Commercial cinemas vs home theatres

[J.Seb]

It is quite common to see that HT enthusiasts intentions are to recreate the commercial theatres experience but I am wondering, isn't that quite easy to surpass these days?

In the last couple of weeks I went to the movies twice, first to see Inglourious Basterds and then a Spanish scary movie called [REC]2. For Tarantino's flick I visited an old classic cinema in the centre of the city and for the latter one to a quite new huge cinema complex with apparently the best reputation in the area.

While watching IB the image was huge but it look totally distorted, the subtitles were bending down at the sides, the print looked dirty already (that movie had only been played for a week or so) and you couldn't really appreciate many texture details, the definition wasn't very impressive.
The sound was loud but seriously lacked low and mid frequencies and sounded really harsh.

For the second movie, the image was slightly cropped at the top and the bottom of the screen, and being this a really dark movie, the dark scenes looked quite washed out because of the security lights in the room. Again the amount of detail in the image wasn't really impressive and the sound was rather harsh again.

Both movies were quite good and I left the cinema looking forward to getting them in blu ray to actually watch them in better conditions at home…

Don't you guys think it's quite easy to do better than the actual cinemas these days with a medium range ht?