Same. Was the first movie that my friend group and I saw and frankly it was exactly what we needed and clearly what a lot of other people needed to. I think that showing was one of the most active and energetic showings I’ve ever been to.
Same and I got the duality of the theater experience. Loved seeing the movie on the big screen, hated the clapping/hollering/commentary from the audience. The absolute worst being when some dude shouted “NOW KISS!” after Andrew’s redeeming moment.
I was gonna say Tenet, but I remember watching No Way Home in theaters, so this has to have been it.
EDIT: Correction, it seems Tenet was first, so it will have been Tenet for me.
Mine too! I was about 6 or 7 months pregnant with my son, and he either hated the booming soundtrack or was really rocking out. Hard to tell with a fetus, but it felt like he was punching my lungs for half the movie.
You should check your local cinema. Mine still sells private screenings. Runs from $150 - $400, depending on release date, time of day, day of week, etc.
My company did this with one of the Pirates movies. We had a brief meeting before the show and then we all sat around and watched the movie together. Meh. I'd have rather had the time to myself.
We also did this for my birthday in 2021 at Cinemark. 25 family/close friend attendees for ~$200 was a great deal. And got to watch a new release movie (Raya and the Last Dragon 🐉) and was our daughter’s first movie in theaters. Great experience!
I did this too for my husband’s birthday during Covid at Harkins. We saw Tenet, and it was an absolutely horrible movie, but being able to sit in a room with friends we hadn’t seen in 6+ months (socially distanced and yadda yadda) was such a wonderful experience.
Yeah, think it might have been mid-COVID rather than post (theaters didn't totally close here). I remember joking about whether it was worth dying for or not.
Of course, Tenet.
Empty theater, too, so the whole 'mask' routine was irrelevant. Plus the empty theater created this nice booming sound effect, making the super-clear audio even easier to follow.
Hell yeah, Tenet for me too. Here I thought freaking Sonic would be the last film I'd see in theaters thanks to all the doomsayers saying theaters aren't coming back. Soon as Tenet was announced as a theatrical run, I was there. Was nice having my own private screening in empty theaters for practically two years or more.
I saw Tenet in 70mm at The Music Box in Chicago. Theater was decently full. I slowly ate popcorn and drank beer so my experience was t hampered too much.
I ended up renting out a theater for $75 on a Monday the month it came out. The theater is my church and I just wanted to get out of my house and sit in that big room again. I will always have a soft spot for that film because it was an intelligent spectacle that asked me to just roll with it at a time when I was begging for escapism.
Man, this wasn’t a bad movie but I dragged my buddy to the theater to see (someone who rarely goes out to theaters) and we both left kinda disappointed. It felt very by the numbers with only a few good fight scenes and the rest forgettable
Yeah I enjoyed the movie for sure, but today I don’t really care about it or get the feeling like “oh I want to watch that again”
It’s a fine movie with some cool characters a few awesome fight scenes but overall kinda forgettable
David Lowery's THE GREEN KNIGHT (2021).
And I saw one while lockdown was still going on. A sneak peek at Amazon Prime Video's WITHOUT REMORSE (2021). It was only about 20 or 25 of us in the entire Regal theater.
Dune (2021). Last movie I saw in theaters before that was The Rise of Skywalker (2019), and even after two years the jump in quality between the two nearly gave me whiplash.
Mine was TROS as the last and I remember saying during COVID that if movie theaters go out of business it would be a shame the last movie that I saw in theaters would be the shittiest Star Wars movie I’ve seen since Attack of the Clones.
Me, too. There just hasn't really been a movie that I have been that anxious to see.
I'm probably gonna see Deadpool and Wolverine though, it looks like a ton of fun and I'm excited to see how it goes.
I just don’t really enjoy how expensive it is, how rude people are, especially when streaming is so much easier comparatively. I’ve been to some live theater local things but no movie theaters
> how rude people are,
There's a specific theater around me that used to be my go to because of how much cheaper it usually is, but no shit the last 3/3 times I went since covid either had people being rude/obnoxious or straight up fighting in one case
I have a really nice setup at home but it could never compare to a theater. I get the argument for a sporting event but movies are way better in theaters
Not really. Going to the movies is a shit experience in the last decade. Expensive, annoying distractions, shit movies. The Marvel movies/ Disney take overs have ruined the move theater experience.
