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I remember walking past Kingston cinema with my parents and KELLY'S HEROES (1970) was showing. I still remember looking at the poster with my dad. Also, down at the coast somewhere we walked past a cinema and ZOMBIES DAWN OF THE DEAD (1978) was showing. I remember stopping and looking at the poster and stills outside. There must have been a tv spot on the television because I knew what it was. kelly-s-heroes-uk-quad-1970--13066-p.jpg zombies-dawn-of-the-dead.jpg My brother being older than me got to see some X cert movies. He saw ALIEN (1979). The film broke down just as Ripley blew the Nostromo up. Everyone thought it was the end of the film because it stopped in just the right place. Then the film started again and people came back in! He saw THE EXORCIST (1973). It scared him afterward. He kept thinking he could see the possessed face and hear the voice in the bedroom. He also saw DAMIEN OMEN II (1978), ENTER THE DRAGON (1973) and SCANNERS (1981). I remember the awesome SCANNERS poster lit up at the cinema. |
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'Carrie' was the second feature on this bill
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The only time I got an entire screen to myself was seeing Scrooged. Massive queues, but every one else went into Who Framed Roger Rabbit
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I had the whole screen to myself with NATIVITY STORY (2006)
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The Nineties on film. My cinema screenings. (Continued) 1997 Scream Jackie Chan's First Strike The Relic Fierce Creatures Star Wars (Special Edition) Crash Absolute Power Dante's Peak Donnie Brasco The Empire Strikes Back (Special Edition) The Devil's Own The Saint Anaconda Return of the Jedi (Special Edition) Grosse Pointe Blank Volcano Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery Breakdown The Fifth Element The Lost World: Jurassic Park Con Air Speed 2: Cruise Control Batman & Robin Face/Off Men in Black Air Force One Spawn Conspiracy Theory Cop Land Event Horizon G.I. Jane Mimic Fire Down Below The Game L.A. Confidential Wishmaster The Edge Kiss the Girls U Turn An American Werewolf in Paris The Devil's Advocate I Know What You Did Last Summer A Life Less Ordinary Starship Troopers The Jackal The Rainmaker Alien Resurrection Scream 2 MouseHunt Tomorrow Never Dies To be continued... |
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The Nineties on film. My cinema screenings. (Concluded) 1998 Fallen Deep Rising Dark City Sphere The Big Lebowski U.S. Marshals Wild Things Species II Nightwatch Deep Impact Jackie Brown As Good as It Gets Godzilla A Perfect Murder Insomnia The Truman Show Armageddon The Mask of Zorro Saving Private Ryan Halloween H20: 20 Years Later Snake Eyes The Avengers Blade Rush Hour Ronin Soldier Vampires The Siege I Still Know What You Did Last Summer Enemy of the State Very Bad Things Little Voice A Simple Plan Star Trek: Insurrection 1999 Virus Payback My Favorite Martian Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels The Matrix Entrapment The Thin Red Line The Mummy Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me Lake Placid The Haunting Deep Blue Sea The Sixth Sense The Thomas Crown Affair The 13th Warrior Stigmata House on Haunted Hill Three Kings Sleepy Hollow The World Is Not Enough End of Days 2000 Any Given Sunday The Beach U-571 Gladiator Mission: Impossible 2 X-Men What Lies Beneath Space Cowboys The Cell The Exorcist (re-release) And that was basically it. Our regular Sunday outings came to an end. Mainly due to two factors. Three of us bought dvd players in the summer of 1998. Back then releases were staggered in cinemas. Something could be out on American dvd months before it came to UK cinemas so we'd buy the film on import dvd meaning there was no reason to go to the cinema to see it. They could cost anything north of twenty quid a film to buy so there was no way i'd do that then go and see it at the cinema. The other reason was a bit odd. We'd religiously go every Sunday to the UCI at a Preston retail park. It was a forty minute drive, we'd park up watch the film then go to Mcdonalds afterwards to discuss it. It was an enjoyable afternoon out and always at least two of us went. Usually it was three, on occassions up to six depending on the film. It turned into less of an afternoon out when a cinema - the Hollywood Park - opened in Burnley. We could do just the same thing as we'd done at Preston and sometimes Bury, but it didn't feel like an event, it became mundane, nor did it seem reasonable to continue traveling to Preston when there was a new multiplex on our doorstep. Although we went for months to Burnley it just wasn't the same, plus there was the dvd phenomenon as well. That's not to say it was the end of cinema going for us. We'd go to the odd event movie that we hadn't purchased on dvd such as Bond or Star Wars, or LOTR or one off screenings of classic films but our 90's film festival came to an end. All good things eh? Looking back and compiling these lists has been both fun and sweetly nostalgic with just a touch of melancholy thrown in as well. We saw some fantastic films (and one or two clunkers as well) and the over riding feeling is that the 90's were one hell of a decade for film making. The amount of good to very good films we saw i'd reckon was about 90% and the best thing about them was they were all original movies. Barely any remakes or sequels and the screens weren't cluttered up by superheroes or paranormal non-entities meaning that when we did see a superhero film like Batman Returns or Blade or even Spawn or a horror film like Bram Stoker's Dracula, Scream or In the Mouth of Madness, it felt like an event in itself. I almost feel privileged to have seen the likes of LA Confidential, Saving Private Ryan, Pulp Fiction, Interview with the Vampire and Gladiator, to name but five, on the cinema screen. |
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fri 13th
I saw Commando at the cinema, for some reason the top aisle row, jutted out into the walkway, so I walk into a totally dark cinema, walk straight into back of the aisle seat and jettisoned over the seat and face planted onto the floor,still do not know what happened or why... Went to an all nighter showing Friday the 13th 1 to 5,this was still in the days you could smoke in the cinema, for some reason I loaded up on chocolate and cigs,spent most of part 4 throwing up in the toilets...
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One of the cinemas I visit is still a classic old cinema. They have the old certificate board at the entrance. 20200910_145315.jpg The board must be pre 1970 as the X CERT shows a 16 age group and there is no AA CERT. |
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It was so much easier in the olden days - if you ain't old enough, you ain't getting in!
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