If this was over a generation ago with how movies used to get released, I’d agree with you.
However, it feels like part of the fun of seeing something in a theater is that you’re watching something with others and you could watch it alone within a few months. With what I’ve read about RRR or the Taylor Swift Eras movie release, maybe theaters should let some screenings being audience participatory because there is more enjoyment with treating the movie as something to interact with instead of passively watch.
After all, you can passively watch a movie at home.
My screens at home are not that much worse than seeing a movie in theater from a reasonable distance from the screen and I can control the other thing like the volume and whether or not their are subtitles. The people talking about how crazy the MC movie seeing was made me actually want to go and see it.
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 1 week ago
If this was over a generation ago with how movies used to get released, I’d agree with you.
However, it feels like part of the fun of seeing something in a theater is that you’re watching something with others and you could watch it alone within a few months. With what I’ve read about RRR or the Taylor Swift Eras movie release, maybe theaters should let some screenings being audience participatory because there is more enjoyment with treating the movie as something to interact with instead of passively watch.
After all, you can passively watch a movie at home.
ulterno@programming.dev 6 days ago
And that’s why I stopped going to the movies.
scintilla@lemm.ee 6 days ago
My screens at home are not that much worse than seeing a movie in theater from a reasonable distance from the screen and I can control the other thing like the volume and whether or not their are subtitles. The people talking about how crazy the MC movie seeing was made me actually want to go and see it.