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Daniel J Standard Userer	I know this topic is a little bit silly but I thought it would be fun. What is your individual feat for sitting at the theatre and watching movies. I have a high of five movies in one day and one of them was The Thin Red Line so it wasn't easy. This was the actual list. Mighty Joe Young, Shakespeare In Love, Patch Adams, The Thin Red Line, Stepmom.
posted 05-30-2000 06:02 PM PT (US)

dantoris Standard Userer	Quite a few times I've taken in two movies a day: Last Action Hero and Jurassic Park, Waterworld and The Net, Fallen and Deep Rising. I once even saw two movies in the same day, with each movie at a different theater: I saw City of Industry, then raced over to another theater to see Sling Blade. I've wanted to take it to the next level and try to get three movies in one day, but it's all a matter of finding three movies you want to see and have them starting one right after the other. It's easier to find two playing one after the other. [This message has been edited by dantoris (edited 30 May 2000).]
posted 05-30-2000 06:45 PM PT (US)

Chris Kinsinger Standard Userer	Back in 1981, I attended a twilight showing of Clash Of The Titans on its opening day, crossed the river to the other side of town and saw Raiders Of The Lost Ark, which also opened that day. That's the only time I ever attended two different theatres in the same day. In 1976, I attended a "Monster Movie Marathon" in Philadelphia, featuring Don Siegel's Invasion Of The Body Snatchers, Tod Browning's Freaks, James Whale's The Old Dark House, and about a dozen other horror films that I can't recall right now, because I snoozed through some of them, and that all happened 24 years ago! (PS for you History Buffs: the marathon was held in the Walnut Theatre, which had just been redecorated for the debate between Jimmy Carter & Gerald Ford the following week!)
posted 05-30-2000 08:09 PM PT (US)

dantoris Standard Userer	Just remember to more movies I saw during the same trip to the theater. Me, my mom and my brother went to see Three Fugitives with Nick Nolte and Martin Short. They announced beforehand that after the film, there would be a special sneak preview of a soon-to-be-released film. They didn't say the name or who the stars where, but it ended up becoming one of my all-time favorite comedies and Goldsmith score . . . The 'burbs.
posted 05-30-2000 09:01 PM PT (US)

Kevin Standard Userer	Actually the only time I've stayed for more than one time is for the same movie. My personal record is the opening day for Empire Strikes Back. I was in line early in the morning, and sat through all five showings. Back then they didn't kick you out between shows, so I only paid for the first matinee and just sat in my seat the rest of the time. Kevin
posted 05-30-2000 09:57 PM PT (US)

H Rocco Standard Userer	New York is lousy with multiplexes. And hardly any security at any of them. But I've never seen more than three complete films at one of those enclaves. No, my record has to be at Japanese theaters: the All-Night Show at the Toho Asakusa in the northeastern quarter of Tokyo. Five monster movies back-to-back, I've done that three times over the years (this is the best all-night show in Tokyo because they always show FIVE -- many others only show three or four, and that just gets you a couple hours shy of dawn -- the trains aren't running then! What're we supposed to do with ourselves? Hang out at the all-night ramen place, I guess). Titles I've seen that way include PLANET WARS (which is cheap and boring, although I like the guys who made it, they're good and talented, if then underfunded people), ABOMINABLE SNOWMAN (vastly underrated, and not available on home video), BEAUTY AND THE LIQUID PEOPLE, WAR OF THE MONSTERS, FRANKENSTEIN VS. BARAGON, HUMAN VAPOR #1, EARTH'S GREATEST BATTLE, RODAN, GODZILLA 1984, and so on and so on and so on. NP: video of WAR OF THE GARGANTUAS (I swear this is coincidental)
posted 05-30-2000 10:22 PM PT (US)

John Maher Standard Userer	Oh my God, Chris! My wife, my best friend, my baby brother and I were at that horror movie marathon!!!! What a blast it was. Remember Philadelphia's television horror movie host Dr. Shock as the MC, telling really stupid jokes? Remember the massive crowd that practically carried you into the theater when the doors opened? Remember the television monitors in the lobby, so that you could go out for a smoke or coffee and still see the movie? Remember how we all applauded when "Frenzy" came on, because it was in color? I also recall the distinctive scent of pot, throughout the evening. I remember that my brother never, ever left his seat - not even to go to the bathroom! Also, my friend brought a large trash bag, filled with donuts; and my desperate attempt to get a cup of coffee, in the lobby. I remember asking the girl if they were EVER going to make a pot of coffee, and she said "We're just tryin' to get it all together, if ya know what I mean". I didn't. My wife and I were just recently trying to recall all the films we saw that night. "Invasion of the Body Snatchers", "Frenzy", "Freaks", "The Black Cat", "Little Shop of Horrors", "Night of the Living Dead" - what else? John
posted 05-31-2000 07:51 AM PT (US)

John Maher Standard Userer	Besides the above mention horror film marathon, I saw all the 'Apes' films, in one continuous showing. Also, saw "The Big Bust Out", "The Big Doll House", "The Big Bird Cage", "Summer School Teachers" and "The Student Teachers", one summer night in 1975, at the drive-in. My wife proclaimed - "If I see one more pair of breasts, I'm going to throw-up!" Ah, those were the days.
posted 05-31-2000 08:01 AM PT (US)

