Swag has his pet peeves he can be very unreasonably naggy about, Netflix, GOT (anything fantasy really lol), biased for anything Portuguese and so on hehe.
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Nah, I'm not just as soft a consumer as some of you are. 
Seriously. You can subscribe to any music service for a few bucks from Rhapsody to Spotify to Tidal to Deezer and get access to just about anything in a ridiculously deep catalog besides maybe the occasional blockbuster Taylor Swift album. But why is it so unfathomable to expect great classic movies like: Bad Lieutenant, Rashomon, Rear Window, Vertigo, North by Northwest, Bonnie and Clyde, The Last Tango in Paris, Some Like It Hot, Raising Arizona, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia, On the Waterfront, La Dolce Vita, City of God, The Godfather (part 1 or 2), The 400 Blows, Patton, Mad Max or The Road Warrior, The Battle of Algiers, Breathless, West Side Story, Stranger than Paradise, The Maltese Falcon, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Boyz n the Hood, Mean Streets, Raging Bull, Apocalypto, Casablanca, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, District 9, In the Heat of the Night, M*A*S*H, To Kill a Mockingbird, Dog Day Afternoon, Singin' in the Rain, Spartacus, Dr. Strangelove, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Empire of the Sun, Cool Hand Luke, The Wizard of Oz, or Zelig.
???
All classics. All part of the modern film canon. And yet none of the above are available on Netflix. Isn't that more than just a little broken?
You should stop being so soft and demand better from the people taking your money. Just sayin'... that emperor ain't even got underwear on.
Seriously. You can subscribe to any music service for a few bucks from Rhapsody to Spotify to Tidal to Deezer and get access to just about anything in a ridiculously deep catalog besides maybe the occasional blockbuster Taylor Swift album. But why is it so unfathomable to expect great classic movies like: Bad Lieutenant, Rashomon, Rear Window, Vertigo, North by Northwest, Bonnie and Clyde, The Last Tango in Paris, Some Like It Hot, Raising Arizona, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia, On the Waterfront, La Dolce Vita, City of God, The Godfather (part 1 or 2), The 400 Blows, Patton, Mad Max or The Road Warrior, The Battle of Algiers, Breathless, West Side Story, Stranger than Paradise, The Maltese Falcon, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Boyz n the Hood, Mean Streets, Raging Bull, Apocalypto, Casablanca, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, District 9, In the Heat of the Night, M*A*S*H, To Kill a Mockingbird, Dog Day Afternoon, Singin' in the Rain, Spartacus, Dr. Strangelove, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Empire of the Sun, Cool Hand Luke, The Wizard of Oz, or Zelig.
???
All classics. All part of the modern film canon. And yet none of the above are available on Netflix. Isn't that more than just a little broken?
You should stop being so soft and demand better from the people taking your money. Just sayin'... that emperor ain't even got underwear on.
Like hipsters watch Wizard of Oz.
Btw, that list is excerpted from Spike Lee's list of 86 essential movies. Of the 86 -- and these aren't Portuguese art films here but rather many essential Oscar winners -- only 6 were carried by Netflix.
Which is even less than my 10% success rate with Netflix.
How is that not broken? How is Casablanca considered non-essential to any movie streaming site??
If you're bored and want to click on anything they shove in front of you, hey, good on you. But I don't watch movies to fill the time with bargain bin leftovers.
Btw, that list is excerpted from Spike Lee's list of 86 essential movies. Of the 86 -- and these aren't Portuguese art films here but rather many essential Oscar winners -- only 6 were carried by Netflix.
Which is even less than my 10% success rate with Netflix.
How is that not broken? How is Casablanca considered non-essential to any movie streaming site??
If you're bored and want to click on anything they shove in front of you, hey, good on you. But I don't watch movies to fill the time with bargain bin leftovers.
Nah, I'm not just as soft a consumer as some of you are.
Seriously. You can subscribe to any music service for a few bucks from Rhapsody to Spotify to Tidal to Deezer and get access to just about anything in a ridiculously deep catalog besides maybe the occasional blockbuster Taylor Swift album. But why is it so unfathomable to expect great classic movies like: Bad Lieutenant, Rashomon, Rear Window, Vertigo, North by Northwest, Bonnie and Clyde, The Last Tango in Paris, Some Like It Hot, Raising Arizona, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia, On the Waterfront, La Dolce Vita, City of God, The Godfather (part 1 or 2), The 400 Blows, Patton, Mad Max or The Road Warrior, The Battle of Algiers, Breathless, West Side Story, Stranger than Paradise, The Maltese Falcon, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Boyz n the Hood, Mean Streets, Raging Bull, Apocalypto, Casablanca, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, District 9, In the Heat of the Night, M*A*S*H, To Kill a Mockingbird, Dog Day Afternoon, Singin' in the Rain, Spartacus, Dr. Strangelove, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Empire of the Sun, Cool Hand Luke, The Wizard of Oz, or Zelig.
