>>69862

It sounds like a fun idea to me but it reeks badly of broken dreams. If someone wants to watch robocop they'll just watch it on popcorn time or stream it on some random site.

Sure, but they could do the same for new movies too. However, I get what you're saying, and I don't entirely disagree. I wouldn't hope for more than having it support itself and I wouldn't be surprised if it died. If you made it cheap, easy and chose well then I think you could present the old as something new for those that don't know it.
A lot of people really don't know about a lot of classics and there is still something to be said for the social experience of watching a movie with a ton of people. I just keep meeting people that haven't seen movies older than the last couple of years (especially young'uns).
And you could do whatever you wanted. Maybe do a remake week: watch the old, take a break, then watch the new. Genre week, decades week, Batman week, whatever. Even if it didn't last I think it would be worthwhile.

People might come if the community is nice. It would need to be more than just a movie theatre, it would need to be a cozy hangout for nerds.

I think you could make more money getting a big TV and having movie watching meetups in your living room or somewhere neat like a treehouse or an abandoned garage.

I was thinking about doing something similar, having a site hosting old freeware games or maybe having an IRL arcade hangout with lots of old games.

Once in a while we'd have competitions and whoever would get the highest score in galaga or some other game would win a free burger or some retro videogame poster from the 80's or something.

There are theaters sorta like that, I know of a regional chain called Angelika that shows arthouse, foreign, anime, ballet/opera performances, documentaries and they have screenings of old movies. Basically all the shit that your average retard yokel has no interest in. I don't think it would work with JUST old movies though, even if they were classics.

Such a movie theater could be profitable if you kept overhead low, a small theater with maybe three (or even less) theaters and you show a variety of stuff past and present. You might still need to go where the hipsters are, though, and they might already have something like that.

I have sometimes entertained the idea of starting such a theater if I ever came into money.

I'm hip to the smell of broken dreams, but my suggestion if you went through with it would be to not let it get "serious" or to contain the serious. I personally wouldn't get much out of going to a theater to watch 80s movies like a new movie, sitting in silence and paying attention. It should be more the Rocky Horror experience, with the assumption that everyone there has seen it before or doesn't actually care. If you could sell booze that'd be cool, if not let it be BYOB. Let'm have laser pointers and encourage theme costumes. Fuck around with the audience, do a 2 for 1 promotion and play both movies at twice the speed. It will probably work as long as you can keep it interesting, and you can have your serious days too. Anyway, I'd treat it as if I were watching old movies with my friends and the friends are the audience.

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>>69875
The "yell at the screen week" thing is something I would almost certainly include. Show some old slasher films and movies that people can hate. I do know that getting an alcohol license is a huge headache, not to mention having to actually deal with drunks (rather than just being a bystander watching them) is rarely fun. Costumes would have to be a ballza addition.

>>69886
I can confirm that the workers at the alamo drafthouse hate when "The Room" screens there for exactly the reasons you described.

I will gladly donate like $20 to showing Robocop on the big screen.

My roommate in college used to organize movie viewings. All you need is a projector and a large open space (plus a white board or something). We had a bunch of chicks show up and they lasted until the bathroom scene in trainspotting (he always showed trainspotting, every damn time.)

Anyway I'd start out showing movies for free, to see if anyone actually shows up. This works best in a college town.

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