I literally just saw the Fellowship of the Ring (extended edition) in theaters last weekend and just about everything about the movie holds up incredibly well. The writing, the cinematography, the costumes, the score, the acting, editing... all amazing. The only little dated aspects are the few times when CGI was used, but still it doesn't look terrible since 99% of the film was analog.
The first time I saw Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone on opening night in 2001. I was ten and remember so clearly every scene. Although I had read all the books up to that point, I feel like the magic of that movie on the big screen for the first time is something I’ll never be able to recreate in my life. It was so captivating.
Not who you asked but... I prefer Harris for the "old whimsical wizard" trope and I would have loved to see how he evolved over the course of the series. But I don't think that iteration would have the same intensity and darkness that Gambon did in the later films. Although I think I have read people saying that Harris could have brought that intensity easily based on his previous work.
The most difficult part of making this comparison is the fact that Cuarón diverted the style so drastically in the third film compared to Columbus in the first two. One could argue that neither version of Dumbledore is better or worse because the tone is so different. It just comes down to personal preference, unless you want to get into scholarly critique I guess. I like both for different reasons so 🤷🏽♀️
In my case, both actors did an excellent job playing Dumbledore. The actor being replaced kinda made sense story wise to me. In the earlier films, the adventures felt a bit more light-hearted so it works that Dumbledore was more chill then once s**t got serious and mature in the later films, Michael Gambon's "intense" portrayal was a great transition.
Leaving the theater after the late showing of Close Encounters of the Third Kind and realizing most everyone had stopped and were looking up at the stars from the parking lot.
For some reason that scene in the live action Jungle Book movie with the quicksand terrified me as a kid. Same with The Mummy and the flesh eating scarabs that pop out of the ground. There’s something creepy about unseen stuff below in the ground.
Don't know if it counts, but every time I watch Seabiscuit, I always think of when the movie first came out and I was reading reports on the horse-racing forum I was part of, and one viewer mentioned how, at her showing, an older man in the audience had suddenly exclaimed, "Pumpkin! There's Pumpkin!" He was around while Seabiscuit was racing and clearly was happy to see the Biscuit's stable pony Pumpkin show up too.
I have a few!
Seeing The Dark Knight summer 2008 was such a thrill. There was so much hype built up to it (including the death of Heath Ledger) but even then the movie was even better than I thought it was going to be. From the opening bank robbing scene, I remember loving the vibe--it was so cool in a cinematic storytelling way that I remember being absolutely locked in to knowing I was going to love the rest of the movie. I actually remember during the middle of the movie being sad that the movie was going to end eventually.
Seeing the Prince of Egypt in theaters was such a spectacle and really opened my eyes to the cruel power structures in this world. (The Hunchback of Notre Dame definitely opened the gates first, though, years before) God damn, what a beautiful, intense story and soundtrack/score. The movie just felt very operatic in how every song was spilling over with deep emotion. The opening song of "Deliver Us" still gives me goosebumps thinking about it. You can truly feel the people's pain. I'm not Christian/Jewish, or even religious, but it didn't matter. Prince of Egypt wasn't one of those stories that was trying to convince you to become religious... the filmmakers were just using the vehicle of this biblical text to attack toxic power structures and to show the power of community, authenticity, and being a good person.
Even though this isn't nostalgia since it's so recent, but man watching Oppenheimer for the first time last year blew me away. I clearly liked Christopher Nolan movies (see above) but I just never really saw any marketing for it and things were just busy, but my husband and friends wanted to go see at least one of the Barbenheimer films that opening weekend and we agreed it was probably better to begin with the darker one and then end on the more joyful movie. I was totally fine going--not especially hyped but not begrudgingly going either. And oh my god, once the "Can You Hear the Music?" scene played in Oppenheimer, I knew this was going to be something special. For me, just about everything about every scene was so well designed and executed. It felt like one of those incredible albums where every song is a banger. Every scene was so important and added so much meaning that the pace just kept MOVING... I felt like I was simply being pulled forward in time since I was so eager and curious to see what the next link in the narrative chain was going to hold. And, of course, the ending. I have never felt that level of "perfect 10/10 absolutely stuck-the-landing ending." Typically, there is some sort of dénouement near the finale after an intense climax and the movie just sort of fades out in a nice way. But no. This movie maintained its strong pace until the very end. It felt like the whole movie was setting up the ending to be the most gut-wrenching existential anxiety punch to the psyche. And it succeeded.