???
All classics. All part of the modern film canon. And yet none of the above are available on Netflix. Isn't that more than just a little broken?
You should stop being so soft and demand better from the people taking your money. Just sayin'... that emperor ain't even got underwear on.
Seriously. You can subscribe to any music service for a few bucks from Rhapsody to Spotify to Tidal to Deezer and get access to just about anything in a ridiculously deep catalog besides maybe the occasional blockbuster Taylor Swift album. But why is it so unfathomable to expect great classic movies like: Bad Lieutenant, Rashomon, Rear Window, Vertigo, North by Northwest, Bonnie and Clyde, The Last Tango in Paris, Some Like It Hot, Raising Arizona, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia, On the Waterfront, La Dolce Vita, City of God, The Godfather (part 1 or 2), The 400 Blows, Patton, Mad Max or The Road Warrior, The Battle of Algiers, Breathless, West Side Story, Stranger than Paradise, The Maltese Falcon, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Boyz n the Hood, Mean Streets, Raging Bull, Apocalypto, Casablanca, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, District 9, In the Heat of the Night, M*A*S*H, To Kill a Mockingbird, Dog Day Afternoon, Singin' in the Rain, Spartacus, Dr. Strangelove, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Empire of the Sun, Cool Hand Luke, The Wizard of Oz, or Zelig.
???
All classics. All part of the modern film canon. And yet none of the above are available on Netflix. Isn't that more than just a little broken?
You should stop being so soft and demand better from the people taking your money. Just sayin'... that emperor ain't even got underwear on.
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And some classics you haven't mentioned that are also available: Das Boot, Once Upon a Time In The West, Metropolis, Nosferatu, The Longest Day, Patton, Saturday Night Fever, Faust, Night of The Living Dead, a shitload of John Wayne's movies and Bruce Lee's, King Kong, Apocalypse Now, Pulp Fiction, Rosemary's Baby, Beckett, House on the Haunted Hill, The Greatest Show On Earth, The Bicycle Thief, at least 3 of Tarkosky movies, Chinatown and a shitload more great classics.
So it's really relative. You can't say they lack great movies for the price you pay.
I personally have been a subscriber for many years mostly because of older TV series that i missed the first time around and i think it's absolutely worth what i pay.
Nah, I'm not just as soft a consumer as some of you are.
Seriously. You can subscribe to any music service for a few bucks from Rhapsody to Spotify to Tidal to Deezer and get access to just about anything in a ridiculously deep catalog besides maybe the occasional blockbuster Taylor Swift album. But why is it so unfathomable to expect great classic movies like: Bad Lieutenant, Rashomon, Rear Window, Vertigo, North by Northwest, Bonnie and Clyde, The Last Tango in Paris, Some Like It Hot, Raising Arizona, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia, On the Waterfront, La Dolce Vita, City of God, The Godfather (part 1 or 2), The 400 Blows, Patton, Mad Max or The Road Warrior, The Battle of Algiers, Breathless, West Side Story, Stranger than Paradise, The Maltese Falcon, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Boyz n the Hood, Mean Streets, Raging Bull, Apocalypto, Casablanca, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, District 9, In the Heat of the Night, M*A*S*H, To Kill a Mockingbird, Dog Day Afternoon, Singin' in the Rain, Spartacus, Dr. Strangelove, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Empire of the Sun, Cool Hand Luke, The Wizard of Oz, or Zelig.
???
All classics. All part of the modern film canon. And yet none of the above are available on Netflix. Isn't that more than just a little broken?
You should stop being so soft and demand better from the people taking your money. Just sayin'... that emperor ain't even got underwear on.
Seriously. You can subscribe to any music service for a few bucks from Rhapsody to Spotify to Tidal to Deezer and get access to just about anything in a ridiculously deep catalog besides maybe the occasional blockbuster Taylor Swift album. But why is it so unfathomable to expect great classic movies like: Bad Lieutenant, Rashomon, Rear Window, Vertigo, North by Northwest, Bonnie and Clyde, The Last Tango in Paris, Some Like It Hot, Raising Arizona, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia, On the Waterfront, La Dolce Vita, City of God, The Godfather (part 1 or 2), The 400 Blows, Patton, Mad Max or The Road Warrior, The Battle of Algiers, Breathless, West Side Story, Stranger than Paradise, The Maltese Falcon, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Boyz n the Hood, Mean Streets, Raging Bull, Apocalypto, Casablanca, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, District 9, In the Heat of the Night, M*A*S*H, To Kill a Mockingbird, Dog Day Afternoon, Singin' in the Rain, Spartacus, Dr. Strangelove, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Empire of the Sun, Cool Hand Luke, The Wizard of Oz, or Zelig.
