Russell Crowe's thriller 'Unhinged' makes its debut as movie theaters start to reopen across the country; reaction from movie critic Mike Sargent.
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Bring your a game:
cuz youre gonna need it
PETE Russell Crowes latest
movie, unhinged. Opening this
weekend
will the first major movie
release since the start of the
pandemic, but will it draw movie
goers into theaters
Jedediah here to discuss is
MIKE Sargent.
This is a fascinating topic,
because movie theaters were
suffering even before the
pandemic. Then it hit and
really really traumatic for
their industry.
So will this movie unhinged
draw people to the theater right
now?
Well, I think it will.
I think there are people who are
dying to get out dying to go to
the movie theater. Are that
experience?
I think weve all sat at home in
our living rooms watching movies
streaming for a long time, and I
think this is the kind of movie
that plays best with the crowd
now how big those crowds will
be and whether this will safe
the movie save the movie
industry. I think thats
something else
PETE. Can the industry do
special things to entice people
back
AMC trying to get people back
with tickets that just cost fifteen
cents?
Apparently those are sold out
theyre going to up the prices.
After that,
but I mean what can they do
besides put a quality product on
the screen?
Well, I think theyre doing
it.
I think the whole idea here is
youve kind of got to dip your
foot in the soup here in the
bath just to see how hot it is,
and I think everybody going and
buying all these fifteen cent
tickets, even some of them for
old movies. You know,
empire strikes back, was playing.
I think its just the whole idea
of that experience
I mean going to a movie. Is a
communal experience
watching a movie at home? You
think about your most memorable
movie experiences its not when
youre sitting at home watching
a movie its generally with an
a audience,
so I think right now with the
economy being what it is and
people unsure of the future a
cheap movie ticket, I think, is
a very enticing thing.
Will you know MIKE? I spent
much of the last couple of
months in quarantine in
Tennessee
my nephews went to the drive in
movie. Theater
WAL Mart has recognized it
converting many of its parking
lots into drive in theaters.
Do you think this is momentary
or are they on their way back?
I think that theyre on their
way back,
if you go to the WAL Mart
Drive in sites every single
screening at every single
theater sold out until October.
This program ends in October.
So I think yes, I think there
are a lot of people. You know
myself included. I can remember
vaguely when I was a cud e going
to a drive in, but I think a lot
of people would love the that I
appearance of going to a
drive in movie
and again, something thats
been missing from our lives is
socializing,
so a new way of socializing I
mean drive ins lasted a really
long time in this country, so
yeah. I think I think, theyre
definitely making their a way
back
will drive in movie theaters
you dont stream, you dont sit
at home, you get in your car
PETE I knew WAL Mart did a lot
of things. I didnt see the
drive in movie theater coming.
I really didnt.
The most surprising thing to
me is that everybody you have
to have an FM radio
wow. I didnt know people
still
PETE to hear the audio for the.
Transcript generated on 2020-08-23.