Going to the movies in 1997

[@kel7588]

It is really sad to me that what once was, will never be again. Thank you for uploading these nostalgic videos.

[@PopGunJames]

For most of us this is nostalgia. For others, these videos are a world they've never known. I suppose ignorance may be bliss. Ive tasted this pie and will never taste it again. Todays pie isn't as sweet.

[@AZITHEMLGPRO]

Cringe

[@franksandoval6046]

@@AZITHEMLGPRO did you like watch movie theaters or Streaming Services ?

[@SPRDAVE]

1997 great times .

[@kendragreene5953]

Absolutely ❤

[@jeffreyg4626]

What did you find so great about 1997?

[@AaronC143]

​​@@kendragreene5953I miss 1997 too. I also miss 1999 as well.

[@jscountrygirl85_326]

One of the best years of my life!

[@mariposamoreno]

97 was amazing

[@gabrielbenitez9257]

5 years old in 1997 and I can still feel the smell of buttered popcorn.

[@Gianne0923]

Wow this seems like it was just yesterday. I remember being a 9 or 10 year old kid back then and being super excited to see Batman and Robin. As I got older I realized how bad that movie was but at the time that was one of my most anticipated movies of 1997 🤣🤣🤣 I miss the 90s with a passion. I am grateful for the life I have now but if there was a Time Machine I would go back to the 90’s and stay there for a long time. Thank you for the video!

[@vampirerobot]

lol Gianne. I actually still like Batman and Robin. Happy you liked the video, enjoyed reading your comments.

[@kendragreene5953]

I actually enjoyed the movie but maybe it's just the nostalgia of it all lol. It was kind of corny 😂😂

[@vampirerobot]

It's a good popcorn flick for sure Kendra@@kendragreene5953

[@Gianne0923]

@@vampirerobot Batman & Robin is a guilty pleasure. I definitely turn my brain off when I am watching it because almost nothing makes sense in that movie lol. I much prefer Batman 89’ and Batman Returns. Batman Returns is still my favorite Batman movie to this day.

[@Gianne0923]

@@kendragreene5953 haha it’s definitely a goofy movie overall. It has a couple scenes that I like but it is in my opinion the worst live action batman movie ever made. Even the director apologized for it some years after the movie came out. If I want a good laugh I will put it on like once or twice a year but it’s by no means a good movie in my opinion.

[@Mondoness]

I miss the dollar cinema like you wouldn't believe.

[@ToeTag9899]

I wish I went to more movies back in the day and kept the ticket stubs for nostalgia.

[@jscountrygirl85_326]

I really wish I kept all my stubs during the 90s and early 2000s! Didn't realize just how nostalgic and valuable they would be until it was too late. :(

[@jimjohnson724]

The stubs I saved all faded away sadly. I would save them in my 3 ring binder 😅

[@marioricardo7934]

I went to the theaters recently and couldn't buy a ticket at the window... They said to download the app , buy the ticket on there and scan the QR code to get in. Man I really miss these simpler times.

[@mitchell.9632]

Apps are proprietary with DRM too.

[@hugocruz1889]

On top of paying those “convenience fees” and bearing with technical difficulties on the usher’s end using the scanner… the cinema experience has sadly come to an end. They’re lucky enough if they get some sort of attraction with the five movies coming out this year.

[@AussieTVMusic]

Saves a lot of waste and paper. Nice to have a ticket to keep like Concerts I suppose.

[@jscountrygirl85_326]

Stuff like this is one of the reasons why I hate most modern day theaters. That and just how ridiculously expensive they are with everything.

[@andrewwilks5155]

An app for this and an app for that and so on without any consideration of the fact that all these apps take up space on ones device. I find this very aggravating.

[@dave4708]

I was 37 in 97, wife and I were too busy raising our children to see a movie in theaters then. Block Buster movie rentals were a weekend treat for us during those years.

[@jscountrygirl85_326]

Late 1997 was such a great time in my life! I started middle school and 6th grade, which turned out to be one of my most favorite school years, and it was also one of the best Christmases I ever had, as well. Movies I saw in the theater with my parents in late '97: A Life Less Ordinary, The Devil's Advocate, Kiss The Girls, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Gattaca, Starship Troopers, The Jackal, The Man Who Knew Too Little, Alien Resurrection, Flubber, For Richer Or Poorer, Home Alone 3, Scream 2, Mouse Hunt, Tomorrow Never Dies, An American Werewolf In Paris, As Good As It Gets, The Postman, , and of course Titanic.

[@RustyNickels]

Bummer about Home Alone 3.

