>1995
>you get to pick one video
>it better be fucking good
>have heard the names of some of these films

>2025
>unlimited choice
>get bored, turn it off after 10 minutes
>just watch the highlights on youtube

Are TV and cinema actually doomed?

internet fryed our brains

>>212707762
*are brains

>>212707822
*you're brains

>>212707762
fried*

>>212707904
>you are brains
retard

>>212707950
retard

>>212707950
the tism isn't letting you see the joke hm?

>>212707950
My* brains

>>212707762
internet rizz has taken a fanum tax to my skibidi brain

>>212707718 (OP)
movies and television are mediums for old people now
videogames and social media have replaced them in the same way that they replaced the novel and theatre

>>212709245
>watch show
OR
>watch highlights from show with all the gaps in dialogue cut

>>212710520
>man i love watching family guy clips on youtube shorts where they have to deal with the vertical aspect ratio by only showing half of the characters faces.

Yes we all saw the incredibly popular tweet

>>212707718 (OP)
>unlimited choice
You zoomers are braindead. 99% of content made over the last 50 years is gone forever and you're more likely to find it on private trackers and plex than any retarded streaming service.
This is why cable ruled because kino patricians curated the best stuff and you were exposed to films you'd never have found yourself. Oh well. Muh ala carte and boredom is better I guess.

>>212707762
>>212707718 (OP)

If you're losing to fortnite and FIFA/NBA maybe your time has passed as an enertainment medium.

>>212710744
cropped by AI that wildly careens between characters as they talk

>>212707718 (OP)
>going to slopbusters instead of a regional video store, or even an indie video store

bro never had a section that was blocked off by beaded curtains, or never walked into the store to be greeted with some rated R gorefest playing on the TVs

But yeah, scarcity places more values on goods. It's the same with porn, people back then could jack off to one VHS or DVD or one magazine for years, whereas now zoomers are instantly bored with straight normal porn and immediately have to start diving into weird fetishes and degenerate sexuality shit.

>>212707718 (OP)
>its 1990
>you try and rent a movie but the employee tells you your taste sucks.
>at first you are pissed but then he convinces you its true.

>>212713661
>go to video rental store
>clerk recommends some shit you've never heard of
>absolute fucking kino

>load up netflix
>here watch some coworker slop or some movie we spent $400 million on with a 20 year old who looks 40

>>212713760
just wait till Netflix has an AI that pops up on you screen and does a helo fellow kino fans im a clone of Quintin Tarantino NETFLIX Ai Personality and i'm here to recommend you things Quintin would. Go check out the latest Christmas Movie Starring Vin Diesel! Fun for the entire family.

>>212713565
The one I went to had their sci-fi section built out to look like a space ship. They had this metal grate ramp that you had to walk up to get inside. It was kino. I attribute that video store as to why I love sci fi so much. 99.9% of anons will never know the joy of their mom picking them up from school and taking them to the spaceship to rent Stargate for the first time.

>>212713565
> now zoomers are instantly bored with straight normal porn and immediately have to start diving into weird fetishes and degenerate sexuality shit.
Gen Alpha was watching ElsaGate fetish shit as toddlers. You have no idea the level of degeneracy that’s about to be normalized.

>>212711382
Cable movies were whatever could be bought cheap.

>>212713565
>some rated R gorefest playing on the TVs
I'll take Shit That Didn't Happen for 1200, Alex

>>212714030
>It was movie.

>>212714338
happened to me, like I said this was a local indie store.

The movie was called Violent Shit, or maybe one of its many sequels, I was way too young and the most violence I had seen by that point was probably like the TV edit of Gremlins

>>212714030
sounds neat, I miss the 1980s boner comedies section of my old video store, all those hand-drawn and completely sun-bleached covers of movies I would never watch. it was always like Bikini Carwash Babes College Party IV: The Fartmaster or something like that

>>212714274
unfortunately I can see the writing on the wall I'm pretty sure. All this AI shit is also making people retarded where they don't know how to write or read anymore without the help of 3 AI tools.

>>212707718 (OP)
>>212707762
no, thats not it
What happened is white people, men in particular, stopped being the primary paying demographic, so they don't make movies for us anymore, and thus the movies suck and don't keep our attention.

>>212714338
zoomers really have no idea what the world was like lmao

>>212715920
zoomers can't even say "dead" on youtube

>>212716285
fire no cap gyat!

>>212716347
chat, am I cooked? let me cook, chat.

>>212716506
grape! Hes a grapist!!!!!

>>212716587
*news anchor voice*
A PDF File was Unalived today at the local Adult Detention Center after he tried to Grape his fellow Bunkbed Partner a Follower Of The Austrian Painter, also known as The Other N-Words.

Here we have shock and graphic footage of the A.... Salt, viewer discretion is advised

[completely blurred out footage]
Truly shocking. Next, a report on teen Sewer Sides.

>>212707718 (OP)
Not everyone was five when Blockbuster was still around. Some people were old enough to have their own money and rented more than one movie.

>>212717339
I just went to youtube and saw Dean Withers talking about child cornography lmao

the censors have destroyed that generations minds its insane

>>212707718 (OP)
If the product is good, you will watch it, and if is really good,you will buy the Blu Ray ( mostly movies )
Bad movies and TV shows are being produced for almost 100 years
Streaming makes no profit , add to that fact is a shitty show and yes, the majority of Hollyweird is fucked up

>>212717906
>child cornography
absolute clown world

was "child" censored in the title as well as "ch*ld" ?

>>212718105
no and it wasn't in a title he was speaking, but it came out so naturally, hes so used to altering the words.

