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"My kids don't want to go to the movies. They think the screen's too big. It freaks them out."
"The biggest screen that they want watch is the screen that we have at home or their phone. I took them to see a movie. They were like freaked out. It's too big, the screen."
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today's kids are little skirt boy weenies, that are "freaked out" by ANYTHING
I will always prefer seeing movies in theaters, when the option is available.
I felt that way about the big IMax screens - too much to take in at once.
The size of the screen is not the problem.
Huge mistake.
When you are used to small screens — I like my desktop and my iPad — a big movie screen feels awkward. It's farther away from your eyes, so it isn't really bigger in your field of vision. It's less clear and — at least where I go to the movies — the screen is curved. It seems less artistic, more like an amusement park.
All you have to do is watch Charlie kirk videos.Children today are either radical feminists or soy boys-either way unemployable
I find the screen on the iPhone to be so small as to be absolutely useless. I've owned only one, and when I replace it I'm going to get something like a flip phone, to make calls and nothing else. The screen size on the iPad is the minimum size necessary to be useful (IMO), but I'd never watch a movie on it.
Gee, if only there was some place to sit in a movie theater where the size of the screen didn't seems so imposing.
I do remember buying our first flat panel TV, a 40" to replace the 19" CRT model in the bedroom. For awhile, I found it disconcerting to have the large head of a newscaster hovering over the end of the bed.
So, size does matter?
I can sympathize with the kids. We currently have a 50 inch TV which we just bought. We were looking at TVs and some are 65 or 70 inches. I joked to my wife, we could get one of those, and she could throw away her contacts. But she said, "thats TOO Big". I was like yeah, its too big. 50" is just right.
Some movies need to be watched on the big theater screen. An American in Paris is 10x better in a movie theater. GWTW also blew me away in the theater. But most Movies are good enough on a 50 inch TV. Especially things like Laura, or Citizen Kane, etc.
Same with PGA Golf, NFL football or whatever, once you get to a certain size of TV, seeing it on a bigger screen doesn't really improve it.
It depends on the movie, IMHO. A big monster movie, like "Godzilla Minus 0" is best on a large screen; so are movies with big scenes, like epic battle scenes or airplane movies, or space movies, or any movie where the scenery is an important character. Movies that are more story driven, work just as well on a small screen, maybe better. There's no reason to see people up close on a big screen. A lot of time, it detracts from the movie. I still wish I had seen Godzilla Minus Zero on the big screen instead of watching it streaming.
An old army buddy of mine is in CRE and he is convinced that movie theaters - in the sense as they are currently nderstood - will cease to exist in 10 years. I think he's right.
You couldn't pay me to watch a movie on my phone. On second thought... you could, but it would have to be a lot of money.
I've stopped going to movies. I can't suspend disbelief and immerse myself in the movie in a big room full of people.
It would be easier if everybody was involved in following the story on the screen, but too many of them are busy talking to their companions or fooling around with their phones.
The last movie I saw in the theater was "Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes," the most recent of the new Planet of the Apes remakes. There were two problems: the movie itself was terrible, the fault of the filmmakers. The second and more pertinent problem was the theater's fault: the projector light was turned down, rendering the image dim and indistinct, rather than bright and sharp. I've read this is a result of aging projection equipment and projectionists with inadequate knowledge and skill to operate the projection equipment competently. (I also wonder if dimmed projection is intentional, an attempt by the theaters to reduce electric bills and/or to prolong the bulbs in the projectors.) Moreover, there is only one movie theater anywhere near us. As a result, despite my preference to theater viewing, we are relying on cable streaming presentation of movies...which, seems likely to be the only means of distribution of movies in the future. The death of a once (often) sublime experience.
I don't watch that many new movies, so I may be completely wrong, but it doesn't feel as though they are made with big screen watching in mind. Sometimes when I watch older movies (pre-2000s, so not necessarily that old), I think how great they would look on a big screen. That thought doesn't come up with newer movies. (This may just have to do with the movies I choose to watch, but I think it's reasonable to think that the director knows most views will be on TVs, computers or phones and films with that in mind.)
So much content now is made with the idea that you will be watching it on a big home screen. All the crawlers and graphics on news programming. Even in fictional shows, you may have a piece of papee in someone’s hand, or left on a desk, and the writing on it is important to the plot, and no one reads it out loud for you, but it’s not zoomed in on. Unless you have a big screen, you will have to rewind and hold your phone to your face, walk closer to your smaller tv, etc.
Which leads me to the phenomenon of so many shows being written with the idea that you will pause and rewind to notice Easter eggs or even important stuff.
JSM
The last movie I saw in a theater was "Zero Dark Thirty" at the USAG Family Theater at Camp Humphreys, S. Korea during my 2nd to last posting prior to retirement. Even in an environment where the audience was respectful I kept thinking to myself that the experience was less enjoyable than watching something in the comfort of my house on post, the only difference being that was an era where you still had to wait a not insignificant amount of time before getting access to new releases.
Now that you can purchase or rent new releases in as little as a few days after theater release, and where the cost of setting up your own home theater has never been cheaper, I don't understand the appeal. I set foot in a theater again in 2018 with my fiance, but found the experience so distracting and disagreeable we left within 15 minutes. I don't even remember what movie it was. Top that off with 99% of current production being garbage, I'm inclined to agree with my buddy that people like me grow logarithmically every year while that industry's prospects get darker.
The whole experience is shit. But some people like Robert Kook still like it, which makes sense.
ideal size / seat distance for TV = you don't see the pixels?!
and then also movies re-sized to fit TV in the past?
"I can't suspend disbelief and immerse myself in the movie in a big room full of people."
