble" was like our team had scored in a football game.
aug 2, 2025, 9:43 am • 41 1 • view
When Evans picks up the hammer, I thought the roof would come off the place. I've never experienced anything in a theatre like that.
aug 3, 2025, 5:03 am • 21 0 • view
Also, I recall seeing ID4 in a DC-area theater and the scene with the White House getting blown the hell up got a lot of cheers.
aug 3, 2025, 3:05 am • 11 0 • view
I was thinking "this is what's happening to Parliament Hill too"...shivers.
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I saw that at The Uptown! The audience went NUTS.
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aug 3, 2025, 3:47 am • 2 0 • view
Back in 2001, went to the movie theater in Union Station to watch "Brotherhood of the Wolf", in French with subtitles. One of the audience members had a very vocal disagreement with the movie about exactly what caliber of bullshit that was.
aug 3, 2025, 3:03 am • 5 0 • view
A guy passed in the seat in front of us watching 127 Hours, bless him I also made my mum take me out if a Tarzan film cause s panther got killed when I was 8……
aug 2, 2025, 10:59 pm • 5 0 • view
"Passed" away? Like, he died? OR "Passed" out? Like, he fainted? I NEED TO KNOW WHICH ONE.
aug 3, 2025, 4:56 pm • 3 0 • view
In Attack of Clones: the scene where Yoda is bouncing off the walls fighting Dooku was met with incredulous laughter.
aug 2, 2025, 12:34 pm • 11 0 • view
Not in a theater, but watching it on DVD with a buddy and said he hoped Dooku didn’t have the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch.
aug 2, 2025, 11:00 pm • 7 1 • view
Opening night of "Mission to Mars." My friend and I were sitting in the front and hating it. Halfway through, one of the characters dies during a space walk but his face looks ridiculous. The theater is dead silent and my friend just starts cracking up...which in turn got me to start giggling.
aug 3, 2025, 2:31 am • 6 1 • view
I saw a preview screening of that and the whole audience booed.
aug 3, 2025, 2:43 am • 3 1 • view
"Grindhouse" at the New Beverly back in 2017. The guy in front of me apparently thought old technology was the funniest thing ever and howled laughing for at least half a minute after the first flip phone appeared.
aug 3, 2025, 2:29 am • 2 0 • view
Quentin would love that
aug 4, 2025, 5:25 am • 0 0 • view
I was at a three-day John Carpenter fest at Grauman's Egyptian Theatre back in 2010. At the end of "Halloween," right as the credits started rolling, some jackass at the very back of the theater saw fit to yell "THAT F*CKING SUCKED!" on his way out.
aug 3, 2025, 2:26 am • 3 0 • view
How was he not beaten to death?
aug 3, 2025, 2:43 am • 4 0 • view
welp, i was not present for this is one explanation
aug 3, 2025, 2:48 am • 4 0 • view
I have so many, I don't know where to start. Saw Russ Meyer's "Motorpsycho" at the New Beverly back in 2018. Within ten minutes, someone near the front loudly booed one of the loathsome male characters, which is a reaction I'd never heard there before or since. We also had at least three walkouts.
aug 3, 2025, 2:25 am • 2 0 • view
There's no audience quite like a New Bev audience
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Well, normally it's great. At least in my experience. That was a one-off for me.
aug 4, 2025, 6:00 am • 1 0 • view
I remember going to see Ace Ventura: Nature Calls in the cinema; the whole place was in hysterics at times, particularly the early scene where he drives the jeep off road and sings chitty chitty bang bang
aug 2, 2025, 4:14 pm • 4 1 • view
I have a couple. One is towards the end of Hereditary there is a scene where you can see the mother scuttling around on the ceiling, then the camera just pans away. Some dude in the theater just shouted, "Oh my god" and he was clearly loosing his shit. Good times.
aug 3, 2025, 4:11 am • 8 0 • view
Watching 8th Grade was stressful for my entire friend group. The pool party reduced two of my friends into a fetal position, I cried a little bit during the aftermath of the mall scene, and the ending speech with the father got two other people who were watching it with me.
aug 3, 2025, 4:13 am • 2 0 • view
During Pompo the Cinephile the character Pompo makes this beautiful passionate speech about wanting to make a movie so brilliant that the whole audience would sit spell bound unable to leave until the credits finished. Once that movie ended the whole theater sat and waited for the credits to finish.
aug 3, 2025, 4:17 am • 4 1 • view
I didn't see it, but my friends parents told me she jumped up out of her seat throwing her bucket of popcorn in the air when the alien burst out of John Hurt's chest. (She was 11 at the time. It was different then—I saw it opening weekend and I was 11 as well.
aug 1, 2025, 6:49 pm • 21 0 • view
I was the kid who had that reaction at a showing of Dumbo as a five year old in the early seventies. When they covered his mother in chains and locked her up I was completely destroyed. I was crying and screaming so much that my dad had to pick me up and carry me out of the cinema.
aug 2, 2025, 2:12 pm • 51 2 • view
Walt Disney, what an arsehole.
aug 2, 2025, 2:13 pm • 31 0 • view
I think I was about five when my dad took me to see Bambi. So here's my dad, taking his little girl to a nice Disney movie, and I was so scared by the loud storm and the gunshot that we had to leave a few minutes in. So. Agreed.
aug 3, 2025, 4:07 pm • 3 0 • view
I didn’t think I had anything to contribute here but it’s true that I asked to leave Fantasia like 20 minutes in. My parents asked why and my precocious toddler ass said “this movie has no plot” I never heard the end of it.
aug 3, 2025, 4:21 pm • 11 0 • view
True though.
aug 3, 2025, 4:23 pm • 2 0 • view
My tiny son, same.
aug 4, 2025, 4:44 am • 1 0 • view
My mother is now 93 and is still traumatized from seeing Dumbo as a child. (It didn’t help that she’d been separated from her mom while quarantined w/scarlet fever for 3 weeks in a hospital the year before). We went to DisneyWorld in the 70s and she could barely look at the Dumbo ride.
aug 3, 2025, 2:03 pm • 2 1 • view
I’m sorry for your mother. I think it was a couple of years after the Dumbo experience before I would go near a cinema again. I know 1941 was different times, but I still don’t understand the mentality of people who would make a film like that.
aug 3, 2025, 2:07 pm • 2 1 • view
Sure, let’s lure tiny kids into the cinema with the promise of a happy time with a cute baby elephant. Then we’ll shatter their little worlds with depictions of unbelievable cruelty! It’s character building. Fuckers.
aug 3, 2025, 2:11 pm • 1 0 • view
I don’t think many people thought about the inner lives of children very much back then. My mom’s quarantine stories are horrific. Just a bunch of crying, sick children in a ward left by themselves.
aug 3, 2025, 3:17 pm • 1 0 • view
Yeah, I think there’s something in that. Evidently it would have been too optimistic to hope that people whose job was making movies for children would be any different.
aug 3, 2025, 8:26 pm • 0 0 • view
Valid! Worst movie ever.
aug 3, 2025, 2:19 am • 1 0 • view
When I was taken to see my first movie it was Pinocchio, age 4 or 5. My mom had warned me about the scary whale. But when Gepetto set off all his cuckoo clocks at once I lost it so hard I had to be taken out 😂
aug 2, 2025, 2:19 pm • 8 0 • view
Oh God - I’m 61 and I’m STILL traumatised by that. I could never watch Dumbo again.
aug 3, 2025, 2:05 pm • 2 0 • view
I’ve still never seen it beyond the point where I was carried out of the cinema and I never will.
aug 3, 2025, 2:13 pm • 1 0 • view
Bless you. It was a sick story. I admire your humanity —
aug 4, 2025, 4:44 am • 1 0 • view
Watching The People’s Joker in a local theater. When Joker’s boyfriend deadnamed her, there was a collective gasp of horror and shock in the theater.
aug 4, 2025, 6:59 am • 3 0 • view
Infinity War-lady ugly cried right behind me during the last half hour while I blue screened in shock
aug 4, 2025, 7:01 am • 3 0 • view
The row of seats I was in nearly being ripped off the floor by the audience jumping at the surprise reveal of the creature in The Descent.
aug 2, 2025, 2:58 pm • 6 1 • view
By far the most audience reaction I ever saw was to What's Love Got To Do With It. The crowd was mainly black female Londoners, and they were (and we all were after a bit) cheering, whistling and booing throughout. When Tina left Ike we all stood up and screamed. Best cinema experience ever.
aug 2, 2025, 10:59 am • 39 0 • view
I saw Black Panther in Oakland California and that theater fucking EXPLODED when that opening scene setting card read "Oakland, California"
aug 3, 2025, 5:07 pm • 20 2 • view
I screamed during Jurassic World and people laughed at me >_<
aug 2, 2025, 3:13 am • 23 0 • view
Was it at Chris Pratt’s face
aug 2, 2025, 2:36 pm • 11 0 • view
The whole audience laughing at the terribly acted nightmare scene in Attack of the Clones. The Odeon in Leicester Square was packed.
aug 2, 2025, 7:39 am • 4 0 • view
I saw The Three Musketeers ('93 version with Charlie Sheen, Kiefer Sutherland and Chris O'Donnell) at a 3 dollar theater in Hell's Kitchen in the mid-90s and the mostly black audience talking back to the screen made it an incredibly hilarious movie going experience. I was also p. high but still 🤣🤣🤣
aug 2, 2025, 8:01 pm • 15 0 • view
I went to see RZ Halloween.A woman sat down in front of me. She spoke to my friend and I between the seats.She said she was a big Halloween fan.During the movie she yelled out “DOES HE KILL KIDS?!” A few minutes later she screamed “IM TERRIFIED!” and sprinted out of the theater. She did not return.
aug 1, 2025, 5:39 pm • 20 0 • view
screaming i’m terrified is so funny to me I am giggling bad
aug 3, 2025, 12:21 am • 9 0 • view
Believe me, it was amazing.
aug 3, 2025, 12:33 am • 2 0 • view
It’s like she was a plant 50 years lost from a William Castle film
aug 3, 2025, 3:50 am • 3 0 • view
Watching an art house slow film one weekday evening I realised five of the eight people around me appeared to be asleep.
aug 2, 2025, 1:48 pm • 16 2 • view
Watching Ghostbuster opening weekend in Halifax, Nova Scotia. When Rick Moranis says to the party guests, "We've got Nova Scotia lobster," the place erupted. I've never heard a cheer like that. Every person in that theater felt seen.
aug 1, 2025, 6:29 pm • 508 19 • view
This is why I am gonna see Conjuring 4 in theaters, because the Smurl haunting that happened near Scranton and I bet the audience will be super happy to see any of the local places mentioned.
aug 2, 2025, 1:58 am • 2 1 • view
Best part? All of that dialogue at the party is ad libbed according to movie lore, it just original said “Louis entertains his guests until” so he supposedly talked to a real accountant to get some stuff to say and then ad libbed
aug 4, 2025, 2:14 pm • 2 0 • view
Best local reaction was weirdly the movie anti trust when they go into Oregon and have a convo while pumping their own gas and the local audience howled and couldn’t stop laughing cuz that was not possible at the time cuz all gas stations had attendants here
aug 4, 2025, 2:18 pm • 2 0 • view
In that scene they are trying to stay hidden XD
aug 4, 2025, 3:46 pm • 1 0 • view
Heya. I’m from Norwich, UK. Home of the Avengers Mansion. (Which we still find hilarious.) m.youtube.com/watch?v=a0_g...
aug 2, 2025, 4:58 am • 12 1 • view
I was an exchange student at UEA dang near 20 years before. When I watched Avengers 2 in San Francisco, I yelled and it confused all my friends. So I made a diagram for them.
aug 2, 2025, 10:45 pm • 11 0 • view
You heard it here first Diana is a secret avenger.
