> these are all critiques you could have leveled with equal force in 2002
Netflix streaming wasn't around in 2002. This (and similar services) is the biggest factor in theaters losing market share.
Netflix streaming wasn't around in 2002. This (and similar services) is the biggest factor in theaters losing market share.
Its nice to be able to pause and go to the bathroom at home. Do I miss some of the movie theater experience? Yeah, but not having kids kicking my seat, or people talking during the movie/etc... basically makes me not care about the plight of pre streaming movie distribution.
"Competition from other forms of delivery. […] Netflix alone accounts for 30% of all internet traffic in the evening. That represents millions of moviegoers. They're simply not in a theater."
Ebert didn't really tie it into the overall argument as well as I would have liked, but he did bring it up.