It's differently social, at least in my experience. Getting the boys together to watch a film at home usually means playing MST3K all night while we pound beer

It's differently social, at least in my experience. Getting the boys together to watch a film at home usually means playing MST3K all night while we pound beers and butcher a pizza. Hitting the movie theatre means we keep our mouths shut, focus on the film and the experience of being in the theatre, and the compare notes over dinner/beers after the fact. It's like comparing going to Easter Mass with watching a televangelist over public access on Easter morning. The two are vaguely analogous, but experientially incomparable because of the environments and framings in-which they take place.