Pay per view Pay per view movies are those movies you order from your home and then instantly have access to right on your television.  In the past, pay per view had to be ordered by phone, but now with digital cable you can just punch in some buttons on your remote and your in pay per view heaven.  Pay per view movies are just another good reason to switch over to digital cable if you can.  There’s a much greater selection of per view movies on digital cable, and they’re much easier to order. I love the pay per view concept.  It’s already getting to be more and more popular, and this excites me.  I can’t wait until I have access to any movie I could ever want with just the push of a button and a $3.95 charge to my credit card.  No late fees, no trip to the video store, just a mild thumb exercise that’s over before you know it and then wham, its movie time. I think pay per view movies are the peak of modern postindustrial laziness.  Not only are we getting too lazy to make it to movie theatres, we’re too lazy to even pick up a video as well.  Heck, even though I haven’t done it yet, I’ve seriously considered ordering a pay per view movie I actually owned on video or DVD, just because I didn’t want to get up.  I have to admit its no wonder the U.S. has so much obesity and related health disorders.  If I were a theatre owner, I’d be a little worried about pay per view movies.  A night out to see a movie with a date costs at least $25, and usually more like $40 if you throw in refreshments and parking.  While going to the movies is still an appealing idea, I’m almost just as happy sitting on my couch, drooling over my remote and getting diabetes for one tenth of the price.  A family of four would have to pay the better part of a hundred bucks to see a single movie in a theatre.  All I can say is when (if) I have a family, we’re going to get diabetes together and it’s going to be great.  Maybe the movie industry and theatre owners will collectively realize the threat that pay per view poses and begin to lower their prices; or at least stop raising them for a while.  Maybe they’re start making better movies too.  But, I sort of doubt it.