Around a hundred (or more) films are released worldwide
every year, but only a handful get nominations, say 10. And me being the filmy
buff that I am, I unfortunately get to see only a minute percentage of those selected
movies; say about 1, at the cinema hall.
Now, the reason why I am writing about this in my blog today
is because of 2 reasons –
First, of all the friends I have, half of them don’t watch
movies at the cinema because of the brilliant technology we have in this
century, which gave us Netflix and Torrent. Yes, I know. It’s cheaper, easily
available and you can watch it anytime.
Anyway, moving on, second, because I don’t want to you to
make a random plan with your friends to watch that one movie that you’ve been
waiting for ever since its teaser got viral and then complaint about it being a
complete waste of time and money, but, to actually go for a movie which has a
promising story line, appealing soundtrack and a well shown trailer (or at least
two of the above).
So here I present to you, four reasons why you should go to
the cinema hall to watch a movie –
1) That’s the only time you’ll ever see
anything on the silver screen
The silver screen (the screen that you see
in a movie hall, duh!) is perhaps the largest screen you’ll ever get to see a
motion picture in, unless you are some rich Sheikh who can afford to build
their own home theatre.
PS- it is a thousand times better than
watching a movie like Prem Ratan Dhan Payo, which you specially download on
your phone to watch, only after a fortnight of its release. Instead, you can
watch Neerja at the theatres, feeling much obliged and relieved, to see Sonam
in a role which is better defined and more meaningful.
2) It gives the movie the originality that it
already it needs
Face it; piracy is not the best way to tell
the makers that you loved their movie. Neither does watching it after paying a
few hundred rupees per person. But watching the entire movie without any
obstacles or bad quality does make sense. This is only delivered at the cinema.
3) Netflix and Torrent don’t provide you 3D
experience
Until and unless you have your own 3D
television and glasses, it’s not going to help unless you have the 3D version
of the movie.
4) It transforms your movie experience into
something unforgettable
This mostly works in the case of horror,
thriller, action and/or period films, where you experience a world much
different than yours. For some 120 minutes or so, you can forget everything and
everyone and experience an ‘Alice in the Wonderland’ like feeling.
Give it a thought. Once in a few months,
spending a few bucks on a movie you’ve been anxiously waiting for months is not
going to eat into your pocket money a lot.
P.S. – don’t be stupid enough to take your
friends on a movie treat and end up buying all the tickets on your own.
