[Freakinoldguy]

Thanos Thanos:

Best movie I ever saw in the theatre was Alien: Resurrection. But that's only because I smuggled in a six-pack of supercans and got royally 'faced for the two hours. Great time overall, but the popcorn didn't do much to soak up the massive bladder-bursting piss that I had to take by the time the credits were rolling.

I also saw Armageddon and Lethal Weapon IV at the drive-in. I drank 18 beers but there wasn't enough alcohol in the world to make those two pieces of big-budget Hollywood dreck look any good.

Mine was Tora Tora Tora.

I had to go see it three times to see who won. It's amazing the power Woods Navy Rum has on a persons perspective of world history.

[ShepherdsDog]

For the three(2 adults and a child) of us to go see a 3D movie in IMAX, get 3 med. drinks and 2 med. popcorn it only comes to around $30, which is about 25 min of work from the wife and I. Usually we just hit the food court before the movie and forgo the popcorn.

[dino_bobba_renno]

Thanos Thanos:

Best movie I ever saw in the theatre was Alien: Resurrection. But that's only because I smuggled in a six-pack of supercans and got royally 'faced for the two hours. Great time overall, but the popcorn didn't do much to soak up the massive bladder-bursting piss that I had to take by the time the credits were rolling.

I also saw Armageddon and Lethal Weapon IV at the drive-in. I drank 18 beers but there wasn't enough alcohol in the world to make those two pieces of big-budget Hollywood dreck look any good.

Awsome F'n movie. It's still one of my favorates. The last time I snuck a micky into a movie theater I was in high school. We were so bombed I can't even remember what we saw. I also recall stealing a turtle from the pet store after but thats a completely different story.

[Lemmy]

The movie theatre in my hometown is old school. Concrete sloped floor. We used to sit in the back row and let the beer bottles roll. Usually they'd get hung up on the seat-supports a few rows ahead of you, but once in a while, a bottle would roll clean to front of the theatre and smash to pieces against stage. Laugh like hell.

Best movie I ever saw in a theatre? Hard to call: Star Wars release in 1997? Maybe Terminator 2? No, it was the time that I took Shelly Whatshername to the Lindsay Mustang Drive-in, but I can't remember what the movie was.

[Brenda]

Care to elaborate?

[Thanos]

Freakinoldguy Freakinoldguy:

Thanos Thanos:

Best movie I ever saw in the theatre was Alien: Resurrection. But that's only because I smuggled in a six-pack of supercans and got royally 'faced for the two hours. Great time overall, but the popcorn didn't do much to soak up the massive bladder-bursting piss that I had to take by the time the credits were rolling.

I also saw Armageddon and Lethal Weapon IV at the drive-in. I drank 18 beers but there wasn't enough alcohol in the world to make those two pieces of big-budget Hollywood dreck look any good.

Mine was Tora Tora Tora.

I had to go see it three times to see who won. It's amazing the power Woods Navy Rum has on a persons perspective of world history.

Toat Tora Tora was an awesome movie. Great cast and a pinnacle in the now-lost art of model-making that they used to do for old-school movies. About a trillion times better than Michael Bay's Pearl Harbour, but that goes without saying.

Speaking of Michael Bay movies, by the mid-point of Armageddon, thanks to the sheer awfulness of it all (except for the Steve Buscemi parts of course), I was actively cheering for the asteroid to win. Yup, it was that genuinely awful. The only good part was when Paris got destroyed.

[dino_bobba_renno]

Thanos Thanos:

Freakinoldguy Freakinoldguy:

Thanos Thanos:

Best movie I ever saw in the theatre was Alien: Resurrection. But that's only because I smuggled in a six-pack of supercans and got royally 'faced for the two hours. Great time overall, but the popcorn didn't do much to soak up the massive bladder-bursting piss that I had to take by the time the credits were rolling.

I also saw Armageddon and Lethal Weapon IV at the drive-in. I drank 18 beers but there wasn't enough alcohol in the world to make those two pieces of big-budget Hollywood dreck look any good.

Mine was Tora Tora Tora.

I had to go see it three times to see who won. It's amazing the power Woods Navy Rum has on a persons perspective of world history.

Toat Tora Tora was an awesome movie. Great cast and a pinnacle in the now-lost art of model-making that they used to do for old-school movies. About a trillion times better than Michael Bay's Pearl Harbour, but that goes without saying.

Speaking of Michael Bay movies, by the mid-point of Armageddon, thanks to the sheer awfulness of it all (except for the Steve Buscemi parts of course), I was actively cheering for the asteroid to win. Yup, it was that genuinely awful. The only good part was when Paris got destroyed.

The only good part of Pearl Harbor was Kate Beckinsale .

I've been scratching my head trying to figure out the best movie I've seen in the theater and I'm drawing a blank. The first X-men ... or Aliens 2. I think I was like 14 or 15 when I saw it. We were staying over at a friends house in Calgary when I saw it. Aliens + strange house, yup I was pretty much crapping my drawers all night.

*Oh, my my wife just reminded me of a couple, Lord of the Rings and Batman would definately be up there too.

[Thanos]

I've lost count of the good ones, but the ones that stand out the most were Star Wars, Empire Strikes Back, and T2. LOTR in the theatre was OK but the directors cuts on DVD make the theatre releases look stupid by comparison.

I'd like to go to the movies more often but I'm getting more crowd-phobic as I get older, which makes the whole thing just too bothersome to contemplate anymore.

