# Have you ever done a movie Double Feature? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 25, 2014, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-done-a-movie-double-feature/689231 "2014-05-25T11:22:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2014, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-done-a-movie-double-feature/689231/1 "2014-05-25T11:22:06Z")
That is, see two movies in the theater on the same day? Yesterday my friend and I went to see X-Men. After it let out, we had been talking about seeing Captain America 2 again. Looking up at the times we realized it was about to start soon so we got tickets and went and saw that too. I haven’t done taht in along time but it was fun. Have you seen two movies like that? ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2014, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-done-a-movie-double-feature/689231/2 "2014-05-25T11:54:01Z")
All the time if you count the drive-in. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2014, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-done-a-movie-double-feature/689231/3 "2014-05-25T11:55:47Z")
I almost did it this weekend. I had gone to see _The Lego Movie_ and as it was getting out, there was a showing of _Mr. Peabody & Sherman_ starting in a few minutes. I considered going but it was a 2D showing and I decided to come back on another day to catch a 3D showing instead. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2014, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-done-a-movie-double-feature/689231/4 "2014-05-25T12:38:16Z")
Only once, and it was a long time ago. My mother and I went to see _Elizabeth_, and loved it. We spontaneously decided to stay and see \*Shakespeare In Love \*- not knowing that Elizabeth had a cameo in it! Best chick-flick Double Feature ever! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2014, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-done-a-movie-double-feature/689231/5 "2014-05-25T12:42:42Z")
I once went through a quintuple feature! It was July 4, 1974. A local theater showed all five of the original _Planet of the Apes_ movies in order. They even sold bananas in the lobby. I watched them all. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2014, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-done-a-movie-double-feature/689231/6 "2014-05-25T12:46:31Z")
When I was a kid, they showed a double feature of Honey I Shrunk the Kids and…another movie that I have forgotten. We thought it was cool. Both movies played back to back in the theater. ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5ac83/32.png) [@Doug\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_K)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2014, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-done-a-movie-double-feature/689231/7 "2014-05-25T12:59:57Z")
Nitpick: a double feature is when they show two movies back to back on the same screen for one ticket price. Double features were still fairly common when I was young, especially Saturday matinees. You could stay all afternoon and watch each show twice if you wanted. They didn’t clear the house until between the matinees and evening showings. ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2014, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-done-a-movie-double-feature/689231/8 "2014-05-25T13:29:27Z")
I saw _Meatballs_ and _Heaven Can Wait_ at a drive-in when I was a kid. The screen behind us was showing _Alien_ for the second movie. I thought _HCW_ was boring, so I turned around and watched _Alien_. Even without sound, it scared the crap out of me. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2014, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-done-a-movie-double-feature/689231/9 "2014-05-25T13:41:03Z")
Every year we see a quintuple feature and a quadruple feature as part of the Best Picture wind-up. In college I saw a double feature of “Casablanca” and Woody Allen’s “Play It Again, Sam”. That was pretty fun. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2014, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-done-a-movie-double-feature/689231/10 "2014-05-25T13:50:05Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > I once went through a quintuple feature! > > It was July 4, 1974. A local theater showed all five of the original _Planet of the Apes_ movies in order. They even sold bananas in the lobby. I watched them all. In the early 90s I went to a charity event that showed all three Star Wars movies (years before the special editions). It was a blast. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2014, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-done-a-movie-double-feature/689231/11 "2014-05-25T14:07:34Z")
Maserschmidt writes: \> In college I saw a double feature of “Casablanca” and Woody Allen’s “Play It Again, \> Sam”. I’ve seen this double feature several times. Those viewings are part of why I like both movies so much. Where did you see it, Maserschmidt? Were you at University of Texas at the same time I was? Anyway, I’ve seen multiple movies at the same theater on one day perhaps a couple dozen times. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2014, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-done-a-movie-double-feature/689231/12 "2014-05-25T14:26:31Z")
