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As a teen most of my summer hollidays were spent visting abuela and abuelo in spain. Cinema (double features) were around 100 Pesetas (compared to Euro, w/o inflation 50 Cents(!). As you can imagine I saw every movie (rated or not).

First time was a culture shock (compared to the mostly silent German cinema audience), as they not only clapped, they also cheered or booed at any time the hero or villain did something heroesque/villainous.

But I grew into it and am missing it really. I wish this would be a thing everywhere.

Edit: I want to add that I'm an ancient person and ask any Spaniards: Is this still a thing?

You realize clapping is mainly a social thing right?

I watched Star Wars ep 3 in theaters and the entire audience would erupt whenever Yoda did something badass.

It honestly made the whole experience that much more memorable because everyone around you is equally hyped up and enjoying the show.

How is it any different than laughing at a comedy show? Should everyone not laugh when something that's meant to be laughed at happens? Should no one cry during emotional scenes?

I went to the movies once and the director was there and did a Q&A and my anxiety made me feel like we as a theatre didn’t clap enough. We don’t often have the director or any celebrities where I live, so nobody knew the protocol.

Everybody clapped at the end of The Incredibles and we were not ashamed

They mean something to me. I'll even clap at home, alone, too. I'll even occasionally laugh when I'm alone. Feels good.

What I've never understood- it doesn't bother me but I've never understood it- is people who clap after a movie. I don't mean people at the premiere where the filmmakers and actors are, I mean people in some town in Wisconsin or whatever. It's weird.

I landed in HORRIBLE snow and wind once. We were landing almost sideways. You can bet your ass everyone clapped for that one

Can the pilots with headsets on behind the locked door hear the claps? It seems pointless to me. Just compliment them on the way off the plane.

it’s a nice way to relieve the stress of everybody being within a couple of seconds of death if the pilot fucked up.

You know what else is a nice way to relieve stress? Low noise environments.

Am American:

I cheer loudly like my team just won.

Then i go "USA USA USA", as I excitingly high five everyone around me. Then we pull out our AR-15s, shoot through the roof of the airplane, and thank Jesus that we again beat Science and flew through the heavens the way god intended.

No. It's a fuckin weirdo thing.

Nah, it's a "first time flying and there is a bunch of us and we're so grateful the pilot didn t kill us all" kind of thing.
Was on a flight this summer with some seriously unstable wind that made the landing a bit more impressive than usual and many people clapped. Return landing was smooth as fuck and sure enough, everybody was gangsta, then.

I flew a lot for work. Some airlines, like Southwest, are targeted at vacationers and you're more likely to get clappers. I flew a lot of United, and the only clapping I heard was when we landed in some real rough weather. I'm convinced with the approach the pilot took that they were a naval aviator before they went commercial.

Europeans don’t clap

Italians do

I don't want to be mean if I say "Europeans" are a whole bunch of different nations and cultures. Yeah, some clap.

The pilots are antique?

I once flew to San Juan, and no one clapped. Now I feel like I missed out.