If you curl up on your own couch and pull something off a streaming service, IMO you are watching TV. Even if it’s a 120 minute movie.
Seeing a movie in a full theater is just a different experience. And whether the author realizes it or not, that may be coloring his recollection of movies in the 90s. People saw big movies in the theater in the 90s. T2 in a packed theater full of people who don’t know what is going to happen next, is a different movie from T2 on TV in your living room.
One way to rekindle a love of movies is to go see a bunch in the theater, with a lot of other people, spoiler free. Ideally, on opening night.
Someone else in the thread mentioned Roger Ebert. Most of the movies he saw during his life, he saw in a theater.
Seeing a movie in a full theater is just a different experience. And whether the author realizes it or not, that may be coloring his recollection of movies in the 90s. People saw big movies in the theater in the 90s. T2 in a packed theater full of people who don’t know what is going to happen next, is a different movie from T2 on TV in your living room.
One way to rekindle a love of movies is to go see a bunch in the theater, with a lot of other people, spoiler free. Ideally, on opening night.
Someone else in the thread mentioned Roger Ebert. Most of the movies he saw during his life, he saw in a theater.