It might enhance YOUR cinematic experience, which is why I'm happy for you to do it. (Personally, I find it kind of exhilarating when a cinema bursts into applause... it's needless, but its needlessness means it's sincere, uneffected, genuine. So yes, you'd be enhancing my cinematic experience, for that reason.)

The point is not that it's pointless. We agree on that. The people on the screen can't hear you. It's silly. But it's harmless, so everyone in this thread who makes it their mission to make people who applaud feel stupid because they are expressing their pleasure at the movie can go suck a dick.

Except you, sycld -- you can go not suck a dick.


tl;dr sometimes people are excited by a movie and react to that excitement with applause. if you feel that is stupid, don't do it, but don't look down on others because they like to do it, because that would make you an asshole.