With the rise of Netflix and all other types of online streaming services over the last few years, physical movie sales have taken a hit.
I know the whole drill: it's more convenient, casual movie watchers can search for a movie and have it loaded up in minutes. Yeah, I get that, but I just can't conform.
To me, it takes half the fun out of the whole movie experience. Part of what made me become a fan of films were the trips to the mall, going to the movie store and browsing for a film that caught my eye. Then taking it back and seeing what I had purchased. Yeah, sometimes it turned out it wasn't a great film I picked, but it didn't happen very often and more times than not I would've gotten one I enjoyed. I still do that today.
It just sucks knowing that it's going downhill fast and movie stores like F.Y.E are probably gonna go extinct in the not-too-distant future.
I don't have Netflix, but I have the premium movie channels on my satellite T.V. where I can record movies that come on channels like HBO, Encore, Starz etc. And even on there I only record movies that I have a hard time finding in stores.
I'd like to know if I'm alone on this. Are there still people that still enjoy purchasing films the old fashioned way? Or has the majority conformed to the age of online streaming?
I know the whole drill: it's more convenient, casual movie watchers can search for a movie and have it loaded up in minutes. Yeah, I get that, but I just can't conform.
To me, it takes half the fun out of the whole movie experience. Part of what made me become a fan of films were the trips to the mall, going to the movie store and browsing for a film that caught my eye. Then taking it back and seeing what I had purchased. Yeah, sometimes it turned out it wasn't a great film I picked, but it didn't happen very often and more times than not I would've gotten one I enjoyed. I still do that today.
It just sucks knowing that it's going downhill fast and movie stores like F.Y.E are probably gonna go extinct in the not-too-distant future.
I don't have Netflix, but I have the premium movie channels on my satellite T.V. where I can record movies that come on channels like HBO, Encore, Starz etc. And even on there I only record movies that I have a hard time finding in stores.
I'd like to know if I'm alone on this. Are there still people that still enjoy purchasing films the old fashioned way? Or has the majority conformed to the age of online streaming?