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aug 3, 2025, 2:39 pm • 1 0 • view
I think my favourite story from that tiny filming day was a kid playing in Earlham Park by the river…in his favourite Iron Man outfit. When out of the sky drops a Stark Industries helo. Of course Tony Stark/RDJ introduces himself. But kid is convinced HE’S Tony Stark, so it gets into a long debate…
aug 3, 2025, 7:03 am • 1 0 • view
…then again, I guess alternate versions of your hero self showing up happens a lot when you’re five. Just on the inside of your head.
aug 3, 2025, 7:05 am • 0 0 • view
Love location-spotting things like this. Cruachan dam (near Oban in Scotland) appears as the Empire garrison base in Andor and the McLaren technology centre near Woking in England is Coruscant spaceport 😂
aug 2, 2025, 10:45 am • 15 3 • view
Holy shit, I went to UEA.. never realised that!
aug 2, 2025, 8:05 am • 2 0 • view
aug 2, 2025, 10:36 am • 1 0 • view
I would imagine a similar reaction from audiences in Brockton, Massachusetts if they were watching the horror film “The Menu”. Brockton don’t get a lotta love out there….
aug 1, 2025, 9:45 pm • 52 0 • view
Can confirm about watching Good Will Hunting in Nashua, New Hampshire when Matt Damon “I wanna be a shepherd. I wanna move up to Nashua and get a little spread.”
aug 2, 2025, 1:50 pm • 5 1 • view
Indeed they did: www.enterprisenews.com/story/entert...
aug 2, 2025, 11:07 am • 5 0 • view
More than Ogdenville or North Haverbrook
aug 2, 2025, 11:58 am • 82 0 • view
aug 2, 2025, 10:13 pm • 18 0 • view
Now I know what song will be in my head tonight
aug 3, 2025, 12:16 am • 5 0 • view
I saw the Patriot in Columbus Ohio….when Tavington says “tell Me about…..Ohio..” the place erupted….I got to tell him this story this year…
aug 3, 2025, 1:14 am • 5 0 • view
I watched terminator 2 at propeller arcade in june and when the cop asks a kid if he knows john connor and the kid lies, everyone in the audience started cheering and applauding. I love halifax
aug 2, 2025, 2:13 pm • 27 6 • view
Wait, I'm from Halifax, how did I never notice that line? 😅
aug 3, 2025, 7:35 pm • 0 0 • view
What I remember from a (U.S.) screening was everyone erupting in laughter, after an identical split second pause to take it in, at “yes, it’s true, this man has no dick.”
aug 3, 2025, 5:52 am • 4 0 • view
My theater did the same at the end of Something About Mary, at "…but I'm a Niners fan." Funny thing about that is that I was in Reno NV
aug 2, 2025, 12:28 am • 2 0 • view
It wasn’t lobster, it was smoked salmon, which is an oblique reference to Willy Krauch’s on the eastern shore. They shipped tons of it down there. Comeaus picked up the brand about ten years ago.
aug 5, 2025, 1:24 pm • 1 0 • view
Along similar lines: our local theater (a beauty) screened 42, the film about Jackie Robinson & Branch Rickey. A bunch of us profs took our 1st-year students to see it; when Rickey name-checked "Ohio Wesleyan University," everyone cheered. 😊
aug 2, 2025, 2:04 pm • 4 0 • view
Hard to beat either Superman saving Lois for the first time in Superman or Superman breaking Zod's hand in Superman II.
aug 6, 2025, 7:44 pm • 3 0 • view
Saw REAR WINDOW for the first time, and the audience just jumped at Raymond Burr coming home early, with Grace Kelly in his apartment. Seen the movie a few times again, since then, hoping for that jump, but never experienced it again. Chasing the dragon but never caught it.
aug 2, 2025, 6:56 am • 23 0 • view
Signs as a teen, the entire theatre seems to scream at the same moment. YOU KNOW THE ONE.
aug 3, 2025, 4:38 am • 6 1 • view
While watching Misery, when James Caan picks up the statue of the pig during the climactic fight scene, I'll never forget the guy behind me yelling at the top of his lungs, "HIT HER WITH THE PIG!" like all of our lives depended on it.
aug 2, 2025, 3:32 pm • 67 4 • view
In one of the Hobbit films where Legolas Mario-platforms up a waterfall and my partner just went "oh FUCK OFF!" really loud and the entire cinema collapsed into laughter.
aug 3, 2025, 10:52 am • 18 1 • view
People were RUNNING AROUND THE THEATRE laughing and howling during the naked hotel room wrestle fight in Borat. (Yes, I saw it in theaters. I'm not proud.)
aug 1, 2025, 4:43 pm • 55 1 • view
Yeah, the crowd was almost worth the price of admission by itself. It started with “this is my sister,” and then she holds up the trophy, people were getting up and running out of the theater just so they could catch their breath. Hardest I’d laughed since South Park.
aug 2, 2025, 12:55 am • 5 0 • view
You almost had to see it in the theater. I nearly died laughing.
aug 1, 2025, 5:53 pm • 22 1 • view
I was going to mention something similar. It was the night of the 2006 midterms and this memory is deeply linked with learning that Nancy Pelosi was the first woman speaker of the house
aug 1, 2025, 5:32 pm • 6 0 • view
Hardest I've ever laughed in a cinema. Crying, whilst punching the back of the (thankfully vacant) seat in front of me.
aug 1, 2025, 7:05 pm • 7 0 • view
yes! never experienced a reaction like it, the chase thru the cop convention, i thought people were going to die
aug 2, 2025, 10:02 am • 2 0 • view
Not a member, but the entire audience. Key Largo in a revival house in San Francisco. When Bogart says, "You're welcome" the entire theater erupted in applause. (No more details - IYKYN) Runner up: Entire audience gasping in 101 Dalmatians when that last puppy isn't quite sooty enough...
aug 1, 2025, 5:21 pm • 44 3 • view
I assume you're not counting Rocky Horror Picture Show, where the audiences used squirtguns to make it rain during the rain scene, danced the Time Warp in front of the screen, and when an onscreen character said "A toast!" threw actual toast. All other audience behavior pales by comparison.
aug 1, 2025, 8:25 pm • 33 1 • view
My daughter and her friend saw a production of RHPS by a local troupe, who handed out the above props at the door. Ushers prompted the newbies when it was their turn to throw toast, etc.
aug 3, 2025, 12:32 am • 4 0 • view
I performed as the one-eared dog that chases Rocky. The guy playing Rocky did not know this. He freaked out when a 6 foot tall, one-eared werewolf burst from the dark behind him. (I was working a local haunted house at the time, and had my full werewolf suit on hand, since the showing was after)
aug 3, 2025, 4:01 am • 5 0 • view
I assume you've bever been to the cinema in India
aug 3, 2025, 5:21 pm • 2 0 • view
You would be correct. Is it horrific?
aug 3, 2025, 6:01 pm • 1 0 • view
no, it's a lot of fun!
aug 3, 2025, 6:20 pm • 2 0 • view
My local cinema showed that the night before they closed down for a month for a major refurbishment. "Go wild," they said. We did.
aug 2, 2025, 9:29 am • 36 0 • view
Nice.
aug 3, 2025, 6:19 am • 1 0 • view
Now imagine me, going to see „Rocky Horror Picture Show“ for the first time without knowing it‘s a thing and people do that sort of thing … 🤭😂
aug 3, 2025, 4:57 pm • 2 0 • view
WOW. That would be...something. If you attended a midnight show, someone really should have warned you!
aug 3, 2025, 6:00 pm • 0 0 • view
I knew NOTHING. I first found the movie on an obscure streaming platform, immediately loved it, spent years, listening to the soundtrack, but I never knew there was this culture around it. And then we bought tickets for the show & were told upon entry we may not throw anything, larger than rice. Wtf
aug 3, 2025, 6:41 pm • 1 0 • view
This is mine too lmao. Some girls were near the front and *screamed* when it walked past
aug 2, 2025, 2:35 am • 2 0 • view
Either that or Endgame, you all know which scene.
aug 2, 2025, 2:37 am • 3 0 • view
Thank you, this comment finally helped me remember what the birthday party scene in Signs was. 😂
aug 3, 2025, 2:19 pm • 0 0 • view
actually it was me… at the end of a sparsely attended screening of Orlando i laughed out loud for about a minute at the outlandishness of the epic journey into the modern era where she gets on to the motorcycle with her daughter in the sidecar
aug 2, 2025, 3:37 pm • 5 0 • view
SE7EN on opening night. It got to the ending and the entire theater sat in stunned silence while the credits started rolling.
aug 3, 2025, 11:55 am • 9 1 • view
@tashjoeza.bsky.social am i mistaken or did sharon take us to this?
aug 3, 2025, 2:55 pm • 2 0 • view
I'd be extremely surprised if she did but I'll ask her, she's got a weirdly good memory about this sort of thing. Wonder if it could've been my aunt B? She's far more into creepy stuff than Mum.
aug 3, 2025, 3:04 pm • 2 0 • view
started rolling backwards 🔥
aug 3, 2025, 2:55 pm • 1 0 • view
I remember shuffling out of the cinema in silence, and I said to my boyfriend "So glad we decided to see that..." I was traumatised.
aug 3, 2025, 1:11 pm • 3 0 • view
When I showed CRUEL INTENTIONS to a group of male friends in 2002 and it got to the scene where Ryan Phillippe's character gets hit by a car, they all screamed and one of them instinctually removed his sneaker and threw it at the TV screen
aug 3, 2025, 9:23 pm • 7 0 • view
Saw The Amazing Spiderman, during the bit where he realises he has superpowers by throwing stuff around his room, a little kid in front row loudly cried "Oh no, he's making a mess!"
