Way back in 1988, I came this close to seeing Die Hard. My friends and i were right there about to purchase a ticket but decided at the last second to explore the mall instead since the theater was connected to it.
I finally saw in on vhs about a year later with my jaws dropped and i was like, OMG this was meant to be seen at the movies. It was still great to finally see it, but i will always know that nothing was ever going to beat the first time watching a movie like Die Hard on the big screen.
Anybody have similer experiences? I mean more like a BIG movie opposed to something you wanted to see but missed out and had no problems renting it later.
Brent L
12-01-07, 02:31 PM
I regret skipping the first two or three Harry Potter flicks in the theater.
Mondo Kane
12-01-07, 02:35 PM
2 Scorsesse's come to mind, Goodfellas and Casino.
Rainet
12-01-07, 02:41 PM
2 Scorsesse's come to mind, Goodfellas and Casino.
Yeah! I missed out on Goodfellas also. That's definetely another movie i regret not seeing but i did see Casino on the big screen thankfully.
JPRaup
12-01-07, 03:28 PM
Sunshine. Pirated a copy months before it came to the US, watched it many times. Wanted to go to theater so bad but it was only showing at one theater and ended up seeing Rescue Dawn instead.
KillerCannibal
12-01-07, 03:45 PM
Recently Live Free or Die Hard. Kept hearing so many good things about it but I just never got around to it. Same with Knocked Up. There's like a 2-3 week period where I realy want to see something that's out, but once that time passes I move on to something else and just wait for the DVD.
Dean Kousoulas
12-01-07, 08:04 PM
2 Scorsesse's come to mind, Goodfellas and Casino.
I missed out on both myself, but last year a local arthouse played classic films every Friday/Saturday night and Goodfellas was one of the movies screened when they had a special Scorsese week.
It was an amazing experience. Too bad they never got around to showing Casino, as it is my all time favorite movie. I would have died a happy man ;)
starseed1981
12-01-07, 08:07 PM
Full Metal Jacket and the 1st Jurassic Park.
GoldenJCJ
12-01-07, 08:33 PM
I think I catch most of the BIG Blockbuster type movies in the theater (at least the ones I'm interested in). But I regret not seeing some of the once in a lifetime (or at least once in a great while) 3D movies - Polar Express, Chicken Little, Superman Returns, etc. I still haven't seen Beowulf either...
PopcornTreeCt
12-01-07, 08:35 PM
Tons of movies as I hardly go to the theatre. Looking back on it I'm disappointed I never saw Eyes Wide Shut, Fight Club, American Beauty, or The Sixth Sense in 1999. More recently, I avoided Grindhouse because it looked awful but Death Proof was pretty good.
Deftones
12-01-07, 09:10 PM
Absolutely. Saving Private Ryan is my biggest regret. :(
Hulkabrgr
12-01-07, 09:34 PM
Yeah! I missed out on Goodfellas also. That's definetely another movie i regret not seeing but i did see Casino on the big screen thankfully.
I am in a similar boat. I had a chance to see Goodfellas, and passed it up. By 1995, I made sure to see a midnight showing of Casino opening weekend.
The others films that I missed in the theater and regret not doing so are:
LA Confidential
Almost Famous
Shawshank Redmption
Aliens
Chasing Amy (I am one of the few to see both Clerks and Mallrats in the theaters, but kept on putting off Amy until it was too late)
dhmac
12-01-07, 10:11 PM
Twice in 1982.
Missed Blade Runner in the theater in 1982 because it flopped and didn't play long enough for me to eventually see it. (However, I did read Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? that same Summer - I even did a book report on it during the following school year - and eventually saw Blade Runner on VHS later that same year in its "European Cut" version.)
Then I actually bought a ticket to John Carpenter's The Thing that same Summer, but the stooge at the ticket collecting booth stopped me and made me see E.T. (yet again) instead with my brother (these were the only two movies playing there - this was a few years before the advent of multiplexes when sneaking a movie was still hard instead of easy.) And I have long regretted missing The Thing in the theater since this unfortunate event.
Nick Martin
12-02-07, 12:08 PM
Batman Begins, Return Of The Jedi (SE), Revenge Of The Sith, and Star Trek: First Contact are all films I kept putting off and putting off until it was too late, then regretted them all after seeing them at home on video or DVD because of how visual and 'big' they all are in some way.
Doughboy
12-02-07, 01:07 PM
I never saw Moulin Rouge in the theater. That's probably my biggest regret.
