Going to the movies in 1991

Footage of people at a mall in St. Louis, Missouri buying tickets at a local movie theater.
This should be the first weekend of January:
www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend...
Interestingly, no one is going to see Home Alone even though it was the #1 movie that weekend.
The top movies here seem to be Kindergarten Cop, Dances with Wolves and The Godfather Part III.
#godfather

[@creepingbert]

I can hear the conversation behind the camera. "What are you filming this for?" "I'm going to put it on KZbin." "You..what???" And Marty McFly says, "your kids are gonna love it!"

[@vampirerobot]

🤣🤣🤣

[@VincentVega93]

@@vampirerobot You're tracking things to see if they change, aren't you? Monitoring the Mandela effect?

[@EternaResplandiente]

Lol nice

[@EternaResplandiente]

​@@VincentVega93Im trying to find proof of Shazam with Sinbad

[@danielsantana540]

Back when streaming services didn't exist and blockbuster video or your local video rental store was top priority to view films

[@itzmecandimorgon3323]

Wow they didn’t have Netflix in 91?

[@Tr0nzoid]

Blockbuster Video had just invaded my town in 1990. This was the year of a huge expansion. I remember being momentarily confused about the movies being on the shelf, whereas the other video stores I knew had the boxes on the shelves and a clerk would get the tape from the back.

[@deathstar001]

And VHS tapes were $100 lol

[@NickyD]

well netlfix beat blockbuster because blockbuster was screwing people over

[@tonymontana4284]

Your comment had nothing to do with this video.

[@raisa_cherry33]

Those days were better 💜

[@danielchavira9968]

1990 and 1991 still looked a lot like the 80s while 1998 and 1999 was completely different a lot like early 2000s.

[@coolsaint6044]

I agree. However, 2011 and 2023 look pretty similar. Times are slowing down

[@jscountrygirl85_326]

Yeah the difference between the early 90s and the late 90s is almost like night and day. As you say, the early 90s still had a lot of 80s influence and seem more primitive compared to today, but the late 90s still come across as fairly modern, just minus the craziness of current times. Both periods were great, imo, and I'd love to go back to either one of them.

[@konami1979]

American 90's pop culture didn't really kick in until 1994 (arguably when the OJ Simpson Bronco chase changed television).

[@ColtComanche]

$5 for two tickets to Kindergarten Cop. Hot damn

[@vampirerobot]

Indeed. A bargain. I just saw that movie last week. Hadn't seen it for years.

[@TheStevenWhiting]

I thought that was cheap $5 for two for Predator.

[@bf0189]

About 10.74 today which is still great.

[@mesicek7]

Used to pay 2€ for a 90min or 2,5€ for a 2h+ movie back in the late 90s. Now I have to pay 6€+ for a 90min movie and the longer the movie is the more you have to pay(6,2€ 90min, 6,6€ 2h, 7.2€ 3h)

[@sammerz50]

I’ve got news for you. You are MINE now! You belong to ME!!

[@brandonantonio7310]

Kindergarten Cop Was And Still Is A Classic, I Love It!!!!

[@livebooty]

Yeah kindergarten cop is a great movie from the 90s

[@SDS-ee9js]

One of my favourite movies

[@willgibson8534]

She said Kindergarten CAT not cope

[@Beautifulpurpleskies]

@@willgibson8534 I just googled kindergarten cat and all that came up was some children’s book…. Pretty sure they were saying kindergarten COP which was a popular movie at the time.

[@willgibson8534]

@@Beautifulpurpleskies i saw Kindergarten cat in the theater that very same year! Wonderful movie about a British cat and a retarded boy! He was a hoot to laugh at! Acted much like a monkey

[@nickj2681]

Such nostalgic videos! Something so innocent pre internet days. No background feeling that a shooting, protest or disrespectful youth recording themselves doing a TikTok challenge. Nobody zombified out on cell phones while waiting in line. It's almost like you had to have a conversation with people. Lol All I can say is I'm glad I was raised in the '80s and '90s.. I feel so bad for the youth today.😢 Of course they don't know any different so I guess it doesn't matter. 😕

[@skywishr1313]

ok boomer

[@catsss333.]

