The Premature Death of Physical Media and the Cult Home Video Labels Keeping It Alive

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Matt Damon and I share the exact same viewpoint.

?The DVD was a huge part of our business,? the actor explained in 2021. You could ?afford to not make all of your money when [a film] played in the theater, because you knew you?d have the DVD coming behind the release, and six months later you get, you know, a whole ?nother chunk.? When ?that went away, that changed the type of movies that we could make?. Financing more adventurous or offbeat films became ?a massive gamble in a way that it wasn?t in the 1990s when they were making ? the kind of movies that I loved?.

I always say the 90's were far better for movies than anything from the last ten years bar a few exceptions. It's companies like Disney and WB totally playing it safe churning out the same tired superhero movies time after time. Granted some are still very good but the quality in them has fallen dramatically in the main.

Movies like Oppenheimer which explored different ideas were regular staples of the 90's whereas now seem to be one offs.

Excellent article by the way. There is still hope for us collectors.