Sound Bleed and Trailers From Hell: Five New(ish) Aspects of the Multiplex Experience
The onset of summer movie season traditionally regularly journalistic notes on the current state of multiplex moviegoing, with a heavy emphasis on the incivility of unrepentant talkers and wielders of mobile devices. Serious consideration of the changing experiential aspects of normal multiplex visits are few and far-between; though my perspective is skewed by the particulars of mostly attending NYC’s multiplexes, some newish norms seem worth noting. Special screenings and parallel tracks are unignorable, even if not attending them According to Dealflicks (a sort of Priceline for discounted movie tickets), 88% of movie theaters are empty. High ticket prices and worry […]
by Vadim Rizov on May 12, 2014