One of my best times in the theater was watching Tremors at the bargain theater,

The Goonies. Packed theater, lots of school-age kids, hooting and yelling the whole way through. Awesome.

My favorite memory like that is seeing Rocky II when it was first out. Small theater, pretty packed, and at the end every was on their feet cheering and crying.

I was only ... thirteen at the time? It was awesome in the true sense.

LoTR movies opening morning. God bless geekery. Serenity premiere. Because. Batman Begins and Dark Knight--both had geeky great audiences. Actually, so did the original Batman movie which I saw at the initial showing while clutching a life-size Wolverine cutout.

I guess my fandom is showing.

One of my favorite movie-watching memories is seeing Strictly Ballroom in pouring rain, with everyone clapping and stomping their feet in time during the climactic dance sequence.

Seeing Singing in the Rain in college. I had talked my friends into going, and we were amongst lots of cranky dance majors (and Bennington had LOTS of dance majors) who did not want to see an "old" movie. Of course, people LOVED it. Afterward, everyone poured out of the theater is a happy daze, and we were all dancing down the dark path and leaping off of benches and it was magical.

Not a movie, but one of my fave movie moments was the first time I saw the trailer for the first X-Files movie. Dark screen and then, "Mulder?" And the entire place went wild. It was great!

Oh, college movies. I watched Princess Bride every time they showed it at McGill and it was a great atmosphere except when people laughed at me for gasping when Count Rugen pulls the knife out of his boots on the spiral stone stairs. But that bit still gets me.

That crowd was a great crowd to see stuff with. Also saw their every showing of A Clockwork Orange. It's where I first heard Singing In The Rain, so my dance probably doesn't look like yours, Scrappy.

College movies -- classic films category: both Blues Brothers and Monty Python/Holy Grail were rocking good times. Slightly older (less than five years old) films category: for Ghostbusters, they handed out bags of marshmallows, which, of course, were tossed all over the theater beforehand and then thrown at the screen when the Columbia lady showed up.

Contemporary films category: not a fun time, but the most moving experience was for The Killing Fields--packed house, a few guys making noise at the beginning of the film, and then dead silence throughout the rest of it, except for moments when you could hear the sniffling noses and outright sobs, especially at the end.

Not a college film, but still a great movie going experience- watching X-Men in a theater full of con-goers.(The con rented out the theater)

It was a little embarassing when I was the only one who didn't laugh at the "What did you expect, yellow spandex?" line. (My comic book knowledge was a little sparse)

Sitting in stunned silence at the end of Talk Radio in a packed house. No one...not one person...moved for at least two minutes, until someone in the back cried, "Oh. My. God." Then, as a body, the entire place rose and emptied at a dead run.