Going to the movies in 1998: Part II
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- čas přidán 30. 03. 2024
- Footage of people buying tickets at the box office at a movie theater in Chicago on the weekend of March 20th:
www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend...
Among the titles playing are:
Dark City
U.S. Marshals
Twilight
Titanic
Primary Colors
The Man in the Iron Mask
Hush
Good Will Hunting
Wild Things
What will they watch? Let's find out together!
Also, a special surprise visit from Jerry!
This video last around 6 minutes.
#darkcity
#titanic
#goodwillhunting
'98 seems almost like yesterday. Time flies 😔
Equivalent to somebody from 2050 watching a video of 2024.
It’s just not fair, damn it 😩
I wish to have a Time Machine so that I could go back to the 1990s. 😢
I was born 98 turning 26 this month...
I know. It was the year A Bug's Like and Mulan came out. I saw those movies with my dad and older brother.
it's really neat to hear the small talk
Amen to that!
Sure is! A time when ppl talked and didn't care about the Left silencing ALL of America, for their own gains.
You mean in a time before smartphones, social media, and internet ubiquity melted the human mind down to its most basic and lizardish parts?
@@flutebasket4294 yep
@@flutebasket4294you can still small talk with plenty of people, lamenting that you can't easily grab everyone's attention for some small chat seems, I don't know, narcissistic?
People seem so much more relaxed and happy! The dudes (ticket seller) had an awesome voice!
haha the ticket seller could do movie trailers with his voice
Because there wasn't a recession in 1998. Turns out, when the economy is good, people are happy and more relaxed.
@@I_WANT_MY_SLAW Not having constant current events and social media at your fingertips also helped
Peaceful calm orderly envirionment- no screaming, yelling, fights, random crazy people, cell phones etc.
try going outside still pretty much like that.
@@kalidilerious come to think of it you are right….now most are sitting inside playing video games and looking at phones.
@@annb1 Since spring is here I went to the farmers market and everybody seemed to be in good spirits and didn't notice people on their phones too much. Maybe if I was purposely looking then maybe there may have been a lot, but folks definitely seemed happy to get out.
I cant believe this is 26 yrs ago.. I was 21 and in college… I went to see titanic with a bunch of friends when it came out… that movie still makes me cry… two months after this video was made I met my husband.. we celebrated 20 years last fall.
That's awesome to read.
One thing I miss about theaters nowadays is the fact that it's not actual film....now it's like you're watching just a big screen tv. I miss the look and imperfections of watching a 35mm print.
Bring back these legendary times, it was great before social media.✊🏾💪🏾💯
No, that movie going experience is much better now. Buy tickets at home with reserved seating, they have liquor, reclining seats, some seats are even heated, and they have actual food.
Back then it was go to movie theater show up at the box office with cash and you hope you could get a ticket for the showing you wanted. Then when it was time for the movie you had to show up early enough to get the seat you wanted and next to the people you came with.
@@ScottSpotMedia Im talking before social media when people interacted with people & not with their devices all day. Those were GREAT times.
@@OnlyOneGODWill118You still can easily. Maybe people just act like they are on their phones to ignore your boring inane chatter.
@@CrAzYpotpie wow another troll with no life or future yall really gotta find a hobby besides hoppin in random comments🤣
@@CrAzYpotpie Im the type of GOD that can pull your mama, auntie, sister, girlfriend or wifey then laugh at you as punishment🤣
This was a good times to go the movies back in the day.
Hell yeah my friend!
Back when you had to call 📞 the theater for movie times
My theater had a nice classical piece between showtimes on the phone
Bring back the days!❤
Back then movies theaters didn't take debit or credit cards, it was all cash and you had to actually go there to get a ticket. No reserved seating.
