barsoomcore
Unattainable Ideal
Downtown Vancouver used to have half-a-dozen movie theatres, but many of them have closed down in the last few years and been converted into nightclubs.
And while I'm a fan of booty-shaking, I also think it's a real shame, because there are NO independent theatres in downtown Vancouver anymore. It's always been a dream of mine to buy one of these places, turn it BACK into a movie theatre, and start showing KICK-ASS movies that would draw HUGE crowds.
At least, in my dreams they draw HUGE crowds.
Anyway, my DVD of The Road Warrior arrived yesterday and watching a movie I'm so deeply familiar with in widescreen for the FIRST TIME EVER (I'd only ever seen the VHS version before) absolutely blew me away.
It's a beautiful, beautiful film. There are jaw-droppingly gorgeous shots throughout that picture -- there's a nighttime panorama of the refinery as Humugous' army pulls away, with the endless horizon a vast curve of deep blue above the angry red desert that's absolutely amazing -- and along with the tremendous sound design, this is really a movie that's begging to be seen in the theatre.
And it's not the only one. There's lots of great movies out there (see the thread on cheesy movies elsewhere) that I know I never saw in the theatres, and I bet lots of people haven't, and I'd sure like to believe that they'd come out to see them.
Conan The Barbarian. Supercop. John Carpenter's The Thing. King Kong.
Damn. Can you imagine a theatre where you could go and see pictures like that every day? Why is it that repertory theatres only ever seem to show wimpy Eurotrash fashionista crap (I may be slightly exaggerating here)? Where's the love for Naked Killer, or The Wild Bunch?
I suspect that it's a bad business model and that you'd lose your shirt. But if I come into a few cool million, I can think of worse ways to spend it.
What would YOUR theatre show? Or, just to play the fantasy game a little further, if I offered you a weekend's worth of programming at CineBarsoom, what would your lineup be?
And while I'm a fan of booty-shaking, I also think it's a real shame, because there are NO independent theatres in downtown Vancouver anymore. It's always been a dream of mine to buy one of these places, turn it BACK into a movie theatre, and start showing KICK-ASS movies that would draw HUGE crowds.
At least, in my dreams they draw HUGE crowds.
Anyway, my DVD of The Road Warrior arrived yesterday and watching a movie I'm so deeply familiar with in widescreen for the FIRST TIME EVER (I'd only ever seen the VHS version before) absolutely blew me away.
It's a beautiful, beautiful film. There are jaw-droppingly gorgeous shots throughout that picture -- there's a nighttime panorama of the refinery as Humugous' army pulls away, with the endless horizon a vast curve of deep blue above the angry red desert that's absolutely amazing -- and along with the tremendous sound design, this is really a movie that's begging to be seen in the theatre.
And it's not the only one. There's lots of great movies out there (see the thread on cheesy movies elsewhere) that I know I never saw in the theatres, and I bet lots of people haven't, and I'd sure like to believe that they'd come out to see them.
Conan The Barbarian. Supercop. John Carpenter's The Thing. King Kong.
Damn. Can you imagine a theatre where you could go and see pictures like that every day? Why is it that repertory theatres only ever seem to show wimpy Eurotrash fashionista crap (I may be slightly exaggerating here)? Where's the love for Naked Killer, or The Wild Bunch?
I suspect that it's a bad business model and that you'd lose your shirt. But if I come into a few cool million, I can think of worse ways to spend it.
What would YOUR theatre show? Or, just to play the fantasy game a little further, if I offered you a weekend's worth of programming at CineBarsoom, what would your lineup be?
A place you can dump your kid for six hours. Superman I, the 60's Batman movie, Goonies, Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark, old serials, old horror films, etc.
