I remember going tlo see TPM on it's opening weekend at the Famous Players Coliseum here in Mississauga, and although the theatre I was in was crowded, it wasn't all that full, and there was no applause, no clapping, nothing during the film. I sat there, watching that movie (I believe I was 12 at the time), and after it finished, I just thought to myself, "That's it? Huh."
To me, that movie was the type of film you would forget about after a couple weeks. Pretty, but not that substantial.