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From Excitement to Hard Pass on Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain
From eagerly wanting to make a rare theater trip to see Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain to actively making sure I never see it
I have confessed often publicly that I don’t enjoy the movie theater experience. At all. There are various reasons for this but the hassle, expense, crowds, and auditory assault of surround sound just isn’t my thing. Those who really enjoy a mass of humanity to share the cinematic experience may go with God and enjoy it but I’m content to wait and just watch at home at my leisure. To cement the point of my uncoolness when it comes to the theater, the last movie I watched at my local theater was the Downton Abbey movie for a 10:30am showing on Sunday morning where my family and I constituted over half the paying audience in the large, modern, stadium-style seating cinema. It was, to me, just about a perfect movie experience, and I’ll happily accept all your slings and arrows of criticism for missing the point of going to the movies.
Perhaps, I thought, post-pandemic I would reconsider my dislike of silver screen entertainment with a throbbing throng of a live audience, push myself, and try to grow a bit as a person. The backlog of titles and coming attractions actually…
