Note to self, is there really any reason to see a movie in a theater?
I'm recalling the movie theaters of the fifties, such as the venerable
Fox theater in Brooklyn, which was a veritable palace with three balconies, red velvet carpeting, red velvet ceiling-to-floor draperies, marble staircases with polished brass appointments. The experience of being there was worth the thirty-five cent admission ticket but you got to see two full-length feature films, an interesting "short subject" film, coming attractions, and a cartoon.
Inside Brooklyn s Lavish Lovely and Long-Gone Fox Theatre - Screen Scenes - Curbed NY
There were several other huge and beautifully appointed movie theaters in Brooklyn and Manhattan back then but all have given way to the disgustingly tacky little
shoe-box "multiplex" movie "theaters" of today that charge as much as ten bucks to watch one movie while being disturbed by sounds coming from adjoining shoe-boxes.
For the above reason I haven't been to a movie "theater" since the early 1970s and I wouldn't go to one if they were free -- and that's not an exaggeration. That's because I've been spoiled by magnificence.