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no spoilers I’m just talking about the theater
oh wow so the little theater I went to just now for Star Wars– they’re a beautiful little old theater, first opened 1920, affiliated with the mighty Shea’s downtown, famous for their gorgeous neon sign that was lovingly restored a little while back. Mostly they show art films and like, super old vampire flicks and whatnot.
They’re showing Star Wars, and nothing but Star Wars, through at least Jan 11th. So, there’s that.
It was a great place to see a movie, it turns out, and it was packed and there was a ton of audience response, which I really enjoyed.
Unlike modern multiplex theaters, the screen isn’t up at such an angle, and the floor isn’t pitched so much. I could see over people’s heads, but I wasn’t craning my neck.
The floor was also not sticky, which was nice.
And there were a ton of kids– but not noisy ones. It was such a good showing. I enjoyed it a ton.
Beforehand they were rolling the trailers of the other Star Wars movies– it really looked like their copy of Phantom Menace was on film, or had been ripped from a film print with artifacts. The trailer for the first Star Wars (it just called itself Star Wars) was narrated by James Earl Jones and really made it out to be a Luke/Leia adventure romance.
And as soon as the credits rolled the little girl in front of me dressed as Yoda turned on her green light saber. I almost got a picture.
On the way in, they had a statue thing– it was a mannequin dressed as rey standing on a plinth out on the sidewalk with her arm upraised, and there was some kind of motion sensor on it so after I walked by it made light saber noises and switched on a blue light on the thing in her hand. It was incredibly creepy though because we’d just had a lake effect snowstorm and got about three inches of snow an hour before, so her eye sockets were full of snow. I was going to get a picture afterward but they’d taken her inside.
I’ll talk about FEELS later, but I just was so charmed by the actual moviegoing experience that I felt like I should write that down.
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no spoilers I’m just talking about the theater
oh wow so the little theater I went to just now for Star Wars– they’re a beautiful little old theater, first opened 1920, affiliated with the mighty Shea’s downtown, famous for their gorgeous neon sign that was lovingly restored a little while back. Mostly they show art films and like, super old vampire flicks and whatnot.
They’re showing Star Wars, and nothing but Star Wars, through at least Jan 11th. So, there’s that.
It was a great place to see a movie, it turns out, and it was packed and there was a ton of audience response, which I really enjoyed.
Unlike modern multiplex theaters, the screen isn’t up at such an angle, and the floor isn’t pitched so much. I could see over people’s heads, but I wasn’t craning my neck.
The floor was also not sticky, which was nice.
And there were a ton of kids– but not noisy ones. It was such a good showing. I enjoyed it a ton.
Beforehand they were rolling the trailers of the other Star Wars movies– it really looked like their copy of Phantom Menace was on film, or had been ripped from a film print with artifacts. The trailer for the first Star Wars (it just called itself Star Wars) was narrated by James Earl Jones and really made it out to be a Luke/Leia adventure romance.
And as soon as the credits rolled the little girl in front of me dressed as Yoda turned on her green light saber. I almost got a picture.
On the way in, they had a statue thing– it was a mannequin dressed as rey standing on a plinth out on the sidewalk with her arm upraised, and there was some kind of motion sensor on it so after I walked by it made light saber noises and switched on a blue light on the thing in her hand. It was incredibly creepy though because we’d just had a lake effect snowstorm and got about three inches of snow an hour before, so her eye sockets were full of snow. I was going to get a picture afterward but they’d taken her inside.
I’ll talk about FEELS later, but I just was so charmed by the actual moviegoing experience that I felt like I should write that down.
(Your picture was not posted)
