Going to the movies

4 years ago

A local theatre offers special movies on Sundays. Today's feature is Raiders of the Lost Ark. We'll be going. It has been a while since I saw that one.

It was on this date, in 1960, that a very special movie premiered in New York City. It was a movie that had everyone talking about it. Alfred Hitchcock's fantastic film: Psycho. Who could forget it!

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schoolhouse_gw

4 years ago

Re: Psycho. I always remember the Happy Days episode where the Cunningham family were getting ready, all excited, to see the new movie "Psycho". Pottsie blurts out, "(So cool!) Anthony Perkins is his own mother!"

LOL.

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nicole___
4 years ago
We rent movies from the library. Our cat likes sleeping in my husbands lap , it's part of the "movie" experience....and the popcorn is only .25cents!

Do you go see the latest releases?
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I bring mine and i'm not sorry about it. I find it to be outrageous that any movie theater would need to charge $3 on a single serving of M&M's that they have bought in bulk for $0.50 or less. There is no need for a 500% profit. Fountain drinks are as much as $4.50 for a large, that costs them $0.15. You also can't tell me that they don't make money on the ticket. Movie theater rent the reels of film. They are a "set" price before the movie is released. They can show that movie as many times as they want or can in a day. Anything over that rental cost is pure profit. Don't you think it would be more fair for these movie theaters to have "set" percentages that they mark-up the food & drink? Most high-end resturants only mark-up thier food 23% and that includes all the costs that they accrue for running the "establishment". Just my opinion. I usually don't want food or drink while i'm enjoying a movie but if I do have the craving, i don't hesitate to bring it myself.
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I loved Hidden Figures (saw it last weekend). Awesome movie. I'd consider A Dog's Purpose, the trailer looks great. Even though I am a cat person. I know nothing about The Comedian. No desire to see LaLa - I don't like movies about show biz, but that may stem from a school roommate years ago who played the soundtrack for "Funny -- ha ha - Girl" about 50 times a day, and I was too much a milquetoast to break the dang thing. To this day: if the topic is show biz... I'm so outta there you won't ever even see the dust trail!
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Does anyone know why the Saturday multi-feature matinees ended? My dad talks about seeing several cartoons, news reels, and a feature when he was a kid in the 30s. Sounds like it lasted thru the 40's and into the 50's, but was entirely gone by the 60's ... why? We still had that available in the sixties. I went in the late fifties and stopped by age 11 (1962) when my friends and I started going to the Friday night movies instead. I babysat 3 young children throughout middle school and high school and on Saturdays I was allowed to walk them to the Kiddie Matinee, drop them off and come back for them a few hours later to walk them home, giving me some paid time off. I loved the formality back then. The theater manager would great everyone personally taking tickets at the door wearing a dark suit. Even at the Saturday matinee. During the kiddie matinee they would have contests and sometimes a live guest between movies. When I turned 12 my mother recruited me as a movie buddy for Wednesday nights. We would have dinner out at some cafe or even at a store counter and then go to the movies. Always sat in the loge area in the good seats. A short time later I went to my first drive-ins on dates and with friends but we continued our Wednesday nights for several years. Another thing that in my opinion used to be better back then was that Disney ran their movies on a six year schedule. That way each generation got to see the Disney classics when they reached an optimal age to view it. It made it special. Just like you used to have to actually go to Disneyland to get mouse ears. Special and magical. A child's first movie experience was usually one of those Disney classics and it was unheard of to take a crying baby into a theater.
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wildchild2x2
4 years ago
Since I am deafened I go to the movies midweek as late as possible. We have a chain of theaters that have 5 dollar Tuesdays. I am often the only one in the theater and I have my favorite seat in each one. Last week I joked with the young lady who sold me my ticket that there was a couple sitting in my row. I told her why I sat there. She said she completely understood because her father has the same level of loss (Completely Deaf on one side 60% on the other) as I do and sits in the same area. I can't stand to be in a room full of wiggling ,munching people. I love that I can check the seating chart before I go in. The couple near to me were very nice and quiet.
amylou321
4 years ago
The last movie I saw in a theater was The force awakens. Before that, the Jim Carrey version of the grinch.

Yeah I dont go to the movies that often. :)
jim_1 (Zone 5B)
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4 years ago
It was good watching Harrison Ford run around and him hardly have any pain.

Wide padded seats in this screening room. The guy sitting next to me made me look skinny. Two sodas, a bag of popcorn and a bag of M & M's. Sometimes, the sound is too loud and I take out my hearing aids and things are OK. Today wasn't too bad.

The missus and I go to first-run movies rarely. A couple this year were worth the price: The Green Book and A Star is Born. Got them before the awards were given out. The missus also watched Bohemian Rhapsody twice, not my kind of music.
Uptown Gal
4 years ago
"Bohemian Rhapsody" and "Rocketman" are both my kind of movie. Great year

for "my kind of music" movies. :) I do admit that it is the music that gets me,

more than the story on these though.
Janie
4 years ago
I'm going to see Rocketman today, can't wait! I loved Bohemian Rhapsody, Green Book, A Star Is Born and The Upside this past award season.

Our theater shows old films twice a week, we don't seem to go - don't know why - I much prefer the big screen to watching at home where its too easy to snooze.

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