Fang Zei said:

SilverWook said:

I caught a 10:30 pm show with a friend on opening weekend, and we were the only two people in the whole theater.

ID4 was one of the biggest box office hits of the 90's. What theater did you see it in?!

A multiplex that can't even be seen from the freeway. (I don't think the city will allow them to put up a flashy marquee as they sit surrounded by housing developments.) Unless you know it's there you'd never find it. It actually closed not long after Episode I came out, and sat empty for several years before being remodeled and reopened. You could eat at the Jack in the Box behind it and not realize a movie theater was across the way, the building is that nondescript.

I don't know how they compete against the slightly younger flashy IMAX equipped theater that sits right by the freeway a few miles away.

ID4 was actually playing on half the screens in every theater in the county, so it wasn't that hard to find a quiet late show at the time.