Word: multiplexes
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...want to see the SS Poseidon go belly up again and watch all those tired character actors go glub-glub-glub? Can't say I blame you. With pictures like these, it's hard to say what your worst fear is when you set out for the multiplex: that you won't get in or that you will...
...trailer for United 93 has upset viewers with its gritty evocation of that day, especially a shot of the plane hitting the second tower of the World Trade Center. Audiences who wouldn't flinch at slasher movies and serial-killer thrillers have shouted back at the previews. A multiplex in Manhattan yanked the trailer after complaints from patrons. Some were angry, some in tears. They felt violated to see, in the guise of entertainment, a pinprick reminder of a tragedy for which Americans still grieve and which they may wish to keep buried, along with the people and the image...
...guys who fall in love and live happily ever after. And then I thought, OH-MY-GOD this is the most original, like, totally progressive thing ever to happen to movies. I mean, when was the last time you could see a gay love story in your local multiplex...
...George Lucas: It was the money from Star Wars and Jaws that allowed the theaters to build their multiplexes, which allowed an opening up of screens. The money that Star Wars made, half of it goes to the theater owners. The theater owners said, "Let?s do some expansion. Let?s build this idea of a multiplex," which was sort of floating around. So they started building multiplexes, they had all these screens, they needed to fill them. So all the little Miramaxes came up and said, ?We?ll help you fill those.? And they started doing that. And those...
...popcorn movie. If a cheapo '50s fantasy called Invasion of the Body Snatchers could also be a rich parable of conformist paranoia, and if The Matrix could clue kids into mathematics and philosophy, then a film as bold and thoughtful as V for Vendetta is allowed to stoke a multiplex debate on the use and abuse of state power. The best works of popular art get to play by their own rules...