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Old 07-09-2023, 07:03 AM
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In many ways the Villages developers act like a governmental entity.
Of course they do. Anyone who thinks otherwise is indeed a sucker.
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Old 07-09-2023, 08:18 AM
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In many ways the Villages developers act like a governmental entity.
Government is the least efficient operating entity. Plus government does not make or sell a product.

The Developer is exactly the opposite of government.
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Old 07-09-2023, 08:37 AM
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Government is the least efficient operating entity. Plus government does not make or sell a product.

The Developer is exactly the opposite of government.
They make and sell all kinds of products. We just often have to buy them.

And I would call this shutting down of two movie theaters while claiming to have three open ones is very bad for publicity.

I am very biased though towards movies as have loved going to a big screen theater since the 1960s. Patton's opening scene really needs a very big screen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PS5yfhPGaWE

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Old 07-09-2023, 09:34 AM
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They make and sell all kinds of products. We just often have to buy them.

And I would call this shutting down of two movie theaters while claiming to have three open ones is very bad for publicity.

I am very biased though towards movies as have loved going to a big screen theater since the 1960s. Patton's opening scene really needs a very big screen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PS5yfhPGaWE
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Thanks. Met a lot of great people here in the Villages. Two of my favorites were a Spanish and a French teacher. Think they taught at the high school level. The male Spanish teacher married the French female teacher. He was very much involved with Villages' affairs in this area of the Villages. He loved war movies and trivia and the like. They moved to help family members.

I never tried practicing my Spanish nor my French with them though.

He went to meetings and the like.

The Villages sure has changed in the 18 years we have been here.

There was only the Rialto open when we moved in June of 2005. Prior to the Rialto I think it was a big bed sheet in a parking lot north of US 441/27. That was the Villages movie theater. Probably a projector and a bed sheet with rope or maybe taped to a building.
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Old 07-09-2023, 01:19 PM
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I did think I might be getting some where with all my myriad of letters and the like when the guy behind me at the Petaluma, CA movie theater asked "Did you see that?" when the 612 showed up on the test vial in the Sonoma County, CA and other county filmed or at least the production was prepared in the movie Outbreak. Outbreak - Rotten Tomatoes

I had never seen the guy that I was aware of but he could have been from the Red Lion Inn and their contingent of various movie production trailers that were about 150 feet out or back door across the fairway.

I used 613 a lot on these mailings as well as 224. 613 is my number in a 17 week study on stress on the unemployed conducted at the University of California San Francisco Health Sciences Campus in December 1992 through March 1993. I drove down to SF from Rohnert Park, CA four times to give blood for testing as well as chat with my interviewer at UCSF about my life and work and the like. I did show her a bunch of letters received and sent. She waited until I was done with the study to compliment me on what I was doing.

Part of why I love movies so much. And a lot of people over the years have told me to try to get Hollywood involved with my story.

I gave a bunch of correspondence to a detective in Pinellas County Florida around 2002 and he often would remind me as a joke of his name which was the same as a studio in LA. I interacted a little bit with two Criminal Intelligence Detectives in 2002 after I went down in person and demanded to talk to someone.

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Indiana Jones and the “Dial of Destiny” is now on my streaming app
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Old 07-09-2023, 09:05 PM
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Indiana Jones and the “Dial of Destiny” is now on my streaming app
Fun movie, great special effects, the story _____ decide for yourself.
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Petition * Reopen Barnstorm Theater to Provide Adequate Public Theater in Brownwood, The Village FL! * Change.org

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Old 07-11-2023, 12:47 PM
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My wife and I have not gone to a movie since 2005 and I doubt we will ever go to one again, so we do not care if there are movie theaters.

We enjoy sitting in our recliner sofa and watching movies in our home. My hearing is not that great, so we always use the closed captions. Life is very good for us and we hope your lives are very good as well.
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My wife and I have not gone to a movie since 2005 and I doubt we will ever go to one again, so we do not care if there are movie theaters.

We enjoy sitting in our recliner sofa and watching movies in our home. My hearing is not that great, so we always use the closed captions. Life is very good for us and we hope your lives are very good as well.
I doubt if the new Mission Impossible movie looks all that good on a TV screen. You really need a movie theater screen or something even bigger like IMAX to experience the film. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One | Official Website | Only In Theatres Wednesday
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I doubt if the new Mission Impossible movie looks all that good on a TV screen. You really need a movie theater screen or something even bigger like IMAX to experience the film. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One | Official Website | Only In Theatres Wednesday
Your right but not enough movies like this are being made to justify opening up theaters.
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Old 07-11-2023, 02:18 PM
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My wife and I have not gone to a movie since 2005 and I doubt we will ever go to one again, so we do not care if there are movie theaters.

We enjoy sitting in our recliner sofa and watching movies in our home. My hearing is not that great, so we always use the closed captions. Life is very good for us and we hope your lives are very good as well.
Last time I was at a movie, people were talking and texting throughout the movie. You can’t pause and rewind at the theater. You miss dialogue and it is not that enjoyable.

I agree that seeing some movies in a big theater makes the experience more enjoyable Star Wars, Indiana Jones, etc. However, it is hard to find a movie with a large screen. We have the multiplex theaters where the screens are significantly smaller than the single screen that I grew up with.
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Last time I was at a movie, people were talking and texting throughout the movie. You can’t pause and rewind at the theater. You miss dialogue and it is not that enjoyable.

I agree that seeing some movies in a big theater makes the experience more enjoyable Star Wars, Indiana Jones, etc. However, it is hard to find a movie with a large screen. We have the multiplex theaters where the screens are significantly smaller than the single screen that I grew up with.

I recall going to a Tampa IMAX to see one of The Matrix movies with my nephew and his best friend and the screen must have been 40 feet high or near there. And there are IMAX screens much bigger than that.

I had friends at a local dog park too who often went to an IMAX in Orlando to see blockbuster movies.

The screens at the Barnstorm were some of the biggest in this area. Those at the Rialto left a lot to be desired for size.
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