The younger generation will soon have no memory of sitting in a movie cinema, eating over priced high calorie, low quality food products, dressing up and going out to see and be seen, making out in the back row of seats with your crush.
The Oscars celebrated a shared societal experience, the movies you had seen together over the last year and the stars you had come to know as "friends" or heart throbs.
All of that is dead and buried, never to be seen again.
Nah, I inherited my dad’s DVD collection. My boys can enjoy all the old movies in our family room, we’ll swing by the Dollar Tree and pick up some candy, I will microwave a little popcorn and they can watch Patton. They don’t need to waste time making out In the back of a theater when Patton is on anyway.
I agree. It's not about just seeing the movie. Seeing a film in a theater was often one of the first public events a child attended. You had to learn to dress appropriately and behave with enough manners not to disturb the other patrons.
sure, movie night at home with the fam is great, but there are no strangers there and the kids can pretty much do what they want. That's very different.
And the shared experience of seeing and talking about a huge worldwide hit movie was really, really fun. Nothing like seeing The Empire Strikes Back premiere in a giant theater packed with nothing but other fans.
The younger generation will soon have no memory of sitting in a movie cinema, eating over priced high calorie, low quality food products, dressing up and going out to see and be seen, making out in the back row of seats with your crush.
The Oscars celebrated a shared societal experience, the movies you had seen together over the last year and the stars you had come to know as "friends" or heart throbs.
All of that is dead and buried, never to be seen again.
Nah, I inherited my dad’s DVD collection. My boys can enjoy all the old movies in our family room, we’ll swing by the Dollar Tree and pick up some candy, I will microwave a little popcorn and they can watch Patton. They don’t need to waste time making out In the back of a theater when Patton is on anyway.
The communal part of it though is almost gone.
They can invite their friends over
I agree. It's not about just seeing the movie. Seeing a film in a theater was often one of the first public events a child attended. You had to learn to dress appropriately and behave with enough manners not to disturb the other patrons.
sure, movie night at home with the fam is great, but there are no strangers there and the kids can pretty much do what they want. That's very different.
And the shared experience of seeing and talking about a huge worldwide hit movie was really, really fun. Nothing like seeing The Empire Strikes Back premiere in a giant theater packed with nothing but other fans.
Just can't do that at home.
Shared societal experience is dead because society is dead. It was murdered.