Film Nitrate

Often the way we watch a film can shape our opinion of it. If you watch a hugely epic, powerful film like Lawrence of Arabia serialised half-an-hour at a time over a week, it will lose a lot of its impact as it's not meant to be digested in that way. To experience a film the way the director would prefer, you would usually need to watch it in a busy cinema where the collection of people will add to the atmosphere in a way that you could never recreate at home, despite large flat-screen TVs and Blu-rays allowing most people to come far closer to a true 'home cinema' than they've ever been able to before. You're also free of distractions in the cinema (apart from the crunching of popcorn or a turf war with the stranger to your left over who has the right to use the armrest) - nowadays it's too easy to get distracted in quieter parts of a film due to the ubiquity of smartphones, Twitter, Facebook etc. And don't even get me started on watching films on your iPh...