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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BookTenTiger" data-source="post: 9658126" data-attributes="member: 6685541">The AV Club has a <a href="https://www.avclub.com/most-visceral-movie-theater-experience-fury-road" target="_blank">great little article about visceral experiences at the movie theater</a>. What are your most memorable movie theater experiences? The ones when the movie hits just right, your emotional state is just right, and you are totally carried away?For me, the movie theater experiences that hit me just right and just at the right moment are...Mad Max: Fury Road (I remember driving on the highway at night after and my heart just pounding)300 (I'm not really a big fan of the movie, but seeing it opening night in college surrounded by other young people just hooting and hollering, I was a big fan for that night!)Signs (I had literally no idea what the movie was about and it really, really worked for me. That scene in which Joaquin Phoenix is in the closet watching the TV, and on the TV they are all watching a home movie, and everyone is leaning in and leaning in and then BAM! Oh man that really got me.)Whiplash (I saw this right as I began my education to become a teacher. The way the main character is just watching, watching, watching everyone. And then the teacher's escalating abuse... It really hit me hard in the theater, and the grim humor worked for me too. Me and one other guy in the audience kept laughing out loud while everyone else gasped.)What movies hit you at the movie theater in the right way?PS: please spoiler spoilers!</blockquote>

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