If you could Go back in time...

[thelittleprince]

Easily, The Matrix for me. It's one of those films where I didn't know what to expect going in the theater to see it for the first time and blew me away!

[NeoMaximuz]

Originally Posted by MykeHavoc

Probably films that are lost and that I'll never see, like The Cat Creeps, London After Midnight, the early cut of the Chaney Phantom of the Opera, uncut version of Freaks etc.

+1

Also Empire Strikes Back

[JRC2010]

Star Wars 4, 5, 6
Raiders of the lost ark
Jurassic Park 1
Scarface
All 3 of lord of the rings movies

[Berek]

I was there for Star Wars. My choice would be The Exorcist.

[Mandalorian]

Hate to sound like a broken record, but...STAR WARS.

Also:

Jaws
Halloween (1978)
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Pulp Fiction

This list could go on, and on...

[Johnny Blu]

I would like to watch the following movies again for the first time to relive the jaw dropping twist they provide: The Shawshank Redemption, The Usual Suspects, and The Sixth Sense.

If I could truly go back in time for something movie related, I would nofity the Aurora CO police dept of an armed James Holmes and his attempt to sneak into the back of the midnight showing of The Dark Knight Rises.

[octagon]

Originally Posted by charlieray1

I get a kick out of everyone saying Star Wars. If you had gone on opening day you would have been in a half empty theater! I was in high school when it came out, and it just wasn't on the radar. It was released in late May and the word of mouth and the reviews built over the summer. By fall it was a huge sensation. I remember waiting forever in line to see it that September, but that was after it had been out for sometime.

Opening day would have been a big snooze for that film.

Yeah, I was in high school as well. I saw it in mid-June on a Fri or Sat night and there was a good crowd but it wasn't even close to shoulder-to-shoulder yet.

Originally Posted by Livelong420

I also wonder how the sound system from the 70s would sound to our modern day ears. It might fall flat.

Depends. Not every small-mid sized theater was equipped to take advantage of Dolby Stereo but many were and while analog left-center-right-surround might seem primitive now it sounded freaking fantastic.

And I can only imagine what it must have sounded like in the handful of theaters that could 70mm prints.

[krazeyeyez]

Avatar

Don't know about opening day but i wish i would have seen this in the theatre. I pretty much hate 3d at this point and have yet to see a movie in 3d i like. My friends keep saying avatar was amazing, and honestly i myself would like to see the flick that started the 3d fad again just to see it based on technical merit in terms of use of 3d as a tool.

[wjasoncul]

The best theater experience I've ever had was watching Scary Movie. The theater was packed and I was with 5 of my best friends. The whole audience laughed the entire time. All the jokes and gags were so fresh at the time that it was something we really haven't seen before. I would love to relive that again.

[octagon]

I was originally thinking along the lines of a gala Warner premier in the forties...The Big Sleep, The Maltese Falcon...that sort of thing.

But if I could get a mindwipe and go into the film blind I would go with either Frankenstein or Psycho. I would love to experience those films the way audiences at the time did.

[stvn1974]

I was there for Star Wars. My mom was pregnant with me. Other than that I have been to all of the opening day films I would like except The Exorcist. I would have loved to see people running from the theater and passing out.

[NeoMaximuz]

Vertigo and Psycho

[TheAnimeLegend]

That would probably be Terminator 2: Judgement Day.

[johnchatzo]

Lord of the Rings

[TheAnimeLegend]

Another one that I think would have been awesome to see is The Wizard Of Oz. I can only imagine of what it was like for those back in 1939 who had witnessed the film transition from black and white to color when Dorothy opened that door. It must have been mind blowing.

[BluBrown]

A Trip to the Moon

[Foggy]

Originally Posted by BluBrown

A Trip to the Moon

I doubt that got a big grand opening day

[Spider]

Alien - I was way to young.
Aliens - same
Sunshine - Missed it but was blown away on BD [blind buy].

maybe

Terminator 2

[BluBrown]

Originally Posted by Foggy

I doubt that got a big grand opening day

I know, but it'd be cool to go back and see it in the early 1900's and experience the feeling of seeing something so grand and new

[Foggy]

Originally Posted by BluBrown

I know, but it'd be cool to go back and see it in the early 1900's and experience the feeling of seeing something so grand and new

If I had a time machine, I'd show them all Avatar and see their minds be completely blown, I'd also claim to be James Cameron as well