I venture to say very different. New releases and making the effort to see them at the cinema is an occasion. Memories are made about who you went with, why you went, whether you were alone, and so on. Often the peripheral details are important. For example, I vividly recall going to see The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring in September of 2001 with my wife. We lived a two minute walk from the cinema and walked there in a blizzard as a snowstorm hit that weekend (it wasn't the cinema mentioned in this article). As for the film, we were both absolutely blown away. It instantly became one of our favourite films of all time (the novel had been my favourite since the age of about nine), etc, etc. Happy times.

Discovering this film on streaming via some algorithmic recommendation years after the film was an event? Not quite the same, if you ask me.

By the way, I'm sorry about the loss of your childhood cinema too.