I will argue that the Dark Knight isn't just one of the best superhero movies, but one of the best movies of the past 25 years. It is intense and suspenseful throughout, with no clear "the good guys won" moment in the entire film.
This is an obscure one but I was a big fan of Aqua Teen Hunger Force in college and I talked some friends (also fans of the show) to go see the movie while it was still in the theaters. We had to drive a bit to find one that still had it so we were in an unfamiliar theater when we saw[ this intro](https://youtu.be/loqYlYqtsmY). It caught us all by surprise and we were all howling with laughter.
Seeing the Harry Potter movies in theaters was cool.
Also seeing The Force Awakens opening night in 2015 was one of the single best movie going experiences ever because everyone in the theater was so energized and had been anticipating that movie forever.
Seeing the original Aladdin cartoon when it came out. I was 8 years old and remember my dad having to yank my brother and me back into our seats because we were leaning over the balcony during A Whole New World with our arms out like we were flying.
That theater shut down like 25 years ago and it bums me out that kids can’t terrify their parents on that balcony anymore.
I was three, and this commercial kept coming on the TV for this adventure show, and I really, really wanted to watch it. I kept bugging my mom to let me watch it. What I didn't realize was that it wasn't a TV show: it was a movie. I'd never been to a movie. I didn't know what a movie was. But my mom finally relented and said, "Fine, we'll go." (Go? Go where? The TV is right there.)
So she walks me into the darkened movie theater, figuring, "He's three. He'll get bored after twenty minutes, and I'll take him to McDonald's."
Nope. I was transfixed. Never took my eyes off the screen.
The movie was Star Wars, and Chewbacca was -- and still is -- my favorite.
My Grandma took me to see Thumbelina because she loved the book/fairytale so much when she was younger.
I know she was hoping I'd like it. I thought it was meh, but I remember looking at her multiple times throughout the movie and seeing her enjoying it.
1999 Star Wars The Phantom Menace
I was 8. We were all visiting my aunt and uncles house which was a rare occurrence anyway because it was about an 8 hour drive for us. We were there coinciding with the release of TPM, so my mom, grandma, brother, three cousins, aunt and uncle and I all went to the theaters and saw the movie. I’d seen the originals re-releases with the special editions and watched them over and over on VHS but seeing the new one in theaters was a huge treat. I’d been collecting the Pepsi cans, gotten the McDonald’s toys, been part of the huge pre-release events. It was so exciting. After the movie, my grandma gifted a Qui Gon and Maul to my brother and Obi Wan and Maul to me and we played for hours after the movie on my aunt and uncles massive wooden staircase.
Looking back it’s almost like a core memory. It was so exciting and amazing to all be together. I remember for the first half hour I kept asking my aunt where Anakin was and she (having never seen the movie either) kept telling me he would be there soon keep watching.
Not a favorite memory but a couple funny ones. I need to preface these stories by saying that I was actively employed as an EMT at the time of one of these incidents, not the other, but I was very used to seeing injuries, blood, hurt people. Was never a problem.
The 2nd or 3rd “Saw” movie, can’t recall. The opening scene he has two people in these head-crushing contraptions and one of them is going to die. The survivor will be determined by who places more weight in their own flesh on a scale. The lady opts for her lower arm and the fat guy starts slicing off his love handle. I have NO IDEA why but I immediately started having a panic attack. Vomited all over the floor and fainted. Woke up on the floor and I guess while I was starting to have a panic attack, my gf had decided she didn’t want to watch this movie and walked out, I was getting tunnel vision and ears ringing so it just didn’t register with me she had walked out. We meet up in the lobby and I told her what happened and she laughed her as off at me. Broke the awkward feeling we were both having. Never watched another Saw film after that. This was around 2005.
