When pressed, the moviegoer will be released from the coffin.
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No moviegoer would notice it, but that wasn't the point.
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Moviegoer interest in "Amazing Grace" will most likely be strong.
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Why should a moviegoer choose The Mummy over any of those?
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But those concerns are ultimately inside baseball for the average moviegoer.
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"The Communist Party is great!" exclaimed one moviegoer I spoke with.
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As a moviegoer it makes us feel that we can do it.
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An earlier version of this article misspelled the surname of a moviegoer.
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A man threw popcorn at a fellow-moviegoer, who pulled out a .
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In one scene of Walker's The Moviegoer, Binx Bolling goes on a date.
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A sensitive only child, from an early age he was an inveterate moviegoer.
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Nothing is more promisingly solid, to the moviegoer, than a major Spielberg production.
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I wasn't a big moviegoer and this has completely transformed my habits overnight.
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But it's always useful to know where a moviegoer stands with these people.
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Elizabeth Banks has stirred up some controversy over recent comments about moviegoer preferences.
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It's impossible for an ordinary moviegoer, even an avid movie lover, to cope.
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But Disney's reach is much more vast than the average moviegoer might realize.
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A frequent moviegoer is defined as someone who goes at least once a month.
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To get big, you had to go beyond the moviegoer who goes a lot.
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The new plan isn't going to make things any clearer for the average moviegoer.
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Honestly, as a moviegoer, when everything is explained to me, it's a little boring.
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"Hollywood can no longer afford to take any moviegoer for granted," Mr. Bock said.
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What more can a moviegoer ask for from a candy cane-sweet holiday film?
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A ticket sale doesn't guarantee that a moviegoer didn't walk out early in disgust.
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But, as an avid moviegoer, it's not always easy to decide which theater to visit.
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Yeah, but I'm not thinking about the audience—I'm thinking about me as a moviegoer.
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The average moviegoer probably wouldn't notice a difference without seeing these images side by side.
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If you're a moviegoer, why on Earth would you want to watch something like that?
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"This is not a Chinese dragon," one Chinese moviegoer told The Baltimore Sun in 1999.
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The MPA's 2018 THEME report explains that the average moviegoer bought five tickets in 2018.
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Their biggest strategy isn't super obvious to the average moviegoer, but very clear to critics.
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However, if you want to be a more discerning moviegoer, you can visit this cheat sheet.
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But if you were a critic or a frequent moviegoer, all this variety was good news.
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Sinemia is a good MoviePass alternative if you're not a frequent, multiple-times-per-week moviegoer.
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MoviePass a true win-win-win situation for the moviegoer, the movie studios and the theaters.
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But with lackluster reviews, the average moviegoer just had no reason to give them a chance.
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For the avid moviegoer, MoviePass is the clear winner — you're only paying $9.95 to see all seven.
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The average teen-ager, the moviegoer of the future, sees six films a year in the theatre.
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Without the auteurs or marquee titles of those festivals, Tribeca can leave the average moviegoer lost for guidance.
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Like any invested reader (or moviegoer), she begins to care about this fictional character, to worry and weep.
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My answer has always been yes, because for the right kind of moviegoer, the service offers a tremendous value.
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So I just want to make the kind of film that I would love to see as a moviegoer.
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The moviegoer reportedly started having trouble breathing, so she was rushed to the hospital where she was given oxygen.
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According to the Motion Picture Association of America, the average moviegoer goes to the movies five times a year.
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And as in "The Moviegoer," Catholic catechisms come and go as quick as rain showers, and just as insubstantial.
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Caveat: I am a notoriously jumpy moviegoer who spent most of Scream 4 with my head in my hands.
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I'll be a lot happier as a moviegoer if future entries in the franchise learn the lessons Black Panther teaches.
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It's not fair to the moviegoer that they'd have to find out the details of this unexplained thing somewhere else.
