COMPARISON OR CONTRAST ESSAY

·         Block-Arrangement

Watching Movies at theater Vs. Watching Movies at Home

                    I.            Introduction

                  II.            Watching Movies at Theater

a.       Comfort

b.      Price

c.       Quality

                III.            Watching Movies at Home

a.       Comfort

b.      Price

c.       Quality

                IV.            Conclusion

Watching Movies at theater Vs. Watching Movies at home

People are always looking for distraction. There are many options to choose but what about watching movies? This is a great option but what would be better, watching movies at theater or watching movies at home? The purpose of this essay is to contrast comfort, price and quality of movies in these two items.

I am going to take into consideration these three aspects; comfort, price and quality of movies relating with watching movies at theater. Comfort is always important in order to enjoy a movie. A theater does not offer a lot of comfort to the audience, it mainly because in a cinema attend many people and it is very probable that there would be distractors like noise, cellphone ringing among others that may almost impossible a total comfort during the movie. Another thing to take into consideration is price; due to cinemas are establishments that attract many people, the prices of all the snacks that selling there are really expensive compared with stores form outside, so what would be a distraction becomes a surprising amount of money spent. Talking about quality of movie, theater have many advantages, for example, the big screen, the loud and clear sound, etc. those qualities that a cinema offers make movies more enjoyable. LCM Linda (2008) published in Cinemaroll stated that actually watching movies at theater is better enjoyable “Not many people have a brilliant sound system, a TV that can play 3D at home. The equipment is very expensive to buy and to maintain in good condition. People can afford to watch and hear the best output without owning the equipment by watching the movies in the cinema. A high level of enjoyment can be attained in the cinema rather than at home.” On the other side she also claimed that it is more expensive in this way “A movie ticket may cost USD10 or more. The total cost per person may be even higher when people consume porn corn and drinks at the same time”, so, watching movies at cinema has either advantages or disadvantages.

Talking about watching movies at home and taking into consideration the same aspects, there are many differences either positive or negative. Relating with comfort, a house has the advantage that is so private with a silent environment, moreover that you can be down your bed and rest. The price of watching movies at home is really low because candies and sodas are cheap and you just buy what you really want; but as a contrast of a theater, the quality that home offers is so poor. In spite of the previous advantages of watching movies at home, quality of movies at home is not a good point, it because most of the movies that you buy are piracy movies and almost all the time they have sound problems besides that the screen where you are watching movies is going to be according to your TV. As mentioned by Sandy Berger in an article called Opinions Abound for Watching Movies at home, she affirmed that the popularity of watching movies at home are increasing the last year “according to some recent statistics 80% of Mexican population  prefer to watch movies at home than at theater, this agreement in relation to their cost, transportation and comfort”.     

As previously mentioned, either watching movies at home or at theater has many advantages and disadvantages to take into consideration, this kind of distraction or entertainment is going to be one of the most popular activities among people. Depending on what the person likes it is what he or she will choose. In my point of view I prefer to see movies at home because it is more comfort to me.