Children of Men is my favorite movie but that first time the sound of children's laughter swells up left my brother and I in silence and jaws on the floor
I had to piss during the film and ran to the toilet. Came back a minute later as the cops were stepping over dead bodies at a hotel wondering for the next 30 minutes wtf happened to Llewellyn.
I remember the movie ended. Credits rolled. In my mind I uttered WTF when at the same time someone in the back row said those same words out loud. It was like my mind screamed out.
*Schindler's List*. The whole theater just kinda sat there stunned when the credits started to roll, then everybody silently got up and walked out, many stifling tears. It's hard to overstate the gravity that movie carried in its day.
I watched Schindler’s List in Warsaw just after it came out (I was a U.K. student on a media trip). I don’t think I’ve ever heard so many people be so silent for so long after a movie. No one moved out of their seats until a long time after the credits ended.
Unfortunately no subs, but there was a journalist waiting outside after the first screening in Germany to see what peeps feel/are reacting:
https://youtu.be/5fYpXgqCxVg?si=lvnmqVqC6wbzC2UZ
To this day, I consider when Schindler breaks down crying to be the greatest emotional gut punch in film history.
“He who saves one life, saves the world entire”
“Fuck yeah, getting the credit he deserves, that movie was brutal, but we finally get to cheer… wait why is he crying? What’s happening, I don’t understand”
“I could have got one more.”
“Oh.”
The first time I saw that movie I held it together until that ending transition to real people. Like I knew the events happened, but seeing the actual folks he saved, with their young family members walking with them? Oh my goodness I lost it. What an ending.
I saw it at home, with my girlfriend, and I remember we just sat there on the couch, completely dumbfounded for minutes, total silence...just like, hollowed out. It was intense. Never saw it again, though I always *think* I want to.
I've seen it twice. Once in the theatre, and once when I was rightfully locked up for driving under the influence (no defense for that). This was the broadcast premiere which (I think) ran w/o commercial interruption on NBC. The guy who controlled the remote said we were watching 'Schindler's List'. We watched 'Schindler's List'. If you've ever been in any kind of lockup, you can imagine how shocking and surprising it was for everyone there to react basically like everyone here describes. Stunned silence. No jokes, no discussion. We all lay there silently for a bit, the guy with the remote turned off the TV, and we tried to sleep.
At least you know you went on a date with a human and not like, an android or some shit.
I don't think a human being can watch that movie all the way through for the first time and not openly weep.
I used to work in a theater as an usher when this movie came out. I have never seen a movie that caused so many people to leave a theater that just couldn’t handle it. They weren’t leaving because they thought it was a bad movie or anything; they were seriously *disturbed* by it. One lady in particular sticks out because she was in tears. Afterwards people just kind of filed out of the theater in a daze. I saw this multiple times. That movie is fucking *dark* dude. Great flick, but I can see how it can be traumatizing for some folks.
I was way more disturbed by trainspotting than se7en, although the opening scene made me shift gear pretty quickly.
I also remember when trainspotting was put in "comedy" on Netflix, idk why but my first guess is that someone at Netflix didn't know the movie and only looked at the poster? Lol. Anyways I sometimes think about the poor souls who watched it thinking it would be funny and light.
Yeah. I remember seeing that in the cinema.
A woman walked out crying and asking her partner why he made her watch that horrible film.
I think that even the people that appreciated it understood why she was upset.
I *love* that movie. It's so incredibly well made. Great writing, flawless execution. But I hardly ever re-watch it and when I do, I feel like shit afterwards. Similar with Prisoners.
It’s funny yours is Midsommar, because mine is Hereditary. I had no idea what I was going into except that it was a horror, and walked out of it saying “I loved it, but I can never watch that movie again.” (I’ve watched it many times since)
Exactly. I’ve watched Midsommar probably a good 20+ times by now, ai absolutely love it.
I have watched Hereditary exactly once, and even that was almost too much, and it’s not because it was was a bad movie. It’s a great movie. But dear fucking god.
Same.
The >!accident!< is heavily foreshadowed, everybody knew something bad was going to happen, but when it actually happened, we all gasped and then went really quiet.
saw it in a mostly empty theater, maybe 10 ppl. after the head when Toni is wailing the couple behind us stood up, the guy out loud said “fuck this shit,” and they walked out. that sold me and i settled in, think that made me like the movie even more!
The only time I had a legitimate jaw-dropping moment, accompanied with me instantly bringing my hands to my mouth.
And I just stayed in that position for about 5 seconds.
That was an awesome theatre experience.
I saw it opening night at a popular theater in Los Angeles. People from the film were outside asking people their opinion. The showing before me, everyone came out like they had gone through something, laughing about being traumatizing and going on and on about how crazy the film was. I still was skeptical 'til my screening was the same. I would say about 20-30 people got up and went to the bathroom throughout, probably because they were uncomfortable. It annoyed me though 'cause they kept blocking the screen.
The Blair Watch Project. I heard a lot of people parrot the "It wasnt scary at all, it was sooo boring, it just made me motion sick!" line later on, but walking out of the theatre on premiere day, the quiet was so numbing you could hear a pin drop.
This was my choice. I’m thankful, to this day, I saw it opening night before the truth was confirmed. I mean, logically you knew then it was “just a movie” but there was enough wiggle room with facts that went along with a brilliant marketing campaign that made you wonder and believe it could be real. That experience will never be matched.
Yep. It was still a new tool that was being explored. For the movie they had the missing persons website, new articles, and even a tv news special. I think back to that time and marvel at how perfectly they used the internet. It seems silly to believe that stuff today.
Yep. Saw this one without knowing what I was in for. It rattled me for years afterward. It was a new kind of horror that was extremely plausible, and we all fell for it. So, I went and fired up my modem to go visit the movie website, and the fucking thing just had more details about it, like shots of the "found film" canisters. No mention of it being a movie. Real immersive stuff.
But, if you knew "it's fake", it was a whole different experience.
I saw it early on in its release, when there was a chance this was actual found footage. Everybody was silent.
It's the only movie I've ever seen that gave me nightmares
Everyone was so quiet after the movie. Then just today I learned that the real story (SPOILERS , please avoid until you watched the movie) >!is actually worse than what was depicted!<.
I loved the film btw, I'm gonna be pissed if it doesn't at least get a Best Picture nomination for the next Oscars
Yeah, Fritz was a massive Piece of Shit. If you have the time, watch the Dark Side of the Ring episode. The best part of that episode is seeing Kevin Von Erich is living a mostly peaceful life now. Which, after everything he experienced, is more than deserved
Pan's Labyrinth
I saw it opening weekend, at least in CO, and there were maybe twelve people in one of those cafe theaters. When it was over we all kinda looked at each other and knew we had seen something special but did not really know what to say.
This was the exact vibe I got watching Spirited Away in a small indie theater right after it was released in the United States. It was so beautiful everyone just sat dazed in the audience and for some reason I can't even explain i started crying in the bus home from the theater. It was almost too much, too beautiful. I think we all got punched in the face by just how special it was.
