A movie that should serve as an important exclamation point for the MPAA

Rating: 9/10 (13 March 2007)

I'm not going to write an elongated review of the movie. There are already a number of excellent and well thought out reviews that I agree with completely. What I do want to write is a brief comment on what I believe this movie should mean to the industry as a whole.
I will preface this with saying that I'm a one movie a week kind of person...meaning that I'm at the theatre once a week. Movies I miss are rented at our local rental joint.
The movie industry is celebrating a 2006 with increased profits over the disappointing 2005. Apparently, this is because they have been waging a war over movie downloads and winning, causing people by the hundreds to abandon their bit torrent sessions and flock back to the movie theatre.
Here's my point to the MPAA: If you want more people to go out to the theatre, ensure that the product that you are presenting makes full use of what a theatre can offer. If people can be happy with the quality of a downloaded product, what does that say about the movie in the first place? 300 is the second movie I have watched this year that gets it (The other is Children of Men). This is a movie that absolutely MUST be experienced in a theatre with high quality picture and sound. I see no way in which this could possibly be enjoyed in a format of any less fidelity. The visual effects and choreography are absolutely stunning, with a soundtrack that perfectly matches up with what you are witnessing on screen. Fears of an excessively violent movie were mitigated by presentation - comparisons I've read of a ballet are absolutely spot on. I only gave the movie an 9 out of 10 because I didn't enjoy the acting as much as others, but it is perfectly suitable for a movie that is a presentation of a graphic novel.
In short, if you view this movie in any format less than what the original filmmakers intended, you will miss out on what makes it such an enjoyable film.
If I'm sitting at MPAA headquarters, I would be deeply thinking about how to evolve the industry to take advantage of the technology available in movie theatres today and create a truly visceral experience that is worth the price of admission.