I would indeed. Ah, well, I guess I'm just an optimist really believing that marketing teams are the voice of reason telling the directors "you know, the customers REALLY won't like this idea" as well as trying to excuse the bad decisions to the public with the examples above in order to minimise damage.

It will be mostly indie and obscure movies on here.

There are examples of such, but fewer and farther between the higher up the corporate ladder you go, and the lower into the sludge you sink.

I would guess theres a happy middle ground somewhere out there in small to medium sized business land.

Well, Ubisoft, EA, Activision, etc. haven't shown any recent interest in GOG, which concerns me as to how much "sway" GOG currently has with publishers in general. Can GOG continue to only release, on the whole, indie games and yet convince big movie companies to come aboard?

I'd love to see this succeed in the sense of how that can eventually lead to movie-related games coming here - Blade Runner, Star Trek titles, Aliens Vs. Predator 2, etc. - but as of now I'm not sure what to think.

The fact remains, those companies are here, despite the certainty in some GOGers minds that the never would be. They have re-released a large quantity of their classic libraries here and they continue to sell well. This is the same target GOG is shooting for with movies: the classic back catalogs, not the latest and greatest. As I used to say about GOG's original game library "it's the 5 dollar bargain bin in the back of the game store", well, the movies will be the discount DVD rack of the internet, at least to start with. Just as GOG's original goals evolved from "only classic and hard to find games" to now having new(ish) releases and indies, I expect the film business to follow a similar path: today the indies and B movies, tomorrow the old classics, then eventually the new(ish) blockbusters. I could be completely wrong, but it's only been a month since they started selling movies, we haven't given them enough time to say with any kind of certainty whether this will fail or be a resounding success.

My biggest concern right now is not whether or not GOG can get major movie studios involved, but rather can GOG compete against the likes of Amazon, Netflix and Hulu, which already offer many of the classic movies GOG is likely to get. Again, similar to the old days of GOG when many of us questioned whether GOG could compete against abandonware. They did that by offering a "value added" package of stuff along with the game, but will that work with movies too?

I hadn't considered the possibility of licensed games tying into the movie rights question. That does raise some very interesting possibilities, especially with properties like Star Trek, where the game and film rights are held by the same entity. Definitely worth watching out for.

Well, without feedback from sales, you really can't tell, but I kind of see you point.

The appealing of GOG is for the most part to find those old games you played a long ago, or those you heard of but never had the chance to play... or of course, to be able to buy newer games that you don't want to buy on Steam because you want DRM Free....

With movies.... well.... for one thing, most of the catalog are not movies really, this are just documentaries. But the thing is most likely you never ever heard to talk about them... so... what's the appealing there? Even if it's just 6-10 bucks for a movie, there is much better ways to spend those bucks even here on GOG. Plus, they don't come with a bunch of extra junk, another characteristic of GOG.

Thus far the only 2 movies in my collection are the free ones, and after watching them, I certainly think having paid 6 bucks for each would have been a waste of money. Outside of that, the only "movie" I heard about is Indie Game The Movie, but that's only I already have it in the humble bundle store, and obviously it's drm free as well so I don't see the point of buying it again. I would by the extended version but only under a good discount.

I know it's pretty much impossible to get mainstream movies here, but unless GOG can get things like... the AVGN movie for example, which I would consider buying for sure, I really don't see this going anywhere

Posters. High quality posters suitable for printing. I am printing research posters for work, why not print a couple of movie posters on an A0 paper as well?

+1 to the printable posters idea

I have printed nearly all of the posters on my wall, but I needed really high resolutions for this, desktop resolutions aren't worth much there.
I crave a poster of "Inquisitor", "Gothic" and "Fallout", but if at least the movies would get some here, it would be a step into the right direction.

Director/cast commentary tracks in mp3/flac/whatever format, "making of" and behind the scenes shorts, soundtracks. Basically everything that makes for a good DVD package, but downloadable separately from the film.

Though I'd love to see soundtracks offered, they could be a bit of problem license wise.

Having commentary (that frequently references specific scenes) in a separate file makes it less simple to play synced to the movie it comments on, doesn't it?

Not really. You just start the commentary playing at the same time as the movie. There are several podcasts out there that do this sort of thing already, Joss Whedon's probably being the most notable one.

Just to be clear, I really like the idea of movies here on GOG and some of the ones that they've added as a start look interesting. I do hope, however, they somehow get more variety apart from indie documentaries.

For example, stand up comedy would definitely be something I would purchase. Louis CK should get on board and get Bill Burr while you're at it. If that doesn't work out, I'm sure some noob comedians would be willing to sign up.