Most memorable moviegoing experience

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Here's another movie-related question: what is the most memorable moviegoing experience you ever had?

It's hard for me, but here's one: today I saw Dreamgirls with my Uncle Erik, and you wouldn't believe what we experienced in that darkened theater. The audience went absolutely nuts for this movie, and they were wildly cheering Jennifer Hudson after she sang a song. Overall, we both loved the film and recommend it to people.

Star Wars knocked my socks off. I'd never seen anything like it.

Agreed. Star Wars as a 7 year old was an experience which could never be matched.

Amadaeus was a spine chilling experience.

The first Harry Potter movie. While I'm not the biggest fan of the first film now, it's what got me going to the movies again after years of being too terrified. I'd been traumatized by a trailer for a werewolf movie a couple years ago and didn't want to go to the movies ever again in fear of seeing more trailers for horror movies. But as a HP fan, I HAD to see the film, and started seeing movie like nuts after that. Yay!

Probably Jurassic Park.

Probably Pulp Fiction.
There was a lot of hype about Quentin Tarantino; but i had not seen Reservoir Dogs and had no expectations.
Great script, dialogue, casting, acting; very entertaining.
Around this time, I used to go to the cinema at least once a day and this is one that stands out.

Well, I was onboard a flight from Minneapolis to San Francisco, watching 'Twister,' and during the most intense tornado / storm scene (I kid you not), our flight hit heavy mid air turbulence over Wyoming. ... talk about "special effects!"

Probably Jurassic Park for me too. I remember seeing it at about 8 years old. I also had a Jurassic Park lunch box.

The most memorable movie for me was LOTR: Return of the King. I had seen the first two movies, and thought that they were the greatest movies I had ever seen. The story, the majestic scenery, the music score, everything was perfect (except for some of the dialogue, and the dwarf humour seemed out of place). But then I was hospitalized for a very long period of time, around the time that the third movie was to be released. So I lay there in my hospital bed, pissed off that I was never going to see this movie, the final one of the series (and therefore the best one), when a friend of mine from my church took me to see it. By the final scene, where Aragorn and all of the men of Gondor are saluting the four hobbits, I was nearly in tears, not only because everything I had seen was so marvellous, but because it was a moment I had thought I would never get to experience.

Seeing Final Destination 2 in a really good theater.

Cellular was a fun experience. It's one of those movies you just have to say stuff out loud, and you really root for good guys.

Other than that a lot of summer movies have gotten me excited where I'm just sitting there in the seat and hyperventilating because I had been waiting for the movie to come out for a long time. I guess I can say I'm always enthusiastic over the ones where I had read the book based on them.