What was the last movie you saw in a theater?

[Bleacher Creature]

For me, it was Rise of Skywalker in December 2019(!), which was easily the most disappointed I've ever been with a movie. I love seeing movies in the theater and can't wait to being able to go back, hopefully with a much better movie the next time around.

[Cirque du So-What]

1. It was 2019 for me too

Black KKKlansman

Couldn't say what month. Gotta say I enjoyed the movie.

[niyad]

2. I think it was "Knives Out". January 2020?

[rickford66]

12. Same here.

A few days before New York shelter in place order in March.

[pdxflyboy]

3. Hidden Figures n/t

[dameatball]

4. Skyfall. Companion was great, movie was pretty good. Forget what year it was...new release.

[kimbutgar]

5. Pandemic and jo jo rabbit

I found a ticket receipt in my coat recently.

[FirstLight]

6. I think it was Zombieland 2

November 2019...I dont get out to the movies much anymore...too freaking expensive!

My last concert was a year ago this weekend, I remember I was kinda worried about going, but I figured it wasnt a huge threat yet...

I really miss live music.

[ironflange]

7. Episode IX, about a year ago

You're right, it was pretty dumb. I'm looking forward to No Time to Die, whenever it appears.

[leighbythesea2]

8. Parasite

February week 3, 2020...last dinner and a movie night.

[WheelWalker]

9. Avatar

[Binkie The Clown]

10. I can't remember that far back. It might have been Deathly Hallows pt. 2.

Many years ago at any rate.

[mindem]

11. Jurasic Park

Yes, it was that long ago.

[Archae]

13. The Mask.

With Jim Carrey.

Yes, I also haven't been in a theater for a long time.

[bahboo]

14. pretty sure it was The Favourite....

but really can't remember...

[Coventina]

15. 42 - There was a Chadwick Bozeman film festival here

shortly after his death.

We watched Black Panther and 42.

42 is an EXCELLENT film.

[abqtommy]

16. A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood, in 2019...

[Enter stage left]

17. Ford vs Ferrari

excellent movie, very true to life.

[Clash City Rocker]

18. The last move for which I have a Fandango email confirmation was Harriet, in November of 2019

I’m not sure that was the last one, but maybe it was.

Nice conversation starter.

[First Speaker]

19. The Jazz Singer...

...I hear they all talk now... OK. A cheap joke. But this is real...I had a great-uncle, born in 1892, who used to tell me stories about seeing Cy Young and Amos Rusie pitch as a boy, and thought Babe Ruth ruined baseball. He saw the Jazz Singer in 1927, and its follow-up, the Singing Fool, in 1928...realized that sound films were here to stay...*and never went to a movie again.* He lived until 1984, and stayed away from movie theaters until the day he died. Always claimed that talkies were "vulgar", and that silent films were the only real ones. Now *there's* a die-hard...

[Jeebo]

42. "The Jazz Singer" is a really good movie.

TCM shows silent films on Sunday nights. My personal favorite silent films:

"The Jazz Singer" (which is mostly a silent film)

"Metropolis"

"Battleship Potemkin"

"The Passion of Joan of Arc"

I've seen that last one only once. As good as it is, I could never bear to watch it again because of that burning-at-the-stake scene at the end. It's because that movie is so good that that scene is so realistic that I just couldn't take watching it again. Before that scene, the movie is mostly the trial of the title character, taken from the transcript of the trial. They had scribes taking down everything that was said at the trial and that transcript survives today and is essentially the script for the movie. Maria Falconetti plays the title character, and it's a shame they weren't giving out Academy Awards yet when this movie was made.

Preem Palver, you and I share a lot of interests. Isaac Asimov's "Foundation" novels, Beethoven's "Eroica" symphony, silent films ...

-- Ron

[Bayard]

20. Call of the Wild, with Harrison Ford

Must have been early 2020 before the serious rumblings of Covid.

Loved it.

[Delmette2.0]

35. Oh! Me too.

My friend (at the time) loved the dogs and how well trained they were. I burst her bubble and explained how the animation was done. She hasn't talked to me since.

I learned that she can't handle any distraction to her reality, MAGA.

She learned that I am not putting up with her childish idea that all movies are real life.

I loved the movie and story line, it was fun.