aug 2, 2025, 12:47 pm • 73 6 • view
'Revenge of the Jedi', Yoda is breathing his last, when a voice (an adult voice mind) from a few rows behind me sniffles, 'Don't die Yoda'. And nobody laughed.
aug 2, 2025, 11:35 am • 59 2 • view
Late 1990s they played a Canadian govt. anti alcohol abuse PSA before some movie. It showed a couple of teenagers making submissions to a govt contest before meeting at the mailbox. They smile at each other and leave. Some goof shouts "If they'd been drunk they'd be together!". Theater cracks up.
aug 3, 2025, 11:33 am • 7 2 • view
Watching Infinity War in a packed theater and the 7yo kid in front of us standing up and screaming No! No, Spider-Man, please! Noooooooo! as tom holland started to disintegrate. I hope that kid's parents took him to the very first showing of Endgame 😂
aug 1, 2025, 9:17 pm • 87 2 • view
That movie was so traumatic. The theater was dead silent the last five minutes of that movie and sat thru the credits just numb.
aug 2, 2025, 11:04 am • 37 0 • view
Saw that in a packed house in Brooklyn opening day and grown men and women were sobbing and crying (including me and my teens). T’challa and Bucky got the big screams of “noooo!”
aug 2, 2025, 1:40 pm • 2 0 • view
saw it at an early screening the thursday night before and i vividly remember all of us leaving the theater sorta shell-shocked and listening to the excited chatter of the people waiting in line for the next screening going silent as we all filed past.
aug 2, 2025, 1:54 pm • 28 0 • view
I remember feeling numb as I walked out, struggling to process. It was an experience.
aug 4, 2025, 7:03 am • 2 0 • view
Oh no. If I was around that kid I would’ve been sobbing.
aug 3, 2025, 4:20 pm • 1 0 • view
Similar story from the first Iron Man, when Stane pulls the arc reactor out of Stark's chest, I could hear one kid a couple rows ahead of me cry, "Tony, no!!"
aug 3, 2025, 11:48 am • 1 0 • view
The “Hi . . I’m in . . . Delaware.” scene in Wayne’s World got a standing ovation from the entire audience, at the Christiana Mall, in Delaware.
aug 2, 2025, 8:30 am • 47 0 • view
Watched the Paw Patrol movie with the kids and we got to the part where Ryder explains that he financed the new headquarters and everything else through merchandise. Every parent in the movie theater laughed out loud. Some of them sounded very desperate. Me included.
aug 2, 2025, 10:15 am • 57 2 • view
The close-up of Ben Stiller's "franks and beans" caught in his zipper during THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY. Sheer pandemonium of riotous laughter.
aug 1, 2025, 5:55 pm • 39 0 • view
Yes! I saw it in a packed theater, and people were wheezing with laughter. That and the “hair gel” scene
aug 1, 2025, 7:41 pm • 2 0 • view
The timing of that shot is absolutely genius
aug 2, 2025, 8:22 am • 1 0 • view
Yes!!! The same!
aug 1, 2025, 6:00 pm • 5 0 • view
I saw that movie in a packed theater and people were screaming with laughter the entire movie. Like we missed a lot of jokes because you straight couldn’t hear the dialogue at some moments
aug 3, 2025, 4:24 pm • 1 0 • view
Same!
aug 3, 2025, 5:41 pm • 1 0 • view
Saw Knives Out in a crowded theater and a woman said “Jesus Christ.” at full volume the first time Daniel Craig talked
aug 1, 2025, 5:37 pm • 376 20 • view
That was my SO's response too. We spent much of that movie trying to figure out what region Daniel Craig lifted his accent from. A friend swears it's the Ninth Ward.
aug 1, 2025, 9:55 pm • 0 0 • view
I love this so much lmao
aug 3, 2025, 3:55 pm • 1 0 • view
My wife involuntarily yelled “Nope!” It was our first date and that’s when I knew she was the one.
aug 1, 2025, 11:32 pm • 18 0 • view
lmao that was my reaction when Tom Hanks spoke in the Elvis movie
aug 1, 2025, 5:38 pm • 72 0 • view
Oh you should have heard the audience reaction to DeNiro in the Cape Fear remake back in the day. People were *howling.*
aug 2, 2025, 10:40 am • 3 0 • view
“He’s WHAAIIIHHTE?”
aug 2, 2025, 1:13 am • 41 0 • view
We reference “that’s the thing, he’s white” so damn much. Probably the top impact the movie had on my life
aug 2, 2025, 1:41 am • 23 0 • view
The bathroom scene at the end of "Fatal Attraction" The audience's emotions had been building up throughout the entire film, and they wanted Glenn Closes's character, Alex Forrest, to pay a price.
aug 3, 2025, 2:23 am • 0 0 • view
Ooh, also, I went to a midnight screening of The Goonies in Boston in 2000/2001. The first time the kid said "One-Eyed Willy" there was a second pause, and then every twentysomething in the audience simultaneously got the joke for the first time.
aug 2, 2025, 2:01 pm • 21 0 • view
Went to see RENT in the cinema. There was a preview for Brokeback Mountain. 250 theatre kids gasped and squealed, "GAY COWBOYS!!!"
aug 2, 2025, 1:58 pm • 42 4 • view
God this is so wholesome 🥹
aug 3, 2025, 1:44 pm • 0 0 • view
The Sixth Sense, when we all realized “I see dead people” included Malcolm Crowe. A few seconds of stunned silence and then everyone collectively lost their shit.
aug 1, 2025, 5:31 pm • 89 2 • view
There was something awesome about seeing that movie without spoilers. Truly a wtf moment.
aug 2, 2025, 11:01 am • 55 0 • view
Yes, saw it in theaters with my dad when I was in middle school, no spoilers or knowledge going in — my young mind was blown
aug 2, 2025, 11:17 pm • 0 0 • view
I saw it on vacation in Florida with NO knowledge of it at all - was a trip!
aug 2, 2025, 2:30 pm • 7 0 • view
About a minute in, my wife said, in a whisper that carried through the entire cinema, "I bet he's dead". I heard at least three rows of people tut like "Ttt-hurr!"
aug 2, 2025, 2:46 pm • 30 0 • view
My sister is like that. It's actually sorta sad, I like being surprised!
aug 2, 2025, 7:48 pm • 2 0 • view
My other half is ludicrously good at spotting twists in advance, it’s annoying
aug 2, 2025, 2:54 pm • 24 0 • view
My first boyfriend immediately (and loudly) spotted the twist of The Crying Game.
aug 3, 2025, 10:15 am • 2 0 • view
Oh noes! And I presume he didn't want to hear nothing about tea.
aug 3, 2025, 10:17 am • 1 0 • view
I honestly remember very little else about that movie. 😆
aug 3, 2025, 10:31 am • 2 0 • view
I did this to my date about 20 mins in... he was NOT happy. I thought it was bleeding obvious. #sixthsense
aug 3, 2025, 12:50 pm • 4 0 • view
My dad did the same thing but he never says anything in a whisper so it was more like "HE'S DEAD"
aug 3, 2025, 1:25 am • 3 0 • view
I was at a cinema in London and at that moment a girl in front of me said loudly ‘ohhhhh….so *he* is dead too?’
aug 2, 2025, 2:49 pm • 3 0 • view
Are we allowed to use our own?
aug 3, 2025, 3:50 am • 2 0 • view
In 1980 I went to an Ray Harryhausen all-nighter at The Scala (London) and during 'One Million Years B.C.' a man stood up screaming because some folks were chatting and said ''I want to hear the f***ing dialogue you c***s...''. The reaction was an entire audience laughing.
aug 2, 2025, 2:13 pm • 24 0 • view
Ok, but what's your favorite moment in Rockula?
aug 3, 2025, 4:17 am • 2 0 • view
Any bits with Toni Basil. 😆
aug 3, 2025, 11:15 am • 2 0 • view
Standing Ovation, entire theatre, when James Kaan smacked Kathy Bates with the typewriter in Misery.
aug 2, 2025, 9:52 pm • 16 0 • view
I think pulp fiction was for me the most visceral audience reaction in a theater—from the Dick Dale title cards onwards, we were all riveted I think someone passed out when John Travolta plunged the hypodermic needle into Uma Thurman‘s chest
aug 1, 2025, 6:32 pm • 15 0 • view
I saw a premiere in Austin with Tarantino in attendance and when Butch decides to go back in and rescue Marsellus the whole place went apeshit
aug 4, 2025, 4:32 am • 2 0 • view
A woman fainted at the screening I saw, too. Just munched it in the middle of the aisle while fleeing to the lobby.
aug 2, 2025, 4:34 pm • 9 0 • view
A guy sitting right in front of me had a seizure at the preview screening.
aug 3, 2025, 4:13 pm • 2 0 • view
A stranger sitting next to me began the bathhouse fight scene in EASTERN PROMISES clutching my hand and, by the end of it, had climbed halfway into my lap. Also sticks with me that I've never seen as many people sobbing out what seemed like bone-deep grief/pain as I did during ALL OF US STRANGERS.
aug 1, 2025, 6:10 pm • 40 1 • view
I was really looking forward to seeing ALL OF US STRANGERS but felt nothing. Maybe bcuz I had next to zero relationship with my parents AFTERSUN tho got me haaaaaard. I was wailing-crying into a pillow for probably 5 minutes after it ended
aug 2, 2025, 8:32 am • 3 0 • view
I started crying when he opened the envelope of photographs and just didn't stop...my colleague saw it and had to call in sick the next day after sobbing all night
aug 1, 2025, 6:51 pm • 18 0 • view
jfc, All of Us Strangers. I don't know if it would have been cathartic to cry as much as I did next to random people or really weird - I streamed it - but that MOVIE. It's the kind of film I want to watch again because so much of it is so perfect, and also, I feel like I'll never go "oh, that one".
aug 2, 2025, 10:17 am • 2 0 • view
Perfect song choice for the end too. Put my right over the edge, lol
aug 3, 2025, 12:51 pm • 1 0 • view
Saw No Country for Old Men opening week. The lights came up and everyone just sort of walked out like they were leaving a funeral
aug 2, 2025, 2:14 am • 38 1 • view
Captain America picking up the hammer. Is what it is.
aug 2, 2025, 12:07 am • 5 0 • view
I saw Betty Blue repeatedly as a teenager. There was always a moment when the audience weeping would become audible …
aug 2, 2025, 1:15 am • 2 0 • view
Midnight screening of Showgirls at a nightclub in Darlinghurst, Sydney. When Elizabeth Berkeley scoops powder off Kyle MacLachlan’s nightstand with her long fake fingernail and snorts it, a whole row of drag queens clapped and cheered. Magic.
aug 2, 2025, 1:10 am • 80 4 • view
This thread is everything great about Bluesky. I love you all.