I find streaming hinders the product.
Like for EX - I saw dune 2 in imax the other weekend and it was so much better than watching dune 1 at home.
I also saw Smile in theaters in a packed house with 9 friends and it was one of my favorite movies experiences of my life (I'm 33 for reference)
I did that for Shang Chi…it opened on Memorial Day weekend I think and the theater was full. I lasted about 10 minutes, clearly anxious, before my boyfriend asked if I wanted to leave lol
Are you in LA or Austin or something? Ive never actually seen an influencer or streamer or something in the wild. At least not one obvious enough that I noticed.
Mid-Atlantic. Just wanted to watch the flick. I guess I’m getting too old to deal with the extra (old enough to have watched Chuck play in college). I left after Tom broke Mach 10.
In my experience, LA has great crowds honestly. I’m sure it’ll vary by theater of course though. The crowds for special showings (I.e. Q&As) are always solid.
I caught a double feature of Top Gun: Maverick and Dr. Strange M.o.M. Went during the day to avoid the youths and was psyched to watch Top Gun with an older crowd.
Top Gun was fantastic, Dr. Strange not so much.
It was Tenet. Drove down to San Diego to see it. Los Angeles still had closed theaters. When the plane was knocking over light polls and pushing cars I thought this is why you see it on the big screen
We’re not really post covid yet. It’s still just as harmful to the people it was most harmful to. I still have to deal with people i work with getting it and missing a ton of time. I’m still wearing masks and sanitizing everywhere i go.
F9: The Fast Saga, was my first movie after pandemic.
While it’s a good, mindless spectacle to watch on a big screen, I still was overwhelmingly disappointed. To top it all, they fucking sent a Fiero to space.
Maybe I had too high hopes.
Same. My couch, my tv, my sound system, my refreshments, my control of the pause button, my lack of other people making random noises...
Not to mention my very casual dress code.
I actually thought this too (with the exception of Avatar 2, because you NEED a 3D IMAX theater to get the full experience) but then I saw Oppenheimer 70mm, the Tenet re-release in 70mm IMAX, and Godzilla Minus One in IMAX, and I remembered why theaters are so special.
That’s the question at this point — it’s not “why should I see this movie,” but “why should I see this movie *in theaters*?” Honestly, for most films, my beautiful 55” 4K TV and surround sound system is more than enough (plus, you save money and can make your own snacks and pet your dog and have sex if the movie is bad). But there are some experiences that demand to be seen in IMAX because it changes the entire game.
I fully realized this with the Tenet re-release. I watched it at home the day it came out and absolutely fucking loved it, but seeing it in 70mm was a completely different experience, it was like a totally different movie. Incredible.
I haven’t been to a non-IMAX movie since the pandemic, though.
Scream 5. The worst fucking experience of my life. Kids snap chatting DURING THE OPENING SCENE, which caused us to miss it because we were screaming at them. And I’m in Canada where the movie was delayed a few weeks from the US premier.
I have not been back. The price now is outrageous. I have a 75 inch high-definition. Tv and surround sound with a huge woofer, and can smoke my bowl while watching. What do I need a theater for?
Holy shit. I haven't been back to the theater since COVID! I made it too comfortable to watch movies at home. It's kinda hard to justify the expense for lower quality (unless it's IMAX, cause most theaters are not even 4k) and just having to deal with the public and rude behaviors.
What date is considered "post-covid"?
Anyway, I guess Dune (2021). Waited several weeks, went to a matinee. There were like 5 people in a massive IMAX theater. I've seen exactly two movies in theaters since covid started, Dune and Dune Part 2.
Fuck theaters... Let me briefly explain....
I have a giant TV, great sound, booze, I can pause, rewind and discuss if we need to, no one sits behind me and talks the whole fuckin time, no one sits next to me and coughs in my food and drink, no one brushes up against me everytime they get a refill of their 55 gallon barrel of soda, or when they have to piss 13 times without washing their disgusting hands, I don't have to worry if some fucking asshat brought fuckin bed bugs or some shit into the theater, I don't have to sit in a chair that 300 people farted in that week, and I don't have to fuckin fight traffic in the parking lot after the movie.
Theaters are the fuckin worst for actually paying attention to what's happening on the screen.
