I will work on it as much as possible!

Thanks for the input!

http://plazaatlanta.wordpress.com/

What they really need at the Plaza is a blog so they can capitalize on (a) the free publicity that concerned blogs give them and (b) to let me know what’s playing.

I found about the 400 Blows screenings the afternoon they happened, and certainly would have made plans to be there if I weren’t already busy by that point.

Additionally, they could have a great Flickr account with things like the Rocky Horror Fridays, the Grease Sing Alongs, and when they have, say, the stars of Hot Fuzz come and talk about the film.

I’m not saying it’ll pay the bills right away, but it would certainly entice me to make a point of buying their popcorn more often.

nope.

maybe 10 people in there.

now, maybe they went to the one other screening that night, but i doubt it.
people are so apathetic.
i love generalizing!!!!!

AND blame-shifting!!!

They do some really creative things over there that I support in theory – I’m happy to post about them here – but I probably won’t patronize (e.g. I’m not really a fan of gore movies, but I think their Splatter Cinema series is a great idea).

But for independent-type movies that don’t run for very long at Tara or Midtown Art, the Plaza is perfect because they’ll pick up those films and show them for a month or more. I think a lot of people are too lazy or busy to get around to catching a film with a two-week run at a larger arthouse theatre so they end up at the Plaza, and no one minds that.

I just realized the above line might seem redundant. What I meant was that the “competition” may offer convenience but it cannot offer the same experience.

I also misspelled “convenience” in the above post. Sorry.

I love The Plaza Theater. A good reason that places like this don’t make it or fold after several decades in business has to do, not with big-box cine-plexes or the fact that they run second-run movies but the fact that even the people who say they like charming, old theaters like The Plaza still have so much of the gotta-have-it-now mentality that they’ll drive to the suburbs to catch a movie on its opening weekend rather than simply wait to see it a month later and enjoying the atmosphere of The Plaza while at the same time supporting a culture they give lip service to.

Look, developers and yuppies are always going to exist. The only real way they win over the culture is by infecting our minds with their cynical, cold, keep-up-with-the-Jone’s attitude. We may say we love the old-timey, two screen theaters but unless we’re actually willing to spend our money there then it’s all just a load of crap.

We wouldn’t accept generic, poster-plant art no matter how convenient or cheap or up-to-date it was so why accept that we must be entertained at the very moment a piece of entertainment is released? We wouldn’t choose fast-food over a gourmet meal that took some time to make,would we? no, because we understand that to enjoy the latter requires some waiting and since we like the experience of the latter, as experience and not simply the act of being fed, we will gladly wait.

Ultimately, when places like this go out of business it’s often not the fault of competition but the fact that they were abandoned by their own customers in favor of convienience.