[@jscountrygirl85_326]

@@RustyNickels Lol. Yeah, I definitely didn't like it as much as the first two with Kevin and the original bandits. I haven't seen it again since then, but from what I've heard, the other Home Alone movies that came after it make it look better, lol.

[@RustyNickels]

@@jscountrygirl85_326 _Home Alone 3_ made it okay for the other terrible sequels (four and up) to exist as they do. They were supposed to make the third one with the same cast and crew as the first and second but they never did.

[@robroy6374]

Mouse Hunt was a dumb movie. A gross one too - The mayor eating an cockroach head? Christopher Walken (as an exterminator) eating mouse/rat droppings? 🤮

[@asdasdasddgdgdfgdg]

Some really good movies in that list.

[@suredeydo]

I was a junior in hs. Take me back 😭 I promise I'll be good and spend every single moment appreciating life as it was 😢

[@mariposamoreno]

i was in 8th grade but yes, take e back too!

[@nesswhopees]

Based on the Christmas greetings, I would have been 5 months old!

[@nigelgrim]

I can smell the popcorn mixed with cigarette smoke and exhaust fumes already

[@vampirerobot]

🤣🤣🤣

[@markoz673bajen8]

That peach flower cup.

[@Anarchist86ed]

Mmmmm and I can hear the coughing from someone getting popcorn stuck in their throat.

[@andrewwilks5155]

Me to!

[@rightwired]

For the first entire year I worked at Kerasotes, I got to make the popcorn. lol Literally every piece of clothing I owned was stained yellow, and stunk of popcorn oil.

[@tabletbooks4967]

This is the Cinema 123 Angelika in NYC. It's still only a three screen theatre. They tend to show more arthouse / highbrow mainstream stuff, then and now.

[@Funkyfanfare-py4uh]

And this was before digital projection. All of these movies projected on 35mm film with a projectionist up in the booth.

[@TinaSaysWhat]

Did anyone else think the old man at the beginning was going to say stop filming me. Instead he hits us with a Merry Christmas

[@brandonstewart8083]

I'm only 32 now but I definitely remember going to see movies around this time went to see the first Scream movie in 96-97 and Beverly Hills Ninja (I think it was Chris Farley's last movie) in 97 also such a simple time. I just really hate social media lol (except YT)

[@mgratk]

I was 27 and far too busy working to see any of these in the theater.

[@davidlafond8327]

Hahahah! OMG this brings back so many memories, those truly were the days! It’s amazing to see such well-preserved footage of what life used to be like! I saw Titanic when it came out in theaters, I believe it was that year! ❤

[@andrewwilks5155]

I Enjoyed back then in 1990s when only using cash was amongst many payment options that didn't involve having to clog up ones not yet existing smart phones with a bunch of not yet existing required apps for everything.

[@sorayadiaz1457]

Awww...I remember when I used to go to the movies theater in those days with my siblings and cousins!!! We used to have a blast!!! Thanks for this video ❤

[@65PHO]

Everything use to be so easier.... Coming to an end.

[@AZITHEMLGPRO]

Walls closing in

[@65PHO]

@AZITHEMLGPRO sure are you see what's going around in the world and society.....we were meant to DOOM ourselves with all this technology

[@Sunshine1986-d1e]

It was more in my high school years when I enjoyed the theaters often right after the mall ❤❤❤❤❤ remember saying this to the ticket people

[@WeSRT4]

The tail end of the good times

[@TheMasterofDisaster48]

More like the beginning of the best times. Gen x'ers hate good vibrance and peak entertainment and fashion it seems.

[@flutebasket4294]

It's Boogie Nights or bust outta these three

[@vampirerobot]

🤣🤣 You are a legend! Admittedly though, Wag the Dog was a somewhat decent flick.

[@retrobrahhh]

Deconstructing Harry is a classic...

[@gavinking8761]

Crying because we'll never be able to experience this again

[@pearllee08]

Back when you were thanked by the business /when customer service mattered...

[@rightwired]

I worked at Kerasotes from 1988-1992...but at that time, the wholesale cost was: Small Popcorn, with butter, including container: 10 cents. Small Coke, including cup, lid, straw, ice: 15 cents Sold for 3.00 each, receptively. but in our defense, nearly 100% of ticket sales went to the movie studio...sometimes it was less, but any Paramount movie was 90/10 or something like that.

[@adams.6911]

Back when you could blow the horn without worrying about being s%ot , cheap mantinee movies, and the theater was full.

[@CT-vm4gf]

I was 17, we snuck in to see Boogie Nights. Our other friends saw As Good As It Gets 🙄

[@EightPieceBox]

Both of those are great movies. Don't shit on As Good as it Gets.

