Movie Theatres

2022, June, 15

Opinion

After watching movies exclusively at home during the pandemic, I went to see few movies in theatres.

Just listing down the good and bad parts of the experience.

Bad

  • Travelling to the theatre : WFH has made any commute feel laborious
  • Ads before and during interval : After paying a decent amount of money for tickets, one still needs to sit through annoying ads being played at full volume. At home, most stream services do not have ads or atleast the ads can be muted.
  • Interval : Breaks the flow of the movie. Most intervals are not well planned and are abrupt.

Good

  • Visual & Audio : Certain movies have excellent audio, visuals & 3D and need to be experiened in a theatre. Same effect cannot be replicated at home.
  • Outing : Going to the theatre provides an opportunity to get out of the house and have an outing.
  • No distractions : Since the sole purpose of sitting in the theatre is to enjoy the movie, there are no external distractions.