Categories: Entertainment

I don’t go to the movies very often. In fact, the last two times I went were to watch movies with my family, movies my sister wanted to see. The other times were on school trips. I’ve never gone to the movies just to watch a movie, not even to make out. At one point, my behaviour was ridiculed. Who doesn’t go to the movies? But there are a growing number of people like me nowadays, people who are just content to stay at home and wait a yaer or so until the latest movie comes out on TV. When people ask me why I do this, I mostly say that it’s because I’m fighting suck-spewing Hollywood, but mostly its because nothing draws me to the movies anymore. The last movie that made me feel that way was Star Wars Episode III. Missing the big screen release has become one of my life’s great regrets, but knowing George Lucas, he’ll re-release it to keep his cash pile high.

Nowadays the only people who go to the movies are adolescent males hoping to be made men under the soft glow of the movie projector or overworked moms who want to shut up their spoiled kids. This has caused me to ask myself, is the movie theatre dead? Pretty much, because of file sharing and DVDs, people don’t need to go and see the movies anymore. Who wants to contend with obnoxious people, ringing cellphones, crying babies and overpriced snacks when you can watch a movie in the comfort of your own home, as much times as you want. It’s beginning to show in cinemas nowadays. They’re raising ticket prices and scaling down their operations.

But there is hope. As much as I rarely watch movies at the theatre, I do like the experience, especially when its a good movie. The cheers of the audience, the ear-shattering sound and the big screen help to make a movie more exciting than when you’re watching it on the boob tube at home. I would like to see the movie threatre being resurrected. How? Well, Hollywood can make better movies, instead of these crappy ones obviously made to pay the studio bills, and movies at the theatres should become more interactive, like DVDs. Maybe each moviegoer can have a pair of glasses that allow him/her to be fully immersed in the movie experience without being disturbed by happenings on the outside. My point is, technology is evolving rapidly, yet movie theatres haven’t changed much since the days of black and white. And they’d better, or else it will go the way of so many other primitive forms of entertainment. Like reading.