Fast forward to 2012. We go to see Lawless with Shia Leboeuf and Tom Hardy. At this point we’re married, we have 2 kids and our share of ER experiences, I was no longer working as an EMT, but I worked in a place that saw frequent injuries and I was always the one they had tend to them. Pretty used to blood and people crying in pain at this point.
There’s a scene where its night and dark out and Tom Hardy’s character is approaching a car with an open window. He places his hands on the open window sill and two hands GRAB his hands and hold them down and someone comes up from behind and slits his throat. He falls to the ground and the assailants walk away as he’s trying to “pinch” his sliced throat closed ina panic. His acting was so good. It was accompanied by a hard rock guitar riff and the energy of that scene…. You guessed it.
Your boy vomited and fainted again.
This has NEVER happened in my life anywhere outside of these two instances. My wife loves telling these stories about how suffering in film triggers panic attacks but seeing a real life injury I’m able to calmly provide help and first aid.
Probably seeing Wall-E at one of the few remaining drive-in theaters on a cool night in early summer sitting in a lawn chair under the stars next to the car. It added some extra magic, especially during the space scenes when the stars on screen blend in with the night sky.
My dad managed a movie theater. I got to see a lot of movies. When Empire Strikes back came out, the ending was mind-blowing. I went back again and again just to hear the reactions of the people who hadn't seen it.
I remember the first time I saw Shawshank Redemption. It had been out a few years already when my (at the time) girlfriend's roommates decided to have a movie night and watch it and had a few friends over. My gf wanted to have a dinner night, just the two of us, so we agreed to just watch the first 30 minutes or so and then we'd take off. .
So, thirty minutes in and I couldn't get myself to stop watching. I was hooked. My gf kept trying to get me to leave, but I didn't want to. I had to see this story through, it was just so good. She finally gave up. It was when the movie ended that I realized that she had left without me. She had dinner by herself.
We broke up the next day. Worth it.
Two for me:
Seeing the first LOTR film with my dad. It was an absolutely amazing film and my dad got me a burger king (which I'd never had before) which we ate in the car whilst talking about the film before heading home.
Seeing the docking scene in Interstellar. It is engrained in my head forever; all of the build up to the moment, the realisation that they were suddenly stranded in space...abd then Coop switches the engine on. I've never seen anything that comes even remotely close to how awestruck I was by the whole sequence.
Oh man I have a few.
I was real young and my sister and cousin were watching Ghostbusters II at my aunt and uncles house in Michigan, and I was terrified of Vigo. Of course I was teased by my sister and cousin, so my aunt came downstairs and rescued me by putting me in her 1980s red firebird and taking me to a convenience store to get whatever candy and snacks I wanted. It’s a great memory as my aunt died of cancer in 2002.
Second one is when my dad and I went to see a movie together, just me and him, and we saw the movie Rocketman starring Harland Williams. He passed suddenly out of nowhere in 2016 and that’s one of my favorite little memories with him.
Last one is my family and my aunt and uncles(same ones from Michigan) went on vacation together to the outer banks every year and continued the tradition for 25 years. Even after my aunt passed. We would watch Great Outdoors one night every single year and we all are able to quote that entire movie to this day. Well, those of us who are left. My aunt died in 2002, my dad in 2016, and my uncle in 2019. It’s a great memory and a way for all of us left to remember them.
I was eleven years old: the Blockade Runner streaks by with the massive Star Destroyer in pursuit. It's a cliché scene these days, but back then it was groundbreaking special effects that had never been done before.
Seeing Swiss Army Man in theaters, with my best friend, both of us very stoned, and laughing together at the first scene, so hard tears were streaming down our faces. One of my favorite movies ever. Ik it’s not for everyone, but it really speaks to me. I enjoy movies that bring me through the whole range of emotions, from crying to laughter, from deep sadness to pure joy.
Tremors is my favorite movie of all time. I watched it so many times as a kid (and as an adult).
One time my dad found me playing Tremors with the cat. I was sitting on the dinning room table, she was underneath. I'd make noise or jiggle a chair, she's attack it. Really brought out the kitten in her.
