Nobody Knows How to Watch Movies Anymore (wired.com)

The problem is that movies aren't the special event they used to be. Now that we have them available when ever we want to see them then it's easy to stop it and move on if we feel a bit bored. In a way, being able to get all we want whenever we want has made the experience less than great. It's very ironic.

I think there is another factor to this. Hollywood has fallen off a cliff of late. In my subjective opinion, this started around the mid 2000's and the last decade has been the worst decade for movies in at least 50 years. Look at any top 10 lists for the last decade and the best movies don't hold a candle to what the 90's had to offer. I'll go out on a limb and say none will make it to the National Film Registry for historical preservation.

There's hardly a movie I've managed to watch all the way through, and yet I regularly find myself discovering new gems from the past and getting completely engrossed with them. If anyone else concurs or has some explanations, I would be delighted to hear.

What a pedantic article, who cares where and how you consume movies. Movies are dying like music has been dying for some decades now. People don't listen to music like they used to, and so people will not care about sitting for hours to watch a story that has been done over and over again. Not to mention recently people have started to inject political messaging, and ruining the story in the process.

Are there even good movies anymore? It's become so cheap to produce and they're all going for popularity at the box office, I barely ever see movies that have a soul anymore. Even tv shows, I find myself rewatching the same ones over and over again, because I know I will have a good time.