aug 2, 2025, 1:11 am • 61 1 • view
It’s incredible
aug 3, 2025, 11:24 am • 0 0 • view
Yes it’s been fascinating.
aug 2, 2025, 2:08 am • 15 0 • view
Right?
aug 4, 2025, 4:48 am • 1 0 • view
A friend of mine had an epileptic seizure during The Acid House.
aug 2, 2025, 1:02 am • 4 0 • view
In Requiem for a Dream, after Ellen Burstyn flees her apartment and there’s a moment of quiet, a male voice loudly and clearly declared to the cinema, “What a cruel,horrible film.”
aug 2, 2025, 12:45 am • 57 3 • view
I’m with him
aug 2, 2025, 2:43 pm • 15 0 • view
I’m not sorry I saw it but I definitely never need to see it again.
aug 5, 2025, 10:08 am • 2 0 • view
I was in the front row of a packed cinema for The Others. When the children are hiding in the wardrobe and the door flies open, our whole row screamed and recoiled backwards in our seats.
aug 2, 2025, 12:42 am • 18 0 • view
I'm a weenie so I have no idea why I agreed to see this as a first date movie. Luckily she found my constant cowering endearing but oh my god I leapt out of my skin so many times.
aug 3, 2025, 1:57 pm • 0 0 • view
The climax to Avengers: Endgame was the most recent. The theater erupted with every payoff scene in the climax. Cheers, applause… In Sleepy Hollow, Johnny Depp’s character was smacked with pumpkin and a heckler shouted out “dumbass got hit with a Jack o Lantern!” and the audience bawled
aug 3, 2025, 11:15 am • 18 2 • view
I’ve never heard an audience laugh like the deli scene in When Harry Met Sally. Gives new meaning to the phrase “erupted in laughter.”
aug 3, 2025, 12:18 am • 11 1 • view
When I saw Return of the King in the theatre there was a loud collective groan from the audience followed by laughter after the third or so false ending with the slow fade onto the Shire.
aug 2, 2025, 7:07 am • 33 2 • view
I wasn't present, but my parents won tickets to a midnight screening, and at one point, my mom, fed up by hours of what she calls "elf crap," loudly announced, "Throw the ring into the damn volcano so we can go home." I'm told many people tutted in disapproval, but many also laughed in agreement.
aug 3, 2025, 12:28 am • 19 2 • view
Ha Ha! I feel like I've read this before!
aug 3, 2025, 2:47 pm • 1 0 • view
I've definitely told the story before, but I'm sure there's also a theaters' worth of other people who also remember it
aug 3, 2025, 6:38 pm • 1 0 • view
Watching Dune 2, and the sex scene right after he first is on Shai Hulud; some lad cheers ‘RIDE THAT WORM’
aug 2, 2025, 7:06 am • 49 4 • view
Brilliant!
aug 3, 2025, 1:02 am • 0 0 • view
People laughing out loud at the dialogue in The Matrix Revolutions
aug 1, 2025, 5:34 pm • 14 0 • view
Seeing Infinity War on opening night, the biggest reaction was during the credits when there wasn't a mid-credits scene.
aug 2, 2025, 12:41 am • 15 1 • view
Signs was going to be my answer as well. That scene in particular had a woman give a genuine bloodcurdling scream
aug 1, 2025, 5:47 pm • 23 1 • view
I just wrote the same thing. Were we at the same showing??
aug 3, 2025, 6:25 am • 0 0 • view
I saw it twice in the theater, and during the second showing there was a young woman in the seat in front of me who wouldn't stop texting... so when the scene with the pantry arrived, I grabbed her shoulder with perfect timing. She shot me a death glare, and I mimed closing a phone. :)
aug 1, 2025, 7:26 pm • 18 0 • view
I went to an opening night screening of After, which is an adaptation of a Harry Styles Wattpad fanfic. I had no idea what the movie was going in, and it was completely packed. the entire crowd went absolutely nuts at basically everything that happened, especially when any new character showed up.
aug 2, 2025, 1:45 pm • 2 0 • view
I went to see the opening night of Black Panther in Stonecrest (majority Black suburb of Atlanta). It was the whole movie really but at the first wide shot of Wakanda that showed what an Afrofuturist city could look like the audience cheered.
aug 2, 2025, 1:51 pm • 52 2 • view
Also, I was at a packed early showing of Barbie and after America Ferrera's speech the audience erupted. A girl behind me yelled "I KNOW THAT'S RIGHT!"
aug 2, 2025, 1:55 pm • 53 2 • view
Barbie was, in general, my favorite moviegoing experience of all time
aug 2, 2025, 9:33 pm • 23 0 • view
My younger daughter needed a wee 10 seconds before that scene and when we came back in it was done but everyone was crying. We were quite confused.
aug 2, 2025, 2:44 pm • 5 0 • view
My entire Atlanta audience stood up and danced during the end credits of the James Brown biopic, Get On Up.
aug 2, 2025, 1:54 pm • 27 0 • view
Saw Wonder Woman (2017) during the 2nd week. My wife and I were seated behind a pair of 20-something gals, and as the WW1 trench scene got underway the one with the short dark hair said to the redhead, in an adorable voice like a kid absolutely thrilled: "This is the best part."
aug 2, 2025, 9:37 pm • 15 1 • view
During the chest burster scene in Alien (1979) a young lady in front of us got up and ran out screaming.
aug 2, 2025, 9:25 pm • 13 0 • view
Oh man. I went to a 50th anniversary screening of The Godfather and there were some people there who were unfamiliar with the film. I learned this—to my amazement—when several in the audience let out cries of astonishment and dismay during the tollbooth scene!
aug 1, 2025, 5:49 pm • 57 2 • view
The preview for Star Wars: Attack of the Clones (before Monsters, Inc). It started with just the text on screen and an old man yelled “Attack of the CLOWNS!?” His family shushed him. Then the preview flashed stills, including one of Natalie Portman in white makeup: “AHH, THERE’S THAT CLOWN!”
aug 2, 2025, 11:18 pm • 42 6 • view
On opening night for The Last Jedi (2017), it was when Rey and Kylo fought off the praetorian guards during that awesome duel. We were all so stunned by the choreography and sheer entertainment value of the fight. The audience even voiced "ooooOooh" in unison at several points. It was great.
aug 1, 2025, 6:58 pm • 60 1 • view
And then all the plot lines converge and...
aug 2, 2025, 7:27 am • 5 0 • view
When Rey let out a battle scream... Daisy Ridley nailed that moment. It's a balancing act between being sincere and not over-the-top, and my jaw fell. The only other person I've seen nail that kind of action was Milla Jovovich in The Messenger, as Joan of Arc.
aug 1, 2025, 7:22 pm • 44 1 • view
Seeing the delightful HAIL, CAESAR! on its opening Christmas Day. I’d enjoyed the hell out of it so imagine my shock when, as the lights came up, a man loudly said to his wife, “what the FUCK what that?”
aug 2, 2025, 1:59 am • 39 2 • view
Opening night, MAGIC MIKE XXL. Theater full of women. It was a PARTY. One of the greatest cinema experiences I’ve ever had.
aug 1, 2025, 6:33 pm • 185 5 • view
Reminds me of seeing Mamma Mia. Not the same kind of party, but it was fun.
aug 2, 2025, 12:19 am • 5 0 • view
Yes!! The hooting and hollering from the crowd 😍
aug 1, 2025, 6:43 pm • 33 0 • view
Everyone was friends in that theater! Dancing, high fiving! Incredible
aug 1, 2025, 6:45 pm • 37 0 • view
aug 1, 2025, 9:35 pm • 32 0 • view
We just watched that; beautiful. What a communal experience, wish I would’ve seen it in the theater
aug 3, 2025, 3:53 am • 0 0 • view
Sex and the City movie in Midtown Atlanta...omg. The most raucous crowd. I was one of maybe 3 hetero women there.
aug 3, 2025, 3:09 pm • 0 0 • view
The mist when the fog cleared. People threw bags of popcorn/walked out/booed
aug 2, 2025, 1:45 am • 7 1 • view
Karate Kid. My uncle (John Candy lookalike but louder) stood up and clapped and cheered LOUDLY for a lonnngggg time after the final kick. Wrath of Kahn. Same uncle shouted “Spock, noooooo!!!” And then proceeded to noisily ugly cry during the death scene and aftermath
aug 1, 2025, 7:35 pm • 110 1 • view
I love all of that
aug 2, 2025, 3:29 am • 19 0 • view
I appreciate it more now than when I was a shy tween! Uncle Smitty was one of a kind for sure
aug 2, 2025, 4:09 am • 33 0 • view
I'm glad you had a good uncle like him ❤️
aug 2, 2025, 6:22 pm • 9 0 • view
Two come to mind: 1. The reaction of Cap America wielding Mjolnir, theater went crazy. 2. Back in the day during first week of release for Blair Witch Project when the "creature" attacks the tent a couple of young ladies went running out of the theater crying
aug 3, 2025, 11:20 am • 13 0 • view
Saw Barry Lyndon a couple of nights ago and the guy behind me kept gasping "wow" or "incredible" or "Jesus" at almost every new shot. It's a long film but he kept it up till the end
aug 2, 2025, 9:22 am • 11 1 • view
It was probably when I was about 11 years old, and watching the classic thriller "Wait Until Dark," with Audrey Hepburn (IYKYK). It was a Saturday afternoon, so audience consisted mainly of kids, and one boy hollered out "Ring Around the Collar!" - an iconic ad slogan - at critical moment.
aug 2, 2025, 1:09 am • 6 0 • view
That movie was terrifying
aug 4, 2025, 5:43 am • 0 0 • view
My folks, with two kids in the throes of dinomania, heard about this new movie about this sweet old man who built a dino theme park for his grandkids with real dinos. Fam, we were under 10. The ‘rents were HORRIFIED. Kept asking us if we wanted to leave. We did not.
aug 2, 2025, 12:39 am • 124 9 • view
So The Scene happens and Mom tries to put her hand over my sibling’s eyes and they smacked it away, stood on the chair, and yelled NO!!!!! I WANNA SEE THE *CHOMP!!!!!* which they very much did. And cheered. The whole theater was snickering. They still have not lived it down
aug 2, 2025, 12:41 am • 134 3 • view
the validation during "look how much blood". lol
aug 2, 2025, 5:25 am • 9 0 • view
See, my parents left us home & made a date night of it. My mouse of a dad, at The Scene, shouted EAT THE LAWYER!!! Small towns in NJ being what they are, it was still being quoted at random in public six weeks later, to my mother’s lasting chagrin.
aug 3, 2025, 12:06 am • 46 1 • view
LMFAO I love your dad already
aug 3, 2025, 12:09 am • 14 0 • view
Man, I saw in when I was 6. Saw it three times in the cinema. mind you, my parents were the kind who saw a cute animated bunny movie on the discount self and thought it would be a great movie for me and my brother, so I guess they assumed I could take it.
