Grant BogleDec 30, 2022

I am quickly becoming radicalized against the streaming establishment and state of movie watching.

Wasn't the promise that if we pay for all of these services we'll have access to everything at our fingertips?

Three popular movies from this year that I would love to watch:
1. TÁR
2. The Woman King
3. Everything Everywhere All at Once

Only one (Everything Everywhere) is available on a streaming service, and it's Showtime — sold as an expensive add-on to services I already pay for. Otherwise, you have have to make an expensive digital purchase to watch each one.

It's incredibly disappointing that studios and consumers were tricked into reshaping an entire industry around the promise of streaming, which is seemingly failing.

#Movies #Film #Streaming #Entertainment #DigitalEntertainment #TÁR #WomanKing #EverythingEverywhereAllAtOnce #Netflix #Showtime #HBOMax #DisneyPlus #AppleTV #Peacock #ParamountPlus #Cinemastadon

Show threadFord EytouDec 31, 2022
@grantbogle Subscribe. #Binge. Cancel. 🎬 🔄
Show threadGrant BogleDec 31, 2022
@Deavil For sure. What drives me nuts is the number of movies that still aren't even available on the services when you do subscribe/binge. (Woman King, TÁR, etc. The Creed movies are some highly rated and popular films from the last 5-7 years and you can't stream them anywhere.
Show threadFord Eytou
@grantbogle The old Netflix model is pretty much dead, which is what it sounds like you're looking for. The other media conglomerates discovered that the Netflix streaming model works, so they took their content and went home. Capitalism, working as designed.
Dec 31, 2022 at 7:58pmWeb
Show threadGrant BogleJan 3, 2023
@Deavil Honestly, I'd be fine if I just knew that each studio's content would be on their corresponding service. A large part of my problem is that doesn't seem to be the case for a lot of content. Now Warner Bros. Discovery is taking content off of HBO Max, and so on.
Show threadFord EytouJan 3, 2023
@grantbogle Disney is known for creating artificial demand by making their content scarce, in the old hard media days. Not sure they are also doing that with streaming, but it sounds like the other media conglomerates are doing that as well. Those types of shenanigans make a strong case for 🏴‍☠️ . No t that I'd condone that type of thing 😎