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Direct to streaming vs. Theatrical release
Posted: Sun October 27, 2024 3:41 pm
by 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 .
Re: Direct to streaming
Posted: Sun October 27, 2024 3:44 pm
by 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.
Re: Direct to streaming vs. Theatrical release
Posted: Sun October 27, 2024 5:11 pm
by tommy
BurtReynolds wrote: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.
Re: Direct to streaming vs. Theatrical release
Posted: Sun October 27, 2024 5:24 pm
by The Argonaut
It don't matter none to me
Re: Direct to streaming vs. Theatrical release
Posted: Sun October 27, 2024 5:36 pm
by tommy
The Argonaut wrote:It don't matter none to me
Yeah, but you see everything regardless of how crappy it looks
Re: Direct to streaming vs. Theatrical release
Posted: Sun October 27, 2024 5:44 pm
by Ello Sailor
Wow
Re: Direct to streaming vs. Theatrical release
Posted: Sun October 27, 2024 7:14 pm
by The Argonaut
I do watch a lot of garbage. I like to keep tabs on how stupid people have become
Re: Direct to streaming vs. Theatrical release
Posted: Sun October 27, 2024 7:21 pm
by 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?
Re: Direct to streaming vs. Theatrical release
Posted: Sun October 27, 2024 7:25 pm
by tragabigzanda
Steve Albini wrote: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.
Re: Direct to streaming vs. Theatrical release
Posted: Sun October 27, 2024 7:43 pm
by tommy
The Argonaut wrote: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?
Re: Direct to streaming vs. Theatrical release
Posted: Sun October 27, 2024 7:46 pm
by BurtReynolds
THere's also the separate matter of "content" made by Netflix, Amazon, and Disney+ being horrid dogshit.
Re: Direct to streaming vs. Theatrical release
Posted: Sun October 27, 2024 7:50 pm
by tommy
BurtReynolds wrote: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.
Re: Direct to streaming vs. Theatrical release
Posted: Sun October 27, 2024 7:58 pm
by lennytheweedwhacker
I feel similarly, irrational or incorrect as it may be.
Re: Direct to streaming vs. Theatrical release
Posted: Sun October 27, 2024 8:48 pm
by VinylGuy
I try to watch movies at the cinema. If i cant, then i saw them at home.
thats it, a simple life.
Re: Direct to streaming vs. Theatrical release
Posted: Sun October 27, 2024 9:17 pm
by 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.
Re: Direct to streaming vs. Theatrical release
Posted: Sun October 27, 2024 9:28 pm
by 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.
Re: Direct to streaming vs. Theatrical release
Posted: Sun October 27, 2024 9:35 pm
by 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.
Re: Direct to streaming vs. Theatrical release
Posted: Sun October 27, 2024 9:40 pm
by Jorge
tommy wrote: 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.
Re: Direct to streaming vs. Theatrical release
Posted: Sun October 27, 2024 11:24 pm
by VinylGuy
Jorge wrote: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.
Re: Direct to streaming vs. Theatrical release
Posted: Sun October 27, 2024 11:24 pm
by VinylGuy
Yessss I’ll never forget that
Hahahaahha