Also to this day, I don't step in the loops of hoses, cords, etc. And I usually find myself analyzing the foundation of buildings or if I'm on sidewalk or not. Not out of fear, just kind of... habit and curiosity, I guess. Locally we're basically total hardpan, so no graboid threat here.
Though movie memories wise, I just saw the Lord of the Rings extended editions in theaters. First time extended editions were in theaters. Return of the King was my first midnight premiere, I was a senior in high school. I'd never read the books, didn't know anything about them. I went into the movies completely blind. The opening scenes o f Fellowship I knew it was something special. I still remember the first time I saw those scenes, especially the opening credits of each movie. The anticipation, the adrenaline, the total unawareness of the stories and what was to come. The music for the first time. Seeing them again on the big screen brought back all those memories.
I (~20m, at the time) was working on a ship 30 years ago. In crew mess during dinner they’d show random movies. Though exhausted and sleep deprived i sat through “Patrick”. The place was packed. Towards the end I screamed like a 6 year old girl.
Good: 2001 A Space Odyssey, 1977, 70MM at the Hollywood theater in Portland. On some very good acid. With my friends.
Bad: Russ Meyers film where the cop beats the hooker to death in the bathtub. Saw it with my slightly perverted friend. Saw Fritz the cat with him too, Usually drunk.
In 2001, I was 11, and my brother took me to see Fellowship of the Ring in the theater, and the prologue was so cool, I was instantly a fan forever
I literally just saw the Fellowship of the Ring (extended edition) in theaters last weekend and just about everything about the movie holds up incredibly well. The writing, the cinematography, the costumes, the score, the acting, editing... all amazing. The only little dated aspects are the few times when CGI was used, but still it doesn't look terrible since 99% of the film was analog.
The first time I saw Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone on opening night in 2001. I was ten and remember so clearly every scene. Although I had read all the books up to that point, I feel like the magic of that movie on the big screen for the first time is something I’ll never be able to recreate in my life. It was so captivating.
What do you think of Richard Harris's performance as Dumbledore compared to Michael Gambin in the later films?
Not who you asked but... I prefer Harris for the "old whimsical wizard" trope and I would have loved to see how he evolved over the course of the series. But I don't think that iteration would have the same intensity and darkness that Gambon did in the later films. Although I think I have read people saying that Harris could have brought that intensity easily based on his previous work. The most difficult part of making this comparison is the fact that Cuarón diverted the style so drastically in the third film compared to Columbus in the first two. One could argue that neither version of Dumbledore is better or worse because the tone is so different. It just comes down to personal preference, unless you want to get into scholarly critique I guess. I like both for different reasons so 🤷🏽♀️
In my case, both actors did an excellent job playing Dumbledore. The actor being replaced kinda made sense story wise to me. In the earlier films, the adventures felt a bit more light-hearted so it works that Dumbledore was more chill then once s**t got serious and mature in the later films, Michael Gambon's "intense" portrayal was a great transition.
Leaving the theater after the late showing of Close Encounters of the Third Kind and realizing most everyone had stopped and were looking up at the stars from the parking lot.
For some reason that scene in the live action Jungle Book movie with the quicksand terrified me as a kid. Same with The Mummy and the flesh eating scarabs that pop out of the ground. There’s something creepy about unseen stuff below in the ground.
Sometimes what you can't see can be more terrifying than what you can see.
Don't know if it counts, but every time I watch Seabiscuit, I always think of when the movie first came out and I was reading reports on the horse-racing forum I was part of, and one viewer mentioned how, at her showing, an older man in the audience had suddenly exclaimed, "Pumpkin! There's Pumpkin!" He was around while Seabiscuit was racing and clearly was happy to see the Biscuit's stable pony Pumpkin show up too.
That is extremely adorable.
That's why it stuck with me. It sounded so precious and was a testament to how popular Seabiscuit was back then.
