Did anybody see this in theaters?
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bossdog677 — 11 years ago(June 29, 2014 09:59 AM)
i was born the same month the original movie came so i'm curious. What is it like to be a fan of the original movie and can't wait to go see the new sequel and you are kindly treated to Jesse Jesse:a young man's exotic journey from milan to minsk? Were you disapointed and how did it affect your attitude when you heard part 3 was coming out?
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croat-hr — 11 years ago(July 31, 2014 02:14 PM)
someone's been watching Seinfeld, I see
I actually didn't see it in theatres, but am old enough that I remember when it was a fairly new movie. I actually liked it then, I was still a kid though, and didn't really get it, I just know it scared me like hell -
westal_sage — 11 years ago(December 17, 2014 12:01 AM)
I did - right when it came out. I was 15. We were pretty lit up, and I really liked the movie. I hadn't yet seen the first one though, which of course turned out to be much better.
But because it was my first to see and under all those cool conditions, I still enjoy this one. -
audierules — 10 years ago(June 04, 2015 09:59 AM)
I saw this in the movies with a friend of mine and we both really liked it but my friend really loved it. I found out a few years later that he was gay. Not that there's anything wrong with that .
By the way it was a really fun movie to see in a sold out theater -
euro4569 — 10 years ago(August 07, 2015 01:55 PM)
I was eight years old when this came out in 85 but I remember a lot of the older boys who lived in my neighbourhood talking non-stop about it. One of the 15 year old would always come over to help my dad and he kept talking about it. My parents asked me if I wanted to see it but said not really. However, I remember Cinema 4 being packed when this was on at Cleveland Mall in Shelby.
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robbytara — 10 years ago(October 06, 2015 06:00 PM)
Myself and my girlfriend, (later my wife) seen it at South expressway drive in, Forest Park, GA. in the fall of 1985. It is the only nightmare on elm street I ever seen at a theater. BTW, six months later the drive in was closed. It was the last movie I have ever seen at a drive in theater. We thought the movie was great though.
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activista — 10 years ago(February 24, 2016 07:06 AM)
@tim57
Not true about the pricesit was actually way cheaper then to go to the movies, but you're right about home video becoming more popular as time want on. The only NOES film I saw at the theatre when it came out was NOES3, and I remember complaining about the price going up to $3.75 (which is what I paid to see it.) Nowadays, with tickets going to $9 and $10.00 after 6 p.m.that would be considered a bargain price,big time! -
mrkm31 — 10 years ago(January 26, 2016 04:10 PM)
I was a little kid when it came out so I was a bit too young to see it in the theater. However it was the first one I ever saw (thanks to HBO). I saw part one not long after, but at that time, when my friends and I were just getting into horror movies, this was the one that we saw first and that left the biggest impression on us initially.
I get people complaining about it now, and maybe for older people who were able to look at films (even low budget horror) critically they could already identify that it was inferior to the prior one, but I think for a lot of us young folks, and based on some of the other answers in this thread, we didn't think that deeply about it at the time. It was just a cool, imaginative horror movie that scared the crap out of all of us (at least based on what we were able to see from peaking between the hands over our eyes, or around the corner after adult figures made us leave the room).
My mom took me to see part 3 in the theater- which I was probably too young for, but she knew how much I loved the first two. At the time it was like the coolest thing I'd ever seen. I think it really took the establishment of the series' "rules" via the next few sequels for a lot of people to start to reflect badly on this one. For the first few years it was around, most of us didn't really look at it like that. We just thought it, like any other horror movies we were able to see, were cool and scary.