Back when I was in grade school and most of the Saturday movies were in B&W and were about cowboys and such, it was abnormal for there not to be two features along with cartoon(s), newsreel, a serial, previews, perhaps a Pete Smith short and even a commercial for some local store or service, it was the pattern of going to the Lyric shortly after noon and not getting out until late in the afternoon or evening. Drive-ins have been mentioned, and the creature features tended to dominate that fare, but there were many times on up through high school when a few months after the first run theaters downtown had had a film for a week or two it might show up at the drive-ins (we had three that I can remember) that same year. There were also some neighborhood smaller theaters where they might appear before the drive-ins got them. But by the 60’s it was often that the best shot at a good movie was as part of a twin bill, even downtown. That exposure to multiple features in the same sitting prepared me for the binge viewing I engage in these days, what with Netflix (on the computer mostly) and the movie channels and home recordings to DVR or tape. Just this spring, to delay getting my income tax done until the last minute, I binge-watched the entire On Demand offerings of _The Wire_ and _The Sopranos_ over the course of just a few days. The second season of _House of Cards_ was available for a binge watch, so I did. However, I am reminded of something Woody Allen once said about speed reading (that may apply here) when he said he read _War and Peace_ in just a few hours and said, “It’s about Russia.” ---
**Author:** ![Mrs.Cake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/2acd7d/32.png) [@Mrs.Cake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mrs.Cake)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2014, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-done-a-movie-double-feature/689231/13 "2014-05-25T14:31:06Z")
They were still pretty common up through the '70’s, so like a lot of older folks, yeah, saw a bunch of them. Usually an “A” feature and a “B” feature. I must have seen For some reason the Goldie Hawn/George Segal movie “The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox” was B feature at a bunch of other movies I saw, so I ended up seeing it 4 or 5 times without ever actually going to see it in particular. Also, I used to occasionally go to some really awful downtown LA theaters to see double and triple horror movie features. Scariest part was when they turned up the lighting and you could see the floor, although the rat that ran across my sandal-clad feet during “Return of the Living Dead” was a close second. Ah, good times. ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2014, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-done-a-movie-double-feature/689231/14 "2014-05-25T17:01:19Z")
Almost every single time I go to the movies. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2014, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-done-a-movie-double-feature/689231/15 "2014-05-25T17:17:24Z")
The last one was probably a\* Hearts of the West\*/_2001_ double feature almost 40 years ago. Been to drive-ins since then (up to 20 years ago, anyway), but don’t remember any double features. Putting _2001_ as the B-movie made for a _long_ day at the movies. Watching a long movie nowadays just does … something to my brain. It takes a while to readjust to reality afterwards. Can’t imagine what it would be like after 4 hours in the dark. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2014, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-done-a-movie-double-feature/689231/16 "2014-05-25T17:33:30Z")
I’ve seen a couple of movie marathons (Marx Brothers, Japanese cartoons). I’m almost certain I’ve seen a double feature as well (maybe two Jackie Chan movies?). One time I saw all of the Oscar ™-nominated live action shorts back-to-back, but that’s not quite the same thing. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2014, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-done-a-movie-double-feature/689231/17 "2014-05-25T17:37:38Z")
Used to do dusk-to-dawn at the drive-in often, back in the mid-to-late 1970’s. The last time I did it was a Harry Potter/LOTR combo one Christmas season. ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2014, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-done-a-movie-double-feature/689231/18 "2014-05-25T17:41:46Z")
It was the norm when I was a kid/teenager. The one I remember was going with my parents to see The Longest Day and Dr. No. ---
**Author:** ![Pork\_Rind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pork_rind/32/111_2.png) [@Pork\_Rind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pork_Rind)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2014, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-done-a-movie-double-feature/689231/19 "2014-05-25T17:52:51Z")
The greatest moviegoing experience of my life was a double feature back in the mid-80s at a second run theater in my small town in Indiana. Breakin’ II: Electric Boogaloo followed up with The Terminator. I hadn’t seen Terminator, didn’t know anything about it and had my mind blown. The genre clash probably did a lot to set that stage. ---
**Author:** ![epbrown01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ba0ec/32.png) [@epbrown01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/epbrown01)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2014, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-done-a-movie-double-feature/689231/20 "2014-05-25T17:53:22Z")
Been a while. A theater showed “The Mummy” just before the premiere of the sequel. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-done-a-movie-double-feature/689231.md?page=2)