Personally, The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

I knew it was going to be quite the experience before I went for the first time‡ but it was so much fun I had to keep going back bringing friends each time.

It’s still a fun tradition to do though we haven’t done it since last year, we’re probably going to try and go again in a few weeks.

‡ I had seen it many times before going to see it in theaters for the first time.

  • Skybreaker@lemmy.world
    19·
    3 years ago

    Avengers: Endgame

    The buildup to this movie was basically the perfect storm. And boy did it deliver. I doubt Marvel will ever be this good again. And actually, the fact that their trying to make every movie now an “Avengers” movie is exactly the reason it’s going downhill, in my opinion. Feels like almost every recent Marvel movie (Black Panther 2, Ant-Man Quantumania, Black Widow), they all have to be huge wars with multiple superheroes coming in to save the day. They cant just make a smaller scale superhero movie anymore. There have been a few exceptions, like Shang-Chi, and that one was way better. Avengers Endgame was so amazing in theaters because it was made on a decade of buildup.

    • Dagwood222@lemm.ee
      1·
      3 years ago

      Same thing with the comics, imho. Besides being too expensive, every Marvel and DC comic seems to be part of some giant crossover event.

    • ToroidalX@lemmy.world
      1·
      3 years ago

      Ohhh I’m so jealous. That’s my favorite movie and unfortunately I missed it when it was playing in cinemas. Such a gem and the soundtrack is amazing

    • Bye@lemmy.world
      1·
      3 years ago

      I’m usually the first to complain about character driven movies, as opposed to story driven. Usually I despise the former category.

      Somehow, blade runner 2049 is in my top 10 favorite movies of all time. That’s how fucking good it is.

  • MrVilliam@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    3 years ago

    Inception. I saw it 4 times in theaters. Every time, I noticed new details. It was such a unique and original story, and it was executed incredibly well. I had never seen a movie where the score was so essential to the storytelling. It’s such a dense movie that despite being 2.5 hours, I don’t think I could cut 2 minutes out of it without really hurting the pacing or missing necessary moments. Inception is the reason I can understand and appreciate both filmmaking and the composition and arrangement of instrumental music.

  • sunbrrnslapper@lemmy.world
    9·
    3 years ago

    Barbie. The details in the background of the movie (side comments, set, clothes etc.) capture the female experience better than anything else I’ve seen.

  • Hackerman_uwu@lemmy.world
    8·
    3 years ago

    I actually walked out of Schindlers List and bough a ticket for the very next screening.

    Bleak as hell but I’d never seen a film that locked me in the way that film did.

    • Terevos@lemm.ee
      2·
      3 years ago

      That best my top movie. Which is also Matrix, but I only saw it 3 times in the theater.

      • WeAreAllOne@lemm.ee
        1·
        3 years ago

        Cinema around 12 times (best friend was a Cinema manager back then), the rest at home. Occasionally I throw in the Blu-ray and watch it from time to time…

  • lazylion_ca@lemmy.ca
    8·
    3 years ago

    The first Spiderverse. Saw it with the girlfriend then again with a buddy. I maintain that these are the best movies ever made.

  • fubarx@lemmy.ml
    6·
    3 years ago

    Original Star Wars as a kid. The whole summer. 13 times. Have probably watched it more times since on streaming.

    Nostalgia is a drug.

  • xmunk@sh.itjust.works
    6·
    3 years ago

    RHPS doesn’t really count imo as it’s more of a musical or social event than a movie… it’s honestly on a completely different level.

  • khannie@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    3 years ago

    Flash Gordon is the one I’ve seen most in the cinema. I was absolutely captivated by it as a kid. It must have had a decent run in the cinema as I was very young when it was released.

    Related story - My folks were picking someone up at the airport around that time. After they met they went for a drink in the airport bar right next to arrivals and I absolutely traumatised every single patron by playing the theme tune by Queen on repeat with my pocket money until it ran out.

    edit: To be clear, the damage was done before my folks realised what was going on. Money. Select. Money. Select. They were quite embarrassed.

  • Joe_Moose@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    3 years ago

    Dark Knight, Fury Road, and… Hellboy 2019.

    I feel like Hellboy is a hot take. It bombed and even other Hellboy fans seem to hate it.

  • yyyesss?@lemmy.world
    4·
    3 years ago

    Spirited Away. Before it won the Oscar it was in limited release in the US. A friend drove me nearly three hours to the closest showing. After the Oscar it came to most theatres. I took other friends to see it on two separate occasions.