It's your last opportunity to enjoy a movie experience provided by an expert projectionist, in this case technical manager for Hoyts Whangaparaoa, Anthony Mitchell.
Mitchell, 21, regards himself as "Last of The Mohicans," having had what he terms the privilege of working as a projectionist since his first part-time job, aged just 16.
Once, and not too long ago at that, movie projectionists were numerous right round the country, every one of them taking pride in offering the best show possible.
From now on, looking around to that bright little window at the back of a darkened theatre will be a bit like looking into the eye of Hal 9000: There's absolutely no need to keep somebody in the projection room.
Aside from setting up a digital projection schedule for the week, the only task a human has in the process is turning the projectors on in the morning and off again at night.
Hoyts' main competitor, Event Cinemas, has largely completed its digital conversion, except for a major push to install digital projectors and a massive silver screen at Imax, Queen Street, still underway.
Reading Theatre Chain - a much smaller player which operates in the bottom half of the North Island - will keep a few 35mm film projectors rolling till its conversion is complete in a couple of months time.
Movie importers now send out relatively lightweight (about 1 kilogram) computer disks to cinemas.
Previously each print of a movie came in a package of four-to-six reels, which could weigh up to about 4kg on average.
These needed to be spliced together at each theatre to make up a continuous movie, then broken down again when it was time to send the film on to the next screening venue.
It's now far easier, cheaper to transport movies around the country, though IT staff must supply the digital key to open each digital film file, which are encrypted for security. The dates and location of each screening is pre-set electronically by the distributor. So receiving the disks is only half the battle - users then have to unlock them and follow screening instructions to the letter.
"But none of this will be bad news for movie goers," says Mitchell. "Provided they're set up correctly, digital movies will deliver sharper clarity and sound; there's no chance of scratching. Neither visual flickers nor audible clicks from poorly spliced film is now possible."
As a realist, Anthony welcomes the new age of digital cinema but as a romantic he says he'll miss film, and his last night working as a projectionist will be quite emotional.
"Every projectionist will tell you that there's nothing like looking through the window and seeing 160-170 people there waiting in expectation. It's then you realise that - without wishing to sound too grand about it - you're the final link in a very long chain of roles which have been responsible for delivering a film for them to enjoy.
"A projectionist needs a really good understanding of the medium they were working with, perhaps celluloid, polyester or in the old days nitrate. You needed a grasp of the varying ratios such as cinemascope or, wide screen.
"You had to understand the sound tracks which were printed on the film, Dolby Digital, Sony Dynamic and back-up ones. You had to be competent handling projection machines - ours here being really superb Kinotons; you had to be able to put the reels together when they arrived and break them down again when they were sent on.
"During screening you'd control the sound levels, for example more for an action adventure and less for a romantic comedy. You kept and eye on a myriad of systems, the focus of the projector, lights and air conditioning.
"You did your level best to deliver a seamless show for the audience - and you took a lot of pride in doing so."
Mitchell's greatest challenge?
"That would be running one film between two projectors, and very occasionally between three machines, so that we could play the same roll of film in multiple theatres. It was quite dramatic for people visiting the projection room to see film travelling many metres between the machines.
"What with the darkened projection room, the clicking projectors and those lines of film, this scene itself it was like something out of a movie."
