Well, yes and no...

Home Theater and a Real Theater are much different. I agree that often it seems that our experience at home can be better, at least in the audio department because most of us to not have a 35mm projector and 70foot screen at home. However, even the sound is ofter very different because we are getting DVD sound instead of a true read from the soundtrack print on the actual film, which is then decoded (the DTS soundtrack goes to a DTS-CD to sync up with the film). There is also the Sony Dynamic Digital Sound setup that offers 8 channels of sound and I have YET to hear at home the same experience on titles like STARSHIP TROOPERS, which was and is still one of the greatest sound mixes when I saw it in theaters...it was 8Track SDDS sound and the DTS on the Superbit pales in comparison as does the HDCD of the Basil Poledoris soundtrack.

My point? Not sure I have one other than to say that sometimes your home can be a more optimal place for sound, but I don't think anyone can compete with the real 35mm projector systems as far as realism, color, etc etc. Audio is another case altogether as sometimes the experience at home can be a bit better, but it certainly depends on the quality of the theater and the theaters equipment.

There is a theater near me that claims to have all digital sound, yet about half of their houses are still using analog, stereo surround, a few with THX Dolby Digital and and even fewer with DTS. I think it should be mandatory that all theaters explain what sound formats they will be showing the films in and quite frankly the price of the ticket should go down once the film goes down in screen size and sound wise....you know when you go to see a movie that's been out forever and you are in a room that looks like it's where they watch XXX movies with crappy speakers and a screen that's about 10 feet long.