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Not sure it was actually my first, but the first I remember going to was Bachelor Party with Tom Hanks. Sweet sweet breasteses everywhere.
What Was Your 1st "R" Rated Movie?
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I only went to Cine Capri a few times, the last time was I believe the first re-release of Empire Strikes Back, but I'm not 100% positive.
The Kachina I remember because I saw the original release of Return of the Jedi there. When I got older and in high school in Chandler/Tempe, I really never got over to the Cine Capri part of town and just went to the multitude of theaters around Fiesta Mall. And Harkins in downtown Tempe of course.
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that makes sense... but really? not one movie there?
Probably saw you on multiple occasion while working. I worked at AMC for 2 of the 3.5 years I worked at the theater. First 2 at AMC Fiesta Village 6. Then left and went to the Mann Theatre just down the road for a year. They hired me as an usher/projection trainee so I didnt have to do concessions anymore.
Nope not a one. Just know that I see the screens today in IMAX and the Super Digital and they are huge. Just wondering if Cine Capri was even bigger than those?
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Cine Capri had a 70' screen. Most screens today are what ... half that size? IMAX has 100' screens, but not in every theater. Only for IMAX movies. And those are digital.
Sorry, but you really can't beat the flicker of 35MM film on a 70' screen. It's the real movie experience.
Sorry, but you really can't beat the flicker of 35MM film on a 70' screen. It's the real movie experience.
Wow ! You just made me flash back to the "Gremlins" movie and the scene where the projector melts the film. I remember every body turning around and starting to bitch, then the movie came back on. I was 10 yrs old if it came out in 1984, and I thought is was sooo cool they burned every body (especially my step dad).
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Ever been to the Chinese or Dome in L.A.? I'm not a big fan of the Dome, but I LOVE the Chinese--that theater is monumentally huge.
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It sounds like you were around in Scottsdale to remember this place, but when I was 13, we used to sneak under the chain link fence which surrounded the old Round-Up Drive In at 68th & Thomas and rather than watch the movie for boobs and stuff, we'd just walk around looking into the cars to see the real thing.
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Oh yeah. Before we moved to the other side of Scottsdale (at the time it was the other side, now it's just the poor side of town) we lived on Osborn near 68th. I've seen hundreds of movies at the Round Up, the last one was I saw there was Billy Jack in 73. I used to think that people that lived in those nearby houses were the luckiest people on earth. What a shock to grow up and find out what a nuisance it would be to have a Drive In outside your back door.
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Me too, when I was a kid it was a big treat when the parents would load up the station wagon with kids and big paper bags full of popcorn and head over to the Round-Up.
I went to elementary school with a kid who's dad either owned it or managed it (don't recall anymore) and they lived in a tiny white house right behind the screen. I always thought that was the coolest thing. One time we were playing "Risk" at his house and some of us were talking about having snuck into the place and the kid's dad overheard us and was going to tell our parents, but I think he must have figured that would have either ostracized or possible we'd beat up his kid (not that we would) but he relented and let us go in for free as long as we didn't bother the other people in their cars.
The sad thing was that the dad died a year or so later from the hiccups of all things.
So it goes.
I think they tore it down in the nineties and it's condominiums now, and most people who live in Scottsdale don't even know it once existed. However there was this local artist in the late eighties whose name I can't remember who got to be fairly well known for painting scenes of old Scottsdale which included these huge impressionistic renderings of the huge lasso-ing cowboy who stood in front of the Round-Up for so many years. Looking back I wish I'd bought one when I had the chance.
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I've never seen a movie at Cine Capri, either. Even when I knew it was going to go bye-bye, I never made it there, even though I really wanted to. I really regret that.
No excuses, other than having been dirt-poor & a controlling husband.
No excuses, other than having been dirt-poor & a controlling husband.
Poor Linderbee. Sorry to hear that. Did you at least make it to Thunderbird drive in or the drive in a few blocks from there (59th and Camelback).
Note: Getting out of first grade to see Star Wars at Cine Capri. Super awesomeness!!!!!!
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The Round Up and Risk, two of my favorite things. I fondly recall that giant cowboy with the lariat and it's one of the things I remember best about growing up in Scottsdale. I didn't realize it made it all the way to the 90's, for some reason I was thinking it was gone by the time I left Arizona in 84. I doubt that very much of what I remember from my youth still exists.
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Can you guys take your AARP meeting to PM
Ehh, what's that sonny? You have to type a little louder for us old folks. Oh, and bite me.
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Ehh, what's that sonny? You have to type a little louder for us old folks. Oh, and bite me.
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I couldn't resist. BTW Jeff can vouch for me. I don't discriminate due to age. Have hung out with him on several occasions despite his physical limitations.
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In Scottsdale - besides the Kachina, which prided itself on having the 2nd largest screen in Arizona (after the Cine Capri of course), there was also the El Camino just North of Scottsdale Rd. and McDowell. I remember one stretch of movies they played where every movie featured Harrison Ford.
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I've always avoided CMT because I always avoid tourist-y stuff in LA, but I probably should make the effort to go once. I do love the flicker of a good film in an old theater.
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You only have to worry about tourists out in front of the theater. They rarely actually see a movie in it, that I've noticed (and I usually went in the middle of the day on a weekend).
I saw the re-issued Exorcist with extra footage, the Matrix on opening night, a couple Harry Potter movies and the premiere of Monster's Ball in that theater. So that meant I got to see Halle Berry there--so that automatically gives it a certain something.
I couldn't resist. BTW Jeff can vouch for me. I don't discriminate due to age. Have hung out with him on several occasions despite his physical limitations.
Shane's right, he doesn't discriminate based upon age, but rather on how much you adored Boldin.
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Shane's right, he doesn't discriminate based upon age, but rather on how much you adored Boldin.
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That can't be true either. I still hung out with you and would continue to in the future if you weren't a ghost.
Been to the drive in at 59th & Bethany (Glendale 7, I think it's called--still there) many times
"Thunderbird drive in": Don't know what you're talking about.
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Been to the drive in at 59th & Bethany (Glendale 7, I think it's called--still there) many times
"Thunderbird drive in": Don't know what you're talking about.
I remember Thunderbird Drive-in. Back in the 60's and 70's, drive-ins were a way of life in the Phoenix area. I'm pretty sure I hit every one of them. I forget some of the names but Round Up, Cinema Park (think that's the name), Thunderbird, Pioneer were some of the more frequented choices. In High School, I'd say most of us went to at least 10 drive-ins for every theater trip we made.
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Ironically, the last film that ran at the Cine Capri before it was demolished was James Cameron's "Titanic" in 1997.
Luckily,my dad knew just how special that theatre was and i was lucky to be a part of so many BIG films there. Like Cheesebeef said,the long lines around the building for the Indiana Jones films,Alien,Aliens and all the Star Wars films of course....just reinforced how BIG the event was(especially when you're young and wide-eyed).
Luckily,my dad knew just how special that theatre was and i was lucky to be a part of so many BIG films there. Like Cheesebeef said,the long lines around the building for the Indiana Jones films,Alien,Aliens and all the Star Wars films of course....just reinforced how BIG the event was(especially when you're young and wide-eyed).
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