Netflix Will Lose Dozens of Movies at The End of The Year

[TristanBelmont]

Nothing I care about got removed, so I guess this isn't all that bad.

 

[soren7550]

I'm still mad that they got rid of all the Ghibli films and Avatar: The Last Airbender. This isn't helping matters.

 

[Bara_no_Hime]

The Secret of Nimh is the only big loss for me on that list. it never airs on TV and it's impossible to find on DVD in stores.

WalMart usually has it. That's where I got my copy.

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I have nothing else to add. I'm a Hulu girl. And yeah, Hulu does the same thing sometimes, which sucks when you're in the middle of a show when it gets pulled.

 

[EHKOS]

Interesting list, Im surprised they're chopping some of the classics like Top Gun for example.

And Titanic. That kinda blows my mind. I don't personally use Netflix, but that's just strange. Oh well, streaming sites will always exist, no need to get too bent out of shape about it.

 

[Soviet Heavy]

I recommend anyone who hasn't seen Battle of Britain do so, if only for some of the greatest aerial battles ever put to film. It also has a boatload of great English actors, as well as Christopher Plummer and Kurt Jurgens.

 

[likalaruku]

Oh no...what will we EVER do without Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo? Say it ain't so.....

The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes....That's the one where Holmes & Watson pretend to be a gay couple, right?

Tales From The Crypt: Bordello Of Blood........No loss there.

Troll 2.... Oddly enough more popular now than it ever was inits day.

Call me old fashioned. But THIS is still my preferred method for watching videos. I miss the browsing, reading the backs of covers, taking a chance on the unknown, getting the barcode on your Major Video shirt scanned for a discount, renting a few game cartridges, & begging my parents to get me sour gummy worms & cortton candy, & the sound of a VHS tape rewinding.

 

[Olas]

Netflix is so random about what movies they have available at any given time. It's kinda annoying. Sometimes they only have Star Trek 1 and 3 available, othertimes they have 2 4 and 7. Is Paramount schizophrenic or something? Why do movies that are more than 10 years old come and go like some sort of merry-go round?

 

[SpectacledOtter]

Consider this a letter to the movie industry.

I'm going to give you the rundown here - You need to really learn to do the right thing if you don't want to go up in smoke. It's this body of evidence that make you a hard target for pirates. These aren't some desperado mystery men or some kids in the hall coming out of the Russia house that you can throw cuffs on and put away to solve the problem. These people are different kind of species. In fact, they can't hardly wait when they gonna get you sucka, when they finally form the dream team that's capable of making you running scared. Then you'll have to pick up the remains and go back to school to learn how you transformed your own industry into the Titanic. Unless things change, this is as good as it gets, and the best of times have past; no requiem for a dream that will make them disappear, no eternal sunshine for the spotless mind, but instead what dreams may come are dark shadows that will overcome you. It's time to form a platoon (despite the odd couple you are), fight back, show your true grit, and win these war games using unconventional tactics. As for advice, I can tell you that throwing a brick at them does nothing either. And when you win, you can go back to being the faculty, instead of soldiers, jarheads, windtalkers and top gun pilots you were in this war. But remember what you have learned, for there will always be times of war and peace.

So, in the end, if you want the industry to see another October sky, it's time to change. No shorcuts. Do this in the name of the father, the producer of The Great Train Robbery. Are you getting this all through the skulls of your pumpkinheads? Because if you don't, you'll find yourself half baked and flashdancing in Flint under the name "Foxy Brown" aka "The Woman in Red", getting your electric boogaloo on like it's a Roman holiday in front of Mr. Bean and Rob Roy, your most frequent customers. Meanwhile, you're hoping to move up to the best little whorehouse in Texas. Is that the kind of direction you want to go?

I go on the Escapist to watch funny videos and I wind up finding the greatest movie-title-monologue I have ever read. hat's off to you sir.

 

[Crazy Zaul]

So now Netflix is changing from 90% shitty knock offs and super low budget movies to 95% shitty knock offs and super low budget movies.`

It was quite a surprise when I got the US Netflix after how much Americans obsess over it and found that while is has 200 times more content than the UK version it just has a lot more shit like 'Atlantic Rim' and 'Hansel and Gretel get baked'.

 

[Ragsnstitches]

The Secret of Nimh is the only big loss for me on that list. it never airs on TV and it's impossible to find on DVD in stores.

WalMart usually has it. That's where I got my copy.

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I have nothing else to add. I'm a Hulu girl. And yeah, Hulu does the same thing sometimes, which sucks when you're in the middle of a show when it gets pulled.

Unfortunately I don't live in a country with WalMart. But thanks for the tip anyway.