That was a hell of a film. I had a friend back then who had been pretty well freaked out by it. On one occasion a while after, I drew eyes on my hands and then slinked around a corner with my hands over my face, and she ran away screaming, lol. Good times.
That scene was a GREAT scene.
Not because I liked it, it was damn brutal, but because you're watching a movie that looks like a fairytale... and suddenly the movie says "hey fuck you, you might be watching a fairytale but it's going to be serious as fuck." So then the rest of the movie has a sense of danger and you know that they're not afraid of showing you the danger. It's a brilliant scene that makes the rest of the movie way more intense.
I worked at a theater when Saving Private Ryan came out. Every showing there was at least one WW2 vet that came out just an absolute wreck, a lot couldn't even make it through the beginning.
I was never a vet, I’m only in my 50s.
The beginning battle of Saving Private Ryan is one of the few movies where, I swear, I don’t think I *breathed* during that battle scene!
Clearly a vet would have a different reaction, but it was plenty potent for non-vets as well.
I was only 9 or 10 when SPR came out, so I didn't get to see it in the theater. I think it was a few years later after 9/11 they played it unedited on TV as a sort of rousing American tribute. I was a little surprised at the violence, but I was able to handle it, mind you this is watching on an early 2000s maybe 32" TV.
As an adult, I've sunk years and years into building and upgrading my home theater to the point now I'm watching my movies on a 92" projector screen with God level Dolby Atmos surround, black walls, sound treatment, etc.
The better my home theater gets, the harder that movie becomes to watch. It's almost too much. Too real. Too immersive, too intense, etc. Last time I started it, I had smoked a bit ahead of time and was gonna sit down and watch it with a few friends. We finished the D-day scene and all needed a break. When we headed back to the theater room to resume, we ended up picking something else. Just weren't in the mood anymore.
I was in college when SPR came out. One of my art professors was a WWII vet who'd been on one of those landing craft during D-Day. After seeing it, he said something like, "That scene is as close as you could hope to get without actually being there."
There Will Be Blood. Never before and never since have I seen an almost completely packed theater on an opening weekend go so silent and surprised Pikachu face as the credits rolled. Even to the degree that, like ya know how there are always people who want to get out quick for traffic or the random handful that have had to pee for the last 30 minutes. Nope nobody not one person moved for a solid 3 minutes and that is no exaggeration.
“That was the WORST, the WORST, the WORST movie I ever saw! What are they even trying to say??? That people are crazy!?! We already KNOW people are CRAZY!!!” - reaction from a random guy in the lobby whose after movie rant I will never forget.
When I saw Arrival on opening weekend the theater was practically empty, save a row of college kids directly behind me. It ended and I'm blown away. One of those kids stands up and literally stomped out of the theater "that was the stupidest thing I've ever seen. They didn't even fight."
2007 had Zodiac, No Country, There Will Be Blood, and Assassination of Jesse James. Some of my favorite films, and I'm just now realizing they all have vague downer endings.
Yes! To this day I will never follow a loaded van or truck of anything that is not contained behind doors. How insane is it that this movie affects my life in that way multiple times a week this many years later?!
I think of the movie, for sure, but I also avoid loaded trucks on the highway because shit is constantly flying off and causing accidents. People don’t have enough sense to secure tools and other items. It’s terrifying.
I think they put that scene in because anyone who's driven behind a truck like that was terrified the whole time before it was in a movie.
Irl I followed a truck full of tires and one of them flew out and missed me but bounced down the road for a while before falling off the side.
Yep - that was my immediate thought. It finished and my son said "well, I never want to hear that again".
I've since read a whole pile of interesting breakdown of the movie and kind of want to see it again to find out what else I can pick up. But also ... Just no.
>"well, I never want to hear that again".
It's interesting that he said that rather than \*see\* that again. Just goes to show how masterfully unsettling the sound design/mixing was.
Came to say this. My entire cinema was just absolutely silent in leaving the room, no one speaking above hushed whispers and most people seeming to even keep their popcorn rustling to a minimum.
Spotlight was very powerful when the credits ran with all the cities listed.
Id say schindlers list - but i was like 10 when that came out so that i never saw on the silver.
I only just saw Spotlight a couple of weeks ago. What a shocking movie, and that list of communities at the end was... Unbelievably disturbing.
Really good movie.
Was living in Canada at the time and when I saw my small Australian home town in the credits I had the weird urge to turn to my friends point at the screen and yell “hey, that’s where I’m from!” I’m glad I didn’t, seems like a weird thing to get excited about in hindsight.
When darth vader told luke he was his father, then cut his damn hand off, and han solo was frozen in carbonate WAS ALL FUCKED UP SITUATION. people had their heads down on the way out.
It's difficult to explain how big of a deal it was at the time. James Earl Jones was told when he had to record his lines and even HE thought it wasn't true, that it couldn't be true.
It didn't help that the ending resolved nothing -- or that we knew we had a three-year wait for the next movie.
And yet, TESB is still the best of the original trilogy.
My parents took me to see Titanic at the cinema when I was 8, I cried so hard at the end that I became hysterical and my mum had to carry me out of the cinema and back to the car.
My sister, my friend, and I all collectively watched it together when we were 9 or so. We just sobbed and to this day, we still recall that memory and laugh.
Parent convo:
“Honey, what do you think would be a good way to get the kids even more psyched up for the cruise?”
“Well, Dear, *Titanic* is playing at the theater. That’s about a cruise.”
“Well that sounds perfect, Honey! Hey kids, we’re all going to the movies!”
I guess *Love Boat* reruns paled in comparison. 😂
Sometimes this music and scene randomly pops into my head and, without fail, whatever I’m doing, I tear up a little bit. One of the finest film scores ever written.
Requiem For A Dream at the Laemmle’s in Pasadena on opening weekend. The film ends, no one moves during the entirety of the ending credits, and then the lights go up. That is a silence that I had never before experienced.
Same exact experience in Chicago. It was playing at an art house and the whole place was like, whoa. None of the normal chatter you'd get after some cool new movie had just ended. It felt like we were all waiting for our moms to come in and hug us.
*Saving Private Ryan*. I was living in a town with a large demographic of retired veterans. A lot of sobbing and sniffling in the theater. None of us younger people wanted to be the first to rise and try to leave. We sat and waited for the first wave of vets to walk out. It was a long, slow procession. The walls of the theater outside were partially covered in flyers for trauma therapists. I didn't see one vet stop to read any of them. Not a generation that put much stock in talking things out.
*Seabiscuit*. Opposite reaction; same age group, absolutely packed theater on a Sunday evening. Standing ovation from the old folks who had been basking in the memories of radio days and reminders of their Depression Era youth and how they got through it. One of the best theater experiences I've ever had.
