Direct to streaming vs. Theatrical release

[BurtReynolds]

How do you feel about it? Do you care?

Personally, streaming only movies occupy the same space in my mind as direct-to-video movies did back in the day.

They just lack gravitas .

[Ello Sailor]

Obviously it depends on the studio/platform, but many are of a higher quality than the direct-to-video class of old. The game has changed.

[tommy]

How do you feel about it? Do you care?

Personally, streaming only movies occupy the same space in my mind as direct-to-video movies did back in the day.

They just lack gravitas .

Agreed. I don't take direct to streaming movies seriously.

[The Argonaut]

It don't matter none to me

[tommy]

It don't matter none to me

Yeah, but you see everything regardless of how crappy it looks

[Ello Sailor]

Wow

[The Argonaut]

I do watch a lot of garbage. I like to keep tabs on how stupid people have become

[bada]

Movies that get a theatrical run do better on streaming than pure streaming movies so there is still a level of legitimacy to movies that get a theatrical release. Whether or not that's earned or whatever who knows?

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[tommy]

I do watch a lot of garbage. I like to keep tabs on how stupid people have become

What's the worst new movie you've seen this year?

[BurtReynolds]

THere's also the separate matter of "content" made by Netflix, Amazon, and Disney+ being horrid dogshit.

[tommy]

THere's also the separate matter of "content" made by Netflix, Amazon, and Disney+ being horrid dogshit.

Netflix's desperate quantity over quality policy once they started losing content to other streamers really gave them a bad reputation. They definitely have made some good movies (The King comes to mind) but it's just not worth wading through all the crap to get to it.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

I feel similarly, irrational or incorrect as it may be.

[VinylGuy]

I try to watch movies at the cinema. If i cant, then i saw them at home.

thats it, a simple life.

[Jorge]

I love going to the movie theater, I do it at least twice a week. I have found that my chances of enjoying a movie go up a few percentage points if I experience it in a theater setting. It's my favorite method of movie consumption.

I'll watch a streaming movie too, of course, or a blu-ray. I have a good setup for it in my living room. But it's not quite the same.

[tommy]

These days I mostly watch movies at home. I have a pretty good setup and a lot of 4ks and blu-rays. I do really like going to the theater, but it's expensive and people have gotten really rude.

Of the movies I watch at home the vast majority were theatrically released. I hardly ever watch straight to streaming movies.

[daft twat]

I’d go to movies all the time if I didn’t have to listen to fat fucks chewing with their mouths open. I almost never go.

[Jorge]

I do really like going to the theater, but it's expensive and people have gotten really rude.

That's the thing, I'm lucky that I live fairly close to a nice theater where the experience is always pleasant. Huge screen but less than 100 seats, good separation between each pair of seats, and a nice and respectful crowd. The other, more specialized theaters around town that I frequent play arthouse and foreign stuff so they're almost never full. But I've been to other places where it's a madhouse. I wouldn't blame people for opting out of that.

[VinylGuy]

I love going to the movie theater, I do it at least twice a week. I have found that my chances of enjoying a movie go up a few percentage points if I experience it in a theater setting. It's my favorite method of movie consumption.

I'll watch a streaming movie too, of course, or a blu-ray. I have a good setup for it in my living room. But it's not quite the same.

Very happy you got to experience Ant Man 3 and the Blake Lively movie

But for some reason, not Babylon.

[VinylGuy]

Yessss I’ll never forget that

Hahahaahha