Tomorrow, hopefully I will be able to spend a solid portion of my afternoon at the movie theater which I haven't been to since I saw The Lego Movie, which has lead me to some dismay over my infrequent travel to the movies. Many I have been unable to see due to weather conditions and a lack of consistent transportation to do so and since that time of the year is fast approaching, I thought I should go since they are showing Ghostbusters to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the movie and if I can it'll be on a personal double bill with Guardians of the Galaxy. One other thing that has suffered in my movie viewing due to said transportation problems is the distance between me and the nearest Cinemark theater. I first learned of Cinemark while watching the Midnight Screenings on thecinemasnob.com, which have been some of my favorite sources of background commentary when they talk about really terrible movies that they saw and for a while, they did classic movies that were showing at a smaller theater to the point where that sort of movie would be just Brad and his mom talking about it, and those have been some of my favorites. It also got me interested in if any theaters near me were doing something similar, which unfortunately did not turn out to be the case. So I missed movies that I really wanted to see in theaters, such as The Godfather Part I and II as a double bill, which would have killed my day for the most part but it would have been fun nonetheless.
The fact that I have missed all these opportunities to catch these movies in the theater had left me kind of sad since I am unsure when I will get an actual chance to do so. And it got me thinking about why don't more theaters do things like this? Maybe not on an almost weekly basis for movies that show about two days of the week. It could be like once in a while for a day or two, they'd show one of those movies in a couple of screenings, and it could work really well when the new crop of films turn out to be duds or there are not enough movies coming out to validate the amount of screens in the theater. Especially if they do the matinee pricing, I know that I would try and get to at least one of these screenings if that were possible. It is kind of hard to figure out why not many theaters do something like this, maybe it has to do with licensing the movies that would make it not that much of a profit to do on a regular basis or that they don't see much of an audience for this kind of thing (which since I'm writing this post and that Cinemark is still doing it's thing, is kind of bullshit) or even that maybe there is some other reason I can't think of at the moment but it is rather unfortunate that stuff like this doesn't happen.
I also thought that maybe since theaters wouldn't do that more often, maybe I should start my own film committee (or club, or group whichever sounds better) where we watch movies like that regularly, either weekly or bi-weekly for people like me in the community who just like watching movies. I have looked up some of what I would need to get something like this started and it has kind of disheartened me though since I do not really have the necessary funds to get it off the ground and my lack of friends and film buffs to talk to has left the budget for that sort of thing onto just myself and that is too much of an undertaking at the moment. This is coming from someone who wants to film his own horror anthology movie with four different parts (one of which I had to rework due to realizing almost immediately that it was kind of more stupid than I wanted it to be and also just how most of the budget would just go to that one section of the film, [in case any of you are wondering, it was about this bus driver who set up his bus with all of these hidden traps and torture setups for people who think the bus is too dirty and messy, since it was going to be sort of a torture porn satire or parody due to it's outlandishness]) and that seems like such a large undertaking since I was going to have to do most of the work myself, and by most, I mean all of the work that doesn't have to do with acting, making a movie with no experience, no resources, no people to help, it really makes me wish I had friends that could help me out. That's kind of a bit off topic though.
So if this hasn't gotten my idea out there, I just really wish that more movie theaters, those closer to where I live especially would play classic films since who wouldn't want to see those movies that they loved as a kid but never got the chance to see them in the big screen?
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