# What is your best cinema experience?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [May 24, 2006, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-best-cinema-experience/358017 "2006-05-24T11:33:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2006, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-best-cinema-experience/358017/41 "2006-05-25T20:40:00Z")

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One Saturday in the spring of 1976–I was sixteen…

Our town had its first multiplex theatre–three screens in a converted grocery store–for less than a year.  
I arrived in the early afternoon and saw a double bill (remember those?) of Steven Spielberg’s first two movies, neither of which I had seen before, _Sugarland Express_ and a little thing called _Jaws_.  
After that, I left the theater and went across the street for dinner at Taco Bell.  
Then I went back to the theater and saw another double bill, Richard Lester’s _The Three Musketeers_ and _The Four Musketeers_.  
Walked home that night high as a kite.  
Best day at the movies, ever.

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**Author:** ![priapus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@priapus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/priapus)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2006, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-best-cinema-experience/358017/42 "2006-05-25T22:10:18Z")

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When I was a kid,my parents took me to the old RKO Keiths in D.C. to see the premiere of the Nutty Professor.It must have been in '63.The theator was packed with screaming kids (and suffering adults).Jerry Lewis himself was there.At the end of the movie there was a drawing for a pony.I guess my parents prayers were stronger than mine cuz I didn’t win.

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**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2006, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-best-cinema-experience/358017/43 "2006-05-25T22:30:15Z")

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Pretty much everything I saw at the Starlite Drivein in Kankakee, IL. Especially when it didn’t rain and I could sit on our Ranch Wagon’s tailgate.

Other than that, seeing _Galaxy Quest_ with one of my sisters and her kids.

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