Netflix & the slow death of the classic film (Newsweek)

Netflix & the slow death of the classic film (Newsweek) Sept 19, 2017 0:59:43 GMT

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Post by Doghouse6 on Sept 19, 2017 0:59:43 GMT

Sept 18, 2017 15:13:04 GMT kijii said:

Sept 18, 2017 9:59:34 GMT Fox in the Snow said:

Exactly why I haven't bothered with it, even though a month's subscription costs less than single DVD.

I wasn't implying an either/or approach.
Streaming is very good and offers a lot--TV series, documentaries, old TV show, and movies.
The only point I was making was that it may never totally take the place of DVDs as far as movies are concerned.

I take a "belt and suspenders" approach here.
Also, I look through the broadcast movies on network TV to DVR things that I may look interesting to me.

For example, I still find a few movies that I hadn't yet seen on TCM.
For example last week, I saw Man's Castle and Youngblood Hawke--a real pot-boiler based on a novel by the 102-year-old Herman Wouk.

Also, think month, I am also enjoying some Jenifer Jones movies that I may have missed in the past:
I had never seen Cluny Brown or Ruby Gentry until this month.
Tuesday's JJ offerings look good too.

I am always trolling for "new" old movies that I may have missed from the past.

When they first rolled it out, we tried the Netflix streaming service, but eventually cut back to only the disc rental plan for the very reasons Richard Kimble states. We were already Amazon Prime members, and hubby uses it a lot. But I'll watch a film online only if it's the only way I can get to see it.

I happened to catch Youngblood Hawke too; I was attracted mainly by the cast and by the fact that Wouk's The Caine Mutiny is one of my favorite novels. "Potboiler" is a good description; it began with some promise, but dwindled into soap opera, and both Delmar Daves's direction and Max Steiner's bombastic score felt at odds with the then-edgy mid-'60s sensibility they seemed to be going for. It was a film with each foot planted in a different era.