Best films you've ever seen at the cinema?

I'm going this:
1. E.T. 10/10 1982
2. Whitney Houston Concert for a New South Africa 10/10 2024
3. Touch of Evil 1958 10/10 2025
4. 2001 A Space Odyssey 1968 10/10 2025
5. Apocalypse Now 1979 10/10 2025
6. Taipei Story 1985 10/10 2025
7. Pather Panchali 1955 10/10 2025
8. Mulholland Drive 10/10 2025
9.. Rear Window 1954 10/10 2025
10. Taxi Driver 1976 9.75/10 2025

You don't have to do a top 10 btw. Top 3 or top 1's fine.

I save my money so I don't often go see movies I've already seen before in cinema when they return to theaters, and I'm likely not going to the theaters again until either M3gan 2.0 or Superman. Currently, my number 9 is the highest movie I've seen in theaters: the new Nosferatu. I pay serious attention to Dracula adaptations: the changes, the atmosphere, the casting, and this is the first one IMO that got everything in the designated vision perfectly. Coppola's would've been perfect if not for a dreadfully miscast Keanu Reeves. They had Elwes right there and went with the miscast pretty boy. Point break, perfect movie for him. Dracula? NOOO.

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Wow, I'm straining to think of this one. Maybe Fight Club?

E.T.
Forrest Gump
No Country For Old Men
American Beauty
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

the most notable ones for me have been Cure, The People's Joker and Inland Empire

10 best movies I’ve ever seen in a theater:
1.Schindler’s List
2.Star Wars Episodes IV-VI (FYI: I saw the special editions on the big screen. I did see ROTJ when it was originally released but was a toddler at the time so I only remember one scene from that movie. Personally, I think the special editions suck ass, but it was still cool to see the original Star Wars on the big screen.)
3.Mulholland Dr.
4.The Lord of the Rings (Peter Jackson version, not the horrible one by Ralph Bakshi)
5.Minority Report
6.Interstellar
7.Black Hawk Down
8.Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
9.Dances with Wolves
10.Titanic

>2.Star Wars Episodes IV-VI (FYI: I saw the special editions on the big screen. I did see ROTJ when it was originally released but was a toddler at the time so I only remember one scene from that movie. Personally, I think the special editions suck ass, but it was still cool to see the original Star Wars on the big screen.)

I did the same for that same reshowing. The new features were eye-rolling but it was nice to see them on the screen. As it stands, I still have VHS tapes of the last release of the original films before George starting f***ing with them. They're probably rotted and won't even play now but they're there.

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>2.Star Wars Episodes IV-VI (FYI: I saw the special editions on the big screen. I did see ROTJ when it was originally released but was a toddler at the time so I only remember one scene from that movie. Personally, I think the special editions suck ass, but it was still cool to see the original Star Wars on the big screen.)

My parents had those VHS copies too. I believe they were released in ’94 after the original trilogy briefly spent some time in theaters. The thing I remember most about them is that they were prefaced by a commercial for these editions saying something like, “Experience Star Wars…ONE LAST TIME!”

So many. I still go to theaters at least once each week. The Star Wars movies, the LOTR franchise, the Godfather franchise, ga-zillions of James Bond movies, movies like Schindler's List, Titanic, ET, Apocalypse Now, 2001, Ben Hur all qualify.

This is a really interesting question. I had to go all the way to something like #102 in my top 150 movies of all time list to find the first one I'd actually seen in the cinema!!

That one was:

'Arrival' (2016)

I watched the original Star Wars trilogy in the cinema when the Special Editions came out in 1997. It wasn't quite the same as watching the original cuts, but it was what we had, and they were our (my brothers and my parents and I) favorite movies at the time, so we watched them a few times each in the theater. That was an awesome experience.

I've also seen No Country for Old Men and 1917 in the cinema, which are also two of my favorite movies. I can't think of any others.

I'm trying to remember if I saw Django Unchained in the theater. I think I did but that would have been thirteen years ago, and it's hard for me to remember stuff that far back. I know I stated seeing those other five in the cinema, but that was because they really stood out for circumstances outside of just seeing the movies.

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My top ten (none from this century!)

Star Wars (1977)
The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Raiders Of the Lost Ark (1981)
Goodfellas (1990)
Braveheart (1995)
Reservoir Dogs (1992)
Unforgiven (1992)
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Ghostbusters (1984)

As far as out and out viewing experience goes... Nothing beats the first Avatar on IMAX 3D. But the movie is plain terrible.

Titanic, comes to mind. Jurassic Park.

Boa vs Python. Somebody in my school spread the rumour it's a sequel to Anaconda. And I took my grandparents (very conservative people)... By the second scene, it was like naked women and whole lot of banging. I almost sunk into my seat, my grandmom was like staring at me stern eyes like, all the time!!

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My Favorite Films

Star Wars - nothing compares to seeing it for the first time in a theater, except maybe Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Raiders of the Lost Ark OK, so maybe something does compare, but still an almost singular experience.
No Country for Old Men & There Will Be Blood - the year Hollywood teased us with actual cinema.
Grindhouse - You had to be there. I was.
Lawrence of Arabia - in 70mm. Wow.

Lawrence is on in 70mm at my cinema in July. Hopefully I'll still be about by then.

Worth it, it you can make it. Beautiful film.

Apocalypse Now
Fantasia
Airplane!
Singin' In The Rain
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Metropolis
Star Wars
The Empire Strikes Back
Das Cabinet Des Dr. Caligari
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Amadeus
Raising Arizona
Ghostbusters
Moonstruck
Nosferatu
Night Of The Hunter
Empire Of The Ants

Lotta stuff I can't remember but here's a few.