Due to circumstances far, far too boring to explain, I recently unearthed from my files a fat envelope of receipts saved for tax purposes between 1998 and 2002. While they weren't really useful anymore, a ton of them were ticket stubs, because when you work in The Biz like I do you can deduct movie tickets -- it's all "research."
No, really! It's totally true.
Before I tossed the lot, I decided to pull the tix out and recorded them here in chronological order. I hope it might be amusing to look at my theatergoing habits during a completely random window of time. Here goes...
1998
10/18 Antz
11/6 The Siege
11/17 Meet Joe Black (This was just so I could see The Phantom Menace trailer, a story I detail here.)
11/25 The Wizard of Oz
11/27 Antz
12/9 Pleasantville
1999
3/16 Wing Commander
4/4 The Matrix
4/6 The Matrix
5/4 The Matrix
5/19 Star Wars: The Phantom Menace
6/18 Austin Powers 2
6/29 Tarzan (the Disney one)
7/20 South Park
8/7 Mystery Men
8/10 The Blair Witch Project
8/21 The Sixth Sense
9/26 The Iron Giant
10/3 Three Kings
10/6 Yellow Submarine
10/15 Random Hearts (I saw this on a totally unsuccessful date, and what a crap movie! It was her pick.)
10/29 American Beauty
11/1 Fight Club
11/25 The World is Not Enough
11/27 Toy Story 2
2000
1/13 The Insider
1/17 Galaxy Quest
1/20 The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
2/2 Sleepy Hollow
2/9 Being John Malkovich
2/12 Scream 3 (Also a crap movie, but I did make out with a girl in a taxi afterwards.)
2/20 Pitch Black
2/28 Supernova
4/24 Fantasia 2000 IMAX
5/6 Pitch Black
5/19 Gladiator
6/17 Shaft
7/6 Chicken Run
7/13 U571 (Of all these, I remember the least about this one.)
8/10 X-Men
8/16 Hollow Man
9/4 Godzilla 2000
9/8 High Fidelity
9/28 Almost Famous
10/13 X-Men
11/18 Red Planet (Another bad date/crap movie combo.)
11/30 The 6th Day
12/10 Cast Away
12/12 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
12/13 Legend of the Drunken Master (Our boss Patrick took the whole model shop out for movie hooky.)
12/13 The Cell (Later same day at the cheap theater.)
12/14 Charlie's Angels (I thought this was the perfect antidote for the melancholy of Crouching Tiger -- still had lots of marial arts, but much more light-hearted.)
2001
1/13 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
1/13 Charlie's Angels (Later same day -- having taken DCD to see Crouching Tiger, I talked her into "the antidote." Totally worked.)
1/19 Charlie's Angels (One last time at the cheap theater.)
2/13 Dude, Where's My Car?
3/24 Enemy at the Gates
3/26 Traffic
4/25 Blow
4/28 Memento
5/7 The Mummy Returns
5/25 Shrek
6/23 Atlantis
6/24 Swordfish
6/30 Moulin Rouge
7/7 AI
7/14 Final Fantasy
7/15 The Fast and the Furious
7/19 Jurassic Park III
8/2 Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade
8/18 Osmosis Jones
9/13 Ghost World
9/25 Soul Survivor
10/2 The Others
10/6 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
10/14 Iron Monkey
11/5 The One
11/11 Monsters, Inc.
11/19 Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone
11/20 From Hell
11/24 Mulholland Drive
12/11 Amelie
12/23 LOTR: The Fellowship of the Ring
12/30 LOTR: The Fellowship of the Ring
2002
1/17 Impostor (The only movie I've ever walked out of due to crappiness.)
1/20 Black Hawk Down
1/25 Brotherhood of the Wolf
1/27 The Royal Tenenbaums
1/28 Metropolis
1/31 Ocean's Eleven
3/12 The Royal Tenenbaums
3/14 The Time Machine
3/17 Resident Evil
3/25 Blade II
3/26 Amelie
4/11 Y Tu Mama Tambien
5/16 Star Wars: Attack of the Clones
5/27 Insomnia
6/11 Star Wars: Attack of the Clones
6/15 The Bourne Identity
6/21 Minority Report
6/27 Minority Report
7/3 Lilo and Stitch
7/24 Reign of Fire
7/31 Eight Legged Freaks
8/4 Signs
Boy, I sure did miss that cheap theater on 50th St. in Manhattan after they closed it. It was the "two-dollar theater" when I learned of it and the "five-dollar theater" when it closed, and we all made good use of it. The flicks would show a long time after their release dates -- often around the time of their release on dvd, so it was a great chance to see movies you'd missed during their main run. Good times.
6 comments:
Antz? Twice??
When I worked at Showcase Cinemas (1987-1993) I kept lists of every movie I watched. You wouldn’t? During my peak I was averaging 80 movies annually, but then, I didn’t have to pay for them and I didn’t discriminate - I watched EVERYTHING. If fact, the ushers were a bit snobby about this and liked to say that at any given time we had seen every single film playing in the theater. Of course, this meant that we had to slog through a lot of celluloid dreck (e.g., any Police Academy movie). However, nothing brought us more pleasure than tearing a ticket and simultaneously informing the patron that the film they were about to see sucked.
That was cool.
I wasn't sure who this post was from at first until I read about the Crouching Tiger/Charlie's Angels duo. Laughed harder when you mentioned us going two lines down!
The bummer is I know the list isn't complete, because I know I saw Bug's Life too but I had no stub for it. Whatever, it was nice to throw all that stuff away.
octo's "only movie I've ever walked out of due to crappiness" line forced me to remember my only such experience. went to see the movie "north" in albany with now-husband and then-grad school friend marty (now a very famous psychologist). the movie was crappy to begin with, and we were waiting for the good part to start, when the characters suddenly burst into song! the three of us exchanged glances, rose from our seats, marched out, and snuck into another movie.
I walked out of two movies; Chariots of Fire and Little Shop of Horrors. Octo and I should have walked out on Cannonball Run 2.
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