The "I love the theatre experience" master thread - POST HERE ONLY!

[Marcusarilius]

Three of them that really stand out:

1. Opening Night at Star Wars. 1977. No point in even trying to describe the life and movie changing event of the century. You had to experience it in it's time to understand.
2. Terminator 2: a party in the theater to end all parties. What a Crowd!
3. The Thing. Scared the sh*t out of everyone. The FX were so over the top, and there were tons of high school kids in the audience screaming out things like... "Oh Sh*t!!! Oh F**K!!! I was cracking up at all those brave young HS aged dudes freaking out in front of their GFs.

[view_it]

Originally Posted by Crème Blu-ray

Independence Day, the first and only movie I've ever seen on opening night. Just going into the theater was an adventure - it was packed and it felt like a big vacuum was sucking us all in. There were probably eight or ten of us so it was work just holding hands and sticking together. The theater was full of knife-cut-thick anticipation. When the movie ended we were all in a state of and .

so many films from US or others as 'art' films - as also some hungarian films :

KONTROLL

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[fdm]

Alien. Huge movie theater with the matching huge curved big screen, in St Louis. Musta been the Creve Coeur. Probably opening weekend, possibly even opening night.

http://www.in70mm.com/news/2003/alien_in_70mm/index.htm

[fdm]

Originally Posted by MrKenSebben

At the Hulk, some kid all of a sudden got up and ran up the isle throwing up in a popcorn bucket. My friend and I were the only people laughing, and we were laughing so hard we had to leave. Good thing the movie sucked anyway.

My wife threw half her huge bucket of popcorn in the air during the beginning of the 2nd Indiana Jones film, when that first came out...

[minimo]

I would have to go with Star Wars Episode I. Although I hate the movie, just camping in the parking lot all dressed up , having lightsaber duels with about 20 friends was an awesome experience.

[turbodslbeetle]

Most memorable? Hmm, I was 8 years old in 77' and Star Wars changed my life forever. In 80' the best sequel ever made with a single line that was as shocking as seeing your parents naked, "Luke, I am your father". In 99' another movie that changed everything, The Matrix. I was so blown away by the concept I watched it 2 more times the same day.

Most fun I ever had in a theater: Rocky Horror Picture Show with a live cast on the stage in front of the screen, West Palm Beach 1985

[aygie]

Brothers birthday, went to see Arachnophobia, i was 8, scared shitless, enough said!

[masob98]

This has to be a tie between Transformers and Terminator 2. Terminator 2 was a sight for sore eyes, it was breath taking for me. Transformers, words cant describe this one. Seeing and hearing Optimus Prime for the first time, bought me back to when I was a kid and I used to watch the cartoon all the time.

[manacap]

when i watched the movie transformers..that was the first time i saw magan fox..the movie was great! i watched it with my friends.. i was fun!

[owa]

Independence Day (ID4).

Just borrowing some of what I wrote for one of the user reviews...

When this movie hit the theaters, I stood in lines that were wrapping around the building in order to be one of the first to see it. By the end of ID4's first week I had seen the movie 5 times, having to stand in long lines each time. <snip>The excitement surrounding it at the time, was just unreal.

It was probably similar for Star Wars and maybe even E.T. (can't remember how it was with those 2 well enough to be sure) but ID4 was the first movie I went to several times during it's first week. ID4 also had a fun "concert-line" type atmosphere where people standing in line bonded (I guess is the way to describe it) and talked a lot more than usual.

I really can't see that ever changing for me. Now that I'm a lot older, even if I wanted to see something just as much as I did with ID4, there's no way I'm standing in long lines for movies anymore.

[darkpoet25]

Watching The Empire Strikes Back for the first time. I was only a few years old when the first had come out, but I remember seeing Empire. Being young and seeing something of this scale for the time was life changing for me. It made me a fan of the original 3(4-6) for life. I've seen these movies countless times and I still enjoy them all to this day.

[Gallis]

It's a tie between Star Wars Episode III watching Anakin become, Darth Vader hearing the breathing for the 1st time with the Darth Vader Mask on.

My other favorite moment was watching Megatron thaw out in Transformers "I am Megatron!"....sucks that he transformed into a jet and not into a big-a$$ gun and started to rip that place a new &$^$##)#!!!

Those are two of my favorite movie theater moments.

[bigpapy]

Street Fighter I was in my country I really was waiting for that movie

[BluPayne4400]

Beavis and Butthead do America..i was in jr high at this time and back then on blockbuster hits on first day had to get tix well in advance in which a buddy did for about 20 of us and i just remember going and theirs even level of about 10 guys and 10 gals and just remember having a good ass time because at that time that was the thing to do and everybody was there and yes one or two of the girls was for me

[owa]

Originally Posted by Psychonaut

Does Rocky Horror Picture Show count?

This one would take the cake.

That's a good one and one of the most unique movie experiences I've had. The first time I saw it, almost everyone in the theater had props and the live actors performed as well. None of my friends, that had been before, prepared me for it so I wasn't sure if I should laugh or run for the door. Also, as it turns out, I really lucked out that my first time was the best and provided almost the whole experience (just almost b/c none of us had props my first time since they didn't want me to know that something weird was going to happen). Anyway, we went several more times over the course of the next few years but never had the actors performing and usually, not even all that many in the audience had/used props.

Late night viewings of The Princess Bride were pretty fun as well.

[wnicholas76]

Ghostbusters: Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd...and the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man!

Enough said.

[Riff Magnum]

Seeing Grindhouse at a packed Brew-n-View or Movie Tavern or whatever they call them places where you get drunk while you watch the movie. Yeah, that was the perfect place to see that movie.

[The Lion King]

My best movie experience EVER was seeing Dinosaur back in 2000. Me, my two sisters and a man and a woman were the only people in the entire movie theater, and at the end, we were running around and rolling around, etc.

[Bageara]

That would have to be LOTR Return of the King. I took my girlfriend to see it she was heavily pregnant at the time. Theres a bit where Frodo and Sam are about to go up the stairs of Cirith Ungol and a beam of light shoots up into the sky when this happened the bass in the theatre was unbelievable! the whole place was vibrating! WOW! Then my girlfriend started laughing...she said the bass sent our baby into a kicking frenzy.. Haha cool. I'll never forget that,great film too

[liddybuck01]

don't have too many great experiences. i remember being really little and seeing the little mermaid for like the second or third time and dancing in the aisle to "under the sea". and i remember seeing freddy got fingered with my dad. awkward. and seeing spice world with my best friend. it was awesome. i had the same reaction when i saw them in concert this year.