Absolutely. I think there will always be room for thoughtfully filmed 1.5-3 hour storytelling, but this idea that you have to go out to a communal viewing on a screen that fills your entire filed of vision feels gatekeepery and fetishistic. Just like playhouses before them, cinemas will settle into their best use cases, and sensory spectacle seems to be the one where they offer a competitive advantage. Another one is serving dedicated cinephiles, but that market is not as big as Spielberg, Scorsese, etc. want it to to be, and they sound like old men shouting at the sky when they complain.
Now that said, I think a 65"/5.1 is much closer to a movie theater than it is to a phone screen, so I personally hope we don’t get too much stuff filmed and framed for the latter, but maybe that’s just me on my path to being an old man shouting at the sky.
Absolutely. I think there will always be room for thoughtfully filmed 1.5-3 hour storytelling, but this idea that you have to go out to a communal viewing on a screen that fills your entire filed of vision feels gatekeepery and fetishistic. Just like playhouses before them, cinemas will settle into their best use cases, and sensory spectacle seems to be the one where they offer a competitive advantage. Another one is serving dedicated cinephiles, but that market is not as big as Spielberg, Scorsese, etc. want it to to be, and they sound like old men shouting at the sky when they complain.
Now that said, I think a 65"/5.1 is much closer to a movie theater than it is to a phone screen, so I personally hope we don’t get too much stuff filmed and framed for the latter, but maybe that’s just me on my path to being an old man shouting at the sky.