This is so strange to me. Aside from the large scale image theaters offer--an essential plus that many here seem to consider a negative--it is the synergy of an audience joined in a darkened theater, viewing and experiencing as one the shared dream of the projected shadows and light that is the greatest enhancer of the catharsis a good or great movie provides.
Sadly, our technology is making us today ever more solipsistic.
"it is the synergy of an audience joined in a darkened theater, viewing and experiencing as one the shared dream of the projected shadows and light that is the greatest enhancer of the catharsis a good or great movie provides."
The world viewed by an MDMA user. Can we have some molly too Robert?
Interesting.
"an audience joined in a darkened theater, viewing and experiencing as one the shared dream of the projected shadows and light"
"An audience joined"? That doesn't happen anymore, people nowadays have different ideas about what is acceptable in public. Remember- diversity is our strength.
I had an elderly aunt in the DR (dead now) big RedSox fan, she heard the games on the radio over there. When she came to NY to visit, she could not watch the games on television. The Word Series? Nope.
You might be onto something there.
I like watching sports with others on a big screen.
But if I am watching a show or a movie that requires me paying close attention to the plot, I prefer alone on my laptop.
Our 70" TV developed strange lines across the screen a few weeks back. Replaced it with an 85" screen. Some of the shows look almost 3D. Totally possible to tell when you're watching a green screen scene. And- I can watch without my glasses on. It's great. Adjusted for inflation, it cost less then our first 13" CRT color television bought on sale for $299 in 1980.
The sound. too big.
Surrogates (2009) -- The characters experience massive pain and discomfort when moving from virtual reality to actual reality.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0986263/
Remember, Cookie is a Commie.
TBH- I thought they'd already be gone .I was wrong in that prediction... Methinks, however, covidiocy restrictions may have hastened their demise. I haven't been to a big screen since then.
Movies are overrated.
They were better when they weren't written as a vehicle for showing off special effects.
Adjusted for inflation, it cost less then our first 13" CRT color television bought on sale for $299 in 1980.
For some things, over a long enough time span, it seems (to me, anyway) that inflation adjustments are impossible. In 1980, infinite dollars could not have purchased anything approximating your 85" screen.
Maybe 15 years ago I walked out of a theater before the movie started and demanded a refund because the theater reeked of urine.
Which reminded me of the time in the mid-1970s when a group of kids from my town went to the weekend midnight movie at the Harvard Square Theater. Those shows were always a little wild. People were drunk and smuggled beers in.
In the darkness I look over and see one of the guys in his seat pissing in one of those old Michelob bottles rather than walking to the restroom.
Later, the bottle tipped over. It was a rare quiet moment in the movie and because of the "teardrop" shape of the Michelob bottle, the entire audience could hear the bottle meander circuitously, the glass grinding on the winter sand on the cement floor and occasionally bouncing off the posts that anchored the seats, all the way down the slope. I couldn't contain my laughter at that point.
Maybe that's why weekends were made for Michelob.
" I can't suspend disbelief and immerse myself in the movie in a big room full of people.....it is the synergy of an audience joined in a darkened theater, viewing and experiencing as one....
There is a truth in both of these, but the problem I keep encountering is that the behavior of the other customers would indicate they don't share either value. All the chattering, the smart phone screens lighting up, all the other distractions, etc etc. Maybe the problem is, few of the movies today are absorbing enough to make that attention capture and seal the deal.
It used to be, you had to pay attention to the movie to understand the plot, look at the actors to understand the emotional underplay, and so forth. But the technology of sensory management has advanced, and has been applied to the material, to where the movie plays you. One of the commenters here said a while ago, a lot of modern movies are more like fireworks shows. Memorable, maybe, but not in an intellectual way.
Movies are underrated
No wait. I got a super-smart comment: Movies are rated just right.
When we bought our big screen I found a formula on the internet that said that if your eyes are X feet from the screen the largest tv you should get is Y inches. We couldn’t afford the largest screen the formula allowed (75 inches) but the 55 inch screen we bought has been just fine. Incidentally, we paid $900 in 2011, and I think the 55” set goes for about $300 today.
I must not be his demographic because i don't find him funny, compelling, interesting or worth listening to. He is the Jesse Watters of Sirius radio. Boring and, ultimately unconvincing. I know he is really popular, but, why i don't know, for me.
Charlie Kirk=douche bag
"The world viewed by an MDMA user. Can we have some molly too Robert?"
Not at all. What I described above is the exact and ages-old dynamic at all large audiences attending an event, whether a movie, a live stage play, a concert, a sporting event, a speech by a politician to his/her constituents, etc. It is the "high" one achieves in a successful public mass event that draws people to such events.
If I'm watching a movie at home, I'm also doing something else at the same time -- or thinking about doing something else while the movies on. That's why I'm now unlikely to watch silent movies or films in languages that are completely incomprehensible to me. There's nothing to make me look up and take an interest in the movie. I've been much more engrossed when I watch in a theater and have nothing to do but watch the film. Cinema-going isn't what it used to be though. You have to go to the right movie theater.
In the past some movies (Lawrence of Arabia) were made with the superbig cinema screens in mind (CinemaScope), and you didn't get the whole experience on a TV screen with a 4:3 width:height ratio.
Films are also getting pretty blah lately. 2001 and Star Wars blew audiences away when they first saw them. Now when you've got the umpteenth scifi or superhero movie, the movies don't amaze people, and a massive screen wouldn't add anything.
Some people were impressed by Oppenheimer on IMAX. They couldn't use CGI in the movie because it had less resolution than IMAX and the effects would look phony.
TV seems to be going the other way. The old black and white sets were sufficient 60 years ago, but Game of Thrones and other big production series today seem to demand a big screen television.
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