It's not a good movie and even by my second viewing I thought it was terrible, but for whatever reason the stars aligned when I first saw Event Horizon in the theater and it was just the most intense experience I've had in the theater. I was still in high school, it was the first movie I saw after smoking a now-legal-in-my-state substance, and I was with a friend who was also on the same wavelength. We were incredibly freaked out from start to finish.
But yeah, we went back with more friends the next weekend and this time sneaked a few beers into the theater and the magic was gone.
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Originally Posted by BaronVH
This is an easy one, and it is sadly a bygone age. It was Return of the Jedi on its original release in a domed 150mm theater that was packed. The line went all the way around the theater prior to the show. Not an empty seat inside. The final scene with Luke, Vader, and the Emperor. The entire theater erupted in applause. This was hundreds of people. There are only a handful of these theaters left in the world, and with the nature of moviegoers these days, I doubt this could ever be replicated. I bet if you plopped a person from the future in that showing that talked and texted like people do today, they would have been beaten and ejected by that audience.
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Just last year I went to several viewings of Endgame that ended in a similar fashion, so that era isn't quite bygone.