Final

Movies have lost a lot of their effectiveness in the transfer to online viewing. Watching movies at home online offers fast cheap access but at the cost of quality and atmosphere. When I view films at home it is hard not to multitask while viewing the movie, talking with people, chatting online checking email, playing a game while I watch. Being at home creates many distractions that can pull people out of the immersion of a film. As more films start being instantly available to be viewed online I fear that filmmakers will start to cater to the shorter attention spans of the online audience and lose the charm and appeal that viewing films at the theater have. I feel that viewing movies as digital media reduces the effect and I retain less information than if I had viewed the film in theaters.