The most inspiring movie-going experience I've ever had

Rating: 10/10 (15 May 2003)

I'm at a complete loss for words except to say that I've just experienced Cinematic History. I cannot describe how exhillarating the movie was except to say that I've never been so moved, so excited, so inspired by or so absorbed into a movie as I was with this one.
But the movie itself was only part of the whole experience. The theater I went to had 8 showings at 10pm tonight, and 5 more at 11:30pm. We had tickets for a 10pm showing. We arrived at the movie theater an hour early...and were met with a throng of people in the form of a line that circled the movie theater and the shopping center that housed it THREE times. Everyone in that line had already purchased tickets, that was just the line to get into the theater. The line itself, we estimated, was over a mile long. And yet, for a crowd so large, it was all very orderly. The audience in the theater was the same way...people were excited, but not talking or shouting throughout the movie. We cheered and clapped and screamed and said "Ow!" and "HOLY CRAP!" in all the same places. All of that, in addition to the movie itself, made this the single most memorable movie event of my lifetime.
I realize all of these things make me seem melodramatic and silly in the eyes of people who aren't fans of the film, and have no plans to see it. It probably even seems over the top for people who haven't seen the movie yet. But I can't help the truth of how this experience affected me. I will never forget this night at the movies.