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Coventina

(27,119 posts) Fri Dec 2, 2016, 11:04 AM Dec 2016

Guess what I went to go see last night?

Possibly my favorite Christmas movie of all time!!!

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Guess what I went to go see last night? (Original Post) Coventina Dec 2016 OP

On the big screen? Iggo Dec 2016 #1

Yep!! Coventina Dec 2016 #2

Oh, lucky!!! Iggo Dec 2016 #3

I laughed and smiled so much my face was tired by the end. Coventina Dec 2016 #4

I saw West Side Story on the big screen for the fifty year anniversary back in 2011. Iggo Dec 2016 #5

Oh man, it's a great movie, but it marked the end of my childhood. Coventina Dec 2016 #6

Ee had a theatre in Houston that celebrated its 50th anniversary TexasBushwhacker Dec 2016 #7

I went to a movie earler today ("Arrival"), and there was a promo for the upcoming showing of... Iggo Dec 2016 #8

Iggo

(47,552 posts)

1. On the big screen?

Reply to Coventina (Original post)

Fri Dec 2, 2016, 12:04 PM

Dec 2016

Coventina

(27,119 posts)

2. Yep!!

Reply to Iggo (Reply #1)

Fri Dec 2, 2016, 01:27 PM

Dec 2016

One night only special event, hosted and skewered by RIFFTRAX, the brain trust behind Mystery Science Theatre 3000.

Iggo

(47,552 posts)

3. Oh, lucky!!!

Reply to Coventina (Reply #2)

Fri Dec 2, 2016, 01:53 PM

Dec 2016

Coventina

(27,119 posts)

4. I laughed and smiled so much my face was tired by the end.

Reply to Iggo (Reply #3)

Fri Dec 2, 2016, 02:02 PM

Dec 2016

I'd seen it before, but it was every bit as good as the first time.

Iggo

(47,552 posts)

5. I saw West Side Story on the big screen for the fifty year anniversary back in 2011.

Reply to Coventina (Reply #4)

Fri Dec 2, 2016, 02:10 PM

Dec 2016

Like you, I've seen it a million times.

But seeing it big was better.

Coventina

(27,119 posts)

6. Oh man, it's a great movie, but it marked the end of my childhood.

Reply to Iggo (Reply #5)

Fri Dec 2, 2016, 02:46 PM

Dec 2016

It was on TV, my dad and I were watching.

It was the first movie I ever watched without a happy ending.

I cried and cried and cried when my dad tried to explain that sometimes things don't end happy.

Great musical, though.

Great modern take on Romeo and Juliet (of which I was unaware of at the time).

TexasBushwhacker

(20,187 posts)

7. Ee had a theatre in Houston that celebrated its 50th anniversary

Reply to Coventina (Reply #2)

Sat Dec 3, 2016, 04:59 AM

Dec 2016

in 1989. They showed 1939 movies for 1939 prices; 25 scents for the movie, 10 cents for popcorn and a nickel for a soda. I saw The Wizard of Oz and Wuthering Heights. They also showed Gone With the Wind, but I had already seen it on the big screen.

There's a company, Fathom Events, that shows classic films on the big screen as special events, as well as ballets, operas and other special performances.

http://www.fathomevents.com

Iggo

(47,552 posts)

8. I went to a movie earler today ("Arrival"), and there was a promo for the upcoming showing of...