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[RedKing]

Next you'll be telling me it's pointless to yell helpful advice at my TV during sporting events.

i'm sorry, but it's pointless. they can't hear you...has your mind shattered now that you know the truth of tv?

No. No! That's not true! That's impossible!
*falls out of the bottom of a floating city*
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

[Cthulhu]

People clapped at the end of Hostel when the hero caught the bad guy out of nowhere and killed him.

Other than that I've never seen anyone who wasn't a gigantic dorkballoon applaud at a movie theater.

[DJ]

I've been known to applaud my computer after it finishes a particularly long loading screen.

[Jopax]

We don't have a cinema around here, i don't remeber when we did, i think it was a long time ago, like, Finding Neemo long time ago.But i do sometimes cheer for certain shows/movies/stuff, they are very rare though, that's how i usually know they're good, when you get from sitting comfortably in your chair to shouting at the top of your lungs and jumping at the screen without noticing it, that is a damn good show.

[nenjin]

At this point I think it's just been reduced to a cynical marketing ploy. People will applaud because maybe they're high on the endorphins and what not they get from a movie they enjoyed. But it gets turned around to fuel the whole blockbuster industry so reporters can write favorably on it. I'm jaded enough to think that in major venues for AAA movies on release weekend, the studios pay a few thousand dollars to put plants in the audience for just this reason. If you have a theater full of people who probably passably enjoyed a movie, and five dudes in the audience in your employ clap at the end of it, you other members of the crowd going and all that gets reported as how your movie is "storming" the box office in its first week.

[ILikePie]

Israelis applaud to anything, but that's because we're who we are. The whole theatre starts screaming when the hero accomplishes something, when the credits roll, etc.
We also clap our hands when the plane touches down. I don't really understand why, but I can't help but join in.

[Haschel]

I have to ask: Why the hell do American's applaud at movies?

I have to ask: Why the hell do people outside of America make obscure generalizations of things Americans do that they aren't even certain is accurate?

Really though, I can't say I've ever heard applause at a movie theater and I go about as often as any average person probably does. I would also be pretty pissed at people who do this, unless it is a reasonable situation where applause wouldn't detract from the movie itself (I can't think of many situations like that, however).

[Max White]

Yea, only weirdos applaud at screens. I guess if your at a premier and the director and actors are there, sure, clap for your life, but otherwise your a fool.

[Heron TSG]

In Britain the social convention for seeing a movie is as follows: you sit in silence, except if it's funny when you are allowed to laugh for a few seconds. You can occasionally (but very rarely) making comments (usually sarcastic) to your friends. Then as you leave at the end of the movie, when out of the theatre room, you start discussing opinions between each other.

You don't hoot and holler at the screen, that would get you thrown out of the cinema.

Wow, that sounds exactly like what happens at every theater I have ever gone to in the United States. The only clapping I've ever heard is a slow clap for the hero of a B-movie trying so hard to defeat the bad guy but failing repeatedly.

[Aqizzar]

Yeah, the only time I've ever heard anyone applauding or whistling at a movie was the Star Wars re-release in the 90's, at the beginning when the lights dimmed, and the end.  Because c'mon, you're seeing Star Wars in the theater, the way it was meant to be seen, that's worth whistling over.

[Detonate]

I don't think I've ever seen an audience applauding, but maybe that's because I don't watch a lot of movies. For my area it's just fright, laughter, and baaaw'ing.

[Shambling Zombie]

I don't like people making heaps of noise while I'm at the theatre. Keep a lid on it, sheesh.

[warhammer651]

yeah, never seen that happen around here except for maybe 1-2 instances during the Lord of the Rings films.

[thobal]

I the only time I've seen actual applause was in the art-house at the end of a particularly stunning martial arts film. But that was prime time and packed.

It can also be a way of telling the staff "more films like this"!

Which can happen in a smaller art house where they really have to pick and choose what to bring in.

Actually, we might have clapped at the end of Bubba Ho-Tep as well, I dont remember. But again, that was at the art house.

[tehstefan]

Yeah, my mom claps at the end of a movie. I never got why. Ever.