I went to see The First Omen this past Sunday at 9:25 am. I think that is the earliest showtime I have gone to. What about you?
shareOh wow, usually around noon for the cheap tix but never 9AM. I'm very a boring guy.
shareI USED TO GO WEEKLY...SOMETIMES MORE WITH MY GRANDMOTHER,AUNT AND COUSIN AS A KID...OFTEN WE WOULD HIT THE EARLIST SHOWTIME...11 OR 1130 WAS THE EARLIEST I WOULD SAY.
shareWe hardly ever went to the movies when I was a kid. We were a family of eight, so that's why it was always the drive-in. $5 per carload or something like that. Same in high school.
shareI remember back in the day hiding in the trunk with a couple of others only to get there and find out it was carload night. Oh well. Fun memories.
shareMY GRANDFATHER DIED FROM ALZHEIMERS WHEN I WAS 11 OR SO...THE FAMILY CONVINCED ME TO MOVE IN WITH HER...SO I DID...WEEKLY THEATER TRIPS AND UNLIMITED VIDEOSTORE RENTALS WERE A FEW OF THE PAYOFFS/BRIBES I RECEIVED FOR SUCH A MAJOR LIFE SHIFT.
shareSounds like it was not a bad thing that you moved in with Grandma. I'm sure you learned a lot from her.
shareI DEFINITELY DID...PLAYED ENDLESS GAMES OF GIN RUMMY OR SKIP BO AT NIGHT...WATCHED MOVIES AND SITCOMS CONSTANTLY.
shareI have no idea if my grandparents played card games, but Cribbage was my dad's game. My sons learned and played it with him, mainly on hunting/camping trips.
shareONLY GAME MY DAD WOULD EVER PLAY WITH ME WAS SCRABBLE...HE LOVED CROSSWORD PUZZLES...HE WAS WRITNG HIS OWN CROSSWORD DICTIONARY AT ONE POINT...SO..OBVIOUSLY AS AN ADULT SCRABBLE IS MY FAVORITE GAME AND I PASSED IT ONTO ALI AS WELL.
shareGood for you! I love that my grandkids like board games and have tons of them.
shareMy grandma taught me a few card games. She still is a vicious Spite and Malice player. Even at 102 (will be in 19 days) she still can crush me.
My dad's dad taught me crib. He was a good player and the family had a yearly tournament, but he was always really patient with me in a way he wasn't with my brother and my cousins and would never call muggins on me.
July 3, 1996 at 9:00am I saw the first screening of Independence Day in the opening day at the Eaton Centre in Toronto.
shareI saw it on July 2nd, the day before, in the states.
shareI saw it the day before it opened as we had it playing on 3 screens and our projectionist had to make sure each was put together right, so a bunch of us had to split between the three theatres to make sure all was good.
shareConsidering it has been decades since I've been to a movie theater, I have no idea. I'm sure I never went to a morning showing, though. Early on, it was always going to the drive-in theater. Indoor movies would have been either late afternoon or early evening.
shareI used to go to 9am showings all the time at AMC when the first one of the day was six dollars.
shareI think the earliest showtime I've ever been to was 11 AM. I'm a morning person but somehow watching movies early in the day feels strange, and I prefer later in the afternoon or night.
shareMaybe 11am or so. I usually only do that if I'm watching something 3+ hours long and I have plans in the evening.
shareWhen I was a teen I saw The Song Remains the Same (1976) at a midnight showing. Can't get earlier than that.
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