Compare and Contrast: The Theater vs. Home

Going to the movie theater can be a good experience. It gets you out of the house, away from your annoying younger siblings, but is it a better experience than going out and renting a movie? Sure, the movie theater has that big screen along with the really good surround sound, but how comfortable are you there? How comfortable are you in the chairs with those annoying plastic arm rests that you and the person you're sitting next to subconsciously fight over until you find yourself sitting with your arms rested on your lap. How comfortable is that? What if you have to go to the bathroom? First, you have to maneuver yourself around all those people, most of them you don't even know, and when you finally return you hav

Some people don't have a problem paying to go to a movie theater. Why? Well it must be that huge screen and the crisp, yet deafening sound effects that blast through the surround sound speakers almost as if you were an innocent civilian standing right next to Arnold when he blew up that oil tanker! The movie theaters may hold the title for better quality, however, the living room is becoming quite the contender. Two words: home theater. That's right, anyone who has the ability to save enough money or can get their hands on one of those plastic contraptions that seem to make money appear called the "credit card" can get a nice home theater set up in their living room. A crystal clear wide-screen plasma TV accompanied with a speaker for every corner of the room and what seems like a wire to go with every inch of your screen. After a few hours of reading directions and connecting all the wires, cables, antennas, and laser beams (okay, maybe not laser beams) you're ready to watch a movie in the comfort of your home at an affordable cost that you can pause, rewind, stop, play, and have amazing theater-like sound while sitting in your favorite chair while your annoying younger sibling lies dormant in their room.

In conclusion, I think the movie theater is good in the sense that you can see all the newest movies before they come out on video, but I could go without the huge screen, extremely loud sound, and the fact that I'm mostly surrounded by strangers. If I were you, and if I were technologically incl

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