Most people reading this probably don't have a gigantic TV screen. Assuming you've been blown away by an impressive movie ten times the size of God at a theater and then wondered, after watching it at home on your TV, what the big deal was, then you already know what the big deal was. Even your home movies can seem like epics when you blow them up. Also, please note the difference in aspect ratio. Letterbox presentations on most home video screens may be complete, but they do not compete.
Mild imperfections are important, too.
A few years ago, semiconductor technology caught up with and surpassed vacuum tube based amplifiers. In purely acoustic terms, the improvement in quality was the absence of noise from the tubes, which added a slight background hum. Some tube amplifiers also clipped off some of the peaks of sound at certain frequencies. Ye Olde Stereo Faithful often complained about the quality of semiconductor sound, saying it wasn't as rich or powerful as tube amplifiers. Sure, the audience begs to have it fixed immediately, but its lingering effect gives the viewer an experience closer to what the original audiences had.