But Is It on Netflix? - Streaming Video Service Thread: Hulu, Amazon Prime, Apple TV+, Disney+, Peacock, YouTube TV, AT+T Watch, Philo, Playstation Vue, HBO Max, HBO Now, Facebook Live and many more

I could have sworn that July is a month that movies like Wonder Woman leave HBO Max. And yet I've gotten a pop up video today advertising Wonder Woman on HBO Max, and a pop-up ad somewhere else showing a picture of Wonder Woman.

On the plus side, finally Mad Max in July.

xp yikes, harsh metaphor.

On the plus side, finally Mad Max in July.

Finally?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xk8mm1Qmt-Y

Nineteen seventy nine, on the silver screen
Again one year later, dubbed in Americanese
With DCP, and colour film on reels
It's been in rep and re-release, for over forty years

It seems so many times, you rented VHS
Watching solo or with friends, this movie is the best
A Blu-Ray came along and brightened up the transfer
You chucked out the DVD you'd bought ten years before

Fi-na-lly! MAX came along
First ever chance to watch it, wait, can that be wrong?
The service launched three weeks ago
Such a wait for one film, whoa oh oh

And now HBO max announces it is extending its run of all those superhero movies that were scheduled to leave a month after launching. they are sticking around through December. whether they had to shell out more or juggle contracts who knows, but clearly HBO knows how to read the room.

We're really enjoying "Encore" on Disney. Pretty charming stuff.

the premise is amazing

i want to see that, looks like it would be my bag

It's really cute and solid, hits the spot.

In other news, a kid and I watch couple episodes of The Simpsons today and I thought, geez, this looks terrible, didn't they fix it? Indeed they did, you just have to toggle off a switch. Not only is the square aspect ratio more accurate, but it truly looks better than the stretched image, which looks like a copy of a copy of a copy on video.

Watched the Will Ferrell - Amy McAdams homage / comedy about Eurovision. Loved it. On Netflix.

^Rachel McAdams ...

this is the Netflix thread btw: Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

but clearly HBO knows how to read the room.

Considering that every tweet they make is filled with replies from people pissed off they can’t watch on Roku or Fire a month after launch, I’m not sure I’d give them that much credit for reading the room.

I think that's just a matter of time. There are obviously legal/contractual things to work out, because clearly they would want tens of millions more potential subscribers.

Watched Weird Science on HBO. Don’t need to get into the weeds about how problematic it is, but beyond that it’s still incredibly WTF.

Pretty good approximation of hormoned adolescent boy fever dream/frustrated wet dream.

John Hughes on Bunuel

Okay, here's a reason to get Night Flight
https://www.nightflightplus.com/playlists/Black%20Omnibus

did I already say Perry Mason is good but has zero to do with Perry Mason? it is and it doesn't. But it's cool to see Matthew Rhys again.

anyone watch Homemade, the collection of 17 short films made by people during quarantine? Some of them are great, a few a terrible. Best one clearly the one from Chile with the guy calling his ex lover. Kristen Stewart's is fucking awful, if I want to look at a close up of her bored face for any length of time I'll watch her in a movie she didn't write and direct (I like her in some things actually).Maggie Gyllenhal's is good although it certainly borrows something major from Melancholia. There's one by someone that's shot in the UK somewhere, not sure, that really pissed me off (the one with the red headed teenage girl) that is aimless and dull and then states that we are living under the most totalitarian time in history at the end (and the insinuation there is that shelter-in-lace and lockdown is the totalitarian thing, not, you know, Trump or Bolsonaro or someone).

goddamnit, HBO Max
https://www.polygon.com/animation-cartoons/2020/7/6/21314763/infinity-train-season-3-hbo-max

Went to go stream "Some Like It Hot" last night and couldn't find it on Hulu, Criterion, Amazon, Netflix *or* HBOMax, despite it having a hunk of stuff that would be on TCM. In fact, I couldn't really find any Billy Wilder anywhere. Same thing for Preston Sturges. Are these movies really not included as part of any streaming platform's catalog?

https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/some-like-it-hot

Fubo or rental. Justwatch is a v good resource.

otm

I've never heard of Tubo. Isn't there also a Tubi? So many weird little four-letter services. Anyway, I don't include rental. I mean, you can also always buy these movies as well. I just think that with four or five or six or more streaming services, one of them should have one one of the most acclaimed comedies ever made, especially when companies like Criterion have even released Criterion editions of it.

Oh, Fubo? So there is Fubo, Tubi, Hulu, Vudu ...

Wow, I was looking up random stuff and, via that (awesome) site, it looks like there are zero - zero - places to stream "Better Off Dead."

JiC: I wanted to watch a certain movie on streaming last night, so I searched five different services instead of looking the movie up. Is it really not on a streaming service?