My movie theaters did take debit cards. But people used cash all the time back then, because a lot of places only took cash. And there wasn't this government overlord looming over us demanding a cashless society. They had ATM machines (back then they charged no fees to use them) that you use to get cash. Now places have these reverse ATMs where you put cash in, and it puts the money in your card, because they don't take cash anymore. I went to a vendor during the past holiday season at out Christmas markets. And I wanted to buy something. I was ready to pay with cash, and the guy said to me with a straight face "we're actually going cash free, we only take card, PayPal, venmo, zelle or cashapp." What happened to cash is king? Who wouldn't want to accept cold hard cash?
I was 15 year old and would be 16 a few months after this. On my 16th B-day I got my Drivers License. The memories! Thanks for the upload!
Titanic! One of the best movies of the 90s
*one of the best movies of all time
Remember getting that ticket, felt so exciting
It’s actually very noticeable that everyone isn’t staring downward at a phone
Until 2014
I’m so glad I found your channel Vampire Robot! These videos are the closest thing we have to time travel.
Thank you. Very kind words 😃
Dark City is a masterpiece. Would've loved to see that in theaters.
Most people didn’t see it in theaters. It became a cult hit on video.
You're living it.
@@everythingbutthegirlfan762 nah there's no 40s sensibility, automat or swanky noir night clubs where I can see sexy brunettes onstage. ;) we are in a nightmarish prison though.
Going to the Movies is just an experience. Something you can never recreate at home. Watching a movie at home on streaming doesn't hold the same magic. I'm glad Movie Theaters are somewhats staying strong in the modern age.
The fun part about going to the movies was the whole experience not just going to it but the before, during and after experience. Hanging out with friends or Family, going to get something to eat afterwards or walking around town or the mall before or after. It was just the human interaction that again you can't recreate at home.
I know right? In the on-demand digital world today we have to keep asking ourselves what it means to be human.
Good Will Hunting is the one I'd be going to see that weekend. Such a great movie.
U.S. Marshals for me 😄
GOOD WILL HUNTING IS A GREAT MOVIE🗿
People today miss the point of those times or just don't understand it. Going to the movies was like a whole "outing". You wait in line to physically get your ticket then you wait in another line to get your food then another to get a good seat. It was more about quality time spent with your family and friends just hanging out together pre showtime. It wasn't about just seeing the movie as it is today. It was a whole excursion. Sure the modern conveniences today are great too but this was just a different and more engaging time that we all enjoyed.
Imagine missing wasting your life away waiting in lines. 😂😂😂😂
Why did you have to wait in another line to get a good seat? I worked in a place like this back in 1996, and there you could choose you seats on the screen. This was in Europe , so maybe we were more advanced.
Europe is ahead of the curve in some regards. Besides the theater example, other examples include 1) efficient public transportation and 2) credit card chip usage at retail (quickly followed by tap 'n go)
@@EarthsGeomancer Yeah, it is way better to waste your life in front of a computer/tablet/smartphone screen.
@Weasel3001 It is. Did you just type and post you comment on a phone or tablet? The irony. 😂😂😂
Movie theaters are dead. Sadly to say.
Wish I was 22 again.
Indeed
Nice to see cash again
I was two months shy of my eighth birthday and obsessed with Titanic when this was filmed. Saw it in theaters four times that year. Truly miss the 90s ❤
I was 7 years old in 1998. The 90s was the best era… I really miss it so much
The culture was so, so much healthier then. I was lucky enough to be ages 8-18 from 1990-2000... I really hope our culture can fix itself in the coming years and get back to the healthy state it was in in the 90s (and even the early-mid 2000s).
@@Skkra definitely not "healthier" every decade has issues
I Will Have Just 1 Lonely Ticket To See TITANIC. 😢.
Yep, me too 😅
Pepperidge farm remembers. But my ❤ will go on...🏔️
I had never heard of the 1998 Twilight movie until this very moment.
She was a time traveler from 2007! 😂
Maybe not a big miss, It received mixed reviews from critics and was a box office bomb, grossing $15.1 million against its $20 million budget.