???
All classics. All part of the modern film canon. And yet none of the above are available on Netflix. Isn't that more than just a little broken?
You should stop being so soft and demand better from the people taking your money. Just sayin'... that emperor ain't even got underwear on.
Let me ask you this though: is there a legal product internationally available that comes even close to Netflix?
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Nah, I'm not just as soft a consumer as some of you are.
Seriously. You can subscribe to any music service for a few bucks from Rhapsody to Spotify to Tidal to Deezer and get access to just about anything in a ridiculously deep catalog besides maybe the occasional blockbuster Taylor Swift album. But why is it so unfathomable to expect great classic movies like: Bad Lieutenant, Rashomon, Rear Window, Vertigo, North by Northwest, Bonnie and Clyde, The Last Tango in Paris, Some Like It Hot, Raising Arizona, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia, On the Waterfront, La Dolce Vita, City of God, The Godfather (part 1 or 2), The 400 Blows, Patton, Mad Max or The Road Warrior, The Battle of Algiers, Breathless, West Side Story, Stranger than Paradise, The Maltese Falcon, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Boyz n the Hood, Mean Streets, Raging Bull, Apocalypto, Casablanca, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, District 9, In the Heat of the Night, M*A*S*H, To Kill a Mockingbird, Dog Day Afternoon, Singin' in the Rain, Spartacus, Dr. Strangelove, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Empire of the Sun, Cool Hand Luke, The Wizard of Oz, or Zelig.
???
All classics. All part of the modern film canon. And yet none of the above are available on Netflix. Isn't that more than just a little broken?
You should stop being so soft and demand better from the people taking your money. Just sayin'... that emperor ain't even got underwear on.
Seriously. You can subscribe to any music service for a few bucks from Rhapsody to Spotify to Tidal to Deezer and get access to just about anything in a ridiculously deep catalog besides maybe the occasional blockbuster Taylor Swift album. But why is it so unfathomable to expect great classic movies like: Bad Lieutenant, Rashomon, Rear Window, Vertigo, North by Northwest, Bonnie and Clyde, The Last Tango in Paris, Some Like It Hot, Raising Arizona, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia, On the Waterfront, La Dolce Vita, City of God, The Godfather (part 1 or 2), The 400 Blows, Patton, Mad Max or The Road Warrior, The Battle of Algiers, Breathless, West Side Story, Stranger than Paradise, The Maltese Falcon, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Boyz n the Hood, Mean Streets, Raging Bull, Apocalypto, Casablanca, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, District 9, In the Heat of the Night, M*A*S*H, To Kill a Mockingbird, Dog Day Afternoon, Singin' in the Rain, Spartacus, Dr. Strangelove, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Empire of the Sun, Cool Hand Luke, The Wizard of Oz, or Zelig.
???
All classics. All part of the modern film canon. And yet none of the above are available on Netflix. Isn't that more than just a little broken?
You should stop being so soft and demand better from the people taking your money. Just sayin'... that emperor ain't even got underwear on.
Let me ask you this though: is there a legal product internationally available that comes even close to Netflix?
Did you read the part where I mentioned I'd be willing to pay more money?
As far as a legal product that comes close to Netflix, I honestly don't care. A dysfunctional product that cannot sufficiently do the basics more than 10% of the time is still a failed product. Something that mostly offers fillers and bargain bin stuff is like the $6 Shakey's all-you-can-eat pizza bar: if I'm not interested in stuffing myself with cardboard, it's a ripoff at any price.
As far as a legal product that comes close to Netflix, I honestly don't care. A dysfunctional product that cannot sufficiently do the basics more than 10% of the time is still a failed product. Something that mostly offers fillers and bargain bin stuff is like the $6 Shakey's all-you-can-eat pizza bar: if I'm not interested in stuffing myself with cardboard, it's a ripoff at any price.
Massive service like Spotify (and iTunes) makes sense for music industry since CD sales are way down since going record store to buy music became archaic business model, music industry has had to offer its products more directly streamlined in this manner to compete vs piracy.
But would be hard pressed for TV and movie companies s to justify selling their products in such mass scale kinda service, since they are far from desperate, ppl still stay glued to their tvs and go to cinema in droves, make a killing with ads etc. Until it changes, we will only get extra services like Netflix /HBO go and so on that are limited in content.
But would be hard pressed for TV and movie companies s to justify selling their products in such mass scale kinda service, since they are far from desperate, ppl still stay glued to their tvs and go to cinema in droves, make a killing with ads etc. Until it changes, we will only get extra services like Netflix /HBO go and so on that are limited in content.
i had totally forgotten about that one. not surprised you remember it tho 
