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Or just wait until it comes out on a streamer, and you'll enjoy it just as much with delicious Costco popcorn that costs around 30 cents per microwave packet. You can see if the hubbub about the movie was really worth it.

Oh, and if you want more popcorn, that's another 30 cents.

And you can pause it if you want to use your own private restroom.

And if it's a terrible movie you don't feel guilty if you leave the theater.

Also you can drink beer while watching a movie, if you're into that kinda thing.

Also you don't have to deal with teens on phones texting each other about how good or bad the movie is, or trying to take calls in the middle of the theater.

Or parents with screaming children that didn't want to afford a babysitter.

Or ...

There was a time when movies were revered -- back when motion pictures came out, and it was a shared social experience, and people actually cared about it. People dressed up. There were ushers in uniforms.

~20 years ago when I saw one of the matrix sequels in a theater in Chicago, the popcorn was no longer freshly popped. It was stored in plastic trash bags, and then opened and poured out into the popcorn machines. It tasted like the bags it was stored in.