Ilx0rs: Here, it's on this streaming service, you can always look movies up on justwatch.

JiC: I really think with six streaming services in the world, the sixth should have the movie I'm looking for. However, I will ignore the people telling me that it does, claim the service does not exist, and anyway even if it did it wouldn't count, because it would be the seventh, and persist! Also, if any company spends money on licensing the rights to spend lots more money on making a fancy new transfer of a film from the original camera negative, they should not be able to recoup it by selling physical copies of their restoration.



Picturing Josh in 1999, wanting to watch a movie and clicking determinedly through the same five TV channels over and over, just waiting for it to start. "Every film ever must be in an active license period to ONE of these five channels at all times!"

dangit xpost

Come on, not all of these search services are equivalent. For example, I'd searched through something called Decider before, and sometimes it gave me accurate answers and sometimes it didn't. Some of the search sites are more comprehensive or more up to date than others, too. And then there's the issue of things coming and going from services, where it might be in your watchlist one day and unavailable the next. And just looking the movie up doesn't always get accurate results, either. For example, searching "where to stream some like it hot" gets me a bunch of results (including Just Watch), but I just glanced at the first five pages of said results and none of them was Fubo, the one subscription service that actually has it included. As an inveterate downloader who nonetheless still pays for several subscription services with deep catalogs, I admit I am reluctant to pay extra on top of that for a movie that comes and goes from many of those services. I'd just as soon download a good copy from a place I know I can get it and be done with it.

But yes, going forward I now know to look at Just Watch.

BTW, Fubo seems to have a lot of stuff, but Fubo is also $55 fucking dollars a month, afaict.

But Is It on Netflix? - Streaming Video Service Thread: Hulu, Amazon Prime, Apple TV+, Disney+, Peacock, YouTube TV, AT+T Watch, Philo, Playstation Vue, HBO Max, HBO Now, Facebook Live and many more :)

So its looks extremely likely that Peacock isn't going to have a deal in place with either Roku or Amazon when they launch next week. No desire for Peacock myself, but this doesn't bode well for HBO Max striking anything soon either. Feel like this is going to get messy before it gets any easier and we'll all end up having to jostle between three different casting devices to access the different streaming services, to add an extra layer of annoyance to this whole thing.

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ilplex ftw imo

the selection on ilplex is pretty thin and i've noticed a lot of lag when streaming anything longer than a tv episode. i would recommend instead taking a look at duvo, pipi, brodo, viddu, qlax, fifo, fofu, fafa, farfa, kalam, blamp!, loopo, tuvoid or bloopblorp.

i find that pipi streams clearly

new on ilplex today is Cordon (with subtitles)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordon_(TV_series)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5y0TgfPMMr8

My pipi stream is yellow if I haven't enough to drink.

Hey, you know where to find that movie that none of the streaming services carry? Physical media, that's where. (affects lopsided smirk)

i have peacock through my cable provider/box. it’s ok. it’s split into three parts: “trending” (ugh) clips, channels, and on demand. the channels are all ad supported (even if you pay) and sorted by theme; there are ones devoted to THE OFFICE and SNL and HELL’S KITCHEN, as well as ones focused on reality show styles and spanish language programming. the LAW & ORDER selection has a lot of southerlyn and not enough kincaid.

i’ve also been watching the HK seasons that aren’t on peacock or hulu via crackle, which... is owned by chicken soup for the soul? sure.

oh, Cordon was on BBC4 about 5 years ago (yes, june 2015). i enjoyed it.

"In Flemish with English subtitles."

Speaking of subtitles, we watched Greyhound on Apple+ and had the subtitles on. They're very neat. Much clearer and less intrusive than Netflix ones, anyway.

Hey, you know where to find that movie that none of the streaming services carry? Physical media, that's where. (affects lopsided smirk)

― Well, that's a fine howdy adieu! (Old Lunch), Friday, 10 July 2020 11:33 AM (three days ago) bookmarkflaglink

I was looking for an 80s Japanese movie my wife wants to watch and found it second hand on laserdisc. I'm going all in on laserdisc, the vinyl of visual media.

hey i like Search Party. Who knew TBS still existed and were making a quality show? Did anyone ever watch this back in 2016? Heavy Veronica Mars vibes.

I think it has a cult following because of Maeby from Arrested Development. Been meaning to watch that.
TBS has some interesting low/mid-tier shows that don't seem to be amazing but are entertaining to some extent or another (Angie Tribeca, The Last O.G., Miracle Workers, Final Space, and most recently Dress-Up Gang).

i loved season one of search party and loved season two up to a certain point and then

sad to say, Search Party completely bellyflopped its last three episodes, wtf
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Tuesday, December 26, 2017

I love search party. John Early is a Star.

one of my favourite shows ever. S3 is in the can. no idea why it hasn’t dropped yet.