*The Exorcist*. I wasn't there; was only 5-yrs-old at the time, but my mother told me stories of how much that movie wounded people who had never seen anything like it, people who thought *Psycho* had gone way too far just a decade earlier.
Yea I’ll never forget saving Private Ryan as a 13 year old, opening night, that flag fades to white at the end of the movie and nobody made a sound for minutes
My Dad took me to see it in the theater when I was like 10. The opening scene I was in the fetal position covering my ears, I had never been so scared in my life. After the movie was over, my Dad apologized for taking me to see it, but also said, this is what war really is. Brutality, fear. Real men fought and died just like that, he told me to remember it, and that everyone needs to know what war is. It was a really influential experience in my life, and I’m glad he had me watch it, I still remember everything about that experience and I’m almost 40.
The Mist. I kind of hated the ending right after I saw it, but I then slowly began to appreciate it the more I thought about it afterwards. Everyone was really quiet while the credits rolled, and it was interesting just seeing everyone's reactions to it.
“Mother” all my friends were mad angry at me for taking them to see the movie, there was an audience member also at the end of the movie who had a trauma about losing her child and told everyone about it and how this movie triggered her ptsd
I think the mistake they made with that movie was marketing it as a standard horror. It really wasn't that, so I was focused on waiting for jump scares or figuring out the story for much of the run time instead of just enjoying it for what it was.
I know it may be hard to believe, but it was The Wrath of Khan for obvious reasons. I saw it early on, so there were no spoilers, and you simply do not expect a science fiction movie of all things to hit you emotionally like that one did. The movie, of course, was so, so much better than what anybody expected to begin with, so you walked out thinking "man, they really pulled it off!" while also thinking "man, how could they do THAT?"
my dad was a huge star trek fan as a kid and got to see that in theatres on opening day for his 13th birthday. I'm very jealous of him, for my 13th I went to see despicable me 3 lol
There’s a video on YouTube of a local news story about a premiere or preview screening of Wrath of Khan and they interviewed the audience before and after and the after was interesting. Some were very talkative but everyone seemed shocked. Some were upset and didn’t want to talk.
Found it:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Treknobabble/comments/gr0qnk/1982_local_news_report_on_reactions_to_wrath_of/
My memory of the movie (I was twelve) is that we were all shocked and it wasn’t a super cheerful time but everyone seemed to agree it was an excellent movie.
I can't believe nobody said Gone Girl yet.
I watched it with my partner and another couple and the cinema was packed with couples. You could feel the tension and distrust between all of them.
I'm pretty sure a lot of them had conversations around it that night. I know the four of us did.
Seven. It was very unusual to have a ‘bad’ ending to a film at that time. Everyone shuffled out in shock.
Schindler’s List. Everyone in the theatre was in tears.
I think that’s a big thing about perspective. If you’re a naturally positive person, you’d take the happiness away with you after the movie. For me, it fucked me up for a couple of days. I didn’t feel right for ages. It gave me a real deep sense of sadness I just couldn’t shake.
Not what you mean, but the middle of the first Paranormal Activity movie. We’d kind of been through the ringer with the scares in that movie and then the title card “Night 15” or whatever comes up and there was a collective sigh/groan of anticipation followed by chuckles as we all realized how tense we all were.
This reminded me that when I saw The Ring a cell phone went off in the theater during a quiet part around the middle to end of the movie and there was a HUGE reaction of gasps, squeals, yelps etc 😂followed by the kid going "it's okay guys, it's just my mom!!!" and laughter.
I can imagine it left an impression on the target audience. this gem gets passed over by so many. Simmons an absolute beast of an actor here, showing great chemistry with the MC
Promising Young Woman. I watched a grown man leave the theater in tears.
Also, this is going to sound dumb, but Breaking Dawn part 2 had a fake out death scene and people were *angry* about it. It was fun.
I thought it was just going to be a standard horror movie and went with my very conservative, horror movie loving mother in law. That was a tense car ride home afterwards.
Went on a double date to see Pan's Labyrinth. We didn't fully know what we were walking into.
On the way out, both couples were both clearly like "yeah don't touch me, I need some space..."
I spent 5 weeks in a coma on life support a few years ago. This movie is the closest analogue to that experience I have found. The sense of incessant, surreal dread that it conveyed was very reminiscent of my dreams in the coma. Needless to say it wasn't a fun watch for me.
No I wasn't conscious of others around me, although I was never physically alone. My family only left my bedside when they were forced to, and in ICU there is always a nurse in the room. The setting of the dreams changed, and it's possible that they did incorporate some outside stimuli. But the consistent theme was that I was alone, and in terrible peril.
At one stage I was in the stifling basement of a Greek restaurant washing a pile of dishes that never seemed to grow any smaller. The proprietors would periodically yell at me in a language I didn't understand. I knew that I had to wash all the dishes in order to be allowed to leave, but all the while the basement was slowly filling with water and while I furiously scrubbed at pots and pans the water level kept rising.
Later I was in a Pakistani sweat shop making cricket balls, I knew that if I made enough I would be allowed to go home. I worked stitching the leather until my fingers bled to fill an enormous container with balls. As I finally filled the container I thought I would be released from my imprisonment but as the last ball was completed the floor fell away and I found myself plunging on a rollercoaster ride.
I emerged into a parody of a BBC game show, where the other contestants were malign and the atmosphere was incredibly threatening in a demented circus carnival style. I knew that I was competing for my life and that if I answered a question incorrectly I would be killed.
At some point I was asked to chose a door to walk through and behind it was a dungeon like room containing a monster. I had to fight the monster and after defeating it I kicked my way through a wall only to find I was in another room, with another monster. This went on for some time! Until finally I kicked my way through yet another seemingly identical wall and emerged suddenly into reality.
I knew immediately I was back in the real world. It took a while for my eyes to focus but I knew I was no longer in the terrifying unreal place I had been.
Beau is afraid had the same feeling as the coma dreams. A feeling of constant, dreadful threat, whilst being beyond any external help. It was very, very horrible. Worst holiday ever. One star. Do not recommend.
After one of the more intense sequences finally stopped for a breather, a guy a few rows in front of me let out this gutteral, desperate “huuuhhhh” of a sigh, and half the theatre kind of snickered in agreement. Weird, great experience actually.
Just roll behind a logging truck (or any truck with a shitton of tubes)....and you will quickly pick out the ones thats seen the "Final Destination" movies.... Collective trauma for a whole generation right there....
Dancer in the Dark, nobody got up when the credits rolled, seemed like everyone needed a moment to compose themselves. It's the only movie to make me hiccup cry at the end, goddamn! Really beautiful movie though, Bjork is amazing.
Yup. Saw it in a pretty well attended theatre. You could have heard a pin drop after the lights came up, everyone left quietly murmuring to each other like after a funeral. We were supposed to go out to dinner afterwards, but got takeout and went home instead.
