Away to the movies!
Sep. 8th, 2017 04:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
osprey_archerI am off to see North by Northwest! Which I somehow missed in both my Cary Grant and my Alfred Hitchcock watching sprees (it must be admitted that I am not a very systematic movie viewer and consider myself to have spreed successfully when I watch three or more movies by/starring one person).
But then it's just as well, because I shall be seeing it on the big screen and that will probably make it all the better. There really is something about seeing a movie in a theater: I rewatched Lego Batman with Julie yesterday, and it's still funny, but it's not as immersively hilarious when you don't have a whole theater chuckling along with you at Batman's commentary over the opening titles, say. ("Black. All important movies start with a black screen.")
I imagine this effect will make Arsenic and Old Lace positively scintillate when we see it on the big screen next month. The whole theater ought to be rocking with laughter.
But then it's just as well, because I shall be seeing it on the big screen and that will probably make it all the better. There really is something about seeing a movie in a theater: I rewatched Lego Batman with Julie yesterday, and it's still funny, but it's not as immersively hilarious when you don't have a whole theater chuckling along with you at Batman's commentary over the opening titles, say. ("Black. All important movies start with a black screen.")
I imagine this effect will make Arsenic and Old Lace positively scintillate when we see it on the big screen next month. The whole theater ought to be rocking with laughter.
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Date: 2017-09-09 04:48 am (UTC)Enjoy!
I would love to see Arsenic and Old Lace in a theater. I grew up on that movie, minus the first five minutes because it was taped off the TV.
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Date: 2017-09-11 04:35 pm (UTC)(Well, you can of course, even he has dud movies. But not Arsenic and Old Lace.)