Greatest cinema experiences

[Kaunisto]

Most memorable was Eyes Wide Shut. Being a big fan of Kubrick, I had to see the one last film. But how it went was even more special.

When I watch a movie, home or theater, I do have tendency to check clock. It's a quite good measure on how good a film is: how often I check time and how long it takes from beginning till I do it first time.
I'm not sure if EWS made records, but it might be. However that's not the significant point. I only checked my watch twice. First in an hour or less and... then I lost sense of time. When I checked time for second time, I thought there was little over an hour to go. I was wrong (didn't see well in the dark). The film ended in few minutes later. And considering how this and most of Kubrick films come to a sudden end, that effect was amplified infinitely.

I'm not even disappointed and I wasn't then, because that made it my most remarkable cinema experience.


Another special experience was first LotR. Not entirely positively, but special. When the movies were coming I thought I have to finally read the book (I had avoided for years). I decided to read each part before the movie, one per year.
If you know LotR, you know what went wrong there: the first movie includes the beginning of second part, most notably death of Boromir. So having only read Fellowship of the Ring, that was completely unexpected for me when I saw the movie.