I can't imagine someone who doesn't like watching the movies. For me it's one of my favorite ways to relax. Of course I prefer watching movies to the cinema, but a VCR tape on a cold and lazy winter night, would be good too. Technology tempts us everyday with huge flat screen home theaters, Dolby surround sound systems and so on... but going to the movies I think it's a hole different ritual: it's the search you have to do, the friends you have to meet or this strange lonely feeling that you feel when you're going alone to the movies, it's the theater seats every time different, it's this particular atmosphere. "Going to the movies" means "going out" too. From the other hand, I couldn't say that I would refuse a home theater system if someone decides to give it to me as present... consuming dilemmas you see...

I think that cinema industry, overcame successfully long time ago the "video storm" of '80s. The dark room and the huge screen atmosphere prevailed the couch and the "stop-whenever-I-want" advantages of video. DVD is quiet good, but of course watching movies in my computer screen isn't my favorite at all and watching a DVD movie in my TV screen, isn't exactly a "killer application" of media technology. The strong advantage of DVD is for sure the extra info you can find and the extra abilities you have in freezing, frame-by-frame analyzing, etc. Anyway, I think that this root-feeling of "full watching satisfaction", you can get it only from a cinema theater and a good movie.

You can read here some of my thoughts about particular movies that I consider from the best I've ever seen. My ambition is to write some things every time I'm watching a new movie, so you can find here a "viewer's opinion" in case you're in a dilemma about watching a movie. Please do not consider this as a movie-critique, but as a subjective opinion of a simple viewer.