It's not a surprise, but really sad. I'd be more distraught if the closing of my local Kim's (near Columbia) hadn't already laid the emotional groundwork.
What this does, I'm afraid, is sap the moviegoing experience of even more spontaneity. Like queues in Netflix, everything must be planned ahead of time. We move closer to movies-as-museum-pieces, put on lay-away or purchased and owned like art objects or watched in increasingly scarce (and increasingly expensive) theaters. You're walking in the area, and you want to check out some weird Jacques Rivette movie, and you'll just have to wait.
Hopefully someone will take up Mr. Kim's heartfelt proposal. (I think Columbia actually took possession of the rental stock from his uptown location...)
Sorry to be all doom and gloom. I hope I'm exaggerating. It's just a shame.
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posted by @ 10/14/2008 4:51 PM
