Word: multiplexing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...guys who fall in love and live happily ever after. And then I thought, OH-MY-GOD this is the most original, like, totally progressive thing ever to happen to movies. I mean, when was the last time you could see a gay love story in your local multiplex...
...George Lucas: It was the money from Star Wars and Jaws that allowed the theaters to build their multiplexes, which allowed an opening up of screens. The money that Star Wars made, half of it goes to the theater owners. The theater owners said, "Let?s do some expansion. Let?s build this idea of a multiplex," which was sort of floating around. So they started building multiplexes, they had all these screens, they needed to fill them. So all the little Miramaxes came up and said, ?We?ll help you fill those.? And they started doing that. And those...
...popcorn movie. If a cheapo '50s fantasy called Invasion of the Body Snatchers could also be a rich parable of conformist paranoia, and if The Matrix could clue kids into mathematics and philosophy, then a film as bold and thoughtful as V for Vendetta is allowed to stoke a multiplex debate on the use and abuse of state power. The best works of popular art get to play by their own rules...
...enjoy it the next minute as Joey breaks someone’s finger or sets someone on fire. Bottom Line: If you’re in the mood for slick action and lots of violence, there’s bound to be something nice and generic at the multiplex that doesn’t leave a bad taste in your mouth...
...music and comedy remain sharp and witty; if you missed Lane and Broderick’s performances on Broadway, the film does give you the chance to see them in action.But better yet, instead of watching Brooks’ brilliant material miss its mark onscreen, skip the multiplex and go see Broderick and Lane reunite on Broadway in the superb revival of Neil Simon’s “The Odd Couple...