Episode 27: Movies are getting worse - why?

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Associated Press - "Streaming is overtaking theaters for movie watchers, an AP-NORC poll finds" by Lindsey Bahr and Amelia Thomson-Devaux:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/news/streaming-is-overtaking-theaters-for-movie-watchers-an-ap-norc-poll-finds/ar-AA1NhswA?ocid=BingNewsSerp

Science Direct - "Unravelling the complexity of the Video Game Industry: An integrative framework and future research directions" by Edward Goh, Omar Al-Tobbaa, and Zaheer Khan:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772503023000609

Progressive Policy Institute - "PPI’s Trade Fact of the Week: The price of a 40-inch TV set has fallen by 99% in 25 years" by Ed Gresser:

https://www.progressivepolicy.org/ppis-trade-fact-of-the-week-the-price-of-a-40-inch-tv-set-has-fallen-by-99-in-25-years/

Netflix - "What We Watched the First Half of 2025":

https://about.netflix.com/en/news/what-we-watched-the-first-half-of-2025

Museum of Arts and Design - "VHS" by Jake Yuzna, Matthew Desiderio and Rebecca Cleman:

https://madmuseum.org/series/vhs

Ask Earache - "Music videos made in the 90's were damn expensive " by Digby:

https://askearache.blogspot.com/2010/07/music-videos-made-in-90s-were-damn.html

Cord Cutters News - "DVD & Blu-ray Sales Plummet Over 93% Since 2005 Peak, Dipping Below $1 Billion in 2024" by Luke Bouma:

https://cordcuttersnews.com/dvd-blu-ray-sales-plummet-over-93-since-2005-peak-dipping-below-1-billion-in-2024/

Matt Damon on Hot Ones:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gF6K2IxC9O8

Wikipedia "Donnie Darko":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donnie_Darko

Top 100 List (Unranked)

100 500 Days of Summer
99 A Beautiful Mind
98 Avatar
97 Babylon
96 Be Kind Rewind
95 Beerfest
94 Best in Show
93 Black Dynamite
92 Black Swan
91 Blindspotting
90 Blue Ruin
89 Borat
88 Brick
87 Cabin in the Woods
86 Chicago
85 Children of Men
84 City of God
83 Crash
82 Dark Waters
81 Death of Stalin
80 Edge of Tomorrow
79 Encanto
78 Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
77 Finding Nemo
76 Gone Girl
75 Hacksaw Ridge
74 Hereditary
73 Hostiles
72 House of Sand and Fog
71 House of the Devil
70 Inside Out
69 Intacto
68 Intolerable Cruelty
67 Iron Man
66 Isle of Dogs
65 Jarhead
64 Judorowsky's Dune
63 Kid Detective
62 Kill Bill Vol.1
61 Lady Bird
60 Lego Batman
59 Locke
58 Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
57 Narc
56 Nightcrawler
55 Malena
54 Master and Commander
53 Mean Girls
52 Moulin Rouge!
51 Mother!
50 Mulholland Drive
49 Mystic River
48 Old School
47 Prisoners
46 Red Rocket
45 Rent
44 Shrek
43 Sicko
42 Silver Linings Playbook
41 Sing
40 Snatch
39 Snow Piercer
38 Star Trek
37 Superbad
36 The Artist
35 The Babadook
34 The Dark Knight
33 The Expendables
32 The Fighter
31 The Fog of War
30 The Hangover
29 The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
28 The Passion of the Christ
27 The Room
26 The Square
25 The Strangers
24 The Substance
23 The Witch
22 There Will be Blood
21 This is the End
20 Top Gun Maverick
19 Traffic
18 Triplets of Bellville
17 V/H/S
16 Walk Hard
15 West Side Story
14 Wet Hot American Summer
13 Who Killed the Electric Car?
12 Wind River
11 Zero Dark Thirty

Top 10 (Ranked):

10 The Incredibles
9 Inception
8 Eigth Grade
7 Michael Clayton
6 Gladiator
5 Sexy Beast
4 Manchester by the Sea
3 Parasite
2 The Social Network
1 No Country for Old Men

HMs
Chef
King's Speech
When the Levee Breaks
Downloaded
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The Night Before
District 9
Pain and Glory
The Town
Baby Driver