On: AMC Is Beating MoviePass at Its Own Game

[WillPostForFood]

I would have agreed when I was a kid and a huge TV was a 27" 480i CRT. But now you can get a 85" 4k HDR screen at home, I'd say you can come close. Better than many theaters.

[wingerlang → WillPostForFood]

It's not only the A/V that goes into the experience. Not saying it is a perfect experience, but a large TV or even a projector isn't really the same.

[DJHenk → wingerlang]

Indeed. It is the same as saying that one should never go out for a walk, because you can easily walk some rounds around the table in the comfort of your own house.

It's the 'out' part that is important!

[WillPostForFood → DJHenk]

Except a theater isn't out, you are just trading one dark room for another.

[wingerlang → WillPostForFood]

The theater itself is not the experience. The 'out' thing is, though.

[WillPostForFood → wingerlang]

You can still have the "out", like Dinner and coffee at a restaurant. But the specific watching a movie part is "in" whether it is at a theater or your living room.

[primrose → WillPostForFood]

Bikeshedding

[WillPostForFood → primrose]

You committed the fallacy of posting a fallacy without support.

In a theater, you sit in the dark, if you are a good citizen, you don't talk. 90% of any social piece to going to a movies happens at dinner before or after, which you can still do and then go home to watch a movie.