The Only One In The Theater

[Mr. DS]

Have you ever gone to see a movie and ended up being the only one there?  Or almost the only person there?  I recall seeing the movie Bean at a matinee and being the only one there until some old dude showed up in the middle of the film.  It was an odd feeling to say the least. 

 

[Doggett]

Yeah, I tend to choose to go at times when most people are at work/education.
In fact, I can only think of two films I've gone to see that have been crowded. I make a point of avoiding people.

[InformationGeek]

That happened to me once back in 2004 I think.  I went to see Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story and I was the only one there.  They were actually planning on not showing the film since no one showed until I arrive.  As such, I got to laugh as loud as I wanted  and not get told to shut the hell up from anyone.  Such great film experience.   

[Mofo Rising]

As a kid in Juneau, AK, I went to the local theater to watch a matinee of "Harry and the Hendersons." There was nobody in the theater but the guy working the counter. I went to play a video game (Time Pilot '84) while waiting for the movie to start. When I finished the game and went towards the theater, the guy asked me, "You ready to start the movie?"

This was only a two-screen theater, and since the other movie showing was the disastrous "Witches of Eastwick," I'm pretty sure I was the only paying customer in the entire theater.

Hey, I thought "Harry and the Hendersons" was worth watching.

[JaseSF]

I was initially the only one in the theater but I ended up the only one who watched Eyes Wide Shut all the way through....

[Trevor]

I went to play a video game (Time Pilot '84)

Wow: That's a blast from the past: I could never get past those *&^%$# UFO's.

Hey, I thought "Harry and the Hendersons" was worth watching.

  It was way better than the TV series that followed it so 

[Trevor]

I was the only one in the theater watching Reservoir Dogs ~ the people in front of me got up and left within the first five minutes, right as Tim Roth starts rolling around in agony in the car's backseat. 

[dean]

Wing Commander.  I can understand why...

[HappyGilmore]

I tend to go see movies on a Tuesday, as it's my day off from work, it's cheaper, and most people are at school or work.

Where the Wild Things Are comes to mind.  I went to see this on a Tuesday afternoon and I was literally the only one in the theater.

Saw 3D- I was one of two people who was watching it.

Tropic Thunder- I think, from memory, it was myself, my mother, and some other random couple that bothered to see it.

[Raffine]

THE ELEPHANT MAN: I couldn't pursuade anybody to go see it with me. I was the only one in the theater.

TERMINATOR 2: I went with a friend to a weekday matinee about a month after it opened. We were the only two in the theater. My friend was a smoker, so he sat in the very back and smoked cigarettes during the whole thing.

THE WOLFMAN: I went to the recent remake a couple of weeks after it opened when it was just barely still playing. The only people in the theater were myself and an elderly African-American lady in her cute Sunday outfit. We sat near each other and had a blast 'riffing' the movie!

[Rev. Powell]

$9.99: It started out with just two of us, and the other guy left.  What a boob.  No wonder they don't show, or even make, many movies that challenge the audience. 

[WingedSerpent]

I was the only one in the theater when I saw Pathfinder and Resident Evil 4.

[retrorussell]

Leaving Las Vegas at the Joy theater in Tigard, Oregon; probably a good few weeks or so after its premiere.  Just me and my friend in the whole theater.  Still, it wasn't a bad movie so I was surprised.  It's an old theater though.  The guy at the counter was so bored he tried to sell us a bottle of wine to go with our popcorn.

[Ometiklan]

HollowMan.
Only My Brother and Myself were there.

[The Burgomaster]

I don't think I was ever the only one there.  However, when I was a kid my best friend and I went to see FUTUREWORLD at a 5:00 or 5:30 p.m. showing on a weekday (probably a Monday or Tuesday).  We were the only TWO people in the theater.