There was one old lady who sold tickets at our local theater who would enforce it. My boyfriend (now husband) and his best friend wanted to see Speed, but she was working. So they bought tickets to Lion King and planned to theater hop but couldn’t pull it off.
Boyfriend and I wanted to see Vampire in Brooklyn with Eddie Murphy. His parents went with us. (Not sure why that happened.) Parents were there before us. Same old lady decides to shut us down. My now father in law had to come out of the theater to say we were with him.
Well that's because back in the 90s, you didn't have to watch the 16 prequels to know what the fuck is going on in the latest movie shat out by Disney.
These days everything is either a sequel, a prequel, or a reboot of a franchise.
Yeah and while there were sequels and ongoing movie franchises back in the 90s almost all the movies listed in that paper (with the exception of Star Trek: Generations) were either original screenplays like Pulp Fiction or the Lion King or maybe a new movie based on a book like Forest Gump or Interview With A Vampire that hadn’t been done before.
I feel like the energy put into new original movies back then just went into new TV shows on cable.
I remember waiting what felt like 2 years before The Lion King was released on VHS. I saw it three times in theaters. Twice at the regular theater and once at a discount theater before it was completely gone.
Yes, very true. Lion King came out in June and Forrest Gump came out in July and they were still I first run theaters by Thanksgiving. Pulp Fiction came out in October and was a slow burn hit and was still in theaters by the spring of 1995 (I remember seeing it in a fairly packed theater then). These days everyone expects movies on streaming within a month or so.
Lion King was a strange case that year, it came out in June played through August then got pulled entirely from theaters, it was then rereleased for Thanksgiving. I know this cause I worked at a movie theater and got cussed out by parents since I was obviously the person responsible for Disneys decision.
I just zoomed in and damn, there were a lot of good movies out! I also loved second-run movie theaters where a show was like a dollar. I used to go see so many movies, I easily spent more total in a year on going to the movies when I was in college (a dollar or two at a time) as I do now.
Pulp Fiction, True Lies, Natural Born Killers, ST Generations, Stargate, Forest Gump, Clear and Present Danger. I would give anything to watch any of those for the first time again.
I remember going to see Star Trek Generations in theaters in ‘94 with my uncle and cousins. My uncle introduced me to comic books, Star Trek, Star Wars and D&D. I still tell him to this day I blame him for me being a total nerd 😆
I see 8 good movies right off the bat on that page. Today I see maybe two or three (if I am really bored) to give a chance ( and I mean “your telling there is a chance “ level. I mean Star Trek, 34th street and Santa clause ( classics and now we have red one a Christmas movie) and Stargate, forest gump, lion king(og not lion king 50 or jaws 19(shark looks even more fake))
It wasn’t terrible. Had a few laughs and a few stars. One of my favorite movies about the Army and not all that far off from the experience of deploying as a Reservist
my wife had a bootleg vhs of the lionking. The old camcorder in a theater trick. It must have been opening weekend or something because the place was packed. When that Mufasa scene came on, you heard all the kids start yelling no and crying.... oh my... as wrong as it is,.... it was funny as heck.
So pleasantly surprised with the new series. The casting is sooo good, especially Lestat. I laughed when I read reviews that it was "super gay"......um yeah? are you familiar with the source material?
Thankful AMC gave us something to sink our teeth into with that "Behind the music" Lestat interview, I mean how could they not? It's the Brat Prince himself.
Four out of five of that year’s Best Picture nominees were in theaters on that day. Forrest Gump, Pulp Fiction, Shawshank Redemption, and Quiz Show. Only one not playing at that point was Four Weddings and a Funeral.
I miss this era of movies. This may be an unpopular opinion, but I’m kinda over all the comic book movies and sequels. I know that it’s keeping Hollywood going because they all make a billion dollars, but I miss the variety.
Actually Forest Gump came out in July that year and Pulp Fiction came out in October. It was just that Gump was such a massive hit it stayed in theaters forever. And Pulp Fiction was a slow burn hit so it stayed around well into 1995 also.
I think one of the underrepresented answers to the question, "what would you do if you had a time machine?" would be to see some ("classic" to us in 2024) movies, in the theaters, with an audience who is seeing them for the first time.
Used to love on weekends when my family would have breakfast and then my Dad would say “ok kids, find a movie” and throw us the paper. Me and my sister would scour the listings and yell out suggestions. Stop at the supermarket to pick out a candy to hide in my mom’s purse, then he’d drop us off with our Mom to find seats while he parked and got popcorn and soda (we’d usually be running late lol). I know it sounds inconvenient, but it made seeing a movie way more rewarding than just buying your ticket and reserving seats online.
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