im jealous that this was your first time!
If it wasn’t 70mm, then it doesn’t count.
So glad to hear that the theater survived!
I was surprised by how many people supported this whole idea. I live in a small college town in West Virginia. Fi;m preservation isn’t really a big deal around here. You should see the most rented titles for my area on Netflix. It’s fucking embarrassing.
But there happens to be just enough people to support this theater and more are coming. Yay.
That’s the thing, people like cheap movies. I’d go crazy if there was a dollar theater around here. The closest thing is $3 matinee Tuesdays at the LACMA.
I’m so glad to see smaller, more adventurous theaters staying afloat, especially in areas that really benefit from it.
Yeah, catching smaller films in the theater and older films is great…but what’s REALLY great is being able to satisfy my curiosity for about 15 bucks (tickets and popcorn / soda for me and my wife) versus the sometimes 30 dollars or more at Marquee.
Like Indy 4.
Indy 4. Ouch!
For six bucks it was totally worth it haha.
I agree completely! Seeing this film in theatres is like no other experience!
Except Barry Lyndon. ;)
That reminds me of Tarantino saving the New Beverly theater last week. And Scorsese writing a letter, basically of contempt, to the closing of the LACMA film program.
FILM MUST BE SAVED!
Watching a truly great film in a crowded movie theater is even a better experience.
Yeah, I love Barry Lyndon. It’s the underrated Kubrick masterpiece. I hope that gets a Blu-ray soon enough. Or a Criterion.
OR BOTH!
I saw it on Acid the first time, then on dope, then just regular, and I liked all three times. Althogh the acid experience was pretty awesome, I saw it a year after it’s release. And all 3 times i sat on the irst or 2nd row right in the middle.
I’ve seen 2001: A Space Odyssey on the big screen. An experience that cannot be replicated, though it certainly replicates a certain 70s experience…
—DiB
You lucky son of a bitch.
this thread title makes me drools in envy ! 2001 : A Space Odyssey. IN THEATRE ? heaven.
It’s cool that they saved the theatre and that they’re doing programs like that. How’s the quality? There is an old theatre in my town that they do things like that from time to time. I’m glad to have it, but sometimes it is hard not to be disappointed. Their equipment is old and the sound is not so good. A few years back, I was eager to see “Brazil” there. Unfortunately, the print was badly scratched. Going there is a bit like those old bootleg tapes from Dead shows we used to listen to—they got a certain appeal, but you have to make some mental adjustments.
Screenings in theaters are nice but having someone answer their phone in the middle of Open City is not. I was not surprised when some young upstart answered her phone during Harry Potter (wisdom teeth extraction= drugs= I didn’t kick her in the fucking head) but, when decent films are molested by audience members, it’s almost not worth it. Having a bad memory (because of a bad environment) of a film is like being haunted by Ronald Reagan’s ghost
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That’s really cool, man.
I was lucky to see this in a cinerama theater about ten or more years ago. It was pretty dang great (and this was despite a father explaining scenes to his young son.)!
I’m seeing it in 70mm Cinerama, on one of (if not the) biggest screens in the country.
Can’t wait. Especially as I missed it two years ago and never thought I’d have the chance to see it in that format again.
I’m seeing it in 70mm Cinerama, on one of (if not the) biggest screens in the country.
Can’t wait. Especially as I missed it two years ago and never thought I’d have the chance to see it in that format again.
2001 = Lame meaningless Art House in psychedelic tinged SciFi clothing. The reactions to 2001 are so predictably cliché.
“I’m speechless. Let’s talk about it for two weeks”
Sabata’s “2001 = Lame meaningless Art House in psychedelic tinged SciFi clothing” is so friggin’ predictably cliché. Your opinion is also incorrect.
Mission accomplished though, you got some boob (yes, me) to respond. :)
Opinions can neither be correct or incorrect. That’s what makes them opinions.
I saw 2001 in the theatre. I was pretty young at the time but was old enough to appreciate the “cool stuff” I saw. I just bought it on Blu-Ray and don’t even have a Blu-Ray player yet!
“Opinions can neither be correct or incorrect. That’s what makes them opinions.”
It’s my opinion that the sun isn’t really important.
In my opinion, Norbit is a more technically impressive film than Citizen Kane.
It’s my opinion that Uwe Boll makes the most meaningful films.
Opinions can most certainly be wrong when they’re founded in bullshit.
You know, people that shield whatever it is they’ve said with the “opinion can’t be wrong” / “well that’s just my/your opinion” nonsense are normally spouted off by people that have a total inability to discuss anything intelligently.
Too bad you don’t like 2001 though, it’s a better accomplishment than anything you’ll do in your lifetime.
^^Art is subjective dear boy. Too bad you are seemingly too infantile to appreciate said freedom. Strawman.
I’m not talking about art, if you don’t like 2001 I couldn’t care less. I’m simply explaining to you that opinion can be wrong.
And art is subjective to a degree. I could shit on a canvas, give it a title, and call it art but I doubt anybody would have the audacity to say it’s better than a Dali thanks to the subjective nature of art.
At one point does scribbles on paper go from being scribbles to art? There is a line crossed, eventually. The same goes with film. And music. And everything else. There is a limit, and a line, and to deny it’s their is ridiculous.
And anyway, this is all in my opinion, and since it can’t be wrong, what’s the point of debating it, right?
Vocalities
I first saw 2001 when I was in the 7th grade. That was 1997. I have since dreamed of seeing 2001 in a movie theater, but never thought I would. A local theater in my town that was going to be closed down due to a new huge multiplex opening saved itself by offered movies at a discount. Usually movies that just left the theater. For only three dollars you could see the movies you knew were going to be bad but still wanted to see. It was great.
Then they introduced playing smaller films that didn’t get a wide release. That’s how I got to see A Serious Man and The Road in the theaters. Amazing.
But now they do “Flashback Mondays”. Each Monday, for five dollars, at 4pm and 7pm, they play old movies. Ghostbusters. The Shining. 2001. Breakfast Club. Citizen Kane. Tonight was 2001, and me and a good friend sat in a packed, tiny theater and I am just so fucking excited I had to come here and talk about it. My wife is asleep and all my loser friends bailed on me. The friend I took, Deborah, had never even heard of the movie. That made it even better…just watching and hearing her react to the whole thing. Wow.
To see Dave’s eye…hearing HAL talk…hearing the extremely effective and scary chorus…the music and the elegancy and the intensity…wow.
One of the best experiences I’ve ever had in a theater. I’m so glad I got the chance to do this.