1.Your old favorites resurrected on the big screen.

Many of these movies feature actors and actresses who are sadly no longer with us. But thanks to technology—and I’m not talking cryogenics—we are able to bring them back to life, well sort of. Gene Kelly, Laurence Olivier, James Dean, that guy from the Bee Gees. See them all relive the glory days in some of their most famed roles.

2.Be one to see some of the survivors of the recent Universal Studios fires.

Yes, some classic films did perish in the fires that damaged sets and video vaults earlier in the month, and for a few nerve wracking days, the fate of a few of our Summer Classic Movies was unknown. Luckily, those films came out unscathed, so that really only means one thing. They survived so you could come see them. If they had burned then you would have never been able to tell them how much they are appreciated. So get yourselves out. Don’t be rude.

3.So it’s Sunday and it’s raining for the 8 gillionth time that week and you’re sick of sitting inside your house.

Okay, so come sit inside ours. We have cocktails...that you can bring inside. And snacks. And you don’t have to sell your firstborn into indentured servitude to pay for any of this.

4.The viewing of all these classic movies makes for great dinner party conversation.

How cool would you feel next time you’re at a social gathering where the chit chat is just drowning you. Save yourself with a little something like this: “I was just contemplating on how you felt about the internal struggle John Wayne incurs in The Searchers? I mean I’m not sure how I would handle a situation like that. How do you feel?” Use big words, maybe some hand gestures. It would totally work.

5.Reinvent the dinner and a movie date.

You could have a movie and the dinner date instead. Shake it up a little bit. You could even in fact have a salad shaker from McDonald's simply to carry on the theme. Okay so maybe not, but see you watch the movie first and then eat. This way you will definitely have something to talk about, and all that weird awkward silence that sometimes begins a date is completely taken care of because you have to be quiet anyway. There. Summer Classic Movies bring the people together.

6.Audrey Hepburn

Come on. She’s just so dang classy.

7.Jeopardy

What if you happen to make it on Jeopardy, clicker thingy in hand, and you have just chosen the last daily double. You’re feeling confident and have made it a true daily double, risking it all. The answer is “A coke bottle causes a tribe great consternation in this 1980 film.” Now if you had not seen The Gods Must Be Crazy then you simply would lose all your money and bad luck sets in to where you never make it out of the red and probably don’t even get to play final jeopardy. Then Alex Trebek in all his mustache-less glory would probably not even shake your hand at the end. And that would be embarrassing. So just save yourself the trouble and come see the movie.

8.The Hand Jive

I don’t care how old you are or how cool you try to act, you know you know the hand jive. Just come out and do it. You were born to.

9.A Hickey from Kenickie’s like a Hallmark card.

Learn priceless movie quotes like the one above. Or what about I am not an animal! Then there’s Good. Ham makes me self-conscious. Aw yes, then the ever memorable Stella! Alright so that last one isn’t in any of this year’s movies. But the rest are, and if you don’t know what movies they are from, then guess what…yep, that’s right, come see some movies.

10.Your kids

With all the Hollywood blockbusters these days with their 3D’s and their computer animations and all their fancy pants promotional materials, kids just don’t understand that at one point in time movies relied on the talent of its actors and the strength of writing and direction—sometimes with absolutely no strings attached. They are classics for a reason. Give the next generation of movie goers the appreciation they should have for classic cinema.


And one last one for good measure… you know like the extra birthday spanking or something, just to make sure the point was made.

11.Because you love the Florida Theatre. You know you do. So come chill with us Sunday afternoons. There’s no football. No school. No excuses—well good ones at least in our book. The Florida Theatre. 2 pm. Be there or be square.