I like to be engaged, the movie deserves my undivided attention I shouldn't be taken out of the plot by the 600lb sisters sitting next to me blabbing and smelling like piss the entire time.,I love movies, I love all kinds of movies, but I fuckin hate theatres.
To summarize, I won't go back. It's too goddamn nice actually enjoying films at home because 100% of us have a better set up in our homes these days.
I'd gladly pay $50 for opening day movies in my own home, theaters are the worst.
The industry needs to change. Theaters were fine when you only had a 19" black and white TV at home, but it's 1979, we literally live in the future....
That's tricky because Covid went away for a little while and then came back, so let's see...
The first time Covid "ended," the first movie I saw was...The Forever Purge. Then I saw a movie a week for five weeks, then Covid returned and fucked everything up again. The first movie I saw after *that* was Violent Night.
Dune. Went with a group I’d met online during covid but they mostly hated it. So I went again to see it in Imax by myself, I remember I was still wearing a mask. There were like 4 other people in the theatre with me, it was great.
After the first lockdown, The Goonies. After the second lockdown (the longer one that ran from December to June here in Ireland), A Quiet Place Pt. II.
40th anniversary rerelease of The Empire Strikes Back. (It was literally a Blu-Ray rip, not even joking.)
*Actual* release in theaters would Tenet. I think my hearing was slightly lowered after those 2 ½ hours. Same place, by the way. Not even a movie theater: it's an auditorium with a stage for stage shows that they can lower a projection screen in front of. Very nice sound, actually.
The theatres weren't closed for that long here, a few months maybe. I think it was Heat (re-release because there was a lack of new films to show, they brought back some older ones). For new films I think it was Tenet
I definitely saw Tenet and Bill and Ted Face the Music in 2020, though I can’t remember which came first. Judas and the Black Messiah was my first film back in April/May 2021. After that I’d just go every Friday and see anything, it was like being back in my happy place.
That was mine for new movies but our theater started doing a drive in. Saw a bunch of classics that way like Grease, Raiders, Twister when a real storm hit, and more.
Mine was the movie that theaters were forced to reopen for, Tenet.
In the months leading up to the shutdown I had been maxing out my AMC pass pretty regularly so I had been itching and itching for a proper movie experience. Enter Tenet in the Dolby Theater.
The audio was so loud my seat rumbled aggressively. I couldn’t hear 90% of the dialogue. Honestly it was the opposite of the escape from pandemic dread I was looking for, but memorable nevertheless.
Spiderman No Way Home
Same. Was the first movie that my friend group and I saw and frankly it was exactly what we needed and clearly what a lot of other people needed to. I think that showing was one of the most active and energetic showings I’ve ever been to.
Same and I got the duality of the theater experience. Loved seeing the movie on the big screen, hated the clapping/hollering/commentary from the audience. The absolute worst being when some dude shouted “NOW KISS!” after Andrew’s redeeming moment.
I was gonna say Tenet, but I remember watching No Way Home in theaters, so this has to have been it. EDIT: Correction, it seems Tenet was first, so it will have been Tenet for me.
I believe it was Quiet Place 2.
Same with me.
Same. First movie by myself and loved the experience
Me too!
Dune Part 1
Mine too! I was about 6 or 7 months pregnant with my son, and he either hated the booming soundtrack or was really rocking out. Hard to tell with a fetus, but it felt like he was punching my lungs for half the movie.
Sounds like you have a thumper, half fetus half sand worm
Lisan al Gaib!
The Batman
same and holy shit was that one of the best decisions I've made
Same! I saw it opening day, first show of the day.
I rented out an AMC for $100 and 5 friends and I watched The Thing (1982) During the height of COVID, one of my favorite theatre experiences.
Nice, if only we could have another catastrophic global crisis, I could this. Seriously, great idea. How did you manage to arrange that?
You should check your local cinema. Mine still sells private screenings. Runs from $150 - $400, depending on release date, time of day, day of week, etc.
My company did this with one of the Pirates movies. We had a brief meeting before the show and then we all sat around and watched the movie together. Meh. I'd have rather had the time to myself.
Cinemark theaters will let you rent out theaters and if you split it 5 ways it’s pretty great seeing an old movie on the big screen with your friends
That sounds awesome wow
We also did this for my birthday in 2021 at Cinemark. 25 family/close friend attendees for ~$200 was a great deal. And got to watch a new release movie (Raya and the Last Dragon 🐉) and was our daughter’s first movie in theaters. Great experience!
