Word: cineplex
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Jimmy: "If you have ever caught a teensploitation at your local neighborhood cineplex, you can probably reproduce the scene in your mind: droves of well-dressed teenage girls scampering around with the excitement of an Energizer bunny, bands of raucous guys in their prep uniforms, worn A&F hat and all, and the occasional older hard-core fan, waiting for their hometown Tufts band to play...
...Project, Stir of Echoes, Stigmata and The Sixth Sense were all filmed so far apart from each other that there was practically no chance of them ever opening within the same season--let alone the same month. But strangely enough, August was a spookfest every week at the local cineplex. It's ironic, of course, since the true flood of copycat movies will begin in the next six to seven months as Hollywood execs try to capitalize on the trend (i.e. rapid filming, diehard editing, rush to theaters). Last time that happened, Scream planted the deadly seed in the mind...
...ticket revenues, handing the rest over to the studios and relying on concessions for the big bucks. Add to that the fiscal drain of shutting down "older" multiplexes (relics around for a decade), and it's no wonder that the bottom lines of leaders like AMC, Loews Cineplex and Carmike are getting bad reviews. "It's going to be ugly," says analyst David Londoner at Schroder...
...smart lad would stick with art house offerings and steer clear of the Cineplex, especially the whizbang mega-releases. But not a slow learner who adores the very idea of going to the movies and keeps thinking the next one's actually going to be worth the eight bucks. I see ads on buses; I hear the buzz; I read blurbs promising the adventure of a lifetime. They do not tell you that part of the adventure will entail leaving the theater with a bag over your head...
...about our culture, to an outsider today, may be that Harold Bloom's 745-page scholarly exegesis of Shakespeare's plays is on the best-seller list (joining a history of the makers of the Oxford English Dictionary), and an updated version of Les Liaisons Dangereuses is at the cineplex. In certain respects the country around us seems to be dumbing up, presenting us on a daily basis with texts and thoughts that give no indication of a nation suffering from attention deficit disorder...