“ Every couple of days I curl up on the couch at 10pm, scroll through Amazon Prime video, and pick something to see. It’s almost always a disappointment.”
Had you done this two decades ago using the equivalent (blockbuster), you probably would have felt the same. What I do think is manifestly different now is that we don’t have nearly as accessible good film criticism. It still exists, but it’s mixed in with a bunch of internet dross. Filtering mechanisms have always been essential to life online and our current ones massively favor eyeballs over quality.
> “ Every couple of days I curl up on the couch at 10pm, scroll through Amazon Prime video, and pick something to see. It’s almost always a disappointment.”
... how can he use this the basis for his argument? Every day, I curl up in front of my PC, look through some Reddit threads about movies and find a handful of incredible movies that I'm thankful for that people pointed out. What should the title of my article be?
> Every day, I curl up in front of my PC, look through some Reddit threads about movies and find a handful of incredible movies that I'm thankful for that people pointed out. What should the title of my article be?
Probably "hundreds of good movies are made every year, but if you don't move your ass and try to find them they won't magically land on your lap".
The author has identified these problems himself (point 5) but looks like he just doesn't want to put in the effort.
Well, different people, different tastes. I myself almost never enjoy movies, even though I haven’t watched many of them. I have tried using reddit, IMDB, Metacritic, etc, to select movies, but it doesn’t make a difference.
Had you done this two decades ago using the equivalent (blockbuster), you probably would have felt the same. What I do think is manifestly different now is that we don’t have nearly as accessible good film criticism. It still exists, but it’s mixed in with a bunch of internet dross. Filtering mechanisms have always been essential to life online and our current ones massively favor eyeballs over quality.