Why I Miss Movie Theaters (and Why Nothing Can Replace Them) (Column)
Lately, I’ve been thinking about how much I miss movie theaters. I don’t just mean that I miss watching eye-zapping sensory-overload spectacles on the big screen. I don’t just mean that I miss watching vibrant life-size dramas that, by virtue ofI mean that I miss the experience of going out to a movie, of giving yourself over to it, of getting lost in it, of being taken away from this world. Warning: Don’t try this at home.
Going out to the movies, of course, has always occupied a special and reverent place in our culture . Yet it has actually become corny and déclassé and borderline behind-the-curve to speak of it that way. People talk about how much they relish afilm , and the wide-eyed aesthetic of taking it in on the big screen is certainly part of that. But I’m speaking of something different: the primal experience of.
Or so says the new dogma. Whenever I hear people list the 12 Commandments of Gripe about the contemporary movie-theater experience, I get it . But I also wonder, in a way, what they’re comparing it to. The glory days of the 1980s? That was the first age of the multiplex, and though we didn’t have cell phones or ads before the trailers, I can testify that the experience wasn’t all that different. Audiences had already lost any sense of decorous quietude.
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