No but it almost did in IMAX 3D. Like I said with Titanic and Independence Day, watching a movie with your eyes and then watching it again with your brain is a humbling experience.

"I haven't seen that many angry white people since they cancelled M*A*S*H*." —Chris Rock

Let's compare prostate sizes.

Like with Independence Day, the first time I watched it with my eyes and loved it. The second time I brought my brain along and he was like "Dude! WTF?"

Drive-in with my friends, laying on a flatbed truck. Got in trouble because I was supposed to be home earlier, but it was the second of a double-feature (To the Devil A Daughter, I think) and NO WAY was I gonna miss the one I actually came for. Was obsessed with DotD for years after that, even after getting grounded…

The experience of seeing BWP in the theater was unsettling, even when you knew the truth. Those lucky few who saw it in festival previews and DIDN'T know the conceit, they were the lucky ones.

The Godfather 1 and 2 in the theater. I saw them both 8 years later on TV. Fathom is doing a screening of 1 this weekend.
Beatlemania. What must that first wave have been like, presumably young girls spreading the news among themselves and parents reacting xenophobically.

Born in '64.

I was working in my college's library and got an advance Betamax of THE DAY AFTER that I had to re-record onto VHS. So I was depressed a full 48 hours before everyone else was.

I saw the Bee Gees film about it, does that count?
no. no it doesn't…

Not seeing them here except in response, so I'd encourage everyone too young to consider the first ALIEN, JAWS, and DIE HARD. Each revolutionary in their own way, all three bigger-than-just-a-movie experiences. Being one of the first people to see the chest-bursting? Or the birth of the summer blockbuster? Or Alan…

Saw B:MotP in a dollar theater of all places. The fake gregorian chants at the beginning and the visuals, especially the model Gotham final fight? So great.

It really was. My family made a pact to never watch it again because nothing could live up to the 3D IMAX viewing. Plus the audience got it and was completely silent (same experience during the speed of sound opening of Contact). When people whine about the script or something it just makes me sad for them. And I'll…

For the coming attractions alone. That Thanksgiving trailer is still the only decent thing Eli Roth has ever done.

JAWS at the motherfucking drive-in, while on vacation at the ocean, no less!
Mindlessly worshiping everything Dreyfuss did for another 5 years.
Having the hots for Brody's wife after reading the book.
Seeing the 3D one stoned.
Laughing knowingly at the reference in BTTF 2.
Sigh.

Count Erpoint is right, to a point. I said elsewhere that I was a 7th grader with a girlfriend, so I hit the cut-off for SW being a religion to me. It was a really fun, swash-buckling call back film. I'm lucky to have avoided being young enough to be obsessed with collecting all the toys, cuz I woulda been.

Saw it. Or, smelt it, I guess I should say. It was…divine.

Psycho fun fact: A show called "Don Adams' Screen Test" in which the Get Smart! star helped contestants "audition" (basically mimic) scenes from film in an effort to get a studio contract SPOILED Psycho for me when I was 10. The would-be actresses had to re-enact the reveal of that film—"Mrs. Bates? Mrs. Bates? Argh!"

Nothing prepared me for the Zed sequence. But I got a horrible sense of dread as soon as that redneck pulled the shotgun on them. Shudder.

I'd be hard-pressed to find anyone I know (and bear in mind I was a theater kid then an art school student at the time) who remembers seeing it on its original run, whenever that was. But we all saw it at least once in a midnight revival before VHS ruined everything. It, Road Warrior, The Warriors, Quadraphenia, The…