Most Cinematic Experience?

[Naltic]

It's as the title says, what is the most cinematic moment/experience you have ever had in your life? A moment in your life where it could be placed right into an epic and grand movie, and it would fit extremely perfectly.

An example is an experience I had, quite recently too, where it started raining very heavily with thunder roaring in the distance as I walked out of the kiosk and ran as fast as I could home. My breathing became heavy, the distant clouds were pierced by the glimmer of sunlight as it covered the dark grey clouds and "The Winner Takes It All" by ABBA began playing. I continued running. Quite frankly, it was an amazing moment, and to have lived it made me very happy. But what about you? What moment was that cinematic experience?

 

[bjork]

When I was walking to my first shift at work after having moved to Maui about two weeks prior, the walk involved going down the hill from Route 30, so you got a great view of Central Maui as you walked. The weather was great, the air smelled good like it always did there, and "This is the Day" by The The came on my ipod as I kinda soaked in the moment. Pretty cool.

 

[Naltic]

When I was walking to my first shift at work after having moved to Maui about two weeks prior, the walk involved going down the hill from Route 30, so you got a great view of Central Maui as you walked. The weather was great, the air smelled good like it always did there, and "This is the Day" by The The came on my ipod as I kinda soaked in the moment. Pretty cool.

Nice! Sounds like a great experience to have had.

 

[Cardboardtubeknight Cardboardtubeknight]

Not as grandiose but my first time traveling and trying the chocolate milk. It was pretty mystifying

 

[Dyne]

There were many times, both good and bad, when I was in the military that it felt like I was living in a movie. Kind of that surreal feeling when you look at your situation from the outside and think "this is really happening?"

I'm not sure if this counts

 

[Naltic]

There were many times, both good and bad, when I was in the military that it felt like I was living in a movie. Kind of that surreal feeling when you look at your situation from the outside and think "this is really happening?"

I'm not sure if this counts

If you think it counts, and since you still remember it now...then it counts.

 

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

Probably this one.

I still smile about it.

 

[Naltic]

Probably this one.

I still smile about it.

You have really created an article for every question I have, haven't you?

 

[moonbits]

I did an outrageously amount of psilocybin in a rain forest. I rented a cabin in the middle of the forest and when I got there, I started my silly little adventure and after an hour it started raining, and it hailed, rained like it had never seen before. I could see the lighting strikes slowly descending and the roaring sound, illuminating the sky for seconds. The power went out, I had to keep the fireplace lit all night. All I did was smoke, trip out and keep the fire place lit.

I could hear thunders, animals running about, the rain and hail. I feared for my life at one point; what if a Jaguar suddenly came through the window. After surviving that ordeal I woke up and saw a cute brown labrador in my doorstep, eager to play. I followed him around the morning in the forest. I felt like I was the main character.

 

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

You have really created an article for every question I have, haven't you?

Of course.

 

[Deleted member 2077]

I went camping for a couple of days when I was 11 years old, it was an school event so we went with our classmates and some teachers. Before going we formed groups, each one of them with its own tent & stuff. The location was a somewhat big open green area but surrounded by what it looked like a big forest. The main attraction of that place was thermal waters. It was fun, but some strange things happened there.

1- In daytime we were listening to the teacher talking, all sitting around him on plain ground when suddenly one of our classmates starts screaming out of pain, he was suffering, what I guessed, cramps on one of his feet, when they took out their shoes the fingers looked twisted. I've never seen such thing at that time, so it was mildly shocking.
After sometime he calmed down the teacher kept talking. Minutes went by, when suddenly we all see far behind the teacher, going into the forest alone with the head slightly upwards like looking something upside, the same classmate. Of course we all told the teacher who went there and brought him back. Since he was not my friend and never talked to him due to him be from another classroom I never asked him what was going on with him at that time.

2- Me and one friend decided to explore on our own the forest. We waited for the opportunity, bypassing the teachers vigilance was somewhat easy. Once there, yes, we got lost. That must have been one of the most anxious moments in my life, the forest was thick, out of panic we run searching an exit like searching breath because it felt like the forest was suffocating us. Thankfully by luck, we found the little path we were following earlier and managed to come back safe.

