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Feb 28, 2021 9:51:53 GMT Crunchy Col said:

You're missing out.

On what though? 

[harrylemon]

I would rather watch a movie on a big screen. But actually most of my movie watching is at home even before the pandemic. There is nothing better than watching David Lean on a big screen. The problem is that cinemas don't often show his movies and if they do its a one off.

Watching Lawrence of Arabia at home is second best. But what a second best.

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Proper good blockbusters need to seen on the big screen too for full effect.

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Feb 28, 2021 13:27:58 GMT Markus said:

Proper good blockbusters need to seen on the big screen too for full effect.

Again , what am I missing when you say the full effect.
Do you mean it's like seeing a band live rather than the record? Because it isn't. I mean, if I don't like a movie I just change channel. It sounds snobbish but the full effect that I think you are talking about is way down my list of must haves in a movie. The story itself for instance.

[Crunchy Col]

Any movie screen is going to be bigger than any TV screen you watch at home. That's one thing.

But the main advantage, as Sneelock says, is that if you GO to a cinema and PAY for a ticket and sit down and make yourself comfortable, then you've got an investment in the film. You dedicate your full attention to it. That maximises/magnifies whatever you can get from the experience. And this never happens at home.

I will admit that increasingly there's less to distinguish the cinema from the home experience. But the idea of going out of your way to see something - the whole EVENT - can never be replicated at home, no matter how much you kid yourself.

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Yeah, but I don't see a BIG screen as an event. It's bigger that's all . It's the same point I made earlier the big screen doesn't make it better for me. Like 3D for instance. I never thought , great movie wish it was 3D. Likewise, I don't think I wish it was bigger.
I have (see other thread) a problem with 4K now. The improvement from technology and the seeming advantage of movies in some glorious technological must see way are just not doing it for me. I don't feel the need to see something louder or increased in size or clarity to enjoy it. I think it distracts from the writing or acting.
Rumbling seats and someone spraying water on you make cinema feel second best, ridiculous even.
If the truth were told the cinema experience is dying because of giant televisions and soundbars, subwoofers etc. Marty is howling at the moon. I don't want the end of the pictures. It's not for me but for others it floats their boat I guess.

[Crunchy Col]

Feb 28, 2021 17:31:21 GMT @littlejimmyosmond said:

Yeah, but I don't see a BIG screen as an event.

Neither do I.

[Reactionary Rage]

Markus and John are right. You can't replicate it at home, it does focus the mind and make you engage with the art in a deeper way and ultimately it does enhance the experience if you let it but you need to submit to that. It is both intensely personal yet also a collective experience too and there is value just in that. Yes we can have our 56" TVs and soundbars and thankfully avoid all those horrible people out there, you know, OUT THERE and we can watch Lawrence of Arabia and kid ourselves we are actually experiencing the same thing but we aren't. We are substituting one thing for the other and kidding ourselves it is superior because it is more convenient. A film is a living breathing thing...by that I mean the print is a living thing...it decays, it ages, it crackles, it pops, it's human in a way that a 4k bluray where you can see the cunts nostril hair isn't. When I watch it I feel connected to it in a way that I don't with a dvd.

It's sad that so many people seem to have moved away from the cinema but it's another sign of people retreating into their own worlds, I mean their fucking living rooms rather than going out and seeking some kind of transcendent experience.

That to me is the cinema and I will seek that high until I die.

[daveythefatboy]

Feb 28, 2021 17:31:21 GMT @littlejimmyosmond said:

Yeah, but I don't see a BIG screen as an event. It's bigger that's all . It's the same point I made earlier the big screen doesn't make it better for me. Like 3D for instance. I never thought , great movie wish it was 3D. Likewise, I don't think I wish it was bigger.
I have (see other thread) a problem with 4K now. The improvement from technology and the seeming advantage of movies in some glorious technological must see way are just not doing it for me. I don't feel the need to see something louder or increased in size or clarity to enjoy it. I think it distracts from the writing or acting.
Rumbling seats and someone spraying water on you make cinema feel second best, ridiculous even.
If the truth were told the cinema experience is dying because of giant televisions and soundbars, subwoofers etc. Marty is howling at the moon. I don't want the end of the pictures. It's not for me but for others it floats their boat I guess.

We’ve got a theater in Portland that is dedicated to the full-on ‘movie-palace’ experience. They’ve gone as far as piecing together a working 70mm projector in order to play films like 2001:A Space Odyssey in it’s original aspect ratio and resolution. They invest across the board in all the equipment needed to show films in the best possible conditions. Maybe that stuff is lost on some, but it makes a difference.

I saw All About Eve there a few years ago. I’d seen it on tv a million times, but never on a big screen. I knew what the last shot was, and I understood its symbolism. But man, seeing it in big beautiful black and white... this time I FELT the symbolism. It was revelatory. I could point out other moments in other films. It’s just better.especially with old, black and white and older films. Nothing like it.

[Reactionary Rage]

A cliche, perhaps, but seeing 2001 on the big screen completely changed my opinion of the film. I got it.

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You wanna, well i want to, go to the cinema for the big screen for blockbusters that have large scale scenes. Like the first 20 minutes of saving private ryan and the fucking carnage is better on the big screen. SCI FI's with large spaceships for example or battles in space is better on the big screen. Then just a city getting destroyed or something like that is far better. The scene in twin peaks the return when lynch has a slow pan of the atomic blast would have been amazing on the large screen.

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Feb 23, 2021 10:56:09 GMT DarknessFish said:

It's the real problem with Netflix and Prime, the interfaces are absoultely terrible, you decide you've got a couple of hours to watch a film, then when you've scrolled through lists featuring the same films over and over again, bookended with 2,000 Bollywood films, it's time to go to bed. Just give us some useful information on screen, and don't make us scroll through some massive screenshots.

I do know what you mean, but I'm not sure how else they could do it.

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There are plenty of affordable projectors for the big screen experience at home.

[cousinlou]

Feb 28, 2021 15:09:19 GMT Crunchy Col said:

Any movie screen is going to be bigger than any TV screen you watch at home. That's one thing.

But the main advantage, as Sneelock says, is that if you GO to a cinema and PAY for a ticket and sit down and make yourself comfortable, then you've got an investment in the film. You dedicate your full attention to it. That maximises/magnifies whatever you can get from the experience. And this never happens at home.

I will admit that increasingly there's less to distinguish the cinema from the home experience. But the idea of going out of your way to see something - the whole EVENT - can never be replicated at home, no matter how much you kid yourself.

I agree going to the cinema is a very different experience than watching at home. There's the anticipation, the big screen, the drinks afterwards....
For me it's not necessary to see every film in the cinema though. And, as I & I are lazy, the cinema needs to be at walking distance ( which it usually is as I live in the centre of town).

I saw 'Here Today' the other day. Thoroughly enjoyable movie but don't need to see it on the big screen.