{"id":11004,"date":"2019-11-27T07:05:05","date_gmt":"2019-11-27T15:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/?p=11004"},"modified":"2019-12-03T12:17:08","modified_gmt":"2019-12-03T20:17:08","slug":"why-were-thankful-for-movies-and-the-ones-were-thankful-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/movies-to-be-thankful-for\/","title":{"rendered":"Why We’re Thankful For Movies (And The Ones We’re Thankful For)"},"content":{"rendered":"

In honor of Thanksgiving, I thought I’d put together a piece about movies. Specifically, how thankful we are for them. You know how writers do this time of year.<\/p>\n

Movies have always been a huge part of my life<\/a>, shaping who I am almost as much as books. I lived for stories, whether in pages or on the screen, and I’d spend hours rewatching favorite movies over and over again as a kid. The adventures experienced by the Goonies, Westley and Buttercup, Bastien and others were as real to me as the scrapes I got into with my own friends. That feeling has never truly left me: While I’m not much of a crier in reality, I’m often moved to tears by movies at the slightest provocation. Occasionally, I hop into a Lyft or Uber and meet a driver who tells me they “don’t really watch movies” and I’m floored. How can someone not<\/em> want to watch movies?\u00a0Movies are our stories. They’re our histories. They’re our escape and our entertainment, our learning tool and our visual letters to the world.<\/p>\n

But instead of me explaining all that, I thought it might be fun to ask some of my fellow Atom coworkers just why they also love movies so much, and what they mean to them. The answers summed up exactly why it is that movies matter.<\/p>\n

For Julian Bahmani, our video producer and editor, he loves the transformative experience of film:<\/p>\n

More than any other medium, I feel like film is the perfect synthesis of all other art forms to create an experience that you can’t get elsewhere. It brings together music, sound design, stagecraft, choreography, acting, writing, cinematography, art, technology and more in this beautiful confluence and as a creative person who loves exploring all art forms, film presents a unique canvas unlike any other. As a result, the experience of film is emotionally transformative. I find myself leaving great films walking different, talking different, and most importantly thinking different than when I walked in and that’s a beautiful experience.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Macaulay Culkin as Kevin McAllister in ‘Home Alone’<\/p><\/div>\n

Melanie Blume, our copywriter, found herself waxing nostalgic about movies, which have created some of the strongest memories she has:<\/p>\n

Home Alone<\/em>, 1990, Thanksgiving weekend, Lancaster, PA. I was 7, with my sisters, cousins, aunt, uncle, parents and grandparents. Three in that crew have since passed, but the memory brings an unexpected amount of joy. It\u2019s those moments, of being together, and sharing an experience\u2014one I could still feel and cherish three decades later\u2014that\u2019s what I love about movies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Our QA engineer, Stan Sultanov, had a great story about how movies actually helped he and his future wife get back together \u2013 or perhaps more accurately, saved them from a final breakup:<\/p>\n

I\u2019m thankful for movies in general, because it can sometimes be a great art and awesome entertainment. It\u2019s hard to remember any specific movie\u2026 Except maybe Pink Floyd \u2013 The Wall<\/em> by Alan Parker, which once actually brought my wife and I back together.\u00a0We were sitting in the movie theater watching it: Me, my future wife, and my best friend. For whatever stupid reason at the time,\u00a0all three of us thought that they (my friend and her) would going to be more than friends soon, and that we (her and I) were over. Huge drama.\u00a0But sitting there and watching that movie, we somehow both understood that it wasn’t over. I don’t know how to explain it, but that\u2019s it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We’re smack in the middle of the era of cinematic universes. Kids now are growing up with franchises that will shape their lives, a fact that isn’t lost on our social media manager, Derek:<\/p>\n

I’m thankful for cinematic universes. This year alone we’ve had three new installments in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, another chapter in the John Wick franchise, a Fast and Furious spinoff, the start of the Pok\u00e9mon live action universe, and a new Star Wars movie! I love it. I love all of it. The worlds we play in are getting richer and more expansive than ever. It’s a great time to be a nerd.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As a giant Star Wars fan, he’s particularly thankful for getting to grow up in a world where he gets to visit another world entirely, one full of Skywalkers and Jedi, Sith and lightsabers, and heroes ancient and new. “I’m thankful that we get to return to the galaxy far, far away, the one that I grew up loving,” he explained. “We get to further explore the universe and witness the conclusion to the Skywalker Saga with modern-day CGI \u2013 and beyond. Porgs, and BB-8, and baby Yoda!”<\/p>\n