Has the amount of content available these days affected the magic of movies?

[wonderer99]

OK so I struggled for a while coming up with a title for the thread as I just couldn't word it right but, I don't know, the last 5 years or so, pre pandemic, movies and TV shows just seem to become........less valuable?

I have come to the conclusion, for myself at least, that it is, in large part, due to the sheer amount of content we simply have today. We are literally bombarded with new movies and movie quality tv series, one after the other. I was having a conversation with my partner and she said there is simply "too much to watch now"

Couple that with the binge watch mentality and we just don't seem to absorb anything anymore, let it sink in and relish it before moving on. It seems that even viewers are not allowing themselves to love movies anymore to a certain degree.

This seems to be prevalent across the board, from smaller arthouse movies that would have been laden with praise that barely get a mention to massive blockbuster type movies that sit on Netflix for a week then get forgotten. Movies such as The Tomorrow War would have been an "event movie" Do we even have a blockbuster season now? Or is it just Marvel season?

The thing I realised and I don't know if others feel the same is that even though I consume more content now than ever before, the amount of things I cherish has not increased. Statistically I should be finding more things I love but my physical media collection has not grown by much. Another casualty of the streaming times is movies we would have pored over the cover of the box art we now forget because its streaming only and has been erased from the front pages.

Films and shows that I would have loved and watched numerous times thereafter now sit in the great film but will probably never watch it again category simply because there is no time to revisit everything anymore.

I don't know, I am not explaining very well but I hope you get what I mean. In a nutshell I am beginning to feel that having too much content is actually a bad thing. It used to be a case of being great to have so much choice but now I don't feel like we don't give our hearts to much anymore.