I have gone to the movies every weekend for the past month and I have loved it.
Obsession
Loved it.
Backrooms
Loved it.
Scary Movie
Only saw this because the wife wanted to see it. I personally think the Wayans bros are severely unfunny, and even worse than that I have some more specific issues with them that veer into political territory. TLDR Not a fan.
I found a way to stay entertained through this one though and had some popcorn and milk duds so can't complain too much.
Disclosure Day
Loved it.
We have a regal in my town and it has been an awful experience ever since covid. When the theater first opened after covid was lifted, I expected it to be clean and orderly since it had been closed for a year and I foolishly thought that meant they had plenty of time to clean before reopening.
Theater smelled like piss and feet. Still does today.
But we have a small little local theater that still does $6 matinees, has better popcorn, and keeps cherry coke (regal has the stupid pepsi deal).
The only negative is since this is a small cheap theater, it pretty much has to only show the "Sure Things" on its 4 screens to make money so it rarely has smaller indy movies and things like that. Luckily the 3 movies I have wanted to see recently they have carried for at least a week.
I do wish there were more options to see older movies on the big screen. In a perfect world my town would have a small theater that ran events similar to places like the Music Box in chicago where they did double features of older classics and stuff like that. Even better if we had a drive-in theater that would do some drive-in classic marathons and stuff.
Give me a Roger Corman triple feature or something. Put on Frankenstein for Halloween. Unfortunately the only Drive-In near me has the same problems as my small local theater in that it pretty much has to constantly play the big money makers to stay open, so if I want to see a drive-in movie it is usually whatever marvel is out, whatever big disney remake is out, and every now and then they will get a good current horror movie if I am lucky.
Sorry for the rant. This thread just has me pining for a better movie going experience.