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Maintaining moviegoer interest in a 813-year-old entertainment franchise, which was originally designed for television audiences, is not easy.
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All her life, Susan Sontag, a voracious moviegoer, insisted on sitting in the same seat in theaters: third row, center.
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If that moviegoer saw all the Marvel movies that year, that leaves room on the table for two more movies.
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Ashley, a runner and avid moviegoer, recalls a time a newly minted realtor approached them after dinner in their Texas neighborhood.
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How long this person survives in A Quiet Place: right after the announcer The Talk About Everything But The Movie-Moviegoer.
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"The regular moviegoer will not really be deterred by this controversy," said Shailesh Kapoor, whose company Ormax Media tracks Indian releases.
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A moviegoer chooses, spending money or not, and it's a business, so revenue rises or falls based on this democratic process.
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But for the casual moviegoer, how review aggregators work, what they measure, and how they affect ticket sales can be mysterious.
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"What the moviegoer can do is support film and support film that has diversity of storytelling and you're favorite actors," she explained.
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With their chiseled jaws, bulging biceps and sparkling smiles, how is the average moviegoer supposed to tell Chris Pratt from Chris Pine?
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For white Americans, The Birth of a Nation may be one of the most uncomfortable viewing experiences a moviegoer can have this year.
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Just one year ago, the average moviegoer might not have recognized the foul-mouthed mercenary named Deadpool behind this month's latest superhero movie.
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Sandy Hafer, an L.A. moviegoer, claims the boxes are only 60% full, and people don't know they're paying for a bunch of air.
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Even the "waves" of attacks themselves aren't anything a frequent moviegoer hasn't seen before — tsunamis, plagues, your run-of-the-mill natural disasters.
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"Zootopia," which delighted critics with its low-high approach to topics like racism (err, speciesism), drew moviegoer hooves in droves over the weekend.
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Just for a minute, she looks like a moviegoer, waiting, with a thumping pulse, for the show, and all its wonders, to begin.
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Another moviegoer, Christina Ku, 30, a copywriter, said she didn't understand the outcry because women had long been denied various rights, like voting.
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Video of the proposal was shared by a moviegoer on Instagram too, showing Elba on one knee before standing and being embraced by Dhowre.
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But after nearly two decades of conflict, even the dullest moviegoer knows that flying F/A-18s is more deliveryman than steely-eyed killer.
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While a number of Hollywood movies are getting delayed due to concerns about moviegoer attendance, Tinder's decision was really more about its show's content.
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"This is the real history of the Democratic Party," said David Wadsworth, one moviegoer, who currently serves as clerk of courts in Medina County.
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"Brands still matter, but you have to have content that delivers and offers the moviegoer an exciting in-theater experience," Dergarabedian told CNN Business.
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Your gift will ensure I need not go without food for two hours — a hardship no one, moviegoer or not, should have to endure.
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Frank Bascombe, the protagonist of Richard Ford's powerful new novel, is a sportswriter the way Walker Percy's famous hero, Binx Bolling, was a moviegoer.
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"Featurette" is industry lingo for a film that's not a short but not full-length either, though your average moviegoer likely wouldn't know that.
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Folks chew noticeably slower, people's whispers sounded louder and suddenly, a film about silence managed to let me know where every shitty moviegoer was sitting.
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I would have laughed, but I didn't want to bother the lone moviegoer who represented the other half of The Masked Saint's audience that evening.
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This novel begins with an epigraph from "The Moviegoer" ("Businessmen are our only metaphysicians") and it shares some of that novel's buoyant yet searching tone.
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"All the nervousness built around the film" made the experience particularly unsettling, one moviegoer, Etai Benson, wrote in an online exchange with the news agency.
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"Beanpole" begins to take shape barely 20 minutes in, after a horrifying incident that will be hard to stomach for even the most steeled moviegoer.
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As MoviePass has pulled back its movie-theater subscription service to cater to the casual moviegoer, Sinemia wants to be the new home for power users.
