Movie-Going – An Exercise In Planning

What’s all this about movie attendance dropping? In New York at least, getting in to a movie is tough. “In the age of Fandango, premovie advertising and sellouts every weekend, it has become increasingly difficult to simply “catch” a movie. Going to see a film has become an exercise in elaborate planning and, particularly this holiday season – when many big films like “Munich,” “The New World” and most famously “King Kong,” are clocking in at two and a half to three hours – a major time commitment. It’s basically impossible to see a movie spontaneously.”