The screen fades to black.
There's been a lot of electrons killed on Teh Internets over Netflix's recent (effective 1 September) price increase/plan restructuring, and I'm a bit late to pile onto that particular bandwagon; in any case, I don't really have a problem with it, since the cost of my preferred plan actually decreased, owing to the fact that I opted out of their unlimited streaming. (For one thing I'm enough of a movie geek that I almost always listen to at least the first 15 or 20 minutes of the DVD's commentary track; I like running subtitles even on English language films so I don't have to have the volume cranked up to "11" to be able to hear any whispered or partially obscured dialogue; my Internet service is dodgy at best; and I've not heard great reports about Netflix's streaming service, and I'm not terribly impressed with their streaming offerings either.)
No, the thing about Netflix that I really want to kvetch about is how many of their discs they're removing from circulation. Some, I guess I can sort of understand, no matter how much their loss annoys me: The Fat Girl (2001); The Best Man (1964); Mädchen in Uniform (1931); Matango: Attack of the Mushroom People (1963); The Fanny Trilogy (1931); The Nicklashausen Journey (1970); The Kremlin Letter (1970); Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985; great soundtrack by Philip Glass, BTW); Space Amoeba (a.k.a. Yog -- Monster From Outer Space or Gezora, Ganime, Kamoeba: Decisive Battle! Giant Monsters of the South Seas; 1970); The Eyes of the Mummy (1922).
But others totally flabbergast me: The Man in the White Suit (1951)? The Desperate Hours (1955)? Flic Story (1975)? Murder, My Sweet (1944)? School For Scoundrels (1960)? Shane (1953)? The Servant (1963)? The Elephant Man (1980)? The Amateur (1981)? Under Fire (1983)? Rebirth of Mothra/Rebirth of Mothra 2(2004)? Nick of Time (1995)?
How on earth can Netflix claim that none of their customers want to rent Shane, The Elephant Man or Nick of Time, the latter of which stars Johnny Depp and Christopher Walken? Hell, if there was just a video of Depp and Walken reading their grocery lists, together or separately, I'd be willing to bet that there would be at least a couple of hundred people out there willing to pay a couple of bucks to watch it. This TV recently ran Nick of Time on their Detroit affiliate (naturally, at a time that I couldn't watch it).
Is Netflix discontinuing some of these titles because they keep getting ripped off?
Wev. No matter the reason, I really resent the bait n' switch that Netflix is pulling. If there was another mail order DVD rental service that had better offerings for not much more money, I'd switch in a heartbeat.
No, the thing about Netflix that I really want to kvetch about is how many of their discs they're removing from circulation. Some, I guess I can sort of understand, no matter how much their loss annoys me: The Fat Girl (2001); The Best Man (1964); Mädchen in Uniform (1931); Matango: Attack of the Mushroom People (1963); The Fanny Trilogy (1931); The Nicklashausen Journey (1970); The Kremlin Letter (1970); Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985; great soundtrack by Philip Glass, BTW); Space Amoeba (a.k.a. Yog -- Monster From Outer Space or Gezora, Ganime, Kamoeba: Decisive Battle! Giant Monsters of the South Seas; 1970); The Eyes of the Mummy (1922).
But others totally flabbergast me: The Man in the White Suit (1951)? The Desperate Hours (1955)? Flic Story (1975)? Murder, My Sweet (1944)? School For Scoundrels (1960)? Shane (1953)? The Servant (1963)? The Elephant Man (1980)? The Amateur (1981)? Under Fire (1983)? Rebirth of Mothra/Rebirth of Mothra 2(2004)? Nick of Time (1995)?
How on earth can Netflix claim that none of their customers want to rent Shane, The Elephant Man or Nick of Time, the latter of which stars Johnny Depp and Christopher Walken? Hell, if there was just a video of Depp and Walken reading their grocery lists, together or separately, I'd be willing to bet that there would be at least a couple of hundred people out there willing to pay a couple of bucks to watch it. This TV recently ran Nick of Time on their Detroit affiliate (naturally, at a time that I couldn't watch it).
Is Netflix discontinuing some of these titles because they keep getting ripped off?
Wev. No matter the reason, I really resent the bait n' switch that Netflix is pulling. If there was another mail order DVD rental service that had better offerings for not much more money, I'd switch in a heartbeat.