#loud crowds

[fiestysassybrat]

This looks different for every dynamic. Sometimes it is drawing closer and grabbing the arm or holding hands. Other times it is rubbing hand across the back or gently holding the back or sides.

[entertainmentweekly]

Question time! Do you have any favorite loud-crowd movie memories?

This weekend Darren Franich went to see Insidious, a truly scary horror movie that was only made bearable by the crowd that had gathered to see the film:

Whenever the movie threw a new shock-terror in our faces — some freakish ghost sisters, or a dancing Newsie ghost — everyone in the theater would scream, and then laugh, and then spend about a minute talking about how scared they were and how funny it was to be so scared. (The mostly-teenaged crowd also hurled lots of insults and suggestions at the characters onscreen, all of which are unrepeatable here.) I have friends who can’t stand it when people talk during a movie, but I think I actually I enjoyed Insidious significantly more thanks to my loud audience.

Which got us thinking: Are some movies better when you see them with a loud audience, as long as everyone's on the same page?

My answer is a firm "yes." The most fun I've ever had at the movies was when I saw Crossroads, the Britney Spears vehicle, in 8th grade. As the movie wore on, everybody in the theater slowly got louder and bolder, yelling ridiculous things to supplement the ridiculous things that were being said and done onscreen. My favorite moment: When Britney tearfully told her rugged love interest that her estranged mother said she, Britney, had been a mistake, a dude in the back called out, "I was a mistake too!"

Share your own loud-crowd moments below.