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What was the last movie you've seen in the theater (Original Post) MustLoveBeagles Feb 2024 OP
Barbie 50 Shades Of Blue Feb 2024 #1
Same here. SarahD Feb 2024 #17
Me too. Barbie unc70 Feb 2024 #19
Barbie mia Feb 2024 #34
Barbie for me, too. Silver Gaia Feb 2024 #57
Excellent German film "The Teachers Lounge" NoRethugFriends Feb 2024 #2
Thanks for the tip. Will look for it. Pinback Feb 2024 #28
Good luck. Not real available. It was the German entry for foreign film Oscar. NoRethugFriends Feb 2024 #30
"My Own Private Idaho," at a small theater in Portland,Oregon. mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2024 #3
Maestro leftieNanner Feb 2024 #4
I honestly don't remember. Mr.Bill Feb 2024 #5
godzilla 2009. that was it. AllaN01Bear Feb 2024 #6
Bohemian Rhapsody FalloutShelter Feb 2024 #7
Top Gun II sinkingfeeling Feb 2024 #8
Me too. Demobrat Feb 2024 #85
Last in theater movie Squeaky41 Feb 2024 #9
The Wolfman - Anthony Hopkins (2010) nt KarenS Feb 2024 #10
Oppenheimer av8rdave Feb 2024 #11
Harry Potter 7-2 Tetrachloride Feb 2024 #12
Boys in the boat cbabe Feb 2024 #13
what did you think of that movie Skittles Feb 2024 #21
The book is terrific. The movie not so much. Quibbles cbabe Feb 2024 #23
that's the gist I got from reviews Skittles Feb 2024 #72
Mamma Mia! rogerballard Feb 2024 #14
Three days ago I saw "Zone of Interest" 303squadron Feb 2024 #15
Trying to decide about seeing it. Not sure I can deal. NoRethugFriends Feb 2024 #31
See it 303squadron Feb 2024 #59
I understand NoRethugFriends Feb 2024 #67
what did you think? for me, it was intense BlueWaveNeverEnd Feb 2024 #53
We liked it 303squadron Feb 2024 #62
I read some of the reviews written by regular people who didn't like the film "nothing happens" BlueWaveNeverEnd Feb 2024 #66
I saw Ferrari in December, at The Manor in Squirrel Hill... (nt) petronius Feb 2024 #16
Pretty sure it was "Knives Out" just as covid was breaking out. rurallib Feb 2024 #18
The Holdovers Skittles Feb 2024 #20
I just watched it. Good movie. live love laugh Feb 2024 #86
Avatar (I think) IcyPeas Feb 2024 #22
Same for me. Avatar. WheelWalker Feb 2024 #51
Top Gun2 and I walked out half way thru.. It really stunk. Just a poor rehash of the first...nt mitch96 Feb 2024 #24
I don't remember the name of the movie, but it was 5 or 6 months ago. Stuart G Feb 2024 #25
Wonka. I loved it. Magical. MLAA Feb 2024 #26
I can't even remember - it's been years! Ocelot II Feb 2024 #27
Anselm - artist "documentary" by Wim Wenders (nt) Pinback Feb 2024 #29
Godzilla Minus One DBoon Feb 2024 #32
loved it BlueWaveNeverEnd Feb 2024 #54
"David Crosby: Remember My Name" (2019 documentary CountAllVotes Feb 2024 #33
Knives Out rickford66 Feb 2024 #35
The Patriot in 2000 GP6971 Feb 2024 #36
The Holdovers 10 Turtle Day Feb 2024 #37
Argyle live love laugh Feb 2024 #38
How was it? I am thinking about going next week. niyad Feb 2024 #44
Quirky and funny. live love laugh Feb 2024 #47
Thank you. niyad Feb 2024 #48
You are welcome. live love laugh Feb 2024 #49
I was just reading some of the reviews. . very negative! niyad Feb 2024 #50
Whoa, that's *way* back - mine "Napoleon" (disappointment) UTUSN Feb 2024 #39
Mine too. beveeheart Feb 2024 #76
Me to - Barbie. patphil Feb 2024 #40
Return of the King Ferrets are Cool Feb 2024 #41
1917 Sneederbunk Feb 2024 #42
Barbie. niyad Feb 2024 #43
Yes I did MustLoveBeagles Feb 2024 #71
When Evil Lurks redqueen Feb 2024 #45
Barbie. August 16, 2023. PufPuf23 Feb 2024 #46
lots recently: 'Argylle', 'Anatomy of a Fall', 'Godzilla Minus One', 'Wonka' BlueWaveNeverEnd Feb 2024 #52
Poor Things PJMcK Feb 2024 #55
French film "Lie with Me" (translated title) Coventina Feb 2024 #56
Godzilla Minus One/Minus Color JoseBalow Feb 2024 #58
I believe it was 'Shazam: Fury Of The Gods'. OldBaldy1701E Feb 2024 #60
Barbie Niagara Feb 2024 #61
Dune Rastapopoulos Feb 2024 #63
I saw "Poor Things" a few weeks ago. zanana1 Feb 2024 #64
Wonka. Took the kids on Christmas Luciferous Feb 2024 #65
Whatever that first Daniel Craig (as James Bond) movie was. dameatball Feb 2024 #68
Mirrors 2008 mockmonkey Feb 2024 #69
Barbie nt XanaDUer2 Feb 2024 #70
Star Wars premiere. Laughed when the space ships made wooshing noises. Hermit-The-Prog Feb 2024 #73
I've been trying for two days now to remember... WestMichRad Feb 2024 #74
According to wikipedia, it was 1977. Haven't been in a theater since. Hermit-The-Prog Feb 2024 #75
Ach! I didn't mean to post a reply to your comment! WestMichRad Feb 2024 #77
I thought maybe you hit the wrong button; I've done that, too. :D Hermit-The-Prog Feb 2024 #83
The French Dispatch Drum Feb 2024 #78
Haha - cilla4progress Feb 2024 #79
Barbie maptap22 Feb 2024 #80
Oppenheimer snpsmom Feb 2024 #81
Boys in the Boat lynintenn Feb 2024 #82
About 10 years ago bottomofthehill Feb 2024 #84
Geez, That's Tough ProfessorGAC Feb 2024 #87
A Haunting in Venice beaglelover Feb 2024 #88
"The Post" (nt) Paladin Feb 2024 #89