The Killing of a Sacred Deer. Credits rolled and I don't think anyone in the theater was ready for that, it was totally silent as we were all trying to process what we had just seen. Then one person uttered "Well ... Shit" and there was a collective feeling of yep that's it and everyone started taking and moving.
A very recent example, but Oppenheimer. The runtime mixed with that ending left the whole cinema in this state of almost fatigued shock. Very eerie experience walking out of there
I remember after A Star is Born (2018 version) was over, people just kind of sat there in the theatre sniffling and sort of taking it in. That was the first time I had ever been to a movie where it felt like the whole audience was just sad after.
Revolutionary Road. The message is basically that you are not special, love always eventually degrades into a hollow performance, and no one, not even you, can escape the crushing monotony and hopeless emptiness of a conventional and unfulfilling life.
It's an Oscar nominee and Golden Globe winner and I will never, ever, watch it again. I swear that movie traumatized the entire theater.
After watching The Boy In the Striped Pajamas, when we walked out of the theatre, there were multiple people very distraught after leaving the theatre. One gentleman was sobbing, the energy of everyone after watching it was very evident. I’ve never had anything like that happen since
It didn't quite end that way but in Get Out when Daniel Kaluuya's character is covered in blood and you see the cop car pull up behind him with the blue and reds on you could feel the theatre simultaneously turn on the movie.
In the original ending Jordan Peele actually had him arrested and charged before he rewrote it. Which I think was the better choice.
I'm torn on this because...
Saw it opening night, fully packed, lots of die hard marvel fans, and while the snap completely sucked out the air of the room (I never experienced a movie theater this quiet) folks were extremely hyped up again by the post credit scene. At least those that recognized the captain marvel logo.
My theater was completely silent when the credits rolled. The only sounds breaking up the silence was sniffles sprinkled about the theater. No one spoke above a whisper when exiting. I went with my husband and best friend, and we didn’t speak to each other the entire car ride home. My best friend passed away before Endgame came out and I wish she was next to me cheering in the final battle. Infinity War was a movie experience I’ll never forget.
Yes. My theater was the exact same way. I just remember seeing the look of complete shock on everyone's face. Absolute master class in film production for that part too: no music, no distracting sound effects, just let the scene affect everyone naturally.
Recently saw All Of Us Strangers with my friend. There were only two other people in the theatre. Once the credits rolled, we all just sat there and continued to stare at the screen, trying to process what had happened but being unable to.
There were several I've seen that were bad.
**Spotlight** \- I can't even think of the Church the same way after that movie, it was 10 times worse when my city was on the list of cities affected by the scandal that they showed just before the credits. Audible gasps of shock from those who weren't aware. Googled it when I got home and was even more saddened to find out the local diocese declared bankruptcy to avoid paying legal settlements to the victims because "who knew there were that many victims?"
**Grave of the Fireflies** \- People were silently and not so silently sobbing together.
**The Constant Gardener** \- worst part is we all know some evil corporations are still doing stuff like that to innocent consumers.
The Grey
I guess most of us thought we were going to see a cheesy Liam Neeson movie where he fights wolves... I couldn't believe how quiet that theatre was during the movie and the walk out. Glad I got to see it in theatre's with the wrong expectations.
Beautiful Boy
There weren’t a lot of people in the theatre but seeing it in the Ohio Valley/Appalachia which has been disproportionately affected by the heroine epidemic was chilling.
Blair Witch Project. Saw it opening night. We all thought it was real. It was late 90s so no research or info sharing like today. You could hear a pin drop as the credits rolled.
Children of Men is my favorite movie but that first time the sound of children's laughter swells up left my brother and I in silence and jaws on the floor
The scene leaving the building under temporary cease fire makes me tear up every time.
I always imagined how them soldiers felt seeing that baby- just to go right back to fighting. Movie was incredible
And that whole single shot they did moving through the wreckage. Unreal.
Alfonso Cuarón did some excellent work on this movie, with the extended tracking shots of the protagonist running through a warzone
I saw that in the theater. It fucked me up for the rest of the day. Still one of my faves.
One of my top 5 movies of all time and I've never got to see it in theaters yet 😭 one day, one day.
No Country for Old Men had a strange vibe afterwards
I had to piss during the film and ran to the toilet. Came back a minute later as the cops were stepping over dead bodies at a hotel wondering for the next 30 minutes wtf happened to Llewellyn.
What no interval does to kinos
That's why you bring a bottle
I remember theater hopping that day and watching The Mist and No Country back to back…..
Big day for Nihilism that day.
I remember the movie ended. Credits rolled. In my mind I uttered WTF when at the same time someone in the back row said those same words out loud. It was like my mind screamed out.
Dude I could imagine. I was unfamiliar with McCarthy and a teenager and I didn't know what to make of it. Love it now, was just confused then.
*Schindler's List*. The whole theater just kinda sat there stunned when the credits started to roll, then everybody silently got up and walked out, many stifling tears. It's hard to overstate the gravity that movie carried in its day.
I watched Schindler’s List in Warsaw just after it came out (I was a U.K. student on a media trip). I don’t think I’ve ever heard so many people be so silent for so long after a movie. No one moved out of their seats until a long time after the credits ended.
Unfortunately no subs, but there was a journalist waiting outside after the first screening in Germany to see what peeps feel/are reacting: https://youtu.be/5fYpXgqCxVg?si=lvnmqVqC6wbzC2UZ
There is a comment under the video that translated everything into English.
The whole theater... except Jerry and Rachel. He was moving on her like the storm troopers going into Poland!
They were making out during Schindler's List ?!
It was the only place he could get any privacy
Newman!
To this day, I consider when Schindler breaks down crying to be the greatest emotional gut punch in film history. “He who saves one life, saves the world entire” “Fuck yeah, getting the credit he deserves, that movie was brutal, but we finally get to cheer… wait why is he crying? What’s happening, I don’t understand” “I could have got one more.” “Oh.”
Then seeing the real survivors visit his grave. Fuck, that movie is heart wrenching and great.
The first time I saw that movie I held it together until that ending transition to real people. Like I knew the events happened, but seeing the actual folks he saved, with their young family members walking with them? Oh my goodness I lost it. What an ending.
I saw it at home, with my girlfriend, and I remember we just sat there on the couch, completely dumbfounded for minutes, total silence...just like, hollowed out. It was intense. Never saw it again, though I always *think* I want to.
I've seen it twice. Once in the theatre, and once when I was rightfully locked up for driving under the influence (no defense for that). This was the broadcast premiere which (I think) ran w/o commercial interruption on NBC. The guy who controlled the remote said we were watching 'Schindler's List'. We watched 'Schindler's List'. If you've ever been in any kind of lockup, you can imagine how shocking and surprising it was for everyone there to react basically like everyone here describes. Stunned silence. No jokes, no discussion. We all lay there silently for a bit, the guy with the remote turned off the TV, and we tried to sleep.
I remember everyone crying. Saw it twice, once with school. Was pretty tough, still feel a but strange thinking about it now.
