Are you guys lucky enough to have theaters in your areas that screen older movies on a regular basis?

I always feel like there's a huge amount of wasted potential when it comes to theaters in Las Vegas, and presumably in most towns in the country. They have a good ten showings or so at least a day where they show whatever came out recently but a lot of times to nearly empty theaters, particularly when it comes to kids movies and late night showings. I always wonder why they don't use the resources they have to show older stuff to audiences that didn't have a chance to see certain things in theaters or showcase movies that truly benefit from the sound and movie experience. Recently I found out that the theater by my apartment shows older movies every Sunday, this month they are running the original Lord of the Rings trilogy, which I'm skyed for. I saw the second one many, many times in theaters as well as the third one but never got a chance to see the first. These are movies that really benefit from a theater experience so I'm happy they went with them. They are showing The Maltese Falcon the Sunday after, which is funny because I was just telling my co-worker I need to see it again because I remember thinking it was hugely overrated when I saw it.

Anyways, what's it like in your area? For me, it's not the best. I would probably go one or two times a week at least if they had an interesting pick to air instead of fucking "When Pets Talk Back 7" ten times a day.

Imagine being able to reliably see shit like The Good, the Bad and the Ugly in a theater.

A few of the local theaters here do weekly screenings of older films. They have themes for months, like the most recent one I saw was Hayao Miyazaki, where they were showing three of his movies in a row for three nights or whatever. They've done gangster movies, things with cult followings like The Big Lebowski, Rocky Horror, and then your old-school classics like Gone with the Wind and tons of other shit. They must do alright for them to keep putting them on, but I don't personally see the appeal to be honest. The visual and sound quality is magnificent of course, but seeing a movie I've seen a dozen+ times, doesn't have the same impact on me that seeing a new movie in that environment has. When you know every single little thing that's coming, it doesn't have the same awe-inspiring pull that a new visual masterpiece has, or that unbelievably tense ambiance as the whole theater goes deathly quiet during a thriller or emotional scene is just non-existent, since the entire theater knows exactly what's going to happen and even if movies where everyone knows what's going to happen, there's still the build-up of maybe it won't, but that's taken away with reruns. I've seen a handful of older movies in the theater with friends or w/e, but I honestly would have much preferred staying in and watching it at home. It just doesn't do a lot for me.

All remakes have been made, all new movies are trash.

Hollywood is trash.


Miight aswell just show good ol movie.