SBD Standard Userer	I, myself, am trying to make a habit out of seeing two films a day. I started with GALAXY QUEST and TOY STORY 2 a few days after Christmas; END OF DAYS and SCREAM 3 sometime in February; and just yesterday, I saw SHANGHAI NOON and DINOSAUR.
posted 05-31-2000 08:33 AM PT (US)

Chris Kinsinger Standard Userer	Mr. Maher! Our paths have crossed before! WOW! That marathon was a very memorable one. Bonita & I were there, along with four friends from York, Pa. How well I recall "Dr. Shock" taking the stage! We all loved him so from our childhood, and he was greeted with a very warm round of applause. THEN he proceeded to tell the foulest dirty jokes, and it was so out of character that he was BOOED off the stage and did not return! You asked if I recall the smell of pot??? I don't know where YOU were seated, but we were in the balcony...along with ALL of the pot-smokers! WOOF! I almost got high just breathing! My most vivid memory is of a teenager, totally stoned, sitting on the stairway at about 3 AM, very methodically burning holes in the brand-new carpeting with his cigarette.
posted 06-01-2000 09:51 AM PT (US)

Graham Watt Standard Userer	In the days of double bills I saw To The Devil A Daughter (Hammer, Chris Lee and Nats Kinski, about '75) three times in one day. That meant watching something called Candy Stripe Nurses twice too. I went after lunch and came out well after supper time. Seeing Nats Kinski naked three times plus a film called Candy Stripe Nurses twice was almost too much for my teenage gonads to bear.
posted 06-01-2000 02:24 PM PT (US)

Norman McCay Standard Userer	I am really glad that most of you saw GOOD or MEMORABLE movies for your IRON MAN marathons at the movie theater. I topped out at three movies in one day, back some ten years ago, unfortunately these three movies were DUCK TALES, DICK TRACY, and PROBLEM CHILD 2. It was like getting punched three times, a jab to the face, a blow to the gut, and an uppercut to the jaw, one right after another. Well, actually PROBLEM CHILD 2 had some funny parts.... [This message has been edited by Norman McCay (edited 02 June 2000).]
posted 06-02-2000 11:44 AM PT (US)

Chris Kinsinger Standard Userer	I'm rather fond of Dick Tracy m'self.
posted 06-03-2000 10:10 AM PT (US)

Moovtune Non-Standard Userer	Many years ago when I was stationed in Norfolk, Va. in the Navy, I saw 6 films in one day. I started at 6 or 7am and saw 3 double features, then hurried back to the base to see "How the West Was Won". I don't recall what the others were though. I used to see 4 a day all the time on weekends.
posted 06-07-2000 09:25 AM PT (US)

John C Winfrey Standard Userer	Back in the '60s we used to go to the Cowtown and Meadowbrook Drive-Ins in Ft. Worth and watch movies from sunset to sunrise. All different. Many people would fall asleep, but I watched em all. Take care. John.
posted 06-07-2000 01:24 PM PT (US)

Pete M Standard Userer	I quite often see multiple films in one day, although my highest is still just 4 films, but I have done that at least two or three times. A local cinema does double-bills every Sunday afternoon, & then the Uni Film Society show double bills on Sunday evenings, so I've managed to do that a couple of times, although it can be a push to make it between the two, particularly if you want to eat. As for seeing the same film more than once in the same day, I've only done that twice - once was Sleepy Hollow on opening day (I've since clocked up 7 viewings - my next highest No. is 4), & also Alien I've seen twice on the big screen in one day. That was a very nice day indeed. np Predator
posted 06-08-2000 03:54 AM PT (US)

Ron Pulliam Standard Userer	Chris Kinsinger wrote: <<Back in 1981, I attended a twilight showing of Clash Of The Titans on its opening day, crossed the river to the other side of town and saw Raiders Of The Lost Ark, which also opened that day.>> Wow, Chris! I tried to do the same thing (I was living in Indianapolis at the time). I saw "Clash of the Titans," all right, but the lines for "Raiders..." were so outrageous that I saw "The Blue Lagoon", instead. Thus began a love affair with Nestor Almendros and Basil Poledouris! In high school, I worked part-time as an usher in a local theater. I once saw "The Yellow Rolls-Royce" four times in one day (in between, I was keeping an eye out for smokers not in the approved smoking section -- remember when theaters had smoking loges???). While in college, circa 1967, I saw, in this order: "The Valley of the Dolls," "Bonnie and Clyde" and "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner." I don't recommend this to anyone. The latter film suffered the most from it....my friends and I weren't equipped to cope going from trash to dramatic flash to light-romantic-dramedy-with-a-social-conscience. "Valley..." was okay. Fortunately, "Bonnie and Clyde" made the greatest impact and negated the first film's shallow veneer. I have done at-home marathons, though -- I've done all the "Rocky" films in one day. I've also done 6 Astaire-Rogers films in one day! Ron
posted 06-08-2000 08:13 AM PT (US)

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