mia

(8,480 posts)
34. Barbie
Fri Feb 9, 2024, 11:17 PM
Feb 2024

Saw Barbie with my daughter in a theater with lounge chairs. I hadn't been to a movie theater since Covid began.

Silver Gaia

(5,357 posts)
57. Barbie for me, too.
Sat Feb 10, 2024, 06:50 AM
Feb 2024

With my daughter, both of us wearing pink, in our favorite theater with comfy recliner seats and lots of popcorn...it was great fun!

NoRethugFriends

(3,749 posts)
2. Excellent German film "The Teachers Lounge"
Fri Feb 9, 2024, 07:54 PM
Feb 2024

Average maybe 30 movies a year in the theater.
So different an experience than TV.

NoRethugFriends

(3,749 posts)
30. Good luck. Not real available. It was the German entry for foreign film Oscar.
Fri Feb 9, 2024, 10:56 PM
Feb 2024

(MY choice would be The Boy and the Heron. Subtitled version!

mahatmakanejeeves

(69,622 posts)
3. "My Own Private Idaho," at a small theater in Portland,Oregon.
Fri Feb 9, 2024, 07:56 PM
Feb 2024

It was in the upper parks blocks a few blocks from where one of the scenes was filmed.

cbabe

(6,610 posts)
23. The book is terrific. The movie not so much. Quibbles
Fri Feb 9, 2024, 10:03 PM
Feb 2024

include the sunny weather when it was the dark cold rain of early morning training that challenged the boys.

The poverty was also underplayed. Especially in races against the wealthy east coast ivies.

I also thought the characters weren’t very developed.

The German/Hitler scenes standard.

I really wanted to love the movie because of the book and George Clooney as a director. But it lacked depth and subtlety.

In all I would give it an ok.

303squadron

(813 posts)
15. Three days ago I saw "Zone of Interest"
Fri Feb 9, 2024, 08:52 PM
Feb 2024

It's about the commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolph Hoss, and his family living right next to the camp.

303squadron

(813 posts)
59. See it
Sat Feb 10, 2024, 08:13 AM
Feb 2024

It is not a film that depicts suffering, but implies it with different means. The dichotomy of the pleasant lives of the Hoss family with the sound of what is happening just over the wall that separates their house from the camp creates the intensity.

Auschwitz was originally set up as a camp for Polish political prisoners. On a 2018 visit there I found out that over 50 people sharing my mother's maiden name were slaughtered there. I can't look away!

303squadron

(813 posts)
62. We liked it
Sat Feb 10, 2024, 08:39 AM
Feb 2024

But it's a different film that's for sure. The stark lack of empathy depicted in the lives of the Nazi's toward the suffering of others is what happens when one group of people believe that other groups of people are subhuman.






BlueWaveNeverEnd

(14,109 posts)
66. I read some of the reviews written by regular people who didn't like the film "nothing happens"
Sat Feb 10, 2024, 09:59 AM
Feb 2024

they say... oh, so much happens! some of the small scenes, like the wife trying on the fur coat. so much meaning.

The film will stick with me for a long time.

mitch96

(15,797 posts)
24. Top Gun2 and I walked out half way thru.. It really stunk. Just a poor rehash of the first...nt
Fri Feb 9, 2024, 10:12 PM
Feb 2024

Ferrets are Cool

(22,930 posts)
41. Return of the King
Sat Feb 10, 2024, 12:10 AM
Feb 2024

I built my own theater room which is better than any commercial theater so we never go anymore.

niyad

(132,148 posts)
43. Barbie.
Sat Feb 10, 2024, 01:06 AM
Feb 2024

Did you just watch the anniversary showing of "My Fair Lady"? I just finished watching "Charade" again on youtube, so that does not count for your question.

redqueen

(115,186 posts)
45. When Evil Lurks
Sat Feb 10, 2024, 01:30 AM
Feb 2024

I'm a horror movie buff. Really liked Terrified, which was also written and directed by Demián Rugna, so I wanted to see this one in the theater.

