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« on: August 26, 2005, 08:45:50 PM »

The recent threads about movie theatres and the general current Hollywood fare has made me wonder: are theatres still showing 'cult' or 'classic' films as midnight movies?  You know, the old stand-by's?

Rocky Horror
The Wall
Heavy Metal
etc.

Do you guys have midnight movies as an option?

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« Reply #1 on: August 26, 2005, 10:28:24 PM »

When I lived in Jersey we had a theater that would show midnight movies on Saturday night. I got to see all kinds of movies as the theater would do the standard Rocky Horror and The Wall every week but then would alternate movies on 2 other screens. I saw Last House on the Left, Road Warrior (which I got kicked out of), Terminator...there were old movies, new movies...it was great. I loved those days. There was also a drive in theater about 40 miles from there that did midnight movies on the weekends. A few years before I moved out of there, they both stopped doing it. Now I'm in PA and there's not a theater around here that shows midnight movies. The closest we got to that was the opening of Revenge of the Sith that they started at 12:01 AM as a promotional thing. It's really sad now that I think of it.

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« Reply #2 on: August 26, 2005, 11:19:03 PM »

Speaking of Rocky Horror.....I've never seen it.

It's one of those that managed to slip through the cracks for me.

When I tell people I haven't seen it, they look at me like I'm crazy.

I know what it's about and who stars in it but is it really any good?



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« Reply #3 on: August 26, 2005, 11:31:19 PM »

I'll probably get alot of disagreement here but I hate it. First, I generally don't like musicals. Second, I really don't like this musical at all. My wife likes it but I have trouble sitting through any of it.

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« Reply #4 on: August 26, 2005, 11:42:14 PM »

Ash, I was like you until I turned 20. But then on my birthday I got to see it for the first time and it was magnificent in all of its transvestitte humor.

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« Reply #5 on: August 26, 2005, 11:52:36 PM »

Well, there has been the recent trend of playing new releases at midnight.  You know, a movie is due to be released on Friday, so they play the movie Thursday night at midnight, which is technically Friday.  This is for most of the "genre" movies that come out.  I've seen the Lord of the Rings movies and Star Wars and assorted other movies this way.  It's not the midnight movies of old, but it does have one good thing going for it.  The people who go and watch these movies are the people who really want to be there.  You could not ask for a better audience.  Take the Lord of the Rings of the movies.  Before the movie started the audience was a rowdy nightmare.  As soon as the opening credits started the whole audience hushed, ready for whatever amazingness was to follow.  If anybody was still making noise, the rest of the audience was there to tell them to shut the hell up.  I'm sure if the offending party would have kept talking physical violence would have followed.  I love these midnight showings.

As for the ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW, I was not alive to enjoy the midnight showings of.  But from what I have gathered from a fellow I work with (who is one of the only people whose opinions on movies I respect) the whole RHPS scene became a sort of elitist clique.  I know it sounds fun to show up and yell at the screen and throw toast, but apparently it eventually ended up that only the pre-approved ways of expressing yourself were allowed.  No spontaneousness was allowed, you better follow the rules of yelling at the screen or you were socially ostracized.  Well, as ostracized as you could be at a midnight showing.  Still, way to suck the fun out of a movie.  And I wouldn't recommend watch RHPS by yourself.

And pay attention, listening to the music in Rocky Horror Picture Show is like listening to the rape and murder of everyone you've ever cared about.

I wish the midnight movie would make its comeback, but what are you going to do?

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« Reply #6 on: August 27, 2005, 02:48:10 AM »

The local 2nd run theater here in my town runs midnight movies on Friday & Saturday night.  
And they run some really good ones!



Collins Rd. Theaters

It looks like Supertroopers is playing this weekend.
They ran "Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade" last weekend.
It's a great deal...$4 for adults for evening shows....$3 for matinees.
They're also more friendly there than at the larger cinemas like Carmike & Wehrenberg.  You get to put your own butter on your popcorn....which is nice.
They also get many indie films there that the big theaters won't touch.

The place is owned by just one guy instead of a large corporation and he's notorious for standing up to the big cinemaplexes. (as you'll notice on the homepage)  He also has a policy that the usher must stand in front of the audience before the lights go down to thank you for coming, to give the title of tonight's feature and to enjoy the show. (they have to be nervous as hell the first time...I would be!)
That was something I wasn't expecting when I first went there.  But I found that it did make a difference concerning my impression of the place.  
It came across as a place that really cares for its customers and wants them to have a good moviegoing experience.  And I did.

I went and saw Wayne's World with a couple buddys a few months ago there.
It's so cool to watch the movies you've loved at home for years on the big screen.
That, and I hadn't seen WW in at least 5 years so it was almost like watching it for the very first time.

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« Reply #7 on: August 27, 2005, 03:22:00 AM »

Oh wow!

I missed this page.....Look at the cool movies they have coming up!

Click on the Supertroopers pic.

