How often do you laugh out loud at the cinema?

[SecondClassmyass]

Just came back home from a really good and mildly (to put it mildly) funny movie at the London Film Festival. I would say 20% of people were LOLing throughout the movie, at not funny whatsoever moments. Just normal dialogue. Something along the lines:
-man: We should close the windows, the rain is coming
-woman: it’s already raining
-20% of people: ha ha ha ha!

I don’t have a problem with lolz at the cinema, but it needs to be funny/cringe/absurd - or not?

At London film festival I expect a different crowd to normal movie goers. They could have been laughing because the dialogue was particularly bad or something. We once went to see a horror movie and were pissing ourselves laughing because there were so many cliches we could literally predict every scene and dialogue line.

I can't help laughing out loud at the cinema! I don't know I'm doing it ☺️ until one of my children nudges me looking embarrassed!

I have been known to get VERY absorbed in comedys on my phone on the plane and be laughing like crazy!! My husband has to gently point out I might want to tone it down a wee bit (passengers sleeping and all that!!)

Sorry OP. I'm sure people like me r incredibly annoying. I don't mean it! I just seem to get v absorbed in comedys and find them hilarious it would seem (🫣)

I mostly see horror movies in the movie theater so not that much laughing. But if I see a comedy then yes I laugh. I would rather be a laugh out loud person than a not laugh out loud person, I think.

That I understand! I was pissing myself recently at the most cringey-clichey dialogues in a ‘serious’ crime drama but this was not it…

@IceCreamIsTheDream 🤣🫣

i go to the cinema to enjoy myself and if something makes me LOL then i LOL! i also groan and tut and shake my head!

but then i apply the same ethos to life.. if something makes me smile, i smile, if something makes me LOL then i LOL and if something annoys me then i will groan or tut or shake my head!

I would laugh out loud at the theatre as the medium is better with audience interaction (not singing though, people who want to go to a musical and sing along should be slung out) and I assume the audience you were with are likely to be theatrey people so more likely to do it than at a normal cinema showing.

@thursdaymurderclub @IceCreamIsTheDream
Life is short, laughing is so good for you. I admire people who laugh a lot, I have endeavoured to be buttoned up a little less tightly myself over the years. I'm in your camp.

It depends on the film. The last time was when I went to see Wicked Little Letters.

Pissing yourself in a cinema is much, much worse than laughing out loud.

In my book, anyway.
(But maybe I'm just old-fashioned?)

I just respond as I do naturally.

if it’s funny - I laugh
if very funny - I laugh a lot !!!
if sad - tears to my eyes
if tragic - I’ll have a good cry.
if scary - I’ll gasp (and grab my partners hand)

Nothing forced - no ‘performance’ emotions - I just react and l respond to what I’m seeing / hearing on screen.

don’t even think about it nor think what anyone else is / isn’t doing !!!!!