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re: What's the biggest audience reaction you've seen in a movie theater?

Posted on 10/13/23 at 8:49 pm to
Posted by OK Roughneck
The Sooner State
Member since Aug 2021
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Posted on 10/13/23 at 8:49 pm to
The crowd being somber at the end of Saving Private Ryan even though it was a great movie. It was like walking out of a funeral having lost someone close. No-one talked as we all walked out.
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Posted by lsufan112001
sportsmans paradise
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Posted on 10/13/23 at 8:51 pm to
At the end of Saw when he gets up from the floor after playing dead
Posted by Twenty 49
Shreveport
Member since Jun 2014
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Posted on 10/13/23 at 9:01 pm to
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I saw the Ring in a theatre in Decatur Alabama, me and my buddies were one of a handful of white people in the theatre


Similar experience: Nutty Professor (Eddy Murphy) in Jackson MS. We were visiting and had no idea we’d be the only white folks in a packed theater. It was a true cultural learning experience.
Posted by AUFANATL
Member since Dec 2007
5361 posts
Posted on 10/13/23 at 9:05 pm to

Saw Phantom Menace at a big theatre for a midnight opening. Oh my God. There are nerds and then there are people nerds make fun of. This crowd was the latter.

Was sitting next to a stranger in the packed theatre and he started having serious convulsions when the John Williams score blared and the big Star Wars logo crawled across the screen during the opening. I legit thought the guy was having a seizure and my mind started racing as to what you're supposed to do in that emergency situation to help them. I put my hands on him to hold him steady and he snapped out of it and looked at me like I was crazy. At that point I realized he wasn't having a seizure but was so excited that he started violently shaking.
Posted by bad93ex
Walnut Cove
Member since Sep 2018
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Posted on 10/13/23 at 9:05 pm to
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Harry Potter Desth Hallows 2 when moma Weasley ended Belatrix got some good cheers


This one, before the movie they were posing in front of the movie screen with their wands and everything. I love Harry Potter but that was just too much for me.
Posted by FLTech
he/won
Member since Sep 2017
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Posted on 10/13/23 at 9:26 pm to
Dumb and Dumber. I have never seen a theater just dying with laughter like I saw during that movie back then
Posted by Tiger Prawn
Member since Dec 2016
25860 posts
Posted on 10/13/23 at 9:41 pm to
Endgame final battle with everyone reappearing or Leia’s cameo at the end of Rogue One
Posted by shutterspeed
MS Gulf Coast
Member since May 2007
72508 posts
Posted on 10/13/23 at 9:46 pm to
The surprise reveal in The Crying Game.
Posted by molsusports
Member since Jul 2004
37539 posts
Posted on 10/13/23 at 10:38 pm to
Probably when I was overseas in Thailand and I saw Ace Ventura 2.

When he emerged naked from the fake Rhino the whole crowd went into a convulsions of laughter and disgust.
Posted by blueboy
Member since Apr 2006
65584 posts
Posted on 10/13/23 at 10:45 pm to
South Park for laughter. That was the most I've laughed and heard others laugh.

Jaws for people losing their shite.
Posted by MDB
Baton Rouge
Member since Nov 2019
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Posted on 10/13/23 at 10:54 pm to
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On deployment at a movie theater on a Marine base in Japan. The movie: Eyes Wide Shut


Anytime you see a movie with 300 Marines in the audience it is wildly entertaining.

I saw “Barbarella” (pre-commie Jane Fonda) with about 100 other pussy-starved Marines at an outdoor theater in Quang Tri in 1969. The opening strip scene was both glorious and agonizing. They had the projectionist rewind the scene more than once.




Posted by BCLA
Bossier City
Member since Mar 2005
9063 posts
Posted on 10/13/23 at 10:55 pm to
My all time favorite was watching all the black people who went to see Aaliyah get up and leave halfway through Queen of the Damned when they actually realized what the movie actually was about
Posted by Warfarer
Dothan, AL
Member since May 2010
12418 posts
Posted on 10/13/23 at 11:09 pm to
Something about Mary when they show the balls in the zipper scene. That was my best movie experience in general. I had a bunch of friends that worked at the theater and we were screening it. We had a couple coolers of beer, about 50 of us in the theater at 1 or 2 in the morning screening it.
Posted by Yaz 8
Member since Jun 2020
1376 posts
Posted on 10/13/23 at 11:22 pm to
One that stands out to me was when Rocky took down Drago in Rocky IV. The place was going crazy
Posted by Demonbengal
Ruston
Member since May 2015
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Posted on 10/13/23 at 11:30 pm to
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I saw the Ring in a theatre in Decatur Alabama, me and my buddies were one of a handful of white people in the theatre. It was the most fun movie


Me and a buddy went to the old dollar cinema in Monroe on a Saturday night when the original “Scream” was playing. We were probably the only whites in audience. The black girl beside me just about jumped in my lap multiple times. It was a pretty cool movie experience with the reactions of the audience.
Posted by TygerTyger
Houston
Member since Oct 2010
11145 posts
Posted on 10/13/23 at 11:31 pm to
Rocky beating Clubber Lang

Aragorn vs Lurtz, when Aragorn lops his head off

The Thing when the guys chest opens up.
Posted by GeauxHouston
Midland, Texas
Member since Nov 2013
5078 posts
Posted on 10/13/23 at 11:47 pm to
Most recently it was NWH the reveals of Toby and Andrew
Posted by BluegrassBelle
RIP Hefty Lefty - 1981-2019
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Posted on 10/13/23 at 11:51 pm to
I remember hearing people audibly weeping when Rose lets go of Jack in Titanic. Just outright sobbing.
Posted by yankeeundercover
Buffalo, NY
Member since Jan 2010
36419 posts
Posted on 10/14/23 at 12:20 am to
It wasn’t in the actual theater, but I saw Independence Day when it came out and when everyone was leaving the theater, the clouds and the moon looked SUPER like the spaceship bursting through…

At least like 50 people stopped and looked up pointing… it was crazy
Posted by schatman
Montana
Member since Nov 2018
2958 posts
Posted on 10/14/23 at 1:16 am to
Infinity War- Thor arrives in Wakanda.

Biggest crowd pop reaction I’ve ever heard in a theater.
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