This is insane, 26 years ago and I'll be 44 this year lol. Time sure flies, there were the golden days of going to the cinemas.
sure was and on film with a projectionist, not an automated dvd.
At 3:11 The Lady: "I Thought That Was You", "What Are You Doing?".
🤭.
I wanted to hear more from Jerry.
"that's me" 🙃
🤣🤣
The people in the video had no clue that thousands of strangers would be watching them on little handheld devices in the near future.
handheld devices existed back in the 80s you know.
And wishing we could go back to a simpler time.
I watch CZcams on my 55 inch TV but comment with my phone
Considering we all had cell phones and text messaging we were pretty sure we’d be watching movies on our phones soon enough.
@@johnpersechini4951 A lot of people didn't have cell phones in the late '90s. Also I don't think texting became widely used until 2004 with American Idol.
everyone using cash
The good old days!
Now it's plastic!
Holding the lines up.
Movies were only $6 then
Before movie prices went sky high
They were always high. Hence, many would movie hop. 😂
Being able to see everyones faces and living in the present, not being consumed by their smart phones almost makes me cry
@@phoenix71232 Still rocking the flip phone. Fuck smart phones!
@@phoenix71232 Ya, i guess it's like a funeral, everyone who is attending is making the same 'original' remarks. Sorry for not being the one who wrote a poem. Lol
Wow I remember going to the movies around this time and seeing Titanic what an exciting time ❤ this is my childhood thanks for the upload
You can't go wrong with Man in the Iron Mask, folks! This is awesome, thank you Vampire Robot! 😊❤
I'm so glad someone filmed something so pedestrian and normal. They wouldn't realise how important it is to capture the little things that mean so much to us here in the future.
Worked at theater from 97-99 while in high school. Had too much fun there.
The best times. Quiet. Cash being exchanged. No idiots dressed up as the movie character making a scene in the theater. This is how it use to be out there kids, lol.
Dark City, very underrated movie.
Nice memories. I saw 3 of those movies that year in theater. There were no assigned seats back then, young folks.
First come. First serve. Get there early.
The subject of this news story was probably the Oscars, which would be aired a few days after this. It shows how "Titanic" was still in theaters and bringing in the crowds three months after release. I remember lines outside the theater for it in late February.
Before social media, before Covid, and before the government and media racially divided us. It's hard to believe how much worse off we are within a few years.
As bad as it's gotten just wait until another twenty years when AI plays a much bigger role in our lives. 😢
I agree with you but you forgot some important things victimhood culture and sjws and how people are chronically offended about everything.
It was a dicaprio weekend with Titanic and Iron Mask
That's a fact!😊
It's actually a testament to just how long Titanic was in theaters that there was time for another DiCaprio movie to come out during its run
My classmates always called him dicraprio. But happens sometimes like with timothee chamalet now
It was mostly insecure teenagers jealous of his heartthrob status. This was also before he started being taken seriously as an actor.
Movies I saw at the theater in 1998: Fallen, Great Expectations, Can't Hardly Wait, Urban Legend, I Know What You Did Last Summer. I also saw Good Will Hunting and Titanic in 1997
Damn I love "Cant hardly wait"
watched it on Vhs in December of 1998.
Dang that was a good stretch of movies you saw.
Thought u would never post..thxs for taking me back
Thanks again for all these videos your a legend.
1998 was wonderful time.
I was 16 and Worked at Albertsons In Denver,CO
rocking a new pair of Jnco every payday.
Me encantan estos vídeos. Son una máquina en el tiempo. ❤❤❤
I remember going to see 'U.S Marshalls' in 1998.
My Cousin Was Born In 1998
Good times to go to the movies i was 15 years old living in Ridgewood queens nyc with my mom and my brother and it was my final year at ps 177q
in the 90s i got to see batman returns in the theaters and the next year i go to see jurrasic park in the theaters, it was so exciting and then when i was in 7th grade my dad took me to see The Rock in the theaters which was also incredible
I remember mocking Titanic when it was dominating theaters for months on end. Now I'd give anything to go back to '98 and see a flick at this theater. Not Titanic, mind you, but the massively underrated Dark City which was playing there
Dark City is great!
