Do you wish you had a home theater ? Would it be nice to collect the family around a large screen TV with an phenomenal sound system? If you have a basement or spare room in your house, you can create your own home theater to enjoy your favorite movies with your friends and family.
In most homes, the basement is used for extra storage. But this can also be used as a great entertainment room. Having a theater right in your home basement makes sense since it is dark enough and isolated from outside life.
You’ll never run out of options when designing your home theater since technology is constantly developing. This allows you to have the newest and most innovative items available. Unlike before where home theater systems were exclusively used by movie stars, today’s models are affordable and can be enjoyed by nearly everyone.
A vital point is the design of the theater room itself. While not everyone can afford high-end consumer electronics, that will not prevent you from creating a grand home theater on a restricted budget. With the right design and moderately priced products, you’ll get a better experience than using expensive gear with no design planning.
To make the most out of your home theater, here are certain things to remember: Always use a carpet or rug to cover a hard wooden floor. This will prevent sound reflections. Cover your windows with dark treatments to control light and prevent eyestrain. Never use white paint in the room that will serve as your home theater.
This increases ambient light. Keep the room free of glass tables or cabinets that can create visual reflections and interfere with picture quality. Never install speakers in the ceiling directly over people’s heads. Make sure your TV isn’t too high; this can cause neck pain and eyestrain.
The very first movie I took my oldest son to was George of the Jungle. I think he was about 4 at the time.
He was pretty amazed with the large stadium style theater. Just before the lights went out, he gave me a golden moment that I will treasure always when he looked up at me and said:
“Daddy, I like being with you.”
7 years later
These memories came to me today as my oldest son and I sat in the exact same theater waiting for King Kong to begin. Before the movie started I told him the story of what he had said seven years earlier.
I knew going in that the Kong on the screen was computer animation. Even knowing that, this Kong looked so real, so life like.
Remember how real the dinosaurs looked in the Jurassic Park series? These dinos make those look like guys in a dino suit.
Many times when you see a fight or battle in a preview, you worry that you have seen all the good parts. Not so here. The battle between Kong and the T-Rex that you see in the preview lasts for at least ten minutes in the movie.
At the end of this and several scenes, you can hear the audience take a collective breath.
Picture the attention to detail of Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy combined with the intensity of the first Jurassic Park.
At the end of the time on Skull Island, I found myself thinking that we have gotten to see all this and they have not even arrived in New York yet.
Even thought you know how it is going to end, it is still a great ride.
Rating: 5 out of 5 ticket stubs.
Toward the end of the movie, my 11 year old son grabs my arm, curls up next to me and says:
“Daddy, I like being with you.”
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