What Would You Screen at Cine Barsoom?

[DungeonmasterCal]

The Rocky Horror Picture Show (because it's JUST MORE FUN in a theater)
Beau Geste
Blazing Saddles
Young Frankenstein
Tommy
Any of the Python flicks
Rollerball (the 1975 James Caan version...saw it last weekend and forgot how much I loved that movie)
Logan's Run
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Star Wars Eps IV-VI (Original versions...YOU HEAR ME, LUCAS?!!!?)
Fantastic Voyage
The Godfather Trilogy
The Sands of Iwo Jima
True Grit
The Maltese Falcon
Animal Crackers
Our Man Flint
Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
The Wizard of Oz

That's all I have time for at the moment...

 

[Desdichado]

The Rocky Horror Picture Show (because it's JUST MORE FUN in a theater)

I've never seen it in a theater. But that's the only way I can imagine the movie is actually ANY FUN to begin with...

 

[DungeonmasterCal]

I've never seen it in a theater. But that's the only way I can imagine the movie is actually ANY FUN to begin with...

Well, aside from the songs, the movie just loses it's shine on TV. Plus, it's no fun cleaning up toast from your living room afterwards.

First time I saw it was while on an out of town field trip with my high school radio station staff. Our teacher asked us did we want to go see a movie. We were like... "A movie? At midnight?? SURE!!!!"

While standing in line, we (all from a very small town in Arkansas) were very nervous seeing all the people in costumes carrying bags of "stuff'. But once the movie started, I was transfixed. I've even dressed as Eddy for a showing, and every party I've ever thrown since then has "Time Warp" as part of the music.

Don't dream it. Be it.

 

[CalicoDave]

Once Upon a Time in the West
Blade Runner (Director's Cut w/out the voice overs)
Apollo 13
The Right Stuff
Tombstone
Forbidden Planet
Aliens
The Matrix (too bad they never made a sequel)
The Fifth Element
Jurassic Park

Just a list off the top of my head of movies I'd like to see (in some cases "see again") in the theater

 

[Mark]

Oh, and Mark: You can schedule a festival at CineBarsoom ANY time.

You make the popcorn!

 

[MonsterMash]

For interesting programming the National Film Theatre in London is good particularly as we've also got the Prince Charles with some more commercial stuff

 

[nakia]

What theatres offer that home setups cannot is the group experience. A great movie transforms a bunch of strangers into a unified organism, galvanized by the excitement/beauty/terror of what they're witnessing.

THAT'S why I love seeing movies in the theatre.

It's like, yeah, you could just listen to music at home, but isn't it more fun to be sharing the experience?

I think.

I understand your push for the "collective effervescence" of the theatre experience. It is, indeed, part of what makes going to the movies so much fun. But, in my experience, the "collective" part of that often distracts from the immersion part you mentioned later:

The film has you all to itself, and I really truly believe that alters the impact of viewing the film greatly.

You have to surrender to a story for it to have maximum impact. You have to give up control and let the story own you for its lifespan.

I want this to happen. I want the film to own me for two hours. I want to be engrossed. But the people who talk during the movie stop this from happening, as does the teenaged usher who stands there with the door open for 15 minutes so he can see "the good parts," as does the concession stand that is out of everything but Sprite and Hi-C, as does the little kid who really should not be watching the rated R film.

Often, the collective part of the theatre experience conflicts with the engrossment part of the theatre experience. When push comes to shove, I'll take engrossment, even if I have to watch the movie at home.

I know, I know. You can't have everything all the time. Except maybe at Cinema Barsoom.

And maybe I am just bitter because my town has The.Worst.Theatres.Ever.

 

[barsoomcore]

You can get anything you want, at Cinema Ba-arsoom...



nakia: I share your pain. Cine Barsoom will employ grown-ups as ushers who will actively seek out and beat down people talking in the theatre. Possibly with swords. They will stand quietly and attentively at the back of the theatre (which won't be mega-huge so's they can observe the whole place easily), making no noise or motion unless someone starts yammering, at which point they will leap into graceful action, beginning a polite admonishment and swiftly escalating to silent, ruthless violence, disposing of the bodies so efficiently you won't even know you're dead.

Warning signs will be posted, and we'll get local film students to come up with new and entertaining "Please Shut Up" clips every week so you don't get tired of seeing the same thing over and over again.

We'll also screen shorts before each film, to give everybody a chance to settle into their seats, sort themselves out and relax before the main feature plays. These will include classic Warner Brothers and Disney cartoons, Pixar bits, and whatever odds and ends catches the fancy of our Screening Board (which is open to the public so's anybody can get involved).

We will show no more than four trailers before each film and NO advertisements of any other kind, except for the silent ads for local businesses and charities that rotate before the lights go down.

Patrons will be encouraged to sit and watch the credits, and there will be a "Post-Screening Lounge" where you can go after the show to talk about it over a beer or three with the used-to-be-total-strangers who were watching it with you.

Cine Barsoom is a community. It's a place you can go to enjoy great films with the people who live near you -- you can just ignore them and enjoy the movie, of course, but you can also get to know other film buffs and share your love with them. And of course, since we allow the public to select films, if you get into a conversation with somebody and discover that they've never even seen something as crucial as The Good, The Bad and the Ugly, well, you can just dial that baby up and arrange to see it with them next week. If you and bunch of others get all excited about, say, Harryhausen films, you could schedule a whole run of them over a weekend and yahoo! you've got a party.

I love Cine Barsoom.

 

[Desdichado]

We will show no more than four trailers before each film

That's where you lost me; I want o less than four trailers before each film. How else am I supposed to know what's coming out? Read this messageboard?

Seriously, though, I enjoy previews almost as much as the movies themselves.

 

[Wombat]

We will show no more than four trailers before each film and NO advertisements of any other kind, except for the silent ads for local businesses and charities that rotate before the lights go down.

There was a theatre that I used to go to in Petaluma, CA, that twice a year had Trailer Night. Yep, you plunked down your money and got 3 HOURS worth of trailers. But these were trailers going back to the days of King Kong (and earlier), right up through popular films of about 5-10 years past. Essentially you got a quick view of changing tastes, attitudes towards what would draw people in, etc., over the night. And it was a heck of a lotta fun! I mean, how often do you get to see a big screen trailer for Gone With The Wind or Casablanca anymore?