I worked in a movie theatre for six years in high school and college.
While this doesn’t make me anything close to a movie expert, I like to think it’s given me a leg up when it comes to movie knowledge.
The first summer I worked there, The Dark Knight came out. I saw it ten times in theatres.
Because, you know, free movies.
While I can never watch it again, The Dark Knight taught me three things:
- There are no words to adequately describe Christopher Nolan’s brilliance;
- 2D IMAX movies are far superior to 3D IMAX movies (which has only been proven wrong once: Avatar); and
- Nothing is comparable to a Chris Nolan IMAX movie.
Needless to say, I was extremely geeked when I found out that Christopher Nolan was directing Interstellar. Not only was it a movie about the cosmos that was going to be released in IMAX 2D, it was also being released in select (a whopping total of 41) theatres in 70mm IMAX film.
Oh, and the theatre I used to work at was chosen as one of those 41 theatres.
I was seriously geeked.