aug 2, 2025, 5:06 pm • 3 0 • view
Wait, are you saying your parents bought you 'Watership Down' (1978) when you were 6?
aug 2, 2025, 11:26 pm • 3 1 • view
Yes. It was one of my favorite movies, funnily enough.
aug 3, 2025, 6:47 am • 3 0 • view
Lolll this is wonderful
aug 10, 2025, 8:48 pm • 1 0 • view
I had some person scream at me to put out my cigarette when I was vaping in a theater once.
aug 3, 2025, 12:48 am • 0 0 • view
First Paranormal Activity. Climax where the dude flies into the camera. Dude pops up in the middle row (separating the upper and lower sections), jumps up and down twice, runs in a circle shouting “Aw helllllllll nooooooooo!” and ran out of the theatre.
aug 3, 2025, 12:03 am • 12 0 • view
Premier of South Park, Bigger Longer, in Portland,ME, packed house, when they bring out and execute Bill Gates talking about Windows 98 being faster, I would say a third of the audience cheered.
aug 1, 2025, 5:36 pm • 27 1 • view
I saw the original "Alien" at what was then The Grauman Chinese Theater in L.A. It was in the first week of release and no one really knew about it yet. Hell, I knew nothing about it but that it was Sci-Fi. At THAT scene several people ran out screaming and at least 2 people barfed in their seats.
aug 1, 2025, 9:29 pm • 107 8 • view
Saw it on a first date in downtown Mpls with an entire theater talking to the screen. At that scene the guy behind me screamed,Damn that's some nasty shit! Hilarity ensued. There was no moment of suspense that wasn't punctured by someone's commentary. I loved it. My date was not amused...
aug 3, 2025, 12:37 am • 18 0 • view
Delightful! What a time to be alive, right?
aug 4, 2025, 4:39 am • 0 0 • view
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. When Dobby was dying and some girl just shouts "No! No! Noooo!" so the entire theater shushed her with a "Shut up!" or two thrown in for good measure. Everyone knew this was coming and was super annoyed with this girl for pretending to be shocked.
aug 3, 2025, 7:38 am • 2 0 • view
I had the opposite - my second watch of Winter Soldier, this tiny girl was *distraught* to the point of dad carrying her out sobbing when Nick Fury died. I don't usually believe in spoiling movies but I flagged dad down to explain it was a fake out, and he took her outside and got her calmed down.
aug 3, 2025, 9:44 am • 8 0 • view
My parents had to do this with me when I was tiny and Charlie sacrifices himself in All Dogs Go to Heaven. 💔
aug 3, 2025, 5:51 pm • 5 0 • view
Evil Dead 2013 had people running out of the room at my local theater opening night.
aug 1, 2025, 7:31 pm • 6 0 • view
not quite what you are thinking of perhaps but I will always remember the guy sitting behind me at a screening of Lawrence of Arabia who exclaimed "It's Omar Sharif!" when the popular Egyptian actor took off his scarf to reveal his face.
aug 2, 2025, 5:41 pm • 22 1 • view
And also the fight that nearly broke out at a screening of The Towering Inferno between people laughing at the corniness of it all and another attendee who started shouting "You're laughing at people dying!"
aug 2, 2025, 5:42 pm • 18 1 • view
Not my story, but @msleedy.bsky.social was at a screening of Titanic where at a key point in the film a shocked audience member exclaimed "Jaysus, the ship's sinking!"
aug 3, 2025, 8:37 am • 9 1 • view
Back in the early 90’s, I took my family to see “Problem Child”, and there was this incredibly rude jerk sitting up front. He was laughing so loudly we couldn’t even hear the dialogue. And he was smoke a cigar. A CIGAR! You could hardly breathe in the place. We had to walk out.
aug 1, 2025, 5:25 pm • 85 1 • view
that’s a cartoon character
aug 2, 2025, 4:19 am • 1 0 • view
I hate to tell you this but you were all extras in Cape Fear.
aug 1, 2025, 7:16 pm • 197 3 • view
Cracking response bell for you sir ! 🔔
aug 2, 2025, 6:18 pm • 14 0 • view
The *Simpsons* version, no less!
aug 3, 2025, 12:47 am • 3 0 • view
Damn this is good, well done
aug 3, 2025, 3:41 am • 2 0 • view
Are you sure you weren’t watching "All That Heaven Allows"?
aug 1, 2025, 5:43 pm • 10 0 • view
Lol
aug 1, 2025, 6:01 pm • 2 0 • view
This is going to sound made up, but I swear it happened. I went to see Titanic on opening weekend in middle school and one of the girls I went with stood up when they hit the Iceberg, looked me dead in the face, and said "It's going to sink isn't it?" Stomped her foot and walked out.
aug 1, 2025, 10:22 pm • 181 8 • view
Lots of people faked idiocy as an excuse to walk out of that terrible movie.
aug 3, 2025, 7:39 am • 1 0 • view
Spoilers!
aug 3, 2025, 5:34 pm • 1 0 • view
😂
aug 3, 2025, 5:44 pm • 0 0 • view
I'm so sorry she had to find out this way
aug 2, 2025, 8:18 am • 56 0 • view
lol. I had no idea how to respond. I just sat there staring at her.
aug 2, 2025, 7:23 pm • 24 0 • view
My mum convinced my Belfast father to the cinema for tge first time in years for Titanic. She asked him what he thought of it. “Not as much shipbuilding as I’d hoped,”
aug 2, 2025, 11:27 pm • 37 2 • view
Alright. That's an outstanding take on the movie and something they really should make a movie about. I'd love to see all of the decisions that led to it being built the way it was.
aug 2, 2025, 11:32 pm • 8 0 • view
I have a Titanic story as well! During the scene with Jack and Rose in the car making out, the moment she slipped out of her clothes, a guy yelled, "YEAH, TITS!" Makes me wonder if he was with anyone at the theatre and what they thought of his reaction.
aug 2, 2025, 2:46 pm • 5 0 • view
XD THAT'S FUNNY!
aug 2, 2025, 4:20 pm • 0 0 • view
I worked at a movie theatre when it opened. I can confirm...your friend was not the only one who found out that way. At least 4 or 5 as I remember & they were DEVASTATED. And the other pre-teens/teens just SCREAMED at Rose to make room on that door. SCREAMED to save Leo...so, so loud. Fun times.
aug 2, 2025, 11:05 pm • 11 0 • view
I love it. But it's also outrageously sad.
aug 2, 2025, 11:22 pm • 0 0 • view
My spouse, leaving the theater after watching Apollo 13, overhead some people talking. "It's a good thing that never really happened!"
aug 3, 2025, 1:02 pm • 5 0 • view
What did she think of the sequel?
aug 3, 2025, 2:16 pm • 0 0 • view
Haven't seen or spoken to her in years, so no idea what her thoughts were on Train Wreck: Poop Cruise 😜
aug 3, 2025, 2:27 pm • 1 0 • view
I had the opposite experience. Also opening weekend. I had to tell my best friend to please stop crying so loudly as the opening music started playing. She obviously knew what was coming and started actively and loudly bawling her eyes out. Had to shush her before we even met Jack and Rose.
aug 10, 2025, 3:40 am • 2 0 • view
Oh no!! I think I prefer my experience. I'm a "quiet movie theater" guy, so that would've just run my day into an iceberg.
aug 10, 2025, 3:41 am • 1 0 • view
I’m with you. I felt so bad shushing her because she was seriously blubbering. But it was making me mad. I also like quiet theaters. And it was the very start of the movie! Still hilarious your friend didn’t know what was coming.
aug 10, 2025, 3:44 am • 0 0 • view
In the Cinema watching the Exorcist levitation scene - just after the scripted “the power of Christ compels you to come down” someone in the audience shouted “FFS get down”
aug 4, 2025, 11:38 am • 4 0 • view
One of my faves was a daytime showing of the original Snow White in a cinema in Stoke. There's a scary scene where she's lost in the woods.. Once it's revealed that it's just the woodland animals a child's voice piped up from the front "Oh.. It's only rabbits.." & I still say that at anything scary.
aug 2, 2025, 10:51 pm • 63 2 • view
love this
aug 3, 2025, 12:30 am • 7 0 • view
Saw a short film at Sundance that featured what appeared to be animal cruelty and I thought the audience was about to riot. Yelling, walk outs, and people demanding the projectionist turn off the film. The Q&A afterward was awkward.
aug 1, 2025, 5:53 pm • 21 0 • view
The PG-13 moment in “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.” The entire theater screamed.
aug 3, 2025, 2:06 pm • 6 0 • view
The trailer for “Pocahontas.” It’s basically the song “Colors of the Wind.” When it was over, the audience sat in awed silence and then burst into applause. For a TRAILER!
aug 3, 2025, 1:29 pm • 6 1 • view
Me -"The Piano", fainted during mutilation scene. Stood up & pushed through row to escape, but was still so dizzy and confused that I was tripping over my own feet. Husband dashes over, helps me to lobby, where I lay down in front of popcorn machine. Hubby chews me out about standing up while dizzy.
aug 2, 2025, 5:15 am • 9 0 • view
Ummm - it was me. (Thelma and Louise). Scene when she shoots the rapist. I INVOLUNTARILY yelled "Yes" twice, still couldn't stop myself and said loudly "Good for you". Audience went dead quiet. I've never disturbed a movie before. Husband in disbelief. I cried angry tears on & off till movie ended.
aug 2, 2025, 5:04 am • 88 2 • view
Love you for this
aug 4, 2025, 4:40 am • 1 0 • view
You are a great American.
aug 3, 2025, 6:35 am • 8 0 • view
During the scene in Day After Tomorrow where Americans are illegally crossing the border into Mexico the whole cinema cracked up.
aug 2, 2025, 4:56 pm • 4 0 • view
My dad said very loudly ”what a mess” when watching Se7en
aug 2, 2025, 9:58 am • 19 1 • view
Saw original Candyman in the black part of town, with the audience throwing barbs and one liners at the screen. But the best was the reveal at the end that the Candyman was doing all his horror to find his bride. Someone near the front bellowed, “All this was for some booootie!” Crowd died.
aug 2, 2025, 1:18 am • 83 2 • view
oh man i can only imagine that was a truly incredible couple of hours, pure live roast
aug 2, 2025, 10:04 am • 7 0 • view
It was me. I saw the OG Jurassic Park at the student theater at UVA with all my new floor mates. During the electric fence scene, I was freaked out, whispering “Get off the fence” the whole time. At the end, I said “Get off the fucking fence!!” and the whole theater busted out laughing. Ooooops.