@@skywishr1313proving their point

[@runnerfromjupiter]

I remember the good ol’ days when I would have to remind my parents to turn off their pager 📟

[@Tr0nzoid]

It pains me to remember how I took this time for granted. "Home Alone" was in theaters for about a year but by then a lot of people had already seen it a couple of times. Everyone was waiting to see if the Gulf War would actually happen and in a couple of weeks, it captivated everyone's attention for a bit.

[@plawson8577]

Home Alone Obliterated the Box Office until late Spring 1991. That’s How long it played in Theaters, even into the Spring of 1991 it was STILL dominating the Box Office.

[@kistelkistel]

I remember going to see home alone. It was around Christmas time.

[@Alexrefreshed]

Those days are gone when you would see a line at the theaters. Technology changed everything for the good and the bad. But non the less it’s cool to go back in time to watch this as a 90’s kid, I am now in my 30’s 🥴

[@thebestchannel5456]

It seems mostly bad, though, especially with the internet evolving

[@edjsjjsjsjeje3751]

​@@thebestchannel5456 your just a boomer

[@mabelmartian]

I want to see how crowded the theaters were during the Beauty and the Beast debut in 1991.

[@plawson8577]

I was there when Home Alone opened In November 1990. My family and I went to go see it December 7,1990. It took us 45 minutes to get in the theater. It was PACKED and lines were excessive.

[@ManVsBisaya]

Crying Wolves or the Howling Wolves.. Dancing Wolves! 😅 Please upload more of these, it’s so fascinating watching what people were going to see at the movies 🍿

[@vampirerobot]

🤣🤣🤣

[@stpworld]

@@vampirerobot there’s still one movie theater in Pa that uses 35 mm film it’s the only one in the country

[@vampirerobot]

@@stpworld What theater is this?

[@stpworld]

@@vampirerobot I'll get the name its near knobles theme park I think its called Mahoning drive in just search it. They even have some of these movies shown here on film to.

[@plawson8577]

@@vampirerobotDon’t forget Home Alone.

[@TR47]

Looks like very early 1991 since they're still showing 1990 films. I recall seeing T2 twice in the same day that year.

[@MiketheratguyMultimedia]

I'll never forget that my friend asked me to go see T2 with him. I didn't remember the first Terminator very well (I was only 6 when that one debuted) so I said no. I'll always regret not seeing T2 on the big screen.

[@ManningTaylor]

T2 was so good I saw it twice in the same day too at the theater.

[@kevinc1001]

Damn $5.00 for a movie ticket? Nowadays it’s more like $25 plus another $50 for the food and drinks lol

[@teresathompson2295]

Actually 2.50 $5 for two people. Now it's like 13 bucks for one person

[@ComplexWork]

Stop exaggerating. No tickets nowadays are $25 lmao

[@Carbabydoll]

I watched Kindergarten Cop in the theater🥰

[@hectorlopez1069]

I wish i could've seen it in the theaters.

[@Mag00777]

Damn, $2.50 for a good movie back then... I miss the good'ol days man...

[@vampirerobot]

So do I

[@OhJodi69]

That's 5.50 in today's money. It's probably a matinee. I remember tickets being 4.50 back then for a night show, which would be 9.00 in today's money.

[@edjsjjsjsjeje3751]

Your a boomer

[@ChibiFighter]

I can imagine that Kindergarten Cop would be a hot movie in January considering that it came out at the end of December.

[@MiketheratguyMultimedia]

Predator and Running Man in 87, Twins and Red Heat in 88, Kindergarten Cop and Total Recall in 90, then finally T2 in 91. This was an amazing time to be a Schwarzenegger fan.

[@vampirerobot]

Yeah...he was a tear at the time

[@robroy6374]

the mid 80s too like films such as the terminator, conan the destroyer, commando and raw deal.

[@plawson8577]

This was when Home Alone was just massacring everybody at the Box Office.

[@ProtoMario]

A real person taking real money... my God it is all gone now.

[@oats6195]

When did the 90s become a long time ago?

