• atrielienz@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    It’s expensive, often less comfortable than my own home, and I like theatre in which the crowd plays a part in the experience, in movies the crowd is often detrimental to the viewing rather than the other way round. Additionally upkeep of a lot of the movie theaters near me is dismal and the cost to benefit ratio of waiting to stream the same movie in my own home as many times as I want says no. There is the possibility of me buying a ticket to support a movie I’m really interested in but I’m probably not going to actually watch the movie.

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      4 months ago

      It’s expensive, often less comfortable than my own home, and I like theatre in which the crowd plays a part in the experience,

      This is why I don’t understand the “big action movies need a cinema, small comedies you can watch at home” argument. My home theatre can replicate the big-screen action experience just fine, but a comedy with a crowd is immediately 35% funnier.