# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2016, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movie-did-you-look-forward-to-the-most/770173/21 "2016-10-31T10:39:53Z")
When I was a kid it was _Return of the Jedi_. I was mad for it. Still love it, even the ewoks. But more recently it was the first _Lord of the Rings, Fellowship of the Ring_. I’m not even a fan of the books, but the combination of my home country of New Zealand, and a huge epic that could be the _Star Wars_ of the new century, really had me pumped. To continue the theme, I also was epically excited for _The Force Awakens_, but I held back a little, cautiously optimistic. ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2016, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movie-did-you-look-forward-to-the-most/770173/22 "2016-10-31T10:56:03Z")
> [@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. Yeah, for me Return of the Jedi would have to be it, because as a child I’d never seen a cliffhanger before and certainly never waited three years to see it resolved. And this is going to sound silly, but Freddy vs. Jason was another. I adored those slasher movies when I was a kid and to see them clash was like a dream come true. And they did it surprisingly well. That movie is said to be critic-proof for that reason. Lord of the Rings never really excited me, although I did like the movies. But if they ever try to make Thomas Covenant into a movie, that’ll be highly anticipated for me. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2016, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movie-did-you-look-forward-to-the-most/770173/23 "2016-10-31T11:07:18Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > **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. Nick Park is directing the [next one](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Man_(film)) himself. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2016, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movie-did-you-look-forward-to-the-most/770173/24 "2016-10-31T12:03:57Z")
Whichever Tarantino movie is being released. In recent years, other than _Gravity_ which I saw with some friends, Tarantino is the only film maker I see on the big screen. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2016, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movie-did-you-look-forward-to-the-most/770173/25 "2016-10-31T12:17:14Z")
Ralph Bakshi’s “Lord of the Rings” - oh, the pain! ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2016, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movie-did-you-look-forward-to-the-most/770173/26 "2016-10-31T12:19:00Z")
> [@Dendarii\_Dame](#): > > 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. Same as me, though I saw Fellowship in the theater and realized it was an instant classic. I remember sitting in the theater before the midnight screening of Two Towers and telling my friend, “It’s weird sitting here before a movie knowing that we are about to watch a classic.” It was. I now think the extended cut of Two Towers might be the best individual movie of the trilogy(though I hardly separate them as individual movies now). **Note: I may have anticipated Phantom Menace more, but looking back, it is hard to believe it. Despite early poor reviews, I still believed Lucas was talented and knew what he was doing. I have less memory of this time than I do of LotR.** ---
**Author:** ![Staggerlee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/staggerlee/32/3134_2.png) [@Staggerlee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Staggerlee)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2016, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movie-did-you-look-forward-to-the-most/770173/27 "2016-10-31T12:33:04Z")
> [@Jophiel](#): > > 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. Having quite liked Alien 3 myself (and ignored Resurrection) I had high hopes for Prometheus. That was all the more a frustrating let-down given its decent cast and effects. I still hope that one day the film could be edited, with a new script and judicious use of CGI lip-synching, to make it what it could have been. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2016, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movie-did-you-look-forward-to-the-most/770173/28 "2016-10-31T14:17:33Z")
_Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull_. I can’t even use youth as an excuse. Never again. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2016, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movie-did-you-look-forward-to-the-most/770173/29 "2016-10-31T15:43:03Z")
> [@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. Well…not A Hard Day’s Night, but I really looked forward to seeing Ron Howard’s Beatles documentary “Eight Days A Week: The Touring Years” on the big screen. I had a smile on my face and was tapping my toes from the beginning…the most fun I’ve had at a movie in a long time. ---
**Author:** ![Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aji_de_gallina/32/260_2.png) [@Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aji_de_Gallina)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2016, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movie-did-you-look-forward-to-the-most/770173/30 "2016-10-31T16:19:26Z")
- The Passion of the Christ - Lord of the Rings - Rush ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2016, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movie-did-you-look-forward-to-the-most/770173/31 "2016-10-31T16:48:31Z")
Without a doubt, _Lord of the Rings_ trilogy. And it didn’t disappoint! Probably _Star Wars_ before that. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2016, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movie-did-you-look-forward-to-the-most/770173/32 "2016-10-31T16:51:44Z")
