# Life of Brian in theaters again? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 5, 2004, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-of-brian-in-theaters-again/267690 "2004-10-05T18:12:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Electronic\_Chaos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Electronic\_Chaos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Electronic_Chaos)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2004, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-of-brian-in-theaters-again/267690/1 "2004-10-05T18:12:51Z")
I just checked the listings for the Theater right down the road from me and was shocked to see they were playing Monty Python’s The Life of Brian. Why didn’t anyone inform me earlier they were releasing this again? Or is my theater the only one playing it (it’s the only one listed in my area). Is there any special event they’re trying to commemorate by doing this? ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2004, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-of-brian-in-theaters-again/267690/2 "2004-10-05T18:44:58Z")
It was released in 79 so if my math is right then, yep 25 years. HOLY SHIT 25 YEARS :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Nightwatch\_Trailer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9dc877/32.png) [@Nightwatch\_Trailer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightwatch_Trailer)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2004, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-of-brian-in-theaters-again/267690/3 "2004-10-05T18:48:43Z")
[Here’s](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079470/cinemashowtimes) a map from IMDb showing the areas where it’s playing, at least today. Unfortunately, none of the theaters I checked had it playing past October 7. I don’t know what the rerelease is for, though. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2004, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-of-brian-in-theaters-again/267690/4 "2004-10-05T18:56:08Z")
As I alluded to it appears to be for the [25 year anniversary.](http://www.thehollandsentinel.net/stories/050804/ent_050804041.shtml) . Most of the sites I’ve seen say it was going to be released earlier in the year to counter PotC. Maybe it was in Europe. From the article: > [@](#): > > Monty Python’s “Life of Brian” turns 25 this year. > > Mel Gibson chose 2004 to release “The Passion of the Christ.” > > Coincidence? ---
**Author:** ![fusoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecccb3/32.png) [@fusoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fusoya)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2004, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-of-brian-in-theaters-again/267690/5 "2004-10-05T19:59:00Z")
I saw it in a theater in NYC back around late April 2004. It was like seeing it again for the first time. Saw Holy Grail in a theater back in 2001 as welll ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2004, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-of-brian-in-theaters-again/267690/6 "2004-10-05T20:07:15Z")
Saw it last Saturday at a midnight showing. It was great 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2004, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-of-brian-in-theaters-again/267690/7 "2004-10-05T20:44:30Z")
It doesn’t appear to be playing here. I’m so bummed. I loved seeing Holy Grail on the big screen. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2004, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-of-brian-in-theaters-again/267690/8 "2004-10-05T20:52:34Z")
You don’t have to see it just because everyone else wants to see it. You are all individuals. waiting ---
**Author:** ![Julius\_Henry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8797f3/32.png) [@Julius\_Henry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Julius_Henry)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2004, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-of-brian-in-theaters-again/267690/9 "2004-10-05T22:08:46Z")
We are all individuals. Happy now? ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2004, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-of-brian-in-theaters-again/267690/10 "2004-10-05T22:15:44Z")
I’m not. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2004, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-of-brian-in-theaters-again/267690/11 "2004-10-05T22:36:57Z")
He’s _not_ the Messiah! He’s a very naughty boy! ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2004, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-of-brian-in-theaters-again/267690/12 "2004-10-05T22:56:22Z")
I’m not a roman mum, I’m a kike, a yid, a heebie, a hook-nose, I’m kosher mum, I’m a Red Sea pedestrian, and proud of it! ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2004, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-of-brian-in-theaters-again/267690/13 "2004-10-06T03:03:30Z")
“It-- it says, ‘Romans, go home’.” “No, it doesn’t. What’s Latin for ‘Roman’? Come on!” ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2004, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-of-brian-in-theaters-again/267690/14 "2004-10-06T03:28:47Z")
Are there any women here today? ---
**Author:** ![jellyblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e480ec/32.png) [@jellyblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jellyblue)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2004, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-of-brian-in-theaters-again/267690/15 "2004-10-06T07:17:22Z")
No.No. No.No… There’s a cafe nearby that was screening movies outdoors all summer for free in hopes that you’d come and buy their coffee and perhaps a pastry as well, which I was very excited to do, but all the movies were “Meh.” Until they advertised The Life of Brian. Oh, I was excited! I gathered friends and things to sit on. I made _plans_. Two days before the screening, I got an email announcing that they had to cancel the screening because the movie was currently showing in theatres (well, I could have told them\* that\*!). Frankly, I’m still recovering from the devastation. Isn’t that just the saddest story you’ve heard in…the last 5 minutes? ☹ I bought it on DVD to console myself. But he said “Jehovah”! ---
**Author:** ![KGS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/90ced4/32.png) [@KGS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KGS)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2004, 8:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-of-brian-in-theaters-again/267690/16 "2004-10-06T08:55:13Z")
Wow, that imdb map’s a neat feature! Unfortunately, the closest it’s playing is in Richland, WA, about 1000 miles up the coast. Hmm, if I left right now I could make the 10p.m. showing… But I gotta ask… _What have the Romans ever done for us?_ ---
**Author:** ![Marlitharn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/779978/32.png) [@Marlitharn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marlitharn)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2004, 9:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-of-brian-in-theaters-again/267690/17 "2004-10-06T09:31:53Z")
> [@jellyblue](#): > > No.No. No.No… > There’s a cafe nearby that was screening movies outdoors all summer for free in hopes that you’d come and buy their coffee and perhaps a pastry as well, which I was very excited to do, but all the movies were “Meh.” > > Until they advertised The Life of Brian. Oh, I was excited! I gathered friends and things to sit on. I made _plans_. > Two days before the screening, I got an email announcing that they had to cancel the screening because the movie was currently showing in theatres (well, I could have told them\* that\*!). Frankly, I’m still recovering from the devastation. Isn’t that just the saddest story you’ve heard in…the last 5 minutes? ☹ > > I bought it on DVD to console myself. > But he said “Jehovah”! Always look on the bright side of life. ---
**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:** [October 6, 2004, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-of-brian-in-theaters-again/267690/18 "2004-10-06T10:47:48Z")
Are you the Judean People’s Front? Fuck off! We’re the People’s Front of Judea! It was here in Chicago a few months back. It was great to see it again. It’s still my favorite Monty Python movie. ---
**Author:** ![Edward\_The\_Head](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ce73a5/32.png) [@Edward\_The\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edward_The_Head)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2004, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-of-brian-in-theaters-again/267690/19 "2004-10-06T12:52:32Z")
> [@jellyblue](#): > > But he said “Jehovah”! Lobs stone. Well he did say Jehovah! ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2004, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-of-brian-in-theaters-again/267690/20 "2004-10-06T15:24:17Z")
This is so cool! To my knowledge, this is the first time ever that a movie has had a geographically-limited run… And it’s in Bozeman. Of course, we _are_ a college town, which might have something to do with it. And we did recently get a new theater, leaving us with more screens than we know what to do with, which might also have something to do with it. Meanwhile, I say we should unite against our common enemy. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-of-brian-in-theaters-again/267690.md?page=2)