3- It was night and we were ready to go to sleep to our respective tents when I hear someone, while pointing way up to the tips of the most tallest trees: "hey, don't you see something hanging there?". It was almost pitch black the forest area where he was pointing so it was difficult to see, but yes, there was something reddish hanging there. It didn't took much time before everyone gathered to look at it and try to make something out of it. Some went to tell the teachers, with one of them deciding to go check into the forest with a group of students. I didn't go, so I waited with the others in the campsite. To calm ourselves a little me and a couple of friend went inside of one of the female tents and played card game with them but just a moment later we hear screaming coming from outside, we go out quickly and see how all the students that went to the forest comes from there screaming, sobbing, and some outright crying. Ok now my stomach was mess. That shocked me, even seeing classmate regarded as the "tough" ones sobbing. I don't know what happened there, I don't remember if I asked or what, I can't remember. All I remember is the teachers saying it was just a joke from them, they just put a red plastic bag and end of it. But that high, in the tip of such tall tree? Was a joke? Or was the most fastest and easy way to calm us down.

All that being said, that was the best camping ever!!

 

[PrismRed]

Plenty; the origin of my nickname, my first time skipping school during 2nd grade and walk for 11 miles back home, some instances where I fought bullies, the time I met my best bud through Tekken, middle school sports day heist, the great high school escape, mountainside race, stuck in a remote area for 2 weeks, and many more.

 

[Cantarella]

conversation at night with a lady named lucy. The sky was cloudy, but the moon was full and real bright, constantly peeping through the curtains. We talked inside a bar for a while and then went out to hang out under a tree. She sounded pretty sly. Way cleverer than me.

This story sounds like nothing so far, and that's because it is. There was just something about the half-light where we were standing, y'know. That hazy dreamy scene. I remember thinking at the time that it felt like some old-school movie.

Boring end to the story, we just shared a cig and parted ways. Never saw her again even though we had each other's numbers. It was kind of nice keeping my memory of her isolated to that one evening.



in terms of pure visual spectacle, driving through new mexico. Sky was incredibly cloudy, but sunlight pierced through and beamed down onto a big plateau we were passing. Pretty incredible place.

 

[JDCP]

First time sex, would have fitted the funniest comedy ever with how fucking terrible we both were at it. Also it was raining that night so it was extra cool, and the sky was dark... that would be a very cool scene.

Oh fuck but you mean something epic... hmhmh well I don't know, horseriding in the mountains is pretty scenery specially early in the morning (5-6am) when it looks so grim and otherwordly.

There were many times, both good and bad, when I was in the military that it felt like I was living in a movie. Kind of that surreal feeling when you look at your situation from the outside and think "this is really happening?"

Excellent friend, it counts more than you think, that is some serious stuff to go through!

Boring end to the story, we just shared a cig and parted ways. Never saw her again even though we had each other's numbers. It was kind of nice keeping my memory of her isolated to that one evening.

shit that's a nice one! I had a similar thing but with a girl that was waiting for a taxi, back when I was in my late highschool years my mom sent me to pick my cousin at the trainstation around like 10 or 11pm, then there was this sexy, sleek and nice looking tanned one inside a lonely cab waiting for it to go but somehow after staring at her for like 5 minutes (lol ) she got out to talk. Sadly I was going out with someone else around that time and yeah, fuck it, but we shared a good talk that night until the MF of my cousin arrived.

I know how it goes when stuff like this ends at nothing, it's common, and it's alright. Were all just chatting after all, specially when you're so young.

in terms of pure visual spectacle, driving through new mexico. Sky was incredibly cloudy, but sunlight pierced through and beamed down onto a big plateau we were passing. Pretty incredible place.

Same, driving in the countryside around here under the right climate you can see some amazing things sometimes those beams look like a damned portal, you gotta imagine what our ancestors though about them! Like the gates of heaven.

 

[Naltic]

conversation at night with a lady named lucy. The sky was cloudy, but the moon was full and real bright, constantly peeping through the curtains. We talked inside a bar for a while and then went out to hang out under a tree. She sounded pretty sly. Way cleverer than me.

