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SvennoJ on 13 September 2025
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Soundwave said:

Seeing Jurassic Park in a theater for the first time, no one could believe that the dinosaurs looked that real.

I remember seeing it multiple times that summer and even like well into July when the movie had been out for a month, there were still selling out evening shows with lines down the street. 

Probably not expected but I'll list Titanic there too. Hearing people full on weeping in the theater was ... something. I also remember an entire family came out with grandparents and all and took up like an entire aisle. That movie was a phenomenon unlike anything else. 

Jurassic Park was also the first movie I saw in the theater with surround sound. I'll never forget that first viewing, cinema packed full, everyone wildly looking behind them at certain parts lol. It was epic and at a time movies (in the Netherlands) still had a bathroom/snack break in between so you got to talk about the movie halfway through. I kinda miss that. Helped with people going in and out during the movie as well.

And yeah Titanic which I first saw in Tuschinski. The theater makes half the experience.

Second time I watched it in Imax which was actually less impressive, black box theater. 

Other greatest experiences were Terminator 2, Pulp Fiction, The Fifth Element (went 3 times, opera scene was a highlight in the cinema), Natural Born Killers (this needs a big screen with Oliver Stone's projection techniques), Twister (surround sound is made for this movie), Alien Resurrection, Sin city and the Matrix.

We watched the Matrix in NY, we flew there for the premiere of Star Wars The Phantom Menace. That didn't live up to the hype, then we went to see the Matrix without any expectations or prior knowledge, some sci-fi movie is all we knew. Mind blowing!

The 90s were peak cinema, only Sin City is from past 2000...

Interstellar was one of the great experiences as well. In Imax 70mm in Missisauga. It was a 40 minute drive to a boring theater though and only parts of the movie are actually filmed in 65mm. But the only way to experience the 1.43:1 IMAX ratio in full. Black bars under and above during the 35mm parts. (And half as sharp) But I can't put it next to my greatest experiences since the sound was much better at home :/