Cheering At the Movie Is Good, Actually

I’m lucky I live in Atlanta. We have cheap access to air travel, reasonable living expenses (for now), and moviegoers here get it. Sometimes, especially on opening weekend, the theater is made for cheering.

Spoilers for every Avengers movie, including Endgame are below.

In the brief intervening moments before the ravenous hordes descend upon my home and burn me at the stake in the name of our Good Lord Alamo Drafthouse, I will make my case. To appease the gods, I will lay down the caveats first:

• Obviously. Obviously. What I’m about to say applies only sometimes. Rarely, even! Most of the time you go to the theater, you should shut the hell up no matter how excited you are.
• Don’t be That Guy. If you’re the only person doing anything in the theater — talking, clapping, cheering, sleeping, knitting, masturbating, assembling a motor vehicle — you should probably stop doing it.
• Everything I’m going to say rarely if ever applies a.) to anything besides action-y blockbuster movies, 2.) any time after the first weekend a movie is open, and d.) in Britain because they seem quite put out by all this then.

Alright. Got all that out of the way? We agree on the ground rules? Cool.