Grand to launch Midnight Movies
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BY MICAH MERTES / Lincoln Journal Star
Marty McFly, Tyler Durden and a giant shark will return to the silver screen as the Lincoln Grand theater brings back a series of new classics.
Classic Midnight Movie Nights start Friday at 11:59 p.m. with “Ghostbusters” and run through Dec. 19 when “Fight Club” rounds out the eight-film series. Tickets are $5.
“We really wanted to gear the series to a specific audience, toward college-age audiences,” said Jessi Sumner, co-manager of The Grand and coordinator of the movie series.
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Sumner said this series would hopefully lead to future movie events, like a “Saw” marathon or a day of “Lord of the Rings,” for example.
These movies are popular with younger audiences, but they probably never saw them on the big screen. That, Sumner said, is the idea behind the series.
The schedule:
Friday: “Ghostbusters”
Sept. 19: “Pulp Fiction”
Oct. 3: “Jaws”
Oct. 17: “Back to the Future”
Oct. 31: “Scarface”
Nov. 14: “Office Space”
Nov. 28: “Dazed and Confused”
Dec. 19: “Fight Club”
Here’s some info about this week’s new classic:
“Ghostbusters” (1984)
How did a movie about unemployed parapsychology professors turned ghoul-hunters score $240 million at the box office and become one of the most popular comedies of all time?
Well, it wasn’t just one thing. Surely, the cool concept, humor and inventive effects had something to do with it (this movie’s finale boasted a giant marshmallow man, after all).
But its staying power can be mainly attributed to Bill Murray. His surly Dr. Venkman keeps the proceedings firmly rooted in the comic.
He’s so essential to this movie’s classic status, but Murray was never meant to be one of the Ghostbusters. Dan Aykroyd’s first script took place in a futuristic society where Ghostbusters are as common as firefighters or E.M.S. workers. The film was set to star Aykroyd, Eddie Murphy, John Candy and John Belushi as Venkman. But after Belushi died of a drug overdose in ’82, the project hit a stand-still, the script was rewritten and the actors recast.
That’s when Bill Murray entered the picture.
John Belushi would have no doubt been excellent in the role. But there’s something terribly sad about a world in which Bill Murray’s not one of the Ghostbusters, I’m glad I don’t live in that world.
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UNL Student wrote on August 28, 2008 11:04 am:
Cult Film Fan wrote on August 28, 2008 2:21 pm:
Pat wrote on August 28, 2008 4:37 pm:
And Cult Film Fan, they'd need to actually have enough people who want to see those movies first. Eraserhead is probably not going to get a huge following outside of people who are a little off kilter. That movie is totally bizarre. You'd have better luck seeing those movies at Filmstreams or Dundee in Omaha. "
Nic F wrote on August 28, 2008 4:39 pm:
chet stevens wrote on August 29, 2008 10:21 am:
And how is it before your time? Wouldn't all these movies be before your time except for the final few? "
DJ wrote on August 29, 2008 10:48 am:
Movie Guru wrote on August 29, 2008 11:19 am:
Pat wrote on August 29, 2008 3:19 pm: