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The greatest achievement of all

Getting me to a movie theater is not easy. The last movie I ever watched in a movie theater was Kung Fu Panda. The first one. And the only reason I saw that movie is because there was only one person on the planet who could get me to sit in a movie theater for an hour and a half. My daughter. Between 2002-08, I sat in the theater for dozens of children's films. It's what you do as a young parent. Some of the movies bored me, some mildly amused me, but none truly interested me. I was there for my daughter. That was all. Nothing else could get me there. Why would I pay a crazy amount of money to stare at a screen for up to two hours, sometimes among ill-behaved fellow spectators for something that really didn't interest me? You name just about every big movie of the last decade. I haven't seen it. Even in the comfort of my own home, I can't be bothered to sit for that long and stare at the screen for a movie. Only one thing will get me to sit that lon...