The thing you're missing is that there's a whole lot more than one reason to make a movie. It doesn't always have to be about distributing a movie for financial profit.
My post doesn't necessarily apply just to making a profit but pretty much to any film or indeed to pretty much anything at all, not just film (building your own car for example). Almost whatever it is you want to end up with, you need to research and plan for it, otherwise you'll probably end up making something which is not fit for purpose. I realise that some make films just for the fun of it, just to see if they can, for the learning experience or for some combination of these reasons plus maybe some others, which is fine. But, you have said "
I didn't make a movie for people not to watch". By deciding not to find out what was required to enable your film to be watched and by deciding not to plan or budget for those requirements, the reality is that you did in fact decide to make a movie for people not to watch! And, as it currently stands, your film is perfectly fulfilling that plan!
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
I'd love to see it on Netflix because I think that would lead to the greatest number of people seeing it...
Maybe I'm doing you a disservice but as I read your posts, you don't really
want your film to be on Netflix, you're just dreaming about what it would be like. If you were really serious, you would be deciding what definition you want to make your film available in, what the delivery and QC requirements are for that definition, how much it will cost to meet those requirements and any other costs (say the aggregator fees) and would be planning a way to raise those funds or, if the total cost turns out to be way too much, you would be planning on some other, cheaper definition and/or cheaper distribution outlet. It seems to me that at the moment you're just sitting on your film waiting for a distributor or distribution channel to open up which is tailored to your film, your only plan appears to be, just as when you started making your film, to just dream and trust to luck. By failing to research and plan, even at this stage, your plan is effectively unchanged and continues to be: "to make a movie for people not to watch"!
APE, I'm kinda wondering why a smart guy like you would beat a dead horse after it was stolen from the unlocked barn.
Because it might be possible for Cracker to recover his horse's corpse and give it another beating, and, I'm also posting for the benefit of others reading this thread, who may still have the opportunity to beat their dead horses before they're stolen!
So it's partly a cautionary tale to other filmmakers regarding a golden rule: Making your film and hoping a distributor turns up who is perfectly tailored to it is, as rayw would say; "bass ackwards"!! You need to do the opposite; research, plan and tailor your film for the distributor/s!
To some here (presumably you rayw) what I'm saying might be a case of stating the blatantly obvious but it's patently not obvious to many here on IT because time and again I see posts about not being able to find a distributor, even though there are many thousands of distributors around the world, and/or quite a few who flame new and/or aspiring distributors who post on IT because their distribution service is not perfectly tailored to the flamer's film/expectations.
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