The Internet is Ruining Movies

 I said in the TVCU reboot I would do some different things.  Today I'm doing an essay, or more of a rant, about something that really bugs me.  The internet is ruining movies.

Two main reasons.

First, streaming.  I love the movie theater experience.  I love seeing a movie on a big screen.  I love not staring at my phone for two hours.  

But since COVID especially, people got used to streaming.  They don't want to leave home.  They don't want to go watch a movie as an experience.  

Don't get me wrong.  I love streaming.  I like to watch very specific things.  My lists, like 70s movies or super hero tv shows.  I can find almost anything on streaming.  

But this doesn't replace the theater experience for a new movie.  

And the less people go to theaters, the less movies make it to theaters.  So many go direct to streaming now.  Especially comedies.  The comedy film genre is dying.  

Soon, movie theaters will go out of business, I'm afraid, due to streaming.  

The second reason I say the internet is ruining movies is all the movie fan sites and social media.

Spoilers.  I'm talking about spoilers.  I can't scroll Facebook without getting some headline that reveals a surprise cameo or plot twist, something that I should be discovering for the first time when watching the movie.  These fan sites love to ruin movies.  People seem obsessed with knowing every detail about a movie before watching it.

And then on the flip side, with social media and fan sites, are the haters.  They are "fans" and yet they seem to hate everything before they've even seen it.  I love movies, and I don't need that negativity in my life.

Movies are escapist fun, and have been part of my trauma healing process since I was a kid.  Stop ruining my movies.  

Thank you for listening.