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O dear god why do you do this?

God is a concept

None of those things, except for Mubi which Sic expressly notes IT'S NOT ON, is a streaming service.

It was possibly shown a theatre too, in the 1990s.

How is a bootleg on youtube any more “on a streaming service” than a bootleg on filmups.se?

It was available at the swap meet for awhile too

“When I watch movies uploaded illegally by a Brazilian teenager, it counts as official, because REPLY HAZY, TRY AGAIN. When you watch movies uploaded illegally by a Brazilian teenager to a different website, then the file doesn’t even exist, because BETTER NOT TELL YOU NOW.”

“If the rights-holders of any piece of copyrighted material do not have a license agreement in place that takes effect the immediate second that a previous agreement concludes, then you personally are free to print-on-demand and give it away to anyone. This is how publishing works.”

OK, Clippy

Great episode of the Pure Cinema podcast where Tarantino goes full film professor for 4 1/2 hours about full movies that can be found on YouTube because of none/mysterious rights issues. Some great movies I wasn't familiar with...

OK, Clippy

It looks like someone
very mildly posted some relevant facts. Would you like to
scream at them on a personal level about something you’ve made up in your head?

"relevant"

Argh, i withdraw and apologise, sorry.

Don't bother, sic loves arguing.

hard to be a pedant these days, you have to invent an entire type of guy to argue against

watched Polite Society on Peacock. it was silly. it made me want to go watch the seasons of Derry Girls that I haven't seen.

i'm excited for the second season of Barbecue Showdown on Netflix. it promises to be even more soothing and loving than the first season. for one thing they have that woman who needs to carry everything in a little wagon because she can barely walk after her motorcycle accident! how will she cope with the time challenges!!??

i've also switched from Hulu to Max to watch Chopped because on Max there are no commercials and i can watch them faster. like candy! like sweaty chef candy!

it bugs me that i pay for no commercial hulu but i also get the live hulu which means there is content that does not play by the hulu no commercials rule. man, talk about your first world problems.

Dude, live Hulu is like $75 a month! You might as well just have cable!

well, it IS cable in a way. so, what's the difference between cable and hulu live? 400 channels of bad digital radio?

i got live hulu for my dad. for his msnbc and cnbc. i'm on hulu all the time anyway. i did kinda get used to all the sports. if i don't have live sports on my t.v. i just never watch sports. but if i have it all of a sudden i'm a sports expert.

this is what i get for 80 bucks a month. and i pay for hbo so it ends up being about 100 bucks a month.

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they just started that 9 months thing for recordings which is pretty cool. i can store movies for later. that way even if tcm or whoever takes it off i can still see it.

i do admit that having live t.v. when things are extra Trumpy out there is appreciated. mostly i try to stay away from cnn and msnbc. definite bad thing is no non-horrible news option. no bbc. no sky news. no al jazeera. but i can go to youtube for those.

its sad that there is no generic AP/Reuters type 24 news station on t.v. that just reads worldwide headlines. cable news being an op/ed column come to life.

"24 HOUR"

i watched The Village on Netflix. 2023 Japanese movie. there are some good visuals and the Noh Theatre stuff is great but overall.....underwhelming.

I’ve seen approx. 900 social media posts this week about how great the music cues in “The Bear” are…

come to The Bear thread & disavow us of our notions

i dare u

Guess I’ll have to check it out!

Kind of want a stuffed animal of the groundhog boy from Sweet Tooth.

or a pet groundhog

watched Polite Society on Peacock. it was silly. it made me want to go watch the seasons of Derry Girls that I haven't seen.

recommend the director's previous project, We Are Lady Parts, about a female muslim punk band

Titanic is on Netflix, if anyone’s interested

I watched all 5 episodes of the Idol and can confirm it is complete disaster, just utterly unconvincing pivots in character motivations, dropped storylines, and bad acting.