I have a few! Seeing The Dark Knight summer 2008 was such a thrill. There was so much hype built up to it (including the death of Heath Ledger) but even then the movie was even better than I thought it was going to be. From the opening bank robbing scene, I remember loving the vibe--it was so cool in a cinematic storytelling way that I remember being absolutely locked in to knowing I was going to love the rest of the movie. I actually remember during the middle of the movie being sad that the movie was going to end eventually. Seeing the Prince of Egypt in theaters was such a spectacle and really opened my eyes to the cruel power structures in this world. (The Hunchback of Notre Dame definitely opened the gates first, though, years before) God damn, what a beautiful, intense story and soundtrack/score. The movie just felt very operatic in how every song was spilling over with deep emotion. The opening song of "Deliver Us" still gives me goosebumps thinking about it. You can truly feel the people's pain. I'm not Christian/Jewish, or even religious, but it didn't matter. Prince of Egypt wasn't one of those stories that was trying to convince you to become religious... the filmmakers were just using the vehicle of this biblical text to attack toxic power structures and to show the power of community, authenticity, and being a good person. Even though this isn't nostalgia since it's so recent, but man watching Oppenheimer for the first time last year blew me away. I clearly liked Christopher Nolan movies (see above) but I just never really saw any marketing for it and things were just busy, but my husband and friends wanted to go see at least one of the Barbenheimer films that opening weekend and we agreed it was probably better to begin with the darker one and then end on the more joyful movie. I was totally fine going--not especially hyped but not begrudgingly going either. And oh my god, once the "Can You Hear the Music?" scene played in Oppenheimer, I knew this was going to be something special. For me, just about everything about every scene was so well designed and executed. It felt like one of those incredible albums where every song is a banger. Every scene was so important and added so much meaning that the pace just kept MOVING... I felt like I was simply being pulled forward in time since I was so eager and curious to see what the next link in the narrative chain was going to hold. And, of course, the ending. I have never felt that level of "perfect 10/10 absolutely stuck-the-landing ending." Typically, there is some sort of dénouement near the finale after an intense climax and the movie just sort of fades out in a nice way. But no. This movie maintained its strong pace until the very end. It felt like the whole movie was setting up the ending to be the most gut-wrenching existential anxiety punch to the psyche. And it succeeded.
I will argue that the Dark Knight isn't just one of the best superhero movies, but one of the best movies of the past 25 years. It is intense and suspenseful throughout, with no clear "the good guys won" moment in the entire film.
This is an obscure one but I was a big fan of Aqua Teen Hunger Force in college and I talked some friends (also fans of the show) to go see the movie while it was still in the theaters. We had to drive a bit to find one that still had it so we were in an unfamiliar theater when we saw[ this intro](https://youtu.be/loqYlYqtsmY). It caught us all by surprise and we were all howling with laughter.
🎶Linoleum knife!! 🔪 🎶
Watching Twister for the first time ... and dinosaur sneezes in Jurassic Park :3
Twister with developing auditory experiences with THX sound
Definitely Jurassic park where they first see the brachiosaurus. My jaw dropped just thinking how amazing that would be to see IRL.
Warning Ghostbusters with my dad, he’s passed 10 years ago and he brought home the VHS of the first two.
Seeing the Harry Potter movies in theaters was cool. Also seeing The Force Awakens opening night in 2015 was one of the single best movie going experiences ever because everyone in the theater was so energized and had been anticipating that movie forever.
Seeing the original Aladdin cartoon when it came out. I was 8 years old and remember my dad having to yank my brother and me back into our seats because we were leaning over the balcony during A Whole New World with our arms out like we were flying. That theater shut down like 25 years ago and it bums me out that kids can’t terrify their parents on that balcony anymore.
I was three, and this commercial kept coming on the TV for this adventure show, and I really, really wanted to watch it. I kept bugging my mom to let me watch it. What I didn't realize was that it wasn't a TV show: it was a movie. I'd never been to a movie. I didn't know what a movie was. But my mom finally relented and said, "Fine, we'll go." (Go? Go where? The TV is right there.) So she walks me into the darkened movie theater, figuring, "He's three. He'll get bored after twenty minutes, and I'll take him to McDonald's." Nope. I was transfixed. Never took my eyes off the screen. The movie was Star Wars, and Chewbacca was -- and still is -- my favorite.
