What movie do you wish you could have seen in theaters?

[TheIronRuler]

Then I suggest you get it for the first and last 20 minutes, and a few scenes in between. That's pretty much it.

I'm getting the feeling that you really hate this movie....

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I enjoyed it at the time-those glorious moments when you watch the animation, but it has absolutely no positive lasting appeal.

 

[MammothBlade]

Groundhog Day. That movie was epique.

 

[Soviet Heavy]

Rewatch The Lord of the Rings in theatres.

See the original Star Wars films back in 1977 when the craze was still new.

Watch Jurassic Park in theatres.

 

[Soviet Heavy]

Laurence of Arabia.

Man that would be awesome.

"Nothing is written!"

 

[scorptatious]

Possibly any of the Studio Ghibli films. I remember both Kiki's Delivery Service and Castle in the Sky to be very good.

Ah well. There's going to be another one coming to theaters next year. I'll probably go see that one.

 

[shogunblade]

Gran Torino for one because it was just a fantastic film over all and Scott Pilgrim because all the flash and sound would be greatly improved in the cinemas. The battle with the twin ex's would be just so much more satisfiying.

I did see Gran Torino in an almost empty Theater (I think there was something like 8 people in it), and it was certainly wonderful. I even stayed through the credits.

But on Scott Pilgrim, I agree. I never got to see it in a theater, but I so would have if the opportunity had been available. The closest replication of it was at home, on my big screen and surround sound, but budget surround sound, not Bose stereos or anything.

OT:
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984). The first 20- 25 minutes in a packed house would have probably been intense.
The Exorcist - Just to have seen people freak out over it when it first released.
Enter The Void - I heard it was also in 3D, so to have seen it in 3D and on a Big screen... That would have been intense.
Hausu - Because why the hell not?
Fritz Lang's Metropolis - I can only assume how cool it would have been to have seen the complete movie before it got cut to hell.


That's all I have to say about that.

 

[dystopiaINC]

star wars original trilogy releases. all three.

Shawshank Redemption.

se7en...

 

[floppylobster]

How amazing would it be to see Star Wars in it's original form, for the first time, in 1977? My mind would have been blown...

This is what I want too. (I love the username by the way ) Curse George Lucas for denying us the classic!

I saw this, probably in 1979, back when movies used to stay at the theater for two years. The theater I saw it at had windows high above the auditorium. As the Star Destroyer crossed the screen those windows shook. I'll always remember that.

Most films I've enjoyed in theaters are due to the sound design. For that reason I went to see Jurassic Park many times (you could hear the T-Rex attack coming from the theaters next door if the sessions were at different times). And Twister (even though the movie is not great, the sound effects were).

For various reasons, I would have liked to have seen Sucker Punch at the cinema.

For different reasons my most memorable theater experiences over the years have been -

Star Wars
Empire Strikes Back
Indiana Jones Temple of Doom (audience reaction)
Jurassic Park
Twister (for sound design only)
The Sixth Sense (for the tension if you saw it on opening night)
Toy Story 2
Black Hawk Down (preview screening and the sound design)
The Two Towers

 

[capper42]

I'd love to see Apocalypse Now in the cinema. It's so intense and atmospheric that I just think it would be incredible on the big screen. A small indie cinema right by my girlfriend's uni house was showing it a couple of months ago, but I wasn't there at the time, which is annoying.

 

[3aqua]

Alien, if only to see the audiences reaction to the chest burster scene.

 

[Melon Hunter]

I would loved to have seen Monty Python and the Holy Grail and Monty Python's Life Of Brian at the cinema. I don't really know why, to be honest. Perhaps the atmosphere of all the expectant fans would have made it worthwhile, or seeing the extended animated credits at the start of the film.

Also, the original Star Wars trilogy, Ghostbusters, Back To The Future, Alien, Predator... sigh. There really are a lot of films I wish I'd been around to see in cinemas, but being born in the early 1990s put a bit of a crimp on that plan.

 

[Les Awesome]

Screw the Cinema, I'd kill to be at the Film Festival Where Quentin Tarentino
Revealed Reservoir Dogs