My Moviegoing Is Over

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/08/opinion/my-moviegoing-is-over.html

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To the Editor:

“A Summer Full of Superflops: Is It the Films or Ticket Buyers?” (front page, Sept. 5) missed all the reasons I rarely go out to a movie anymore.

As a baby boomer, I find that my days of settling in to a short subject, cartoon and B movie with a box of popcorn and some candy are way over. I want to focus on a well-made movie in silence.

Instead, I have to endure a reserved seat where I am stuck, typically around people chomping on their popcorn, fidgeting with candy wrappers, talking and checking the latest text on their cellphones.

I have to sit through more commercials that I can skip at home watching my taped version of the evening news. Well-made animated shorts are no longer worthy of inclusion despite the high ticket prices.

Why not reserve at least a section of the theater for those of us who just want to sit with others in silence? And during those slower hours of the day, why not throw in a short subject and a cartoon and curtail the commercials and previews? I would be a major fan once again.

RONALD E. HELLMAN

New York