Early Edition with Kate Hawkesby

Ryan Bridge: Don't go to the movies with the lights on

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Sinopsis

You know how everyone complains the lights at supermarkets are too bright? People reckon they do it on purpose.... it's a trick to make you awake and alert, no matter the time of day, so you keep shopping and buy more stuff.  Well, the opposite is true of movie theatres, right.  You go there and they dim the lights because it makes you feel relaxed and comfortable. The screen is a sensory overload - that's what you're paying for the. The lighting enhances that. Well, can I just say that you shouldn't never go the movies early, before they've dimmed the lights.  I went to the movies the other day in the afternoon. My usual cinema was not showing anything at te time I wanted.  Off I go.. down to... wait for it... Queen Street.  $17 for parking. That's on me.  $40 for the ticket and coke... which went down smoothly after I choked on the price.  Anyway, the cinema's empty but the lights are on. Like flood lights. Like Supermarket lights.  There is precisely zero glamour abo