[@neilgorsuch5302]

it was a great time to go to the movies then. I saw a movie called ''The Edge' with Anthony Hopkins in it and it was a great movie. This was back in 1997

[@jscountrygirl85_326]

Oh yeah, I love The Edge! It came out in September of 1997 just when I had started middle school, and not long after we came back from a vacation in Maine that August. My parents and I really enjoyed that one when we saw it!

[@ehrichan6726]

I just love those old twenties and fives cash was so much fancier back then. And no debit cards!

[@gmrfreak8435]

The person in the back of the line, waiting to buy a movie ticket, with a Blockbuster bag. 90s please come back!!!! 😢 1:15

[@DanWick26]

A time when we still payed with cash or check and nobody groaned

[@teresapflaumer5717]

1997, age 25. My boyfriend and I saw Boogie Nights. Great flick! I also saw the revised Star Wars Trilogy.

[@ABSF49]

I was 9-10 years old in 97

[@crossxfuse]

I'm just now realizing that they only took cash at those windows and not cards. interesting, and very rarely our theater will have someone in those windowed areas and it makes it feel like the old days.

[@natechrisman5333]

Thank you very much for the video

[@codyflasche4181]

“Hercules” The 35th Animated Disney Film Starting Friday June 27, 1997 And “Men in Black” Starting Wednesday July 2, 1997

[@brokeandbored85]

I’m going to watch Boogie nights on my 80 inch tonight

[@Cocomelanin]

These people said 2 tickets and handed them a $20 bill. Where is the time machine already? 😢

[@hectorlopez1069]

KZbin is the time machine

[@AussieTVMusic]

Wag the Dog was a great movie. Mark Knopfler did the soundtrack.

[@AaronC143]

I was 12 years old in the first half then 13 in the second half of 1997. I entered Jr. High that year.

[@TheWriterNW]

I really miss those days... I was 18.

[@UnitedStatesOfCoffee]

Back when peope were normal , not obsessed with stupid shit like Tik Tok and the Kardashains and buried in their smart devices like brainless robots

[@CarlyMaze]

“Deconstruction Harry and Boogie Night” 😂

[@RapFanatic4ever]

Look at that people enjoying life in the moment with not a cell phone or tablet shoved to their face. Streaming and technology has ruined so much

[@danielsantana540]

I seen batman and robin star ship troopers mortal kombat anihlation tomorrow never dies at the movie theatres in 1997

[@Nintendofan-yk4cd]

I miss the old days of the 3-screen theaters

[@inlandsvagen2022]

Funny to see that guy trying to get a ticket with his AMEX Platinum Card and then has to pay with cash :D

[@Loachie90]

Up next: Going to the movies in 2020. Oh wait

[@kel7588]

Hahaha.......cute comment, sad but true.

[@AaronC143]

I saw only 1 movie at the theater in 2020, and that was Sonic The Hedgehog.

[@JohnSmith-fm1ht]

Please no horror films.

[@mitchell.9632]

Still have a drive in food spot that they just dot a new sign last year and it says "Cash only". They don't want to involve additional parties. As long as they have power to cool then cook the food that is all they need besides the food equipment and building and the people to run all of that.

[@John-ct9zs]

This theater would have been old in 1997, this was not the norm. There were megaplexes and mall theaters in 1997, and film snobs like Siskel & Ebert hated them. It's only us in 2024 that think some dingy theater in 1997 was some great experience. Everyone pines for the distant past. In the 80s and 90s, a lot of people wanted to go back to life before say 1970, especially the 1940s, 1950s and 60s.

[@peteyp123]

Was a freshman in fall of 97 ❤

[@Batben90]

1997 was the year i saw MIB and Flubber in the theater. Looking back though, Flubber wasn't John Hughes nor Robin Williams best work.

[@КГБКолДжорджКостанца]

This is beautiful....during 1997 there were hardships, war and crime rose up, movie theaters were pretty much an escape, for me it was later on because I was born in 1998

[@sabrinashelton1997]

What war?

[@КГБКолДжорджКостанца]

@@sabrinashelton1997 The first chechen war, and most of the civil conflicts in former soviet states along with Former Yugoslavia post 1990s

[@tbob8212]

Boogie Nights, huh? Maybe they heard about the infamous Mark Wahlberg "exposure" scene and wanted to see it for themselves! 😂 Awesome movie btw 👍

[@jrebecca0195]

Wow, $20 paid for two tickets AND you got change back!

[@jrebecca0195]

​@@missioncodezdepends on where you live. Even matinees in my area are expensive!