aug 2, 2025, 10:39 pm • 22 1 • view
Saw Independence Day on opening day and the dog got a brief standing ovation for jumping the tunnel fireball
aug 3, 2025, 12:14 am • 19 0 • view
Watching Scream and during the scene when Neve Campbell is in the shower, but her body is hidden by another character someone stood up and shouted “Hey asshole, you’re blocking the movie!”
aug 10, 2025, 3:19 am • 0 0 • view
At a revival screening of Harold & Maude in Minneapolis, the entire theater erupted in cheers and applause at this subtle, but profound reaction.
aug 2, 2025, 2:07 pm • 31 2 • view
Mrs. Lungs and I saw this movie on our 1st date in D.C. It must have worked, because we have been married 41 years today.
aug 5, 2025, 12:46 am • 1 0 • view
I once took a blind date to a Philip Glass concert… and never heard from her again.
aug 5, 2025, 12:51 am • 1 0 • view
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
aug 5, 2025, 12:49 am • 1 0 • view
Oh man. I saw the 1925 Phantom of the Opera in a packed house at the Stanford Theatre in Palo Alto in 2008 or so. When Lon Chaney looks up to reveal his face I swear to you the whole theater screamed. Absolutely incredible to see that reaction to a movie almost a century old
aug 1, 2025, 5:44 pm • 163 7 • view
The way he cries just like a minute later breaks your heart.
aug 3, 2025, 4:46 am • 1 0 • view
We go see this every year at a local place that has live organ music and every year there is a collective gasp at that scene. It makes me smile every time knowing Lon Chaney did his own special effects makeup.
aug 1, 2025, 6:39 pm • 91 2 • view
Classic horror still holds up better than most blockchain whitepapers.
aug 1, 2025, 6:59 pm • 8 1 • view
Lon Chaney was an incomparable genius and this story gives me so much joy. Thank you for sharing it!
aug 3, 2025, 4:29 am • 0 0 • view
Scorsese's Rolling Stones film "Shine A Light", maybe in Imax? It starts with the song "Jumpin' Jack Flash" and after it finished half the crowd jumped up or raised their hands cheering like a real concert before embarrassed laughing at ourselves.
aug 1, 2025, 5:20 pm • 30 1 • view
That was Stop Making Sense for me.
aug 2, 2025, 2:16 am • 36 0 • view
Same!!!
aug 2, 2025, 11:00 am • 5 0 • view
It played often nearby as a midnight movie when I was in college. A guy with an oversized suit and a guitar would play along off to one side of the stage, and the audience would dance.
aug 2, 2025, 9:36 am • 0 0 • view
When I saw Terminator 2 first time, when Arnold Schwarzenegger's name appeared on the opening credits, a guy stood up, raised his fist and shouted "YO ARNIE! I'LL BE BACK!" then sat down again to applause
aug 2, 2025, 9:28 pm • 12 0 • view
Screening of an independent horror. Scene has the MC putting asparagus into a blender but doesn't turn it on. Guy in front of me turns to a woman next to him and yells "you better not throw up, Rachel" and "Don't fucking do it!!" MC turns on the blender. Rachel throws up.
aug 2, 2025, 12:42 am • 77 8 • view
I am so confused.
aug 3, 2025, 2:56 am • 3 0 • view
She has some deep issues with asparagus i guess. IDK. As soon as the mc turned on the blender she started puking. Violently.
aug 3, 2025, 5:56 am • 4 0 • view
aug 3, 2025, 4:07 am • 0 0 • view
Hebden Bridge Picture House. The final scene / reveal in 'Another Earth'. The whole audience gasped as one, then there was two second of silence. And then applause. Beautiful.
aug 2, 2025, 2:09 pm • 7 0 • view
Cap. Hammer.
aug 2, 2025, 10:51 am • 19 0 • view
Maybe not as big, but funnier, was the collective gasp when Vision casually picked up Mjolnir in AGE OF ULTRON. Proof to me that Marvel had conquered the world - a huge normie audience that had internalized the rules of Mjolnir's enchantment.
aug 3, 2025, 10:52 am • 3 0 • view
Thor's face when the hammer moved a bit at the party...
aug 3, 2025, 10:55 am • 3 0 • view
Glad someone said it. youtu.be/v_klBA8Dvcs
aug 2, 2025, 10:27 pm • 19 1 • view
That whole end battle of Endgame was 30 minutes of the greatest bliss a comic book lover could have experienced. Cap lifting the hammer The heroes all coming back to back up a beaten and tired cap The shear number of Marvel icons involved Perfection
aug 2, 2025, 10:30 pm • 15 0 • view
"On your left..." 😭
aug 3, 2025, 1:01 pm • 2 0 • view
What I needed
aug 2, 2025, 10:29 pm • 0 0 • view
so much! Though also, soon after that, Chris Evans' split-second cameo in Free Guy -- one of the first films I saw after lockdown, everyone cheered, I felt part of the human race again.
aug 4, 2025, 10:22 am • 0 0 • view
A woman loudly sobbing after a death scene in Moulin Rouge! A man getting up after Starship Troopers and loudly proclaiming it some Nazi shit.
aug 1, 2025, 6:38 pm • 34 1 • view
The Starship Troopers one... if you saw it in Maryland, that could have been a friend of mine.
aug 2, 2025, 1:20 am • 17 0 • view
Germany :)
aug 2, 2025, 6:06 am • 5 0 • view
Fair does that place is full of Nazi shit
aug 2, 2025, 6:24 pm • 4 0 • view
what a bizarre response
aug 2, 2025, 6:50 pm • 8 0 • view
I mean historic leftovers....it's just a fact. X
aug 3, 2025, 7:36 am • 0 0 • view
stop being weird at me
aug 3, 2025, 8:39 am • 8 0 • view
i mean quite a lot of actual professional movie critics somehow missed that it was satirical despite being about as subtle as spike's t-shirts in notting hill so i guess you can't be too mad at the guy
aug 3, 2025, 11:57 am • 1 0 • view
I thought it was funny
aug 3, 2025, 2:18 pm • 0 0 • view
Not a movie, a Catholic church service. Mid-sermon, a phone started ringing (and ringing and ringing) from somewhere behind the altar. My then 3-yo brother shouted out, “Hey God, answer the phone!” The entire congregation lost it.
aug 3, 2025, 3:05 am • 37 2 • view
The underwater severed head scene in Jaws. Everybody lost their shit simultaneously.
aug 2, 2025, 11:52 am • 17 0 • view
I watched Jaws for the first time with my dad when I was a teenager. We're both complete wimps. When the severed head came into view I flung myself under the table in the lounge and he nearly fell off the couch. Very dignified.
aug 3, 2025, 1:48 pm • 2 0 • view
Yes!!! That’s when the popcorn flew!
aug 3, 2025, 2:03 am • 5 0 • view
Ok so this is a special circumstance for sure - but watching Return of the King in Concert with a live orchestra and choir - and the ENTIRE audience screaming “Death!” along with King Theoden and the Eorlingas 🙌
aug 2, 2025, 11:38 pm • 22 0 • view
This sounds amazing
aug 3, 2025, 1:43 am • 1 0 • view
Friday afternoon showing of ALIENS at the Midway on Queens Blvd in Forest Hills Queens. The audience is already shellshocked/traumatised near the end. And then Ripley steps out in the powerloader and says “Get away from her YOU BITCH.” The entire theater loses their shit.
aug 3, 2025, 3:58 pm • 16 1 • view
Went to see Solaris at a local cinema half way between Manchester and Bolton in the early 70s. At the start there were 5 patrons. It had a break. At the start of second half I was the only person watching.
aug 2, 2025, 10:51 am • 19 1 • view
Note: this was the Tarkovsky version. At the same cinema around the same time Lindsay Anderson’s O, Lucky Man had a similar if not quite as strong effect. I personally would have stayed in my seat and watched O Lucky Man again if they restarted it as soon as the first showing finished.
aug 2, 2025, 11:56 am • 11 0 • view
EXORCIST 3... almost entire audience jumped in their seats, when this happened -
aug 2, 2025, 10:22 am • 31 0 • view
This happened to an ex-girlfriend!
aug 3, 2025, 2:46 pm • 0 0 • view
I was 16 and home alone overnight and I rented this movie. That scene made me scream in my empty house and I immediately rewound it and watched it again. Still the greatest jump scare ever filmed and I’m including that insidious red demon thing
aug 3, 2025, 4:27 pm • 3 0 • view
The best and most memorable was when one man shouted, "Ha! Women drivers!" then walked out and didn't return after Courtney Cox crashed her news van into a tree in Scream, during the original release. We couldn't decide what was going on with that guy. It was bizarre. 😂
aug 3, 2025, 1:27 pm • 6 0 • view
Oh, also, when I started laughing at Longlegs and didn't manage to stop until the end, and, slowly but surely, a large portion of the audience seemed to agree with me that it was funny af. It was a completely involuntary reaction. I was nearly in tears and trying to stop.
aug 3, 2025, 1:29 pm • 5 0 • view
A friends nonagenarian hard of hearing mom went to see Pulp Fiction w special headphones. She was a nurse before retirement. At the od scene she yelled out to John Travolta & entire theater to “stab her in the chest w it!”
aug 3, 2025, 2:24 am • 16 2 • view
I'm male. Went to see Paris France. Narrator said, "Always trust your p***y." Nope! Went to a different screen to something called Pulp Fiction. I knew nothing about it. Had never seen a movie more than once in the theater. But I went to PF five more times, mostly taking friends who hadn't seen it.
aug 3, 2025, 11:18 am • 3 0 • view
People breaking into spontaneous applause at the end of Dogville. It was revolting
aug 3, 2025, 5:20 pm • 0 0 • view
my girlfriend at the time went to the tim burton-batman with an older friend, who at one point said in a loud voice that echoed across the theater at a quiet point in the movie, "oh that batman makes me so horny!"
aug 3, 2025, 12:53 am • 13 1 • view
It's not terrifying, but when I saw the Muppet movie and Kermit started singing the Rainbow Connection *everyone* started singing along organically like someone flipped a switch. Every age.
aug 3, 2025, 4:44 pm • 16 1 • view
Perfect. 😎
aug 3, 2025, 11:47 pm • 0 0 • view
That’s my worst nightmare
aug 4, 2025, 1:33 am • 2 0 • view
The weeping at the end of All Of Us Strangers. Most of the audience was a mess.
aug 2, 2025, 5:13 pm • 2 0 • view
Oh it was that Aaliyah vampire movie - Queen of the Damned? I saw it in a theater in downtown Boston and the audience was very into it. Lots of cheering and whistling and occasional salty comments.
aug 1, 2025, 4:50 pm • 17 0 • view
Ugh a rowdy screening of that movie sounds so goddamn *fun* lol
aug 3, 2025, 11:16 am • 2 0 • view
Kill Bill Part 1 - during the conference room scene with O-Ren Ishii, a woman a few rows ahead loudly exclaimed "lord jesus, that's common!" as the head rolled away.
