--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <noozguru@...> wrote: > > I think people just go to a movie to be going to a movie > and many may be saying "boy that sucked" afterward. In the > 1950's and 60's many went to see some funky sci-fi and > horror films just to laugh at them but back then a ticket > averaged around 70 cents.
One of the reasons I am a film freak is that during a formative period of my life (age 14 to 18) I lived on US Air Force bases. Each of those bases had a movie theater, and sometimes more than one. The program changed continuously, a different film every night. Tickets cost a quarter. This cost enabled me to grow up as somewhat of a film fanatic. If I saw a film at one of the theaters on the base and I found that I really liked it, my immediate response -- even then -- was to see it again, to try to figure out WHY I liked it. And I could. All I had to do was to go to another of the theaters on the base and most likely it would be playing there the next night (the films rotated nightly among the theaters). And it would cost me all of another quarter. On one of the bases I lived on in Morocco, one of the three theaters was of a type that I have never seen since. It was a walk-in drive-in. Really. There was no roof, just rows of concrete benches set up facing a full-sized theater screen, flanked by good theater- quality speakers. Behind the seats was a projection booth and the snack bar. You'd take a blanket and maybe some snacks or drinks of your own and watch a first-run American movie, above you the amazing blanket of stars that was the Moroccan sky. The movie-going experience has been going downhill for me ever since. :-)