[@jmeyering11]

My local cinema does $4 matinees. Depends where you are.

[@jrebecca0195]

@@jmeyering11that's what I said above in reply to the other's comment.

[@ville666sora]

Ikr? No one can afford to go have fun anymore. No wonder people spend so much time on their phones and tech. You could go bankrupt taking your family to the movies or going bowling lol.

[@aricornejo]

Sounds like a real hoot

[@hiddenarchives9318]

Cant wait until we go back to this when tech dies off, which it will.

[@draveed]

When tech dies off there will be no more movies.

[@brittlia_]

This!!!

[@jrebecca0195]

Where do you get these videos?

[@zepps88]

Back when you could get change back from your 20 for one movie ticket.

[@KB-ke3fi]

Wow..."Boogie Nights" movie playing there. It was great when you could go to the move theater to watch a John Holmes porn movie and nobody cared.

[@stardust9504]

Hi, i'm a vintage toy collector and i wonder if you have filmed the Jurassic Park toys maybe in 1993, 1997 when they were in stores?

[@telayajackson1.0]

Only had 8 months of this year....

[@austinwillcut4919]

Lots of old people in this one.

[@danielsantana540]

Good vid

[@jptang1701]

Only cash? Imagine that.

[@murraysaucedo897]

which movie did you watch?

[@bardo0007]

4 years before 9 / 11.

[@HustlerJerbear]

What movie is that? Is that Deconstructing Harry that I see?

[@nerdbamarich2063]

😊😊

[@racontage8645]

A Hanukkah menorah ^^

[@andydhillon1977]

Look at all the impatient disrespectful people!!!! I mean 2024. Not 1997.

[@kerrytakashi12]

I remember how simple it was, you could just buy the ticket, get your snacks and walk into the theater and sit anywhere. No reserved seats. it was first come first served. No one spoke during the film and no one rested their feet on the seats in front of them. I remember Boogie Nights was so infamous then. I saw it, it was creepy, disturbing, sometimes funny but mostly depressing. I have no motivation to ever watch it again.

[@jscountrygirl85_326]

I agree with all your points except for people talking during the movie and putting their feet up. We had to put up with some of those from time to time when my parents and I went to the movies during the 90s and early 2000s, too. I especially agree with you on reserved seating. A lot of people seem to love it, but I absolutely hate it. I prefer being able to sit wherever the heck I want and not having to worry about being stuck next to someone who's rude and/or distracting from the movie. Some families are also not able to sit together because of the new system. It's like seeing a movie has become another thing stressful that you have to plan ahead for instead of just deciding one day you want to catch a flick. If you wanted a good seat, you simply showed up to the theater early enough before most people got there, which is what my parents and I always did. If someone was too noisy or too tall in front of us, we moved with no problem.

[@EarthsGeomancer]

Here for the comments from people that hate their lives, technology, and society as it is today. 🍿🍿🍿🍿

[@indiedee]

For real.

[@ozziedylan9903]

I was born in 1997

[@SuperZombiepimp]

Yes when movies were not remakes or race swaps

[@HereForTheComments]

Christmastime, 1997. Leo DiCaprio is the biggest movie star on the planet right now. Titanic is a chick movie and I will not be watching it. I will be watching Tomorrow Never Dies. But I'd be lying to myself if I said I didn't envy the power DiCaprio has. I wanna be James Bond. I wanna be Jack Dawson. The ladies don't want hypermuscular meatball men! They want dashing rogues. You don't gotta be rich, but you do gotta be "dashing." You gotta seem "exciting." Maybe I need to go on more adventures, instead of watching them on the big screen.

[@jeffreyg4626]

I watched Boogie Nights for about 30 minutes 20 years ago. Porn trash. I never saw the other two.

[@kel7588]

I've never seen any of the movies advertised in this video, sounds like I didn't miss anything.

[@JonnyMaxximum]

Honestly, I don't miss the waiting in line lol

[@SchudarSchway]

I might have gone to 30 movies at a theatre my entire life. Never liked Hollywood

[@MickyAvStickyHands]

90% went to see Woody Allen. Little did they know, Burt Reynolds would end up being the better movie.

[@Anarchist86ed]

Nope... nothing good playing here. Can't we go see Alien: Resurrection or Scream 2? 🙄

[@robroy6374]

Exactly. 1997 was a bland year for movies.

[@chadwellington2524]

@@robroy6374 at least anaconda and spawn came out that year

[@robroy6374]

@@chadwellington2524 both are boring to me

[@DavesGunsGames]

Back in my day we pooped a little when we coughed 💩