Movies From The Theater example essay topic

In a Theater or At Home? Watching movie at a theater or at home, which one do you like better? I have all had good and bad experiences with both. The two different viewing styles can seem alike in many ways, but there are many differences in the cost, the quality, and the sociability between viewing a movie in a theater and viewing a movie from home.

One of the many concerns among college students today is going out and having fun while saving money. I could say one of the most common questions among my friends and I is "What can we do tonight that doesn't cost much?" Being college students, a movie would be a good choice. At the local AMC Luxury Theater, students can show a valid student ID card from the college and automatically get a reduced price of only five dollars for newly released movie (AMC). However, if we were to stay at home, we would have to drive to the move store, decide which (older) movie we would watch out of the hundreds to choose from, drive back home, put in the movie and pray for no problems with the quality of the used video. Although a rented movie only costs three dollars to rent, you still have the responsibility of retuning the movie on time to avoid the late fee.

That is after you clean up from the mess, drive all the way back to the movie store and home again Therefore, with only one easy trip to the theater; with a choice of a few selected newer movies, you have already saved time, gas and money in the long run. The quality of the movie, once decided, is another big issue. In the theater, you have the nice luxurious love-seat stadium style seating, with plenty of leg room. "The new AMC theater will seat more people and will feature radius-curved seating, allowing each seat to face the center of the screen. It will also offer a greater choice of viewing films and viewing times" (Current).

And who knows what they will come out with next: delivering snacks right to your seats? On the other hand, at home you won't have the same sound or picture. I remember when "Saving Private Ryan" came out in the theater. It was the best. Sitting in my seat, it felt like I was the one in war.

The surround sound in the theater made the shot of a bullet seem like it was actually flying right my my head. I jumped every time thinking I should duck to miss it. Also, the graphics of the movie were excellent. On the big screen, seeing the bits and pieces of bodies mangled and thrown everywhere actually seemed like they had really lost the limb. It just wouldn't have had the same visual graphics or surround sound from watching it in front of your TV screen at home. Going to the theater is also a good idea to help a student be more sociable.

A good ice breaker when meeting someone new would be to talk about a current movie playing in the treater. If you were to talk about a movie rented from a movie store, the likelihood of the person actually seeing the movie is very slim. I know in some of my classes most of the students talk among themselves and discuss what they did over the weekend. Many of the conversations would be, "Hey, did you see that new movie, such and such, that just came out?" Another reason to view movies from the theater is that you will be up to date an din style with all of your peers. So the next time, when deciding to go to the movie theater or stay at home and rent a movie, you will know that you will save money, get a better quality movie, and be more sociable if choosing to go to the theater instead of renting one. So you can change all those good and bad experiences to great ones by "going to a local theater near you.".