There are drawbacks to going to a theater, and I have to admit I rent ... ]]> The question posed upon us today is it better to watch movies in theaters or at Home on DVD. My question is definitely in the theater, because nothing beats the experience watching an exciting, scary, action packed or funny movie on the big screen. The sounds of the action blasting from the speakers in THX surround sound. The last movie I saw at the theater was Transformers, and even though it wasn’t a great movie, seeing it on a fifty foot screen in a nice movie theater and seeing the beautiful Megan Fox up close and personal made it rewarding.

There are drawbacks to going to a theater, and I have to admit I rent DVD’s far more often than going out to movies, but that is my choice, and doesn’t necessarily make for a better movie experience (just a cheaper one). Movies at the theater are far more expensive. The last one I went to in Cary, North Carolina was $9, plus the popcorn and coke was another $10. Plus you have to fight traffic to get there, and you have to sit through about an hour worth of previews to get to the main event.

I would go to more movies at the theater if the quality was better. It seems like they don’t make movies like they used to. Maybe I am getting old, but the movies of my youth stand out as the best. I can remember waiting in line for an hour in the Summer of 1977 to see Star Wars in Norfolk, Virginia. The theater of course was jam packed, and the audience was totally blown away by the story, the special effects and the sounds blasting from the sides of the theater. I have many great theater experiences since then, seeing classics such as Forrest Gump, Saving Private Ryan, Titanic, The Matrix and many others. These movies would be fun at home too, but you do not get the “experience” that is seeing these awesome flicks in a packed theater.