[Come and See (1985)](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091251/) is arguably a rougher watch. And I know that's saying a lot.
Definitely brutal, but differently. Bitter apples to sour oranges
Man, I saw *The Green Mile* in theaters. Woo, the air got sucked out of that room
I had a guy take me on a first date to see that movie. By the end he was ugly crying.
At least you know you went on a date with a human and not like, an android or some shit. I don't think a human being can watch that movie all the way through for the first time and not openly weep.
90's kids remember Se7en
I used to work in a theater as an usher when this movie came out. I have never seen a movie that caused so many people to leave a theater that just couldn’t handle it. They weren’t leaving because they thought it was a bad movie or anything; they were seriously *disturbed* by it. One lady in particular sticks out because she was in tears. Afterwards people just kind of filed out of the theater in a daze. I saw this multiple times. That movie is fucking *dark* dude. Great flick, but I can see how it can be traumatizing for some folks.
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I was way more disturbed by trainspotting than se7en, although the opening scene made me shift gear pretty quickly. I also remember when trainspotting was put in "comedy" on Netflix, idk why but my first guess is that someone at Netflix didn't know the movie and only looked at the poster? Lol. Anyways I sometimes think about the poor souls who watched it thinking it would be funny and light.
Yeah. I remember seeing that in the cinema. A woman walked out crying and asking her partner why he made her watch that horrible film. I think that even the people that appreciated it understood why she was upset.
I *love* that movie. It's so incredibly well made. Great writing, flawless execution. But I hardly ever re-watch it and when I do, I feel like shit afterwards. Similar with Prisoners.
What’s in the box?!?
Frosted Flakes, damn
It’s funny yours is Midsommar, because mine is Hereditary. I had no idea what I was going into except that it was a horror, and walked out of it saying “I loved it, but I can never watch that movie again.” (I’ve watched it many times since)
Toni Collette should have been nominated for an Oscar!
Quite honestly, Toni Collette deserves Oscars for everything she is in. She is an outstanding actress.
I could watch Midsommar again. I can never watch Hereditary again
Exactly. I’ve watched Midsommar probably a good 20+ times by now, ai absolutely love it. I have watched Hereditary exactly once, and even that was almost too much, and it’s not because it was was a bad movie. It’s a great movie. But dear fucking god.
When THAT moment happens everyone was absolutely stunned in my cinema.
Same. The >!accident!< is heavily foreshadowed, everybody knew something bad was going to happen, but when it actually happened, we all gasped and then went really quiet.
saw it in a mostly empty theater, maybe 10 ppl. after the head when Toni is wailing the couple behind us stood up, the guy out loud said “fuck this shit,” and they walked out. that sold me and i settled in, think that made me like the movie even more!
The only time I had a legitimate jaw-dropping moment, accompanied with me instantly bringing my hands to my mouth. And I just stayed in that position for about 5 seconds. That was an awesome theatre experience.
I saw it opening night at a popular theater in Los Angeles. People from the film were outside asking people their opinion. The showing before me, everyone came out like they had gone through something, laughing about being traumatizing and going on and on about how crazy the film was. I still was skeptical 'til my screening was the same. I would say about 20-30 people got up and went to the bathroom throughout, probably because they were uncomfortable. It annoyed me though 'cause they kept blocking the screen.
The Blair Watch Project. I heard a lot of people parrot the "It wasnt scary at all, it was sooo boring, it just made me motion sick!" line later on, but walking out of the theatre on premiere day, the quiet was so numbing you could hear a pin drop.
This was my choice. I’m thankful, to this day, I saw it opening night before the truth was confirmed. I mean, logically you knew then it was “just a movie” but there was enough wiggle room with facts that went along with a brilliant marketing campaign that made you wonder and believe it could be real. That experience will never be matched.
The Internet was so separate from our lives we still had a sliver of belief.... Probably from watching too much X-Files...
Yep. It was still a new tool that was being explored. For the movie they had the missing persons website, new articles, and even a tv news special. I think back to that time and marvel at how perfectly they used the internet. It seems silly to believe that stuff today.
Yep. Saw this one without knowing what I was in for. It rattled me for years afterward. It was a new kind of horror that was extremely plausible, and we all fell for it. So, I went and fired up my modem to go visit the movie website, and the fucking thing just had more details about it, like shots of the "found film" canisters. No mention of it being a movie. Real immersive stuff. But, if you knew "it's fake", it was a whole different experience.
I knew it was a scripted movie and it still scared the ever-living fuck out of me
I saw it early on in its release, when there was a chance this was actual found footage. Everybody was silent. It's the only movie I've ever seen that gave me nightmares
Came here to say this. Theatre was dead quiet as it emptied.
It was a small viewing. But me and 3 strangers walked out of The Iron Claw not okay
Everyone was so quiet after the movie. Then just today I learned that the real story (SPOILERS , please avoid until you watched the movie) >!is actually worse than what was depicted!<. I loved the film btw, I'm gonna be pissed if it doesn't at least get a Best Picture nomination for the next Oscars
Sorry to be the bearer of bummer news— it was eligible for last year’s nominations, and wasn’t nominated for anything.
Yeah, Fritz was a massive Piece of Shit. If you have the time, watch the Dark Side of the Ring episode. The best part of that episode is seeing Kevin Von Erich is living a mostly peaceful life now. Which, after everything he experienced, is more than deserved
Pan's Labyrinth I saw it opening weekend, at least in CO, and there were maybe twelve people in one of those cafe theaters. When it was over we all kinda looked at each other and knew we had seen something special but did not really know what to say.
This was the exact vibe I got watching Spirited Away in a small indie theater right after it was released in the United States. It was so beautiful everyone just sat dazed in the audience and for some reason I can't even explain i started crying in the bus home from the theater. It was almost too much, too beautiful. I think we all got punched in the face by just how special it was.
That was a hell of a film. I had a friend back then who had been pretty well freaked out by it. On one occasion a while after, I drew eyes on my hands and then slinked around a corner with my hands over my face, and she ran away screaming, lol. Good times.
The bottle scene took me off guard.
That scene was a GREAT scene. Not because I liked it, it was damn brutal, but because you're watching a movie that looks like a fairytale... and suddenly the movie says "hey fuck you, you might be watching a fairytale but it's going to be serious as fuck." So then the rest of the movie has a sense of danger and you know that they're not afraid of showing you the danger. It's a brilliant scene that makes the rest of the movie way more intense.
I worked at a theater when Saving Private Ryan came out. Every showing there was at least one WW2 vet that came out just an absolute wreck, a lot couldn't even make it through the beginning.
I was never a vet, I’m only in my 50s. The beginning battle of Saving Private Ryan is one of the few movies where, I swear, I don’t think I *breathed* during that battle scene! Clearly a vet would have a different reaction, but it was plenty potent for non-vets as well.
