Best film you have seen in a theater...EVER

[JohnL]

Mine is probably a toss-up between The Empire Strikes Back (original) and Jurassic Park. I actually saw TESB before I saw Star Wars, although I'd read the book and knew the story by heart from magazines, TV specials, the picture book etc. That was probably the first big special effects movie I saw in the theater. Jurassic Park blew me away with the dinosaur effects. We sat fairly close to the screen, so when the first dinosaur appeared, it looked life-sized.