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interesting, I did feel that way about certain moments so good to know

The Roadhouse film also features absolute racist POS C0n0r McGreg0r in some capacity, so it can absolutely get fucked.

Somewhat aptly, Mr & Mrs Smith is also getting another reboot but Hiro Murai and Donald Glover are involved so I have higher hopes for that xps

I completely missed watching Justified when it was first on. Finished season 1 on Hulu - damn what a good show. How many seasons are worth watching?

xposts Where is Dekalog currently streaming?

It's not. Criterion BluRay or piracy are your choices.

xpost the 5th season is skippable, i haven't seen the revival

i'd watch season 2 to 4, read wikipedia for 5, then 6. 2 is the highlight, not to knock the other seasons, which are very enjoyable (except for 5)

^thanks

Julien Leclercq (THE CREW, EARTH & BLOOD, SENTINELLE, GANGLANDS) has directed a remake of THE WAGES OF FEAR that'll be on Netflix at the end of March. Shame he couldn't find a role for Sami Bouajila, but I'll still watch it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xk1y5KB6JPk

I got the notification in my account about the Prime price bump for ad-free taking effect today. Anyone know how bad/intrusive the imposed 'limited commercial interruptions' are yet?

Hopefully they're using the same algorithm as YouTube and will just drop an ad right in the middle of a line of dialoHELLO FRESH IS AMERICA'S NUMBER ONE MEAL KIT, AND FOR A LIMITED TIME NEW MEMBERS CAN GET 18 FREE MEALS! SIGN UP TODAY!gue because I really really vibe with that.

Outside of movies I'm abandoning paying extra for ad-free. They've gotten a lot less annoying since the early days of Hulu when it would be the same scammy ad over and over.

T-Mobile started offering free Hulu w/ ads, I'll save $12 a month or whatever and see a few ads during FX originals, whatever.

I got the notification in my account about the Prime price bump for ad-free taking effect today. Anyone know how bad/intrusive the imposed 'limited commercial interruptions' are yet?

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Funny, I've been binging the final season of Mrs Maisel all weekend and suddenly, today, a third of the way into the final episode, a commercial popped up. I will say it was only one commercial and it only came on once. I'm sure the quantity and frequency will increase, but today it was tolerable.

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Eh, I survived watching commercial television in the 1970s and I suspect I can survive this. Maybe we just lucked out for a while, and can feel lucky that we experienced a brief golden age.

Just kidding. It all sucks and we are doomed

cable ads are the worst. my dad watches tons of msnbc and cnn and the endless insurance/children's hospital/vitamins/mesothelioma ads are very long and horrible. every 10 minutes or so!

i happily pay for ad-free hulu and youtube.

After Elvis T talked about Gyeongseong Creature I've burned through it pretty quickly and enjoyed it a lot, but fuck me it's too long - especially the first section of 7 which could easily have wrapped up in 3.

It reminds me of a particularly unsatisfactory RPG adventure where the narrative never moves forward and the tricks you would use as a GM to make sure it does are pretty much exactly what the director does - a character literally trips over a nitrogen cylinder because he hasn't put together that he keeps seeing empty and discarded cylinders everywhere and they have a key part to play. Also it feels like there are repeated runs round the same cycles (up and down the same corridor or repeated encounters with the same NPC) because the characters either don't roll successfully to have the encounter when they're in the location or ask completely the wrong questions and you can't railroad them to the right one so you have to run it again.

Also the monster totally feels like one of those instances where the characters accidentally encounter it far too early in the plot, when they lack either an artefact or some information to defeat it, so you have to make up on the hoof some miraculous way for them to escape.

The second block of three was far better paced but could still have shed an episode.

That said, am I up for S2 in the present day? Certainly am.

I know what you're saying, Puffin, but we weren't paying subscription fees for commercial TV

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i really don't watch much on amazon prime and consider it a bonus to same day/ next day delivery of garbage that I decide to buy spur of the moment on amazon. but this is still annoying. Freevee is terrible with the rude interruptions mid-sentence. They pushed Freevee content all over Amazon Video as a sort of bellwether for this move I think; but I'm hoping the actual implementation for non Freevee content is more sensitive.

We watched downloads of Fargo 5, and the built-in fade to blacks showed where all the commercials would be, and woof, would that have made the experience so much worse.

I think the version of The Thing I watched on AMC+ was formatted for commercials. There were some jarring cuts to black I don’t remember.

Yes I survived commercial tv during the before times. But a show has to be really worth it for me to sit thru ads these days. Peacock is pretty bad. We gave up on one show cos of the ads.

I watched Tank Girl on FreeVee a week or so ago, and the interruptions weren't <that> bad. They were logically spaced between sequences (not always the case with the service), and I counted 7 of them, the longest being 1:30 and three or for that were only 15 seconds. The worst part was they bounced me to another film partway through the end credits, so I had to X out and pull TG back up so I could hear "Mockingbird Girl".

FreeVee's got a really nice selection of vintage TV and a pretty broad selection of films that's quite appealing.

