# 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:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2014, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-done-a-movie-double-feature/689231/41 "2014-05-27T16:32:25Z")
The OP is clearly not a film festival-goer, because seeing 3-4 films a day (often day after day) is the norm when attending a major film festival. ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2014, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-done-a-movie-double-feature/689231/42 "2014-05-27T16:57:41Z")
> [@MovieMogul](#): > > The OP is clearly not a film festival-goer, because seeing 3-4 films a day (often day after day) is the norm when attending a major film festival. Yep. In March I go to the month-long European Union Film Festival, with 2 films each weeknight and 3-4 film each weekend. This year I missed a few because I was sick, but I still saw 58 movies in March (that does include a few non-EUFF films). That’s less than the previous 3 years. Three years ago I saw 71 movies in one month. Insane? Oh yes, and I enjoy every minute. No sense in being insane if you can’t have fun! ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2014, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-done-a-movie-double-feature/689231/43 "2014-05-27T17:10:43Z")
When _Return of The Jedi_ came out in '83, a nearby theater showed it AND _Star Wars_ and _The Empire Strikes Back_ (all three movies, in order). My mom took my brother and me. We were in the theater for something like 7-8 hours. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2014, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-done-a-movie-double-feature/689231/44 "2014-05-27T17:23:26Z")
I used to do what I called a [**SpoilerVirgin**] double feature all the time. This involves buying separate tickets for two movies on the same day, often at different theaters. I don’t drive, and I always used to give extra points for the more complicated the public transportation was between the two theaters. I also gave bonus points for finding a good connecting theme between the two movies. I remember once going to two Denzel Washington movies in a row (looking at IMDB, probably _Philadelphia_ and _The Pelican Brief_). I also remember seeing two silly movies about aliens in a row, probably _Earth Girls are Easy_ and _My Stepmother is an Alien_. With the ease of seeing movies outside of the theater, I don’t do it much anymore, but occasionally I have two movies that I really want to see, or I’m just in the mood to spend the day at the movies, and I will put together my own double feature. ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2014, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-done-a-movie-double-feature/689231/45 "2014-05-27T21:51:33Z")
I think I only did once. It was at a drive-in theater when I was about 7 or 8. I don’t remember what the first movie was (_Romancing the Stone?_), and I think the second was _Risky Business._ ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2014, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-done-a-movie-double-feature/689231/46 "2014-05-27T22:16:01Z")
If this counts, I saw [The Adventures of Ford Fairlane](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098987/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1) twice in the theater opening day. I’d made plans to see it with a friend (and forgot until she reminded me), and a friend that didn’t know her wanted to see it, too, at a different time. ---
**Author:** ![That\_Don\_Guy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/that_don_guy/32/538_2.png) [@That\_Don\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/That_Don_Guy)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2014, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-done-a-movie-double-feature/689231/47 "2014-05-28T17:11:34Z")
Technically, I have, but with an asterisk; it was two showings of the same movie (The Simpsons Movie, to be exact). It was on multiple screens in a theater and the start times were staggered, so I saw the first showing on opening day, then saw it again about 30 minutes after the first one finished. The last true “double feature” I saw was about 30 years ago (Monty Python at the Hollywood Bowl followed by The Secret Policemen’s Other Ball (the US cut).) ---
**Author:** ![Calatin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/439d5e/32.png) [@Calatin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Calatin)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2014, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-done-a-movie-double-feature/689231/48 "2014-05-28T18:16:43Z")
When The Dark Knight Rises came out, the opening night, theaters were airing the trilogy as a movie marathon - Batman Begins at 6 or so, then The Dark Knight around 9, and then the new movie would air at midnight. Well, a guy who I had dated was a huge Batman fanatic and had bought tickets for us, months in advance. Fast forward to a “break-up” (not sure if you can call it that, as we were never that serious), but he contacted me and asked if I still wanted to go, since he had bought the ticket for me. Ended up having a good time, but over the course of the intermissions, my cell phone died. I remember walking out of the theater and seeing some commotion in the lobby, but I was so tired, I just wanted to go home. Overnight, I charge my cell phone and when I wake up, I see that I have a few messages asking if I’m alright, that people had heard there’d been a shooting, etc. I flash back to seeing the activity in the lobby and wonder if something had occurred. Well, I turn on the news and see the coverage about the Aurora shooting. My (well-meaning but somewhat clueless) friends just heard there was a shooting at The Dark Knight Rises premiere, and assumed I was there. I don’t even live in Colorado. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-done-a-movie-double-feature/689231.md?page=2)