This story sounds like nothing so far, and that's because it is. There was just something about the half-light where we were standing, y'know. That hazy dreamy scene. I remember thinking at the time that it felt like some old-school movie.

Boring end to the story, we just shared a cig and parted ways. Never saw her again even though we had each other's numbers. It was kind of nice keeping my memory of her isolated to that one evening.



in terms of pure visual spectacle, driving through new mexico. Sky was incredibly cloudy, but sunlight pierced through and beamed down onto a big plateau we were passing. Pretty incredible place.

That sounds like a scene from an old-school noir movie. Amazing how reality mirrors fiction, or is it the opposite?

 

[JDCP]

That sounds like a scene from an old-school noir movie. Amazing how reality mirrors fiction, or is it the opposite?

fiction imitates reality, then reality finds new ways to evolve through fiction. Later, fiction goes to imitate the new reality so it doesn't stale and can be more attractive for whoever lives in that new reality. Of course this is not 100% accurate, but it's the norm. And even otherwordly writers like Lovecraft or Verne that seem to be centuries ahead from other writers around them in the sense of the topics they like to discuss in their works... at the end of the day it's still a reflection of their reality. You gotta remember we all have a different thoughts regarding what we perceive as reality and none is the same.

It's kind of like a reciprocal process, except before the fiction became a thing the reality could still sustain itself without it. Nowadays some could argue it's still that way, but I beg to differ...

 

[Deleted member 384463]

Honestly, none.

 

[SoThankful]

I can't recall a grand movie moment, but I do remember a time when I was with two friends, and it was slippery outside. One slipped, so the other laughed at him, and then he slipped himself. Then I laughed at him for laughing, and then I slipped. It looked like a Laurel and Hardy film, so I guess it counts as cinematic.

 

[JDCP]

Honestly, none.

false, we all have had a moment in our lives were we feel like Ryan Gosling... literally us.

so I guess it counts as cinematic

haha that must have been funny as hell! you all be like:

 

[Cantarella]

at the end of the day it's still a reflection of their reality.

yeah

anything I could post could be everything to me and nothing to an observer or vice versa. Obviously if you have some concrete moment that's like, explosions happening and crazy shit going down, then that's probably a less subjective experience for everyone involved. For the thing I posted, you probably had to be there and be subject to the internal feelings I was having, that long buildup of circumstances, for it to hit the way it did.

 

[Yousef]

It's as the title says, what is the most cinematic moment/experience you have ever had in your life? A moment in your life where it could be placed right into an epic and grand movie, and it would fit extremely perfectly.

An example is an experience I had, quite recently too, where it started raining very heavily with thunder roaring in the distance as I walked out of the kiosk and ran as fast as I could home. My breathing became heavy, the distant clouds were pierced by the glimmer of sunlight as it covered the dark grey clouds and "The Winner Takes It All" by ABBA began playing. I continued running. Quite frankly, it was an amazing moment, and to have lived it made me very happy. But what about you? What moment was that cinematic experience?

I think traveling fits that criteria for me.

 

[Nidoking's icon Nidoking Nidoking]

When we were heading to the hospital to visit my dying mother, a beam distinct beam of light was shining down onto the hospital from a single opening in very dark clouds in a very "storm soon" looking sky. It was like the light was literally centered on the hospital.

 

[JDCP]

When we were heading to the hospital to visit my dying mother, a beam distinct beam of light was shining down onto the hospital from a single opening in very dark clouds in a very "storm soon" looking sky. It was like the light was literally centered on the hospital.

That's truly amazing, may she rest in peace. Hopefully she enjoyed the last moments with the very best life has to offer: Family and that beautiful landscape you describe.

I think traveling fits that criteria for me.

Yeah, going to the countryside with friends makes me feel the need to pull a camera out, tape everything and after I get home make a compilation video with Deftones music or some shit. It just fits.

Obviously if you have some concrete moment that's like, explosions happening and crazy shit going down

Sadly only an adrenaline junkie would feel that to be cinematic, that kind of stuff is more tragic than pleasant... life ain't a movie. Cinematic stuff is like cool stuff that just feels nice, like the kind of shit you would like to live if you were a protagonist.

Understandable