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Fans of the video games will find a host of allusions, but there's plenty to please any moviegoer who can't tell a Sega from a Switch.
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Another moviegoer was sentenced to three years in prison under the same law for not standing during the royal anthem in 2008, according to Prachatai English.
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As in "The Moviegoer," they reach for family ties — fraying, disintegrating, even in the once tightly connected South — as an instinctive response to their spiritual vertigo.
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In "The Moviegoer", Walker Percy's existential novel of 1961, the war-veteran narrator, Binx Bolling, perambulates around New Orleans and its cinemas in a quest for meaning.
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For a certain generation of moviegoer (including this author), "The Dark Crystal" was an eye-opening introduction to the darker, explicitly fantastic side of Jim Henson's genius.
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Carol Danvers, the woman who becomes the titular character in Captain Marvel, however, does not share the same real estate in the minds of the average moviegoer.
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With wireless headphones, comfortable seats, current and past movies, popcorn, street food, and amazing cocktails — it's really one of the city's coolest nights out for an avid moviegoer.
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Studies have proven female directors are rarely chosen for big budget films, and the average moviegoer can clearly see there aren't nearly enough people of color on screen.
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As any moviegoer knows, at the end of the cattle drive, the buckaroos celebrate at the saloons, gambling, drinking and being entertained with barrelhouse piano and dancing girls.
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Press reports also stated that Gilliam had to fight the studio on a final cut of the movie, which may have dissuaded the average moviegoer from attending the film.
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And they may find themselves in a reserved seat next to a fellow moviegoer who chooses to spend those two hours answering texts and fave-ing pictures on Instagram.
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There's also an effort to thank the moviegoer and have gratitude also be a thematic part of the show, all tying into 90 years of people going to the movies.
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As always, the hottest months of the year bring some of the biggest Hollywood blockbusters and friendliest family fare any moviegoer is ready to spend their hard-earned cash on.
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But if you've been even a casual moviegoer over the past 20 years, there's a good chance you've either seen a Soderbergh movie or seen a movie influenced by Soderbergh.
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Richard Nixon disliked "All in the Family" and was an avid moviegoer, who according to Mark Feeney's surprising book "Nixon at the Movies," watched about 500 films during his presidency.
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"There's a reason there are ads up there saying turn off your phone, because today's moviegoer doesn't want somebody sitting next to them texting or having their phone on," Aron said.
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Ticket sales are always an interesting data point for industry observers and analysts, but the weekly, monthly, annual, and all-time jockeying doesn't really mean so much to your average moviegoer.
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"But it is difficult to imagine the studio not rethinking its creative strategy for DC films if moviegoer word of mouth lines up with the critics' opinions on "Batman v Superman.
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The names in this 210th-anniversary retrospective — which is divided into four programs of shorts — read like a roll call of filmmakers any moviegoer interested in the avant-garde should know.
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"It ruins the spontaneity and the pure adrenaline rush you get when you run down the aisle, seats open and ripe for the taking," one moviegoer told The New York Times.
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After a moviegoer apparently vomited during a Los Angeles screening of the French coming-of-age cannibal flick, "Raw," the theater began handing out barf bags, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
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With surging advance ticket sales, thanks partially to the positive critics' reactions from this week's first screenings, it's clear that this 'Cap' has the right stuff when it comes to moviegoer appeal.
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"There's a reason there are ads up there saying turn off your phone, because today's moviegoer doesn't want somebody sitting next to them texting or having their phone on," he told Variety.
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Another moviegoer, Etai Benson, said the loud man was sitting beside him at the start of the movie and poured what appeared to be a full bottle of alcohol into a drink.
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Movie producer Wyman agreed that with the upcoming release of these holiday blockbusters, the movie industry would breathe a sigh of relief and see its coffers filled with moviegoer dollars yet again.
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And to many a casual moviegoer, gingham-clad Judy Garland peaking out of that sepia-toned house into a bright and verdant Oz might seem like the first—and last—big leap forward.
