SmokeyDopeIs entertainment getting worse or am I getting old?
https://piefed.social/c/asklemmy/p/1570099/is-entertainment-getting-worse-or-am-i-getting-old
fitgseGo to your local library. Many have a great selection on blu-ray and dvds. Having to select something from a shelf is way more enjoyable than the endless scroll of junk streaming services give you. I am now actually purposefully selecting movies and shows to watch and making time and effort to finish them instead of just streaming random stuff.
Plus you get commentaries and bonus features.
Sometimes a kind soul has sprinkled Criterion releases on the shelf too!
bcgm3Can also just do that by having a backlog of good films. Something like ‘Roger Ebert’s list of great movies’, for starters. As a bonus, the list has many films from outside Hollywood.
Great Movies | Roger Ebert
One of the gifts a movie lover can give another is the title of a wonderful film they have not yet discovered. Here are more than 300 reconsiderations and appreciations of movies from the distant past to the recent past, all of movies that I consider worthy of being called "great." - Roger Ebert
That dilemma is also solved for me.
∃∀λThe Library of Congress’s National Film Registry, my beloved
Yeah no, that’s the opposite of what I’m trying to do by listening to people who have seen films from countries other than the US.