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I look forward to a day when VOD (video on demand) replaces the video store entirely... no late fees and I can browse a library of (potentially) every film ever made...
That said, I really do enjoy the experience of going to a movie theatre. My dream since I was in high school was to own my own repertory cinema. The problem is that video really killed that option. In the 80s, pre-videos, a local Rep Cinema with one screen and around 900 seats would regularly have sell outs, even on weeknights. They would screen everything from classics and art house to the latest films just out of wide release. By the early 90s most of these types of cinemas closed. The one I mention above is still open but just barely...
Cinema survives to today on "the cinematic experience" Big Screen, Big Sound. As prices, continue to drop I see these cinemas starting to fade as well. In my mind this sucks. Going to the movies is one of the few communal things I still enjoy. The cinema is my church... physically speaking.
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