Your movies source(s)

[Zeldar]

It has come to my attention (more or less by accident and in a random way) that many, if not most, of the movies that get discussed here, or that are used as examples to make points about movies, come from these primary sources. If you can expand the list of sources, please do so before providing your own breakdown of where you get most of your movie-viewing done.

1. First-run in-theaters-now showings (for whenever you saw the movie)
2. Freshly issued DVD’s for sale
3. Latest rental releases from Netflix, Blockbuster, etc.
4. “Classics” rentals from such places as (3)
5. Non-commercial Premium Cable Movies channels (including TCM, Retro, etc.)
6. Cable “On Demand” showings (include PPV)
7. Commercialized Cable showings (include AMC, USA, etc.)
8. Art House reshowings of Classics, Foreign, Special Audience films
9. Broadcast Major Network hack jobs with all the good stuff edited out or interrupted every four minutes with five-minute commercial breaks

Before seeing other categories (how could I?) my breakdown is:

1. < 5% (maybe two a year)
2. < 5% (we own maybe 20 DVD’s but have beaucoup VHS’s copied off the air)
3. 20-30% (we also rent a fair number of old TV things)
4. 5-10 %
5. 30-40%
6. 20-30%
7. 5-10%
8. 0% (maybe 5% in earlier days)
9. < 5% (do not appreciate commercials during a movie – or much else)

I’m not going to check your arithmetic if you go the percentage route like I did. Just ballpark is fine unless the numbers don’t add up to 50% or if they exceed 200%.

[Mahaloth]

1. <5% - This year we will see X-files 2, Indiana Jones, Narnia, and Harry Potter. That’s a big year for us. I think last year we saw two in the theater(Bourne 3 and Pirates 3).

2. <1% - We don’t buy many movies at all. Last year, I got At Worlds End and…that’s it.

3. 85% - We use Netflix for a lot of TV and movies.

4. 10% - By classics, I assume you mean anything that is not brand new.

5. 0%

6. 0%

7. 0%

8. 0%

9. 0%

[Little_Nemo]

You missed
10) Hunting around video stores, flea markets, and pawn shops for used DVDs and video tapes
and
11) Going to the second run theatre where you can watch a movie for two dollars a month after its first run release.

My approximate personal breakdown is

1. 1%
2. 40%
3. 0%
4. 0%
5. 1%
6. 0%
7. 1%
8. 1%
9. 1%
10. 50%
11. 5%

[drm]

1. First-run in-theaters-now showings (for whenever you saw the movie)

-130 last year [50.1%]

2. Freshly issued DVD’s for sale

-bought a lot of DVDs but had seen them in theatres already. There were 7 that I hadn’t seen already [2.8%]

3. Latest rental releases from Netflix, Blockbuster, etc.

-I rented 25 new release movies last year. I see most in theatres. [9.7%]

4. “Classics” rentals from such places as (3)

-last year I made a conscious effort to really improve myself in this area - 60 [23.2%]

5. Non-commercial Premium Cable Movies channels (including TCM, Retro, etc.)

-I manage to see a lot of docs this way - 30 last year [11.6]

6. Cable “On Demand” showings (include PPV)

• maybe twice last year. I rarely use it. [0.7%]

7. Commercialized Cable showings (include AMC, USA, etc.)

-0 [0%]

8. Art House reshowings of Classics, Foreign, Special Audience films

• I went to Cinematheque 5 times last year. [1.9%]

9. Broadcast Major Network hack jobs with all the good stuff edited out or interrupted every four minutes with five-minute commercial breaks

-0 [0%]

[chowder]

1…0%
2…½%
3-9…0%

You forgot:

10…Pirate copies from an “acquaintance” :o

[Zeldar]

@Mahaloth

4. 10% - By classics, I assume you mean anything that is not brand new.

Oh, yes! Must adapt to the times.

Classic = new car smell has faded and dust has accumulated on the dashboard.

