If theaters are dying, I want to say I will miss them - and I will! - but if I'm being honest, I can't remember the last fully positive movie-going experience I've had. Sticky floors, pee-scented restrooms, phone users, crying babies, the stench of fake butter & $10 Cokes

I LOVE a good communal experience at the theater; people reacting, calling out, interacting with the film, even panning it out loud. But I won't miss the dudes who spend the whole movie explaining it to their inexplicably patient girlfriends.

If we go out to a mid-range restaurant, spend 60 bucks, didn't love our meals but enjoyed good service and ambience, we'd consider going back. But if you get lousy service in a poorly managed space and the meal wasn't great, it's hard to justify going back and spending again.

I've seen plenty of plays I didn't love, but unless it was some struggling art theater where you're meant to keep your expectations low, I always left appreciative of how hard everyone worked to give me an experience. You don't get that with movies, I'm sorry to say.

It would be a terrible thing for movie theaters to die, but it's well past time for them to rethink their model and the experience they're delivering to their customers.