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> You simply can't replicate the experience of seeing Captain American catch Thor's hammer

Funny that you use that as an example - I agree 100%. This exact scene was one of the most insane experiences of my movie-going life. The theater went WILD.

I understand that it might actually be annoying to a lot of people, but for me, it was really part of the experience.

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I did feel a little corny using a comic book movie as an example because there are plenty of others movies that come to mind that I could point to and earn some film nerd cred. However there is nothing that symbolizes what the loss of theaters would do to populist filmmaking better than that moment. It was the zenith of a series of over 20 blockbuster movies that spanned a decade. It was truly an unprecedented moment in the history of cinema. Watching it a theater full of people who feel the same way is electric.

> an unprecedented moment in the history of cinema.

I really disagree with calling it cinema. It's on the big screen and it's entertaining, in the same way a boxing or football match would be. People would cheer and enjoy those too. But is it cinema? I don't think so, I would say that it's a completely different form of visual entertainment that just so happens to share the medium and venue.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/04/opinion/martin-scorsese-m...

It's cinema.

I really don't see any benefit in having this debate about semantics. You can call it whatever you want. It was an unprecedented moment in the history of theatergoing.

never upvoted somebody so many times in a single thread before. praise be to slg!

Haha, thanks.

really well put

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