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It's the scale, Villain. When the images dwarf yourself and everything else around you, it lends them a weight and importance you don't get watching them at home. Seeing a film this way becomes an immersive experience that is incomperable. If it weren't for modern audiences, it would be a given.

Seeing 2001 on a 180 degree cinerama screen on its initial release was a mind blowing experience.

Same with Close Encounters, when you had to follow the travel of that tiny spaceship at the top of the screen as it went from left to right.

The magnificent scenery of Barry Lyndon, the way Kubrick had it shot with special comeras... the panoramas were breathtaking.

When I saw The Wizard of Oz on the big screen, it was an entirely different experience.

But it doesn't take a big spectacle to make a film special on the big screen. It works for any film. It's magic really. If it weren't true, theatres would have gone out of business long ago and we'd just order them at home for private viewing.