LOL.

We pay for 4K, but we don’t get more than 720p unless we use some proprietary shit hardware and agree to their super-invasive “privacy policy” - and they expect people to NOT set sail in the high seas? GTFO…

  • HossenfefferEnglish
    221·
    11 months ago

    When Netflix had (seemingly) everything I was totally cool and the gang with paying for that service.

    Now I have:

    • Netflix
    • Amazon Prime
    • Apple TV
    • Disney+
    • NowTv
    • fuck knows what else

    and I still can’t find the content I want to watch. I had an urge to watch The Good, The Bad And The Ugly the other day. Could I find it on any services I pay a combined £50+ a month for? Could I fuck. Why would they be surprised they’re pushing people to ‘alternative’ sources? Sure, I can rent or buy Barbie and Oppenheimer if I want, but I don’t want. What I want is access to the tens of thousands of old, excellent, films that have been made.

    • Bronzie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      7·
      11 months ago

      My NAS literally arrived today.
      I’m done.

      Been paying for years but it’s becomming equally predatory as linear TV so I’m out.

    • HipHoboHarold@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      11 months ago

      That’s honestly one of the biggest wtf things to me. Movies like that are old as fuck. How many people are still buying the DVD? Or paying to rent it? Not talking down on the movie itself. There’s a reason it’s still talked about. But honestly, it’s not making much, if anything.

      Why not have it throw up on a streaming service? At that point, if I had the rights, and Netflix said they would pay me like $200 a week, I would probably still do it. That’s probably $200 more than what it’s currently making a week. Netflix gets to have it for cheap. And then the people who want to watch it get to.

      But yet its a problem for us to pirate it?

      • HossenfefferEnglish
        3·
        11 months ago

        For A Few Dollars More is so-so (but I’d still watch it again), but The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly is epic.

        And if you enjoy them, then take a crack at High Plains Drifter or Pale Rider which are both excellent though share an underlying theme. The Outlaw Josey Wales is also well worth a watch, as is the magnificent (and best picture Oscar winner) Unforgiven starring and directed by an older, wiser, and grittier Clint Eastwood.

        • weirdo_from_space@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          2·
          11 months ago

          Definitely will check out High Plains Drifter and Magnificent Seven. Pale Rider and Unforgiven are already on the list along with Gran Torino. Also already watched The Outlaw Josey Wales, it was a really good movie.

          • HossenfefferEnglish
            2·
            11 months ago

            You might also want to add Yojimbo and The Seven Samurai to your list too - they’re the Kurasawa films that A Fistful of Dollars and The Magnificent Seven are western (in both senses) remakes of.

            • weirdo_from_space@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              1·
              11 months ago

              I watched Yojimbo already (which I personally found to be mediocre). I’m actually planning of watching Seven Samurai before Magnificent Seven.