Oh and I forgot --

White Knights-Lose my Breath

I loved this movie when it came out. I was maybe 13? And saw it in the theatre 2 or 3 times, which was a big deal for a kid who couldn't drive. And it's not like it was a movie I could get my little junior-high friends to see with me, either.

Also? Baryshnikov and Hines are beautiful men. I was lucky enough to see Baryshnikov perform live about 25 years ago, and the man was unreal. Michael Jordan unreal.

Also? Baryshnikov and Hines are beautiful men. I was lucky enough to see Baryshnikov perform live about 25 years ago, and the man was unreal. Michael Jordan unreal.

Yeah, he had unbelievable balloon. (The ballet term for uh...floatiness.)

Can you believe my first girlfriend got to see that from the same stage where she was in the chorus? Crazy.

And I think I'm lucky because I got to see a Nolan Ryan no-hitter.

I have actually met people at the movies, but that may be a factor of my friends saying "Hey, let's go see [whatever]" and then arranging it with all their friends to be there.

My great audience moments run the gamut of emotions:

1. College, seeing The Little Mermaid, with most of the Glee Club...who broke into "Somewhere That's Green" during "Part of Your World" (same song, really)

2. Romania, seeing Coppola's Dracula, with the Romanian audience howling with laughter.

3. Romania, again, this time seeing Schindler's List in a theater that had been a synagogue prior to WWII. As we Americans sat there, men and women openly weeping, the Romanians around us kept stealing puzzled glances at us, unable to figure out why we were crying...then the guy in front of me whispered to his neighbor, "Do you think they're Jewish?"

4. Return of the Jedi on opening night, with all the electric fandom energy and anticipation.

5. Attack of the Clones, midway through it's theater run, with a stunningly small turnout due to the crappy word of mouth. At the part where Yoda turns away from Kenobi and faces the audience to say "Much suffering I sense, much death," an audience member responded "I don't think any of us have DIED yet" and everyone there cracked up.

6. Any showing of Rocky Horror

There are probably more, but those off the top of my head.

My most interactive movie experience was the smell of burning starting up around the time that she burns their house down in "Betty Blue". The theatre was evacuated shortly afterwards.

I dragged my 2 best friends to Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country, I think. It's the one where Bones and Kirk wind up in some kind of prison and Iman comes on to Kirk...it was a packed theater and I think there was a collective silent WTF? happening because the entire audience heard me say :"Oh, Please!" and cracked up.

Trilogy Tuesday. I don't think I'll ever top that one.

Trilogy Tuesday. I don't think I'll ever top that one.

Oh yeah! Although it was good and bad...I made the mistake of stepping out of the theater between TTT and ROTK, and when I came back in, the Wall of Geek Funk hit me like a ton of bricks.

I have actually met people at the movies, but that may be a factor of my friends saying "Hey, let's go see [whatever]" and then arranging it with all their friends to be there.

I met a long-time friend at a movie theater. Of course, it was a sneak preview screening of A.I. that we were attending as part of The Beast, so it was more of a geek meet-up than a moviegoing experience.

A friend of mine once cracked the crowd up at a theater showing the preview to Escape from L.A. by shouting "SNAKE PLISSKEN? I THOUGHT YOU WERE DEAD!" when Kurt Russell first appeared onscreen.

Trilogy Tuesday. I don't think I'll ever top that one.

Hells yeah.

All of my most memorable movie-going experiences seem to have been shared with my sister.

I remember seeing the second Indiana Jones flick in an almost-empty theatre with her by my side. We had our legs hooked over the seats in front of us, and by the end of the insect-filled scene, I was practically in that seat in front of me, I had squirmed so far down.

Also, Poltergeist--only this time, it was my sister who was freaking out and nearly pulling my sweatshirt out of shape by hiding her head in my sleeve. (Yes, we were both in high school at this time.)

We went to see a mid-day matinee of Who Framed Roger Rabbit, where we were the only adults in the theatre unaccompanied by kids not out of elementary school or even younger. We were laughing hysterically at so many lines that flew ten feet above the kids' heads that we could hear one child asking, "Mommy, what are those ladies laughing at?"

And then there was the Friday night bargain-theatre showing of Tremors, when the audience went wild. All of the chase scenes with Graboid-cam running along at ground-level or just below had everyone screaming at the screen, "Run, damnit! Ruuuuuuunnnnnn!!!!" That was totally unexpected, and a complete blast.

Oh, there were the college showings:

Ghostbusters, when the theatre stupidly handed out bags of marshmallows beforehand, which we proceeded to toss around. When the Columbia lady appeared on the screen, she got pelted.

On the other end of the spectrum was The Killing Fields, which had a SRO crowd that was dead silent from the very beginning, with only sobs heard at several points until the film ended.