Title Awareness and Consumption

[pferreira]

It's great that in this day and age we're still getting physical releases of movies yet studios seem to just be re-releasing the same stuff with fancy packaging. Movies that never have got a regional release because they're overlooked or not popular enough meanwhile are ignored.

Now the obvious point you're all thinking is "well it all has to do with what sells, what property is visible to the consumer" but maybe studios and online streaming services are somewhat to blame? If you give the consumer the exact same titles do they know anything else? Consumption is based on what people have awareness with. How could a consumer know a film like 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984) or Stay Tuned (1992) exists if it isn't properly available to watch? My point is that if we took away all the most well known movies off streaming sites or physical releases would it force consumers and force studios to give something they're unfamiliar with a watch?

What do you people think?