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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Deset Gled" data-source="post: 9658375" data-attributes="member: 7808">My spouse had a very strong reaction to Thirty Days of Night in the movie theater.  The combination of high-speed vampires, darkness, and a soundtrack that featured lots of sub-sonic tones literally gave her some odd heart palpitations that she hasn't gotten from any other horror movies.  At one point I was actually starting to worry she was might have been having some kind of medical episode, but she got through it like a trooper.Also, I don't know if "visceral" is the right term, but there's a certain kind of movie experience that you only get in a theater that has a bunch of little kids.  For example, I saw Up in the theater when it first came out.  At the end of the opening tearjerker sequence there's a shot of Carl sitting in his chair, with his wife's empty chair next to him.  The mood and music were somber.  And in the theater, we heard a very sad, but also confused, little kid suddenly say loudly "Mommy, why is the man all alone?"  Normally, interruptions in silent parts of movies kill the mood, but that one was so in tune it could have been scripted.  Or, on a slightly funnier note, we saw Jim Carrey's Grinch in a theater, and there's a jump scare when you see his face on camera for the first time, taking up the whole screen.  We got to see a toddler near the front row totally freak out and be carried out by a parent (they eventually came back in later).  IMNSHO, that movie is the worst adaptation of the Grinch made yet, but I laughed at that the way you only can after your kids are old enough to not be that kid anymore.Oh, and we recently saw Minecraft on opening night with a bunch of middle schoolers in the theater.  Personally, I don't get it.  But from what I saw I imagine that movie is pretty close to their generation's version of Rocky Horror.</blockquote>

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