Word: multiplexer
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Last weekend, when you lined up to see "Meet the Parents," you may not have noticed that "Bring It On" was still playing at the multiplex. Or, with popcorn and Twizzlers in hand, as you rushed to the next showing of "Remember the Titans," you passed by the somewhat windswept theater in which "Bring It On" has been playing since August 22 and didn't stop. And yet the enduring presence of "Bring It On" is remarkable. According to conventional wisdom, it's a movie that should by now have come and gone from theaters, made its video debut...
...Some large retailers refuse to sell kids M-rated video games or CDs that carry parental-advisory stickers, but most will. Theater owners are not exactly vigilant about enforcing the film-ratings code - something known to any 14-year-old who ever went to the box office at a multiplex, bought a ticket for a PG film, then strolled into a theater playing a film rated...
...animated composite, a digital cartoon. Just keep telling yourself that when you stare into his disturbing photorealistic visage at the multiplex next summer. And he's only one of a complete cast of computer-generated actors in Final Fantasy, a Columbia Pictures feature with a rumored budget of $70 million, based loosely on the multimillion-selling series of PlayStation games of the same title. A science-fiction epic that deals with earth's response to alien invasion in 2065, Fantasy looks to be the first movie that does for humans what Steven Spielberg did for dinosaurs and Pixar...
...good sports; we don't want to spoil The Perfect Storm for the illiterati. But even the multiplex ignoscenti will get enough early clues to know that something wrong is in the wind. Gloucester gal (Diane Lane) to her sailor beau (Mark Wahlberg) before he boards the Andrea Gail: "Don't go, Bobby. I got a bad feelin'." Bobby: "Just one more time, I promise." This dialogue, familiar from a quillion melodramas, is always uttered by the sap about to step into the old dark house, the line of fire or the unforgiving sea. The Perfect Storm has more whispers...
...time killers than movies, few experiences so immersive. And just wait until you try a portable DVD player with headphones. Those headphones, by the way, are key; since this is DVD, the sound is CD quality. That makes the overall effect more powerful than what you get at the multiplex with their ever shrinking screens and overtaxed sound systems. Plus, no more sticky floors (unless, of course, you're on the Long Island Rail Road...