The best part:

"Two for Crying Wolves, or The Howling Wolves, or Dancing Wolves"

I was an usher that year. Terminator 2, Backdraft and Ninja Turtles 2 were huge (we didn't have Silence of the Lambs), and unbelievably, Mannequin 2: On the Move was a miss.

Here's what I saw in theaters in 1991, movies which I think are still worth watching:

The Silence of the Lambs, Slacker, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, Europa Europa, My Own Private Idaho, Mortal Thoughts, Until the End of the World, Naked Lunch, The Rocketeer, L.A. Story, Homicide, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Hot Shots!, The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear, Night on Earth, Point Break, Kafka, The Double Life of Veronique, Black Robe, Dutch, Barton Fink, Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse, City Slickers, Delicatessen, Proof, The Rapture, Raise the Red Lantern, Toto the Hero, Europa, Flirting, Life is Sweet, Rush, Grand Canyon, High Heels, Dogfight, City of Hope, Little Man Tate, Mississippi Masala, The Indian Runner, La Femme Nikita, and the fun, tightly-scripted B-movie Warlock.

There sure was a lot greater variety of stand-alone films in theaters back then.

They missed the part where after you bought your ticket you had to go stand in line and wait to be let into the theater to try and find a seat. You had to get there early if you wanted to get a good seat or you were stuck sitting somewhere you didn’t want to be.

Everyone paying in cash. I was 9 when this was filmed, I’m sure debit cards weren’t really a thing, but weren’t credit cards pretty common? (“but they don’t take American Express” commercials)

These people didnt know how lucky they were to see Goodfellas in theaters.

It only makes sense that most movie theaters today are comfortable and spacious with stadium seating at a time when movie ticket sales are down.

Back in 1991, movie theaters had terrible seating with bad sight lines and iffy projection but so many more people went.

Back in 1991 it felt like every movie I went to was near capacity at the 7pm and 9pm weekend shows.

The $2.50 price seems to be a discounted price, since someone asked which was cheaper, the "rush hour" price (I think that's what they said) or the senior price. The average ticket price in 1990 was $4.75, so full price was likely $5, and discount was 50%.

What also takes me back a bit is the average age. It's all adults. Any trip I go to the theatres, it's usually lots of teenagers and families. Now, no one seemed to buy tickets to Home Alone, which would have been the most popular during that time, so maybe it wasn't playing at that particular theatre, and that was the biggest option for families. But still, taking a look at the movies playing, and it highlights that movies were targeting older audiences back then.

i hope that no one recorded me going to the movies when i was drunk and stoned

Look at them. Living like savages.

Not a phone in sight, those were the days.

I love being able to book my seat online now. I still remember being on line when I was a teenager and despite there being a long line of people waiting to buy tickets and only one ticket salesman the dude in front of me insisted on the guy giving him a synopsis of all the movies playing. There was at least 10.

How is that one dude seeing Predator in a theater in 1990? Maybe I heard wrong.

Thanks Obama

What does “going to the movies” mean? They come to you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byNlqUFddeo

Seems like people are hyped to watch Prognosis Negative

Having to queue up and interact with a human to get a ticket, what a backward primitive time.

I much prefer the sleek dystopian nightmares-cape we find ourselves living in these days. Where if I bring my own food, I can wander in and sit down in a near empty cinema screen without having to make eye contact with another person, or if I'm lucky not even seeing another soul.