Your most "visceral" experience at a movie theater.

[Bedrockgames]

Id buy that for a dollar.

lol

It was the death scene at the beginning. I don't think I had seen a protagonist die, and die in such a sadistic way, at the start of the movie. I was pretty young though because my friends Dad took us to see it

 

[payn]

lol

It was the death scene at the beginning. I don't think I had seen a protagonist die, and die in such a sadistic way, at the start of the movie. I was pretty young though because my friends Dad took us to see it

I remember the fella that gets hosed in toxic waste and then wanders into the path of a van. A lot of folks go through a lot of things in that movie…

 

[R_J_K75]

Most visceral, I'd be breaking the rules of the forum if I said...but it starts with Jagged Little...and the movie was terrible, Suspect Zero.

Saw "the Village" when it came out unfortunately. Drove from Buffalo to Keuka Lake to do a wine trail with my GF at the time. Got back to the B&B about 6PM and said, now what? Well, there's a movie theater not far. Not far was an hour away. I have no clue where I am, so we get out and its pouring rain, 11 at night. That hour drive turned into a 2-hour white knuckle gripping the steering wheel because the roads where one lane and it was pretty scary. I could barely see between the rain, the oncoming headlights and not knowing where I was. We get back to the B&B relieved, and there's a bar. We walk in, the music stops like a Pee-Wee Herman movie, and everyone screw faces us, we left. Terrible experience, I'd rather have jumped in the lake.

So, the two really visceral experiences of movies that I can remember (besides drinking a beer ball before going to see Jurassic Park) didn't really involve the movie at all, but who is counting?

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I got to see And God Spoke when it was released at SXSW- before it got any mainstream theater venues. I went with a friend. We only knew it was a comedy, and we both needed a laugh. Well, it delivered! It’s a mocumentary, and IMHO, one of the best I’ve ever seen. The more you know about making movies and Biblical stories, the funnier it is. It was good enough that I immediately recommended it to a friend in a different city where it was slated to be release a couple weeks later. He called me in the middle of the night after he went to see it, just to thank me for the recommendation.

Here’s a clip:

 

[dragoner]

First is probably Alien, Dallas in the ventilation system, some woman in the theater started screaming.

Next is Blade Runner, very much became my favorite movie, the ending is perfect, brilliant.

As far as stunning, is Requiem for a Dream, when the lights turned on my brother in law said "that will scar you for life" the theater had practically emptied out.

Runner up is Gravity, that movie felt like 15 minutes, raced along.

 

[Clint_L]

The opening shot of Star Wars.

The first shot on Munchkinland in Wizard of Oz.

Crucifix scene in The Exorcist.

CHUD reveal in The Descent.

“…tears in the rain.” Bladerunner.

Final twist in The Ring.

“this one goes to eleven” in Spinal Tap.

Opening sequence of Clerks.

Final charge of Theoden Return of the King.

Pool party scene Eighth Grade.

Pool scene Fast Times at Ridgemount High (I was 13).

Avengers Assemble!

My Number One: “Get away from her YOU BITCH!”

 

[Dioltach]

When I saw Rogue One at the cinema - midmorning on a Wednesday, if I recall - there was a father with three small kids. Very small kids. I always assumed it was his day to have them, but he was going to see the new Star Wars movie, dammit! I wonder whether he regretted it by the end of the movie, and whether it made an impression on them.

 

[Older Beholder]

Anything by David Lynch, but specifically from the ones I recall the most: Lost Highway and Blue Velvet.

In Blue Velvet I was sitting at the front of a mostly empty cinema. I became so freaked out at one point I went to the bathroom and washed my face, then came back into the cinema and sat at the back so no one would be behind me.

Other films that were too visceral:

Requiem for a Dream

Happiness (I actually walked out of this in the end. I got a Choc-Top to eat before the film. The ice-cream was really hard when I went to lick it, it just rolled off the cone and fell onto the floor. I should have taken that as a sign)

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Other films of note:

Pulp Fiction
The Matrix
Gerry

Most recently:

Zone of Interest
Evil Does Not Exist
Flow

 

[AnotherGuy]

Karate Kid, Teenwolf, T2, Matrix

 

[Ruin Explorer]

I wonder whether he regretted it by the end of the movie, and whether it made an impression on them.

I suspect it didn't do much harm, because honestly, much of the movie felt like countless WW2-set movies from the 1950s and 1960s that I watched growing up aged like 5-8, including lots of people dying heroically etc. etc. If they were like, 2-5, well, even the original SW films are way too scary for most kids that age lol, so that'd just bad judgement generally!

T2

Oh that's a good one that I'd forgotten. That was really intense when it came out.

Weirdly I wasn't that moved by the Matrix (it was very cool but not like, that intense for me), but I'd attribute that to having watched so many Hong Kong action movies before it. Specifically to Hard Boiled (1992, John Woo), which honestly kind of better action sequences, and I only didn't include here because I saw it on video (like I think most people in the West) rather than theatres. Oh also lessening The Matrix's impact for me was Dark City, which came out the year before, and had a lot of similar ideas visually and some sort of similar underlying concepts (though it was not as good of a movie).