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« Reply #8 on: August 27, 2005, 07:07:25 AM »

No midnight movies around here anymore.

There is a huge Carmike megaplex about 2 hours from here which is where my wife and I go if there is a film that's in limited release that we won't get locally.  They used to do midnight movies during the summer for a couple of years, but none this year.

We made the two hour trek to see the following films at midnight:

Beyond ReAnimator
Faces Of Death 2 and 3
Freddy VS Jason


It was mainly horror films that they would show but now....no more.  It's a huge military town (Jacksonville NC) and I'm sure the popularity started to drop as more and more troops were sent out.

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« Reply #9 on: August 27, 2005, 10:38:33 AM »

where i'm from in kansas city there's a few cult movie buffs who around every halloween will rent out an old drive-in and show Faces of Death (the original) & this other wierd Japanese horror movie from the 60's. now and then the Fine Arts Theare franchise would have showings of the Brain That Wouldn't Die and older cult films like that.
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« Reply #10 on: August 28, 2005, 08:52:31 AM »

aSH - GO rent it, tim currey is wonderful. He has created some of the most memorable movie characters.

Unfortunately we have no theaters near me that show midnight shows, they're all the big megaplex chains. These days when it comes to movies....theaters...tv...video stores....

it all sucks

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« Reply #11 on: August 28, 2005, 02:42:24 PM »

The Mayan Theatre in Denver does a Midnight Movie thing, with different pictures at random times -- Usually hosted by a local yokel who really cares about the film in question --
They've done things like Supervixens in 3-D, The Lost Skeleton of Cadavara, Road Warrior, etc. etc.
The Boulder Theatre in Boulder does The Big Lebowski once a month -- $2 White Russians if you come wearing a bathrobe.  This is becoming a new Rocky Horror, as people, of course shout their favorite lines & responses -- "You're in a world of pain!  No, I'm in a Coen Brothers movie!" etc.
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Re:  Rocky Horror.  
I saw Rocky Horror first in London in 1973, while it was still a stage production, at The Odeon Theatre on The King's Road.  One of the numbers in the live show that was cut from the film is/was this huge Jailhouse Rock parody, with Elvis clones swinging from scaffolding, etc.
It was an okay show, but I was a teenager & thought there'd be more nudity, so was disappointed.  I promptly forgot about it.
When I came back to the 'States from India in '79, my sister wanted to take me to this great thing where people threw toast & lit candles & they rode motorcycles in the theatre, etc., & took me to a full-blown, screaming, balls-out Rocky shindig.  I had a sudden shock of recognition during one of Charles Grey's monologues as I remembered this as the dinky little stage show I'd seen in London 6 years prior.
"Wait!  I've seen this!!"  "Big deal, so've we!!" --
You know how old people go on about how great the old Whatever used to be?
I gotta say that that first Rocky film celebration I went to at the Grove St. Cinema in Richmond Virginia in 1979 was superior to the ones I went to afterwards.  For one thing, you really COULD light real candles -- none of that flashlight crap that was to come later due to Fire Code Laws -- and people really DID ride real motorcycles down the isles of the theatre during the Meat Loaf/Hot Patootie scene, with the cooperation of Management.  People also tried out new jokes & comebacks & it was much less of a "scripted" response.  And they really threw tons of rice & drenched people with water during the appropriate scenes.
It had all the feel of a spontaneous Happening/Surrealist event.
Does the movie itself stand alone without the surrounding Event?  Not really.  I've tried watching it on tape at home & stripped of the Event, it's a sort of so-so little parody piece.  As a film, The Lost Skeleton of Cadavara is much funnier & has it all over Rocky.  I still think you should see it, though, if only for it being a true Cultural Artifact & social touchstone in our culture.
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« Reply #12 on: August 28, 2005, 08:46:09 PM »


Hmmm... Not quite midnight movies, but one of the cinemas in my city CBD, the Australian Centre for the Moving Image [ACMI] cinemas were for a while running a Friday Night Cult movies run, which started at 10:30.  I went and saw Braindead there [awesome seeing it on the big screen] and planned to see more of their selection but couldn't find the time [They had a few Hammer Horror I was looking at seeing]

Other than that, the only place that screens movies late at night is at Crown Casino, where the last screening on some nights would be around 1, 1:30 am, but they are just new release movies, no classic stuff there.

Also on a side note, as a subject last year at Uni, I did a "Musicals: From Hollywood to Bollywood" subject [which was lots of fun] and they told us about a similar screening to that Rocky Horror one, which people do to The Sound Of Music [maybe not pelting people with stuff, but general chaos nonetheless.]  What was funny about the small clip that we were shown in the lecture, was the fact that you have families singing along next to old folks, and then a large group of Transvestites, proving that when it comes to musicals, people are much more accepting.  It looked like a hell of a lot of fun!

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« Reply #13 on: August 28, 2005, 09:29:14 PM »

Just saw Midnight Movies Special on Encore Movie Channel two night ago. It will play again this month. Great stuff.
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