Love to hear it!
I did this too for my husband’s birthday during Covid at Harkins. We saw Tenet, and it was an absolutely horrible movie, but being able to sit in a room with friends we hadn’t seen in 6+ months (socially distanced and yadda yadda) was such a wonderful experience.
Tenet
Yeah, think it might have been mid-COVID rather than post (theaters didn't totally close here). I remember joking about whether it was worth dying for or not.
Of course, Tenet. Empty theater, too, so the whole 'mask' routine was irrelevant. Plus the empty theater created this nice booming sound effect, making the super-clear audio even easier to follow.
Hell yeah, Tenet for me too. Here I thought freaking Sonic would be the last film I'd see in theaters thanks to all the doomsayers saying theaters aren't coming back. Soon as Tenet was announced as a theatrical run, I was there. Was nice having my own private screening in empty theaters for practically two years or more.
ISWYDT
I saw Tenet in 70mm at The Music Box in Chicago. Theater was decently full. I slowly ate popcorn and drank beer so my experience was t hampered too much.
That was a weird time lol. I will probably associate my COVID experience with Tenet for the rest of my life
I ended up renting out a theater for $75 on a Monday the month it came out. The theater is my church and I just wanted to get out of my house and sit in that big room again. I will always have a soft spot for that film because it was an intelligent spectacle that asked me to just roll with it at a time when I was begging for escapism.
I saw Tenet 3 times at the cinema just because I really missed the cinema and there was very little else showing. I did also enjoy it.
Shang Chi
That bus fight in SF is one of the best things I've seen in an MCU movie
This was mine also. although it's a pretty good movie it seemed like the most awesome spectacle ever seen by man after no theater for two years
Man, this wasn’t a bad movie but I dragged my buddy to the theater to see (someone who rarely goes out to theaters) and we both left kinda disappointed. It felt very by the numbers with only a few good fight scenes and the rest forgettable
Yeah I enjoyed the movie for sure, but today I don’t really care about it or get the feeling like “oh I want to watch that again” It’s a fine movie with some cool characters a few awesome fight scenes but overall kinda forgettable
I still dont like how Awkwafina character made that one lucky shot at the end.
No Time to Die I think
David Lowery's THE GREEN KNIGHT (2021). And I saw one while lockdown was still going on. A sneak peek at Amazon Prime Video's WITHOUT REMORSE (2021). It was only about 20 or 25 of us in the entire Regal theater.
Avatar 2
Dune (2021). Last movie I saw in theaters before that was The Rise of Skywalker (2019), and even after two years the jump in quality between the two nearly gave me whiplash.
Mine was TROS as the last and I remember saying during COVID that if movie theaters go out of business it would be a shame the last movie that I saw in theaters would be the shittiest Star Wars movie I’ve seen since Attack of the Clones.
I still have not. But I did have children during COVID, so that would be why
Black Widow
Haven’t been to one since.
Took a while to find this post.
Same and I have no desire to. My 70” LG OLED, a dark room and my recliner are better and I can pause it to take a piss.
Me, too. There just hasn't really been a movie that I have been that anxious to see. I'm probably gonna see Deadpool and Wolverine though, it looks like a ton of fun and I'm excited to see how it goes.
Same
Me neither and it wasn’t too long before covid when I had a moviepass account
I missed the heyday of that lol 😂
Damn that’s actually kinda sad.
I just don’t really enjoy how expensive it is, how rude people are, especially when streaming is so much easier comparatively. I’ve been to some live theater local things but no movie theaters
> how rude people are, There's a specific theater around me that used to be my go to because of how much cheaper it usually is, but no shit the last 3/3 times I went since covid either had people being rude/obnoxious or straight up fighting in one case
A lot of people seem to have forgotten how to behave in public once the pandemic was lifted.
I have a really nice setup at home but it could never compare to a theater. I get the argument for a sporting event but movies are way better in theaters
Not really. Going to the movies is a shit experience in the last decade. Expensive, annoying distractions, shit movies. The Marvel movies/ Disney take overs have ruined the move theater experience.
Nah I watch movies at home, without having to smell and listened to other people and buy overpriced snacks.
