Going to the movies in 1998: Part II 

'98 seems almost like yesterday. Time flies 😔

it's really neat to hear the small talk

Bring back these legendary times, it was great before social media.✊🏾💪🏾💯

People seem so much more relaxed and happy! The dudes (ticket seller) had an awesome voice!

This was a good times to go the movies back in the day.

Peaceful calm orderly envirionment- no screaming, yelling, fights, random crazy people, cell phones etc.

Bring back the days!❤

One thing I miss about theaters nowadays is the fact that it's not actual film....now it's like you're watching just a big screen tv. I miss the look and imperfections of watching a 35mm print.

Back when you had to call 📞 the theater for movie times

I was 15 year old and would be 16 a few months after this. On my 16th B-day I got my Drivers License. The memories! Thanks for the upload!

Titanic! One of the best movies of the 90s

People today miss the point of those times or just don't understand it. Going to the movies was like a whole "outing". You wait in line to physically get your ticket then you wait in another line to get your food then another to get a good seat. It was more about quality time spent with your family and friends just hanging out together pre showtime. It wasn't about just seeing the movie as it is today. It was a whole excursion. Sure the modern conveniences today are great too but this was just a different and more engaging time that we all enjoyed.

I was 7 years old in 1998. The 90s was the best era… I really miss it so much

Dark City is a masterpiece. Would've loved to see that in theaters.

Remember getting that ticket, felt so exciting

Good Will Hunting is the one I'd be going to see that weekend. Such a great movie.

I’m so glad I found your channel Vampire Robot! These videos are the closest thing we have to time travel.

I Will Have Just 1 Lonely Ticket To See TITANIC. 😢.

Wish I was 22 again.

I had never heard of the 1998 Twilight movie until this very moment.

Movie theaters are dead. Sadly to say.

I cant believe this is 26 yrs ago.. I was 21 and in college… I went to see titanic with a bunch of friends when it came out… that movie still makes me cry… two months after this video was made I met my husband.. we celebrated 20 years last fall.

everyone using cash

At 3:11 The Lady: "I Thought That Was You", "What Are You Doing?". 🤭.

I was two months shy of my eighth birthday and obsessed with Titanic when this was filmed. Saw it in theaters four times that year. Truly miss the 90s ❤

The people in the video had no clue that thousands of strangers would be watching them on little handheld devices in the near future.

Wow I remember going to the movies around this time and seeing Titanic what an exciting time ❤ this is my childhood thanks for the upload

This is insane, 26 years ago and I'll be 44 this year lol. Time sure flies, there were the golden days of going to the cinemas.

You can't go wrong with Man in the Iron Mask, folks! This is awesome, thank you Vampire Robot! 😊❤

Before movie prices went sky high

Didn’t even realize According to that movie chart Titanic and Man in the Iron Mask were out at the same time? Leo DiCabrio put out back to back movies. What a beast.

The best times. Quiet. Cash being exchanged. No idiots dressed up as the movie character making a scene in the theater. This is how it use to be out there kids, lol.

Being able to see everyones faces and living in the present, not being consumed by their smart phones almost makes me cry

It was a dicaprio weekend with Titanic and Iron Mask

Me encantan estos vídeos. Son una máquina en el tiempo. ❤❤❤

Nice memories. I saw 3 of those movies that year in theater. There were no assigned seats back then, young folks.

I'm so glad someone filmed something so pedestrian and normal. They wouldn't realise how important it is to capture the little things that mean so much to us here in the future.

Movies I saw at the theater in 1998: Fallen, Great Expectations, Can't Hardly Wait, Urban Legend, I Know What You Did Last Summer. I also saw Good Will Hunting and Titanic in 1997

Thought u would never post..thxs for taking me back

Dark City, very underrated movie.

Worked at theater from 97-99 while in high school. Had too much fun there.

I remember mocking Titanic when it was dominating theaters for months on end. Now I'd give anything to go back to '98 and see a flick at this theater. Not Titanic, mind you, but the massively underrated Dark City which was playing there

Before social media, before Covid, and before the government and media racially divided us. It's hard to believe how much worse off we are within a few years.

in the 90s i got to see batman returns in the theaters and the next year i go to see jurrasic park in the theaters, it was so exciting and then when i was in 7th grade my dad took me to see The Rock in the theaters which was also incredible

Good times to go to the movies i was 15 years old living in Ridgewood queens nyc with my mom and my brother and it was my final year at ps 177q

I remember going to see 'U.S Marshalls' in 1998.

1998 was wonderful time. I was 16 and Worked at Albertsons In Denver,CO rocking a new pair of Jnco every payday.

Dark City all day long. One of the best films of the 90's. Stolen from so many times since it was made.

I always wonder what happens to all the old technology like those big touch screen monitors. The manufacturing and resources that go into it. It must all end up somewhere.

I was 5 years old in 1998, the closest film I can remember watching in the theater was The Rugrats Movie.

Love this channel😊

Nowadays people would rather stay home and stream movies online.

Interesting...

Dang! The Big Lebowski wasn't playing there!

Movie options aside, the box office movie ticket buying experience is near identical to today's, except you don't get to pick your seats.

Titanic was a *BIG* one that year. I remember renting Titanic when I was 8 or 9.

