# Which movie did you look forward to the most? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 30, 2016, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movie-did-you-look-forward-to-the-most/770173 "2016-10-30T19:46:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2016, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movie-did-you-look-forward-to-the-most/770173/1 "2016-10-30T19:46:18Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2016, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movie-did-you-look-forward-to-the-most/770173/2 "2016-10-30T19:51:09Z")
THE AVENGERS. _They could actually get this right,_ I thought. They did. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2016, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movie-did-you-look-forward-to-the-most/770173/3 "2016-10-30T20:51:39Z")
_Jedi_. Never again will I eagerly await a movie. Desire causes suffering. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2016, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movie-did-you-look-forward-to-the-most/770173/4 "2016-10-30T20:58:05Z")
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen The Phantom Menace I have learned to refrain from anticipation. ---
**Author:** ![Sefton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Sefton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sefton)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2016, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movie-did-you-look-forward-to-the-most/770173/5 "2016-10-30T21:18:15Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2016, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movie-did-you-look-forward-to-the-most/770173/6 "2016-10-30T21:24:31Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Dale\_Sams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2016, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movie-did-you-look-forward-to-the-most/770173/7 "2016-10-30T21:37:02Z")
Pretty much Independence Day. And Red Dawn. Both completely fulfilled my expectations. ---
**Author:** ![GESancMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gesancman/32/2923_2.png) [@GESancMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GESancMan)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2016, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movie-did-you-look-forward-to-the-most/770173/8 "2016-10-30T21:58:52Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2016, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movie-did-you-look-forward-to-the-most/770173/9 "2016-10-30T22:04:13Z")
“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. ---
**Author:** ![porcupine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ac91a4/32.png) [@porcupine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/porcupine)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2016, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movie-did-you-look-forward-to-the-most/770173/10 "2016-10-31T00:01:09Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Pai325](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Pai325](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pai325)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2016, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movie-did-you-look-forward-to-the-most/770173/11 "2016-10-31T01:01:29Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2016, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movie-did-you-look-forward-to-the-most/770173/12 "2016-10-31T01:22:59Z")
**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. ---
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> [@Pai325](#): > > 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. 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. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2016, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movie-did-you-look-forward-to-the-most/770173/14 "2016-10-31T01:37:45Z")
**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. ---
**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2016, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movie-did-you-look-forward-to-the-most/770173/15 "2016-10-31T01:51:30Z")
Definitely The Avengers. It’s the movie I’ve been waiting for since I was 8 and they did it perfectly. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2016, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movie-did-you-look-forward-to-the-most/770173/16 "2016-10-31T02:25:52Z")
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. ---
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> [@RikWriter](#): > > Definitely The Avengers. It’s the movie I’ve been waiting for since I was 8 and they did it perfectly. I assume you’re not referring to the film based on the 1960s TV series? :dubious: ---
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**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. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2016, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movie-did-you-look-forward-to-the-most/770173/19 "2016-10-31T05:10:14Z")
_Serenity._ ---
**Author:** ![Les\_Espaces\_Du\_Sommeil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/les_espaces_du_sommeil/32/308_2.png) [@Les\_Espaces\_Du\_Sommeil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Les_Espaces_Du_Sommeil)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2016, 9:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movie-did-you-look-forward-to-the-most/770173/20 "2016-10-31T09:46:21Z")
> [@GESancMan](#): > > 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.** That’s absolutely spot-on, except that I was actually 5 when _The Empire Strikes Back_ came out. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movie-did-you-look-forward-to-the-most/770173.md?page=2)