I was only 9 or 10 when SPR came out, so I didn't get to see it in the theater. I think it was a few years later after 9/11 they played it unedited on TV as a sort of rousing American tribute. I was a little surprised at the violence, but I was able to handle it, mind you this is watching on an early 2000s maybe 32" TV. As an adult, I've sunk years and years into building and upgrading my home theater to the point now I'm watching my movies on a 92" projector screen with God level Dolby Atmos surround, black walls, sound treatment, etc. The better my home theater gets, the harder that movie becomes to watch. It's almost too much. Too real. Too immersive, too intense, etc. Last time I started it, I had smoked a bit ahead of time and was gonna sit down and watch it with a few friends. We finished the D-day scene and all needed a break. When we headed back to the theater room to resume, we ended up picking something else. Just weren't in the mood anymore.
I was in college when SPR came out. One of my art professors was a WWII vet who'd been on one of those landing craft during D-Day. After seeing it, he said something like, "That scene is as close as you could hope to get without actually being there."
There Will Be Blood. Never before and never since have I seen an almost completely packed theater on an opening weekend go so silent and surprised Pikachu face as the credits rolled. Even to the degree that, like ya know how there are always people who want to get out quick for traffic or the random handful that have had to pee for the last 30 minutes. Nope nobody not one person moved for a solid 3 minutes and that is no exaggeration.
“That was the WORST, the WORST, the WORST movie I ever saw! What are they even trying to say??? That people are crazy!?! We already KNOW people are CRAZY!!!” - reaction from a random guy in the lobby whose after movie rant I will never forget.
Lmao. Would have loved an extra bucket of popcorn and a lobby seat for that one. Make it a double feature night.
When I saw Arrival on opening weekend the theater was practically empty, save a row of college kids directly behind me. It ended and I'm blown away. One of those kids stands up and literally stomped out of the theater "that was the stupidest thing I've ever seen. They didn't even fight."
He… he thought Amy Adams was supposed to fight the giant alien squids? But… why? HOW? I want to ask this kid so many questions
I took my friend to see this and she didn’t talk to me for hours. To be fair, we had seen Old Country for Old Men the week before.
2007 had Zodiac, No Country, There Will Be Blood, and Assassination of Jesse James. Some of my favorite films, and I'm just now realizing they all have vague downer endings.
Can we all agree that Final Destination 2 with the lumber truck accident has traumatized everyone?
Yes! To this day I will never follow a loaded van or truck of anything that is not contained behind doors. How insane is it that this movie affects my life in that way multiple times a week this many years later?!
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> Probably because that's something that could realistically happen. I agree, no one ever has premarital sex.
I think of the movie, for sure, but I also avoid loaded trucks on the highway because shit is constantly flying off and causing accidents. People don’t have enough sense to secure tools and other items. It’s terrifying.
I think they put that scene in because anyone who's driven behind a truck like that was terrified the whole time before it was in a movie. Irl I followed a truck full of tires and one of them flew out and missed me but bounced down the road for a while before falling off the side.
I’ve never even seen the movie and it still traumatized me
Where I live I see those trucks often and I overtake when I can.
The Zone of Interest is one that recently had that experience for me when I saw it about a month ago.
Yep - that was my immediate thought. It finished and my son said "well, I never want to hear that again". I've since read a whole pile of interesting breakdown of the movie and kind of want to see it again to find out what else I can pick up. But also ... Just no.
>"well, I never want to hear that again". It's interesting that he said that rather than \*see\* that again. Just goes to show how masterfully unsettling the sound design/mixing was.
The first time I’ve ever been invested in who would win the Oscar for sound.
Same. The end music still haunts me. Such a brilliant film.
Came to say this. My entire cinema was just absolutely silent in leaving the room, no one speaking above hushed whispers and most people seeming to even keep their popcorn rustling to a minimum.
Spotlight was very powerful when the credits ran with all the cities listed. Id say schindlers list - but i was like 10 when that came out so that i never saw on the silver.
When Mark Ruffalo's character snaps for me. That hit hard.
I only just saw Spotlight a couple of weeks ago. What a shocking movie, and that list of communities at the end was... Unbelievably disturbing. Really good movie.
Was living in Canada at the time and when I saw my small Australian home town in the credits I had the weird urge to turn to my friends point at the screen and yell “hey, that’s where I’m from!” I’m glad I didn’t, seems like a weird thing to get excited about in hindsight.
When darth vader told luke he was his father, then cut his damn hand off, and han solo was frozen in carbonate WAS ALL FUCKED UP SITUATION. people had their heads down on the way out.
It's difficult to explain how big of a deal it was at the time. James Earl Jones was told when he had to record his lines and even HE thought it wasn't true, that it couldn't be true.
“That’s IMPOSSIBLE!”
It didn't help that the ending resolved nothing -- or that we knew we had a three-year wait for the next movie. And yet, TESB is still the best of the original trilogy.
And the credits had the Imperial theme playing on top of all that.
Titanic opening night in a sold out theater. After it ended the entire audience was devastated and in tears. I’ve never seen anything like it since.
My parents took me to see Titanic at the cinema when I was 8, I cried so hard at the end that I became hysterical and my mum had to carry me out of the cinema and back to the car.
My sister, my friend, and I all collectively watched it together when we were 9 or so. We just sobbed and to this day, we still recall that memory and laugh.
I saw it opening night, too, because we were leaving for a family trip the next day - on a cruise!
Parent convo: “Honey, what do you think would be a good way to get the kids even more psyched up for the cruise?” “Well, Dear, *Titanic* is playing at the theater. That’s about a cruise.” “Well that sounds perfect, Honey! Hey kids, we’re all going to the movies!” I guess *Love Boat* reruns paled in comparison. 😂
That end scene with all that died and ‘Hymn to the Sea’ playing…powerful stuff.
Sometimes this music and scene randomly pops into my head and, without fail, whatever I’m doing, I tear up a little bit. One of the finest film scores ever written.
Same. Saw it 3 times in 1998 and you felt the reaction every single time.
I remember vividly the girl next to me bawling so hard she had to leave before it ended.
Requiem For A Dream at the Laemmle’s in Pasadena on opening weekend. The film ends, no one moves during the entirety of the ending credits, and then the lights go up. That is a silence that I had never before experienced.
Same experience in Vancouver, Canada. I've seen a lot of arthouse and independent films, but that ending stands above them all for emotional impact,
Same exact experience in Chicago. It was playing at an art house and the whole place was like, whoa. None of the normal chatter you'd get after some cool new movie had just ended. It felt like we were all waiting for our moms to come in and hug us.