Teenage me thought the trailer for Independence Day was the coolest thing I’d ever seen, and I was incredibly excited to see it. And I loved the movie at the time. It hasn’t held up terribly well, from my memory, though I haven’t seen it in years. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2016, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movie-did-you-look-forward-to-the-most/770173/33 "2016-10-31T16:58:08Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > Teenage me thought the trailer for Independence Day was the coolest thing I’d ever seen, and I was incredibly excited to see it. And I loved the movie at the time. > > It hasn’t held up terribly well, from my memory, though I haven’t seen it in years. I saw it recently, and it wasn’t too bad. A little cheesy, but it was always a little cheesy. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2016, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movie-did-you-look-forward-to-the-most/770173/34 "2016-10-31T17:11:55Z")
_The Shining_. I was so obsessed with that book and when the preview came on before another film I was seeing I about let out a squeal of joy. Do made for TV movies count? _KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park_. My two favorite things, KiSS and Magic Mountain. I barely remember anything about the movies itself but I counted down the days until it aired. _Gone Girl_ was highly anticipated, as was _Never Let Me Go_. Probably any book I’ve enjoyed I’ve looked forward to the movie version, including a lot of Stephen King that doesn’t always turn out well. ---
**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, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movie-did-you-look-forward-to-the-most/770173/35 "2016-10-31T17:22:15Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > Teenage me thought the trailer for Independence Day was the coolest thing I’d ever seen, and I was incredibly excited to see it. And I loved the movie at the time. > > It hasn’t held up terribly well, from my memory, though I haven’t seen it in years. For me, the best thing about \*\*\*Independence \*\*\*\*\*\*Day \*\*\*was Margaret Colin. I once spent a debauched long weekend with a hot divorcee who was a dead ringer for her. :o ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2016, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movie-did-you-look-forward-to-the-most/770173/36 "2016-10-31T17:25:44Z")
_Robin and the Seven Hoods_ (1964). I was 9 and thrilled at the idea of watching a movie with Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra together. Mainly 'cause my father was a big fan, and his enthusiasm was infectious. I liked it very well, and it still brings a smile. More recently, another vote for _Marvel’s The Avengers_. ---
**Author:** ![Cartoonacy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/848f3c/32.png) [@Cartoonacy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartoonacy)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2016, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movie-did-you-look-forward-to-the-most/770173/37 "2016-10-31T20:55:40Z")
_Green Lantern_. I’ve been a fan of the character since 1965, and after seeing _Star Wars_ for the first time in 1977, I thought that at last it was possible to do justice to my favorite superhero on the big screen. It took another 34 years for that to happen, and – well, you know the result. I didn’t hate the film like most people did. I thought the CGI was fine for the most part (not so crazy about the CGI costume, but that’s a relatively minor thing), and the actors did well with the material they had (especially Mark Strong as Sinestro). AFAIAC, it was the script that failed miserably. ---
**Author:** ![Cartoonacy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/848f3c/32.png) [@Cartoonacy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartoonacy)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2016, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movie-did-you-look-forward-to-the-most/770173/38 "2016-10-31T21:01:13Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > For me, the best thing about \*\*\*Independence \*\*\*\*\*\*Day \*\*\*was Margaret Colin. We went to the same university. I wish I’d saved the programs from the plays I went to. She was probably in a few of them. ---
**Author:** ![snoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@snoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snoe)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2016, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movie-did-you-look-forward-to-the-most/770173/39 "2016-10-31T21:07:55Z")
Had to be the two R-rated movies I remember sneaking into solo as a teen: _Godfather III_ and _The Doors_. Ah, youth. I think I got into _Godfather_ without a hassle, but I had to buy a ticket for something else and switch theaters to see _The Doors_. As an adult, I don’t get my hopes up about movies too often, but I was pretty psyched to see _The Master_ on the 70-mm screen and went out of my way to do so. Much more worthwhile than the other two. ---
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Certainly _The Phantom Menace_. I remember thinking, “I’ve waited 15 years for this,” and feeling exhilarated as the opening credits rolled. My anticipation was so high that I convinced myself all the way home afterwards that it was a great movie. Only upon waking up the next day did I realize, for then and forever, what an absolute POS it was. I also looked forward to _The Two Towers_ and _The Return of the King_, once I realized how good the _The Fellowship of the Ring_ was. However, I knew exactly when they were going to come out so the anticipation was less and I was not disappointed (although I rally wanted to see the Shire scoured). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movie-did-you-look-forward-to-the-most/770173.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movie-did-you-look-forward-to-the-most/770173.md?page=3)