aug 3, 2025, 1:06 am • 6 1 • view
I saw The Shape of Water at TIFF at the Elgin Theatre. As soon as the first big theatre scene appeared and everyone realized we were sitting in THAT theatre, the entire audience applauded and cheered.
aug 3, 2025, 4:16 am • 12 0 • view
While watching the trailers in front of Scott Pilgrim opening weekend, one had everyone in attention right up until "From M. Night Shyamalan" appeared. Everyone at once let out a groan of frustration and then a laugh that we all agreed.
aug 2, 2025, 2:35 am • 53 2 • view
This was my experience with the DEVIL trailer, but my wife and our friend Leigh and me were the only three people in the theater. “Huh… ooh… ah dammit.”
aug 3, 2025, 4:04 am • 6 0 • view
The trailer was in fact Devil that this happened for.
aug 3, 2025, 4:12 am • 3 0 • view
15 years later, never watched Shyamalan’s movie, but I remember seeing the trailer like finding a possum baked inside a birthday cake.
aug 3, 2025, 4:24 am • 7 1 • view
The elevator one?
aug 3, 2025, 6:26 am • 0 0 • view
Yup, the elevator one
aug 3, 2025, 10:14 am • 1 0 • view
Omigosh; I experienced that too -- but I never saw Scott Pilgrim in theatres, so apparently that was a universal reaction to M. Night Shyamalan at that point in time.
aug 3, 2025, 1:44 am • 1 0 • view
I saw Deathtrap in a theater that was apparently full of teen girls there to see Christopher Reeve. At the cut to a full screen closeup of a kiss between Reeve and Michael Caine, the entire place erupted in howls. (It was a twist, but let's just say the stage version didn't get that reaction.)
aug 3, 2025, 5:45 pm • 4 0 • view
I went to see Silence Of The Lambs in a huge theatre with an old fashioned giant screen. It was a rowdy crowd. About 10 minutes in with Lectors scene every one Shut Up. It’s stayed that way till the folder pass between where Lector and Clarice’s hands touched. The whole theatre yelled, “Ewww!”
aug 2, 2025, 12:06 am • 53 3 • view
That signs scene, I remember the moment happened, then I said loudly shortly after " I mean you know it's coming from a mile away and it still scared the shit outta me " and some older lady up front said " I know, right? "
aug 2, 2025, 2:26 am • 21 0 • view
I forget which specific scene it was of "Cabin in the Woods", but it was likely after we see all the basement objects and then the betting board, and the Institute's purpose is suddenly clear. There were shouts of laughter throughout the theater...
aug 2, 2025, 2:19 am • 11 0 • view
When DiCaprio drank the poison at the end of Romeo and Juliet, a woman behind me cried out "No!!!"
aug 3, 2025, 4:53 pm • 7 0 • view
I do that on every rewatch 😭
aug 3, 2025, 5:23 pm • 0 0 • view
The fish tank was such a boss directorial move
aug 4, 2025, 5:21 am • 1 0 • view
Not sure this is the strongest, but it is the first to come to mind. The Family Stone. When they're gathered for Christmas and it becomes clear that Diane Keaton has died. Gets me every time.
aug 3, 2025, 11:04 am • 3 0 • view
Batman '89 came out on my 13th birthday, and my dad took me. When Nicholson said the line "Wait'll they get a load of me," which was in every trailer for weeks, the entire audience was silent except my dad, who laughed so loud I was embarrassed
aug 3, 2025, 7:50 pm • 6 0 • view
It was definitely the Avengers assemble scene of Endgame.
aug 3, 2025, 8:37 pm • 9 0 • view
Watched the original Night of the Living Dead in a lecture hall for a college class, which most of us had not seen. The vocal outrage at THAT moment gave me chills.
aug 2, 2025, 3:37 pm • 10 0 • view
Not sure why, but the Mister Rogers film Tom Hanks was in, there's a scene on the subway where everyone starts singing that just made everyone in the theatre ugly cry. It was really powerful.
aug 2, 2025, 11:09 am • 37 2 • view
🥰 Understandable! I watched it at home & ugly cried. 😂 A beautiful, poignant moment! 💕 youtu.be/8-16IUdMNZw?...
aug 2, 2025, 10:28 pm • 19 1 • view
Okay but the birthday party scene in SIGNS is hella freaky and really well done.
aug 2, 2025, 10:54 am • 8 0 • view
It was surreal being in a movie theater in San Diego when the T-Rex was stomping through downtown San Diego in Jurassic Park 2. The audience was cheering. 1/2
aug 2, 2025, 5:20 am • 22 2 • view
Also The Day After Tomorrow, when Americans were crossing the border into Mexico in order to survive and not die in the storms had me and fellow Southern Californians chuckling in the theater. 2/2
aug 2, 2025, 5:22 am • 13 1 • view
i've been to a lot of cultish movies so i've seen a lot, everything from audience members acting out the movie onstage, to actual fist fights in the aisles. my fave was a packed boston theater for whoopie goldberg in "burglar" - anytime she did something like this it got loud youtu.be/mMZtT0sIRXI
aug 3, 2025, 12:18 am • 5 0 • view
Rumble in the Bronx, Watching in Manhattan, when the mountains appeared on the Hudson. It was filmed in Vancouver. Much laughter.
aug 2, 2025, 2:21 am • 16 0 • view
Watching The Force Awakens when it premiered at the IMAX theater at the National Air & Space Museum. When the crawl started, the entire theater spontaneously burst into applause. That was a great moment.
aug 3, 2025, 2:23 pm • 8 0 • view
That and leaving the theater after Annihilation. The entire audience was absolutely silent filling out, until one person loudly exclaimed, "What the fuck did I just watch?" No one had an answer for them.
aug 3, 2025, 2:23 pm • 10 0 • view
If I can include myself: I saw City Slickers in the theater. One of the lines was "If hate were people, I'd be China." I was the only person to laugh in an almost full theater.
aug 2, 2025, 12:53 am • 11 1 • view
I saw Clerks in Northampton, MA at the art house theater in college (early 90s) and was the only person *shrieking* and crying with laughter, everyone else was silently offended
aug 2, 2025, 8:05 pm • 6 0 • view
That happened to me in Being John Malkovich when Charlie Sheen goes to see Malkovich and they say “Ma-sheeeen!” “Malkatraz!!!” Mine was the sole massive guffaw
aug 2, 2025, 2:43 pm • 10 0 • view
Went and saw Sonic 3 in theaters, kids started going absolutely bananas when Live & Learn kicked in and it just reminded me being little and playing the game. It ruled.
aug 2, 2025, 10:16 am • 6 0 • view
I went to see the Stop Making Sense re-release in IMAX a couple of years ago. An audience member (who didn’t look any younger than 60) danced up and down the stairs the whole movie.
aug 3, 2025, 7:00 am • 16 1 • view
i just got a glimpse into my future
aug 3, 2025, 2:57 pm • 9 1 • view
Strong reactions can be silent. I remember Spock's death scene in ST: Wrath of Khan. No movement, no sound. Pure silence from the audience, many of whom had their mouths hanging open and in silent tears.
aug 10, 2025, 3:35 am • 0 0 • view
Watching ‘Little Women’, a woman in the row behind me flagrantly defied the film’s U certificate by going “Ooh, you little *fucker*!” when - trying to avoid spoilers - a treasured item came to an unnatural end.
aug 2, 2025, 9:41 am • 21 0 • view
Actually, this one’s my all-time favourite: at the Sarajevo Film Festival in 2006, with a largely local audience watching a Bosnian film called Nafaka. The first time a UN helmet appeared, the massed booing was like nothing I’d ever heard before…
aug 2, 2025, 1:26 pm • 10 1 • view
…and when the owner of said helmet (who was, of course, irredeemably corrupt) met with a violent comeuppance, the cheering was eardrum-shattering. This was only just over a decade after the Srebrenica massacre, and emotions still clearly (and understandably) ran raw.
aug 2, 2025, 1:28 pm • 14 1 • view
Captain America raising the Hammer: Endgame The puppy execution: Equilibrium The Red Jacket: Schindler’s List… a girl next to me broke, and started hyperventilating…
aug 3, 2025, 1:10 am • 1 0 • view
Highlander Endgame: Duncan takes Connor’s head, some kid two rows up stood up, threw up his hands, yelled “FUCK THIS!” And left….the rest of the audience applauded… King Kong ‘38: i yelled “can you dig it?!” As they summoned Kong. The theater laughed.
aug 3, 2025, 1:19 am • 5 0 • view
Mortal Kombat Annihilation: my brother, our friend and I start cracking jokes under our breath…by the ens we are full volume, everyone is laughing..
aug 3, 2025, 1:19 am • 1 0 • view
Practically everyone in my theater sucked in their breath when Cap budged the hammer in Age of Ultron. The Endgame scene was pandemonium.
aug 3, 2025, 5:26 am • 4 0 • view
Truth
aug 3, 2025, 5:39 am • 0 0 • view
Three I vividly remember: 1) The Return of the King, when Eowyn yanks off her helmet and declares, "I am no man!" 2) E.T., when the docs defib E.T. and Gertie cries--the whole audience burst out in sobs. 3) Misery, when Annie breaks Paul's ankles; people screamed, "You *bitch!*"
aug 1, 2025, 6:43 pm • 83 3 • view
Just posted re 3. People were howling at the hobbling scene, which inspired an ovation when he finally whacks her with the typewriter. Entire film was so intense, and at least part of that was the crowd.
aug 2, 2025, 9:58 pm • 1 0 • view
2 is one of my first memories - I was 3 at the time and an older gentleman just in front of me was sobbing his heart out
aug 2, 2025, 11:54 am • 27 0 • view
2 is the first time I saw my father cry.
aug 3, 2025, 10:12 am • 12 0 • view
I screamed so hard and so loud at that bit in E.T. my mum had to take me outside. I refused to go back and I don’t think I found out E.T. survived until I was almost in my teens.
aug 3, 2025, 9:02 pm • 0 0 • view
every girl in the audience screaming with hype during the "she's not alone" shot in Endgame was it completely absurd to have that scene given Captain Marvel's power set? well, yeah obviously. but, if it was there to speak loudly to a specific, and often ignored, demographic. it nailed it
aug 1, 2025, 7:42 pm • 120 3 • view
This is the one I remember too! Lots of women in that theater the day I saw it!
aug 2, 2025, 10:06 pm • 2 0 • view
Endgame had several big audience moments, though: "On your left," "Avengers Assemble," Cap lifting Mjolnir...
aug 2, 2025, 10:07 pm • 8 0 • view
That was so good. IDGAF that some (male) people considered that "such audience pandering", it was long needed and very welcome. I also had a strong reaction to the end of the Captain Marvel movie: "I have nothing to prove to you."