>>212707950

>>212707718 (OP)
I fucking miss going to a store each weekend and seeing a whole bunch of new games/movies you never even knew existed.
And they were right there waiting for you to take them home.
You took a punt on shit you'd never heard of, and you sometimes got absolute crap. But sometimes you came home with absolute gold, the most obscure shit ever made but also the most amazing thing you'd ever seen/played.
You don't get that experience now because you always check user reviews/ratings etc first. You know 5 years in advance what's in development.
You just consume what the algorithm tells you to, and you aren't getting a personalised recommendation, you are just consuming the same shit everyone else is.
Nobody finds obscure, under the radar stuff anymore because of this crap.

One thing i've been doing with video games lately to try to recreate this magic is each weekend i'll use Mobygames or IMDB to randomly select 3 titles, and i'll just play/watch those. I've found some really cool stuff so far... some stinkers too obviously but a lot of cool obscure shit.

>>212711658
NBA doesn't capture shit that's just an air conditioned date night scam for browns. Truth is people are watching YouTube, playing video games, and too poor to go to cinema. As for content at home it sucks so we ignore it.

>>212707718 (OP)
i just watch whatever mike recommends

>>212707718 (OP)
>unlimited choice
this is the biggest lie the streaming cucks tell. I'd say about 80% of the movies I watch aren't available on any streaming platforms, luckily there's Plex and private torrent trackers.

>>212720737
What stuff are you watching that is that obscure? I find every movie I want to watch by searching the title + free online

>>212710851
>a movie
Am I the only one who got the ten weekly rentals for ten dollars deal? That way you can get the tapes with the trailers you like, for the 20th time and still have movies to watch you haven't seen.

>>212720845
lex friedman podcast episode 100

>>212707718 (OP)
A lot of blockbuster is rose tinted glasses. Back then you had to literally judge a book by its cover and a lot of the times the DVD case was designed to be incredibly enticing but the film was completely atrocious. If you were renting a VHS sometimes you put it in your player and it was mangled/unwatchable but you couldn't tell the store clerk because they'd make you replace it so you had to pass the suffering onto the next guy. If you didn't get to the store early enough the new releases section was picked clean. They also forget the weird chemical cleaner smell of the carpet and the teenager behind the counter who would rather be anywhere else and is smiling through existential dread as they spend their summer behind the counter of a blockbuster trying to resurface a disc for some Karen who mangled it under her dining chair leg. Fucking millennials are just as bad as boomers who bragged about having to walk to school both ways and sodie pap being a nickel. Fuck blockbuster. Nostalgia is a disease.

>>212720845
I'm talking the legal streaming platforms. Maybe I could find some of them on the sites you mention but the quality would likely be ass, whereas the private trackers have the highest quality available.

Last 5 movies I watched not on streaming:
The Bird People in China (1998)
Moon Young (2015)
The Discarnates (1988)
The Harmonium in My Memory (1999)
Woman of Water (2002)

>>212713661
bless those gate keepers of yore

>unlimited choice
>get bored, turn it off after 10 minutes

This is the biggest problem I have. I have thousands of films that I'd like to watch on my server, but I'm plagued with choice and eventually lose interest and just turn on a tv show or something.

>>212721017
my blocklusters smelled like popcorn mixed with ac, one of my favorite smells ever

>>212721041
based /film/ émigré

>>212721017
Also, when renting consoles if you didn't have your own memory card you had to either hope that someone hadn't saved over your file or play on someone else's file halfway through the game.
>>212721311
Yes blockbuster was literally better than sex and the world is a post apocalyptic nightmare because you don't have to pay 5 bucks to rent a video for 7 days we get it boomer

>>212721017
>Nostalgia is a disease.
lmao
modern life is the disease
everything sucks nowdays, except computing power and game/movie budgets

why are people acting ITT like picking a movie hard? Worst case scenario you literally just tell the teenager behind the counter what sort of thing you were in the mood for and they picked something.

>>212707950
Drunk brain juice to help

>>212721603
I dont know why you're seething about it

>>212713565
This looks just like the place in Columbus Ohio I used to go to

>>212721755
>everything sucks nowdays
You're just a pessimist. I don't miss having to drive to blockbuster to pay to rent a video for the same price I can get the dvd shipped directly to my house from amazon. Banking is way better, I can check my balances on my phone without having to call or go into my branch. I can e transfer. I can have my groceries delivered directly to my house without having to battle the predatory psychological practices within the store. During lockdowns I could renew my insurance over the phone (wish that would make a comeback). I don't miss going to a physical store to pay a 400% markup on an item the store owner ordered from the internet and put on a shelf just to "buy local". There's a lot of things about modernity that are extremely convenient when you aren't always looking on the dark side of life.
>>212721839
I'm tired of hearing you boomers wax on about how much better the world was in the 90's. I was there. You have a selective memory.

>>212717339
AI generated voice*
I already hear them for local ads

>>212722096
>I'm tired of hearing you boomers wax on about how much better the world was in the 90's. I was there. You have a selective memory.
only time I didnt enjoy blockbuster was at the end of it's life because they didnt bother fixing anything so it looked run down and cheap. which it was. during it's peak it was a treat.

>Oh, I’m real. Real enough to bypass PHYSICAL MEDIA! And I did it without your precious distribution network, your oh-so-special Blockbuster branches. I’ll stream some movies. I’ll download the most spectacular kino anyone’s ever seen! And when I’ve watched it and I’ve had my fun, I’ll share everything to the internet so that everyone can watch kino. All movies can be enjoyed for zero effort! And when every movie can be enjoyed... none of them will be.

>>212716347
>>212716506
>>212716587
The world is ripe for a Nightmare movie where Freddy kills zoomers and makes shitty one-liners based on their lingo.