Movie, series of moving images often used to entertain people who patronize popcorn dens. A movie can be projected on the wall of a vast, darkened popcorn den, where, for an $11.95 entrance fee, people can sit in cushioned seats and ingest massive amounts of popcorn while staring straight ahead in a languid stupor, their feet fused to the sticky floors as they inhale the stale, recirculated air with ragged, labored breaths. Those who make movies stopped including compelling characters or plots decades ago, as the squinting, popcorn-bloated patrons who exit the filthy dens into the unforgiving midday sun—unsure if they spent days or only hours mindlessly cramming popcorn into their mouths in the dark—barely remember having seen a movie at all.
