There was something about holding a movie in your hands that made me more invested in the movie. When I go on a streaming service to browse the movies, I'm doing the same thing - Checking out the actors and the plot. And I'll often spend a fair few minutes working out what I'm going to watch. But after starting it, if it doesn't interest…
There was something about holding a movie in your hands that made me more invested in the movie. When I go on a streaming service to browse the movies, I'm doing the same thing - Checking out the actors and the plot. And I'll often spend a fair few minutes working out what I'm going to watch. But after starting it, if it doesn't interest me in the first 5-10 minutes, I usually go back and see what else there is. You didn't do that in the Blockbuster era. That was the movie you chose and you were going to watch it all - good or bad. It made me give things more of a chance than streaming does today.
Yes! I think about this a lot. How many shows and movies I really enjoy that I watched because I had nothing else to watch. Out on-demand world has some nice things, but it has cut down a lot on random exposure to things out of our normal tastes or comfort zone unless we work at it.
There was something about holding a movie in your hands that made me more invested in the movie. When I go on a streaming service to browse the movies, I'm doing the same thing - Checking out the actors and the plot. And I'll often spend a fair few minutes working out what I'm going to watch. But after starting it, if it doesn't interest me in the first 5-10 minutes, I usually go back and see what else there is. You didn't do that in the Blockbuster era. That was the movie you chose and you were going to watch it all - good or bad. It made me give things more of a chance than streaming does today.
Yes! I think about this a lot. How many shows and movies I really enjoy that I watched because I had nothing else to watch. Out on-demand world has some nice things, but it has cut down a lot on random exposure to things out of our normal tastes or comfort zone unless we work at it.