So far I’m able to place the providers I’ve seen in three very general genres.  (I’m a big fan…so to me they’re all so glorious):

    First there’s Hollywood Blockbuster Provider!  She’s the “Wizard of Oz”, “The Cannonball Run” & “Star Wars” all rolled into a grand, digitally fortified extravaganza.  (Maybe with a squirt of “A Passage to India” in the mix.)
But she’s not the second genre: Art-Film-Ingmar-Berman provider.  (“The Unbearable Lightness of Being” or “Dr. Zhivago”)  And the first two genres don’t fit into the third: The original small tight-budgeted rare gem like “Local Hero” or “Brief Encounter.”

    Blockbuster Provider can bounce around between breathtaking state-of-the-art special-FX and safe, time-tested formulas that are enticing and very popular.  There are all kinds: the nubile youngsters and the rough & ready action heroines.  There’s sometimes a kitsch factor involved.  There’s a constant re-inventing to discover the next new gadget.
And there’s show-womanship in the audience gathering process.  Word of mouth, reviews and websites become crucial and are nurtured & cultivated.
Blockbuster Providers are visual by nature and like to put up a great show.  The pitfalls maybe shallowness or greed but those particular ladies fall out of sight quickly.  But when a Blockbuster hits?  Lookout!  If she’s got all the right elements juggling in the air at the same time, well, you’ve got a popular instant classic.  Not mindless.  Not mindful.
    The Blockbuster Provider is remembered in the senses, visceral, she’s very watchable and multiple viewings are essential.  She’s awfully thrilling & fun.  You got to love her!

    Now Art Film Providers are toted as a richer experience.  Maybe yes & maybe no. But they’re very penetrating.  She can be a sweeping epic or a gentle complexity.  This kind of provider requires the audience member to lean forward and participate.  You can’t sit back and eat popcorn during one of these screenings and expect to come away with anything.  You’ve got to meet her halfway to get the bounty of her qualities and then it’s grand!
Along with intelligent visuals comes a suggestion about the meaning of life.  Sure she can be funny or kinky or in subtitles but she goes for the soul.  Sometimes the experience is so intense you keep her as your new philosophy of life.  Sometimes she’s so heavy you only want to see her once cause you can’t take the intellectual pressure.  But you’re always glad for the new outlook the experience granted.  Art Film Providers can heal you, my friends!

    Lastly we’ve got Original Production Providers: those self-made independents.  Quirky sometimes.  Pure artistry.  The breeding ground for Auteurism.  Original Production Providers go for the heart in spite of themselves.  Ladies here don’t need the big technical crew or the high profile cinematographer.  She utterly relies on an artist practicing her craft at the simplest of levels:  Timing.  Honesty.  Confidence.  Almost always a supreme sense of humor expressing the uniqueness of their own reality.   She could be made vulnerable or she could be made cocky but once she captures your heart she’ll consume it forever!  Her spirit will stick to your bones.  Oh, there are the occasional yearnings of Original Production Providers to be as well attended as the best of the Blockbusters, but in the end they can’t help but to stay true to themselves and their roots.  Patient Original Production Providers who stay unique and bold always stand the test of time.  (And the Blockbusters will try to incorporate your originality, usually in vain because you have conflicting sensibilities.)

    The most important thing for moviegoers is not to judge between these distinctions.  Cause oftentimes one genre has a streak of another.  One’s not better than another.  There are hits and misses in each category.  Some guys will like one genre more often than another and will try to talk other moviegoers into their opinion.  But as long as every moviegoer is respectful and clean you can enjoy yourself at all kinds of screenings.
Even the NC-17 ones.
 
    Now if you want to talk about different kinds of moviegoers….whew!  

    There are the few bad ones:  The ones that always try to get in with the matinee ticket price when it’s clearly 10pm.  The ones who are always trying to slip in through the back door.  The ones that linger and talk after the showing while you’re trying to clean the sticky stuff off the floor.  The ones that always have to run out and pee right in the middle of the quiet scene.

    There are the guys who are pleasant but different:  Maybe they take off their shoes and place them on the back of your seat and push.  Maybe they make that funny noise with their straw and plastic lid.  

    And there are the great ones:  The ones that cum on time.  (And come again the next week cause the show was so great.)  And they always bring a little basket of goodies and buy the best chocolate.  They tell their friends and they cum too.  And sometimes they bring their girlfriend or wife along and that sure can be fun.  
They laugh at all the jokes, they cringe at all the suspenseful moments, and they weep for joy when the heroine licks the bad guy.

    God,  I love going to the cinema.  I love every genre I can get my hands on!  (It can get expensive if you’re an addict but isn’t everything?)

    I just read the Posters very carefully and try to decide, come payday, which flick to experience next.

    That’s the report from the field.
    The balcony is closed.
     Fin.
Jockeypants