Post by erik on Apr 14, 2021 18:54:17 GMT -5
I know all about the movie streaming services like Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Hulu, but the only real place to see a movie is on a big screen inside a darkened cinema. And that's why what happened this week in Hollywood is one of those things called a BFD--or a Big F***ing Deal. ArcLight and Pacific, two of the big movie theater chains in this country, are saying that they cannot rebound from thirteen months worth of their theaters being shuttered because of the pandemic:
ktla.com/news/local-news/arclight-cinemas-and-pacific-theaters-shutting-down-all-locations-permanently/
One of those theaters being threatened with permanent shuttering is this iconic one at 6360 Sunset Boulevard, in the heart of Hollywood--the Cinerama Dome:
There are rumors that big names in Hollywood, including Quentin Tarantino, may be in the running to save and re-open this iconic movie house, which first opened in November 1963 with the film IT"S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD, and also famously hosted director Stanley Kubrick's landmark 1968 sci-fi masterpiece 2001: A SPACE ODYSEY.
And again, even with all the streaming services out there, and the fact that going to the movies, prior to COVID-19, meant spending a lot...when you get right down to it, it is the aesthetic experience of seeing this great art form known as the Motion Picture the way they are intended to be seen: on a Big Screen.
ktla.com/news/local-news/arclight-cinemas-and-pacific-theaters-shutting-down-all-locations-permanently/
One of those theaters being threatened with permanent shuttering is this iconic one at 6360 Sunset Boulevard, in the heart of Hollywood--the Cinerama Dome:
There are rumors that big names in Hollywood, including Quentin Tarantino, may be in the running to save and re-open this iconic movie house, which first opened in November 1963 with the film IT"S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD, and also famously hosted director Stanley Kubrick's landmark 1968 sci-fi masterpiece 2001: A SPACE ODYSEY.
And again, even with all the streaming services out there, and the fact that going to the movies, prior to COVID-19, meant spending a lot...when you get right down to it, it is the aesthetic experience of seeing this great art form known as the Motion Picture the way they are intended to be seen: on a Big Screen.