Star Trek, and revenge of the uncomfortable cinema goer

I saw Star Trek the other week. It was fantastic and I recommend seeing it while it's still in the cinema. The effects are brilliant.

I don't want to ruin the story, so I won't, but it really does bring back the franchise. All the hype is actually true. Go see it.

How good does Terminator: Salvation look? The clips look amazing. My disappointment with this set of films is that number 3 was rubbish - and you can't tell me otherwise - as well that this and the last film have been rated 12A. What does this say about a film.

Terminator was never meant to be a family film. The first one was scary for its time and the second a riot. I think the 4th Installment will improve things again but I wish they had stuck to being at least a 15 so that we knew its something more the grown ups. We need something to keep as ours.

Tranformers 2 is also on the horizon. I am looking forward to that. I don't often go to the cinema. I can't sit still long enough, I feel uncomfortable, not enough leg room, and if you need a toilet break or whatever then you end up missing too much.

I prefer to watch at home, where the sofa is big enough for us both to relax and I have that all handy pause control by my side.

Should the film companies start to think outside the box on this one. How about the opportunity to watch the film online, you can stream, download it for one watch only, but you can pause, rewind whilst watching it. I'd happily pay the cinema entrance fee for this and maybe more because they know yout mates or your partner will be with you. How about £10.00 to watch the film online, in all it's glory - we can all connect our pc/media centre's to the tv nowadays.

Rules:
One watch but you can rewind, pause etc.
Once watched fully (or within 5 hours of delivery) the film delete's itself from your hard drive or you can't access it anymore.

BUT

You get to watch the film the day it goes on nationwide release at the cinema.

Enough people enjoy the cinema that it won't effect it too much but people like me, who can't sit through 3 hours of movie without feeling quite unconfortable could also watch it.

Simple idea, but could it work?

If anyone is reading this then let me know what you think.

Marcus, 28/05/09