Sunday, August 23, 2009

Film consumption

I was thinking about how people consume movies these days - either via cable or cable-on-demand or Netflix or buying the DVD or downloading or just streaming them on the computer.

And then I was thinking back to the olden days where you had to go see movies in the cinema. Even if you loved the first Star Wars movie more than anything in the world, which a lot of people did, the only way you could see it again is if it was showing at a cinema in a revival.

How did we even live that way? It's as hard to imagine as trying to remember how we ever checked any facts before Google.

No wonder people went to see the first Star Wars movie 70 times when it was first released. Now, everyone sees every movie 70 times. But back then you had to take advantage while it was still showing in cinemas.

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