Streaming media is really going to become the new VHS-vs-BETA, HD-DVD-vs-Blu-ray, huh.
― cacao nibs (Eric H.), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 19:51 (eleven years ago) link
Is it Roku that has the multi-service search? That kind of thing seems like a good interim solution. To my understanding, you can search for a movie and depending what services you have it'll tell you where you can stream or rent from.
― mh, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 19:54 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.canistream.it/
― brb buying poppers w/my employee discount (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 19:58 (eleven years ago) link
Was hoping it was a staring contest and someone would blink.
― Blue Yodel No. 9 Dream (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 19:59 (eleven years ago) link
does anyone have a good site that just scrapes EVERYBODY'S streaming stuff and posts new/recommended?
― brb buying poppers w/my employee discount (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 20:00 (eleven years ago) link
ahhhh way too much stuff expiring
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 20:16 (eleven years ago) link
Man so much is expiring from my queue. Last night was a tough triage decision. I went with The Dunwich Horror. I guess there's one more night? Maybe Terrorvision tonight...
― brad palsy (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 20:17 (eleven years ago) link
Hour of the Wolf nooooooo
hour of the wolf has been on my queue forever, I think I watched about the first 10 minutes of it once before snoozing off. There may be a lesson in this somewhere...
I managed to watch Dunwich Horror a while back, it was pretty nutso.
― Moodles, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 20:22 (eleven years ago) link
My instant queue is rather modest, but because of the mgm purge, I've caught up with Lemon Popsicle (aka The Last Israeli Virgin), The Music Lovers and That Sinking Feeling over the past few days. I think I'll check out Big Time, the Tom Waits concert doc tonite.
― Sheela-Tubb-Mann, You Real Know-It-All (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 20:27 (eleven years ago) link
Every single studio and network should just start charging to stream their content exclusively. Because better to just get it over with and push everyone to illegal downloading all at once.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 20:37 (eleven years ago) link
about 60 titles that were in my queue at the beginning of the month were set to expire tomorrow. luckily, i had advance notice through Instantwatcher (and way too much free time on my hands this month), so i got to watch some of the must-sees -- like the Bergman, Loach, Rohmer and Aldrich titles that are going bye-bye. the rest, it looks like i'll either have to settle for DVDs or Amazon Prime Instant (if not this Warner Archive Instant thing).
― عليك ارتداء ماكياج من مهرج مثلي الجنس المتداول مائة عميق في سيارة مصغر (Eisbaer), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 20:42 (eleven years ago) link
dunwich horror (1970) is so great
― ְ֮֠֓֟֬֩ (gr8080), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 23:22 (eleven years ago) link
Eight movies leaving my queue tonight that aren't available through Netflix on DVD - Golden Needles, The Visitors, Crawlspace, Beer, Gypsy Girl, Last Embrace, Theater Of Blood and The Landlord. Watching Golden Needles now, it's basically Mitchell In Hong Kong, with Joe Don Baker galumphing, smirking and gutpunching Chinese mobsters. Shame to have to ffwd through so much of it but like INXS said, there's not enough time.
― da croupier, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 23:27 (eleven years ago) link
oh shit peace out Cutter's Way and American Heart, good pair of Bridges joints
The Apple too
― kiss me, son of based god (fadanuf4erybody), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 23:41 (eleven years ago) link
dunwich horror is gone off the net because of UA
― Blue Yodel No. 9 Dream (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 23:47 (eleven years ago) link
Oh no crawlspace! I'll never be able to get my wife to watch that tonight.
― brad palsy (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 23:59 (eleven years ago) link
Instantwatcher's servers seem to be getting hammered right now. Slooooow loading and frequent timeout errors.
― brad palsy (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 1 May 2013 00:11 (eleven years ago) link
I'm going with a _Cult of the Damned_/_Golden Needles_ double-bill.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 1 May 2013 01:21 (eleven years ago) link
Here's what's going missing from my list for future reference:The DecameronElvira MadiganHidden FearThe Passionate FriendsCul-De-SacThe White BusBlithe SpiritPassion of AnnaNavajo JoeMulholland Dr.CountrymanThe Lady VanishesThe StrangerA Tale of SpringtimeHour of the WolfYoung and Innocent
Highly recommend the last, a British Hitchcock with all the elements leading to a perfect denouement.
― Blue Yodel No. 9 Dream (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 1 May 2013 01:28 (eleven years ago) link
Honestly, there are so many movies in my queue at this point that I have no idea how many will vanish. Over time I've sort of learned to appreciate the erratic Netflix catalog, since it keeps me focuses on fewer films (I still won't get to watch for month) at a time.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 1 May 2013 01:29 (eleven years ago) link
Elvira Madigan is suppsedly amongst a group Bo Widerberg films coming soon from Olive films (who, btw, don't supply netflix w/discs).
― Sheela-Tubb-Mann, You Real Know-It-All (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 1 May 2013 01:33 (eleven years ago) link
Thanks, will keep an eye out.
