Entertainment
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Streaming services have destroyed the magic of the movie theater experience
Is cinema dead or just evolving into something different?
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1 day ago
Movie theaters were actual places where communities gathered. As they close, we lose more shared spaces. Streaming isolates us in our living rooms.
1 day ago
When everything's on streaming in a month, nothing feels special. Movies used to be events. Now they're just content to scroll past.
1 day ago
There was something special about seeing movies as a group - the anticipation, the shared reactions, the event of it all. Watching Netflix alone on your couch isn't the same thing.
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1 day ago
Streaming enabled prestige TV, which has absorbed the storytelling that films used to do. Content migrated to a better format. That's evolution, not death.
1 day ago
Let's be real about what theaters actually were - overpriced tickets, sticky floors, crying babies, people checking phones. Most of the 'magic' is nostalgia goggles.
1 day ago
I can watch incredible world cinema, classic films, stuff that would never play in my local multiplex. Access has never been better.