We used to go to the movies every weekend. Those who had VCRs were the lucky ones because they could rent a movie every day. Today we have streaming services like Netflix and a long list of free streaming sites that offer an incredibly diverse choice of movies or series that can satisfy anyone’s taste for cinematic pleasure.
Every genre or sub-genre is available with a lot of new titles coming in every day. Great works of cinema pile up just for the sake of our entertainment. They progress in quality plus quantity, always pushing the limits of our perception about proper cinema. You can lose yourself in that sea of new plus old titles that constantly fill this ever-growing catalogue of modern cinema achievements.
Even reading a book is not what it used to be. People used to go to bookstores or libraries and enjoyed that smell of a brand new printed edition. Sitting in a coffee shop and drinking your coffee while browsing through your Sunday newspapers used to be a sacred ritual. Now we read e-books on our tablets or enjoy audiobooks with our smartphones. We are not saying that things got better or worse, we just say things changed rapidly.
Online content is constantly adjusting itself to audiences and once their tastes are shifting in a different direction, so does the industry. The online experience should provide a perfect mix of entertainment that starts with one good movie and progresses into a casino night of playing your favorite games online. Maybe one would rather spend some quiet evening reserved for reading e-books that will end with watching a bunch of funny clips of his choice. It is all good as long as you enjoy it.
Movies, e-books, video games or online gaming, the choice is yours. You deserve to be entertained and everybody has the right to be amused after a hard day of work. So work hard but play hard also as you weigh your options in this department. With so many materials to choose from, one can feel overwhelmed by the colossal magnitude of this industry. Enjoy it all to the fullest and try out different forms of entertainment as your experience provides important feedback that will, in turn, shape the future of online leisure time.
Alfredo E. CLark Lindo.