Your best movie theater experience......

I was a kid watching Stargate, and during the movie this guy says to his girl, "Honey that dude looks better than you". It was so funny and somehow I remember that to this day.
To anyone not sure who he was referring to, it was the main bad person, same person in the crying game.

Not my best experience but it was one of the more memorable.
 
mb23100 said:
Mine is kind of an odd one but ill never forget seeing this in the movie theaters

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It was Jackie Chans first big release in the U.S. and i had never heard of him. I went to it as a 90s kid (i was 12) who loved all the big action stars of the decade but i had no idea what i was about to see. The theater was about 1/3 full and when it started the cheesy dialogue and bad dubbing had everyone laughing at it. Then the first fight seen happened and i was mesmerized. I had never seen anything like it and was blown away. The fights only got more and more amazing as the movie went on. I left in awe.

After the movie i immediately went out and bought all the Jackie Chan movies i could find. And am still a huge fan to this day. Any that stick out for you guys?
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I didn't see it in the cinema, but Rumble in the Bronx was my first martial arts film as well. Shit was jaw-dropping

 
it's a toss up between Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance & The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part Two. both instances involved laughter that gave me an ulcer, but i have to give a slight edge to GR: SoV because Nicolas is so near&dear to my heart.
 
Got an over the pants handy a few weeks ago while I groped her breasts.

Reminiscent of this:

 
We watched Rumble in the Bronx on VHS when it first came out and my little brother went crazy about it, started renting all Chan's old movies all the time. I thought Rumble in the Bronx was cool but never really cared for Chan in general though.
 
Gotta be T2 for me. I was like 12 at teh time and super hyped because the GnR music video already came out and showed arnie as good guy terminator
 
The first Lord of the Rings movie.

The build up was so huge (there were screenings in Best Buy parking lots) and the movie paid off perfectly.
 
Scream

No one in the theatre, didn't know a thing about it, was young. It blew me away.
 
splendica said:
Scream

No one in the theatre, didn't know a thing about it, was young. It blew me away.
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In 1996 I thought I was beyond ever getting freaked out by a movie... but the opening scene in that movie had me pretty tense.
 
bowened said:
Saturday night, 10:30 pm showing of the first Scream movie.

The theater was completely packed. I've never seen an audience more alive. It was everything a horror movie screening should be.
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Wow, interesting. Same movie, different experience. Mine was an afternoon matinee and I sat near the front. I think I was alone in the theatre except maybe one or two (literally) at the back. I was terrified but felt really alive too. I went on a massive horror bender afterward.
 
Honorable mentions:

Saving Private Ryan - I actually got choked up from the first half hour

Meet the Parents- Laughed so hard I was crying, no joke

The Ring - Was terrified and blown away even after being a jaded horror fan by then
 
MikeMcMann said:
The first Lord of the Rings movie.

The build up was so huge (there were screenings in Best Buy parking lots) and the movie paid off perfectly.
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Yeah.

I had tickets to the special premier, literally the first showing in Montreal, and it was without a doubt the most gratifying cinematic experience of my life. I'd read the trilogy twenty or thirty times.

Fellowship of the Ring was spectacular and exceeded my wildest expectations, right out of the gate.

"And they were all of them deceived, for another ring was made."

Blanchett's prologue had me completely sold seconds into the film.

 
Probably LOTR: ROTK. First movie I saw in IMAX that wasn't just a documentary at a science centre. Plus after the first two my body was ready.
 
splendica said:
Yeah that beginning is insane. I remember feeling like what am I watching.
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Prior to its release I remember that it was being written off as another slasher film. Slasher horror wasn't really much of a thing anymore in the mid 90s.
By the late 80s it really ran out of steam.
Then in the early 90s you were getting films like Doctor Giggles.
When it was announced that Craven had a non-supernatural slasher horror it was like there was no way this was making a comeback.
After that opening weekend people really started buzzing about it.

I think I heard that Drew Barrymore was upset (in hindsight) that she opted for a early death cameo
 
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splendica said:
Honorable mentions:

Saving Private Ryan - I actually got choked up from the first half hour

Meet the Parents- Laughed so hard I was crying, no joke

The Ring - Was terrified and blown away even after being a jaded horror fan by then
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Ha!
I was just getting ready to post The Ring.
As much as I was proved wrong in 1996 that a movie couldn't scare me anymore.
In 2002, the Ring proved me wrong again.
I couldn't get that girl's face in the closet out of my head for weeks.
 
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