I was talking to someone this weekend about this, how, before computers really pervaded movie consumption, there weren’t companies who knew every movie a person watched, and had specific profiles on them. A local rental guy might know your habits, but the creators were still at more of a distance.

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The most marvelous part, I think, was the way that old and new were catalogued. Movies from the 30s and the 80s and 90s in a store. Streaming is cool, but it's shorn off a huge path of "discovering old shit, kinda randomly", which has a unique value for each searcher (imho)

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the older i get, the more I know of history, the more I cherish that I got to be a 10-12 year old boy who could check out VHS’s of “The Dirty Dozen” and “Where Eagles Dare” from a Blockbuster.

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I like this one, perfectly designed to get a bunch of people confusing nostalgia for facts.

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It will always be true that the past will look historically brutal to our minds, but it is an error to project our (correct) scorn for the brutality to the people of that time. At every point in the curve, we’re doing the best we think we can, with the tools we have.

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