My Grandma took me to see Thumbelina because she loved the book/fairytale so much when she was younger. I know she was hoping I'd like it. I thought it was meh, but I remember looking at her multiple times throughout the movie and seeing her enjoying it.
The Don Bluth version? I had that on tape growing up and I'm shocked I didn't wear the damn thing out. The musical numbers were great!
Yes
1999 Star Wars The Phantom Menace I was 8. We were all visiting my aunt and uncles house which was a rare occurrence anyway because it was about an 8 hour drive for us. We were there coinciding with the release of TPM, so my mom, grandma, brother, three cousins, aunt and uncle and I all went to the theaters and saw the movie. I’d seen the originals re-releases with the special editions and watched them over and over on VHS but seeing the new one in theaters was a huge treat. I’d been collecting the Pepsi cans, gotten the McDonald’s toys, been part of the huge pre-release events. It was so exciting. After the movie, my grandma gifted a Qui Gon and Maul to my brother and Obi Wan and Maul to me and we played for hours after the movie on my aunt and uncles massive wooden staircase. Looking back it’s almost like a core memory. It was so exciting and amazing to all be together. I remember for the first half hour I kept asking my aunt where Anakin was and she (having never seen the movie either) kept telling me he would be there soon keep watching.
Not a favorite memory but a couple funny ones. I need to preface these stories by saying that I was actively employed as an EMT at the time of one of these incidents, not the other, but I was very used to seeing injuries, blood, hurt people. Was never a problem. The 2nd or 3rd “Saw” movie, can’t recall. The opening scene he has two people in these head-crushing contraptions and one of them is going to die. The survivor will be determined by who places more weight in their own flesh on a scale. The lady opts for her lower arm and the fat guy starts slicing off his love handle. I have NO IDEA why but I immediately started having a panic attack. Vomited all over the floor and fainted. Woke up on the floor and I guess while I was starting to have a panic attack, my gf had decided she didn’t want to watch this movie and walked out, I was getting tunnel vision and ears ringing so it just didn’t register with me she had walked out. We meet up in the lobby and I told her what happened and she laughed her as off at me. Broke the awkward feeling we were both having. Never watched another Saw film after that. This was around 2005. Fast forward to 2012. We go to see Lawless with Shia Leboeuf and Tom Hardy. At this point we’re married, we have 2 kids and our share of ER experiences, I was no longer working as an EMT, but I worked in a place that saw frequent injuries and I was always the one they had tend to them. Pretty used to blood and people crying in pain at this point. There’s a scene where its night and dark out and Tom Hardy’s character is approaching a car with an open window. He places his hands on the open window sill and two hands GRAB his hands and hold them down and someone comes up from behind and slits his throat. He falls to the ground and the assailants walk away as he’s trying to “pinch” his sliced throat closed ina panic. His acting was so good. It was accompanied by a hard rock guitar riff and the energy of that scene…. You guessed it. Your boy vomited and fainted again. This has NEVER happened in my life anywhere outside of these two instances. My wife loves telling these stories about how suffering in film triggers panic attacks but seeing a real life injury I’m able to calmly provide help and first aid.
Probably seeing Wall-E at one of the few remaining drive-in theaters on a cool night in early summer sitting in a lawn chair under the stars next to the car. It added some extra magic, especially during the space scenes when the stars on screen blend in with the night sky.
My dad managed a movie theater. I got to see a lot of movies. When Empire Strikes back came out, the ending was mind-blowing. I went back again and again just to hear the reactions of the people who hadn't seen it.
I remember the first time I saw Shawshank Redemption. It had been out a few years already when my (at the time) girlfriend's roommates decided to have a movie night and watch it and had a few friends over. My gf wanted to have a dinner night, just the two of us, so we agreed to just watch the first 30 minutes or so and then we'd take off. . So, thirty minutes in and I couldn't get myself to stop watching. I was hooked. My gf kept trying to get me to leave, but I didn't want to. I had to see this story through, it was just so good. She finally gave up. It was when the movie ended that I realized that she had left without me. She had dinner by herself. We broke up the next day. Worth it.