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Obviously Pete's Dragon is more commercial than A Ghost Story, but when making them, I'm just trying to tell a story that matters to me, that ultimately would satisfy me as a moviegoer.
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I'm a generally phlegmatic moviegoer, but the first time I saw Hereditary I yelped a lot, and very nearly crawled under my seat once or twice, to the bemusement of my viewing companions.
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Henry is a droll and chivalrous if mild fellow who may remind some readers of Binx Bolling, the New Orleans stockbroker who is the protagonist of Walker Percy's classic novel "The Moviegoer" (1961).
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If you were a moviegoer in the late '203s, I wouldn't blame you for thinking the best way to deal with an apocalyptic-size asteroid hurtling toward Earth is to blow it to smithereens.
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Embedding the emotional costs of enslavement in Morrison's powerful language, Beloved spoke American history at the level of heart and gut, transforming the institution of slavery into tragedy with resonance for every reader and moviegoer.
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" The book nods to Walker Percy's "The Moviegoer," though Henry's despair is not spiritual alienation but "metaphysical dislocation," a melancholy brought on by being "another among legions of puny figurines in the vast synthetic exhibit.
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" It's a sweeping look at the monumental rise of the man who uplifted the film world into a realm of fantasy, causing many a moviegoer to ask, "How can I get an imagination like that?
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We know what a "Pixar" movie is, or a "Disney" movie, but we don't really think about the individuals within those companies, unless you're the type of hardcore moviegoer who's already predisposed to explore movie credits.
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But Disney — noticing renewed moviegoer interest in movie properties from the 1980s and 1990s, with Universal's monster hit "Jurassic World" as Exhibit A — has now turned its focus to a resuscitation of the "Indiana Jones" brand.
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But history tells us that for the average American moviegoer, viewing Chan as a serious actor is a tough sell, despite the decades of experience he has had as a Hong Kong director, actor, and stunt coordinator.
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In his best-known work, 1960's The Moviegoer, stockbroker Binx Bolling moves through his post-war suburban existence, full of existential confusion and convinced the post-war culture of picture shows and supper clubs is lazy and mediocre.
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It transpires that he has had Special Forces training, and what's interesting is how little that avails him—or anyone else—in his hour of need, and how exasperated you feel, as a moviegoer, by his lack of initiative.
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A moviegoer might think: Why see a small-scale family drama like Marriage Story in a theater for a ticket that costs as much as the Netflix subscription you'll be able to view the movie with a month later?
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Today's tentpole movies are so expensive that they cannot take risks on untested concepts, and they have to appeal to just about everyone — or at least every potential moviegoer — not only in the United States but in the entire world.
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But War Machine's injuries aside, I've been able to watch the movie twice now, and I found myself having two pretty different reactions depending on which hat I put on: the emotional moviegoer (it's a visor), or the journalist (fedora, obviously).
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It isn't — Mendes and the cinematographer Roger Deakins employ all manner of clever methods to stitch together a great many different shots — but the average moviegoer won't be able to spot the tells, and the you-are-there verisimilitude is potent.
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While official coverage of the film by the Chinese media was positive ー a moviegoer told Xinhua that it motivated young people in China to "strive for (their) Chinese dream " ー media outlets outside of the mainland adopted a different tone.
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He explains — in a scene that I guarantee will make the most cynical moviegoer weep — that as long as Bailey has money and power he will never lack for people to protect him, that it is, indeed, a wonderful life.
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This story isn't wholly unlike what happened to director Greta Gerwig in May, when she went to see a movie and had all her actions — the laughs, the groans, what she ate, what she drank, her behavior — live-blogged by a fellow moviegoer.
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The bottom line: That $30 ticket (New York price) is well worth it for any moviegoer who isn't afraid to get wet and is OK with feeling a bit woozy after a somewhat jarring and jolting ride in his or her seat.