K?. 🤨😐😑🙄😒😑.
Hahaha Titanic. I remember watching Titanic with my parents. I was 18 years old. It was an awkward experience during the car scene lol.
I love this channel. It's so refreshing to see old videos that actually look authentic and not like movies
Titanic was a *BIG* one that year. I remember renting Titanic when I was 8 or 9.
Your videos are a double treat! I absolutely love the videos, but then I also love reading the comments left by those who also miss the way life used to be before 9/11!
I miss "life before social media" (so around 2007 or 2008 onward) but I get what you're saying.
That movie list is actually insane.
I remember my parents taking my sister and I to see titanic man what a experience
man in the iron mask ! awesome movie
I’m enjoying that Muzak version of Amy Grant’s “Lucky One” in the background. 😁
Love this channel😊
Thank you. Always enjoy reading your comments 😃
I was 5 years old in 1998, the closest film I can remember watching in the theater was The Rugrats Movie.
Dark City all day long. One of the best films of the 90's. Stolen from so many times since it was made.
And not one person in the video bought a ticket to see it 😢
People were nicer before 2015. That’s when the world 🌎 started getting very divided.
Dang! The Big Lebowski wasn't playing there!
Leo in two movies at once at the box office - Man in Iron Mask & Titanic!
I always wonder what happens to all the old technology like those big touch screen monitors. The manufacturing and resources that go into it. It must all end up somewhere.
Landfills and recycling.
Some were exported to poorer countries. A few years later we all switched to flat screens.
As someone who was born in 2005, I wish I could experience the 1990s.
The first movie I ever saw at a Theater was Rocky III
I saw Titanic, US Marshalls and Wild Things at 16 in the theatre.
'90s were the best 😢
Nowadays people would rather stay home and stream movies online.
It's safer; less chance getting shot inside or outside the theater or on the way home.
@@thenightporter But that’s part of the excitement. 😁
Lol
Waaay better.🎉
This was before streaming services killed going to the movies once Netflix CZcams and the rest of online services came along it was goodbye going to the movies but so fun back then movie theaters also priced themselves out of consumers also with sky high concession pricing and prices of tickets themselves was a recipe for disaster and still is to this day with whatever movie theaters are still open no one wants to pay 25$ or more dollars for a small drink and a small popcorn
Interesting...
I remember going to see TheMan in the Iron Mask and Titanic like it was yesterday. 😢
Movie options aside, the box office movie ticket buying experience is near identical to today's, except you don't get to pick your seats.
Really? The last movie I saw in theaters was the original fast and furious in 2001. Can you pay a premium for better seats or do you just get whatever they assign to you? I guess you can't hold 5 seats anymore waiting on your friends to show up.😁
@@borderlineguitarguy Most major cinemas these days like AMC, Regal/Edwards, Cinemark, etc.. let you pick an assigned seat when you order online or in-person. All seats are the same pricing, although occasionally they will have Dbox seats that have a premium (seats that have extra vibration effects and haptic motion). It's overall more convenient because you don't have to worry about showing up early to get a good spot in line to get good seats. Seat saving is no longer a thing at these places. Also, electric reclining seats are the norm.
those guys going to see man in the iron mask, primary colors and u.s. marshals just bought a lemon
During that time, a movie was $5. Great and simple times !
Titanic is the only movie that has never aged for me. It seems as crisp to me now as it did when it came out. I thought I was going to hate it because I loved the ship so much but I ended up loving the film - no other film even comes close
Double di caprio?! What a nightmare!😊
Only one guy chose Wild Things very sad that movie deserves more love.
