Ruin My Week
Nobody is going to the movies right now on account of the coronavirus, and that sucks big time for people who love movies. Like me. We are getting nostalgic. So when writer and movie fan Daniel Howat asked his followers on Twitter, “tell me your favorite moment you ever experienced in a movie theater,” thousands and thousands of people responded. They shared their funny movie theater experiences, but also their sentimental, shocking, and sad ones.
Tell me your favorite moment you ever experienced in a movie theater. GO. pic.twitter.com/yxhkvFPvPZ
— Daniel Howat (@howatdk) June 26, 2020
He included his own favorite movie theatre moments as well as some of the more common responses on the thread.
Other notable experiences:
-The opening moments of La La Land and knowing it was immediately one of my favorite films.
-Needing to just sit for a few minutes after seeing Honey Boy and processing it.
-Going into Love and Mercy blind, and being completely blown away.— Daniel Howat (@howatdk) June 26, 2020
Most common responses so far:
-Seeing GET OUT for the first time
-The “Portals” sequence in AVENGERS: ENDGAME
-The magic of MOONLIGHT
-A shocking amount of people are saying SNAKES ON A PLANE— Daniel Howat (@howatdk) June 26, 2020
For me, personally, it was when my mom pulled me out of school to go watch Terminator 2 with her. It was special and exciting. Scroll through to see other people’s favorite movie theater moments:
1.
When Anne Hathaway takes her top off in Brokeback Mountain a woman behind me gasped and exclaimed “Princess Diaries!” The whole theater laughed. That was a very memorable movie theater experience.
— Rob Lundquist (@RobLundquist) June 27, 2020
2.
The homeless guy is totally affronted at being ignored, and points to Kevin Spacey on the bus and shouts “Right you miserable bastards…see him?!? He’s Kaiser Soze!!!”
— David Grohl McKinlay (@Tattoodave1608) June 27, 2020
3.
Jaws I was 9, went with my dad, the whole packed cinema completely transfixed. I saw it again a couple of years ago and even though my dad passed a long time ago I could feel him sat next to me. The power of cinema
— Con O’Neill (@cononeilluk) June 27, 2020
4.
I watched Call Me By Your Name sitting next to my mother. During the peach scene, THAT peach scene, my mom suddenly remembers something and leans over and whispers in my ear “we have white peach talenti in the freezer when we get home”
— jury of my queers (@sarahthemerritt) June 26, 2020
5.
I was 17 and had never seen a foreign language or R-rated horror film before (I know). Anyway went to the local arthouse for PAN’S LABYRINTH. The theater was totally empty. It was just me, alone in the dark with a 32 ounce Mr. Pibb and the pale man. It was incredible.
— Ryan Sanderson (@rjsanderson88) June 26, 2020
6.
Got supes high to watch 2001 Space Odyssey at the Paramount in Austin.
Me and my buddies thought we fecked up: “Are we in a caveman movie?”— Marshall “topical nickname” Hester (@AlbinoRhino777) June 27, 2020
7.
Sneaking a full submarine sandwich to watch the movie Drive alone.
I then did that with Place Beyond the Pines and La La Land.
Basically if it’s a Ryan Gosling movie, I’m going alone, and I’m bringing a sub sandwich.
— Lena Quarantineson (@LeynuhPawp) June 26, 2020
8.
This. The whole theatre audibly gasped, but the men next to me screamed and leapt fully out of their seats. pic.twitter.com/KZvAKTxUdS
— Mulder, it’s me… (@DanaMUA) June 26, 2020
9.
Waiting to see the first X-Men movie with my brother and dad. Someone next to us asked my dad if he knew the X-Men. He said “Yeah, the one with atomic eyes and the one with the tungsten claws.” The whole section erupted in laughter. He was so proud.
— Scott Kurtz (@pvponline) June 27, 2020
10.
I was 13 and my friend’s mom picked me up to drop us off at a movie. My mom said “you are NOT eating popcorn for dinner” and gave me tilapia in Tupperware. I opened it in the dark theater and it STANK of fish. “What’s that smell” someone yelled. “Yeah what is that” I also yelled https://t.co/NLQrS7WUvU
— faith (@faith_schaffer) June 27, 2020
