I feel like people just lap up whatever is being served up on Netflix/ in Hollywood these days and don't really even have any way to find older gems anymore. They're all still there on physical media, but how do people who don't know what they're looking for find this stuff? I've ranted before about how difficult it is to curate decade specific lists on Netlix, it's as if they really don't want you to revisit the past, those just cost them money for licences anyway, here, maybe you'd like this Netflix Original? If it wasn't a Netflix recommendation, or they didn't see it in a listicle about top ten X movies of the 80's, how would someone even know about, say, Harry and the Henderson's these days? You used to get some exposure to stuff just going to the Blockbuster or convenience store movie aisle and looking at random stuff, renting a few for the hell of it. Beacuse they had everything, there were no licence deals and movies there one week and gone the next - these places had all the current stuff, and nearly everything you'd want going back many decades. Browsing around Netflix is in no way comparable to browsing around rental places in their heydays.



Remember how Netlifx got popular in the first place? It wasn't streaming garbage, that is still relatively new. No they made their bones mailing people physical copies of movies they actually already had interest in. It was just a huge online Blockbuster. It doesn't feel like that anymore.