PufPuf23

(9,822 posts)
46. Barbie. August 16, 2023.
Sat Feb 10, 2024, 01:37 AM
Feb 2024

Had a 60,000 mile service and a brake job on Jeep. Nearest theatre is over an 80-mile drive that many people would think difficult (curvy 2-lane highway along two Wild and Scenic Rivers, through National Forest and two Reservations, then over two mountain passes, more National Forest and timber industry land). Had not been to a movie in theatre since first week of January 2018 and before that whenever Depp's Finding Neverland was new.

Salesman that sold me vehicle in 2017 drove me to theatre and picked me up afterwards.

Afterwards learned the guy was a major MAGA. That explained his reaction, "Maybe my wife would like the movie", when I came out enthused and related my positive thoughts while throwing out tidbits like "Patriarchy" and how thought all the movie that "Ruth" was Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Think the salesman is nice to me because I am a good customer turns out and probably had never occurred to him, I was a lifelong Democrat.

Coventina

(29,664 posts)
56. French film "Lie with Me" (translated title)
Sat Feb 10, 2024, 06:30 AM
Feb 2024

Top notch!

Excellent in every way and deeply moving.

JoseBalow

(9,446 posts)
58. Godzilla Minus One/Minus Color
Sat Feb 10, 2024, 08:10 AM
Feb 2024


"Godzilla Minus One/Minus Color is not just a simple black and white version," Yamazki said, "The colorist took the care and the time to go through a careful and very complex process. The black-and-white images make Godzilla look very realistic and documentary-like, which leads to even more fear. Even we have seen Godzilla many times, but we felt that something completely different appeared there. It is very scary. So this is not only for those who liked Godzilla Minus One but also those who are seeing it for the first time. They should definitely see this black-and-white version. Especially the scene at the beginning where Godzilla appears in the night - it is so terrifying that it made my knees shake!"
https://godzilla.com/blogs/news/godzilla-minus-one-minus-color

dameatball

(7,668 posts)
68. Whatever that first Daniel Craig (as James Bond) movie was.
Sat Feb 10, 2024, 11:20 AM
Feb 2024

I went with a very attractive lady and she had requested to see it. Before the movie started she informed me that she had a poster of him on her wall. She was about 52 at the time and I figured that was a bit unusual. I'm not sure what wall she was referring to but I never got to see it.

mockmonkey

(2,964 posts)
69. Mirrors 2008
Sat Feb 10, 2024, 11:46 AM
Feb 2024

My husband wanted to see Mirrors with Kiefer Sutherland. I had to look up the year that it was released.
When I was a kid in the 60's we lived within walking distance of a movie theater so we went all the time.
Now I find the sound effects and music too loud to the point that I can't hear what the actors are saying.

Hermit-The-Prog

(36,631 posts)
73. Star Wars premiere. Laughed when the space ships made wooshing noises.
Sat Feb 10, 2024, 08:14 PM
Feb 2024

Didn't mean to be rude to the other people in the theater, but it was so ridiculously Hollyweird that way.

WestMichRad

(3,229 posts)
74. I've been trying for two days now to remember...
Sat Feb 10, 2024, 08:27 PM
Feb 2024

… I got nuthin’. (It was pre-covid.)
Not a memorable film, huh?!

WestMichRad

(3,229 posts)
77. Ach! I didn't mean to post a reply to your comment!
Sat Feb 10, 2024, 08:35 PM
Feb 2024

But I laughed at the corniness of Star Wars, too, and it really annoyed my date.

bottomofthehill

(9,381 posts)
84. About 10 years ago
Sat Feb 10, 2024, 09:30 PM
Feb 2024

Monuments Men. It was pretty good. About saving art in WWII. It’s hard for me to sit still and watch a movie in a theater. I prefer watching at home. 🏠

ProfessorGAC

(76,613 posts)
87. Geez, That's Tough
Sun Feb 11, 2024, 08:08 AM
Feb 2024

With what we pay for cable, we exercise patience until we can watch at home.
I did go to the theater to see the remastered version of Star Trek: The Next Generation 2 part episode "Best Of Both Worlds".
Beyond that, I'm really stumped. Forrest Gump? "That Thing You Do"?
Really not sure.

beaglelover

(4,464 posts)
88. A Haunting in Venice
Sun Feb 11, 2024, 11:35 AM
Feb 2024

First time going to the theater in our new desert home. The theater was awesome with comfortable recliners, stadium seating, so comfortable I almost fell asleep! The movie was pretty good.

Prior to that the last time we went to the movie theater was to see Top Gun Maverick.

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