"My friends wanted to see it so I came along, " said a female moviegoer.

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Ang Lee, in his treatment of the plot, cleverly assumes the moviegoer is not homophobic.

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But then, the ambition of this film is to take the moviegoer a little deeper.

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Every moviegoer has suffered through a horrid sequel or a hundred of them and we never learn our lesson.

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As the 3-D fad waned in 1960, producer Michael Todd Jr. tried to take the moviegoer into the fourth dimension.

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Though Dickstein proclaims in recent years to have become more of a "moviegoer" than a "theater buff, " his love of the theater runs deep.

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And in at least one small nod to nostalgia and the timeless pleasures of being a passive moviegoer rather than being asked to draw, text, tweet or commune with a robot popcorn will be served.

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Now, as moviegoer you may not be familiar with some of Feeney's contributions like software implementation of ultimate blue screen composting technology, but it made a big splash in the film "Terminator 2, " creating a new believability and wow factor for audiences.

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