r/SubredditDrama • u/sirgraemecracker pass the popcorn • Jun 23 '15
Spoilers /r/JurassicPark debates if it's ok to clap at a movie theater. (Jurassic World Spoilers, you have been warned.)
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u/ucstruct Jun 23 '15
A 7-year-old "got" the scene better than I did because they clapped? That is the dumbest thing I have ever heard.
No, what's even dumber is arguing that you "get" it better because you were the one carefully studying a dinosaur fight movie.
Do people also clap while watching movies alone at their house?
Some people like the group experience of seeing something with people similarly excited about it. And yeah, people show excitement for all sorts of things, sports, movies, shows even when at home.
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u/death_by_chocolate Jun 23 '15
When the Death Star blew up? Quiet like a funeral. Ripley blows the alien out of the airlock? Nothin'. The shark explodes? Zip. ET flies? Shhh...they can't hear you. Don't be silly.
Yup. It was just like that.
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Jun 23 '15
I so much enjoyed Jurassic World so much. I would've clapped for the T-Rex if I hadn't been giving a pot brownie before the film.
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Jul 03 '15
The while theater clapped when the t-rex showed up and when the raptor came back to fight the indomitable rex and when the masosaur ate the indomitable rex. I think those scenes deserved to be clapped at, they were awesome
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u/WG47 Jun 23 '15
Clapping in a cinema is ridiculous.
You clap to show appreciation. The film can't hear you. You don't clap to the TV at home, you don't clap to the radio.
You clap at concerts, sports, etc.
I've never heard anyone clap at the cinema, mind you, because I'm not from the USA.
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u/sirgraemecracker Jun 23 '15
As much as I hate people making noise in the theater, and clapping is a silly thing to do, said clapper was 7 years old, and also if I was to make a list of scenes that deserved a good clap, the I Rex vs T Rex right would be on it. That scene was all kinds of awesome.
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u/Nurglings Jun 23 '15
You don't clap to the TV at home
People cheer and shout at the TV when they are watching sports all of the time.
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Jun 23 '15
I clap when I am happy and like something, not to show appreciation. I have clapped at movies, i have clapped by myself watching TV
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u/FixinThePlanet Jun 23 '15
I find myself clapping when I'm watching John Oliver clips in bed in my pyjamas, but I clearly do not know how normal people behave.
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u/Slapdash17 Jun 23 '15
Just curious-what do you think of people who clap at the end of big firework shows? Because I've never been to one where people don't clap at the end, and I've also never been to one where the technicians were anywhere within earshot.
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Jun 23 '15
Why do you care?
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Jun 24 '15
It can be annoying if people are clapping over dialogue or whatever. I like my movies in silence, apart from comedies, where laughing is pretty much unavoidable.
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Jun 23 '15
I'm in Argentina, and I've heard people clap in cinemas.
I can understand laughing in the cinema. Cheering, booing and clapping, now...
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Jun 23 '15
I've been in movies theatres where everyone was clapping at the end (I'm in Canada) and my reaction is a facepalm and a silent 'What the fuck is wrong with you people?' Thankfully I've never witnessed it during a film.
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u/DefiantTheLion Jun 23 '15
Just saying, as a person who went in expecting a fun summer movie with dinosaurs I was tearing up at that scene. Jurassic Park was my childhood and JW was a lovely homage (though not quite as technically good as the original).