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Originally Posted by chillrob
In my medium-sized city, Raiders Of The Lost Ark was so popular that it ran for more than a year. It was the first movie I saw more than once in a theater - once at the first-run regular price cinema not long after it opened, and again about a year later at the discount second-run cinema. Actually, I think the second-run cinema had some kind of celebration when the movie had run there for a year, so including the first run place, it was probably close to a year and a half total.
These days I often don't even hear about a movie I want to see until it's almost (or already) gone from the theaters, and there are no second-run places convenient to where I live. The old system was so much better, where movies would play in fewer cinemas, but for much longer, so you always had lots of choices. Now it's generally all the same 6-8 movies, playing in several different rooms in every multiplex, and you only get a few weeks to see any individual film.
I went to watch it at the Apollo Theater, a local run movie theater in my town.
I remember not knowing anything about it, just that my friend wanted to see it since it was from Lucas and Spielberg.
Was very impressed, and it ran for a year at that theater, at least.
Trying to remember any other movie that had a run like that and I can't.