[@hectorlopez1069]

In 34 years

[@WALDENSOFTWARE]

2010.

[@res1tah71]

Your videos are mesmerizing. Brilliant

[@depletable]

The Regal I go to no longer has a person at their ticket booth. They are 100% purchase from online / kiosk inside.

[@vampirerobot]

Wow. That's sad.

[@edjsjjsjsjeje3751]

​@@vampirerobot it's not sad it saves people life's from covid

[@winterlynn9012]

@@edjsjjsjsjeje3751 🙄

[@GoatzombieBubba]

@@edjsjjsjsjeje3751Democrats funded the creation of Covid to get rid of Trump. The only reason they took people out of the ticket booths and go online only is to save money.

[@hamamotodesigns]

i was 13 in 1991, and was big for my age. I remember sneaking in to watch Silence of the Lambs

[@lisar313]

Two movies starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, playing at the same time? He was a busy actor back in his time!

[@cosmic687]

so was costner, he did dances with wolves and Robin Hood in 90/91

[@QuadirBrown-xt7iv]

Bring back the days.

[@MiketheratguyMultimedia]

My memory is that 1991 was kind of a tame year in terms of awesome movies (at least compared to the years surrounding it) but Terminator 2 alone pretty much makes up for that. This year was the first time I ever snuck into a theater, lol.

[@TR47]

Silence of the Lambs, Boyz N the Hood, Star Trek VI, Cape Fear, Point Break, etc etc. Lots of good movies that year, but maybe not as many as 1992; the period was marred by a bad recession.

[@vampirerobot]

This year Mike or 1991 is when you snuck in a theater? What movie was it?

[@vampirerobot]

@tr47 Yeah. Lots of solid awesome movies there you mentioned.

[@MiketheratguyMultimedia]

@@vampirerobot Oh yeah it was 1991. I was almost 13 and my cousin came in from out of town. We were looking for things to do and decided to sneak into the drive-in theater that was behind my house. The movie was "The Hard Way". I'll never forget the experience, we felt so criminal lol.

[@MiketheratguyMultimedia]

@@TR47 True, there were a handful of classics but nothing was going to stack up to years like 1989-90 or 93-94. Can't really remember much of 92, lol.

[@megaben99]

one of the things about going to the movies in 90s that I miss is the loud digital sound trailers like THX and SDDS.

[@danceswithcomicbooks7733]

Wow. They stood in line back then to. They even had glass partitions. Amazing.

[@thebestchannel5456]

Of course, they stood in line, lol

[@waltermartinez5372]

I am 53 now and these days are long gone LoL 👍 😂

[@danielsantana540]

This was early 1991 right based on customers since predator 2 godfather 3 dances with wolves all released November to December 1990

[@danielsantana540]

I got predator 2 dvd . Even the sega genesis 1992 video game

[@ChibiFighter]

Holy crap those ticket prices are incredible

[@MiketheratguyMultimedia]

Yeah but just think about how low minimum wage was.

[@daved1535]

I remember going to the movies all the time in the 80s and the 90s. I remember me and my friends getting kicked out of the theater for acting like idiots during the movie Blind Date with Bruce Willis and Kim Bassenger

[@vampirerobot]

🤣🤣🤣

[@sochaoticnvsochaoticnv7232]

Shame on you hooligans! Me and my husband went out for a nice relaxing date, you and your friends ruined it. We haven't been to the movies since. Did Kim Basinger end up with Bruce Willis at the end?

[@MissingLinx]

Home Alone could have been playing across the street. Because AMC had a theater that was just across the street from the one in the video.

[@vampirerobot]

I believe it's on there..you can see it in the background. I'll have to recheck this video out again.

[@plawson8577]

It WAS. Home Alone stayed in Theaters until June.

[@danielsantana540]

Good vid. Terminator 2 point break cape fear favorite 1991 film releases

[@markoportuondo7375]

Since it was January ‘91, Home Alone was still number one at the BO.

