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Yep. There's one here in town. It's closed for the winter but will re-open in a couple of months. The same people own the local (indoor) theater as well. I went there last night with my lady, her one sister and their mother. They even have the ability to remove a seat for the handicapped visitor (Lisa is in a wheel chair).
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My recliner is much more comfortable and if you are willing to wait a few months, the latest and greatest movie will be available on Demand for under $10. For that, we can get Amazon Prime, Hulu and Netflix for a month with money left over to buy popcorn and cokes. |
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Lat time monkey set foot in a movie theater was 1999 for Star Wars: Phantom Menace. Ain't ever going back to a theater again.
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![]() ![]() Actually, the movie had nothing to do with it. I just lost interest in seeing movies in theaters. Home TV/internet is more than sufficient for my needs. PS: did you ever have a hankerin' to take a pair of scissors to one of his eye stocks? ![]() ![]() |
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January 2009 was the last time I was in a theater. We saw My Bloody Valentine. Not as good as the previews.
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I've only seen 4 or 5 movies in a walk-in theater over the past 20+ years. I used to occasionally go to the $1 shows, but those were even worse as far as the noise and interruptions from others. The last time I went to a walk-in theater it was actually a pretty nice experience as it was one of those dinner and movie theater combos. But it was too pricey. I still prefer my lounge chair and home theater.
...and to bring our wondering back to the original topic of "Blast from the Past"... One of the things my parents enjoyed back in the 1970s were the Dinner Theaters wherein they could have a nice meal, drinks, and a theatrical play performed by local actors and often including some well known Hollywood or Broadway actor as well. Granted doing the dinner theater circuit was usually for the actors who had seen their movie or TV careers wane, they were still celebrities and people loved seeing them perform in person. Last edited by jswinden; 03-01-2017 at 09:26 AM. |
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I used to go to the theater 2-3 times a month or more when I was in South Carolina. If no one else wanted to see the movie I would go alone.
Now I'm working evenings so I don't get as many opportunities. The last movie I saw was The Arrival. |
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I have not gone to a theatre after 2001.
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I haven't seen a movie in a movie theater in over a quarter century except for the handful of times the software company that I used to work for had an "all hands offsite meeting". The office would pay for the tickets and some 30-50 of us would go to the same showing of the movie. I remember seeing the LotR movies, Contact, and a couple of Star Wars movies this way.
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