I’m Going To Miss Movie Theaters
The economic impact will be awful. But it’s also not easy saying goodbye to one of life’s little pleasures
The COVID-19 pandemic is affecting society in all kinds of ways, big and small. The last couple of days have been especially dramatic with institutions closing, professional sports events being canceled, and tens of thousands of office employees suddenly forced to work from home. The amount of involuntary social change is a lot to process, as is the worry that these changes may not be temporary.
The news, however, that shook me was the news that big-budget movie releases would be postponed. The latest James Bond movie, No Time To Die, has been pushed back to the fall. F9, the upcoming The Fast & The Furious sequel starring the whole fam, won’t be seen for a year. Disney’s highly-anticipated live-action remake Mulan was just postponed until further notice.
What’s worse, relatively speaking, is, right now, at a theater in Manhattan, there are screenings of Bloodshot, a new Vin Diesel movie based on a comic book about an immortal cyborg assassin. It’s quite obviously a classic. I didn’t go see it because I’m scared. I’m scared of sitting in a movie theater and hearing a wet cough. I’m freaked out over sitting in seats covered in COVID-19, which can survive on…
