Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site fortune.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!houxm!ihnp4!fortune!strock From: strock@fortune.UUCP (Gregory Strockbine) Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: Re: Cinema vs TV Message-ID: <4361@fortune.UUCP> Date: Fri, 28-Sep-84 11:49:13 EDT Article-I.D.: fortune.4361 Posted: Fri Sep 28 11:49:13 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 29-Sep-84 08:47:03 EDT References: <3661@decwrl.UUCP> <1372@vax2.fluke.UUCP> Organization: Fortune Systems, Redwood City, CA Lines: 19 > I think the major superiority of almost in film is that feeling of a group > experience, especially with comedies. I went to the opening night of > GHOSTBUSTERS in Baltimore, and it was like a very good concert. Also, go to > any opening night performance of any Star Trek movie... I guarentee that > you'll think the movie is 20 to 70% better than it is (I remember the first > one; in restrospect, not a great movie, but by the end of the premiere, the > audience was doing everything but tossing one another into the air). > > Of course this is not true with all movies, but almost all of them give such > "group rush" in some degree, I think. > It also depends on what part of town the theater is in. I saw Personal Best at one theater. The place was packed and no one made a peep. A couple months later I saw it in a different part of town and the audience wasn't as serious, instead people were laughing and making comments.