Yeah, running old movies in theaters started getting popular about a decade ago and it really seems to have taken off in recent years.
When my local theater was Wehrenberg, they showed older movies every weekend, with
Rocky Horror Picture Show showing 3-4 times a year.
Now part of the Marcus theater chain (they "Acquired" Wehrenberg about 10 years or so ago), they started showing older movies a few years back. I've seen
The Quiet Man once, and I've seen
White Christmas about 5 times now (though once was when they were still Wehrenberg), and even
It's A Wonderful Life once.
I went to see
Boy Kills World last week (it was ok, though strange), and saw they were playing
Alien!
I
SHOULD have ducked in to see that instead, as the next 2 days it showed (and I had off), it was only playing a little before 1P each day, which is about when I try to get to bed.
Oh well. Apparently, this year is the 40th Anniversary for
Alien.
They're also showing
The Matix, and this is the 25th Anniversary for it.
While Wehrenberg would always have paper and pencil for people to nominate a movie, Marcus doesn't do that.
Don't know how many times I tried writing down
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai: Across the Eight Dimension, and they never once showed it.
And
YES, I wrote out the full title exactly like that
EACH and
EVERY time!
Went to see
Fall Guy Tuesday, and thought it was pretty good. The previews have a few scenes
NOT in the movie, and they're not
Exactly how the movie plays out either. Still good though. After the credits roll, we get cameos from . . . Lee Majors and Heather Thomas. Poor Heather looks like she used the same plastic surgeon as Kenny Rogers.
We also have
Jason Momoa for a few minutes as well!