PhoncipleBone
Banned
Likewise at mine.
Well, except for the two people that clapped at the end of the film. But Spidey was the only full audience pop at my showing.
Batman v. Superman RT Thread: like standing ovations in rain
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Well, except for the two people that clapped at the end of the film. But Spidey was the only full audience pop at my showing.
And Shrek Forever After got an A.
CaviarMeths
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You joke, but Madea fans love Madea movies. An A+ isn't surprising at all. Lot's of faith-based films get A/A+ too. It's all about appealing to the built-in audience.
Gordon Shumway
Banned
But she still sucking..
Bobby Roberts
Banned
Primethius
Banned
Same. Spidey, that beautiful son of a bitch.
WaterAstro
Member
The only time the audience reacted in a movie was when Rohan arrived in RotK.
The audience never reacted to anything else in my entire life of movie viewing.
My audience was pretty quiet. The only time anyone clapped was when WW shows up. Which is hopefully a good sign for next year!
CaviarMeths
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I always thought the clapping and cheering thing during movies was weird. Biggest audience reactions I experienced was laughing during funny moments, stuff you'd expect if you were watching the movie at home with some friends.
Then I went and saw The Force Awakens on opening night and the audience was going bananas at every awesome part. It was fun.
Then I went and saw The Force Awakens on opening night and the audience was going bananas at every awesome part. It was fun.
The film when looked at as a structured movie with story and plot was an absolute disaster and missed every chance at being a goos film. It was all over the place. Batfleck and Wonder Woman were great, the few fights scenes were great too. The rest was pretty bad. Cavill is so boring jeebus.
Is Justice League really coming out next year? Good god they have a lot of ground to make up after this.
Is Justice League really coming out next year? Good god they have a lot of ground to make up after this.
Cause you come from a more civil country
Audiences reacting to trailers seems especially strange to me. Here not many people pay attention and anyone who cares enough to react would've seen it already. I think the only time was when a couple of people clapped at a Star Wars 7 trailer. I remember cause of how odd it was.
But different cultures gonna be different. Despite my first sentence, there's obviously nothing wrong with that.
EnthronedReaper
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Although it wasn't the most amazing film. I still want to see their cinematic universe play out. Am I a bad person?
Also that cyborg clip was pretty fucking awesome
Also that cyborg clip was pretty fucking awesome
Bobby Roberts
Banned
Someone in here earlier said their theater gave a standing ovation. That seems all sorts of ridiculous to me. I've been at (hell, I've hosted) premiere screenings with filmmakers in attendance and I haven't seen that ever, much less for basic opening night films.
I hosted a Thanksgiving eve screening of "The Muppets" with an audience that had islands of spontaneous Kermit Flailing break out at least 3 or 4 times before the trailers started, and when that movie ended (it played wonderfully, lots of laughs and cheers at favorite characters appearing) there was a brief flare of applause, and then people got up and started leaving. I presented a 35mm screening of The Empire Strikes Back with a local division of the 501st helping us introduce the picture, 600 strong Star Wars nuts packed into the auditorium. Cheers and whoops at all the right moments. Movie ends - four or five seconds of cheers and applause... and people got up and left.
The idea that a couple hundred people gave this movie a standing ovation is all sorts of implausible, to me. That's a level of emotional engagement that is pretty goddamned rare, honestly. Especially considering the recipient of said outpouring is a flat screen with light being shone onto it.
But then again, I'm willing to bet a good 70% of all "This is what my crowd did" reports on any forum/messageboard are "here's the outward emotional exhibition I'm going to ascribe to the whole crowd as an extension and exaggeration of my own personal feelings."
It's how one guy snickering in the front right becomes the entire front half of the theater bursting out into laughter. It's how one guy yawning two aisles down becomes half the theater falling asleep. And it's how one guy muttering "yeah right" at the end of the movie becomes the poster standing up and shouting a finely crafted bon mot of Whedonesque proportions that is immediately roared at and lengthily applauded.
Basically, I don't buy a lot of these crowd reports. You have to disengage from the movie (like I did to be able to relay those anecdotes about Muppets and Empire) to some extent to pay the level of attention needed to accurately report some of the shit I see regarding the audience as proxy. Cheers and whoops? Bursts of applause? Yeah, that makes sense. Whole groups of people spontaneously giving standing ovations to the scrolling credits? Nah.
DrForester
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Do you usually go opening night? Opening night (or midnight) viewings usually get a lot of cheering if it's good. Think the biggest cheer I ever heard in the theater was The Dark Knight when it's revealed Gordon is alive and arrests Joker.
I love that episode so much. Best episode in that entire series. This scene in particular has always stood out to me as . They really need to bring Bruce Timm onto Warner Bros./DC in a similar role to Kevin Feige a la Marvel.
crazyrabbits
Banned
I have legitimately seen people clap at the end of a film - notably, a pre-screening of The Dark Knight (fan screening - won tickets in a viral marketing game) where the audience clapped and then stayed silent through the end credits. Nobody got up until the credits were over.