Titanic is the only movie that has never aged for me. It seems as crisp to me now as it did when it came out. I thought I was going to hate it because I loved the ship so much but I ended up loving the film - no other film even comes close

4:30 got stormtroopers manning the booths.

In 1998: Clinton was president, we knew this big year 2000 was coming right up. We'd heard of "global warming" but it wasn't talked about much. People listened to music on MP3 players or CD walkmans, but mostly radio. Kids made mixtapes or burned CDs at home. No iPod yet, no Napster. The Verve's "Bittersweet Symphony" came out the previous year. "Macarena" came out 5 years earlier, and "All Star" by Smash Mouth had not yet come out. X-Files was on TV. Airport security was not a hassle. Gasoline was about a dollar at the pump. Most cars got 20-30 mpg; they came with cassette players and a silver antenna to the right of the windshield. If you had Internet it was dial-up on your landline. Google was just being born, eBay was 3 years old. 800x600 was the common screen resolution. The AOL voice said, "You've got mail!" Finding videos online was rare to nonexistent. Windows 95 was the latest OS; computers used floppy disks and CD-ROMs. Payphones and long-distance calling cards were still common. Most people did not have cell phones; they came with pull-out antennas and had no built-in camera. Digital cameras were very new; most people used film cameras that stored 24 or 36 pictures per roll. You'd take these rolls to get developed for $5-$10 and wait a few days to receive the prints. You watched home videos on VHS tape. DVDs were introduced only a year earlier. TVs were analog box CRTs, no widescreens. GPS wasn't really a thing; paper maps were still king. And energy-saving light bulbs did not exist; they were all the glass incandescent type that would burn your hand if you touched them.

That movie list is actually insane.

During that time, a movie was $5. Great and simple times !

Double di caprio?! What a nightmare!😊

This was before streaming services killed going to the movies once Netflix RU-vid and the rest of online services came along it was goodbye going to the movies but so fun back then movie theaters also priced themselves out of consumers also with sky high concession pricing and prices of tickets themselves was a recipe for disaster and still is to this day with whatever movie theaters are still open no one wants to pay 25$ or more dollars for a small drink and a small popcorn

those guys going to see man in the iron mask, primary colors and u.s. marshals just bought a lemon

Even the worst movies from the 90's are 10x more entertaining than anything made from the past 12yrs... Look at that list; I've rewatched 4/6 of those movies for a combined viewing of maybe 100 times and never gets old! U.S Marshall's was basically considered a stinker sequel back then yet it's more fun to rewatch than all the modern woke crap!

Only one guy chose Wild Things very sad that movie deserves more love.

Somebody actually paid by personal check? 5:45

We used to see two a day on a weekend. So usually 2good and a meh. Now it's one good every few months. Look at that line up! All originals

Now you have to take out a mortgage to see a movie.

dude at 1:45 using a touchscreen ? i didnt even know that technology existed till almost 2010. I grew up poor.

I saw Titanic, US Marshalls and Wild Things at 16 in the theatre.

It’s kinda crazy to see middle age people working the tickets. Now it’s like a teenager who doesn’t give af and they don’t even give you an actual ticket anymore.

What I miss most about going to the movies back in the day was the ticket prices.

I love this so much. Sadly, I was only 0-1 years old.

OMG all those good movies to chose from… what happened to good movies?

Let me start off by saying nothing tops the 80s. The 90s were not as good but still good times. This is the very end of good times IMO. It seems like everything has been downhill since the turn of the century.

Leo in two movies at once at the box office - Man in Iron Mask & Titanic!

Are you a time traveler… seriously.

8.25 a ticket? That's not as big of a difference than now than I thought. It's about 12 where I am now.

As someone who was born in 2005, I wish I could experience the 1990s.

I was 12 in 1998. The WWF WCW was at its peak. . Also around a July 1998 a mug root beer boxing commercial aired where the referee physically demonstrates to both boxers what he dont wanna see and afterwards he drinks mug root beer and says now touch gloves fight clean

Cash

Went to movies myself last month - I had the whole theater to myself - I don't know how they stay in business -

Titanic still showing in theaters 1 year later in 1998

Nothing for the kids this round for the selection.

Blasto my favorite PS1 released in 1998

Dang, the way they get tickets was so weird back then.

The only movies i got to see this year was Godzilla & The Wedding Singer Mad i didn't get to see Saving Private Ryan & Bride Of Chucky because i was in a stupid foster home & wasn't allowed to watch anything R Rated even tho i literally am "R Rated" , even back then as a 11 yr old 😂

Basically everyone carried cash back then..

Waiting in line to purchase a ticket seems sooo quaint. 😭 can we bring this back?

😢

1998 from January- September I was only months old I didn't turn one until October

Man in the iron mask and Titanic both Leonardo DiCaprio movies 🍿

Nobody wanted to see Dark City.....geez.

In 1998 I was 11yrs old

The good day's 😊

Omg take me back!!! Please 😩

I wonder what motivated the original videographer, and what the patrons thought was going on. Was it raw footage for making a news segment about _Titanic_ sales?

Do you think you could find a video of a McDonald’s playground in the early 2010s?

Didnt Titanic come out in 97?