# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![TheGunIsMightierThanThePen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thegunismightierthanthepen/32/2981_2.png) [@TheGunIsMightierThanThePen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheGunIsMightierThanThePen)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2021, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-movie-youve-seen-in-a-theater/933554/61 "2021-02-24T06:09:38Z")
_Joker_ in October 2019. ---
**Author:** ![mordecaiB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mordecaib/32/7725_2.png) [@mordecaiB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mordecaiB)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2021, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-movie-youve-seen-in-a-theater/933554/62 "2021-02-24T07:37:31Z")
I think I may win this. Star Wars (Not A New Hope), so 1977. Local theatres where I am started private movie showings, not sure how many people, I think 15-25, for only $149 for first run, $99 for older movies. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2021, 9:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-movie-youve-seen-in-a-theater/933554/63 "2021-02-24T09:40:26Z")
We saw _Judy_ on October 1, 2019, on our birthdays/anniversary. Pretty good Renee Zellweger. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2021, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-movie-youve-seen-in-a-theater/933554/64 "2021-02-24T11:26:02Z")
[The Dry](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5144174/reference), last week. The one before that was _The Way Back_ in March last year. With my gas and electricity plan I get 4 free movie tickets every 3 months. I don’t think I have ever previously failed to use them all but there hasn’t been anything on worth seeing, even for nothing. ---
**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 24, 2021, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-movie-youve-seen-in-a-theater/933554/65 "2021-02-24T12:24:30Z")
Your not alone, **but this is a conversation for another thread** if anyone likes. ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2021, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-movie-youve-seen-in-a-theater/933554/66 "2021-02-24T12:48:52Z")
I think _Avengers: Endgame_ in the summer of 2019 was the last one. If I’m being honest, I’m so drilled into parenting life that since 2010 I have missed probably 80% of movies that aren’t kid-friendly, unless there’s been some online buzz about it. So much, in fact, that I get the impression we’ve all given up expecting anything from Hollywood but an endless parade of comic-book movies. But as I said, this also could just be me being far out of the loop of what normal adults consume. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2021, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-movie-youve-seen-in-a-theater/933554/67 "2021-02-24T13:17:54Z")
That last one I saw was _The Death of Stalin_, which is the sort of film that absolutely doesn’t require the ‘big screen’ experience. ---
**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:** [February 24, 2021, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-movie-youve-seen-in-a-theater/933554/68 "2021-02-24T14:03:30Z")
Funny, I started reading this book last night & had no idea it was made into a movie. Looks like it’s releasing in the US later in the year, though likely a very limited run. ---
**Author:** ![Ashtura](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ashtura/32/2963_2.png) [@Ashtura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashtura)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2021, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-movie-youve-seen-in-a-theater/933554/69 "2021-02-24T15:11:16Z")
Tenet, and I believe 1917 before that. ---
**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:** [February 24, 2021, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-movie-youve-seen-in-a-theater/933554/70 "2021-02-24T15:40:09Z")
> [@teelabrown](#): > > _Downton Abbey_ , the movie, in October of 2019. I was going to say _Mission Impossible: Fallout_, but this reminded me I also saw the _Downton Abbey_ movie. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Sensitive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/58956e/32.png) [@Darth\_Sensitive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Sensitive)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2021, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-movie-youve-seen-in-a-theater/933554/71 "2021-02-24T18:22:53Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Are they going to still be doing that? Is this the movie-pass thing? Yeah, their “three movies a week” for one monthly price. It breaks even at about 3 a month (or two IMAX). ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2021, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-movie-youve-seen-in-a-theater/933554/72 "2021-02-25T01:30:21Z")
Harriet. A movie about Harriet Tubman. Quite good, but I don’t remember when I saw it. Probably sometime between Nov of 2019 and Jan of 2020. Looking online it was released Nov 1 of 2019, but I forget the day and month. ---
