Artifact #10

Out There in the Dark, All Alone
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/10/movies/the-24-hour-movie-and-digital-technology.html?_r=1&emc=eta1

The article Out There in the Dark, All Alone is describing how different it is in watching movies now days. It starts off by telling how much of a change in the number of people that actually go to the movie theaters now. The author describes a conversation that they had with a reader about how they numbers cant really be looked at as being the same because of how the people use to go the same movie over and over back in the day and now you can see it once in the movies and multiple times at your house. Then it talks about how the way we watch movies are completely different because of all of the new ways we can watch them because of the advancement of technology. Back in the day you would have to go to the movie theaters to see a movie and now you can stream it through your computer or even your phone. Next, it describes how watching a movie use to be social thing and something that you do with many other people which is different now because many people watch them by them selves. Also, watching a movie was something that showed new worlds to a large group of people. The author said that watching movies could have also lost its lust because you can do it anywhere and whenever you would choose to do so. Even though technology has made the picture of movies better, it may have changed the way that people look at them.
I agree that the way people watch movies has changed dramatically because of the advancement of technology and how it has changed our society. I think that most movie watchers do it in the warmth of their own home, and I don’t think that it has hurt the way we look at them, but it has changed it in a way. In our society now days we want everything right now and at our finger tips, which is why most movies are able to be downloaded or streamed though our computers or phones. More people are not going to the theaters because it is becoming more and more expensive, and with how the economy is going now days, every penny you can save the better. In my own life experience I only have gone to the theater a small number of times, and the most time when I went was when I was younger, because all of my friends would go. Now, we watch movies at someone’s house because it is much more convenient and affordable. I do not believe that the movie is becoming less important or special, it is only becoming easier to watch, which has positive and negative effects. I don’t see it going back to how it was back in the 40s because of the technology advances that we have had in the last few decades. This will probably be the demise of movie theaters, but I think that it will take a very long time because no matter what, people will want to watch movies because of the excitement that it gives them.