If it looks like it's gonna be really good, I love going to see a movie in the theater...especially on opening weekend.
Saw the very first matinee showing of Independence Day in a packed theater. It's hard to explain that feeling when everyone is of the same mindset at the same moment, feeling the same things -- the shock when US landmarks and New York were being destroyed and the jubilation when the alien ship was blown up. The whole theater erupted in cheers.
It was the same with Forrest Gump (which I'll admit is the last movie I went to see several times in a theater...I kept recommending it to people who would then ask me to go....again), Pearl Harbor (not a great flick, but I saw vets there who were crying along with the rest of us), and just this past weekend, Seabiscuit.
Now if it's a comedy or drama of the talking-on-and-on variety, I'd rather skip it and wait for video or cable broadcast.
And nothing comes close to movie popcorn.
