Jun 10 2006
A classic movie going experience
Every summer the local independent theater, The Kentucky Theater, hosts a classic movie every Wednesday night. Usually, I’m not a classic movie buff, but this week they were showing Hitchcock’s Strangers on a Train so I went with some folks from my church.
I thought the theater would be half full at the most since it’s an old film; also every time I’ve been to the Ketucky Theater there were about twenty people to see the main feature ( I was 1 of 5 people at Don’t Come Knocking). Thank God we bought tickets early because the line was around the block for this movie. There were more people in line to see this movie than when my wife and I went to see the last Harry Potter movie.
The theater does it’s best to try and bring back the classic movie experience. They started out by showing a classic Looney Tunes cartoon with Elmer Fudd which had the crowd laughing. This was followed by serial short from The Shadow, which also had the laughing (more because it was cheesy).
As for the feature, Strangers on a Train is amazing. It’s a tense thriller with little blood or violence while also having a good sense of humor. The line that got the biggest laughs was “Daddy doesn’t mind a little scandal-he’s a senator.” And only Hitchcock could make a Merry-Go-Round scary.
The overall experience of sitting in a packed theater laughing along with everyone else while watching a great movie is something that I look forward to doing again.
image from en.wikipedia.org
[tags]Ketucky Theater, Strangers on a Train, Hitchcock[/tags]