I’ve been to a ton of premieres or avant-premieres (like Godzilla last week) and have yet to see any audience clap at the movie, no matter how acclaimed or great it was.
Could be another one of those cultural differences, though. We’re pretty shy when it comes to expressing our excitement for things.
Why would you clap at a movie? It’s like clapping in front of your tv.
To let the rest of the audience know just how retarded I am… uh… I don’t clap, what am I talking about… 
We audiencegoers did that for Midnight in Paris. The movie was worth it.
In a movie theater, you’re amongst other people. Other people you don’t know. Like clapping for a good song at a concert or something else, you don’t clap at your stereo or MP3 player but you do at a concert, do you not?
I’ve never clapped for a movie but I can see why people do.
when you clap during a concert you’re interacting with the band, not with the rest of the audience (it’s not your primary motivation, at the very least) while in a cinema there’s just a prerecorded film and none of the people involved in its making will be aware that you clapped at it.
no.
And yet, if you sit on your hands at a concert, the band isn’t going to know that you’re doing that, especially if you’re somewhere in the middle of something that looks like this to them.
So?
It’s not about you as an individual interacting with the band; it’s more of a communal thing. If no audience-member clapped after the end of a song, the band would surely notice.
EDIT: BTW, I usually clap after a movie ends (if I liked it). I’m just trying to point out that clapping for a good song at a concert is not motivated by the same social mechanisms as clapping after a good movie.
Clapping after a good movie is a way of demonstrating approval for the movie to other cinema-goers, to help them refine their taste in films, as well as to celebrate with other cinema-goers that they have seen a good movie, for the first time, together.
When people stand up and say “ugh” as the credits roll, people pick up on that… they take note… and the movie is not remembered fondly when it’s played on TBS years down the road.
I clapped at my TV tonight, and I am all alone. Nothing wrong with that.
(help, I need real friends to hang out with)
He always does that when The Teletubbies are on.
My mom says I’m not aloud to to watch them because they are too scary…
I just saw the movie.
I wasn’t expecting much of it, but to be honest, it was one of the coolest movies I’ve ever seen.
Can we all agree that Godzilla’s final move vs. the female MUTO is the best finisher ever?
yeea
Mother fucker totally went Reptile on him
Yup, that last fight scene was the best part of the movie, the sequel needs to give us more of that kinda stuff. This one teased us too much and gave us too little. Ken Watanabe kept saying ‘get out the way and let them fight’, and I’m like ‘that’s exactly what I’ve been saying this whole movie, NEEDS MOAR GODZILLA!’
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