 

[Strazdas]

Ah, the evil corporations fucking up costumers again but costumers are blaming the middleman, because surely its netflix choice to take movies down and not the copyright "owners".

 

[Something Amyss]

I'm still mad that they got rid of all the Ghibli films and Avatar: The Last Airbender. This isn't helping matters.

I'm pretty sure they didn't get rid of them so much as they couldn't get them back. I think Amazon even advertised the exclusivity of Avatar, so I wouldn't be surprised if Amazon was more to blame than Netflix. Which wouldn't piss me off so much if I could ever get Amazon to stream properly.

Another reason why physical medias are far superior long term...

Well yeah, but I would hope we could separate Netflix's uses from the long term.

I mean, people don't think they're actually keeping a long-term library when they subscribe to a rental service, do they?

That wasn't rhetorical. Please tell me people don't actually think that.

Call me old fashioned.

You're old fash--*ducks tomato*

But seriously, I like a lot of that stuff (Didn't like rewinding VHS even when that was all we had), but I live in a small town with no decent rental store. We used to have three, then a chain came in, drove everyone out and stopped having a decent selection. Then Blockbuster came in and repeated the process a few years later. Then Blockbuster went out of business, but even before that their stock was shit. I'm not driving 30 miles to browse through movies.

I really like instant streaming because when you live in a town like this, you really aren't spoiled for choice. We have one rental shop here which survives by the virtue of being the only rental shop and usually has 300 copies of the latest blockbuster title but almost nothing else.

I mean, it's great if you have the option to peruse the selection, but....

Further, Netflix streaming does allow me to take a chance on things I wouldn't otherwise risk. Since I'm already paying for it, since I lose nothing but my time, I'll go further out of my comfort zone with movies and TV.

On the other hand, some days I just want to watch Kids in the Hall.

So now Netflix is changing from 90% shitty knock offs and super low budget movies to 95% shitty knock offs and super low budget movies.`

Wait, what? How does that work when only a few of the movies being removed are even noteworthy?

Unfortunately I don't live in a country with WalMart. But thanks for the tip anyway.

Can you get it shipped online?

 

[Bara_no_Hime]

Unfortunately I don't live in a country with WalMart. But thanks for the tip anyway.

Ah. Hm. Have you tried looking online? I bet Amazon or Ebay has it. Or are you worried about getting the wrong region encoding?

 

[Ragsnstitches]

Unfortunately I don't live in a country with WalMart. But thanks for the tip anyway.

Can you get it shipped online?

Ah. Hm. Have you tried looking online? I bet Amazon or Ebay has it. Or are you worried about getting the wrong region encoding?

Unless I cam physically touch it or it's directly beamed to my computer I just don't put money towards it. It's a stigma left over from being burned from early attempts at mail order. My loss, I know. There are few places where it might be stocked, but I rarely get the time to go there.

For now I can still get a few more viewings out of it before Netflix drops it. Who knows, this may be enough to convince me to leave my messy mail order past behind.

 

[Johnny Reb]

Nothing can make me more upset with netflix then when they got rid of Cosmos: A Personal Voyage.

That was the breaking point.

 

[Strazdas]

Ah, the evil corporations fucking up costumers again but costumers are blaming the middleman, because surely its netflix choice to take movies down and not the copyright "owners".

That's exactly what I was thinking. I'm wondering if these films are all from one publisher or studio. Because I know Sony and Universal are both gungho about controlling their online copyrights. Maybe they've been stewing about people ripping films from Netflix.

Unfortunately, it's month end and I don't have time to investigate the movie owners at the moment. I'll look into it on Thursday.

people dont actually rip films from netflix....
that would be quite pointless. Netflix does not provide quality enough to rip it, and you would also need to have the whole film screened without any background interference, unless your ripping the source but i dont think that's so easy in netflix setup. and god forbid people actually download the movies they buy, how dare they.
People rip from dvds/BRs mostly because thats much easier/faster way to rip films and also gives the base quality high allowing you to compress to whatever you want, including full BR. and while even BR films are not true HD because of compression used in codec they come as close as you get nowadays (other than ripping from movie theaters, and even then the less rich ones like the one i go to use actual blue-ray discs).
Though there are some streaming services rips (i dont know if they are from netflix), however from what i read they are often quite poor quality.

 

[thewatergamer]

*sigh* Thats just what I want to hear, even more movies getting pulled from netflix, at least few of them actually affect me at all, but still this is not a trend I want to see continue netflix...

You already pissed me off when the tremors movies and a few justice league/batman beyond cartoons vanished... anything else mysteriously vanishes for no more netflix since I won't be able to justify the 10$ a month