People above 30, Why you didn't watch Labyrinth at theaters?
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RichBoorman — 10 years ago(April 26, 2015 09:15 AM)
I did. It was the my first trip to the cinema without a parent!
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hurricanehorton — 10 years ago(April 29, 2015 03:29 AM)
No idea. I don't even remember it being at the cinema.
I was six at the time, and found this film by accident on television. Before that I'd not heard of it.
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moundshroud — 10 years ago(May 08, 2015 04:27 AM)
I first recall seeing Labyrinth when it first came out on VHS so I took a look at boxofficemojo to see when it originally ran in theaters and figure out what I was doing at that point in my life. turns out Labyrinth only ran for three weeks from June to July in 1986 - a very short run.
During the summer of '86, I was twenty-one. I had my first professional job (a college internship paying little more than minimum wage), I was subleasing an apartment for the summer so I had my first real bills, and my first serious GF. Looking at the list of movies released in 1986, I realized that I didn't see a single movie released that summer until they later hit VHS. I suspect that my tight financial situation precluded me from going to the movies that summer. -
missscoobyca — 10 years ago(June 05, 2015 09:00 PM)
I did get to see it in theaters! I got taken to see it for my 7th birthday. I don't recall commercials or ads for it though. I fell in love with the movie immediately and it remains my all-time favourite to this day!
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nrcsseemom — 10 years ago(June 09, 2015 08:15 AM)
I was newly married, almost 22, and my husband and I saw it with another couple because we were all Muppet Show and Jim Henson fanatics! The movie did not disappoint us either. It's still one of my top 5 favorites! I think at the time it was not marketed to its full potential. And the Muppets were only big with a select few. Before ComicCon became really big and mainstream. My group was ahead of their time in the 80s.
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Punctuality — 10 years ago(July 07, 2015 10:38 PM)
I saw it in the theatre & I LOVED it! I thought it was so cool and so did my friends & family. I don't remember it being unpopular at the time - mildly popular - not a blockbuster, but not a dud.
When this was released, I was about 15 years old.Be excellent to each other!
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undrtakr22 — 10 years ago(July 20, 2015 02:03 AM)
Maybe because we either could not afford it, or, it just did not show in theaters around their area(Mainly mine, for sure, or my dad would have taken me.), and my dad, who is a Vietnam Vet, loved this movie, as well, which, he does NOT like cartoons, so, that in itself should tell you, how great a movie this really was, and same goes for "The Dark Crystal"!
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scovazze — 10 years ago(August 10, 2015 08:57 PM)
Huh? In 1986 I was 17, I went because of Bowie, and you couldn't swing a cat in the theatre for all the Bowie fans. None of us remotely cared about the movie itself, but we did pay for entry!
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Absolute Beginners
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bruiser-t-cat — 10 years ago(August 26, 2015 03:18 PM)
I did and I remember it well. The theatre was packed and we had to sit in the second row. The girl behind us dumped a coke over my sisters head for some reason. She got kicked out and my sister had to sit there with sticky hair. But apart from that we loved it!
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undrtakr22 — 10 years ago(September 11, 2015 08:53 PM)
To answer your question, I live in a small town in Ohio, but, VERY well known in the gambling community, since, this town, and our neighboring town, are the only 2 high schools, to have a football game, that is legally posted in both Vegas & Reno, to be bet on, when the 2 schools teams go head-to-head, towards the end of the football game time!
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vick3ie — 10 years ago(September 22, 2015 01:41 PM)
I was in my teens and saw both Labyrinth and Dark Crystal in the theater. Loved 'em then and got 'em on DVD when they came out. I've shared them with my 11 year old and she loves 'em too.
I think they just hadn't 'found' the fantasy audience at that time. It was out there, playing DnD, 'hack' and reading LotR obsessively.
I was there for Bowie anyway. :^D I'm also a Monty Python freak so the Terry Jones script made me very happy.
I came from movie buffs, so we saw everything when I was a kid. I even saw Jaws and I couldn't have been more than six years old.
Why did the white bear dissolve in water?
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nakedonmyown1 — 10 years ago(October 08, 2015 01:40 AM)
I've watched it (3 times) at the theater when it came out. I loved it right away.
They've played it here in morning hours (maybe closer to noon and it was pure magic for me.
Im really surprised reading that it was a "flop" and all the bad reviews from way back. Critics are worthless.
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HCxIapetus — 10 years ago(October 11, 2015 01:20 PM)
Back in '86, I was roughly 3 (going on 4) when the movie came out. My parents lived in a house on my dad's family acres and at the time, it was in the middle of nowhere surrounded by orchards and a few neighbors. There wasn't a close movie theater, so whenever a movie came out, it had to interest both my mom and dad in order to get them to drive all the way to the theater and pay for tickets. Sadly, Labyrinth wasn't a movie my dad was interested in seeing. So my mom had to wait until it was released on VHS to watch it with me.
So that's why my mom and I never had the chance the see it in theaters.
Why do you think it didn't become popular until the video and later DVD release?
I'm not too sure actually. The only theory I can come up with is that maybe the movie was marketed towards children 13 and under, and parents didn't want to take their kids to see it for whatever reason. Could have been David Bowie's sexiness? Could have been they thought David Bowie was the love interest of Jennifer Connelly and thought it was inappropriate? Could have been they wanted to spend their money on another movie that came out around the same time? That's all I can think of. Which sucks, cause the movie is awesome.Be Seeing You.
