In your life, not necessarily which one you want to see right now the most.
For me, it was The Two Towers. I saw The Fellowship of the Ring on DVD, not in a theater, and thought it was great. The Two Towers turned out to be one of my favorite movies ever.
THE AVENGERS. They could actually get this right, I thought.
They did.
Jedi.
Never again will I eagerly await a movie.
Desire causes suffering.
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
The Phantom Menace
I have learned to refrain from anticipation.
Batman (1989). I postponed my birthday party for a month so that we could see it on the day of its release.
I wasn’t crazy about the movie, but I liked the music and I thought Michael Keaton did a decent job.
Aliens 3. Aliens came out when I was 13 and I didn’t get to see it in theaters but saw it endlessly on cable and videocassette. Now a new one was going to come out and I’d get to see it in theaters and it would be awesome.
Yeah, no. Learned some valuable lessons that day.
Pretty much Independence Day. And Red Dawn. Both completely fulfilled my expectations.
I was 9 years old when The Empire Strikes Back was released. Waiting for Return of the Jedi was the longest three years of my life.
“Out of Africa”. I was in the process of reading it as a chapter book to my 7-year-old son at the time, and midway through the book, we went to see the movie. We did not have TV, so he was fascinated by the idea that books he was seeing in his own imagination could also be seen played out on the screen. Back to the book, he wanted me to skip the part where Robert Redford died.
Definitely “The Empire Strikes Back.” I was 12 when Star Wars came out and saw it nine times in the theater that summer, including once in the first row, just to make the opening scene more awesome.
A Hard Day’s Night.
THE BEATLES!!
ON A BIG SCREEN!!
I screamed my little heart out the first time I went. The next six or so, I watched it.
Chicken Run
I was watching the trailers in the theater. One started out with a black screen saying “From Aardman Animation.”
My mind went, “Aardman? Sounds familiar . . . Aardman . . . Nick Park! … Wallace and Gromit!!!”
I decided I had to see the movie before they showed anything more.
For me, it was The Song Remains the Same. I saw it as a revival, around 1983; it was first released in 1976. I knew I’d never get to see Led Zeppelin; they had split up when their drummer died, in late 1980, about a year before I started becoming a fan.
The concert scenes lived up to expectations. The “each member’s fantasy or hobby” scenes were okay, if a tad silly.
Return of the King
I never read the books and purposefully kept myself spoiler free and after seeing the awesome Two Towers couldn’t wait to see how it was resolved.
Not as good as Two Towers and near the end I thought the dwarf army would show up to save the day. Instead it was ghosts. So disappointing.
Mad Max Fury Road
Since seeing Road Warrior as a kid I always thought for years they could really make that movie great with updated stunt work and f/x. Thunderdome was not it.
Fury Road did not disappoint and was exactly what I thought it should be.
Definitely The Avengers. It’s the movie I’ve been waiting for since I was 8 and they did it perfectly.
Without a doubt, Star Trek: The Motion Picture. After five years of waiting for new episodes of the series… :o
Runners-up would be The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. The latter pretty much killed my interest in Star Wars. I went to see Phantom Menace mostly out of curiosity, and it was a struggle not to walk out halfway through the movie.
I assume you’re not referring to the film based on the 1960s TV series? :dubious:
Lord of the Rings trilogy. Read it in college and then nearly 40 years later it came out in a watchable form. As soon as I saw the preview in a theater, I knew that Jackson had nailed it. I hadn’t been that excited about seeing a movie since I was a kid.
Serenity.
That’s absolutely spot-on, except that I was actually 5 when The Empire Strikes Back came out.