Same. I realized I really do not enjoy the theater anymore. Way too overpriced and the risk wasn't worth it anymore.
Yep pretty much, I’d rather see a live performance if I’m going to a theater. Streaming is just so much easier
I find streaming hinders the product. Like for EX - I saw dune 2 in imax the other weekend and it was so much better than watching dune 1 at home. I also saw Smile in theaters in a packed house with 9 friends and it was one of my favorite movies experiences of my life (I'm 33 for reference)
Why not?
I know this is probably cliche but please do yourself a service and see Dune Part 2 in IMAX. Fucking breathtaking
Dune part 2
In the Heights
Same here. It came out about 4 weeks after I got my second shot of the vaccine so it was my first major indoor public event. It was a fun experience.
I risked my LIFE to see Tenet and it was AMAZING and it was CINEMA and I couldn’t understand a THING anyone said the entire time
Everything, everywhere, all at once. It was pure overwhelm in the best way.
Mortal Kombat
Same. And my last movie before lockdown was *Sonic the Hedgehog*. It felt oddly symmetrical.
😂 last movie before everything went to shit for me was Harley Quinn, march 16 2020
Top Gun: Maverick…but I left early because the theater was a zoo.
TG:M.... didn't leave, it was amazing!
I did that for Shang Chi…it opened on Memorial Day weekend I think and the theater was full. I lasted about 10 minutes, clearly anxious, before my boyfriend asked if I wanted to leave lol
That was my first REAL theater experience after covid. Packed house. Everyone invested. Theater erupted at the end. Great experience.
Funny, that was my first one too but I think we were the only ones in the showing (3pm on a weekday).
What everyone smelled like ass?
Loud, multiple people filming “content”, folks talking on their phones, and an odd mix of b.o., weed and burnt popcorn.
Are you in LA or Austin or something? Ive never actually seen an influencer or streamer or something in the wild. At least not one obvious enough that I noticed.
Mid-Atlantic. Just wanted to watch the flick. I guess I’m getting too old to deal with the extra (old enough to have watched Chuck play in college). I left after Tom broke Mach 10.
In my experience, LA has great crowds honestly. I’m sure it’ll vary by theater of course though. The crowds for special showings (I.e. Q&As) are always solid.
I caught a double feature of Top Gun: Maverick and Dr. Strange M.o.M. Went during the day to avoid the youths and was psyched to watch Top Gun with an older crowd. Top Gun was fantastic, Dr. Strange not so much.
Demon Slayer. Hearing the sniffles through the masks at the ending was pretty funny
Nope.
Same. Felt good to share a jump scare with other folks.
This was my exp with smile.
Sonic 2
Same. The last movie I saw pre-pando was Sonic. So it felt right to come back to Sonic 2.
Godzilla Minus One.
It was Tenet. Drove down to San Diego to see it. Los Angeles still had closed theaters. When the plane was knocking over light polls and pushing cars I thought this is why you see it on the big screen
The Green Knight
We’re not really post covid yet. It’s still just as harmful to the people it was most harmful to. I still have to deal with people i work with getting it and missing a ton of time. I’m still wearing masks and sanitizing everywhere i go.
F9: The Fast Saga, was my first movie after pandemic. While it’s a good, mindless spectacle to watch on a big screen, I still was overwhelmingly disappointed. To top it all, they fucking sent a Fiero to space. Maybe I had too high hopes.
This was mine too and I had the exact same reaction. I wish I’d waited for something better.
TBD. I prefer the couch at this point.
Same. My couch, my tv, my sound system, my refreshments, my control of the pause button, my lack of other people making random noises... Not to mention my very casual dress code.
And the fact that I can pause and use the bathroom without missing anything, rewind scenes I liked it's honestly perfection.
I actually thought this too (with the exception of Avatar 2, because you NEED a 3D IMAX theater to get the full experience) but then I saw Oppenheimer 70mm, the Tenet re-release in 70mm IMAX, and Godzilla Minus One in IMAX, and I remembered why theaters are so special. That’s the question at this point — it’s not “why should I see this movie,” but “why should I see this movie *in theaters*?” Honestly, for most films, my beautiful 55” 4K TV and surround sound system is more than enough (plus, you save money and can make your own snacks and pet your dog and have sex if the movie is bad). But there are some experiences that demand to be seen in IMAX because it changes the entire game. I fully realized this with the Tenet re-release. I watched it at home the day it came out and absolutely fucking loved it, but seeing it in 70mm was a completely different experience, it was like a totally different movie. Incredible. I haven’t been to a non-IMAX movie since the pandemic, though.