Blade Runner's another one I wish I'd seen on the bigscreen. But I was 4 when it originally came out and 15 when it was re-released in '92, so it was a little more difficult to make it the theater back then without a license or a car. :)
dugan
12-02-07, 01:09 PM
Akira
printerati
12-02-07, 01:18 PM
Recently, Once. It ran at one of our local indies for over two months, and I still didn't make the time to get over there.
I made sure to see the Alien Director's Cut when it was released theatrically a few years ago, and have every intention of driving to Columbus to see Blade Runner. I was too young to see (much less appreciate) the original theatrical releases, and I don't recall Blade Runner getting the '92 re-release in this area.
jpdude
12-02-07, 01:19 PM
Harry Potter 5, just never got around to seeing it...and although its coming out on dvd soon, it just won't be the same as the "in theater" experience.
mike7162
12-02-07, 03:11 PM
Several:
The Road Warrior
Once Upon a Time in America (the uncut version played for one weekend in my hometown the year it opened)
The Big Lebowski (friends of mine said it was awful - I don't listen to friends anymore)
The Hudsucker Proxy (again, one weekend)
Children of Men (guilty of not supporting a film that really deserved it)
and recently -
The Transformers (those effects had to play much better on the big screen)
PopcornTreeCt
12-02-07, 03:40 PM
and recently -
The Transformers (those effects had to play much better on the big screen)
If you watched the HD-DVD version the effects were a lot more clear.
calhoun07
12-02-07, 03:43 PM
Live Free or Die Harder
Moulin Rouge. A friend of mine went to see it and it didn't really interest me at the time. Then I caught up with it on DVD and thought that really would have been awesome to see on the big screen.
Brack
12-02-07, 04:19 PM
If you watched the HD-DVD version the effects were a lot more clear.
than regular dvd? no way.
Shannon Nutt
12-03-07, 12:22 PM
I didn't get to see RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK in the theaters.
I blame my parents (I was only 11 at the time). :mad:
Giles
12-03-07, 12:34 PM
I didn't get to see RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK in the theaters.
I blame my parents (I was only 11 at the time). :mad:
okay now that aint right...
I resent not seeing Kenneth Branagh's 'Hamlet' in 70mm in the theatre
jpoppe
12-03-07, 12:47 PM
I missed the first two LOTR moves in theaters because I was too lazy to go see a movie that I would have to wait another year or so to see the seconf/third part of.
I opted to wait until the weekend the 3rd movie hit theaters. My GF (now wife) and I watched the first two on DVD for the first time, and promptly went to the theater to finish the trilogy - all in one day.
In retrospect, I'm glad I did it that way. There was really no wait because I had never seen any of the movies and thus my anticipation wasn't too high until mid-way thru the second film when we realized, "Holy shit, we need to finish this - TODAY", and so we did. What an awesome day :D
Still, I would have loved to have seen the first two on the big screen at some point.
LockStock
12-03-07, 03:01 PM
Nightmare Before Christmas in 3D. I really wanted to watch that but I went and watched Darjeeling Limited instead then I never got around to going to the theater again since I was so turned off by my theater experience during Darjeeling Limited (see General behavior at movie theaters thread if you're curious).
Mr. Cinema
12-03-07, 06:30 PM
most recently, Zodiac.
Jon2
12-03-07, 09:54 PM
Disney's Dinosaur.
When it was in pre-production, I had read it was going to be done along the lines of an old Disney-style pseudo-documentary (like the original Incredible Journey) with a Rex Allen type voiceover, and I was really looking forward to it. Then I learned it was going to have "talking" dinosaurs (like the Incredible Journey remake) and I completely lost interest. With the exception of Babe, I've found talking animal flicks to be total turn-offs.
A year later I picked up the DVD (to round out my Disney collection) and decided to view it just out of curiosity. What a surprise. Despite the turn-off of the talking dinos, it was visually stunning. The opening sequence must have incredible on a big screen. I could kick myself for not seeing it in a theater.
Giles
12-04-07, 09:23 AM
Disney's Dinosaur.
When it was in pre-production, I had read it was going to be done along the lines of an old Disney-style pseudo-documentary (like the original Incredible Journey) with a Rex Allen type voiceover, and I was really looking forward to it. Then I learned it was going to have "talking" dinosaurs (like the Incredible Journey remake) and I completely lost interest. With the exception of Babe, I've found talking animal flicks to be total turn-offs.
A year later I picked up the DVD (to round out my Disney collection) and decided to view it just out of curiosity. What a surprise. Despite the turn-off of the talking dinos, it was visually stunning. The opening sequence must have incredible on a big screen. I could kick myself for not seeing it in a theater.
not only the opening, but the meteor shower/destruction scene was hair raising, intense and LOUD.
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