Is watching a movie in a theater a different experience from watching it at home? There are two answers to that, and both of them are correct. The answers are: 1) Yes, of course it is! and 2) It…
as — hold your breath, you’ll never buy this — an obnoxious, tattooed, twentysomething pothead burnout who still lives with his mom on Staten Island, I envision myself in a sea of other people, all chortling in kinetic sync to Davidson’s scruffy rebel derelict ‘tude, whichbe hilarious. And now we know that’s never going to happen, because the film is going straight to video-on-demand, where it’s likely to be one the biggest movie events that video-on-demand has ever seen.
Yet here’s where it’s not so exotic. On June 12, when the movie premieres on VOD, a great many people will be sitting in their living rooms getting the novel experience of taking in a major new Hollywood film on television. And that’s where the “Sort of, but not really” comes in. For we’ve more or less been doing the same thing since 1981. If this1981, and I hadn’t gone to see Bill Murray in “Stripes” in a movie theater, I might be watching it, for the first time, on VHS.
Sure, you would now be seeing new movies — but when you catch a film at home for the first time, even if it came out eight months ago, itnew . What feels second-hand about it is that audiences have already shared it; you’re late to the party. But so what? If you claim that that matters, what you’re really saying is that audiences matter.
Yet since we’re on the subject of things that don’t measure up to what they once were, I wonder how it’s going to feel two months from now, at home, when I’m watching “The King of Staten Island” on my TV screen. Let’s assume, for the sake of argument, that it’s the comedy we want it to be — that Apatow, who at his best is a brilliant director, is able to find the sweet spot of Pete Davidson, to coax this slovenly rock star of loserdom into being a real actor.
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