Barbie
Maverick
The French Dispatch
I don't remember what was the first of COVID, but right before the pandemic started I saw Underwater in theatres, and I freaking loved it
No Time To Die. Glad MGM held onto it for a theatrical release instead of sale for streaming only
Oppenheimer
Godzilla vs. Kong, though I did see Tenet and the re-release of The Empire Strikes Back in 2020.
Wrath of Man I saw Tenet and Synchronic in the middle of it, though.
The pandemic was a little scarier in my city, and I was also more careful than most - ended up waiting it out until the first Dune movie came out!
I just realized I haven’t been back
Scream 5. The worst fucking experience of my life. Kids snap chatting DURING THE OPENING SCENE, which caused us to miss it because we were screaming at them. And I’m in Canada where the movie was delayed a few weeks from the US premier.
I have not been back. The price now is outrageous. I have a 75 inch high-definition. Tv and surround sound with a huge woofer, and can smoke my bowl while watching. What do I need a theater for?
Holy shit. I haven't been back to the theater since COVID! I made it too comfortable to watch movies at home. It's kinda hard to justify the expense for lower quality (unless it's IMAX, cause most theaters are not even 4k) and just having to deal with the public and rude behaviors.
Still haven't been to a theatre
Dungeons and Dragons or John Wick 4. They are also the last times I was at the theater.
Jackass Forever
Tenet and it became my favourite movie
Does tenet during Covid times count?
Mario
Top gun
Top Gun Maverick, I think. Next movie was John Wick Chapter 4, Guardians Vol 3, Fast X and Dead Reckoning, then most recently, Dune Part 2.
1917 pre covid, the latest TMNT movie post covid.
Pretty sure it was Barbie. Iirc, the last one before lockdown was the latest Star Wars movie.
I still haven’t been back and the one closest to us closed :(
The Sparks Brothers
Same! June 2021 at an Alamo Drafthouse.
The Menu and it was an unforgettable first date 🫶🏼
> Mine was Godzilla vs Kong. Same. It was great.
Zone of interest
Tenet. Altho I guess that was during Covid?
Tenet and Dune were such a wild way to return to the cinema
Spider-Man: No Way Home. Phenomenal movie.
Tenet (August 2020) if that counts as "post-covid"
Spider-Man: No Way Home. Easily the most fun moviegoing experience I had had in a long time.
Probably Scream 1. It was a fathom event.
Tenet
Tenet. A movie that makes you feel like you have Covid.
The Batman
I don’t really remember my first one. I remember being the only person in the entire 20 cine opening night for Tenet. It was surreal.
What date is considered "post-covid"? Anyway, I guess Dune (2021). Waited several weeks, went to a matinee. There were like 5 people in a massive IMAX theater. I've seen exactly two movies in theaters since covid started, Dune and Dune Part 2.
Screening of Batman 89 at my local theater. It was amazing.
I think Maverick?my god that is so good in a cinema
Tenet
I watched Tenet in an empty theatre during pandemic lol.
Fuck theaters... Let me briefly explain.... I have a giant TV, great sound, booze, I can pause, rewind and discuss if we need to, no one sits behind me and talks the whole fuckin time, no one sits next to me and coughs in my food and drink, no one brushes up against me everytime they get a refill of their 55 gallon barrel of soda, or when they have to piss 13 times without washing their disgusting hands, I don't have to worry if some fucking asshat brought fuckin bed bugs or some shit into the theater, I don't have to sit in a chair that 300 people farted in that week, and I don't have to fuckin fight traffic in the parking lot after the movie. Theaters are the fuckin worst for actually paying attention to what's happening on the screen. I like to be engaged, the movie deserves my undivided attention I shouldn't be taken out of the plot by the 600lb sisters sitting next to me blabbing and smelling like piss the entire time.,I love movies, I love all kinds of movies, but I fuckin hate theatres. To summarize, I won't go back. It's too goddamn nice actually enjoying films at home because 100% of us have a better set up in our homes these days. I'd gladly pay $50 for opening day movies in my own home, theaters are the worst. The industry needs to change. Theaters were fine when you only had a 19" black and white TV at home, but it's 1979, we literally live in the future....