[bootlegga]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

bootlegga bootlegga:

Ridiculous - what does anyone expect when the movie theatre makes essentially nothing from the film screening itself.

If they don't have a profit on concession items, the theatre closes, plain and simple.

What? Hollywood studios screw the theatre itself? There should be a junkfood tax that everyone has to pay on all junkfood to compensate the poor downtrodden theaters.

Nope, just noting the business model. Without high margin products like pop and popcorn, movie theatres would cease to exist because they hand over 70-90% of all admission to movie studios. The next time you see a headline that some movie made $150 million over the holiday weekend, you can bet that almost every penny goes right back to the studios - the theatres are lucky if they keep enough to pay for the power in the theatre, nevermind staff or other costs.

The movie exhibition industry is like most others - some products are sold at cost or near cost and others have a high profit margin. Look at gas stations, they make most of their profit off of people buying snacks and other high priced goodies, not off gas. Drugstores make next to nothing off the drugs, but make it all off the fees they charge you to dispense it (as well as any other goodies you buy at the same time). Fast food restaurants make a killing off pop and french fries, but next to nothing on burgers. And so on...

Frankly, if people don't want to buy over-priced snacks, then don't do so. Theatre staff don't hold a gun to anyone's head and force them to buy popcorn.

[Lemmy]

bootlegga bootlegga:

Theatre staff don't hold a gun to anyone's head and force them to buy popcorn.

You're so full of shit. You know that smell. You've smelt it. You know as soon as you smell it you'll be buyin' popcorn inside of 30 seconds.

[Brenda]

Lemmy Lemmy:

bootlegga bootlegga:

Theatre staff don't hold a gun to anyone's head and force them to buy popcorn.

You're so full of shit. You know that smell. You've smelt it. You know as soon as you smell it you'll be buyin' popcorn inside of 30 seconds.

Ohhhhhh!!! Pussy!

[Gunnair]

Thanos Thanos:

I've lost count of the good ones, but the ones that stand out the most were Star Wars, Empire Strikes Back, and T2. LOTR in the theatre was OK but the directors cuts on DVD make the theatre releases look stupid by comparison.

I'd like to go to the movies more often but I'm getting more crowd-phobic as I get older, which makes the whole thing just too bothersome to contemplate anymore.

Dances with Wolves, and like LOTR, the directer's cut was far superior.

[Freakinoldguy]

Thanos Thanos:

Freakinoldguy Freakinoldguy:

Thanos Thanos:

Best movie I ever saw in the theatre was Alien: Resurrection. But that's only because I smuggled in a six-pack of supercans and got royally 'faced for the two hours. Great time overall, but the popcorn didn't do much to soak up the massive bladder-bursting piss that I had to take by the time the credits were rolling.

I also saw Armageddon and Lethal Weapon IV at the drive-in. I drank 18 beers but there wasn't enough alcohol in the world to make those two pieces of big-budget Hollywood dreck look any good.

Mine was Tora Tora Tora.

I had to go see it three times to see who won. It's amazing the power Woods Navy Rum has on a persons perspective of world history.

Toat Tora Tora was an awesome movie. Great cast and a pinnacle in the now-lost art of model-making that they used to do for old-school movies. About a trillion times better than Michael Bay's Pearl Harbour, but that goes without saying.

Speaking of Michael Bay movies, by the mid-point of Armageddon, thanks to the sheer awfulness of it all (except for the Steve Buscemi parts of course), I was actively cheering for the asteroid to win. Yup, it was that genuinely awful. The only good part was when Paris got destroyed.

After watching Bay's Pearl Harbour, I should have been pissed as a nit for it and sober for Tora Tora Tora.


Although Ben Affleck saving England during the Blitz was worth the price of the popcorn. NOT

Worst war movie/chick flick ever made.

[Strutz]

As far as movie experiences go...

I remember going to see Saving Private Ryan and what struck me was after the movie was over and the lights came on, the number of people (mostly older folks) that were still in their seats and crying...

It was probably the quietest exit of a movie crowd I've ever been a part of.

[DrCaleb]

bootlegga bootlegga:

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

bootlegga bootlegga:

Ridiculous - what does anyone expect when the movie theatre makes essentially nothing from the film screening itself.

If they don't have a profit on concession items, the theatre closes, plain and simple.

What? Hollywood studios screw the theatre itself? There should be a junkfood tax that everyone has to pay on all junkfood to compensate the poor downtrodden theaters.

Nope, just noting the business model. Without high margin products like pop and popcorn, movie theatres would cease to exist because they hand over 70-90% of all admission to movie studios. The next time you see a headline that some movie made $150 million over the holiday weekend, you can bet that almost every penny goes right back to the studios - the theatres are lucky if they keep enough to pay for the power in the theatre, nevermind staff or other costs.

The movie exhibition industry is like most others - some products are sold at cost or near cost and others have a high profit margin. Look at gas stations, they make most of their profit off of people buying snacks and other high priced goodies, not off gas. Drugstores make next to nothing off the drugs, but make it all off the fees they charge you to dispense it (as well as any other goodies you buy at the same time). Fast food restaurants make a killing off pop and french fries, but next to nothing on burgers. And so on...

Frankly, if people don't want to buy over-priced snacks, then don't do so. Theatre staff don't hold a gun to anyone's head and force them to buy popcorn.

In the unlikely event the sarcasm was lost on you - I was giving a nod to the CD tax we all pay the CRIA to fund the poor artists who are stolen from when that CD is used to copy their music.