[@CaptchaNeon]

The guy towards the beginning 19 seconds mark with the moustache was staring you down like he just can’t imagine why you’d want to record history. The guy at the end “crying wolves or howling wolves” 😂 that’s how I am with movies too

[@danielsantana540]

I got dances with wolves on dvd

[@jjamiejackson]

2 for crying wolves or howling wolves. Hahaha

[@p.l.j.9825]

Terminator 2: Judgment Day and Beauty & The Beast was the biggest live action and animated film respectively that year!

[@missylou82]

I remember seeing Kindergarten Cop at the movie theater. I was 8 at the time. I looked it up online. They said it’s rated PG-13. I always thought it was rated PG.

[@dannewnam2701]

3 Movies they've already mentioned (below Home Alone) topped Edward Scissorhands.

[@noodleschalepah5934]

I have both those movies

[@jimmyortiz6697]

I remember my uncle took me watch out for justice that time. I was in elementary. My first action movie

[@nathanbinns6345]

My 1st movie going experience was seeing 3 Ninjas at the movies with my parents in 1992…31 years ago? Doesn’t feel like it was that long again. What a dreadful movie though, haha. Hasn’t aged well.

[@Carbabydoll]

Rocky loves Emily!

[@shittywitty09]

32 years ago seems like yesterday time flys by

[@RapFanatic4ever]

Oh My God look at how packed that movie theater is and everyone is interacting

[@Anarchist86ed]

Predator2? Home alone? No, let's go see Kindergarten cop.

[@vampirerobot]

I was waiting for you on this one. I thought you didn't like Predator 2?

[@Anarchist86ed]

@@vampirerobot kzbin.info/www/bejne/d2fLpGShh7mUrMU

[@vampirerobot]

@@Anarchist86ed I've been meaning to ask you, but I don't want to come off as an idiot...but are you in these audio dramas?

[@Anarchist86ed]

@@vampirerobot Nope. I just write 'em and make 'em, I don't do 'em. I don't actually speak in real life. I remade both the predator movies. We're currently working on remaking Alien. I do them for friends of mine, mostly. One of whom is blind. A few others who don't see well either. But mostly people who like to listen to stuff while they work or do chores or exercise or whatever. Basically I just make stuff for handicapped people and put it online where no one ever listens to it. But the people who do the voices get to use it all as demos to get paying jobs or whatever. I don't have delusions of millions of people listening. I have my reasons for it, and that's good enough.

[@vampirerobot]

@@Anarchist86ed Well that's quite a noble thing you're doing then, isn't it? I think so anyway. And this is really good stuff. I listened to the Alien audio drama some time back as I am a big fan of the original film series. Enjoyed it very much! Also, always been fascinated with the golden age of radio as well. Anyway, never knew you had an actual channel, until I clicked your name. Keep up the great work both in fiction and in real life!

[@BillVol]

1991 -- the year the internet debuted!

[@richie9a]

Kinda wish it never did

[@chrisdigitalartist]

The internet has been around since the 60s (only the government had access to it then) and the world wide web was created in 1989.

[@AMERASIAN12]

3:57 The Silence of the Lambs. One of my best movie going experiences EVER.

[@Yogagirl9935]

I was in high school at that time & my friends worked at the movie theater, so the movies & popcorn were always free for me & my boyfriend

[@Mike-gl4wt]

Everybody loved going to movies back in the day when streaming was not around. Today’s world is sad good luck of finding friends to go to movies with you because nowadays most people just like to sit lazy at home streaming.

[@norwegianblue2017]

Buying a ticket at the box office hasn't changed much. But the movies sure were better back then.

[@mommak10]

I’m so jealous hearing only $5 for movie theater tickets. They were so cheap back then we need to get back to that instead of paying $15-$20 🤦🏽‍♀️

[@smadaf]

Crying Wolves or Howling Wolves or-Dancing Wolves!

[@nerdbamarich2063]

WOW 🥺🥺

[@briansinger2298]

I was going to say 91 was before I went to the theater alone but I did go see kindergarten cop alone on a snow day brother and I walked to a theater on a snow day and it was released in December 91. I was only 10, didn't truly go with friends till I was like 13 and the down the road theater didn't have a bike rack we had to tie the bikes to the dumpster cage behind the theater and that was nasty but 13-year-old boys we didn't care.

