There was an article recently about cable now going to get movie releases at the same time they appear in theaters. I remember the big screen – Northpoint Theater in San Francisco – huge. It was an experience to go watch a movie there. And sadly they closed when the Sony theaters opened at 5th and Mission – the more hi-tech sound, the stadium seats, and a cluster of them showing a variety of different moviees. Now movies are going to move to our home screens? What about experience? The social nature of people to want to go to a big screen and watch a movie with an audience? <\/p>\n
Being in Chicago, reminds me of what a friend was telling us a long time ago, about how the theaters frequented by a mostly black audience here were more interactive in the day. He told us about the time he was watching The Fly with Jeff Goldblum and that during the metamorphosis Goldblum’s character asked, “What is happening to me?” “What is happening?” and a particularly rotund woman got up from the back seats, hand on hip, and shouted at the screen – “That’s cuz you a fly. You a fly!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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