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Article Excerpt
Netflix has ruined me for the movies-at least old-school, get-out-of-your-pajamas-and-go-to-a-theater-filled-with-other-humans kinds of movies. Instead I multitask: I fold laundry, check e-mail, talk on the phone, watch Transamerica. Like a lot of women, the last time I left the house for a movie was Brokeback Mountain, since it offered the hope of seeing a genuinely openhearted love story, rather than one in which our young lovers are trying to slaughter each other a la Mr. & Mrs. Smith.
Is Hollywood the problem, or is time? This fall, I decided to investigate. My mission: to go to the nearest stadium-seating googolplex and sample every film being shown until I found one I could not leave. Preparation was all. Beside packing a parka and mukluks for the cryogenic-level AC, I need an outfit that would render me invisible to teenage employees as I slithered from auditorium to auditorium. To make certain that employee glances would ricochet immediately off my person, I selected leggings that emphasized jiggly thighs...
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