Discovered Mubi.com yesterday. Only $5/month, and mostly movies that I’d want to watch anyway. For me, it’s better than Netflix, which I cancelled long ago. Something to keep in mind for the time when there actually is energy and time to watch anything after work. And they do have shorts!
Their curation is great, but it got me thinking how there is room for yet another streaming service, where you and your likeminded friends form groups and do all the movie curation yourself. And the platform would take care of licensing them, one month at a time, from whoever owns their copyrights. That way, you can stream those movies that you want, rather than whatever Netflix (or Mubi or HBOGo) happens to have available at the time. Netflix, with their immense user-ratings database, and agreement with studios/distributors, is perfectly positioned to do something like this, as is Amazon/IMDB. But it doesn’t really make sense for them to do it.
For the fun of it, I could even draw the screen mockups for it. And put it in a portfolio folder that no one will ever see.
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