I recently saw a poll that said 71% of Americans are afraid to go back to the movies. As I was about to turn 42 last weekend, my mortality always in question, I could really see that cinematic fear alive and well at the opening weekend of the Flix Brewhouse, 8590 Broadway Extension.
A mostly lowkey celebration all by my lonesome, I decided on a quiet evening of dinner and a movie at this recently opened restaurant and cinema combo, a theater that is trying to kindle an Alamo Drafthouse explosion of fandom here in Oklahoma City, almost succeeding.
Located near The Oklahoman's old Dark Tower, the parking lot was moderately empty and the lobby something of a ghost town, filled with masked employees selling tickets and tending bar. The movie I wanted to see was Bill and Ted Face the Music and, strangely, this was the only place in the city screening it.