Watching original Andromeda Strain on Showtime. I saw it in 1971 at a drive
in. I still remembered most of it. Holds up very well. Much better science
than some of the new movies.
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> On Jun 27, 2022, at 7:31 PM, Darin Steffl <darin.ste...@mnwifi.com> wrote:
>
>
> I'm biased because I bought a single screen theater in my hometown right
> before lockdowns in March 2020.
>
> I offered half the listing price because of covid coming and the sellers
> accepted. We've been open since Godzilla in March 2021 and things have been
> doing better.
>
> I can say with certainty that my $50k projector and sound system blows any of
> your home theaters out of the water haha!
>
> That said, I prefer to watch new releases alone on days we're closed or after
> the public shows because people are generally annoying. Getting up to use the
> bathroom, dropping things on the wood floor, talking, etc. All the things you
> all hate, I hate too. But we keep a clean theater, have the best popcorn I've
> ever tasted, we're friendly, and I'm renovating things slowly over 2-3 years
> to repair and upgrade this 1937 theater.
>
> We just added a small 2nd screen upstairs so we can show more than one movie
> at a time. 4k laser projector is coming next year with heated recliners too.
>
> The movie industry is not dead and continues to be resilient coming out of
> covid. The downside to this industry is we rely on good movies being
> released. If the studios release a bunch of duds, theaters don't do well. So
> we're at the mercy of the product that shows on our screens.
>
> Top Gun Maverick is one of my favorite movies now! I've seen it 3 times and
> we're bringing it back for a week again starting July 1 because it did so
> well for us in the first 2 weeks we had it. I'll watch it a 4th time.
>
>> On Mon, Jun 27, 2022, 7:22 PM Bill Prince <part15...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Not quite everything for me. For live events that have CC, the CC is about
>> 10-15 seconds behind the actual dialog, so I turn it off because it becomes
>> distracting.
>>
>> Sometimes when they have CC, there is silence after the person has said
>> something that appears to me to be a complete sentence, yet the CC adds some
>> pithy little thing that (I think) they didn't actually say.
>>
>>
>>
>> bp
>> <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com>
>> On 6/27/2022 4:37 PM, Chuck McCown via AF wrote:
>>> I have CC on everything anymore.
>>>
>>> From: Nate Burke
>>> Sent: Monday, June 27, 2022 5:23 PM
>>> To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group
>>> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Movie Review
>>>
>>> Closed Captions, so you can understand what is being said, and Being able
>>> to pause for snack breaks (or rebooting the laundry) far outweigh the draw
>>> of the big screen for us.
>>>
>>> Although, When I stream, is it truly using my 9.2 surround?
>>>
>>> On 6/27/2022 6:15 PM, Bill Prince wrote:
>>>> . And rolling jawbreakers down the isle.
>>>>
>>>> Now that's funny
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> bp
>>>> <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com>
>>>> On 6/27/2022 2:17 PM, Steve Jones wrote:
>>>>> I detest the movie theater. theres always fools with phones on, smacking
>>>>> their lips, talking. God only know what communicable diseases youre
>>>>> catching off the seats. they dont even use real butter anymore.
>>>>>
>>>>> I remember seeing movies like Airplane and whatnot in the theaters and
>>>>> watching people get up and leave at the credits and missing the funny
>>>>> stuff in them. And rolling jawbreakers down the isle.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Jun 27, 2022 at 12:08 PM Bill Prince <part15...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> I've found for the last 10 years or so that "going to the movies" adds
>>>>>> zero to the quality of my life.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Am I an outlier?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> bp
>>>>>> <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com>
>>>>>> On 6/27/2022 9:53 AM, Steven Kenney via AF wrote:
>>>>>>> Go see Maverick. Everything else out there from Hollywood is garbage.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Sun, Jun 26, 2022 at 12:05 AM Chuck McCown via AF <af@af.afmug.com>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>> Elvis
>>>>>>>> Meh
>>>>>>>> Wait for streaming.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Didn’t like how they did the first half.
>>>>>>>> I really thought Elvis ditched Col. Tom Parker before he died, guess
>>>>>>>> not.
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