As I write this, I’ve had my second dose of the jab for over two weeks now. It’s been over a year since I’ve been inside a theater, but now I could, theoretically go.
It leaves me with a hard choice. How? When?
I could walk away from this keyboard right now and fit in a screening of Godilla vs. Kong or Nobody right away… I’m not sure if either of them will do it for me, though, and this needs to be a special movie, as it will be a trip to the theater right up there with the first time I saw Batman Returns (1992) or Back to the Future Part III (1990). I could pay 100-ish bucks to make one of the big chains play some movie for me, and that feels… off, somehow. Maybe it’s because in each of those scenarios, I’m watching a movie I could very easily watch at home.
If only I could find some truly great movie I’ve never seen (or at least, never reviewed here on the site) on the big screen and make that my first trip. That would be the ticket. Twenty-fifth anniversary screenings of Fargo (1996) are coming up weekend after next. That just might be the ticket.
At any rate, I hope to see my friend again. I hope to sit in its chairs and eat popcorn in the dark. I hope to see a film the way it was intended to be viewed again.
I hope.
I know. Wrong movie.
Wes Craven’s New Nightmare (1994)
True Lies (1994)
The Mummy (1999)
Babylon 5: The River of Souls (1998)
Independence Day (1996)
Babylon 5: A Call to Arms (1999)
Hemingway (2021)
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Chasing Liberty (2004)
Kong: Skull Island (2017)
North by Northwest (1959)
Misery (1990)
Memento (2000)