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MikeDeTiger

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Re: OT - TV shows and Movies
« Reply #1120 on: Today at 12:22:00 PM »
We watched The Thursday Murder Club last weekend on Netflix.  It has Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan, and Ben Kingsley.  Also David Tennant has a small role.  I have pretty much the same review of it as Agatha Christie's Seven Dials I last reviewed.  I wouldn't say drop what you're doing and go watch it, but if you need a fun way to kill a couple of hours, give it a try.  

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« Reply #1121 on: Today at 12:23:23 PM »
Yeah I've got the Disney+/Hulu/Max bundle right now and it's not crazy expensive for the amount of content you get.

We got Disney+ back in 2020 at the beginning of the pandemic and with a 12 year old and 10 year old kid, it was definitely well worth it. 

But now our Disney content viewing has definitely dropped off.  I could see canceling it pretty soon, now that the kids are 16 and 18.

Per MDT's advice and observation, I have DVD or BluRay copies of all of the Star Wars movies, and that's really about all I need.  I don't really re-watch a ton of movies so between Star Wars, LOTR, Harry Potter, and Raiders 1-3, I'm pretty much covered.


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Re: OT - TV shows and Movies
« Reply #1122 on: Today at 12:32:57 PM »
Eh. As someone who says they're "not big on rewatching movies in general", why would investing in both physical media and hardware to play it back, be all that important?

The key word is movies.  I have frequently rewatched TV shows I loved, and will probably continue to do so in years to come.  I get tired of "comfort shows" I like to kill time with disappearing and not being available as their contract with one streamer expires, and the next one waits to begin....if it ever does, and who knows when that will be.  Content switches homes too much--or is homeless--and as content housing becomes bifurcated with each new streaming service that pops up, I'm not willing to have subscriptions to everything I would ideally like.  

There are a few things here and there I rewatch frequently, and may well continue to do so.  It's best if they're available to me no matter if or where they live online, and no matter if the internet decides to go out. 

The other key word is me.  My wife has gobs of movies on DVD she claims she would like to rewatch, though she rarely does so.  Eventually I'm gonna try to load them all up on the server, when I finally get it fixed.  

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Re: OT - TV shows and Movies
« Reply #1123 on: Today at 12:38:16 PM »
Yeah I've got the Disney+/Hulu/Max bundle right now and it's not crazy expensive for the amount of content you get.

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Per MDT's advice and observation, I have DVD or BluRay copies of all of the Star Wars movies, and that's really about all I need.  I don't really re-watch a ton of movies so between Star Wars, LOTR, Harry Potter, and Raiders 1-3, I'm pretty much covered.

Yeah, and I'd actually even suggest that the bundled price for all three of those is quite cheap, considering what all you have access to.  That said, I probably still wouldn't keep Disney long term, but, since Hulu is going away and all the content will live on Disney, I may wind up keeping it.  

The second thing, case in point, Prime had LotR forever, which is an annual Christmas rewatch for us.  And Prime is how we watched it.  But they didn't have it this past Christmas.  It would've been panic in the streets if we didn't have the trilogy on DVD.  Granted, I'd rather upgrade to Blu-ray and to the extended versions, but release-length cuts on DVD did the job well enough.  This is exactly the kind of thing I want to not worry about.  

 

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