Back when people looked up showtimes from the daily newspaper
I love this so much. Sadly, I was only 0-1 years old.
everyone using cash!
I still only use Cash, I just don't trust putting card numbers on the internet. It's just not for me, Bills get paid by check.
4:30 got stormtroopers manning the booths.
What I miss most about going to the movies back in the day was the ticket prices.
In 1998: Clinton was president, we knew this big year 2000 was coming right up. We'd heard of "global warming" but it wasn't talked about much. People listened to music on MP3 players or CD walkmans, but mostly radio. Kids made mixtapes or burned CDs at home. No iPod yet, no Napster. The Verve's "Bittersweet Symphony" came out the previous year. "Macarena" came out 5 years earlier, and "All Star" by Smash Mouth had not yet come out. X-Files was on TV. Airport security was not a hassle. Gasoline was about a dollar at the pump. Most cars got 20-30 mpg; they came with cassette players and a silver antenna to the right of the windshield.
If you had Internet it was dial-up on your landline. Google was just being born, eBay was 3 years old. 800x600 was the common screen resolution. The AOL voice said, "You've got mail!" Finding videos online was rare to nonexistent. Windows 95 was the latest OS; computers used floppy disks and CD-ROMs. Payphones and long-distance calling cards were still common. Most people did not have cell phones; they came with pull-out antennas and had no built-in camera. Digital cameras were very new; most people used film cameras that stored 24 or 36 pictures per roll. You'd take these rolls to get developed for $5-$10 and wait a few days to receive the prints. You watched home videos on VHS tape. DVDs were introduced only a year earlier. TVs were analog box CRTs, no widescreens. GPS wasn't really a thing; paper maps were still king. And energy-saving light bulbs did not exist; they were all the glass incandescent type that would burn your hand if you touched them.
Now you have to take out a mortgage to see a movie.
I wonder what motivated the original videographer, and what the patrons thought was going on.
Was it raw footage for making a news segment about _Titanic_ sales?
They aren't choosing seats, it seems. How does it work? Seats are chosen randomly? Or you can take any unoccupied seat you want?
We used to see two a day on a weekend. So usually 2good and a meh. Now it's one good every few months. Look at that line up! All originals
8.25 a ticket? That's not as big of a difference than now than I thought. It's about 12 where I am now.
Titanic still showing in theaters 1 year later in 1998
I guess most of them came for Titanic, what a classic.
It had already been in theaters for months at this point. All the fangirls went to see the man in the iron mask for Leo.
@@politefan8141 I see, no wonder I only saw one old man buying a ticket, the rest if them already watched it.
dude at 1:45 using a touchscreen ? i didnt even know that technology existed till almost 2010. I grew up poor.
Buick experimented with an available touch screen in a car back in 1986. Was a small CRT like the one they are using at that theater.
It did but not everywhere
While not on personal computers or phones or tablets, touchscreens were in various computers and machines.
Thanks vamp!
It was a more crude version of the touch screens we use today. Basically a matrix grid of very thin copper wire laid over the glass screen of a CRT monitor. You could also feel and see these sensors, but they were so tiny that they just gave the screen a slight dimply surface.
Question: where are the videos on this channel sourced from? Are they home movies someone just decided to shoot for fun or is it some kind of B role footage for new channels at the time when they were covering stories in the areas?
I think the gentleman that runs the channel worked for a TV or other media station and took these kinds of videos for them to go with a short story -- you know, like "this weekend, aheadbof next aeek's Oscars, drew huge crowds st the box office. The movie with the most sales was.....
Followed by......." That's when this type of footage is used.
Taken from other channels...
Man in the iron mask and Titanic both Leonardo DiCaprio movies 🍿
Dang, the way they get tickets was so weird back then.
Let me start off by saying nothing tops the 80s. The 90s were not as good but still good times. This is the very end of good times IMO. It seems like everything has been downhill since the turn of the century.
Blasto my favorite PS1 released in 1998