I'll tell you what, switch all recliners for bathtubs then.
That way i can eat steak and mashed potatoes, while taking a bath, while streaming, while playing a game on my phone... with the movie in the background.
Alamo Drafthouse is pretty strict about not disrupting the movie (might be some funny YouTube videos of calls from kicked out customers), and they have a decent movie dine-in experience. Haven’t been in one in years, but I liked them back in the day
After 50+ Drafthouse shows I can say that the smell of cheese and cheap beef wafting over and waiters patrolling the theater every three minutes is almost as distracting as someone checking their messages or chatting. The worst is that you end up having to settle the bill during the climax of the film by design. It doesn’t matter if it’s Godzilla but is pretty shitty during The Master or Manchester By the Sea.
I think intimate movies (or probably anything other than a blockbuster) is actually worse seen at the cinema.
Even without considering audiences, cinema's screens and audio set up work worse than home theater, when it comes to regular dialog, and tbh, being in a room full of other people works against the idea of an intimate movie meant to cut deep in the first place.
I couldn't imagine watching a Bergman movie on an Imax screen and enjoy it on the same level i do at home.
Some movies you need to get (figuratively) naked to enjoy.
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But that will get you kicked out of most cinemas.