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I even made sure I had enough money on me to go for a burger at McDonald’s afterwards. If you read that Robin Hood piece, you’ll already know that this “date” must have gone horribly wrong somehow because almost a year later, I still wasn’t dating Marina. Of course, I’d go, I told her and arranged to meet her at the cinema. Marina asking me to take her to see Ghost was the second.Īsking me to take her to the cinema to see a popular film.ĭespite having already seen it and already running out of cash, it was a no-brainer. The last was when the girl who is now my wife made the first move (due to my being both painfully shy and terrified of rejection). We went to see The Living Daylights in 1987 (the story of which I told in my piece about The Lost Boys as part of last year’s #80sMC). The first was my first ever date with a girl called Julie. In my entire life, I’ve been asked out by a girl a grand total of three times. That was the first time I’d asked her out – but the day after I saw Ghost with my friends I got a phone call from Marina asking me if I’d like to go to the cinema with her to see it.

However, what I didn’t mention in that piece was that the non-date I talked about wasn’t my first failed dalliance with a cinema-date with Marina. However, for the TL:DR version – I plucked up the courage to ask a girl called Marina, who I had quietly admired for some time, out on an ill-fated date (we each waited at the wrong place and both thought we’d been stood up). The second time, which was just one night later, ties in with a story I told about going to see (or not, as it turned out) Arachnophobia about a year later (see my Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves entry for that story). The first night I saw it was, as with many of my 80s and 90s cinema trips, accompanied by school friends. And in the small, multiplex-less town where I grew up, films came and went very quickly (they normally lasted one week, two if you were lucky), so if you wanted to see something twice, you had to go back pretty much in the same week.īut in 1990 I made the conscious decision to part with £1.20 of my hard-earned Saturday job cash for two nights running (yes, that’s right – it was a little over a pound for a cinema ticket back then). I’d never been back to see the same film more than once in the same run before. Have you ever been to see the same film at the cinema twice? Of course, you have! It’s almost the done things these days and one of the reasons the biggest films at the box office manage to generate the numbers they do – Avengers Assemble, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Titanic, Spider-Man – they’re all films I’ve seen twice or more on the big screen.īut can you remember what the first film you went to see twice was? By 1990, fifteen-year-old me had seen a handful of films multiple times at the cinema – the Star Wars films and one or two Disneys being the main ones – but those had been return viewings on re-release, years apart.

Spin up your potter’s wheel – it’s Ghost! This week he kicks off our celebration of all things amorous throughout February – LurveFest ’21 – with the first of four romantic offerings from the 90s as he delves into 1990’s top-grossing film. It’s that time again chums, to delve back into the archives as Paul Childs takes us back in time for another #90sMC.