Movie Theaters are about the Experience not the Movies

“I can watch a movie at home. Why do I have to pay to see something that will be on cable in a month?”

Sweet baby…  Y’all gonna make me lose my mind! Have you people forgotten?

Have you forgotten the first time you saw the Goonies on the big screen?

The excitement of piling into the theater with friends…

The shock and awe of slide…the giant squid? Check it out there really was one

What about the candy and the popcorn that just taste better in the dark for some reason.

How dare you not go to the movies. It is your duty as a child of the 70’s 80’s and 90’s from now until infinity to stumble over dimly lit stairs to run to the restroom so you don’t miss the one part that everyone will talk about in the car, that you missed because you had to have that super sized big gulp.

Crap!!! People it has never been just about the movie that is playing today.

Rather it was the Goonies, Spiderman, Fast and Furious or Dead Pool it has always. Always ALWAYS!!! Been about the shared experience.

People say, “I can watch these movies at home”; but there is something to be said for the theater experience.

The conversation on the way home and the days after when you try, no matter how poorly you are at it, to act out the scenes for your friend who hasn’t seen it yet.

For me, there is nothing better than going to the movies, dimly lit theaters, larger than life image, the smell of popcorn which we all know is better at the theater than at home.

It’s my escape from the madness, the absurd, and the Groundhog Day normalcy of terrible things in the media that has become real life.