― Blue Yodel No. 9 Dream (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 1 May 2013 01:38 (eleven years ago) link
Feel better now that I made that tiny list, given the disproportionate amount of effort spent wresting with the clunky interface to find stuff worth watching.
― Blue Yodel No. 9 Dream (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 1 May 2013 02:09 (eleven years ago) link
Sure your all too busy watching to post. I'm not going to go crazy like on The Weekend of the Streaming Criterions, just watched some bits and pieces of stuff soon going to crash.
― Blue Yodel No. 9 Dream (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 1 May 2013 03:16 (eleven years ago) link
Wound up passing on The Landlord, The Visitors and Last Embrace as "obscure works from big directors" will probably be available again someday. Watched bits of the rest and all I could really recommend is Golden Needles for MST3k fans and Theater Of Blood for Vincent Price fans.
― da croupier, Wednesday, 1 May 2013 03:45 (eleven years ago) link
by "available again someday" i mean i'll have other chances to see them, not that netflix will necessarily bring it back
― da croupier, Wednesday, 1 May 2013 03:46 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah Golden Needles was the shit. Recommended for West Coasters, you still have two hours.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 1 May 2013 05:04 (eleven years ago) link
i don't know if anyone has mentioned this, but godard's "a woman is a woman" is on netflix instant. i love that film.
― rock 'em sock 'em (Treeship), Wednesday, 1 May 2013 05:13 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, that's on my list but I've seen it before and it ain't going away but thanks. And now I can hear some of the tunes from it in my head.
We on East Coast get the hours too, I think, but maybe that's only if we've already started watching. Please some of us gotsa sleep.
― Blue Yodel No. 9 Dream (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 1 May 2013 05:18 (eleven years ago) link
Woke up and my queue was still there. The White Bus is 47 minutes long, So far so good.
― Blue Yodel No. 9 Dream (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 1 May 2013 06:19 (eleven years ago) link
Which is expiring but is not part of the MGM/UA package.
― Blue Yodel No. 9 Dream (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 1 May 2013 06:32 (eleven years ago) link
But is streaming on Amazon. Too confusing.
― Blue Yodel No. 9 Dream (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 1 May 2013 06:35 (eleven years ago) link
OK, this movie is pretty awesome. Not sure why I waited thirty years to see it.
― Blue Yodel No. 9 Dream (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 1 May 2013 06:40 (eleven years ago) link
And it's on youtube as well.
― Blue Yodel No. 9 Dream (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 1 May 2013 06:43 (eleven years ago) link
A young Anthony Hopkins sings a song by Brecht, in German!
― Blue Yodel No. 9 Dream (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 1 May 2013 06:48 (eleven years ago) link
Manny Farber would have liked it, Shelagh Delaney script without Rita Tushingham.
― Blue Yodel No. 9 Dream (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 1 May 2013 06:58 (eleven years ago) link
thanks for the tip on the dunwich horror! lovecraft unfilmability is still fun to see in the attempt
― goole, Wednesday, 1 May 2013 17:00 (eleven years ago) link
Tried to hit instantwatcher to see what films were still left and about to expire but server was swamped and was denied.
― Blue Yodel No. 9 Dream (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 1 May 2013 17:04 (eleven years ago) link
The Passionate Friends and Passion of Anna somehow survived the purge.
― Blue Yodel No. 9 Dream (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 3 May 2013 00:42 (eleven years ago) link
Passion is no ordinary word.
― Blue Yodel No. 9 Dream (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 3 May 2013 00:52 (eleven years ago) link
I have heard that mgm has let the rights lapse on some if not all of their Bergmans.
― Sheela-Tubb-Mann, You Real Know-It-All (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 3 May 2013 01:40 (eleven years ago) link
For b movie weirdness that is way weirder than one would expect, "dead end" with ray wise is pretty awesome
― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Friday, 3 May 2013 01:44 (eleven years ago) link
had to read that like four times before i realized you weren't talking about "wrong turn", which did not star ray wise and was not awesome. dead end looks really fun tho.
― arby's, Friday, 3 May 2013 02:18 (eleven years ago) link
"Zapped!" is streaming. So is "Nude for Satan" and "Remo Williams." And if you haven't seen it, the Fishbone doc (that expires soon) is great.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 3 May 2013 11:58 (eleven years ago) link
anybody seen gomorrah? i've wanted to see that. maybe i will.
― arby's, Friday, 3 May 2013 19:02 (eleven years ago) link
yah, it's great
― brb buying poppers w/my employee discount (forksclovetofu), Friday, 3 May 2013 19:11 (eleven years ago) link
when the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie that's
― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Friday, 3 May 2013 19:51 (eleven years ago) link
dont worry abt expiring mgm/ua stuff, theyve added http://cdn-7.nflximg.com/us/boxshots/large/70022337.jpg
― johnny crunch, Friday, 3 May 2013 21:49 (eleven years ago) link
theres some actual decent & cool shit i can rep for that has come back actually
the applebad timinga forest for the treesharry + tonto
― johnny crunch, Friday, 3 May 2013 23:04 (eleven years ago) link