TheRefresher
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I just got back from a showing. My assessment is that it's not amazing and also not terrible, a very middle of the road superhero flick that's reasonably entertaining. My main criticisms would be that it tried to do too much story wise and should have been more tightly focused. I liked it better than MoS, The showing that I attended (9:45 PM) wasn't very crowded, so I'm wondering if the reviews have already had an effect. I'll note that I've always been a Marvel fan and never cared much at all about DC comics, so I probably do not have the same expectations as a die hard DC fan.
NotTheGuyYouKill
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People applauded in my showing.
And the critics were wrong! I really enjoyed this movie. Some weirdness, sure, but I had a lot of fun
And the critics were wrong! I really enjoyed this movie. Some weirdness, sure, but I had a lot of fun
broncobuster
Banned
Zootopia's sloth trailer had my showing of Star Wars TFA cracking up. Silent during the film itself.
WhiteRabbitEXE
Member
Did you never see Force Awakens, or do you live in a weird land where people don't have hands?
Five times, three different theatres, across two months, and there was cheering throughout every single showing.
Primethius
Banned
Personally the movies too long as it is. It being longer won't really fix most of my issues with it.
rootbeerafloat
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The biggest reaction I've ever heard from a theater audience was when Yoda pulled out his little laser sword. =(
Intheflorsh
Banned
The critics were right. 
I don't think it will radically change the fundamental problems with the movie, no. Those go too deep.
What it may help is to smooth out is the pacing and jarring editing of some scenes. It may even flesh out some of the rather jumbled plot, but I can't see it being any less of a bloated and bungled mess with those additions. It may even be worse because the runtime was already too much.
Afro Samurai
Banned
I remember, the theatre was roaring with laughter by the sloth in Zootopia trailer.
PhoncipleBone
Banned
Unless there is a major re-edit of the film, no. It will just be more scenes in a disjointed mess, or longer ones.
All the pieces are there for the film to actually work, they are just assembled together very poorly.
Completely and utterly destroyed his character.. but yeah, people ate that shit up.
RBelong2Us
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It'll get a good OW then fall haRd. I mean do people that even like it want to do repeat viewings? Lol
Talladega Knight
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Standing ovation in my theater last night. I loved the film. Affleck was the bomb as Batman yo.
roflwaffles
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Grace Randolph's review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KB-PQALppFQ
Have you ever disagreed with every sentence in a review before?
Have you ever disagreed with every sentence in a review before?
Bobby Roberts
Banned
Okay, this is two people now. And it seems really preposterous still.
Was it really a standing ovation, or were people clapping, and then standing up so they could get the fuck out of the theater?
Because that's not a standing ovation. That's just efficiency.
I can never take her seriously again, lol
WhiteRabbitEXE
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Molly Weasley killing Bellatrix and BB-8's thumbs-up lighter were by far the biggest reactions I've ever had in theaters. Deafening jubilation.
Skel1ingt0n
I can't *believe* these lazy developers keep making file sizes so damn large. Btw, how does technology work?
I fucking hated this film.
If Green Lantern is a 2. And The Dark Knight Rises is a 9 (my two extremes for super hero films), and Man of Steel sits squarely at a 5. Well, then I'd give this a 3.
Boring. Boring is the name of the game. For a movie with a title like Batman V Superman, talk about disappointment when the actual actio scene and fighting between them lasts all of about four minutes.
If Green Lantern is a 2. And The Dark Knight Rises is a 9 (my two extremes for super hero films), and Man of Steel sits squarely at a 5. Well, then I'd give this a 3.
Boring. Boring is the name of the game. For a movie with a title like Batman V Superman, talk about disappointment when the actual actio scene and fighting between them lasts all of about four minutes.
*points at her Guardians of the Galaxy review*
Yup, she typically goes against the grain.
PhoncipleBone
Banned
And Bellatrix dying was so much more satisfying in the book too. That moment and "Not my daughter, you bitch!" seemed wasted in the film.
You know they were throwing bouquets of flowers at the screen after the film ended Bobby. Maybe had some zippo lighter action going hoping for an after-credits encore scene.
Talladega Knight
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it was a standing ovation. most people stayed in their seats thinking there was a stinger at the end.
PhoncipleBone
Banned
But if they stayed I their seats, how did they stand for the ovation?
Bobby Roberts
Banned
That's ridiculous as hell.
How many people were at this screening? 200 or so? 300?
300 people were so moved by Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice that the credits began to roll and they all, in unison, stood up and cheered/clapped for a sustained 10-20 seconds?
That's fucking nuts, man.
Did you join in?
I might have joined in, if I were in that position.
I wouldn't want someone to notice I hadn't left my seat.
Point at me like
CaviarMeths
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The voice and 60% of the screen being obscured by useless shit ended that review for me before she even started. I'll never know what she thought of the movie because after a minute and a half, she still hadn't started talking about the movie yet.
You know watching the Angry Joe Spoiler review... It really seems like maybe they should have gone the Marvel route and did solo movies before just bringing everyone together. Sometimes trying to be different isn't always the best thing.
What did she say in that review?
What did she say in that review?
crazyrabbits
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'Murica.
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