The Last Jedi How was your crowd?

[Grootster]

Less enthusiastic than TFA. People got excited when [BLACKOUT]BB-8 piloted the walker and when the guard got stabbed in the face...and maybe a little when Yoda appeared.[/BLACKOUT] There was a little applause at the end, but not as strong as TFA.

 

[flickchick85]

As for my crowds in the two screenings I attended, they were both pretty much the same - laughed at most of the jokes, cheered at a couple of spots ([blackout]Kylo lightsabering that guard in the face, Luke's Force projection reveal, Holdo lightspeeding through the Supremacy[/blackout]), and applauded at the end. Both groups applauded when Carrie Fisher's tribute came up too, which was lovely. I will say my first crowd with TFA seemed to be a bit livelier overall, though. There were more kids there that time. My first show for TLJ was a 10:30pm show, which probably had something to do with that.

 

[StormC]

Oh yeah, I forgot, there was definitely awed silence when [BLACKOUT]Holdo Kamikazed the First Order.[/BLACKOUT]

No moviegoing experience will ever top seeing the Avengers, though. Audiences must have applauded ~10 different times during it.

 

[flickchick85]

Yeah, Avengers was my best ever theater crowd too. It helped that I was at one of those advance fan screenings so we were all REALLY excited to be there, lol.

 

[C. Lee]

No moviegoing experience will ever top seeing the Avengers, though. Audiences must have applauded ~10 different times during it.

Yeah, Avengers was my best ever theater crowd too. It helped that I was at one of those advance fan screenings so we were all REALLY excited to be there, lol.

That was my last crowd reaction like this one too.

 

[writer0327]

My crowd was quiet and subdued.

There was general applause here and there, and applause at the end.

 

[KillerMcQueen]

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???"

I think another thing is that people tend to want to imprint their own opinions onto the audience, if you're really enjoying a movie, then you may end up interpreting out of context or hard to understand talking/sounds from the audience as expressing their excitement, if you don't like it, you'll see it as them criticising the film. Silent audiences have the same issue, if you loved it, then the audience was too riveted to speak, if you disliked it, then they were uncomfortable and awkward, wanted to get out, and anyone taking a bathroom break gets seen as someone walking out on the movie. People see what they want to see in audiences sometimes.

 

[flickchick85]

I think another thing is that people tend to want to imprint their own opinions onto the audience, if you're really enjoying a movie, then you may end up interpreting out of context or hard to understand talking/sounds from the audience as expressing their excitement, if you don't like it, you'll see it as them criticising the film. Silent audiences have the same issue, if you loved it, then the audience was too riveted to speak, if you disliked it, then they were uncomfortable and awkward, wanted to get out, and anyone taking a bathroom break gets seen as someone walking out on the movie. People see what they want to see in audiences sometimes.

Yeah, I think there's definitely some truth to that too.

 

[StormC]

Yeah, Avengers was my best ever theater crowd too. It helped that I was at one of those advance fan screenings so we were all REALLY excited to be there, lol.

I was at the world premiere of Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection F. The audience was diehard fans and the cast/crew of the movie, so that too was a film with an incredible audience. It’s just shorter than Avengers so I don’t remember as much applause, lol.

 

[Leenie]

The best movie theater experience for me ever was The Dark Knight, at the midnight screening. Hands down.

Went to a huge theater that night; the tickets had sold out, so it was a fully packed house. I've never experienced an audience so immersed into what was happening on the screen like that. Gasps and cheers throughout the entire film. It was crazy and awesome.

 

[NewYorkSpider]

My theater was packed. Probably the most of seen for a movie that I've went to. Unfortunately, I had an impatient kid behind me and a father who couldn't sit still. Even spilled his drink. Thankfully it didn't ruin my experience

The Infinity War trailer has people talking.

Crowd laughed at most of the jokes.

 

[StormC]

Unfortunately there was no real response to the Infinity War trailer. That disappointed me. Even the Incredibles II trailer got more acknowledgment.

 

[GREEN =w= DAY]

Lots of people but not much applause when it ended

Overheard a good number of people outside the theater voicing their displeasure

 

[danoyse]

I saw the noon show today at the Dolby theater, and it was sold out. There was a little girl in a full Rey costume sitting next to us, and a little boy in our row brought his BB-8 plush doll. The kids seemed to be digging the movie.

Most importantly, my folks loved it.

I'm taking my nephews to the movies tomorrow so his folks can wrap their Christmas presents, and we're seeing....Coco. We considered taking them to SW, but we're holding off until everyone's off next week because my sister is convinced the kids will give away the entire movie before they get a chance to see it.

 

[AvengerPA]

I think my theater was 95% full. The audience was completely quiet throughout the movie. The Infinity War trailer looked great. Thanos looks really good on the big screen.

 

[danoyse]

Another thing at our show today - people were taking pictures of the Carrie Fisher tribute in the end credits. Saw a bunch of flashes going off from their phones.

 

[baerrtt]

Here in the UK the crowd was subdued...to be honest in all my years of cinema going the only blockbuster I've seen audiences VOCALLY react to akin to American audiences is Titanic.

 

[Asharad]

The crowd was quiet, as it should always be. I hate people making noise in the theater. Silence your phone, zip your lips, and sit on your hands. Thank you.

 

[j0ke5ta]

Audience opening night was great per usual. Lots of cheering and laughing at the comedic moments in the film. Seemed like everything was going well until two parts of the film.

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Rey's lineage reveal seemed to upset many in the theater.
Heard a few WTF in the crowd, but people seemed to move on. The biggest was the ending when the crowd felt like it turned on the film.

When Luke pulls the force projection and everyone thinks he's doing the Obi Wan sacrificing himself to be cut down. Then the reveal he's not there had everyone cheering that he had tricked Kylo.

Then the force ghost moment happened and pulled the rug out from the entire theater who thought Luke was going to be around to 9.

The second he became the force ghost you could feel the air come out of the theater. Cheering stopped and I heard a ton of complaints and people who were just outright angry. Some even just got up and left.

 

[Mandon Knight]

Saw last night, a mixed audience of fan base, families and mixed age (i.e. old school, first trilogy watchers through to younglings who are brand new to this new trilogy).

Massive excitement for that theme and the crawl and good reactions at key moments that you'd expect but not the vocal and feeling that TFA brought about in my view.

Clapping at the end, but not many stayed to watch credits. Which I ALWAYS stay for, for any film I see at the cinema.

 

[Elayis]

My crowd loved it. Lot of cheers at the expected moments, and both the opening and end credits got applause (I went to the 6pm fan event on opening night).

I'm not a big fan of that sort of thing, but at least it was less obnoxious than other screenings I've gone to.

 

[Havok83]

Friggin annoying. Clapping and being loud

 

[The Shape]

My crowd farted in unison during the opening crawl.