Movie fans recall their favorite theater experience

One that stands out for me: visiting Hollywood for the first time in May 2017 and seeing Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 at Grauman’s Chinese Theater. Excellent movie and phenomenal experience.

Watching Black Panther with my whole family and seeing Black people get to be superheroes. Seeing African cultures made “cool” in the mainstream, seeing so many complicated dynamics between Africans and African-Americans tackled in such a thought-provoking way.https://twitter.com/howatdk/status/1276541656079073290 …

The grown ass man next to me trying to stifle his sobs during the Brachiosaurus dock scene in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. Same dude https://twitter.com/howatdk/status/1276541656079073290 …

I went to see Coco at a fancy theater in a fancy mall during their last showing. The theater was predominately older people. During the final “remember me” song one guy let out a sniffle, and the whole theater burst into tears. And then laughter.

screening Cats for 200 people and having the collective screams of disgust be much louder than the movie itselfhttps://twitter.com/howatdk/status/1276541656079073290 …

WAIT!! How am I not mentioning the end of Cats (2019) when Judi Dench kept breaking the fourth wall and my audience went progressively more and more insanehttps://twitter.com/howatdk/status/1276541656079073290 …

When I went to watch Crazy Rich Asians and Astrid told her cheating husband, "It was never my job to make you feel like a man. I can't make you something you're not." The entire cinema went "yooooohhhhhh."https://twitter.com/howatdk/status/1276541656079073290 …

Nothing comes close to watching Infinity War in theaters. Thor landing in Wakanda was like watching LeBron dunk on a seven footer in the fourth quarterhttps://twitter.com/howatdk/status/1276541656079073290 …

Saw an early screening of Twilight. It was full of super fans including a group of women in matching Team Cullen baseball tees. During the kiss scene you could hear a pin drop & when they finally touch one of those women let out the loudest gutteral moan. Laughed for hourshttps://twitter.com/howatdk/status/1276541656079073290 …

I saw Magnolia in theaters, and after two hours of watching this old man dying in a bed, someone in the theater yells "oh my god, just die already!" Everyone laughs hysterically and like 30 people walk out.https://twitter.com/howatdk/status/1276541656079073290 …

I hate movie theaters but watching MOONLIGHT hit extremely differenthttps://twitter.com/howatdk/status/1276541656079073290 …

I was seeing South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut. When Kenny turns around and takes his hoodie off... the crowd got still... and someone said out loud in the most honest voice “he’s beautiful!” The entire theater laughed together. I just never forgot it.

The Vader scene in Rogue One was excellent, the whole audience was in pieces with excitement! For me personally, Silence was big. I spent the next two hours in my own head having a religious crisis because of that film...

Already told this several times but I’ll tell it again: opening night of Interstellar, Chinese Theater in Hollywood, they start playing the movie upside down and we all just go along with it, assuming Nolan is making some interesting choiceshttps://twitter.com/howatdk/status/1276541656079073290 …

Seeing Inception for the umpteenth time, during the final dream within a dream within a dream sequence i heard a woman say “is that van STILL falling?”https://twitter.com/howatdk/status/1276541656079073290 …

I have many answers here, but first one that came to mind was ARMAGEDDON, opening night. There's a scene where a character says they'll "draw straws" about something, and this dude in the theater full-on cackles and yells out "They're in SPACE. Where'd they get fuckin STRAWS."https://twitter.com/howatdk/status/1276541656079073290 …

I watched blade runner 2047 alone in a completely empty imax theater and drove home in the rain and silencehttps://twitter.com/howatdk/status/1276541656079073290 …

Not a great film, but during Attack Of The Clones, across the aisle I saw a kid - about 7 or 8 - clinging onto the seat in front, staring at the screen with eyes as wide as saucers, watching what was obviously for him the greatest thing he'd ever seen.https://twitter.com/howatdk/status/1276541656079073290 …

saw “you got served” opening night in a theater packed with rowdy teens who danced and screamed the whole time and absolutely melted downnnnn during the rain scenehttps://twitter.com/howatdk/status/1276541656079073290 …

Watching Fight Club in the theater and the audible gasps and shouts of disbelief when people discovered the narrator was Tyler Durden.https://twitter.com/howatdk/status/1276541656079073290 …

Age 15, went to see the Sixth Sense shortly after it came out. The lady in front of me was so startled when Mischa Barton reached out from under the bed and grabbed Haley Joel Osmont’s ankle that she launched all of her popcorn in the air

The look of utter confusion and defeat on my Protestant aunt's face when the lights came up after A Serious Man.https://twitter.com/howatdk/status/1276541656079073290 …

Watched Harry Potter The Sorcerer's Stone the first weekend it was in theatres. During the scene where they first reveal the Gryffindor dorm, the little girl next to me whispered to her mom, "It's exactly like I imagined." And that's why books are awesome.

I saw JOHN WICK extremely hungover with zero expectations, and right around when Viggo says “Oh.” on the phone on the roof, I started to realize “Oh shit, is this movie actually good?”https://twitter.com/howatdk/status/1276541656079073290 …

can’t think of onehttps://twitter.com/howatdk/status/1276541656079073290 …