Hollywood has forgotten that "going to the movies" was an event that people did, wherein the movie mattered less than the activity itself. And considering you usually only had 1-2 movies per genre, and in same areas per age/gender grouping, this limited you to watching drivel you wouldn't have deliberately chosen otherwise.
Streaming removes all that. You are now directly choosing something that catches your interest, against infinite other options. Including the option to just decide against seeing anything.
So even ignoring the "woke" and "anti-critic" problem, which is another major factor, the advancement of technology has made everything except things with major hooks (fanfavorite, blockbuster action, word of mouth) irrelevant. Oscar-bait will return to the pits of garbage with all the European "art" films like they belong.
Yeah, the replacement for that is basically Discord or social media. This is one reason the 360 was so much more successful than the PS3 too, you could actually form a lobby and hang out with people online.
Hollywood has forgotten that "going to the movies" was an event that people did, wherein the movie mattered less than the activity itself. And considering you usually only had 1-2 movies per genre, and in same areas per age/gender grouping, this limited you to watching drivel you wouldn't have deliberately chosen otherwise.
Streaming removes all that. You are now directly choosing something that catches your interest, against infinite other options. Including the option to just decide against seeing anything.
So even ignoring the "woke" and "anti-critic" problem, which is another major factor, the advancement of technology has made everything except things with major hooks (fanfavorite, blockbuster action, word of mouth) irrelevant. Oscar-bait will return to the pits of garbage with all the European "art" films like they belong.
Yeah, the replacement for that is basically Discord or social media. This is one reason the 360 was so much more successful than the PS3 too, you could actually form a lobby and hang out with people online.