What’s your best memory of watching a movie? I’m not asking what the best movie you’ve ever seen is, I’m asking about the experience of watching that movie. Doesn’t matter if it was in a theater or at home. What’s your favorite memory associated with watching a movie and why?
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Everyone in theater started laughing.
Bad science fiction at an engineering school, commentary encouraged.
And assorted cult movies at an intact old theatre, midnight showings, with an original Wurlitzer performance before hand.
Movies are magic.
Suspense film with Angelina Jolie.
Final jump scare: the killer is hiding under AJ's bed and stabs her through the mattress.
The theater erupts in shrieks. Best scare in a movie ever, the crowd was totally into it.
The audience's football chant of "Eve was weak" during a packed horror allnighter showing of Carrie.
Laughing for an hour during S Club: Seeing Double with friends including one with the surname Walker after Hannah Spearritt produces a soft toy she calls Mr Walker, a naughty dog.
Some youngsters were mostly well behaved but at one point one shouted out "Show us your wullie".
For those not conversant with the Scots vernacular: wullie means penis.
The auditorium all laughed.
One scene in particular (the one with Mjolnir), someone a few rows in front of me stood up and cheered. It was so much fun
...probably because they were too hype at the fact that the characters mostly resembled the game, yet there wasn't a single drop of blood to be seen!
We thought it was part of the movie and then the lights came on and they gave everyone free movie vouchers
And then someone started shouting advice.
Full MST3K experience, live. Wonderful.
Reader, I married him.
... especially the part where Luke gets his new hand b/c someone shouted "He's Data!"
We lined up around the block for the big old downtown movie theatre with the plush red velvet seats. I shouted hello to some of my classmates in line across the street.
The Sorceror's Apprentice terrified me.
And the best ones were the ones for the whole family b/c inevitably kids in the audience would shout out things like "whoa!" and "cool!" As the movie played. Truly the best.
There's something amazing about the gigantic old theatres.
But all that Hollywood history, too!!!
A Fish Called Wanda
It was a triple date with my brother and cousin and their spouses… I was VERY pregnant and laughed till I peed
Followed you
The Avengers was the first midnight screening I’ve been to.
I saw the first 10 min somewhere and thought I'd just have to see it through.
High on acid. With friends also high on acid.
The scene with the Enya song when he realises he's in love with her, & they turn into little kids holding hands...
Transcendent.
Y'all can shit on Marvel all you want, but that moment was fucking amazing.
#2 Mighty Ducks when they win - entire theater cheered like we were at a real game
It was the first time I had ever been to a theater that served pub food.
I had not seen any of the MCU prior, it blew me away. I still think The Avengers may be the best superhero movie ever made.
I hadn't read the books at that point, but my friend was a HUGE fan. She was absolutely LIVID that they left out Tom Bombadil and had a whisper argument about it with our other friend for like 10 minutes in the theatre.
The first time I saw House (1977, dir. Obayashi.) I was dressed as the Emcee from ”Cabaret” and giddy as all get-out because I had never enjoyed anything so strange with so many strangers on the same level. 🧡🙀🖤
Maybe introducing my friend to the wonders of Flash Gordon. So not a movie theater experience, just watching it at his home, delighting in his first time experience of it, getting extra joy from the movie by seeing his fresh enthusiasm.
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I was 12 and saw it with my friends and it's a coin's toss whether it was that or Empire Strikes Back was our fave film of the year!
God it was crass, but I've never seen a movie that was so completely NEW.
Or Thor with my 6yo son who’d never made it through a movie before, walked out and yelled, “That was AWESOME!”
Silence of the Lambs: Audience members screaming when they realise who's on the gurney in the back of the ambulance.
We had to do it early on a Saturday morning, as all the ticket and concession proceeds would go to the Juvenile Diabetes foundation, and this made accounting easier.
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Finally, the time comes, I've got prime seats in the center of the THX house, and the film starts.
Silence.
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STAR WARS.
Silence.
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A year later, “Ed Wood” came out and ends with a similar scene, shot in the same theater. It’s like I get to relive it.
The movie got a lot of hate but I thought it was extremely fun, and the timeline shenanigans were really clever!
Saw "The Big Lebowski" in the Haight on 4/20, did not realize until I got there that this was a code, and got hotboxed to Mars
I'm sorry for your loss. Losing a dad is difficult.
So I made sure to cheer extra loud when she impaled that dude with the broomstick.
Thay was the only time I have seen a film in the place where it was set.
Quite probably why I spent a year in Egypt.
- Seeing Alien on its first run in a huge and near-deserted cinema with no one at all in front of me.
- Woodstock (long story).
And I was wedged against the Boy I Liked.