From: psperson@old.netcom.invalid   
      
   On Mon, 5 Jun 2023 06:39:21 -0700 (PDT), Jack Bohn   
    wrote:   
      
   >Paul S Person wrote:   
   >>    
   >> My replacement program of VHS tapes with DVDs ensured that a large    
   >> percentage of DVDs were sought and purchased, and my new (well, "new"    
   >> in the sense of "started about 10 years ago) practice of streaming and    
   >> then buying the select few I want to have has only added to that,    
   >> including /Predestination/. Of course, deciding to stream a film is,    
   >> more and more, less a matter of deliberate pre-planning and more a    
   >> matter of browsing online lists and stumbling across something.    
   >   
   >I was lucky not to have a large library of prerecorded VHS.  I was also a   
   late enough adopter that among my first DVD purchases were the Universal   
   Legacy sets of their monster movies, so that is my standard of quality in a   
   purchase.  Only one of the    
   factors in purchase is the extras, perhaps the main one is if I figure I'll   
   want to see it more than some source will want to show it to me.  As I had   
   also gotten into anime early in the century, DVD was the *only* way to see   
   some of them!  That's a    
   whole area that needs systematic rethinking in light of streaming.   
   >   
   >> /eXistenZ/, however, was /definitely/ a DVD I purchased without having    
   >> even heard of it, let alone seen it. And there are at least a few    
   >> others others.   
   >   
   >I don't think I've see that, although I don't know why I didn't go on to it   
   after renting "The Thirteenth Floor" and "World on a Wire."   
      
   Is the latter what IMDb/Amazon have as /Welt am Draht/, a miniseries?   
   Fortunately, Amazon also has /World on a Wire/ from Criterion on DVD   
   and BD. And it has English subtitles. Streams on Criterion (of   
   course), for $12/mo. This will require some thought. I could buy the   
   DVD (or even the BD) for not much more.   
      
   /eXistenZ/ is indeed similar, but it is by Cronenberg and that makes a   
   difference. Also, it's not so much an artificial world as an extremely   
   immersive RPG. Not at all like the Jumanji "sequels", or even /Free   
   Guy/, though.   
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