Streamingtjenesternes indtog i vores hverdag har ændret den måde vi konsumerer medier på, det ved enhver, men hvordan har det ændret vores vaner, det vi foretrækker at se og hvordan vi vælger at se det?
Det har skuespiller Willem Dafoe nogle ret stærke tanker omkring. I et interview med The Guardian siger han nemlig, at fordi streamingtjenesterne kan levere så alsidigt indhold, så drager publikummer nu ind i biografmørket for at slappe af, og ikke for at blive udfordret. Faktisk siger han at det er direkte "tragisk" at flere og flere ser film derhjemme:
"The kind of attention that people give at home isn't the same. More difficult movies, more challenging movies can not do as well, when you don't have an audience that's really paying attention. That's a big thing. I miss the social thing of where movies fit in the world. You go see a movie, you go out to dinner, you talk about it later, and that spreads out. People now go home, they say, 'Hey, honey, let's watch something stupid tonight,' and they flip through and they watch five minutes of 10 movies, and they say, forget it, let's go to bed. Where's that discourse found?"
Han er ikke kun sur på den måde vi, seerne, ser filmene på, men mener også at problemet ligger hos studierne:
"They aren't making movies the same way they used to. They're being financed by toy companies and other entities, and they become the vehicle to make the movies, because they know how to do that. Streaming, they're becoming like a monopoly, they have the means of production and distribution. And so it's very complicated."