The Last Jedi How was your crowd?

[spiderman2]

So I am just wondering how was ever ones crowd during the movie when they saw the movie? I went last night opening night and it was a lot of fun. Me and my friend saw it in imax and we where there early and there as like 10 people dressed up and in some pretty good costumes including a really good Kylo who was a really big person has we was much taller then me and much taller then my like 6 foot 1 friend me I am like 5 foot 9. Also they had a r2d2 robot that played music and said played some of the things that where said in the older movies and even did that funny r2d2 sound. I was not expecting to see so many people dressed up though there may be a few but there where more then I had seen in the past. During the movie there where a few times where the crowed clapped and laughed. The luck part when he was fighting Kylo and then you found out he wasn't really there got a lot of clapping and the part where chewy was trying to eat got a lot of laughs.

 

[Clark-Kent]

There were a lot of laughs from when Chewie was piloting, but otherwise kind of low energy for a SW flick.

 

[C. Lee]

Saw it Thursday night....and it was the liveliest crowd I've been with in years. There was laughter, cheering and clapping throughout.

 

[danoyse]

Mine too. Big cheers for the Rey/Kylo teamup, and Luke taking on the First Order. Lots of laughs too, especially for Chewie when the porgs caught him trying to eat, and they loved anything BB-8 did.

Applause for the Carrie Fisher tribute at the end, too.

 

[Drizzle]

My crowd had a lot less energy than The Force Awakens, but it was a much darker film after all. There were cheers for:

[BLACKOUT]- The opening crawl

- Yoda's appearance

- Kylo Ren killing Snoke and the following fight against his guards

- Luke vs. the First Order[/BLACKOUT]

 

[Clark-Kent]

Saw it at noon instead of night, probably less enthusiastic crowds than those in night time fun mode anyway lol

 

[Clark-Kent]

My crowd had a lot less energy than The Force Awakens, but it was a much darker film after all. There were cheers for:

[BLACKOUT]- The opening crawl

- Yoda's appearance

- Kylo Ren killing Snoke and the following fight against his guards

- Luke vs. the First Order[/BLACKOUT]

Chewie piloting gags were getting some laughs at my theater.

 

[CaptainWagner]

The crowd was pretty receptive, laughed at the jokes. My area isn't big on cheering or clapping, but there was applause for one part: [BLACKOUT]Kylo killing the final guard[/BLACKOUT] That got a ton of audible excitement.

 

[SomeOldGuy]

Saw it Thursday night....and it was the liveliest crowd I've been with in years. There was laughter, cheering and clapping throughout.

This was my crowd as well. Biggest reaction was

Spoiler

Snoke getting chopped in half.

All the jokes seemed to land, plenty of applause at the end.

 

[OutOfBoose]

Dead. Not a single grasp or laugh.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

It was about 35% full, nearly all adults yesterday afternoon. It was mostly dead quiet except for a couple in the row behind us that talked now and then about inane non-movie stuff some of the time. There was a guy down the aisle to my left who was shocked about what Luke did to the lightsaber when he took it. I quietly chuckled a couple of times during the movie myself.

 

[Mjölnir]

My crowd was pretty average. There were some laughter at jokes but no audible reactions apart from that. No reaction when the film was over.

I'm pretty happy with people not choosing to make me have to be taken out of a movie to be aware of them through cheering or clapping during a film though. Laughter is a spontaneous reaction but the rest is just people deliberately seeking attention or taking up space (edit: well, also excluding gasps of chock or screams of fear).

 

[harlequinade]

Very few laughs and lots of people checking the time on a watch/phone

 

[titansupes]

I've noticed this trend for the last couple of years--

If a poster loved the movie-- The crowd was loving it! Cheering, clapping!
If a poster hated the movie-- The crowd was hating it. People walked out.

Interesting, that...

 

[harlequinade]

I've noticed this trend for the last couple of years--

If a poster loved the movie-- The crowd was loving it! Cheering, clapping!
If a poster hated the movie-- The crowd was hating it. People walked out.

Interesting, that...

LOL yeah I am totally lying sure. People were straight up levitating from their chairs they were in such ecstasy over this masterpiece.

