What decade did you go to the cinema more?

60's-70's

 

Loads of cinemas in the sixties and seventies, but the odd fleapit ..they must have looked grand in the 1930s/40s.

 

The 70's and 80's are tied for me. There were so many revival houses in the Village that in the summertime I would buy a pack of smokes and spend an afternoon in air conditioned comfort watching double features of Fellini or Godard or whoever was being revived that week. Saw so many Fassbinder films I picked up a bit of German.

 

Mostly 70's and 80's. It seemed like a nicer, lower key experience back then. Don't think the movies were any better...maybe it was less of a "corporate" experience. I'm babbling

 

The 80's, when I was a teenager.

 

Popcorn size was smaller.

 

I'm gonna say, last decade, but only on the basis that, this decade isn't over yet.

Since our town opened its' art/indie/foreign film theater, we have almost adopted it (personal parking spaces? Hah! Try urinals with our names on them...!). Film festival weeks mean sometimes our TiVo's sit home alone and graze the home shopping channels all by themselves for days...

 

Cinema name in neon lights ala The Majestic ?

 

2010s.

 

Nothing fancy. Just a small one screen theater with the usual marquee and the box office outside. I saw Tommy there and also Jaws, Planet of the Apes, etc. It eventually shut down when the malls took over.

 

60's and 70's. I started going to Saturday matinees (remember those?) without a parent when "Jason and the Argonauts" was fairly new in 1964. Many matinees followed. As I became a high school student in 1968, American movies were becoming more adventurous in subject matter as seen via the recently installed ratings system. I discovered the joys of foreign films with subtitles and indie movies )before there was such a designation) from the great films shown at Syracuse University's Film Forum. Film Forum is where I saw my first Bunuel, Romero and Lynch movies. Eraserhead was their first Midnight Movie and was treated as quite an event. It takes a lot to get me into a theater anymore.

 

1970s. We used to have a local theatre that played triple features, usually a white exploitation movie, a black exploitation movie and a kung fu movie. Great way to kill a whole afternoon.

 

Early sixties lot of sword and sandal, westerns films ..Disney Son Of Flubber etc ..

 

Back in the 80's. As a teenager, my parents didn't have a VCR or get cable (I know, I know--first world problems) so movie theaters became my primary entertainment destination, especially after I became old enough to get into R-rated movies.

 

70's and 80's definitely, no other option before VHS. Now I just go for Star Wars and the occasional classic.

I used to joke with the kids that we should just wait for the DVD to come out. That was back in around 2008 when it was about £20 for all of us. If I wanted to take the family now for a film at the local fleapit, its £48. It is utterly idiotic.

No wonder box office records get smashed when its costs twice as much to go than it did 10 years ago!

 

1980's

Villa Park Twin Cinema most weekends

 

Definitely the '70s and '80s. I worked in a theatre in the early '80s and I saw a lot of free movies. Markedly less during the '90s and since around 2007, hardly at all.

 

1970s.
From sometime in 1970 to pretty much the end of the decade I was going almost every week, and mostly on my own. I went to see the films, not to hang out with anyone. I'm still the same now.

 

80s

 

Oh, the 1980s for sure! Every weekend, every summer, unless we had exhausted the films that were currently showing.

I mean, it was all of the John Hugh's films. It was Ghostbusters and Indiana Jones. It was R-rated movies because our theater didn't care. It was paying once and seeing everything in the house.

I feel fortunate to have that decade's films in person.

 

2000s. Did a lot of 2 movies in the same night with friends.

 

80's when I was young and single!!

 

1990s - I still remember some of which I saw: The Rock, Ronin, Independence Day, Con Air, Silence of the lambs, a couple of Star Trek films and for some reason a quite boring film where Chris O'Donnell played a lawyer who kept visiting a prison..

 

80s was the fun decade a more adult version of the 1960‘s decade. 1980‘s, still remember what cinemas I went to.. films shown.

 

The 90s when I was a university student. It only cost $5NZ, so I went every week.