Just touching in for a brief moment.
From my memory - various horror films: these are generally the best because you can feel the crowd participation, the tension, and so on.
In recent memory, the best experience was Conjuring 2, it gripped the crowd, lots of screams and so on.
Otherwise, from a grand spectacle:
Terminator 2 (James Cameron)
Jurassic Park (Steven Spielberg)
Independence Day (Roland Emerich)
Titanic (James Cameron)
Avatar (James Cameron)
Those 5 films all really blew my mind in the way films like 2001: A Space Odyssey must have done to people in the 1960s, or Fantasia or The Wizard of Oz. This was primarily because the experience was unlike anything else I’d seen before, and is difficult to replicate on the small screen. Of these 5 experiences - I’d probably put T2, Avatar, and Jurassic Park above the others… those three were massive turning points in cinema.
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