Over the past few weeks, to many regular moviegoers across the metroplex, I seem to have become the bearer of bad celluloid after incessantly reporting on the handful of various local cinemas that, for one reason or another, have surprisingly shuttered their double-doors, apparently for good.
For once, however, I have a bit of much better news: Norman’s AMC Robinson Crossing 6, 1300 N. Interstate Dr.—a theater that quite literally has seen every incarnation of presentation in this business we call “show”—has formally returned as not only a first run theater, but as a first run theater that will give the larger movie-houses in their general vicinity a run for their, at the very least, box-office dollars.
And while I’m not sure that AMC is properly letting people know about it—I had only recently discovered they had unceremoniously re-opened while looking up Fandango showtimes for the new George Michael-based holiday flick Last Christmas—I clearly remember the many reincarnations of this theater in the past, from an AMC second-run house to a shady indie cinema, so much so that I was eager to see what changes were unquestionably made.
After driving by the place sometime that afternoon and giving it a critical once-over that, really, only a former movie theater manager could ever accomplish, I have to admit I was duly impressed with the lobby, at least; the cleanliness, though it soon may turn, was now truly immaculate and enough to buy a pair of tickets for that evening’s showing, for around ten bucks each.