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In "Eveningland" as in "The Moviegoer" — also for that matter as in Richard Ford's "The Sportswriter," another accomplished book that paid tribute to Percy — the characters are afflicted with the sort of double-dose malaise it seems only prosperity or comfort can generate.
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The average movie ticket price in the U.S. has risen to over $9 according to the National Association of Theater Owners, meaning, if you're already a big moviegoer and live near an AMC theater, Stubs A-List basically pays for itself after three flicks.
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Just days after the hearing, CSPI nutritionist Jayne Hurley breathlessly warned professional moviegoer Roger Ebert that a large popcorn had the same amount of fat as "six Big Macs"—more saturated fat than a human is supposed to consume over the course of three days.
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But you might nonetheless feel like an older kind of moviegoer while you're watching it: an adult, for one thing, whose intelligence is respected by an intricate, thematically thorny plot even as your thirst for visceral excitement is slaked by clean and breathless action sequences.
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We don't know what the Circle's software really does, and we don't know why it's taken over; it's possible the screenplay is counting on us to fill in the blanks with our knowledge of Google and Facebook, but that seems like a tall order for your average moviegoer.
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"While most of our plans are focused on the modern moviegoer who sees one, two, or three movies each month, we want to serve every type of movie lover and that includes frequent moviegoers looking for an unlimited tickets option," said Rifat Oguz, CEO and founder of Sinemia in the release.
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Has it really been 56 years since the publication of Percy's National Book Award-winning novel, "The Moviegoer," wherein the New Orleans executive Binx Bolling drifts between work and play in existential torpor, trying with limited success to find points of attachment in the world before returning, ultimately, to family?
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For your average moviegoer, there's one big reason: The 10-day festival is the unofficial kick-off to the "prestige movie season" — which means keeping an eye on what's buzzy at TIFF may tell you a lot about what performances and movies will be part of awards chatter later in the year.
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Steve Rogers drove me crazy in this movie The emotional moviegoer in me was fully on-board with Tony Stark throughout this entire film — but not because of his guilt-driven decision to support the Sokovia Accords (though I understood why he, feeling adrift without Pepper, would have gone down that path).
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For your average moviegoer, there's one big reason: The 10-day festival is the unofficial kick-off to the "prestige movie season" — which means that keeping an eye on what's buzzy at TIFF may tell you a lot about what performances and movies will be part of awards chatter later in the year.
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At this point in the summer, it's all too easy for a regular moviegoer to get the blockbuster blues — that weary and slightly exasperated feeling of having seen too many sequels and reboots and computer-generated explosions, too many green-screen sets and superheroes and motion-capture creatures, too many nostalgic reimaginings and 3D movies with one-dimensional characters.
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And too often, those who most loudly advocate for preserving the magic of the theatrical experience aren't having the same experience as the average moviegoer; filmmakers, industry executives, and (yes) critics see movies for free, at premieres and festivals and media screenings, in spiffed-up venues, cozy private screening rooms, or even (gasp) fancy home cinemas.
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Bridge of Spies There are many intense, powerful moments in Bridge of Spies, moments that will make you feel all kind of emotions, but you won't so much cry at Bridge of Spies as you will delicately wipe away tears from your cheeks with a perfectly folded handkerchief (because this is a classy period drama, and you are a very classy moviegoer). 4.
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"Despite being a typically slow weekend at the box office, the good news for the industry is that a massive global audience will be exposed to trailers for some of the biggest upcoming films of 2020 during the Super Bowl and that should pay future dividends to the studios who are betting big on these spots to spark social media buzz and moviegoer excitement," he said.
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I walked over to stand where Ms. Hepburn did in the film's final scene, as the princess prepared to bid farewell to Rome, to Mr. Peck, and to a room full of real journalists drafted to fill out the press conference — and although I have been a moviegoer since I was a child, I was not prepared for how delighted I would be to be exactly there, surrounded by make-believe memories.
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