Two friends and I once went to see The Watcher at a theater in our small college town, and we ended up being the only ones there.
Many rears ago, you would walk intio a theatre at any time, and the featured film would be running. You could stay as long as you wanted…and see the film end to end. When did this practice stop? Was it because of the advertising that they tack onto the fron of every film today?
Ah, yes, the memory of so many rears…
Anyway, saw A.I. with about 4 other patrons in San Francisco. It was in a HUGE theater, maybe 700 seats… an interesting experience…
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I’ve shown up late for movies before only to find a completely empty theater.
I also live in a small town, so this isn’t all that uncommon.
I went to see a movie with a friend. We had movie passes, and wanted to see ‘The Full Monty’.
They weren’t accepting passes for ‘The Full Monty’, so we got tickets to ‘The Game’, which was running at app. the same time, then we ducked into the theater that ‘The Full Monty’ was playing in and waited. And waited.
After a while we realized they weren’t going to show the movie, because nobody had bought tickets - it was showtime and the lights were still on. So we went and saw ‘The Game’ instead.
I nipped down to see the last showing of Veronica Guerin – 9:30 or so on a Thursday and it was gone the next day. 80-seat theater (the smallest they had) with no one but me there, and I got in on a pass. Made money on the soda and popcorn, though.
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