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Post by Cat on Apr 25, 2024 0:35:12 GMT
So, it's not that you don't like lesbians, but rather you don't like lesbians in movies if you think they replaced a man? If we're being honest, I don't think the comment about the movie business being over has anything to do with the quality of the movies. Take the front page of this board for example. There's a thread about the debut of Rebel Moon part II on Netflix. That's the core as I see it. Movies, even big ones by big name directors and with big budget effects don't require dressing up and going out anymore. People are getting the goods from elsewhere. Movies don't feel like events anymore. It affects shows too. I don't have Amazon Prime, or at least I didn't until literally this past weekend. I thought Jason Sudeikis fell off the face of the Earth. Turns out he was on a show called Ted Lasso, but without Amazon Prime, I'd no idea he was up to anything. Too many streaming services and apps make it so the world doesn't watch films or even shows at the same time anymore. A chunk of movies and shows from the past few years aren't in the public arena where everyone knows about them at the same time. I could be wrong but I didn't even think Seinfeld's comments had anything to do with the content or quality of the films. The business models have changed.
If you *have* Netflix, which many do, many also don't, many had to cut it because they couldn't afford it, we've never had it, won't pay for it, so for us going to the theater is still largely the only way to see something new. But I have to be fairly convinced it's going to be worth my time to spend the money, and that's a hard trick these days. So 2 moron cops being stupid, big surprise I didn't bother with the Jump Street movies. Unpopular opinion, I liked Fantasy Island, wasn't drawn to it by what the ads DID show, but there's 5-6 people on this island and we only see 2 of them get their wishes and how they go wrong, I wanted to know what happened with the other people, so I went. And being the last movie I saw in-theater pre-pandemic, it'll always hold a special place for me.
The last movie I saw in theaters before the pandemic hit was Birds of Prey, and before that, Color Out of Space. The pandemic film that holds a special place for me is Tenet because lock downs were lifted just enough for me to squidge into a theater. I'm mixed on the movie, but I'm not mixed on how much the experience made me feel normal for a minute. I saved the ticket stub as a souvenir. I don't like any of the streaming services in my house, really. If given the option, I would pay a yearly fee that permits me access into a specific theater or chain. It would mean seeing less, but hopefully it also means each experience is more meaningful. My living room or room with a TV in it doesn't transport me anywhere. I like theaters because I consider it an equal access place. The largest screen I've seen outside a theater is nothing compared to the smallest screen I've seen inside one, and it beckons interaction with the world outside my home. That makes it an escape in more ways than one. Streaming services enable people to stay home. Everyone feels off in their own segmented world where whatever streaming service(s) they have defines their reality. Now that so many more streaming services have cornered the market besides Netflix, it's less certain that the majority of people are even watching the same series/movies on Netflix anymore. Not many movies feel like must-see movies anymore because if they were, they wouldn't be squirreled away on streaming services. The movies and shows are following the money because streaming services shill out a lot because recurring subscription fees cover a lot, and streaming services still lose money on that front but make it back by investing in customer loyalty and jacking up the price, and it's still a crapshoot whether we watched the same movies/series or not because I don't know what you got and you don't know what I got.
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Post by novastar6 on Apr 25, 2024 15:51:35 GMT
Here's a conversation from a YouTube video's comment section.
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Post by darkreviewer2013 on Apr 28, 2024 7:52:31 GMT
It's been over... I see that my friends/family (and online acquaintances) don't even watch movies anymore. Some attribute it to lack of focus in post-screen world, but I have noticed if you recommend something great, their attention span improves.
Even pre-pandemic there would be 2-3 years at a time I didn't even go to the theater, if anything good came out, our theater didn't get it, and the rest didn't look worth the price of admission.
People can blame whatever they want, but when George Lucas re-released the original trilogy Star Wars in theaters in the late 90s, how many people attended? Mark Hamill thought it was a dumb idea and even asked his kids 'haven't you guys seen those movies a hundred times already?' And in the 90s, you could go into any video store and rent them for about $1, so the rental business should've killed the prospect of a theatrical re-release, but it didn't. Why? Because they're timeless movies and people wanted to see them on the big screen, with the surround stereo sound, even if they had watched the same films a hundred times already, nothing could beat that theater experience.
Now it seems when the movie franchise in general started hurting was when movie RENTALS started going in the toilet. Like I said, the day our video store got rid of the VHS collection was more painful than when they finally went out of business, because in the former they already removed 90% of their best inventory, the DVD collections at that time were not so hot. You get rid of Nightmare on Elm Street 1-Wes Craven's New Nightmare, and all you have left is Freddy vs. Jason, big surprise that didn't keep the money coming in.
And sorry, streaming may have killed the rental business, but it was and is a stupid idea, and a pale facsimile thereof to replace the rental trend. There was no experience like walking into the video store and browsing all the rows, all the genres, finding favorites, finding 'new' titles, finding obscure titles, so many great stories, so many possibilities, so hard to pick only the limited number of tapes allowed per week. I remember as a kid being gobsmacked our little store had episodes of Muppet Babies on tape in the family section, I didn't even know that was a thing, it was either on TV, or if you were lucky you recorded one, but actual tapes? Couldn't believe it.
The only thing today that can compete with video stores, is YouTube. They both have their ups and downs, by and large YouTube is free, usually with ads, some videos are doctored so copyright doesn't strike them down, by and large most available movies are older, but damn you sure never run out of 'new' titles to check out.
Like many others, I can relate to your description of the old rental stores. To this day, I prefer to own my movies on disc and generally favour shopping for my discs in local DVD stores. There are two very well-stocked stores close to where I live with thousands of movies on DVD, Blu Ray and 4k. Navigating those aisles reminds me of the old rental stores of yesteryear (albeit without the smell of popcorn). I do use streaming services for certain TV shows but physical media will always be my true passion. Streaming is convenient but it's a soulless experience by comparison.
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Post by 博:Dr.BLΔD€:锯 on Apr 29, 2024 9:21:37 GMT
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