It is actually a little stressful. You can only 'check in' to get a ticket within an hour of the showtime, and within 100 yards of the theater, and you then have to use their card in person at a kiosk (usually; depending on the theater). So this means for a popular movie I have to keep an eye out in case the theater is filling up, especially if I'm coordinating with friends. How many seats are left? Are those acceptable seats? Is it filling up so quickly that we should think of another showing? Etc. Definitely white whine territory, but it's a tradeoff of simplicity for cash when compared to my old style. Luckily, I like sitting very close (rows 1-3 have a greater angle of view taking full advantage of the theatric experience) and those are the seats typically available.

Absolutely. As a filmmaker who also does animation in After Effects & Cinema 4D I am [futilely] hoping that Apple updates their MBP lineup to reintegrate all the ports they eliminated. Thunderbolt, USB, remove the Touch Bar, and especially bring back the magnetic charger since I can be clumsy af. Right now I'm still using a Mid 2014 MBP and will continue to do so until I'm either forced to switch back to a PC or Apple gives me back some basic options. Animating isn't pretty right now, but luckily I don't have gobs of it to do since I mostly do basic film productions, but I would kill to get a better graphics card, it's getting painful.

There are also educational uses beyond documentaries. For example, I have a podcast analyzing films and in the shownotes will often post short videos and screencaps pointing out and detailing various aspects of filmmaking. Plenty of youtube channels do this same idea as well. I can imagine also wanting to use it for preproduction of a film where I'm trying to communicate with my team what I'm trying to accomplish.

I remember reading that original article about Brad Pitt having facial blindness and thinking how crazy it sounded by the headline, then reading TFA realized that I had it, too. I walked out of my office one time and some guy came up to me and offer to give me a ride to my car, I paused and stared at him a few seconds before realizing it was my boss that I worked with every day the past few years. Honestly, going out in public and thinking I may know someone is kind of terrifying.

Longtime lurker here. I got to interview a JPL NASA planetary chemist and astrobiologist to discuss his work on the Europa Clipper and other space-related things for my movie podcast. He plays a sound model of Europa's oceanic activity towards the end. For anyone interested fast forward past the movie talk to about 42 minutes to cut straight to the interview: http://thepestlepodcast.com/st...