[@justingreen8006]

"Can I have one for Kindagart'n Cap?". Ah, no... But how about one for Kindergarten Cop?

[@musicalmelodies3595]

$2.50 a ticket in '91 😍😍😍

[@OhJodi69]

That's 5.50 in today's money. Probably a matinee ticket. Tickets were around 4.50 back then for a night show, which would be about 10.00 in today's money

[@musicalmelodies3595]

@@OhJodi69 either way- such nostalgic prices.

[@emmanuelespataro3139]

Godfather 3🤌

[@sochaoticnvsochaoticnv7232]

"We bought these earlier and missed our show. Is there anything we can do?" "No." .... "Okay... then two for Kindergarten Cop." 😂😂😂☠️☠️☠️

[@toll2087]

I work at a theater and now if you miss a movie you can get a refund or a free movie pass

[@jessicafallen9778]

Home alone came out in 1990

[@plawson8577]

November 16th. But it stayed in Theaters until June. It also Dominated the Box Office for months.

[@BrendanSith1997]

What's the theatre called?

[@danielsantana540]

About a few months later after this the 4 4 1991 good guys electronics store chain hostage crisis in.sacaramento ca.. a hostage situation lasting nearly 10 hours. 4 4 1991 is when terminator 2 completed filming3. Today that same good guys building of the hostage crisis is today a dollar tree.

[@rosiedollface]

UK Cinema 'Vue' has the cheapest tickets depending which cinema you go have, my local is £4 for a seat, where are as a cinema 30 mins from is £7... plus food + drinks, (£8?) Crazy times, always sneak in snacks hehe.

[@danielsantana540]

1991 I had got a sega genesis

[@danielsantana540]

Based on what this customer said. I got kindergarten cop on dvd also I first said kindergarten cop.on usa network June 1996

[@burgertim7878]

My condolences to everyone who paid to see The Godfather Part III.

[@vampirerobot]

Really? I think the opera finale 30 minutes eclipses all scenes in the trilogy.

[@burgertim7878]

@@vampirerobot Sofia Coppolas shit acting and the whole incest vibe ruins it.

[@ahorsewithnoname773]

Definitely a far inferior film than the first 2 but it had it's moments that made it worth a watch in the theater at the time. I saw it in theaters as a teenager and enjoyed it, though haven't watched it since.

[@alfredogomezgonzales6731]

An American Tail: Fievel Goes West and Disney’s Beauty and the Beast

[@XylenRoberts]

This is 1990 not 1991, All of those movies came out in 1990.

[@jazznjayy]

i wonder who decided to record this back in 1991

[@wolffman2445]

Bro said “crying wolves, or the howling wolves?”

[@vampirerobot]

🤣🤣

[@stub4488]

Remember folks: Even back in the 90's our kids knew better. Boy's have ....and girls have .....! Loved the 90s!

[@crb4059]

Who’s going movies? What “1991” means?

[@kodiiayyeee256]

Kimdergarden cap lol

[@Ri5004]

4:55 jon gruden

[@danielsantana540]

I own God father trilogy boxed dvd set I got 5 dollars Brand new sealed 5 bucks. This very beautiful African American woman I knew named lola.11 years ago told me godfather is her favorite film and she got to meet Francis Ford Coppola s nephew

[@perry_carrey8327]

Cool story...

[@willgibson8534]

Has to be a buget theater.. tickets were not $2.50 in 91.. that is like 1985 and earlier prices

[@HikikomoriDev]

In a way this is all kinda cute and cool. But I am kinda glad that we are past and done with all of this. Now we can do this all easily within VR and enjoy movies with close friends without having to go outside, wait in line, and spend any money... The theatre comes to you and your friends in a VR world/scene/server and movies can be anything of any taste or genre, not just some lineup that is seasonal to which ever time.

[@chadhauck1]

You have missed the point completely….and if you think that is better, well, then there is no point in explaining it.

[@smpeace2683]

People know how to waste time and money.

[@citygirl5705]

Godfather 3 sucked!!!

[@EternaResplandiente]

I hate streaming services