{{Angus}}

Don't be ill. Enough people in my life are doing that already.

Healthma for Angus.

Angus, you have to be certain to come to the F2F. Everybody knows how wholesome and healthful Los Angeles is.

Heh, jimi, that one probably falls under the "Rocky Horror" clause.

Rocky Horror Clause...

Like Santa but with fishnets and presents for the grownups.

Non-illness vibes to Angus.

My thinking on the cheering front is that there are movie theatres and then there are movie theatres, in the US. If I go to see something in a stadium-seating gigaplex, it's probably an Event Movie, and resultingly the audience will be attuned to the eventness of the movie (and probably screaming fanpeople to boot). Thus the whole audience whips itself up in enthusiasm for the event, and the response is tantamount to a rousing speech at a political rally. I mean, everyone there probably does think alike, as at a rally, but the alike-thinking is Wolverine is really hot or That was so cool rather than The rich deserve tax breaks or some such rot.

If I go to a film at a smaller venue and/or in a less-crowded film-house, the audience is far less likely to cheer anything.

And I have to say, even though I hated the special edition changes to Star Wars, when the new print first rolled and the Imperial ship came onto the screen, I was as excited as everyone else there, not least because I was among other excited people. Our roaring was as much an affirmation of our communal geekery as it was affirmation for anything on the screen.

I can't recall any specific incidents of cheering, despite the fact that unlike Nutty, I don't venture to the art house sorts of theaters. I'm generally at the multi-plex type. Still, I don't see too many films these days, and with the exception of the (sorry Angus, don't want to increase your ooginess) LoTR films, the ones I do see don't tend to be biggies.

Angus, all tolkidding aside, I wish you wellness.

edited to make a wee bit more sense.

YgigaplexMV. Maybe it's the fact that the gigas are 90% of the movies around here, so I'm not just there for big event movies, but I see very little hootin' and hollerin' in them. For that, we have midnight Barbarella showings at the Drive-in.

Well, speaking for myself I certainly don't think there's anything wrong with cheering and hollering, Nutty; it's just interesting that Aus./UK audiences don't seem to do it, even at Nuremberg rallies event movies.

I can't remember any Israeli audience cheering or hollering in a movie, and the Israelis are known as people who express their emotions easily and quickly. I'm not sure why - maybe it's fear of the exposure of the inner geek a cheering may lead to, I don't know.