What to expect in 2008?

Well, I will spend the next few months, as always catching up on films I missed in 2007. One of these days or decades I will get to see films before they come to DVD. (I doubt it)
But I fear that the way we watch films has changed. In fact I know it has.
How has it changed?
We have watched less films at the theatre this year, in fact the number has gone down every year for the last three years.
We have a 37 inch wide screen television with surround sound and over 200 films on DVD at home.
We joined Netfilx and rented 48 films last year.
We have a new LCD television with which I plan to hook up to our computer and watch Netfix movies on.
I have friends and family who watch films that are still playing at the theatre on bootleg discs. This is something that Will and I refuse to do. That is just not right. It is bad enough that we have to suffer paying and watching films with inproperly lit screens and speakers that tweek during a melody. I have so wanted to get our money back or walk out, but it would be the same elsewhere.
Even so, we will still try to go to the movies at least once a week. But I fear that there will not be anything we wish to see. You see we have about 70 screens within 15 miles of where we live. Two second run theatres (16 screens), and three multiplexes (54 screens), where they show two crappy films like, “National Treasure 2” and “I Am Legend’ 18 screens.

So our choices are very limited sometimes. Although this may be the time when the crappiest films are released. It's actually the best and my favorite time of the year, when all the films everyone else is talking about finally get down here. I am so looking forward to seeing "The Orphanage" and "The Kite Runner," opening this weekend, and for "Michael Clayton" to come back next week.