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Post by blinkfan on Apr 9, 2007 1:19:14 GMT -5
What movie did you go see at the theatre that absoloutley made you feel great.
Mine are:
Rocky Balboa (The adrenaline after was uncanny)
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Post by TheLuckyOne on Apr 9, 2007 8:23:59 GMT -5
Alien, when it was briefly rereleased to theaters a couple years back. The reason is that I'd never seen it before, I went to see it on a random weekday night, and I was literally the only person in the theater. You want to see a horror movie, go see it absolutely alone in the middle of a big, dark room with lots of hiding places. Nothing like it.
-D
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Post by sarahbot on Apr 9, 2007 11:49:43 GMT -5
Children of Men, because of the cinematography. I loved seeing it on the big screen.
But the best experience ever was seeing a midnight showing of Dead Man's Chest. People were coming in costume, the excitement was palpable. And then the reveal at the end made it feel like all the oxygen was sucked out of the room, everyone was so surprised/excited. It felt so cool walking out knowing we'd seen something most people hadn't at that point. It's so rare to be really really surprised by a movie these days even when people are careful with spoiler warnings . . . the whole thing was priceless.
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Post by eatmyshorts on Apr 9, 2007 12:26:29 GMT -5
300, Borat definitely.
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Post by Al on Apr 9, 2007 15:51:06 GMT -5
I have a thing for seeing serious or emotionally involving movies in large groups of strangers. Bowling for Columbine was one (personal feelings on Micheal Moore aside), United 93 was another. I saw The Passion of the Christ three times, simply because the experience of watching it with a packed crowd is so interesting.
Borat, more recently, was great fun, because it was a tough movie find playing when it first came out and we were all excited we got in.
The Phantom Menace was an unique experience. The people in my theater were overwhelmingly positive before, after, and during the movie.
The first time I saw The Blair Witch Project and The Matrix were up there, too. I worked at a movie theater and saw them both at employee screenings before anyone knew what the heck they were.
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Post by aargmematey on Apr 9, 2007 16:14:38 GMT -5
When I saw X2 in theaters opening day. That was the ultimate crowd I've ever been a part of. At every moment in the film where something awesome happened, people would start cheering and clapping! I swear the entire beginning with Nightcraweler rampaging through the White House was cheered through. It was so cool because a) it was a great movie to begin with, and b) you knew that everyone in the theater was appreciating it at the fan-based level and at the movie-level.
So great.
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Post by Spiderdancer on Apr 9, 2007 17:09:57 GMT -5
Very seldom have I had one that was bad, really. My town has decent theaters, and I'm picky and hedonistic about what I'll see in a theater (instead of on dvd).
I love the feeling of sitting down and looking up at the giant screen and just vanishing into another world for two hours. It's awesome. I get it from dvd viewing too, but there's just nothing like the big screen.
All of the Lord of the Rings movies would be way up there, though. I saw them with my sisters while I was in college, and it's one of my most treasured memories of that time. It was so awesomely exciting to see Tolkien come to life, and to see a relatively serious fantasy universe so beautifully presented.
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Post by StarOpal on Apr 9, 2007 19:51:35 GMT -5
I have a lot of good theater memories, but here are the great ones...
The Lord of the Rings movies but especially Fellowship. It was just a great night and would take a too long to list the greatness
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. I went with my then seven years old (or abouts) nephew. Spoilers: When the rat turns into Peter he said, "He wasn't dead. He was the rat!" and his whole face lit up with understanding as he figured it out. It's a cherished memory.
Spider Man. Opening day. Wonderful crowd.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2. HA!
Streetfighter. There's something about being in a theater full of MiST 3000 types... and joining in instead of thinking 'Shut up!' When Raoul Julia is on that computer at the end, there were people choking from laughing so hard.
Titanic. I'm sure most people wouldn't be fighting down laughter while everyone is drowning, but the crowd was hilarious. Especially this one guy in the front of the theater.
The Haunting. It was my fourteenth birthday and my mom had officially lifted the (admittedly loosely kept) horror movie ban and the only one playing was The Haunting. So my oldest brother (a horror fan) and sister in-law (a horror fanatic) took me. The theater was empty except for one person sitting behind us. We sat me, brother, sis. When that thing swung out of the fire place the first time her and I both jumped about a foot in the air. She grabbed his arm in death grip and I swung out my right hand hitting him squarely in the stomach. "Calm down you guys."
