Everything Leaving Netflix in June

I dropped Netflix recently. They're doing original programming, because that way they're not dependent on content deals and can tie in their customers with exclusive content. But I don't need that - if I wanted that, I'd subscribe to HBO or some such. I was on Netflix because I wanted as big a selection of content as possible, including older movies and TV shows - sort of like Spotify... imagine if Spotify started not having a bunch of music, and instead were sponsoring a handful of their own bands... that would be a big fail. Same here - the odds that I'll like one of their handful of shows is not that high, and the cost of losing thousands up on thousands of movies and TV shows is way too high. And they've been slowly narrowing their selection - very bad move from my point of view. Plus they're moving more toward streaming, and I was still on their DVD program, but there were fewer and fewer movies there, and tons of movies and shows that never made it to streaming. So all in all, it represented a massive impoverishment of my choices. All they did was raise the prices at the same time. Now, I'm not blaming them - the content owners demanded more money so what is Netflix supposed to do... pass on the costs to their customers. That's one big reason why Netflix is trying to generate their own content - but then they are not much different from a network like HBO. I didn't see the situation getting any better, so I finally dropped Netflix. Of course, there are really no better options - Amazon, Hulu and whatnot have even smaller selections, so... I'm out.
 
Scott F said:
all I pay for is the $5 billion in original programming. Generally speaking, won't society be in a better place WITHOUT those movies streaming?
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I wasn't going to be presumptuous and go there, Scott, but thanks for giving/taking one for the team (like shooting weddings!) :happy:
OTOH, i haven't seen Groundhog Day in a loooong time... might fire it up tonight.
Plus, thanks for the $5B you pay towards original programming, you're quite generous! :grin:
 
What about NON-original programming that are TV series that you haven't been able to watch in "real time"--- Walking Dead/Breaking Bad/etc. etc.--- for whatever reason? I watch TV series almost exclusively these days, MAYBE a couple features a year.
 
Scott F said:
Yeah, don't get me started on those weddings...I could write a novel.It's funny, all due respect to Old Corpse, but I feel like I'm thinking exactly 180 degrees the opposite. The Netflix original programming is the draw for my wife and I. Off the top of my head, House of Cards, OITNB, Kimmy Schmidt, Bloodline, Narcos. All good, IMO. I've never really been compelled to fire up Netflix streaming and watch an old movie....especially with their dismal choices.
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Horses for courses - to each his/her own, different strokes for different folks and all that. Clearly, Netflix original programming is popular, otherwise they wouldn't make 'em. For me personally, of that list, I liked the first few episodes of House of Cards, then couldn't stand it, OITNB first few episodes were OK-ish, then came the stupid "chicken" episode and I just gave up on it, Kimmy Schmidt was OK for a few, but I LOVED Narcos. But it seems to me just not enough - I need way more choices. Streaming - agree vastly superior to DVD/BluRay... after getting too many DVDs that would simply not play in my player or were scratched up, plus the wait, the hassle of shipping back and forth All, true but there are drawbacks - first of course is selection, so few old movies and shows make it to streaming; but just as serious - I like all the extras, making-of, BTS, commentary, interview, featurettes etc., that is not something that streaming does so far, and that's what keeps me coming back to DVD/BR. I don't feel streaming is quite there as yet, although clearly the wave of the future. Me, I just rip all my DVDs to my HDD and stream them for myself, best of both worlds. Netflix was no longer a value proposition for me, but YMMV.
 
mubi.com is fantastic for the kind of movies you never see on the mainstream services - costs me £5 a month. I agree (UK-wise) on the fairly dismal movie selection on Netflix - and Amazon that I get 'free' with my Prime account. It's the original programming where they shine.
 
Tim Sewell said:
mubi.com is fantastic for the kind of movies you never see on the mainstream services - costs me £5 a month. I agree (UK-wise) on the fairly dismal movie selection on Netflix - and Amazon that I get 'free' with my Prime account. It's the original programming where they shine.
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Meh... "Peeping Tom"(1960) --- This film is not currently playing on MUBI but 30 other great films are. See what's now showing...

The film that took 1960 by storm was not "Peeping Tom"... in fact it was panned... but Hitchcock took note, that the film had subject material that could be counted as shocking in the era, and is given as why he orchestrated the media for "Psycho"(1960), with no preview showings for the press, so as to head off any complaints about his 'shocking' film.

Anyway, it was the 2nd to the last major film by Michael Powell.
 
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