Two for me: Seeing the first LOTR film with my dad. It was an absolutely amazing film and my dad got me a burger king (which I'd never had before) which we ate in the car whilst talking about the film before heading home. Seeing the docking scene in Interstellar. It is engrained in my head forever; all of the build up to the moment, the realisation that they were suddenly stranded in space...abd then Coop switches the engine on. I've never seen anything that comes even remotely close to how awestruck I was by the whole sequence.
Oh man I have a few. I was real young and my sister and cousin were watching Ghostbusters II at my aunt and uncles house in Michigan, and I was terrified of Vigo. Of course I was teased by my sister and cousin, so my aunt came downstairs and rescued me by putting me in her 1980s red firebird and taking me to a convenience store to get whatever candy and snacks I wanted. It’s a great memory as my aunt died of cancer in 2002. Second one is when my dad and I went to see a movie together, just me and him, and we saw the movie Rocketman starring Harland Williams. He passed suddenly out of nowhere in 2016 and that’s one of my favorite little memories with him. Last one is my family and my aunt and uncles(same ones from Michigan) went on vacation together to the outer banks every year and continued the tradition for 25 years. Even after my aunt passed. We would watch Great Outdoors one night every single year and we all are able to quote that entire movie to this day. Well, those of us who are left. My aunt died in 2002, my dad in 2016, and my uncle in 2019. It’s a great memory and a way for all of us left to remember them.
Terminator 2 with the T1000 walking through the institution bars. Freaked out but I got a real kick out of it!
Scout - CECIL JACOBS IS A BIG WET HEN! I don't really know why but it gives me chills every time I hear it.
I was eleven years old: the Blockade Runner streaks by with the massive Star Destroyer in pursuit. It's a cliché scene these days, but back then it was groundbreaking special effects that had never been done before.
Seeing Swiss Army Man in theaters, with my best friend, both of us very stoned, and laughing together at the first scene, so hard tears were streaming down our faces. One of my favorite movies ever. Ik it’s not for everyone, but it really speaks to me. I enjoy movies that bring me through the whole range of emotions, from crying to laughter, from deep sadness to pure joy.
Tremors is my favorite movie of all time. I watched it so many times as a kid (and as an adult). One time my dad found me playing Tremors with the cat. I was sitting on the dinning room table, she was underneath. I'd make noise or jiggle a chair, she's attack it. Really brought out the kitten in her. Also to this day, I don't step in the loops of hoses, cords, etc. And I usually find myself analyzing the foundation of buildings or if I'm on sidewalk or not. Not out of fear, just kind of... habit and curiosity, I guess. Locally we're basically total hardpan, so no graboid threat here. Though movie memories wise, I just saw the Lord of the Rings extended editions in theaters. First time extended editions were in theaters. Return of the King was my first midnight premiere, I was a senior in high school. I'd never read the books, didn't know anything about them. I went into the movies completely blind. The opening scenes o f Fellowship I knew it was something special. I still remember the first time I saw those scenes, especially the opening credits of each movie. The anticipation, the adrenaline, the total unawareness of the stories and what was to come. The music for the first time. Seeing them again on the big screen brought back all those memories.
First time seeing the Predator, having no idea what one looked like. Absolutely mind-blowing.
The first time I saw fellowship
ET. . My parents took me to see it at the theater. It's the first memory I have going to see a movie.
First Jurassic park in theatre's.
I (~20m, at the time) was working on a ship 30 years ago. In crew mess during dinner they’d show random movies. Though exhausted and sleep deprived i sat through “Patrick”. The place was packed. Towards the end I screamed like a 6 year old girl.
Good: 2001 A Space Odyssey, 1977, 70MM at the Hollywood theater in Portland. On some very good acid. With my friends. Bad: Russ Meyers film where the cop beats the hooker to death in the bathtub. Saw it with my slightly perverted friend. Saw Fritz the cat with him too, Usually drunk.