We missed the boat seeing the latest Mad Max movie on the biggest of screens and decided to drive out to the burbs to catch it on a regular sized screen. We found ourselves in Liberty Center which somehow wooed ($$$) Shake Shack and Torchy’s Tacos to open up their first franchises in the Greater Cincinnati area.
Anyway Furiosa was great, the special effects didn’t feel as special as Fury Road, but that didn’t detract from the story.
Also? There was only one other soul in the theater and they didn’t cough the entire time.
What is Liberty Center? Here’s a bit from their website:
Liberty Center is a multi-use center that brings together the community’s recreational, social and civic passions by anchoring its citizen’s state-of-mind to an attainable state-of-being. Liberty Center artfully blends freedom and work, clarity and culture, kinship and community. It is holistically designed with a mindful approach to building enduring relationships between local businesses, people and place.
Liberty Center is more than a mall – it unites beloved shopping destinations, with an eclectic range of dining options, exciting events and entertainment venues in Liberty Township.
About Liberty Center
This reminds me of a scene from Joe Versus the Volcano, a love story with Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan that dropped three years before Sleepless in Seattle.
Anyway, these two characters are at dinner and Meg Ryan’s character asks Tom Hank’s (Joe) what he does for a living.
From the script:
JOE - I was an advertising librarian for a medical supply company.
ANGELICA - Oh. I have no response to that.
She flatly delivers the line again later in the movie and it hits just the same.
Every once in a while I tilt my head and hear those words… “I have no response to that.”
Sometimes I repeat them out loud.
Other times I just say, “Huh.” like it’s a fully formed sentence.
That’s how I feel about multi-use center mission statements.