(Washington Insider Magazine) —There was once a blissful time before streaming culture, when going to the cinema was considered a magical time that children looked forward to in the evenings or on the weekends. It was a time when families and friends could gather around a large screen in a dark room that wrapped around the theater and people would gaze at its spectacle no matter how good or bad the films were. People were excited to go to the movies, or at least I was when I was a child growing up in the 2000s.
Of late, however, it seems that streaming from the comfort of people’s houses has taken over the entertainment landscape with many people opting to stay in their houses rather than waste more rising gas money to go to the cinemas plus paying for snacks, as well.
How Streaming has changed Studios
Streaming Services
Nobody cares about the cinema anymore because studios like Disney, Netflix and Warner Brothers have made their own streaming services and have thus incentivized people to stay home and not spend billions at the movies, which is their own doing, which further explains why a lot of their movies are bombing at the box-office.
Don’t get me wrong. Streaming is a lovely and convenient way to watch your favorite films and television shows whenever and wherever you want with the click of a few buttons, but that explanation of the service that it provides is where the main issues lie. Back in the 2000s and prior to that time period, people had to wait to see their favorite movie or tv show again or they had to wait in line to purchase a ticket to see the film again.
They couldn’t just pull it up with a few clicks and waiting in line or waiting all week for it to come back on tv for an encore presentation is what kept audiences disciplined and they appreciated the craft of cinema and television more. Nowadays, films and tv are easy to access to the point that people no longer see them as art. They are looked at as “content” for people to consume and then move onto the next movie or series. There has been a high demand for entertainment in the industry but people seem to care less and less about what’s coming out and more about how they are going to pass the time.
Streaming May Cheapen the Medium of Art
The Streaming Services of Late.
The craft of entertainment has been usurped by the need to keep ADHD minds distracted for a certain period of time and as long as people watch the “content”, and studios turn a profit, this will only continue to get worse and worse. When things become too easy to access and there becomes an excess of the product, what happens? The product turns into something of a fast food chain. It’s cheap and easy content that proves to be unhealthy for you in the long-term.
Filmmaking is hard. It deserves tender love and care along with a boat-load of respect from the cast and crew, but when there are too many shows and films to keep track of, it only spoils the broth further as there are now too many cooks in the kitchen and too many channels on tv to keep up with. There was once a time when television only had four or five channels and it went off at a certain hour at night. The overloading of content, nowadays, has only done more harm for people than good, as nothing is sacred anymore and nobody appreciates anything because people in this day and age know that studios will probably reboot or remake it and leave it in the hands of younger fans and then the cycle will only continue. Earlier cinema would have never defiled such a sacred craft.
