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I think I've aged around 20 years thanks to the pandemic — spiritually speaking — but between the long walks around the neighborhood, the Saturday nights always in and the many afternoons spent reading murder mysteries, I'm a model retiree who happens to have a full-time job. Before everything went sideways I used to go to the movies about once a week, sometimes more depending on press screenings and the calendar of releases. There were also weekly dinners out and frequent goings to theater plays, concerts and museums. But let's not get distracted by my sad, currently nonexistent social life.
During this past year and a half, I've gotten used to the comfort of watching movies from home, be it for professional purposes because I need to review them or just as a perfectly good way of spending a Saturday evening. There's something alluring about not having to commute to a crowded theater, not having to hassle with parking or with public transportation, and just sitting — or lying — on the couch at home, blanket on my knees, a soothing mug of rooibos tea in my hand and the doggie not far away. I know, I'm a picture-perfect retiree.
It's not like I haven't been to the movies at all during this time; I wrote about how much I enjoyed A Quiet Place IIin part because it was my first movie in a theater in more than 14 months. Although, the fact that John Krasinski made his film one hour and 37 minutes long and I could be home early also contributed to my enjoyment. I don't particularly appreciate long movies that keep me out of the house after my 9:30 p.m. bedtime.
I should add that I'm still a bit reluctant to resume indoor activities due to the ongoing pandemic. And even though I live in a part of the country that hasn't been a hot spot for a few weeks, for the most part, I've preferred to limit my moviegoing to press screenings that rarely are full and where people are only unmasked while consuming popcorn. I know I'm not the only one still cautious. I overheard one of my critic colleagues saying "I just don't want to be too close to anybody" when choosing where to sit for the viewing of The Eyes of Tammy Faye. I too was sitting as far away from everyone as possible.
Critics have been divided about this. Some of them have resumed their professional activities by attending fall movie festivals like Toronto and New York in person. Others, like myself, have preferred to "join" TIFF and NYFF's virtual options. Although, unlike last year, most marquee titles haven't been available for streaming even for the accredited festival press. The industry is eager to go back to normal.
There's Thirst for Movies in Theaters
I'm perfectly aware that the idea of watching a movie at home is not exactly new. Before Netflix started releasing at least one new film per week we had iTunes rentals, and before that there were DVDs and VHS tapes. But we're at a point now where streaming technology paired with bigger and higher-quality TV sets, plus the pandemic, has made it possible for certain movies to be simultaneously released in theaters and at home at the same time. When that happens, the cinematic experience a movie captures really needs to shine for it to justify the extra inconvenience that represents going to the theater. A Quiet Place IIor even No Time to Die call for the big movie theater outing, but something like The Many Saints of Newark makes for the perfect date night in. We all watched the Sopranosat home anyway.
Not everyone seems as eager to stay home like me, though. The antihero sequel Venom: Let There Be Carnage, which opened exclusively in theaters on October 1, amassed $100 at the domestic box office during its first five days of release, hinting at the appetite that part of the audience has for these big spectacle movies.
I realize even if I'm still a bit young for retirement, my age is a contributing factor as to why I don't feel so compelled to leave the house on a Friday night. Especially when the type of grownup indie films I tend to enjoy are so easily available on streaming platforms, which could be a problem for art-house cinemas.
"The art-house audience is more mature, and that demographic has so far not been eager to return to cinemas," explained distributor Richard Abramovitz in a recent article for The New York Times, adding that if COVID-19 continues, we'll lose more art-house movie theaters. And I think that's a bleak but good prognostication. We're talking about an audience that had already increasingly favored in-home entertainment during the peak TV era since many shows offer nuanced, complex, diverse and sophisticated stories.
There's still a massive public out there willing to go to the cinema to watch Marvel's Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings or DC's The Suicide Squad. But when it comes to indie releases like The Card Counterwith Oscar Isaac, I'll probably wait until it's available on streaming. And I really appreciated that one of my favorite movies of the year so far, Apple's CODA, could be watched from home.
I'm curious to see what happens as fall movie season takes over and we see the release of trophy contenders that have more budget than some indie movies and pack more spectacle but, at the same time, aren't part of any big franchise or don't have any recognizable I.P. (intellectual property) attached to them. I'm talking about Ridley Scott's upcoming The Last Duelwith Jodie Comer and Adam Driver, or even Wes Anderson's star-packed The French Dispatch. Although most titles that'll be released from now until the holiday season either have a big name/brand attached to them — Spenceris the story of Princess Diana, King Richardfocuses on Venus and Serena Williams' dad — or they'll be out almost simultaneously on streaming — or both.
Moviegoing may have changed for good. Meanwhile, I'm feeling lazy because I have dinner plans tonight, but what I really wanted to do was stay in and watch the season finale of Ted Lasso.
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