Will Audiences Return to Movie Theaters? Yes! But It’s Now a Culture War Issue (Column)

'It’s become trendy to say that we’re now going to watch movies turn into the equivalent of theater, books, of something else that’s still vital but less culturally dominant,' writes OwenGleiberman

, played by Beck Bennett with a SoCal-by-way-of-Brooklyn stupido Toretto growl , hawking the latest “Fast and Furious” film by welcoming everyone back to that thing we know and love and have all missed so much…, talking wistfully about the “the carpet, the cup holders…the eight-dollar bottle of water…the butter machine that shoots out something that doesn’t look like butter…the Aerosmith arcade game, the garbage that has a hole that’s a little too small to put your garbage in…the little trivia...

That’s why the Memorial Day box office returns felt not just like an indicator, but an early salvo of that war. The $48 million taken in by “

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