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.
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.
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. :teddyr:
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.
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....
Quote from: Mofo Rising on November 24, 2010, 09:20:10 PM
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.
QuoteHey, I thought "Harry and the Hendersons" was worth watching.
:teddyr: It was way better than the TV series that followed it so :thumbup:
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. :buggedout: :buggedout:
Wing Commander. I can understand why...
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.
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!
$9.99 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0790799/): 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.
I was the only one in the theater when I saw Pathfinder and Resident Evil 4.
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.
HollowMan.
Only My Brother and Myself were there.
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.
There have been lots of times where I've been the only one in the theater. A few that come to mind are: Day Breakers, The Spy Next Door, Waiting for Superman and City Island.
Having worked at at a theater I've gotten to screen a lot of films on my own, but I don't think I've ever gone to a regular show where absolutely no one else attended, but I've been in nearly empty shows. There were two occasions involving Ernest films (shocking, I know!). My mom took my brother and me and a couple of our friends to Ernest Goes to Jauil and I believe there were 2 other people in the auditorium. My family also went to see Ernest Rides Again and there were only a couple other folks in there.
I was lucky enough to catch Tideland during its brief and super-limited theatrical run and I took some friends to it. There were maybe 2-3 other people.
Actually, this happens more for me then packed theaters. Hot Shots: Part Deux saw that and their was 5 people. Hostel saw that with 3 people. Remake of The Fog only 10 people there. Finally, The Simpsons movie was pretty dead when I saw it. I think there was just me and 1 other person.
These days, particularly if you go to a multimegaplex matinee during the week, it's not unusual at all to see a film with only four of five others in the audience.
I saw SKYLINE on the Monday afternoon after it opened and there were only six of us in the theater.
If I've seldom seen a film in a packed theater, I can't remember ever being the only one in the theater to see a film. A couple of times I did come close.
(1) 1971. "Scandalous John"
A Walt Disney Production, at a time they were just starting to do films that were just a little more "adult" than the films in the past. They weren't even going to show the film, as I was the only one in the audience, but then two more people walked in, and they showed it, with just the three of us there. A film that is really unknown by most people, but one I quite enjoyed.
(2) 1984. "The Dungeonmaster"
Which is reviewed at this site, and is perhaps better known under the title "The Ragewar," but I saw it under the first title. It was the era of Dungeons and Dragons, which is why a mother and her two pre-teen sons were in the audience at the start of the film, but they walked out mid-way through the film, so I wound up being the only person to see it all the way to the end. I don't remember too much about it, except Richard Moll was in it, and it being a pretty bad film, and bad not in a good way.