I still have family members who watch movies and shows on their old iPods. I have no idea how they are able to do this. The screen is roughly the size of a watch face, there are dead pixels everywhere, and the colors are crunched beyond recognizability. And yet they still do it. It’s terrible, I know. I’d make it illegal if I could.
Anyway, I read that Netflix CEO Ted Something-Or-Other bragged about his son watching Lawrence of Arabia on his phone. The fact that this is something he’s proud of proves that he has no problem devaluing cinema in order to create the endgame of streaming: a theater-less world where movies are background noise to fingers scrolling along Reddit and YouTube. This is why the future of movies cannot be entrusted to streaming companies. Ending purer means of watching movies is in their best interest. And I firmly believe that we don’t want to live in a world without theaters. That would change moviemaking in ways we don’t want to imagine.
Anyway, how’s your morning going?
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