"It was really a theater experience, as opposed to going to a multiplex".
He went to a multiplex near his house, in Short Hills, with his wife and his young son, but they wanted to see something else.
So today in the interest of investigative journalism, I will be going to a multiplex, seeing An American Carol, and interrogating, uh... chatting with the staff.
The audacious lettering of its original 1950s awning hails the theater as being from another time it is a reminder of the age before multiplexes and DVD rentals, when going to a movie was itself a big event, a social happening, like a night at the opera.
I knew when he had a date with his wife to go to the multiplex.
He is not urging government regulation but industry self-restraint and greater public awareness, like an R rating for smoking so families can go to the multiplex forewarned.
"Our kids are still going to go to the multiplex -- God knows, Ori is not going to miss 'Shrek,' " he said.
So, even though I wish independent entrepreneurs well, I will go to the multiplex where the disabled can be treated with respect.
They are daft, interchangeable products aimed at teenage boys whose only direct experience of overcoming insuperable odds is to persuade their fathers to lend them the car to go to the multiplex.
In other words the movies need to get made in the first place, so that audiences are not presented with eight identical films when they go to the multiplex.
