I think TADC movie screening will save the movie industry.
I invited a coworker and his son to watch the TADC finale on opening night and ended up helping to babysit five 11 year olds, his son's friends. I accepted because going to the movies with more people is more fun.
Of course I expected the audience to be annoying and they were. Everybody was very loud and yelled a lot of inappropriate things. I was prepared for that. What I wasn't prepared for was the epiphany watching the 11 year old next to me. She laughed, yelled, cried, and sang along with the rest of the audience. At the most intense part of the story, she covered her face and started hyperventilating and said, "I can't believe this is happening."
At that moment, I saw myself at the age of 11 at the premier of the Goblet of Fire. Yes, we no longer speak of this franchise, but that day is still special to me. It was the last time I was invested in a storied franchise, was promised a good movie, and watched a fucking good movie with an equally excited audience that dressed up for the occasion.
Movie franchises have been so ass lately that my best theater memory was 21 years ago. Because of the declining theater industry and the pandemic, the screening for TADC was literally the best movie screening in these 11 year olds' lives, safely assuming they didn't have a theater experience before the age of 5 when the pandemic started.
The TADC finale screening is so good, it will encourage these children to continue going to the movies, the same way the HP series did to me. On top of all this, they proved to Hollywood that content like this makes money. This is how I think TADC saves the movie industry.
