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Lady_Satine
Title: Head of Lexian R&D
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From getthebigpicture.net:
"To celebrate the 25th anniversary of Back to the Future, AMC Theaters is bringing the film back to the big screen next month for 2 special showings.
You can see the film on Saturday, October 23 at 12:30pm, or on Monday, October 25 at 7:00pm. AMC says they have 158 screens for you to choose from. While the Saturday screening is probably more convenient for most people, the Monday one is a bit more special if you're a big BTTF fan: October 25th is the day on which the film begins (while the first time travel actually occurs on the 26th, since Marty meets Doc after midnight that evening). So in a way that's a good day to celebrate it. On the other hand, the movie was actually released on July 3rd, 1985, meaning that we're a few months late to be celebrating its actual anniversary. Depending on how you look at it.
You can get all the info, and search for a theater in your area that's participating in the event, by checking out the announcement on AMC's website.
The film shown will be a digitally remastered version, likely the same one from the forthcoming Blu-Ray release. As if that weren't enough reason to go, AMC says everybody in attendance will get a Back to the Future poster just for showing up, and there will also be "special movie-related giveaways prior to the movie as a part of the experience."
While I think this is a pretty cool thing to do, and I'll likely attend myself, I actually think it'd be cooler if they'd just show the whole trilogy. It's nice to get a chance to see a movie like this on the big screen—especially for you youngsters who didn't get to do so back in 1985—but I think things like this work even better if you can make an event out of it. Dedicate a whole Saturday afternoon and just marathon all three. But this is still cool, too."
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Pandajuice
Title: The Power of Grayskull
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Ah, I was wondering if it'd get a re-release in the US. It's opening here in the UK on the 1st for a few weeks in almost every movie theatre and I was stoked that finally I wouldn't miss out on something cool, what with me being outside the US. I'm definitely going; probably not opening night, but later in the week when it's a bit quieter.
Also, I'm sure they'll re-release the rest of the trilogy too if this re-release goes well and makes some money.
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UsaSatsui
Title: The White Rabbit
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This might be fun to release in 3D, if they could do it without sucking.
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Josh.0
Joined: Sep 10 2010
Location: Kearney, NE
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| lordsathien wrote: |
From getthebigpicture.net:
While I think this is a pretty cool thing to do, and I'll likely attend myself, I actually think it'd be cooler if they'd just show the whole trilogy. It's nice to get a chance to see a movie like this on the big screen—especially for you youngsters who didn't get to do so back in 1985—but I think things like this work even better if you can make an event out of it. Dedicate a whole Saturday afternoon and just marathon all three. But this is still cool, too." |
I think a marathon would be cool too, but I just don't think I'm the type of person that could sit in a theater for three full length movies. However, I think there are a lot of people that would watch all three in a row.
I could probably only do a Friday the 13th/Elm Street/Other Slasher flick marathon on halloween or friday the 13th, or something like that.
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aeonic
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I've tried, and it's just not possible to do the Friday the 13th marathon in a day. Took my wife and I two and a half.
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Josh.0
Joined: Sep 10 2010
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| aeonic wrote: |
| I've tried, and it's just not possible to do the Friday the 13th marathon in a day. Took my wife and I two and a half. |
Oh shit, I was just thinking about the first 4 movies or something. All of them? You guys are intense.
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Douche McCallister
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GOD DAMNIT! Now I gotta find where the closest AMC theater is, all we got here are Cinemark. FUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Blackout
Title: Captain Oblivious
Joined: Sep 01 2007
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| Josh.0 wrote: |
| aeonic wrote: |
| I've tried, and it's just not possible to do the Friday the 13th marathon in a day. Took my wife and I two and a half. |
Oh shit, I was just thinking about the first 4 movies or something. All of them? You guys are intense. |
It's possible if you leave out Freddy VS Jason and the recent reboot, you just have to start early in the morning, and have lots of food on hand. I did it for my TL;DR Thoughts on Friday The 13th Thread It does get rough though.
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Syd Lexia
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| UsaSatsui wrote: |
| This might be fun to release in 3D, if they could do it without sucking. |
They couldn't. You can't just magically make a non-3D film into 3D and have it not suck.
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UsaSatsui
Title: The White Rabbit
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| Syd Lexia wrote: |
| UsaSatsui wrote: |
| This might be fun to release in 3D, if they could do it without sucking. |
They couldn't. You can't just magically make a non-3D film into 3D and have it not suck. |
We're gonna have holographic shark generators outside our theaters in 5 years, I'd say making a movie look OK in 3D is doable.
Toy Story 1+2 looked decent enough.
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