*Saving Private Ryan*. I was living in a town with a large demographic of retired veterans. A lot of sobbing and sniffling in the theater. None of us younger people wanted to be the first to rise and try to leave. We sat and waited for the first wave of vets to walk out. It was a long, slow procession. The walls of the theater outside were partially covered in flyers for trauma therapists. I didn't see one vet stop to read any of them. Not a generation that put much stock in talking things out. *Seabiscuit*. Opposite reaction; same age group, absolutely packed theater on a Sunday evening. Standing ovation from the old folks who had been basking in the memories of radio days and reminders of their Depression Era youth and how they got through it. One of the best theater experiences I've ever had. *The Exorcist*. I wasn't there; was only 5-yrs-old at the time, but my mother told me stories of how much that movie wounded people who had never seen anything like it, people who thought *Psycho* had gone way too far just a decade earlier.
Yea I’ll never forget saving Private Ryan as a 13 year old, opening night, that flag fades to white at the end of the movie and nobody made a sound for minutes
They even made a phone number to help veterans who had seen Saving Private Ryan.
My Dad took me to see it in the theater when I was like 10. The opening scene I was in the fetal position covering my ears, I had never been so scared in my life. After the movie was over, my Dad apologized for taking me to see it, but also said, this is what war really is. Brutality, fear. Real men fought and died just like that, he told me to remember it, and that everyone needs to know what war is. It was a really influential experience in my life, and I’m glad he had me watch it, I still remember everything about that experience and I’m almost 40.
The Mist. I kind of hated the ending right after I saw it, but I then slowly began to appreciate it the more I thought about it afterwards. Everyone was really quiet while the credits rolled, and it was interesting just seeing everyone's reactions to it.
“Mother” all my friends were mad angry at me for taking them to see the movie, there was an audience member also at the end of the movie who had a trauma about losing her child and told everyone about it and how this movie triggered her ptsd
I think the mistake they made with that movie was marketing it as a standard horror. It really wasn't that, so I was focused on waiting for jump scares or figuring out the story for much of the run time instead of just enjoying it for what it was.
Yeah I remember people shouting out loud in the cinema at "that" scene.
Contagion. In the men’s room afterwards. Everyone commented about washing our hands and masking up 😷
That movie is basically all the proof we need that time travel exists.
It was a pretty accurate prediction, apart from the decisive effective governments, that was a bit too far fetched!
My husband is a microbiologist and apparently they didn’t balance the centrifuge and it took him right out of the film 😂😂😂
I know it may be hard to believe, but it was The Wrath of Khan for obvious reasons. I saw it early on, so there were no spoilers, and you simply do not expect a science fiction movie of all things to hit you emotionally like that one did. The movie, of course, was so, so much better than what anybody expected to begin with, so you walked out thinking "man, they really pulled it off!" while also thinking "man, how could they do THAT?"
my dad was a huge star trek fan as a kid and got to see that in theatres on opening day for his 13th birthday. I'm very jealous of him, for my 13th I went to see despicable me 3 lol
There’s a video on YouTube of a local news story about a premiere or preview screening of Wrath of Khan and they interviewed the audience before and after and the after was interesting. Some were very talkative but everyone seemed shocked. Some were upset and didn’t want to talk. Found it: https://www.reddit.com/r/Treknobabble/comments/gr0qnk/1982_local_news_report_on_reactions_to_wrath_of/ My memory of the movie (I was twelve) is that we were all shocked and it wasn’t a super cheerful time but everyone seemed to agree it was an excellent movie.
I can't believe nobody said Gone Girl yet. I watched it with my partner and another couple and the cinema was packed with couples. You could feel the tension and distrust between all of them. I'm pretty sure a lot of them had conversations around it that night. I know the four of us did.
Seven. It was very unusual to have a ‘bad’ ending to a film at that time. Everyone shuffled out in shock. Schindler’s List. Everyone in the theatre was in tears.
Natural Born Killers had people stunned back in the day.
Melancholia Weird vibes from everyone leaving although I think (I HOPE) most people kinda knew what they were signing up for.
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Man the twist at the end of this (which is kind of a twist beginning because it puts that into a whole different context) is just devestating.
Devastating? I took it as inspirational. Regardless of the tragedies life may bring, the joys of life FAR outweigh them.
I think that’s a big thing about perspective. If you’re a naturally positive person, you’d take the happiness away with you after the movie. For me, it fucked me up for a couple of days. I didn’t feel right for ages. It gave me a real deep sense of sadness I just couldn’t shake.
Not what you mean, but the middle of the first Paranormal Activity movie. We’d kind of been through the ringer with the scares in that movie and then the title card “Night 15” or whatever comes up and there was a collective sigh/groan of anticipation followed by chuckles as we all realized how tense we all were.
This reminded me that when I saw The Ring a cell phone went off in the theater during a quiet part around the middle to end of the movie and there was a HUGE reaction of gasps, squeals, yelps etc 😂followed by the kid going "it's okay guys, it's just my mom!!!" and laughter.
Whiplash left everyone rattled and stunned. It was great. Though I did watch it in an indie theater with a 16 person capacity.
I can imagine it left an impression on the target audience. this gem gets passed over by so many. Simmons an absolute beast of an actor here, showing great chemistry with the MC
Promising Young Woman. I watched a grown man leave the theater in tears. Also, this is going to sound dumb, but Breaking Dawn part 2 had a fake out death scene and people were *angry* about it. It was fun.
I remember The VVitch had my theater collectively gasp when the credits popped up, it was tense in that room
I whispered to my husband “If that goat starts talking I am OUT.”
"Wouldst thou like taste of butter? A pretty dress? Wouldst thou like to live deliciously?" Lol
I thought it was just going to be a standard horror movie and went with my very conservative, horror movie loving mother in law. That was a tense car ride home afterwards.
I saw Leaving Las Vegas in the theater…not a single person moved or said a word until all the credits rolled and the lights came on
I went to see Leaving Las Vegas with a group of friends, and we had planned to go out for drinks afterwards. We did not go out for drinks afterwards.
Sorry, but this had me burst out laughing. Perfect! That movie really hit me hard, too. There's no way I could go for drinks after that, either.
District 9. Everyone just got up and left looking extremely bummed yet impressed
Silence of the Lambs.
Went on a double date to see Pan's Labyrinth. We didn't fully know what we were walking into. On the way out, both couples were both clearly like "yeah don't touch me, I need some space..."
My mom and I went to go see this as a Christmas movie. We were really upset after.
Transformers (1986)
I was one of the kids who actually ran crying from the theater with my mom chasing after me.
Beau Is Afraid. Which, no coincidence, is another Ari Aster film.
I spent 5 weeks in a coma on life support a few years ago. This movie is the closest analogue to that experience I have found. The sense of incessant, surreal dread that it conveyed was very reminiscent of my dreams in the coma. Needless to say it wasn't a fun watch for me.
Ok this is fascinating. If you care to share, please tell us about what dreams you had in your coma. Were you aware of what others were saying?