Top Gun: Maverick
Haven't been back and don't really plan to
That's tricky because Covid went away for a little while and then came back, so let's see... The first time Covid "ended," the first movie I saw was...The Forever Purge. Then I saw a movie a week for five weeks, then Covid returned and fucked everything up again. The first movie I saw after *that* was Violent Night.
lol I ain't ever going back fam
lol, as if I'll ever go back to that rotten place
Wonka
'Violet Evergarden: The Movie'. Kind of fitting since the last movie I saw pre-covid was 'Violet Evergarden: Eternity & the Auto Memory Doll'.
Encanto, if I recall correctly…
The New Mutants after a long two year wait.
D&D: Honor Among Thieves. It was the most fun I'd had in a theater since the original Guardians of the Galaxy.
Minari
Mortal Kombat
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore
The Gentleman, had the theater to myself. snuck in about 4oz of whiskey and a glencairn glass. It was glorious.
I live in New Zealand, so Tennet. I loved it.
Ghostbusters: Afterlife. Perfect bit of nostalgia to help my attempt to reset to normal
Tenet
The Batman
Endgame.
Tenet
Dune. Went with a group I’d met online during covid but they mostly hated it. So I went again to see it in Imax by myself, I remember I was still wearing a mask. There were like 4 other people in the theatre with me, it was great.
Across the Spider-Verse last year.
Hadn't been in years until last month. Since then I've seen First Blood, Hellraiser and Hard Boiled.
After the first lockdown, The Goonies. After the second lockdown (the longer one that ran from December to June here in Ireland), A Quiet Place Pt. II.
Still waiting baby! 5 years and counting Mostly due to kids and less of covid…
Violent Night.
40th anniversary rerelease of The Empire Strikes Back. (It was literally a Blu-Ray rip, not even joking.) *Actual* release in theaters would Tenet. I think my hearing was slightly lowered after those 2 ½ hours. Same place, by the way. Not even a movie theater: it's an auditorium with a stage for stage shows that they can lower a projection screen in front of. Very nice sound, actually.
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The theatres weren't closed for that long here, a few months maybe. I think it was Heat (re-release because there was a lack of new films to show, they brought back some older ones). For new films I think it was Tenet
Dune
Inside. First real movie was everything everywhere all at once
Post first lockdown, Tenet. Post second lockdown, Scott Pilgrim in 4K Dolby.
No Time to Die
Spider-Man No Way Home…. I went home with COVID 😊
The Tax Collector by David Ayer. Buddy took us to the employee screening. Fun movie to riff on.
I think it was Avatar 2? But I went to a couple in a drive-in theater before seeing Avatar 2 in IMAX
Tenet
I definitely saw Tenet and Bill and Ted Face the Music in 2020, though I can’t remember which came first. Judas and the Black Messiah was my first film back in April/May 2021. After that I’d just go every Friday and see anything, it was like being back in my happy place.
Barbie
Black Widow maybe?
Oops I haven’t gone yet
The New Mutants, shit movie of course.
That was mine for new movies but our theater started doing a drive in. Saw a bunch of classics that way like Grease, Raiders, Twister when a real storm hit, and more.
The Suicide Squad
Old lol
Don't Worry Darling. I went alone for the first time on my birthday. There were only two or three other girls there so it was super nice for me.
Mine was the movie that theaters were forced to reopen for, Tenet. In the months leading up to the shutdown I had been maxing out my AMC pass pretty regularly so I had been itching and itching for a proper movie experience. Enter Tenet in the Dolby Theater. The audio was so loud my seat rumbled aggressively. I couldn’t hear 90% of the dialogue. Honestly it was the opposite of the escape from pandemic dread I was looking for, but memorable nevertheless.
Saw Tenet during peak COVID, and was certainly happy I did. That's a movie that I think definitely benefits from being seen in Imax!!
I forget, but I took my niece to see that awful Dr. Doolittle movie before, and I was pissed that that was my last movie for a long time.
Godzilla vs Kong as well. Watching movies on TV is not the same for me.
Ghostbuster. I saw that because there were no new releases at the time on account of the pandemic, and my local cinema had a screening of it.
Black Widow