Do movie watchers of the future get to study a film over and over like we used to, now that the artifact of the collectible movie has gone away and almost all movies are easily accessed?
Time was, a movie was a physical object, there was scarcity and a built-in obligation to extract as much value as possible. So we’d watch them over and over again, and we’d learn about movies.
Everything I know about movies, I learned from Kentucky Fried Movie, Beetlejuice, and The Shining.