Going to see "The Empire Strikes Back" at the cinema. Question ??
 

What old movies would you go back to see in a cinema hall if they were showing it ?



Obviously most cinemas are showing some older movies just now. Pulp Fiction, Rocky, Jurassic Park etc are all put here just now.

"The Empire Strikes Back" is 40 this year so.....crazy to think it was actually released a year before i was even born.





Anyway, looking forward to it !! :pimp


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They are playing harry potter and benjamin button here out of the older shit.

I went to see it a few weeks ago. Loved it. It’s a movie that must be seen on the big screen.

Enjoy!

I would not go sit in a cinema right now with the covid-19 numbers

Yup. I went (twice) when the 'Special Edition' of the original trilogy was released. And yeah, one of those "must see on the big screen" movies. Definitely!

Shit even those were many years ago now.


But yeah looking forward to seeing it again from the viewpoint of a now nearly 40 year old ha !

Bars, pubs, restaurants all open here. Much safer spaced apart in a cinema than in a crammed restaurant.

I went to see "Tenet" the other week. Which was a decision i regretted. Purely because the movie was shit nothing to do with masks or covid in general...

There is no "safer". You risk everything for very little.

wouldn't risk it myself - that's all :pimp

I wouldn't say risking everything lol.

Turn off CNN... :winkwink:

I wouldn't go to the theater now cause ours require you to wear a mask the whole time. But if Covid wasn't a thing I would go see Office Space and Grandmas Boy (but since I have 90" tv I can watch both from home).

I saw last week The Goonies was playing locally and smacked my head saying 2020 is a crazy year.

LOL. Top Gun.

We did just this years ago... We went to see Top Gun at the IMAX theater. It was fucking awesome. Wife and daughter came with me.

I would totally go see Top Gun again in the theater. Or Star Trek - Wrath of Kahn.

My wife is a doctor and works with COVID-19 every day. :party-smi

Don't take anything for granted.

Yeah guys, all it takes is one person to take it home and BOOM, everyone will get it!

Everyone reacts different to it..

Idiocracy maybe...

During the movie, seriously ??

Here we just need to wear the mask on entry then you get escorted to your seat and then you can take it off. You are only sitting with who you go with anyway and the next seats with anyone are further away than any seating plan in any of the restaurants that's for damn sure.

Hell people here are sweating their balls off in fucking gyms yet right next to them is some other mofo with only a perspex screen separating them. Fuck that shit.


I felt absolutely fine in the cinema here. But no i wouldn't sit through the movie if i had to keep the mask ON.

Covid is aerosolized in its spread. Being indoors for a long period of time, with or without a mask - if there is someone infected with the virus in the theater, regardless of distance, the chance of becoming infected is high. With enough time, the chances approach 100%

Think of it like smelling smoke. If someone is smoking at the other end of the theater, you will eventually smell that smoke. That "smell" is live active virus. A mask will delay it, but it will not stop it.

Just because other venues are open, does not make them safe. In fact, if you look at the numbers, you see that the opposite is true.

And dying of Covid would be a blessing compared to the long-haul destruction that happens to most people's bodies (even asymptomatic). If you enjoy sex, don't get Covid. You will likely live, but your heart and lungs will be forever damaged - which will make it so going to the gym is no longer an option. Sex has to be short and low-impact. Hair loss, loss of taste and smell (so far, appearing to be permanent loss for some, permanent diminishment for others).

Is it worth risking all this to see an old movie?

Tell you what, let me know the answer to that in a year or two. I guarantee that many many people will wish the movie they had seen was "Back to the Future" and they had learned to build a flux capacitor so that they could stop themselves from being Covidiots and ruining their lives.....

I stopped going to the cinema altogether a couple of years ago . . .

Hope you liked the special edition, because that's what this one is.

I have tickets for Friday but I was disappointed to learn that it's not the original.

Yeah Scott, you're risking it ALL going to the movies!!!! Don't do it man!!!

I wouldn't go into any cold, dark places right now.


That includes pornstars. LOL

Yeah i wouldn't have minded seeing the original as it was (it is meant to be 40th anniversary afterall), but had guessed it would have been the Special Edition version.

Either way all good. :)

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh



May the force be with, well me... :pimp

Lord of the rings with a live orchestra would be magnificent :thumbsup

I vaguely remember going to see it at the cinema when it first came out, opening weekend :) I say vaguely, because I loved the original star wars, especially being the age I was back then, but the second one didn't seem as good to me at the time

At the time it was state of the art sci-fi. Nothing like it at the time.

When the threatres re-opened here this summer, seats were very limited of course. They showed only old movies, but the cost was $5.00, and I loved it. I went to see Empire Strikes Back, Avengers and others, all in IMAX or Ultra AVX. It was like seeing them for the first time.

Each threatre held only 25 people, and all seats were assigned seats. You had to wash your hands, wear your masks, etc etc but it didn't matter. Even though I have a home theatre with big screen and sound, I still *LOVE* going to the movies.

When the eased restrictions, I went to see TENET in IMAX. The seats let you sit 2 people together, with 3 seats on either side closed. The seats in front and behind me were also closed. If I had to guess, there were about 100 people in the sold-out theatre. C19 protocls in place.

Unfortunately Covid-19 rates are rising again here so they will probably go back to the tigher restrictions any day now.

Well movie was great (seen it 100 times before) but yeah was great seeing it again on the big screen.

As for covid, so all in 3 !! Yes 3 people were at the screening. A couple at the very back row and me sat right in the middle row so.....I think i was distanced enough. Definitely didn't need to wear a mask during film time. I don't think i would go at all if you had to tbh.



Overall though a good Wednesday afternoon watching a classic on the big screen.
The fact that the last film i went to see was the piece of garbage "Tenet" and it's just night and day. Horrific movie and terrible acting...

Are you in Scotland? My Ancestry DNA has me at 36% Scottish.

Aye... :thumbsup

Would love to see Indiana Jones, raiders of the lost ark on the big screen and maybe some old horror movies like Friday the 13th, Evil Dead and Halloween.

I'd love to see Terminator 2 on the big screen again.

Pisses me off that James Cameron has been doing those Avatar movies for like 10 years. We could have had a proper T2 sequal.

Saw TG in "IMAX" 3D IN 2012. Great movie! I never saw it in theaters. Although my brother did at a birthday party he was invited to from a kid in my grade. My brother was 3 grades higher. I wasnt invited though. To dorky I guess.

T2 is a good shout.

Another i'd go check out is "Aliens". Hopefully the cinemas do roll out the oldies for a while yet...