[mhendo]

@Zeldar

1. First-run in-theaters-now showings (for whenever you saw the movie)
2. Freshly issued DVD’s for sale
3. Latest rental releases from Netflix, Blockbuster, etc.
4. “Classics” rentals from such places as (3)
5. Non-commercial Premium Cable Movies channels (including TCM, Retro, etc.)
6. Cable “On Demand” showings (include PPV)
7. Commercialized Cable showings (include AMC, USA, etc.)
8. Art House reshowings of Classics, Foreign, Special Audience films
9. Broadcast Major Network hack jobs with all the good stuff edited out or interrupted every four minutes with five-minute commercial breaks

1. About 5-10%

2. close to 0%; we buy very few

3. • 4. about 60-70% (not sure of the breakdown between latest releases and classics, or even how you’re defining classics)

4. 20% or so; my wife especially is a big TCM watcher, and i sometimes end up watching with her, even if it’s a movie i might not otherwise care for.

5. 0%

6. Maybe 10%, but only if i’ve seen the movie before, and generally when i’m working in front of the TV. In my experience, these channels butcher the movies with editing and commercials almost as badly as the free-to-air networks, and if a movie i really wanted to see (quite rare) came on AMC, i’d switch the channel and put the movie on my Netflix list.

7. 0%

8. 0%

[Student_Driver]

@Zeldar

1. First-run in-theaters-now showings (for whenever you saw the movie)
2. Freshly issued DVD’s for sale
3. Latest rental releases from Netflix, Blockbuster, etc.
4. “Classics” rentals from such places as (3)
5. Non-commercial Premium Cable Movies channels (including TCM, Retro, etc.)
6. Cable “On Demand” showings (include PPV)
7. Commercialized Cable showings (include AMC, USA, etc.)
8. Art House reshowings of Classics, Foreign, Special Audience films
9. Broadcast Major Network hack jobs with all the good stuff edited out or interrupted every four minutes with five-minute commercial breaks

10. Used DVDs bought close to their release dates from video stores

11. “Vintage” VHS/LD/DVD bought from eBay, flea markets, etc.

12. Second-run non-art/revival movie theaters

13. Borrowing media from friends

14. Downloading

15. Watching whatever coworkers bring in to surreptitiously play on our breakroom plasma set-up

16. <5%, a few a year, not many due to schedule problems

17. 10%, a dozen or more a year, half from online, half from brick and mortar

18. 0%

19. <1%, once a year or less

20. 0%, no cable

21. 0%, no cable, and I’m too cheap to do so at hotels

22. 0%, no cable

23. 10%, a dozen or more a year

24. 0%, no antenna

25. 35% (Even higher this year, a number of great going-out-of-business sales)

26. 20%, a couple dozen or more a year; I’m a sucker for LDs, and even bought a CED last week!

27. 5%, 5 or 6 a year

28. 10%, a dozen or so a year

29. 5%, 5 or 6, typically foreign or olde-tyme stuff

30. 5%, 5 or 6, though this will increase as coworkers get used to having the new set-up in our breakroom

[Justin_Bailey]

You forgot “the library”. Which really helps my breakdown:

The Library: 90%
The First-Run Theater: 10%

I also assume you’re only talking about movies you watch for the first time, because I rewatch stuff from my own personal DVD collection a lot. But that doesn’t seem like it should count.

[Zeldar]

@Justin_Bailey

You forgot “the library”. Which really helps my breakdown:

The Library: 90%
The First-Run Theater: 10%

I also assume you’re only talking about movies you watch for the first time, because I rewatch stuff from my own personal DVD collection a lot. But that doesn’t seem like it should count.

Good points.

What I failed to say in the OP is that I have noticed a good-sized number of “oldies” (classics and otherwise) that get mentioned in these “best ever” or “best example of” types of surveys, are currently available on our Comcast, either in the On Demand section or on one of the channels we get movies on (HBO is our only Premium channel).

It would be a fun exercise to list the movies on our today’s Comcast offerings that are in active threads today, but I decided to use this thread to test the theory.