**Author:** ![XOldiesJock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/ec9cab/32.png) [@XOldiesJock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XOldiesJock)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2021, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-movie-youve-seen-in-a-theater/933554/73 "2021-02-25T02:04:44Z")
I think it was “Borat,” of all things. A friend was visiting and wanted to see a movie. I suggested “Stranger Than Fiction,” thinking it would appeal to her. Nope. She wanted to see “Borat,” so off we went. My wife and I ended up doing something we’ve rarely done in a theater: laughing uncontrollably, practically falling out of our seats. We were still laughing as we left the theater. Our friend? “I’ve never been so offended in my life,” she said with a tone of anger and disgust . (Which simply caused us to laugh even harder.) We used to love going to movies but it’s just too expensive and a lot of movies are car chases and endless fight scenes, aimed at the tastes of 13 year-old boys. I don’t mind that if the story is good but I’d just as soon watch it at home. The kind of smaller movies that would appeal to us work quite well on the home screen, and don’t play in our town anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Drum\_God](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drum_god/32/44_2.png) [@Drum\_God](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drum_God)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2021, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-movie-youve-seen-in-a-theater/933554/74 "2021-02-25T03:33:00Z")
I took my band students on a fun trip to see Hobbs and Shaw at a movie theater in El Paso. The next morning, some asshole shot a bunch of people at the Walmart next door. I think the last movie I saw in a theater was _1917_ at that same theater in El Paso. At the time, I was living in West Texas due to my job. My wife, who was back home in Central Texas, didn’t want to see this particular movie, so I went by myself. After the movie, I went next door and saw the memorial in the parking lot of that Walmart. ---
**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 25, 2021, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-movie-youve-seen-in-a-theater/933554/75 "2021-02-25T03:40:08Z")
> [@mordecaiB](#): > > Local theatres where I am started private movie showings, not sure how many people, I think 15-25, for only $149 for first run, $99 for older movies. There’s a chain in our area (suburban Chicago) which is doing this, too. A group of us were looking at doing a private showing a few weeks ago, but there weren’t enough people in the group who were comfortable with even that sort of gathering to make it happen. We’re going to revisit it in another month or two, if case numbers keep declining. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2021, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-movie-youve-seen-in-a-theater/933554/76 "2021-02-25T04:16:34Z")
Apparently it was It: Chapter 2 All my plans for movies after that fell though: Dr Sleep was only in theaters here 2 weeks and my best friend got a nasty cold then so we missed it. We decided against Little Women. Another friend and I were planning to see The Lodge in January but it wasn’t playing anywhere closer than Boston, so we settled on Fantasy Island and then I badly injured myself falling off a ladder. By the time PT made it so I I finally could have sat in a theater again it was March and everything shut down. ---
**Author:** ![borschevsky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/97f17d/32.png) [@borschevsky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/borschevsky)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2021, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-movie-youve-seen-in-a-theater/933554/77 "2021-02-25T04:27:01Z")
Saw _The Witches_ not long ago, and _WW84_ before that. Both of these were private screenings, as others have described above. The only other one I’ve seen during the pandemic was _Sonic the Hedgehog_. That was months ago, when case numbers in my area were still very low. We checked the seating charts before buying our tickets online, and realized that there were literally zero other tickets sold in the entire building. ---
**Author:** ![mordecaiB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mordecaib/32/7725_2.png) [@mordecaiB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mordecaiB)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2021, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-movie-youve-seen-in-a-theater/933554/78 "2021-02-25T07:41:11Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > There’s a chain in our area (suburban Chicago) which is doing this, too. A group of us were looking at doing a private showing a few weeks ago, but there weren’t enough people in the group who were comfortable with even that sort of gathering to make it happen. We’re going to revisit it in another month or two, if case numbers keep declining Sounds about the same as here, very few takers. They did say they had several times when 1 person rented the theatre by themselves. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2021, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-movie-youve-seen-in-a-theater/933554/79 "2021-02-25T08:07:40Z")
_ **Monty Python and the Holy Grail** _, when it was making the “Classic Cimema Night” rounds. Must have been about 18 months ago. I went with my daughter, who had never seen it before. It was apparently the original 1975 cut, since there were some scenes I’d never seen before (and some that had been cut from later editions were back). ---
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Before that, _ **Once Upon a Time in Hollywood** _ right after it came out, again with my daughter, who’s a big Tarantino fan. Before that, _ **Fury** _ and _ **The Imitation Game** _. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-movie-youve-seen-in-a-theater/933554.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-movie-youve-seen-in-a-theater/933554.md?page=5)