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> where everyone meets out of the home, for a shared event Yet almost all of the shared experience is removed. Some of the most interesting experiences I had i
by majewsky 3y ago
> where everyone meets out of the home, for a shared event
Yet almost all of the shared experience is removed. Some of the most interesting experiences I had in a movie were when the entire audience reacts to something happening on screen. Can't have that if each group is desynced inside their metaphorical fishbowls.
- RugnirViking 3y ago> the entire audience reacts to something happening on screen I've always been surprised by this sort of anecdote. Is it a thing that happens a lot in america maybe? Here living across a few places in northern europe, people are just deathly quiet in the cinema. I think its seen as nobody wants to be inconsiderate to one another
- bonoboTP 3y agoYes, apparently in some places in America (I'm told not everywhere) it's acceptable to cheer or even clap during movies. In the places I know in Europe, this is seen as very rude and you're supposed to be fully quiet, or maybe whisper to your neighbor at most. It's also similar in public transportation. American tourists are often quite loud while locals speak more quietly in buses, trams etc.
- RandomLensman 3y agoDepends where in Europe. People do laugh in cinemas and sometimes clap in the UK or Germany, for example (less than let's say in California, though).
- eru 3y agoGermans also clap when their plane lands in Mallorca.
- newaccount74 3y agoIs that still a thing? I remember this was a thing when I was a kid in the 90ies, but I haven't experienced this in a long time.
- rob74 3y agoI have been living in Germany for over 20 years now, and never once have I seen somebody clap at a movie. I mean, it makes more sense to clap after your airplane lands, at least that will make the pilots and flight attendants feel good, but who are you clapping for in a cinema? The projectionist (who's probably not even there anymore?). Having said that, there is a kind of "continuously showing movie" in Germany where the audience is very much encouraged to react during the film: there is a cinema in Munich that has been showing The Rocky Horror Picture Show continuously for over 40 years (not non-stop though), where people sing along, throw rice, dance etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_Lichtspiele https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_Lichtspiele https://www.sueddeutsche.de/muenchen/museum-lichtspiele-wie-muenchen-die-rocky-horror-picture-show-feiert-1.3545614 https://www.sueddeutsche.de/muenchen/museum-lichtspiele-wie-...
- RandomLensman 3y agoMaybe it is the type of movie or whether it was a dubbed or orginal version of the movie (changes audience mix)? Definitely been in cinemas in Germany with clapping.
- cafard 3y agoI'm an American, and have never understood why others cheer or clap in movies. There are neighborhoods where loud comments on the movie in progress are not unexpected for discouraged. On the other hand, it was in an upscale movie where the guy behind me wanted to narrate Ed Harris's Jackson Pollock movie--sotto voce, but far from inaudibly.
- ndsipa_pomu 3y agoIn the UK, most serious films would have the audience quiet, but that's relaxed for comedies and horrors where the audience is expected to laugh at the funny bits and maybe gasp at the jump scares.
- majewsky 3y agoI'm from Germany. Also, note my wording. I was not saying "this happens all the time", but "those were some of the most memorable moments".
- vijayr02 3y agoAudience reaction to an Indian movie called RRR: https://youtu.be/ExxZBNp6jy4 https://youtu.be/ExxZBNp6jy4 This is at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in LA :) so as American as it gets
- latexr 3y agoContext plays a part. When I go to a “regular” movie theatre, people are quiet. But they react a lot, laughing, cheering, and clapping, when I go to a theatre which is many decades old to watch a film as part of a festival.
- OkayPhysicist 3y agoIt's mostly quiet, but you'll definitely hear gasps at a jump scare, chortles as jokes, etc. Muffled, automatic responses.
- tux1968 3y ago> Can't have that if each group is desynced inside their metaphorical fishbowls. That's only a limitation of the technology as it exists today. It will be much more immersive in the future, and with AR, you can maintain contact with your party, as well as with whatever experience you're sharing. Hell, it might even be much greater interactivity than today. Say a dinner-theater like murder mystery, with a dead body lying in the corner virtually, and a common goal of finding the culprit.