 

[titansupes]

LOL yeah I am totally lying sure. People were straight up levitating from their chairs they were in such ecstasy over this masterpiece.

I didn't like the movie either. But the trend is there and noticeable from both positive and negative sides for every movie on these boards.

 

[Brem]

When we went on Thursday, we had a slightly larger crowd than Friday. We got plenty of laughs on the Thursday, barely any laughs the Friday.

I'd have honestly preferred Thursdays crowd on the Friday. I enjoyed my second viewing more, but the crowd was very dull.

 

[Leenie]

The crowd was pretty dead in the screening I went to last night. They reacted to the Porgs at first, and there were very modest "oohs" and "ahhs" when [blackout]Rey and Kilo teamed up (which actually DID look cool, to be fair)[/blackout]. No loud cheering or clapping at anything though.

To be fair, I did go to a very late screening, so I imagine people were literally very tired. Didn't get out of the theater until 2am.

 

[The Shape]

I've noticed this trend for the last couple of years--

If a poster loved the movie-- The crowd was loving it! Cheering, clapping!
If a poster hated the movie-- The crowd was hating it. People walked out.

Interesting, that...

Very true, and I love how extreme the reactions seem to be based on how the poster felt about the movie.

"I've never felt such energy from a crowd before! At one point, several audience members ripped their clothes off and began running laps around the theater while humming the Star Wars theme. Soon enough, the entire crown joined in. The person jogging behind me even offered me some Ecstasy!"

"Dead. Empty. Devoid of any palpable energy. Honestly couldn't even hear anyone in the audience breathing. The film was so boring and the crowd was so unbelievably quiet that all I could hear was the hum of the theater's AC/heat system droning on. I could barely even feel or hear my own heartbeat, honestly. On the way out, I heard another audience member say that they never want to see another movie in theaters again, ever."

 

[Galactus123]

Mostly silent like it should be. Laughs in funny scenes. I would be really annoyed if there was clapping and cheering.

 

[Longshot777]

Pretty packed and laughs on jokes and applause at the end.

It was a Friday morning and lots of KIDS were there!!!

Really!!!! I love Star Wars but really to take my kids out of school just to see it is ridiculous!!

I can take my kids on weekends and if it's all booked then they just have to wait. But cmon parents!!! To call a sick day for your kids and miss school for SW is obsessiveness in the worst way.

 

[C. Lee]

Anyone who has spent any time reading what I post will know one thing....I do not lie. I do not spend my time every day playing up a movie or attacking one. I don't have sides in any of the petty little squabbles that are all over the Hype. If I like a movie I say that....If I don't like it I say that. If something happened t my theater, I will say that, whether it makes it look good or bad....I say what happened.

I have been to just about all of the big movies that came out this year.....and the crowd response at TLJ was the most enthusiastic and pleasant one I have been to in years. Take it or leave it.

 

[Reaver027]

With TFA and RO there was a lot of cheering at the end and even sometimes within the movies. The crowd at the TLJ midnight premier was dead silent at the end. There were the occasional laughs but most jokes did not land. For a Star Wars midnight premiere it was nothing i have witnessed before. It was really bad.

 

[StormC]

People who thumb their nose at audiences getting excited during a movie are not people I want to see movies with.

My crowd had a lot less energy than The Force Awakens, but it was a much darker film after all. There were cheers for:

[BLACKOUT]- The opening crawl

- Yoda's appearance

- Kylo Ren killing Snoke and the following fight against his guards

- Luke vs. the First Order[/BLACKOUT]

Yep, all of these + the credits and Carrie Fisher's In Memoriam.

The Porgs got big laughs from my audience.

And finally, audible gasps for [BLACKOUT]Luke's death.[/BLACKOUT]

 

[flickchick85]

I've noticed this trend for the last couple of years--

If a poster loved the movie-- The crowd was loving it! Cheering, clapping!
If a poster hated the movie-- The crowd was hating it. People walked out.

Interesting, that...

True, but there's also a less cynical way of looking it that - that the crowd reception has an affect on people's enjoyment. You know, I loved Sin City when I first saw it, because the crowd I saw it with was absolutely nuts. They were like ancient Romans at a gladiator match, lol. Cut to me watching it at home on DVD and thinking, "why the hell did I like this movie???"