I wish they made more movies like this. But they don’t.
It’s kind of wild how wholesome many 2000 comedies were deep down. But the world changed and a lot of them were re evaluated a in the 2010s as being awful and terrible because they were given surface level analysis and turned into rage-bait for the ‘love to be offended’ crowd who often can’t see beyond the surface of things.
2005 was the year Youtube was launched, 5 months after 40 Year old Virgin was released in theaters.
yeah I’ve heard this. Makes sense. I was a big buyer of DVDs myself back in the 2000s, but once streaming came along it was over.
I still have a couple dozen movies on blu ray and such, and people are total assholes about it asking me why I am so ‘weird’ owning physical media. Movie collecting doesn’t get the cultural ‘cool’ of say, owning records on vinyl, and btw often the people who own vinyl are the same ones who give me shit about having physical media… sigh
everything is streaming rights sales now, and you can’t command a high price for it on a low budget movie, hence why most streaming services are full of cheap schlock and the high priced premium content moves from service to service ever other month.
I wish they made more movies like this. But they don’t.
It’s kind of wild how wholesome many 2000 comedies were deep down. But the world changed and a lot of them were re evaluated a in the 2010s as being awful and terrible because they were given surface level analysis and turned into rage-bait for the ‘love to be offended’ crowd who often can’t see beyond the surface of things.
2005 was the year Youtube was launched, 5 months after 40 Year old Virgin was released in theaters.
Matt Damon explains how mid budget cinema died when physical media became obsolete: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gF6K2IxC9O8
yeah I’ve heard this. Makes sense. I was a big buyer of DVDs myself back in the 2000s, but once streaming came along it was over.
I still have a couple dozen movies on blu ray and such, and people are total assholes about it asking me why I am so ‘weird’ owning physical media. Movie collecting doesn’t get the cultural ‘cool’ of say, owning records on vinyl, and btw often the people who own vinyl are the same ones who give me shit about having physical media… sigh
everything is streaming rights sales now, and you can’t command a high price for it on a low budget movie, hence why most streaming services are full of cheap schlock and the high priced premium content moves from service to service ever other month.