While waiting to witness a neighbor executing some documents, I was talking to a couple of paralegals who had come out from his attorney's office. One was from Graham, one from Apex (which tells you something already about the affordability of Chapel Hill real estate and its perverse impact on sustainability -- they have to drive in to their jobs).
I started talking to the one from Graham about their awesome downtown, and asked in particular the movie theater there. She said it was nice, and I like it's business model: $4 tickets, $6 all you can eat soda and popcorn, self-serve ("as much butter as you want.") She also said the movie theater has a balcony. That is kicking it old school indeed. (picture below slightly dated)
I asked if it did good business, and she said that right now it was showing "God's Not Dead" and that it had lines around the corner.
Having not heard of the movie, I looked it up. "God's Not Dead" is a typical story of the culture wars: it narrates the tale of a Christian kid in college who is being oppressed by radical secularism, and then debates his leftist professor on the existence of God and wins. Some people die, but are born again beforehand, etc. Panned by the mainstream press, it's been a big box office smash, raking in $41 mln in 4 weeks on a budget of $2 mln. Certainly it speaks to the hunger of small-town, Christian America for cultural production that speaks to them.
The theater also shows other stuff, so I'm gonna keep my eye out for something I'd like.
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