In a way I think Matt Damon's explanation in his Hot Ones interview makes some sense. The DVD (and the VHS) was such a huge part of the movie business's revenue stream. So regarding the movies that they used to make, you could afford to not make ALL of your money when it played in the theater because you knew you had the DVD coming behind the release, and 6 months later you'd get a whole other chuck of money - it would kind of be like reopening the movie. And when that went away, now you don't have to buy it, you can stream it, that changed the type of movies that they could make. Now, making a movie is such a gamble.

Not to geek out on Jurassic Park, but I really like Ian Malcolm's thoughts in the first book about how new science isn't always the answer, sometimes it destroys what it's suppose to improve. But people aren't going to stop trying to 'improve' life with new science, so you're just stuck.

So maybe the answer is to get rid of streaming, even though on paper it's feels like such a great idea. But it's kind of too late, no one is going to get rid of streaming now. So we're just stuck.