"I watched" = "I screened", obvs.

lol

Tubi is just off the hook with nutzo exploitation movies. reform school girls. teenage hitchhikers. street girls. the naked cage. caged fury. doris wishman's hideout in the sun. just endless really. hot summer in barefoot county! some seriously shitty looking movies. but lots to choose from. i started watching The Laughing Woman from 1969 but my stomach isn't as strong for eurosexweirdness as it might have been in my wild youth so i doubt i will watch the whole thing. probably go back to Hell's Kitchen.

I think Tubi and Comet TV got me over caring about commercials for most things + there's little TV now where a 90 second ad break ruins anything. It would probably suck for True Detective but Death and Other Details? Meh, I'm not glued to the screen waiting for the next riveting moment.

If I didn't get Peacock and Hulu for free I just wouldn't watch them, though. Not paying extra for no-commercials but also not paying for anything with commercials.

The thing is too that streaming ad breaks have nothing on regular TV and Cable breaks these days. A normal 1-hour drama or talk show slot now consists of about 40-42 minutes of show (including credits) and the rest is ads.

The ads are only inserted into Amazon programming, though. I have a Max subscription through Prime and there were no commercial breaks in the latest episode of True Detective.

I started watching Fast X on Prime a couple of days ago and now I'm wondering if there will be commercials if I go back to it. I stopped about 45 minutes in. It was SO STUPID.

currently catching up on some latter season Top Model on Amazon Prime - fun glitch - doesn't save your spot when streaming on a computer! also something weird - they only have select seasons. i had to BUY one.

I watched The Raid 2 on Freevee last night, mainly to see if I could stand watching a film with ad breaks -- hell no, it was awful, not doing that again.

Mid-roll ads in movies are not good, I agree… they should just do pre-roll

several of the freeview channels here insist on inserting 5min bits of 'movie news' (typically just celeb gossip) between two halves of a film (in addition to normal ad breaks). this invariably breaks my recordings because the pvr records it as two bits, without padding, and the second part always starts early.

Wow that suxx

These free channels are made for people who are used to watching non-premium cable channels with weirdly placed ads blaring in every few minutes

I would pay a monthly premium for a world where I could completely escape ads, I would let them charge me an extra nickel per gallon of gas to not play the ads while I'm filling the tank.

I figured out which button to press on the pump at Shell stations to silence the audio on those ads!

(xp Yeah, I guess if the service is totally free (and not "cheaper with ads") you take what you get...)

If I can't pay to avoid ads, I'll get the show some other way.

that *The Laughing Woman* movie was insane. i ended up watching the whole thing. it was strangely...chaste? i thought it was gonna be nutso euro boobage horror. and apparently its actually called The Frightened Woman? which makes more sense. it exists in its own universe. anyhoo, its on Tubi! just in case you want to feel like you are on drugs without doing drugs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gH79Rg2ZUGo

After Elvis T talked about Gyeongseong Creature I've burned through it pretty quickly and enjoyed it a lot, but fuck me it's too long - especially the first section of 7 which could easily have wrapped up in 3.

It reminds me of a particularly unsatisfactory RPG adventure where the narrative never moves forward and the tricks you would use as a GM to make sure it does are pretty much exactly what the director does - a character literally trips over a nitrogen cylinder because he hasn't put together that he keeps seeing empty and discarded cylinders everywhere and they have a key part to play.

Absolutely understandable. Kinda how I felt about Monarch: Legacy Of Monsters which seemed like four episodes were burned exclusively on close-up shots about family angst.

Laughing Woman has a Stelvio Cipriani score, can't be a total waste

Tested the new Prime setup by screening all three hours of Babylon (broken in two)...there were only 45 seconds of ads at the beginning: a short Amazon one and a regular ad for Airbnb.

I didn’t know about Freevee until now. Freevee is the name of the TVs installed in every apartment by law in the Running Man.

I think one big reason that streaming ads seem so egregious is that even as more and more shows are filmed and budgeted and paced like movies, commercials have just gotten dumber and more obnoxious and more desperate as they claw for whatever eyeballs they can. You not only end up with really powerful shows/episodes/scenes interrupted by the dumbest shit, it's often the same commercials over and over again, since no one is seriously advertising on these platforms. At least back in the days of peak commercial television the shows were made with commercial breaks in mind. But if streaming is going to do this, then yeah, just stick a few unskippable ads at the beginning.

I don't notice the ads have gotten any more obnoxious, but the repetition of the same few ads really grates

I think commercials on TV are funnier than ever! The ones on streaming are shorter, tho (15-30 secs?), which may hurt… plus, yeah, the repetition.

My bugbear is that all ads nowadays seem to be about "hey, check us out!" but forget the "by the way, this is what we do" part

I guess except the TikTok-styled ads filmed on an iPhone with an actor pretending to be a prole using a product

I think where Prime have fucked up is that when Netflix & Disney introduced ads, they did it via a new, lower priced subscription tier.

Amazon sticking them into the existing tier and making subscribers pay extra for ad.free takes some chutzpah. Their email about it had a reek of desperation about it too, bigging up all the other benefits you get which, apart from the free next day delivery, is pretty unappealing.