I miss the video store.
Looking forward to a movie night used to be so much more fun.
You went to the video store to see what was available. You checked which new films had come out. You walked past all those shelves and mostly let yourself be guided by whatever was on the front of the VHS box.
Then you quickly read the plot. If it sounded even vaguely fun, you rented it without hesitation and that was the film you were watching that night.
Even if the film turned out to be terrible, you had paid 7.50 guilders for it, so you finished it.
Watching a film may be easier now, but I am not sure it is more fun.
Because of the huge number of streaming services, there is now an absolute flood of options. You no longer choose a film just because the story sounds fun.
An actor you do not really like? Hmm, maybe not.
No decent IMDb score? No thanks. Next!
And once you finally pick something, it has to be perfect. Because if it annoys you even slightly, there are 34,000 other options that might be better.
It used to be more fun to watch a film.