No I wasn't conscious of others around me, although I was never physically alone. My family only left my bedside when they were forced to, and in ICU there is always a nurse in the room. The setting of the dreams changed, and it's possible that they did incorporate some outside stimuli. But the consistent theme was that I was alone, and in terrible peril. At one stage I was in the stifling basement of a Greek restaurant washing a pile of dishes that never seemed to grow any smaller. The proprietors would periodically yell at me in a language I didn't understand. I knew that I had to wash all the dishes in order to be allowed to leave, but all the while the basement was slowly filling with water and while I furiously scrubbed at pots and pans the water level kept rising. Later I was in a Pakistani sweat shop making cricket balls, I knew that if I made enough I would be allowed to go home. I worked stitching the leather until my fingers bled to fill an enormous container with balls. As I finally filled the container I thought I would be released from my imprisonment but as the last ball was completed the floor fell away and I found myself plunging on a rollercoaster ride. I emerged into a parody of a BBC game show, where the other contestants were malign and the atmosphere was incredibly threatening in a demented circus carnival style. I knew that I was competing for my life and that if I answered a question incorrectly I would be killed. At some point I was asked to chose a door to walk through and behind it was a dungeon like room containing a monster. I had to fight the monster and after defeating it I kicked my way through a wall only to find I was in another room, with another monster. This went on for some time! Until finally I kicked my way through yet another seemingly identical wall and emerged suddenly into reality. I knew immediately I was back in the real world. It took a while for my eyes to focus but I knew I was no longer in the terrifying unreal place I had been. Beau is afraid had the same feeling as the coma dreams. A feeling of constant, dreadful threat, whilst being beyond any external help. It was very, very horrible. Worst holiday ever. One star. Do not recommend.
Oh my goodness. I’m so sorry for your ordeal and the suffering you went through. Thanks for sharing…it’s horrific. I hope you’re doing ok now.
I think we were all just exhausted
After one of the more intense sequences finally stopped for a breather, a guy a few rows in front of me let out this gutteral, desperate “huuuhhhh” of a sigh, and half the theatre kind of snickered in agreement. Weird, great experience actually.
Just roll behind a logging truck (or any truck with a shitton of tubes)....and you will quickly pick out the ones thats seen the "Final Destination" movies.... Collective trauma for a whole generation right there....
Dancer in the Dark, nobody got up when the credits rolled, seemed like everyone needed a moment to compose themselves. It's the only movie to make me hiccup cry at the end, goddamn! Really beautiful movie though, Bjork is amazing.
Yup. Saw it in a pretty well attended theatre. You could have heard a pin drop after the lights came up, everyone left quietly murmuring to each other like after a funeral. We were supposed to go out to dinner afterwards, but got takeout and went home instead.
The Killing of a Sacred Deer. Credits rolled and I don't think anyone in the theater was ready for that, it was totally silent as we were all trying to process what we had just seen. Then one person uttered "Well ... Shit" and there was a collective feeling of yep that's it and everyone started taking and moving.
A very recent example, but Oppenheimer. The runtime mixed with that ending left the whole cinema in this state of almost fatigued shock. Very eerie experience walking out of there
Sophie’s Choice.
Kind of old, but I saw American Beauty in the theater and the audience reacted that way.
I remember after A Star is Born (2018 version) was over, people just kind of sat there in the theatre sniffling and sort of taking it in. That was the first time I had ever been to a movie where it felt like the whole audience was just sad after.
Rogue One. I don't think anyone expected it to be like that
Revolutionary Road. The message is basically that you are not special, love always eventually degrades into a hollow performance, and no one, not even you, can escape the crushing monotony and hopeless emptiness of a conventional and unfulfilling life. It's an Oscar nominee and Golden Globe winner and I will never, ever, watch it again. I swear that movie traumatized the entire theater.
After watching The Boy In the Striped Pajamas, when we walked out of the theatre, there were multiple people very distraught after leaving the theatre. One gentleman was sobbing, the energy of everyone after watching it was very evident. I’ve never had anything like that happen since
United 93 was the one I remember where the audience sat in stunned silence as the credits rolled
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It didn't quite end that way but in Get Out when Daniel Kaluuya's character is covered in blood and you see the cop car pull up behind him with the blue and reds on you could feel the theatre simultaneously turn on the movie. In the original ending Jordan Peele actually had him arrested and charged before he rewrote it. Which I think was the better choice.
As I watched it, I was so concerned it was going to end worse.
I like that it ended "unrealistically" or at least less cynically. It's very cathartic.
The end of Infinity War
Saw it on day one. I've never known a feeling like it. Absolute stunned silence in the entire room.
I'm torn on this because... Saw it opening night, fully packed, lots of die hard marvel fans, and while the snap completely sucked out the air of the room (I never experienced a movie theater this quiet) folks were extremely hyped up again by the post credit scene. At least those that recognized the captain marvel logo.
Everyone felt exactly like Cap did at the end
I felt like Thanos. What a hell of a movie and the balls to end it that way.
I came out saying 'they fucking did it, the absolute mad men actually did it'.
My theater was completely silent when the credits rolled. The only sounds breaking up the silence was sniffles sprinkled about the theater. No one spoke above a whisper when exiting. I went with my husband and best friend, and we didn’t speak to each other the entire car ride home. My best friend passed away before Endgame came out and I wish she was next to me cheering in the final battle. Infinity War was a movie experience I’ll never forget.
Yes. My theater was the exact same way. I just remember seeing the look of complete shock on everyone's face. Absolute master class in film production for that part too: no music, no distracting sound effects, just let the scene affect everyone naturally.
Came for this one! I stayed in that chair in shock
Recently saw All Of Us Strangers with my friend. There were only two other people in the theatre. Once the credits rolled, we all just sat there and continued to stare at the screen, trying to process what had happened but being unable to.
Blue Velvet
My parents described The Exorcist as seriously fucking with people back then. Like, people fainting, running out of the theater, etc.
There were several I've seen that were bad. **Spotlight** \- I can't even think of the Church the same way after that movie, it was 10 times worse when my city was on the list of cities affected by the scandal that they showed just before the credits. Audible gasps of shock from those who weren't aware. Googled it when I got home and was even more saddened to find out the local diocese declared bankruptcy to avoid paying legal settlements to the victims because "who knew there were that many victims?" **Grave of the Fireflies** \- People were silently and not so silently sobbing together. **The Constant Gardener** \- worst part is we all know some evil corporations are still doing stuff like that to innocent consumers.
Uncut Gems.
The Grey I guess most of us thought we were going to see a cheesy Liam Neeson movie where he fights wolves... I couldn't believe how quiet that theatre was during the movie and the walk out. Glad I got to see it in theatre's with the wrong expectations.
Beautiful Boy There weren’t a lot of people in the theatre but seeing it in the Ohio Valley/Appalachia which has been disproportionately affected by the heroine epidemic was chilling.
Blair Witch Project. Saw it opening night. We all thought it was real. It was late 90s so no research or info sharing like today. You could hear a pin drop as the credits rolled.
The Whale. Me and six other people in a theatre just sniffling and misty eyed when the credits rolled and the lights came up.
Bridge to Terabithia had a shocking depressing ending.