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I think the oldest cinema ticket hidden somewhere in here is for the 1995 film Mortal Kombat. This actually isn't one of my cinema tickets. It belonged to my older sister. I was a little obsessed with the film back then and so she gave it to me after she had seen the film at Showcase Cinema. Although, she didn't give me the ticket until a year or so after I started to collect my own cinema tickets beginning with (I think) Independence Day, 1996.
The newest ticket here is Inception, 2010 and again is hidden somewhere in the collage.
I love film and have done for as long as I can remember. The first film I saw at the cinema was Ghostbusters II (1989), followed by Back to the Future Part II (1989) and then to name a few more: Honey I Shrunk the Kids (1989), Back to the Future Part III (1990), Edward Scissorhands (1990), Robin Hood Prince of Thieves (1991), Beauty and the Beast (1992), Jurassic Park (1993), Stargate (1994), GoldenEye (1995), etc. Unfortunately for me, I did not keep any of my cinema tickets before 1996 beginning as I said with Independence Day.
What I love about cinema tickets is not only the obvious movie connection, but also that they are all dated and have the time when the ticket was purchased, the start time of film, ticket price, etc. Aided with all of this information I have the individual memories of each time I visited the cinema: what was going on in my life at the time, who I was visiting the cinema with, what the world was like back then.
Often I find a ticket that surprises me and I recall things I would have otherwise forgotten; a film that was rather unmemorable and memories of things that I would rather forget.
There are gaps between years when I didn't visit the cinema much at that time. I cannot remember exactly why I wasn't going anymore but I suspect it may have been due to the fact I had no one to go with.
I also find it interesting to look at the graphics of each ticket and how it has changed over the years and other little things such as how the name of a cinema has changed as it has been overtaken by other companies. On the back of many of the tickets you can see old adverts for random things you'd think aren't related to the cinema and vouchers for fast food chains like McDonald's and Burger King.
I'm pretty sure I can identify every ticket one the page despite the fact that the ink on a few tickets has all but disappeared. I can just about read and make out one that is 30 Days of Night (2007). I find that amusing as I recall disliking the film greatly and I doubt I would have thought about it again unless reminded! I think that movie was meant to fade!!
There are a good few more stinkers on there but there are also many I'm quite proud of such as the complete Matrix Trilogy (1999, 2003) and all the of the James Bond films from Tomorrow Never Dies (1997).