[catrose]

21. Akenaton, Live at Met HD opera

[Ocelot II]

39. I saw Agrippina at one of those Met HD shows. It was brilliant.

2/29/20, just before everything went to crap.

[catrose]

40. This was too. I watched it twice more and am in love. I'm sure Agrippina was great too.

Everything--singing, orchestra, costmes, scenery, stagecraft--is incredible.

[Grammy23]

22. Little Women

[CTyankee]

33. I saw it last, also!

Was with my dtr, her husband, my 3 granddaughters! It was a nice experience. Esp. for me as I am a huge Meryl Streep fan and she had a small role in it (she was helping the female director and wanted to help her in any way!).

[snacker]

37. Me too

I took my granddaughter to see it.

[Upthevibe]

23. Another DU'er mentioned this one too and it jogged my memory....

I think the last one I saw was Knives Out in January, 2020. I really liked the movie but it wasn't my "typical" movie experience.

What I mean is that I met a good friend and his husband at a regular (I think it was AMC) theatre down in Long Beach. Going to movies is my absolutely FAVORITE thing to do so I normally go to a really nice Arclight here in The South Bay area of Los Angeles. The theatre has really comfy, over-sized seats and is a whole experience for me. I'm never happier than when I'm watching a great movie, in a great theatre, with great friends. Afterwards, we often go to dinner and talk about the movie as well as have interesting conversations.

This is one of the things I'm looking forward to doing the most once it's safe.

[Aristus]

24. "1917".

A couple (of stupid, worthless wastes of protoplasm) sitting next to me talked the whole time. They never fucking shut UP! Ruined the whole fucking experience for me.

Is it mean-spirited and petty to hope COVID got them?...

If it is, well, at least I was never so petty and mean-spirited that I had to talk through an entire fucking movie!...

[UTUSN]

25. I think it was Gaga's Star/Born (bummer)

[pnwest]

26. "Arrival".

[Rhiannon12866]

27. "Gravity" - on my birthday in 2013.

It had 3-D special effects.

[Skittles]

28. The Invisible Man

March of last year, right before the shit hit the fan

good movie

it's one thing I do miss, I enjoy seeing movies on the big screen

[MFM008]

29. The Grinch

i think 2018.

[LibinMo]

30. Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth

It’s been a long time......

[elleng]

31. The Hundred-Foot Journey

The teenage son of an Indian restaurateur finds work with his dad's culinary foe across the street. With a war between the two eateries brewing, the boy displays his unique talents in the kitchen by merging Indian and French cuisines.

Helen Mirren, Manish Dayal, Om Puri

(Just watched it again, on HBO. Not sure exactly when I saw it in theater, has been quite a while.)

[krispos42]

32. I think it was Jumanji 2

I found screenshots on my phone last week of a cinema's times, and I know I saw it with my fiancee, so I think that was it.

[Ron Obvious]

34. Birth of a Nation

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No, actually it was "Their Finest Hour", the Churchill movie.

We average about once a year at best anyway, and I can't say I've missed it.

ETA: Christ, it was Darkest Hour, wasn't it? Memory like a steel sieve, I have.

[bikebloke]

36. It was in 2000.

Can't recall which movie. I grew tired of people gabbing away during the movie.

[Iggo]

38. The last one I remember seeing in the theater is Avengers: Endgame.

I want to say there were at least one or two after that, but for the life of me I can’t think of one.

April 2019 sure seems like a long time ago, even if you forgive the entirety of 2020.

[Iggo]

41. Okay, it was bugging me, so I looked at a list of 2019 movies.

I saw Endgame in April, Godzilla in May, and the last movie I saw in the theater was...Once Upon A Time In Hollywood.

EDIT: Wrong again. It was Ad Astra in September.

[Jeebo]

43. "Yesterday"

They were talking about it a lot on The Beatles Channel on Sirius satellite radio and I just had to go see it. That must have been, um, about August or September of 2019. I really enjoyed it but had trouble understanding a lot of the dialogue because of the thick working-class British accents. I keep waiting for it to show up on the cable movie channels that I get so I can watch it again with the closed-captioning turned on. You don't have that option in the movie theater.

-- Ron

[Work360]

44. Avenger: End Game!

I watched it in 2019, such an incredible movie!