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

mia

(8,362 posts)
34. Barbie
Fri Feb 9, 2024, 11:17 PM
Feb 9

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

Silver Gaia

(4,546 posts)
57. Barbie for me, too.
Sat Feb 10, 2024, 06:50 AM
Feb 10

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

(2,337 posts)
2. Excellent German film "The Teachers Lounge"
Fri Feb 9, 2024, 07:54 PM
Feb 9

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

NoRethugFriends

(2,337 posts)
30. Good luck. Not real available. It was the German entry for foreign film Oscar.
Fri Feb 9, 2024, 10:56 PM
Feb 9

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

mahatmakanejeeves

(57,613 posts)
3. "My Own Private Idaho," at a small theater in Portland,Oregon.
Fri Feb 9, 2024, 07:56 PM
Feb 9

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

cbabe

(3,549 posts)
23. The book is terrific. The movie not so much. Quibbles
Fri Feb 9, 2024, 10:03 PM
Feb 9

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

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

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

303squadron

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

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

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

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

(8,073 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 10

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.

Ferrets are Cool

(21,110 posts)
41. Return of the King
Sat Feb 10, 2024, 12:10 AM
Feb 10

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

niyad

(113,576 posts)
43. Barbie.
Sat Feb 10, 2024, 01:06 AM
Feb 10

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

(115,103 posts)
45. When Evil Lurks
Sat Feb 10, 2024, 01:30 AM
Feb 10

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

(8,839 posts)
46. Barbie. August 16, 2023.
Sat Feb 10, 2024, 01:37 AM
Feb 10

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.

JoseBalow

(2,469 posts)
58. Godzilla Minus One/Minus Color
Sat Feb 10, 2024, 08:10 AM
Feb 10


"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

(7,399 posts)
68. Whatever that first Daniel Craig (as James Bond) movie was.
Sat Feb 10, 2024, 11:20 AM
Feb 10

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

(2,830 posts)
69. Mirrors 2008
Sat Feb 10, 2024, 11:46 AM
Feb 10

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

(33,430 posts)
73. Star Wars premiere. Laughed when the space ships made wooshing noises.
Sat Feb 10, 2024, 08:14 PM
Feb 10

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

WestMichRad

(1,340 posts)
74. I've been trying for two days now to remember...
Sat Feb 10, 2024, 08:27 PM
Feb 10

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

WestMichRad

(1,340 posts)
77. Ach! I didn't mean to post a reply to your comment!
Sat Feb 10, 2024, 08:35 PM
Feb 10

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

bottomofthehill

(8,347 posts)
84. About 10 years ago
Sat Feb 10, 2024, 09:30 PM
Feb 10

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

(65,191 posts)
87. Geez, That's Tough
Sun Feb 11, 2024, 08:08 AM
Feb 11

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

(3,489 posts)
88. A Haunting in Venice
Sun Feb 11, 2024, 11:35 AM
Feb 11

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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