[ SECRET POST #6812 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6812 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

I think I get it. Back in the day if you found a random movie you never heard of shelved in your genre of choice, you may or may not take a chance on it but at least you saw it there physically in front of you in the right genre shelf. Streaming services rely on predictive algorithms, which means you have to at least watch something before they start guessing at what else you would want while also aggressively pushing their own in-house shit in categories and genres not even remotely applicable. You may still never get a cool movie recced to you by the service, it's still buried.

And, I guess there's just some sort of visceral fun about picking a movie off the shelf with "this is going to suck so bad but it's a dollar let's go" versus seeing, say, Fandangos 54 pages of terrible action movies and between choice paralysis and sunk cost, you decide "I sure don't $5 want to take a chance on this." In theory, the choosing of an unknown movie should be equivalent, but in practice, it definitely is not.

[bannedbookweek]

Going to Blockbuster was also something your whole family did together, it was an outing. They also had other rentables like N64 and SNES games. I would go with my siblings and parents and we would fan out and find something that looked interesting and bring it back, if it wasn't R rated then my dad would say "sure." Just rifling through the cases was a lot of fun. It was a way to interact with my siblings who I didn't see a lot of growing up.

When Netflix came along and started their online catalogue they were trying to recreate that experience but I never liked the online catalogue. I just rented the DVDs. I cancelled my sub years ago, don't know if they even bother with renting physical media anymore.

Algos suck but what sucks even more is how many there are. Not a new complaint but something that was nice about Blockbuster is that everyone deposited their movies there, there was no paying separate amounts for a Paramount movie versus a New Line Cinema movie. It was all just part of the same mix so there was no awareness about publisher's rights or who could sell what. So you always had a huge collection to dig into. The videostore was huge in my memory (though I was also in elementary school at the time lmao.) It was a bit of a playground honestly.

Without physical media there's no feedback so everything becomes locked into the same feeling of "ew, doomscrolling." I hear more and more that many people are just saying "fuck it" and buying DVDs, Blurays, old VHS tapes etc and cancelling all their subscriptions. I think that's what I'm going to do to.