# What was the last Movie you've seen in a theater? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [February 23, 2021, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-movie-youve-seen-in-a-theater/933554 "2021-02-23T13:47:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2021, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-movie-youve-seen-in-a-theater/933554/21 "2021-02-23T16:05:54Z")
I did some digging, it looks like my last movie at the movies was forgettable indeed and very disappointing. **May 19, 2019** I saw Tolkien. Hard to believe I’ve went so long. ---
**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:** [February 23, 2021, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-movie-youve-seen-in-a-theater/933554/22 "2021-02-23T17:02:48Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > I know you see a lot and I thought about you in 2020. Did you move a lot of the viewing over to TV. Were you buying the theatrical releases that went digital and watching at home? > > Are you going to plan on watching all this year’s releases that are getting digital releases along with their theatrical ones? It’s funny, you’d think I would have seen more films with many releases going digital this year, yet I ended up seeing _way_ less than normal. I think the biggest problem was not seeing trailers so I really didn’t stay informed with what was coming out and when and on what platform. I really enjoyed the whole moviegoing experience, I almost feel like it’s more effort to watch at home because there are so many distractions. I have been doing a weekly virtual movie night with friends, and we’ve been going through several of the Golden Globe nominated titles. ---
**Author:** ![teelabrown](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/teelabrown/32/8412_2.png) [@teelabrown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teelabrown)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2021, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-movie-youve-seen-in-a-theater/933554/23 "2021-02-23T17:06:32Z")
_Downton Abbey_, the movie, in October of 2019. It was okay. ---
**Author:** ![BrickBat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac91a4/32.png) [@BrickBat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrickBat)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2021, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-movie-youve-seen-in-a-theater/933554/24 "2021-02-23T17:10:53Z")
‘Dunkirk’ back in august of 2017. The first movie I’ve ever seen in IMAX; and the last time I ever want to see an IMAX movie again. My head is still rattling. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Bredin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@John\_Bredin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Bredin)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2021, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-movie-youve-seen-in-a-theater/933554/25 "2021-02-23T17:24:55Z")
_Emma_ on 3/6/20, preceded by _1917_ on 2/1/20. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2021, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-movie-youve-seen-in-a-theater/933554/26 "2021-02-23T17:28:19Z")
Saw TENET twice last year in the theatre. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2021, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-movie-youve-seen-in-a-theater/933554/27 "2021-02-23T17:29:54Z")
IT Chapter 2. Was planning to see something else, later, then the plague happened. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2021, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-movie-youve-seen-in-a-theater/933554/28 "2021-02-23T17:29:59Z")
_Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker._ I saw it in the theater twice, once on its opening weekend in December 2019, and again a couple of weeks later (sometime in early January of 2020). ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2021, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-movie-youve-seen-in-a-theater/933554/29 "2021-02-23T18:34:24Z")
I think the last movie we saw in a theater was “Knives Out” at an AMC Fork and Screen. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2021, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-movie-youve-seen-in-a-theater/933554/30 "2021-02-23T18:35:15Z")
That was the movie which was on my “I want to see that!” list when COVID hit, and going to the theater suddenly became a Bad Idea. ---
**Author:** ![anny\_m](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@anny\_m](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anny_m)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2021, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-movie-youve-seen-in-a-theater/933554/31 "2021-02-23T18:55:48Z")
A local theater pre-pandemic used to play something a bit different one day a month. I saw a lot of terrific movies there. I think the last one was the Linda Ronstadt biopic, _The Sound of My Voice_. ---
**Author:** ![Uniqueorn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uniqueorn/32/2807_2.png) [@Uniqueorn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uniqueorn)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2021, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-movie-youve-seen-in-a-theater/933554/32 "2021-02-23T19:08:26Z")
The Personal History of David Copperfield. Really enjoyed it. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2021, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-movie-youve-seen-in-a-theater/933554/33 "2021-02-23T19:31:43Z")
American Sniper late fall 2014. I’ve seen previews of other movies that I wanted to see in the theater. It’s hard for me to get motivated to leave the house after dark. I go home after work and don’t want to leave again. ---
**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:** [February 23, 2021, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-movie-youve-seen-in-a-theater/933554/34 "2021-02-23T19:57:02Z")
Anybody got a list of the major pics released between, oh say late Oct 2019 and the time the theaters shut down in 2020? That’d help me identify my last movie or three at a theater . . . ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2021, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-movie-youve-seen-in-a-theater/933554/35 "2021-02-23T20:04:16Z")
Not 100% certain but odds are pretty high it was _Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker_. ---
**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:** [February 23, 2021, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-movie-youve-seen-in-a-theater/933554/36 "2021-02-23T20:13:00Z")
**CHiPs** in April 2017. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2021, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-movie-youve-seen-in-a-theater/933554/37 "2021-02-23T20:28:58Z")
_Sonic the Hedgehog,_ about this time last year, for my birthday. ---
**Author:** ![FlikTheBlue](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fliktheblue/32/10972_2.png) [@FlikTheBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlikTheBlue)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2021, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-movie-youve-seen-in-a-theater/933554/38 "2021-02-23T20:35:28Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > First run of the first Jurassic Park movie in 1993. > > It appears @Eyebrows_0f_Doom and I have differing attitudes to cinema. > [@Reeses\_Monkey](#): > > The 1993 Jurassic Park, shown at a revival theater back in December. This was the last movie I saw at my hometown duplex before it closed down back in 1993. The last movie I saw in a theater was Emma, on the day it was released, 2/21/2020. That was the last weekend before COVID-19 became something other than background noise for me. ---
**Author:** ![peccavi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peccavi/32/388_2.png) [@peccavi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peccavi)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2021, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-movie-youve-seen-in-a-theater/933554/39 "2021-02-23T20:36:28Z")
I think I posted this in the Movies You’ve Seen Recently thread, but in mid-March 2020, I saw **Bacurau** (a tripendiculous film) on the last day before all movie theaters in LA county were closed. I keep track, and my log shows that was the 33rd movie I saw in 2020 (and the last). And before you get to believing I’m all about art films, the movie I saw just prior to this one was… **Bloodshot** ---
**Author:** ![erysichthon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d07c76/32.png) [@erysichthon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erysichthon)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2021, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-movie-youve-seen-in-a-theater/933554/40 "2021-02-23T20:40:20Z")
Do drive-in theaters count? I saw _Tenet_ at a drive-in last September. I don’t recall the exact date. If that’s disqualified, the last movie I saw at an indoor theater was _Rise of Skywalker_ on New Year’s Eve 2019. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-movie-youve-seen-in-a-theater/933554.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-movie-youve-seen-in-a-theater/933554.md?page=3)