'I’ve seen approx. 900 social media posts this week about how great the music cues in “The Bear” are…"

I fund a lot of them kind of intrusively loud and annoying personally

Anyone else watch Drops of God on Apple? I'm only a few episodes in, but so far it's highly entertaining and kind of batshit. Based on a manga and you can tell, though I mean that in a good way—building a heightened atmosphere around a niche activity (wine tasting) strikes me as very manga

‘CRATER’, starring Mckenna Grace and Kid Cudi, has been removed from Disney+ due to cost-cutting reasons.

The film just released on Disney+ on May 12. pic.twitter.com/MdkVBbQpGz

— DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) July 3, 2023

I guess you better start watching stuff the week it comes out

Anyone else watch Drops of God on Apple? I'm only a few episodes in, but so far it's highly entertaining and kind of batshit.

Good sign, I had it in the queue here but wasn't sure if it was trying to be this year's Queen's Gambit or something.

Made it to the end of Silo and for a cliffhanger it sure seemed anti-climatic. Or else this entire season is just the prologue to season 2 or something.

My Name (Korean crime show on Netflix) has been the stand out of the last few months. Unlike a lot of K-dramas, My Name is 8 episodes and out.

Made it to the end of Silo and for a cliffhanger it sure seemed anti-climatic. Or else this entire season is just the prologue to season 2 or something.

Agreed. It’s essentially the same mystery laid out in the pilot with a slightly wider view.

Finished The Other Two. Great final season. Totally dumb but fun as hell dumb.

Good sign, I had it in the queue here but wasn't sure if it was trying to be this year's Queen's Gambit or something.

There are definitely some strong similarities with QG fwiw, but the tone is different -- much less gothic, maybe?

I liked the idea of Silo and thinking about the economics of an enclosed society (how do they manufacture aspirin and paper? and how do people maintain distinct accents purely within familial lines? how is a loose rabbit not an extinction-level threat to the food supply?) but reading ahead with spoilers from the book made it sound like the second season will be a slog.

they nearly covered the first book with this season. the second book was a prequel--not sure if they'll go down that road in the series.

for the first time in years i cancelled my netflix today.
got the offer for Now TV for a few months for £1 a month.
so, me and mk2 are going to soak up all we can for during offer.
i have not really seen anything new that i was impressed with on netflix for a long time, but felt obliged to watch all manner of crap as i was paying for it.
time to break that cycle, and possibly get back into the 'walter presents .. ' thing on channel4 (uk) ..

it's pretty wild how quickly it became one of the worst services

i see good stuff all the time on netflix but i am easy to please.

I'm a little curious how "unauthorized" streaming is treated in the UK. In the US you'd often get stern letters if you weren't sufficiently obfuscating your torrents, but generally streaming from random (if deeply sketchy) websites (or, say, if someone posts a whole movie on twitter or youtube) seem to be beneath anyone's notice. Is there extra vigilance on account of protecting the value of a TV license?

netflix is great for international programming imo. i mean it's better now than the days of listicles enthusing about how in the upcoming month you'd be able to watch The Whole Ten Yards and season 2 of Lilyhammer.

yah, i think i like netflix mostly for korean/japanese/chinese stuff if i think about it. lots of movies and shows i wouldn't have seen otherwise.

having said that, living without netflix is really easy.

I'm pretty pissed that Netflix appears to have no intention of putting Babylon Berlin s4 out in the US. It looks like I will either have to figure out how to pirate it or buy the DVDs and find a region-free player.

international-wise, its also a good place to see stuff from africa and india as well.

I make it a game to try to unearth good movies on netflix uk. They have so little classic cinema but what they do have is such a weird grab bag. Stray French films from the 40's and 60's with no critical reputation whatsoever. Dozens and dozens of old Swedish films. The filmography of Nuri Bilge Ceylan.

They're no good at Hong Kong cinema but I've found 3 Johnnie Tos, including romantic comedy Don't Go Breaking My Heart - that part of his output is so ignored in the west, and it's a really good film.