Greatest/Favourite All Time Cinema Experience.
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Whats the best time you've had cinema wise?
whether it be the atmosphere, experience with friends, movie enjoyment etc.
For me it was the LOTR the Return of the King. Went to see this with my dad back in 2003 and enjoyed it immensely. Plus it's now one of my all time favourites only enhanced by the extended edition
whether it be the atmosphere, experience with friends, movie enjoyment etc.
For me it was the LOTR the Return of the King. Went to see this with my dad back in 2003 and enjoyed it immensely. Plus it's now one of my all time favourites only enhanced by the extended edition
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the same happened in 'true lies' and 'avatar' for some reason....
i aslo remember the audience up on their feet in U2/3D when it came out, the first film in the new (at the time) real 3D.
I was 14 and was pushed into going with my brother and his friend. I remember me and my brother turning to each other during the opening song and saying this is gonna be good! And it really was, great film - great atmosphere especially the scene where Bond took a blow to the nuts - every man seemed to be feeling his pain!
Went with a bunch of friends... and as luck would have it we were sat exactly under the edge of the Circle... so when the film started and the star cruiser passed over... my god we thought it was emerging from The Circle... A few months previous we had holidayed with a friend who had gotten the musical soundtrack from the US... we were all familiar with the choons so it was great to see the accompanying action.
Star Trek: Generations
It was a first public showing after the European premier in Leicester Square... IIRC started 11.30pm... I had seen a whole bunch of Trek and other stars filing in and out of the cinema. When the film started everyone cheered as the opening credits and cast list displayed...
All-time overall experience... National Cinema Day, 1997. It was IIRC the first ever National Cinema Day... Each film was only £1.
My friends and I saw three films in one day at what is now the Vue in Cambridge. Ghostbusters, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and (new release) Con Air.
The box office queues stretched all the way from the cinema (in the Grafton Centre's first floor) down the escalator into the Grafton Centre's ground floor below.
So we used a nearby payphone inside the Grafton to book tickets, and then strolled past all the queues
Great day, although Raiders was so packed we sat on the very front row and had to crane our necks to watch it.
Packed out in an old style cinema, you could genuinely feel the tension and people squirming at the spiders on screen - the the nervous laughter that followed a "jump" moment.
Brilliant - i'll never forget it.
So many fond memories of that. It's one of the first films I see at the cinema (well the first that I can remember) and I went to see it with my grandad, such a brilliant experience and I fell in love with the movie. All of that was topped off by the incredible U2 soundtrack song and then one of my favorites in 'Kiss By A Rose' by Seal.
One of those movies where however much anybody canes it, I'll always love it.
Another would likely be American Pie 2. What a brilliant movie, had an awesome time with that one and so did the entire cinema for that matter.
only ruined for me , once that someone stank the whole place out
top gun at empire leicester square. it was FRIGGING LOUD.
2001 at empire. i was only person there. personal showing.
2001 at NFT. special print prepared by kubrick just before he died. he didnt understand dolby stereo and soundtrack was a mess.
most fun. double bill of: it came from outer space and creature from the black lagoon. 1st 3d films i ever saw. in that tiny cinema off picadilly circus as featured in american werewolf in london.
also runaway train. my 1st experience of thx sound.
not long after warners revamped their showcase uk cinema. changing it from fine place into bog standard multiplex. deservedly got lots of negative publicity.
the london showcase cinemas all used to have amazing sound on 6 track magstripe. much better than current digital stuff.
Nowadays I don't get many but The Pirates! was definetly one - fantastic film and audience were laughing their arses off, including my father so everything went better than expected.
Prior to TP only film I heard dad laughing at was Super 8:
"Drugs are so bad.."
Also at same cinema (Leicester Square VUE) seeing Ghostbusters and a couple of blokes were there dressed as Ghostbusters...
the best audience was the Blair Witch Project. me and my mates went to a midnight screening and the crowds were great - it was just as it was being hyped beyond belief and even though you were pretty sure it wasn't, there was always a doubt in your mind that it might have been real.
my favourite though was Apocalypse Now: Redux. I loved the film and was so chuffed when i knew i'd be able to see it in a cinema. and it was brilliant.
I was captivated
Ran home through the back lanes that afternoon, hardly able to contain myself ... couldn't wait to tell my mother that I had just seen ( been ) somewhere wonderful
I really miss the cheering in cinemas. Does it still happen? Certainly doesn't in Leeds, miserable ****ers!
I remember being so unbelieveably giddy when queueing to see Empire Strikes Back and that scene where you first see the AT-AT's through the rebel's binoculars almost made me explode with joy.
More recently seeing Team America in Florida the day it came out. Cinema was enormous (almost IMAX size) and about half full and me and the wife were maybe laughing a bit too hard at all the gung-ho piss taking. Some awkward moments when it was just us two giggling away. I've never laughed so hard in a cinema before or since.
A few years back, my family spent Christmas with me, by the coast, we went to see Elf at the tiny, local cinema the day after Boxing Day. The sight of Will Ferrell on the big screen, in those yellow tights and the silliness of the film made for a lovely evening.
I remember years ago taking my little boy to the cinema for the first time, after a horrible trip to the dentist to see Jurassic Park. He was fascinated and terrified at the same time.
Yes, at the end of the last Harry Potter and at a beach showing (like the Stella Artois ads) of Mamma Mia, there was cheering.
I saw Wes craven's Nightmare years ago and apart from me and OH, there were only two rows filled with Japanese tourists. They stood up and applauded at the end of the film.
Packed out screen, everyone was talking loudly through the trailers but when the lights went down it was total silence and when the Warner Bros logo appeared with the booming Batman theme it really set the tone. Great film with a great atmosphere. The first scene I saw literally everyone jump at a certain jumpy moment (those who saw it will know).