re: The BEST movie theater experience you had growing up. (THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE)

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Empire Strikes Back at Plaza Plitt at the Twin City Mall in Monroe

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That's where I saw Empire, when it came out, too. I was already an NLU student.

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1A Saw The Bridge over the River Kwai at a drive in theater with the family in the 60's. My brothers and I were all whistling The Colonel Bogey March scene from TBORK (on YouTube) afterwards.

Somebody had written lyrics to it, for a song about Comet cleaner. When the movie started, we sang that until our parents made us stop.

Comet Tastes like Vomit song (on YouTube) Be sure to teach this one to your kids!

The Comet song was banned at school.

The lyrics to the original song are about WWII (on Lyris on Demand)

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Hitler Has Only Got One Ball Lyrics

Hitler, he only had one ball,
Goering, he had two but very small,
Himmler had something simmler,
But poor old Goebbels had no balls at all.
Whistle Chorus:

Frankfurt has only one beer hall,
Stuttgart, die München all on call,
Munich, vee lift our tunich,
To show vee 'Cherman' have no balls at all.
Whistle Chorus:

Hans Otto is very short, not tall,
And blotto, for drinking Singhai and Skol.
A 'Cherman', unlike Bruce Erwin,
Because Hans Otto has no balls at all.
Whistle Chorus:

Hitler has only got one ball,
The other is in the Albert Hall.
His mother, the dirty bugger,
Cut it off when he was small.
Whistle Chorus:

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Apparently, Allied POW's whistled the Hitler has only got one ball tune as an insult to their captors.

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1B would be seeing the 1938 The Adventures of Robin Hood at the drive-in. After seeing that, we sword fought with sticks until we hurt each other. Not long after seeing it, my mom had to be gone for a couple of days. My dad grilled some pork chops, and let us eat them with our hands like they did on the Robin Hood movie. There was no such thing as Scarborough Fair, where you get turkey legs, back then. I'm sure that's where they got the idea of eating that way.

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I got a handy from a chick in a movie theater once, that was pretty cool.

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In 7th grade, I left a girl's pants, and panties, pulled down to her knees, with a rabbit fur coat over her, to go to the bathroom. I don't think she went out with me again. Stuff like this is why I always hated my mom asking about the movie I went to.

In college at LSU, me and a buddy got really stoned and went to see War of the Worlds with Tom Cruise. For whatever reason, it was just the right weed hitting at the right time or something, but we were just blown away by that movie experience. It was surreal. That scene when they are in the basement with Tim Robbins and the alien looking for them was so intense.

Close second would also be in college, my freshman or sophmore year at LSU, the big theater on the side of I-12 past Millerville road was showing a pre-screening of Knocked Up before it came out. It was just for LSU students and was either free or very cheap. I've never laughed so hard in a movie. That was one of the first of the new Apatow-style comedies and everyone was blown away.

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Jurassic Park as a 3rd grader. Scared the shite out of me but was so awesome.

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This. As a kid who loved dinosaurs I can remember sitting there like “This is the greatest movie ever made.”

Star Wars in 1977 in the old Cortana Mall cinema (I think it had 3 screens). I was 8, went to see it with an older neighbor (12 yr old girl that watched me). My mom dropped us off. And before the comments- no, there was no NSFW action

Like other kids, the Star Wars commercials had me excited, but SF/fantasy movies back then were invariably cheaply made. I guess we all were conditioned to hope it looked half as good as a Harryhausen movie, like Sinbad or similar. Maybe if we were lucky, it could be as good as a Star Trek or Space 1999 episode, or maybe something from a Bond movie. Little me didn't care, my imagination always filled in the missing details.

So, expecting that, and walking into what Star Wars actually was- my GOD.

There really is no way to express just how magical that movie was, in the context of what other movies gave us at the time.

Got to go with Fellowship of the Ring. I had read the Hobbit before seeing it, but I had no idea Lord of the Rings was a trilogy. The prologue just blew my face off. It was the first movie where I was actively asking myself “How the hell did they do that?” I remember the zip line shot from Amon Hen and just wondering how they pulled that off. Fortunately the extended editions really went into detail about then.

Then at the end I just assumed Mount Doom was across the river and wondering how the hell they were going to wrap this up in a few minutes. When they get across the river and we see Mordor from a distance, I was a bit confused, and then it just ends. I’m pissed for half a second and then realize it’s a trilogy and get thrilled again. One hell of a movie experience.

First Avengers movie. Senior in HS and we just finished up our baseball season. Went with some buddies after our last game. Was floored at how realistic the Hulk looked bc if your remember they did not show a lot of the Hulk in the trailers.

1st Dolby movie I saw was Top Gun in the movie theatre in 1986 a week before I went to bootcamp. I felt like this guy. I've been chasing that high ever since.





ETA: 2nd would be the outdoor movie theatre on the windward side of Oahu. I missed the plot of several movies back in the day.

Raiders of the Lost Ark - 7 years old. Cinema 11 at Bon Marche.

To this day, I might have seen the movie over a hundred times and I still am not tired of watching it. Everything about that movie was perfect.