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Originally Posted by neverending
To Scouse:
Hah- no it won't- Cinerama theatres no longer exist. The last one in existance- Omaha's Indian Hills was torn down several years ago to make way for- yes- a parking lot, despite efforts from the Omaha City Council and a group that included the likes of Ray Bradbury and Leonard Maltin to have the building declared a historical landmark.
It was in a very real sense the end of an era. The end of the time when going to the cinema was an EVENT- something you planned for, you got dressed up for, and you looked forward to because you knew you were going to an elegant location for a special occurance.
The moronic bean-counters who control the movie going experience today have no concept of providing a meaningful, special event for customers. It's simply how many ten dollar bills can they stuff into each little compartment of the multiplex in the maximum number of times per day. The actual movie is just an afterthought. This is why so many movies are pure crap. The movie industry cares little about the quality- and neither does the audience.
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Could not agree more. There are precious few films made that actually need to be seen on a big screen where the experience is enhanced by it, not that the screens are too big now.
There is only one independant single large screen cinema left in Liverpool, the Woolton Picture House
http://www.wooltonpicturehouse.co.uk/ which really struggled to stay open until a group of cinema lovers got involved. It was here where I made a point to see Lord of the Rings films purely on the basis that they needed the biggest screen possible.
Probably the modern day equivalent to Cinerama theatres would the IMAX which has a screen about five storeys high.