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From: strock@fortune.UUCP (Gregory Strockbine)
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Subject: Re: Cinema vs TV
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Date: Fri, 28-Sep-84 11:49:13 EDT
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> 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.