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, the only Christian “war on Christmas” movie you’ll ever see that concludes with a scene of a kid broadcasting a clip of his father’s death in Iraq to an assembly full of high school students, who respond by tearily giving the snuff film a standing ovation.
There’s something a little bit tragic about that lost era of selection, because for many average consumers there’s no way to replicate it today, even if they’re determined to try. The independent and chain video stores are almost entirely gone, put out of business by the convenience of Netflix DVDs, and then left fallow as DVD.com shuts down for the final time a decade later.
I suppose I’ll likely keep on receiving Netflix DVDs right up to the bitter end. After all, I’ve been paying for the service for 12 years, why stop now when there are only a few months left? I could probably engineer some kind of fitting conclusion for my final DVD, a symbolic choice that brings the Netflix DVD experience full circle, or a film with which I have some kind of special, sentimental connection.
I can’t help but think that a few decades from now, I’ll find myself describing Netflix’s DVD service to some oblivious youngster, and they’ll struggle to believe that we once had access to such a huge repository of film, at a bare minimum of cost. “It was a great time to be a film fan,” I’ll explain as the kid shrugs and plugs himself back into the hive mind, which is offering a vast selection of two dozen movies, all of them starring the hologram of Chris Pratt.
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