[autoliteInline]

>And like any serialized TV series,

I'm too old to care about movies much, but that's an interesting point.

I wonder to what extent high-dollar bespoke TV series are hurting the movie business. Streaming and theatres at home were bound to change some habits, but would people prefer to watch a series now rather than a single work?

Personally, I think it's a shame how much movies (a lot them at least) and video games appear to have merged in terms of pacing, volume, general aesthetic, but you can't expect things to always stay the same.

[fedreserved]

I'm at the point where shows like the sopranos I would love to watch in their entirety in theaters. I could see an era where shows have their weekly premiers in theaters in their later seasons after achieving a certain level of success.

[ant6n]

After a season of that it would be cheaper to just set up a home theatre.

[autoliteInline]

Here's what I miss, and it mostly just shows my age, and that's truly huge screens.

Modern flat panels are so large/cheap that they're a no-brainer in place of most modern theatres. OTOH, the peripheral vision-spanning screens that used to exist were really a spectacle. I remember seeing 'Waterloo' (Rod Steiger) when it came out and that was really something on a giant screen.