Most recent great experience: 300
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Post by sirgallahad2 on Apr 9, 2007 21:30:07 GMT -5
When I saw "Varsity Blues" in the movie theater in both North Carolina and Okinawa. Word of advice, if you want a loud, rowdy, and almost-uncontrollable crowd of rambunctious heathens at a movie, see a movie in a theater full of drunken Marines. The entire movie of "Varsity Blues" had people cheering, laughing riotously, and just having a great time. I saw dudes crying at the end of it because the movie brought back memories of winning the big game in high school. Awesome, memorable night.
The second would be when I saw "The Matrix" when I was stationed on Okinawa. For some odd reason, we would not get the preview of a movie until it had all ready left the theater. Everyone had heard of "The Matrix" but no one saw a preview. The theater was packed to the rafters and NOBODY had any idea what the movie was about. When Trinity beat up all of the cops and did her little "Hovering-in-the-air kick" The entire theater erupted in cheering. It only got better as the movie went on. Fantastic, memorable time. Then the "matrix" sequels came out and took a massive crap all over my hopes and dreams for the trilogy.
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Post by RobOfTheDead on Apr 10, 2007 10:27:17 GMT -5
Recently, it was TMNT in a Cinemark theatre in Long Beach. The history of Ninja Turtles dating all the way back to the comics by Peter Laird and Kevin Eastman combined with the nostalgia really made it for me. I liked how the relationship between Leo and Raph was set up. That's what the whole film was built on. It was just really fun seeing the Turtles on the big screen for the first time in 14 years. An extra bonus was someone yelling "Yeah!" during a commercial for Discovery Channel. Then everyone started cheering. It was priceless.
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Post by DarthShady on Apr 10, 2007 17:13:40 GMT -5
The best are always the midnight showings of a new edition to a franchise. I always dress up, too. I'll rank the best 3 in my life:
3 - PotC:DMC - I had a pretty good makeshift pirate costume, but the best was one guy who had a Jack costume on (one of the expensive deluxe ones, too) and three guys dressed as ninjas. I made MySpace friends with all of those guys.
2 - X3 - I dressed as Jean and my friends Becky and Margot dressed up, too (as Storm and Rogue, respectively.) We were the first in line, and waiting for the theatre to open and talking to strangers near us in the line was more fun than the movie itself. Such a great crowd of people!
And the Number 1 is....
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. I went with a group of 13 and we each dressed up as a different character (I was Dumbledore.) Plus we got in the theatre 3 and a half hours before the movie (because we're not obsessed or anything.) We were the second group there so we had the entire back/center and just hung out for an hour before more people showed up. We had staged duels, popcorn fights, and a sing-a-long (the choir song from PoA,) and my friend Billy/Snape brought his stereo so we basically had a good party going. One of the other big groups there went to middle school with some of us so they joined us and it was just amazingly awesome. We thought they might kick us out of the theatre, but one of the ushers said that as long as we were quiet during the movie and didn't really disturb anyone else's experience we'd be good. We plan on doing the same for OotP this July!
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Post by drew on Apr 10, 2007 18:37:19 GMT -5
"Dawn of the Dead", the only time that I didn't mind people yelling advice to the characters on screen. I don't know why, but I found it damn funny.
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Post by PoolMan on Apr 11, 2007 13:48:17 GMT -5
Phantom Menace was exceptional for crowd atmosphere. People in costumes. Smiles everywhere. Freebies. Midnight showing. It was great. Just great. Even after the movie, the atmosphere was high (that the movie wasn't the best was beside the point, the experience was top notch).
Return of the King was also awesome. Snuck out of work with a buddy to stand in line for a noon showing. Very cool.
I also have to give major, MAJOR props to everything I saw at the Alamo Drafthouse while I was in Texas. Jumpin' jeebus, I wish they had these theaters where I live. I particularly enjoyed watching TMNT2: Secret of the Ooze in that crazy theater, but I'll save the details for an upcoming surprise...
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Post by StarOpal on Apr 11, 2007 20:29:40 GMT -5
I also have to give major, MAJOR props to everything I saw at the Alamo Drafthouse while I was in Texas. Jumpin' jeebus, I wish they had these theaters where I live. I particularly enjoyed watching TMNT2: Secret of the Ooze in that crazy theater, but I'll save the details for an upcoming surprise... Truly, there is nothing like seeing the Turtle Rap on the big screen. |
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