Two Years Worth of Movies

1997 and 1998 were big movie years in my life. I mean, I went to the movies A LOT. This is for two reasons. One, I worked at a movie theater for a time and got four free passes a week. (Yeah, I was everyone's best friend.) The other was John and Matt had moved away and I hadn't started youth group yet, so I didn't have a lot of people to hang out with. So, I'd go to the movies. A LOT. Sometimes I'd go to the movies for a seven oclock show, then stay for another movie at nine. Just had nothing else to do.

Here's what I went to see in 1997 (at least what I remember)-39

Air Force One - (one of two movies I saw SOOO many times because everyone wanted to see it using my free passes..I saw this at least 4 times)
Anastasia
The Apostle
As Good as It Gets - Golden Globe Award for Best Picture (Musical or Comedy)
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
Batman & Robin - (I wasted my first free pass on this stinking turd)
Conspiracy Theory (the other movie I saw SOOO many times)
Contact
Face/Off
Father's Day
Fierce Creatures
The Full Monty
The Game
Gattaca
George of the Jungle
Good Will Hunting
I Know What You Did Last Summer
In & Out
Kiss the Girls
L.A. Confidential
Leave it to Beaver (I got paid to watch this movie in the theater in my PJs eating McDonald's)
Life Is Beautiful - (the film that convinced me that subtitled movies were ok)
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
McHale's Navy
Men in Black
Mimic
My Best Friend's Wedding
The Rainmaker
The Saint
Scream 2 - (went to see this with Matty, and the beginning freaked me out SO bad, that when Matty said he was going to the bathroom, I grabbed him and wouldn't let him go, no sir.)
Speed 2: Cruise Control
Star Wars Trilogy - (This was a MAJOR event...most special fun times. We had it all planned out and everything)
Titanic - (saw this a lot because I could never seem to get all of my friends together to see it, so I would go see it with each one)
Tomorrow Never Dies
Volcano starring Tommy Lee Jones - (John got a major kick out of this movie)
Wishmaster

So I saw a bunch of movies, about 39, but that's not counting the number of repeats, like Star Wars, Titanic, etc. I saw probably at least one movie per week.

Movies I saw in 1998-51

54
Armageddon - (FIRST movie I ever saw at the new Randolph Cinemas..been in love with their surround sound ever since)
The Avengers - (GOD did this movie BLOW)
Blade
Blues Brothers 2000 (not as good as the first, but still entertaining)
Bride of Chucky
A Civil Action
Deep Impact - (Aw, this movie always makes me cry...made the boys cry too)
Ever After (hated this at first, but now I love it!)
The Faculty
Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
I'll Be Home for Christmas (UGH, another SUCKY flick)
Jack Frost
Les Miserables
Lethal Weapon 4
Lost in Space
Major League: Back to the Minors
The Man in the Iron Mask
The Mask of Zorro
Meet Joe Black (the only reason I went to see this movie was because the Star Wars trailer was showing before it and after it...so I sat through 3 hours of CRAAAP...)
Mercury Rising
Mulan
The Negotiator
Next Stop Wonderland (oh, LOVE this movie...saw it with Jen at Kendall w/ the director and everything!)
The North End (saw this at a special screening at Randolph w/ Matty)
One True Thing
The Parent Trap (remake)
Patch Adams
The Patriot
Playing By Heart
Pleasantville
Practical Magic
Primary Colors
The Prince of Egypt
Psycho (so I went to see this movie, and I was early, so I entered the theater while they were cleaning up from the previous showing, and jack-crap-hole manager tried to kick me out because he thought I was trying to see the movie twice, and my ticket happened to be ripped JUST SO so you couldn't check the time...dumbheads.)
Quest for Camelot
Rush Hour
Saving Private Ryan - Golden Globe Award for Best Picture (Drama)
Shakespeare in Love - Academy and Golden Globe (Mus./Com.) Awards for Best Picture
Six Days Seven Nights
Star Trek: Insurrection
Stepmom
There's Something About Mary
The Truman Show
Urban Legend (This movie was so silly, I was actually yelling at the screen, which I usually don't do)
Vampires
The Waterboy (again, only went to see for the Star Wars trailer...but, more bearable than Meet Joe Black)
The Wedding Singer - (Saw this with John...we got a kick out of it)
What Dreams May Come
The X-Files (talk about fanboys....)
You've Got Mail (I won tickets to this by naming four movies Meg Ryan had been in-Sleepless in Seattle, When Harry Met Sally, Joe Vs the Volcano, and Top Gun. The DJ had to actually check on the Top Gun. I was all, yeah, she was Goose's wife, hell-o, don't question my movie knowledge)

So I saw more movies in 98...had more time to. It sort of works out to one a week, but I know I did a lot of those "double features", too. But I saw a LOT of movies that year.

It's funny to look back at this list and think about the movies and where I saw them and with who and the funny stories that surround some of them. I guess it all goes back to how much I love movies, but more than that, I love the experience of going to the movies. DVDs are nice, but there is NOTHING like sitting in a darkened theater with your feet up, a big tub of popcorn and a soda, surrounded by surround sound. It's the tops.

Random movie news via Aint it Cool

Two interesting bits from the web site I visit most, Aint it Cool News. First, more proof that I am a geek, because I actually knew what this headline MEANT.

"Arwen replaces Sarah as The Incredible Hulk's main squeeze!!!"

I read that, and immediately without even having to think about it, knew that in the new Incredible Hulk movie, that the role of Betty which Jennifer Connelly had originated, was being taken over by Liv Tyler. Liv Tyler played Arwen in Lord of the Rings, Jennifer Connelly played Sarah in Labyrinth. I speak geek. Hee.

The second is news that is just so, so, SO awesome. I have been waiting, never thought it would actually happen, but it has. Get this-

"Yes it is true... mummy came in my house, Wolfman's got nards and it's totally not Bo-gus! MONSTER SQUAD on DVD!!!"

Oh YEAH. The Monster Squad is coming to DVD. On a totally RAD 2-disc edition, too. I don't know if anyone besides me and my brother have even heard of this movie, but we LOVED it as kids. It's basically The Goonies if they did a horror movie. Awesome, awesome, awesome. Very exciting news. Totally nostalgilicious.