aug 3, 2025, 1:22 pm • 2 0 • view
At ENDGAME there was a girl next to me that had come by herself and in the beginning of the movie, during the scene where Black Widow debriefs the Avengers abroad, she just coos “her hair!” at Captain Marvel’s new (and most recent in the comics) hairstyle. it was such a sweet and sincere reaction.
aug 3, 2025, 12:34 pm • 2 0 • view
I just loved seeing Pepper strap on the Rescue suit.
aug 3, 2025, 4:13 am • 1 0 • view
the girl next to me loudly said "fuck yessss" when Wonder Woman started throwing tanks around
aug 1, 2025, 10:01 pm • 70 2 • view
I wept with pent up cathartic joy throughout the whole no man’s land and village scene.
aug 2, 2025, 6:47 am • 38 0 • view
YESSSSS
aug 2, 2025, 5:01 pm • 3 0 • view
i sat next to a little girl at Black Panther who VIBRATED the entire time Shuri was onscreen. she finally turned to me at a scene in Shuri's lab and said "that's gonna be me." and she was SO emphatic. i took her seriously!
aug 2, 2025, 12:51 am • 250 9 • view
Shuri is my favorite character in the MCU ❤️ because she’s the exact opposite of the “scientist trope” of an 1) old 2) crazy/neurotic 2) white 4) man. In addition to being a black woman, she’s young, and she’s also cool and funny and socially adjusted. The anti-trope in every way and I LOVE HER
aug 3, 2025, 2:08 pm • 27 1 • view
She’s so fun as a character breaking the tropes! The cool thing about the girl sitting next to me was she was also black and I think part of how much she loved Shuri was seeing someone who looked like her. 🥰
aug 3, 2025, 6:48 pm • 15 0 • view
I've seen and heard #RepresentationMatters being validated about a million times... it's a shame some folks* still dismiss its importance. *you know who
aug 3, 2025, 7:39 pm • 11 0 • view
Anchorman seemed to start slow with the crowd, but by about half way thru everyone was fully locked in. The big laugh was Luke Wilson’s second arm, but I distinctly remember the Pavlovian reaction of seeing Steve Carrel standing there. People started laughing because they knew it had to get funny.
aug 2, 2025, 12:59 am • 15 1 • view
One of the reasons I didn’t understand why I was seeing so many mixed reviews of Burn After Reading was the wild reaction - by myself, my date, and everyone in the Brooklyn theater - when Brad Pitt stumbled out of the closet with that face and the immediate reaction. Thought i was gonna die laughing
aug 2, 2025, 12:44 am • 15 0 • view
I would have liked to have been in the theater for the funniest moment in that movie.
aug 3, 2025, 1:24 am • 0 0 • view
He is peak comedy in that film
aug 4, 2025, 5:39 am • 0 0 • view
Watching David Cronenberg's "Crash" in a theatre in 1996. When James Spader's and Elias Koteas' characters started kissing, a whole row of guys in front of us got up and left in a rage. Loudly offering opinions on same-sex relations between men that were let's say less than favorable.
aug 2, 2025, 9:59 am • 9 0 • view
My Own Private Idaho on release in a suburban multiplex in Melbourne. "Www www".
aug 3, 2025, 11:05 am • 2 0 • view
The majority of the audience cheering and applauding Sgt Al Powell at the end of Die Hard. Also, at Silence of the Lambs, person screaming on realising just who was very much alive on the stretcher in the back of the ambulance.
aug 2, 2025, 10:52 am • 7 0 • view
Premiere screening of "Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back" where the entire audience screams "WHAT???" at the Luke/Vader reveal. People lost their shit. Including me.
aug 2, 2025, 10:20 pm • 49 2 • view
This was my wife about 15 years ago. She'd managed to go her whole life without knowing this and so I kept her in the dark until it happened. She sat bolt upright on the couch and yelled WHAT??? This year I did the same thing with my daughter and got the same reaction. And I recorded it this time.
aug 3, 2025, 5:29 am • 20 0 • view
Fifth Element, when the operatic part of the Diva singing was over and she started her fancy dance the audience went nuts.
aug 3, 2025, 6:35 pm • 7 0 • view
Me and a buddy of mine decided to watch MIRRORS in the theater. It was so bad we started giving it the MST3K treatment. The rest of the audience loved it and several joined in. It was the worst movie I've ever seen in theaters!
aug 2, 2025, 7:55 pm • 7 0 • view
I had a similar experience at a showing of "Evils of the Night" (1985), helped by the entire audience being myself and three friends. The ads mentioned "space vampires" and "teenage blood" and went 0 for 2. If any of you ever see Terry Levene of Aquarius Releasing, tell him he owes me five bucks.
aug 2, 2025, 11:56 pm • 1 1 • view
I saw that in the theater, as well, but during my showing, the fire alarm went off about 20 minutes until the end, and we were evacuated. I said the alarm was the best part of the movie, to some chuckles from fellow sufferers.
aug 2, 2025, 9:55 pm • 3 0 • view
I saw Finding Nemo in the theater with my sister and niece. After the opening sequence in which Nemo's mother is dispatched (off screen) by a shark, the theater went quiet and my niece, age 3 or 4, yelled plaintively, "WHERE'S HIS MOM?"
aug 2, 2025, 12:07 pm • 36 2 • view
went with middleschool school sports team to see it when it opened. during that scene we all scrunched down and hid, our team was named the barracudas
aug 2, 2025, 10:49 pm • 4 0 • view
My friend took his daughters to that movie. They got all the way through it and then when the credits rolled the younger one asked him the same question 😂
aug 2, 2025, 2:22 pm • 18 0 • view
Maybe not the strongest , but I think one where I felt the most camaraderie, what a screening of Skinamarink at AFISilver. There was a jump scare and a few of us physically jumped in our seats, and then a bunch of people , including me, laughed, because of how much it affected us.
aug 1, 2025, 7:15 pm • 4 0 • view
The Conjuring, during the scene where it cuts to the witch on top of the dresser a woman screamed so loudly that the whole theater started laughing.
aug 1, 2025, 4:05 pm • 183 2 • view
haha, same movie, when they discover they need Vatican approval for the exorcism someone laughed really loudly, which set everyone else off. Film basically a comedy from that point.
aug 2, 2025, 9:50 am • 19 0 • view
I had the comedy experience at The Blair Witch Project. A delight.
aug 3, 2025, 1:31 am • 8 0 • view
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aug 4, 2025, 4:24 am • 2 0 • view
That was me probably..no one will goto a scary movie with me
aug 2, 2025, 2:04 am • 36 0 • view
I will! I’ve never been to one, and I’m 76.
aug 2, 2025, 3:30 am • 28 0 • view
Kinda still waitin’ on my invite. It’s embarrassing and stuff, but I mean, will I die without having seen a true horror flick? I haven’t even watched the great Jordon Peele, and I own several of his films. Who watches horror alone? Even comedy/horror? Who?
aug 3, 2025, 8:37 pm • 4 0 • view
Me! I wait until my husband has a business trip to watch the scariest ones at home, and The Conjuring, Crawl, A Quiet Place, Barbarian, etc I saw by myself in the theater.
aug 4, 2025, 1:09 am • 3 0 • view
aug 3, 2025, 8:51 pm • 2 0 • view
The combination of a rowdy crowd at Django Unchained with the woman sitting next to me having a calm, matter of fact conversation with the characters. Django: How do I look? Her, flatly: You look nice. Candie: What’s your name, boy? Her: It’s Django. Candie: Shake my hand. Her: No thanks.
aug 2, 2025, 11:06 pm • 38 2 • view
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aug 3, 2025, 4:33 am • 2 0 • view
I once did this. Was in a theater, empty but for 2 girls 2 rows behind me. I forgot they were there. Something happened on screen (Bram Stoker's Dracula, I think?), they screamed, causing me to jump. Popcorn everywhere.
aug 1, 2025, 5:35 pm • 41 0 • view
Somebody sneezed when I was watching Diva during one of the bits when the guy is delivering a cassette
aug 1, 2025, 9:27 pm • 3 1 • view
Saw that film over and over.
aug 4, 2025, 5:24 am • 1 0 • view
Woman behind me as Titanic sped towards the iceberg : "He needs to go more left."
aug 2, 2025, 2:53 pm • 119 4 • view
Outstanding reaction!
aug 2, 2025, 9:15 pm • 6 0 • view
Neither reaction was particularly strong, but I enjoyed my It: Chapter 2 screening where a girl in front of me was visibly terrified out of her mind and another behind me was audibly watching the best comedy she'd ever seen. Really encapsulated the divisiveness of what we were watching.
aug 3, 2025, 4:38 pm • 4 0 • view
I’d never felt so much a part of a group as the scene in Speed when the bus hits a baby carriage. Everyone in the theater gasped. And then the palpable relief when it fell and it was full of recycling.
aug 4, 2025, 5:48 am • 8 0 • view
I had a children keep yelling OOF everytime someone fell over in Logan.
aug 2, 2025, 11:22 am • 2 0 • view
Some big reactions I’ve seen would be Rey using the force to get Anakin’s lightsaber, Cap getting Mjolnir, Rey and Kylo breaking the aforementioned lightsaber and Luke’s shoulder dusting My friends and I positively howled during the climax of Man of Steel when Clark & Zod were trashing metropolis 🤣
aug 3, 2025, 1:45 pm • 6 0 • view
The Ring 2 (American) By about a third of the way through the movie, nearly every teenage girl was so wound up and on edge that the theater shrieked every time the camera cut to something new, scary or not including just a black screen. But...
aug 4, 2025, 12:08 am • 3 0 • view
But... I was bored, so I started finger-combing my long long hair forward over my eyes. Eventually the movie ends, people start to leave, and I join the crowd in the dim exit tunnel. And then someone glances behind them, sees Temu Samara/Sadako, and SCREAMS.
aug 4, 2025, 12:08 am • 5 0 • view
So naturally those ahead of her turn to see what she's screaming at and... And then those ahead of them... And those ahead of them... Until the whole crowd parted like the red sea, screaming and hugging the walls.
aug 4, 2025, 12:08 am • 9 0 • view
Would have loved to see this 😆
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aug 2, 2025, 12:28 am • 14 0 • view
I was in undergrad at University of Maryland and they offered a free screening of How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days. The gasps of shock and dismay that filled the entire theater when Matthew McConaughey took his jacket off and was wearing a Duke t-shirt!
aug 2, 2025, 12:38 pm • 14 1 • view
I went to UMD for grad school and they did free screenings of recent movies on the regular, the screening of Crazy Rich Asians was PACKED which made for its own fun experience!
aug 2, 2025, 4:35 pm • 3 0 • view