Born in 1979 in Kent, I now live in Birmingham.
I’ve always been one for films and after an employee at a UGC cinema in Rochester persuaded me to get one of their cards to see films whenever I liked, I’ve been even more hooked.  Personally I don’t see anything wrong with going to the cinema on your own.  Who cares?!  You’re sat in a darkened room, watching a film.  If people are more interested in someone else, they’re clearly not there for the film (or they need to get a life).
My most surreal experience at a film had to be when I was watching Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers for the first time.  When Gandalf appears over the hill to come and relieve the siege, with the hoards of riders and with the sun rising behind him, cresting the hill and with the music pounding and the emotion rising: I found myself unable to open my hands (they went like claws), I was unable to straighten my neck, my heart was bursting out of my chest and pounding ten to the dozen (I wasn’t able to walk out of the cinema very well as the credits rolled either due to my legs going to jelly).  All in all, a nerve-wracking time and one that has, to this day, ne’er been repeated.
Other experiences include The Passion of The Christ: where I found myself watching the flagellation scene through my fingers; Babel: where I got the closest I ever have to walking out of a cinema; being at a launch screening of Doctor Strange in 4DX and feeling it was more of a roller-coaster/simulator gimmick than an enhancement; and sitting there at the opening scenes of the newly relaunched Star Trek films almost weeping with joy and surprise before the titles even ran!  And let’s not go in to the geek-boy/childlike feelings of excitement and anticipation I had when the screen displayed the ‘Lucasfilm’ logo at the start of Star Wars: The Force Awakens before blasting in to the all-too-familiar theme tune.

I’ll watch all kinds of films: foreign language, historical, sci-fi, comedy, drama, action.  The only ones I’m no great fan of are those really gross-out horror ones like Saw or The Hills Have Eyes etc.  I don’t mind the psychological horror but nasty gore for the sake of it…nah.  Had nightmares after watching the start of a Nightmare on Elm Street film as a kid and maybe it’s stayed with me! lol

Films are an escape.  A chance to leave the real world behind.  With films I can travel in time, I can experience places I will never see.  I can be in space one day and then find a place in history the next.  I can be a witness to turning points in humanity one moment and then be a fly-on-the-wall the next.  They can reward and they can enhance.