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    I’ve Figured Out Movies

    Last week, I went to see “The Hunger Games” in theaters, mostly because my wife wanted to, and we don’t get to see movies in the theater very often.  I allocate myself one movie per year usually (this year will be “The Dark Knight Rises”).  This was an exception.  But in going to the theater, I’ve figured out why theaters are dying out, why its so hard to get asses in seats. It’s not what I previously thought, that today’s movies are simply god-awful.  Any movies designed to be a tentpole or even a strut is full of terribly executed, unoriginal junk like Transformers, Twilight, John Carter, Puss in Boots,…