Movie theatres are one of those things I can’t get my head around these days. Yes, I know what they are. Yes, I know what they do. But why aren’t they dead yet?
I went to them as a kid because I had no choice. If you wanted to see a new movie or a movie without commercials in it, you went to a theatre. It was a real treat for me when home video became a thing because I only had to go to a theatre once-in-a-while to see a big ticket film. I could watch most of what I wanted in the comfort of my home. Theatres became an unpleasant occasional necessity.
Fast-forward two decades and I am watching everything I want to at home from an incredible array of streaming choices. I have a super high quality, large flat screen, a bangin’ sound system, a carbonator for drinks, and a badass popcorn maker. I need a movie theatre the same way a fish needs a bicycle. I figure that theatres should have gone the way of the video store, as those are mostly superfluous as well.
Maybe the same diehards who collect vinyl go to theatres. Maybe movie goers are extroverts looking for other people to annoy (that’s what the last movie I went to over a decade back was full of). Maybe movie theatres are where aliens meet to plot the colonization of the planet because humans stopped going there over a decade ago. I don’t know.
What I do know is that the last theatres disappearing won’t surprise me. It won’t sadden me, either.
The images in this entry were made using a Canon EOS 20D paired with a Canon 70-300 EF IS USM f4-5.6 lens.
