The Pros & Cons Of Watching Movies At Home

Cinema is an exciting experience of sitting in a big dark warehouse with a sloped floor and a bunch of strangers.

Unfortunately due to lockdowns, this particular activity has gone the way of the dodo, replaced instead with sitting in front of a much smaller screen in a much smaller room with no slopes and someone I know far too well.

So let’s go over the pros and cons of watching movies at home.

No Price Gouging

Even with home deliveries, a bag of jaffas won’t bankrupt you when you get them from Countdown.

No Cleanup Crew

I’ve gotten used to a certain standard of living. I need to incrementally pour a bucket of popcorn over my body throughout a story and then finally find where my Moro bar has gone after I scrape it off the bottom of my shoe at the end of the movie. But the joy is really taken out of it when you do that at home and there isn’t some disgruntled teen to clean up after you for minimum wage.

Shushing Someone Is Much Easier

Crowd management is much easier at home. I saw one of the later Pirates of the Caribbean movies and came out with a better knowledge of some random called Stacy and her twisted web of Instagram backstabbing than I did of the actual movie. Fortunately the movie sucked, otherwise my passive nature would have pushed me to be even more meaningful with my pointed looks.

Netflix And Chill

I know some of you have probably a more devil may care attitude toward sex and where you do it, but as if doing it in public wasn’t bad enough, I’m desperately trying to get my $15 worth out of the movie by not blinking. No distractions please. At the home, it’s a different story. They invented pause for a reason.

I’m giving this win to watching movies at home, but only because I’ve run out of room to talk about why cinema is the superior option.