2nd December 2012, 5:47 AM
I mean, there's still a large selection of documentaries (ranging from highly dubious to David Attenborough), and a nice selection of foreign movies (an oddity: a Japanese remake of "Ghost" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost:_Moui...kishimetai ; this exists). However, it's missing a lot. It's like film companies are ONLY putting their garbage on the service these days. This is most notable with series. It's got the terrible sequels of everything, but not the awesome original. For example, it has Land Before Time 2-13 and the series, but not the only thing worth paying any attention to at all, the first one. Oh yay, you have Superman 4: The Quest for Peace. Oh! Let's not forget you have Batman and Robin, but no Batman by Tim Burton. Hey! It's every Highlander except the first one! Oh nice, Aladdin 4: Jafar May Need Glasses.
Somehow Netflix lost all their Disney movie rights, but don't you worry, they have ALL the ripoffs you remember your parents renting as a "consolation" from Blockbuster when the "real" movie was missing.
"Sorry honey they don't have Brave, but they have Kira the Brave! You can't won't tell the difference! The Princess and the Frog isn't here, but look at this one! It's the Frog Prince! The princess is still black so you know it's legit!" I won't subject a kid to these terrible knockoffs. Even as a kid I could see how cheap and sad those thing were.
I was all over the whole transition to digital distribution for music and movies. However, only music has really made the full transition. Movies are still in this bizarre world where studios are terrified to actually give out their licenses for any length of time (note to studios: the correct length of time is "until the unmaking of the universe").
Somehow Netflix lost all their Disney movie rights, but don't you worry, they have ALL the ripoffs you remember your parents renting as a "consolation" from Blockbuster when the "real" movie was missing.
"Sorry honey they don't have Brave, but they have Kira the Brave! You can't won't tell the difference! The Princess and the Frog isn't here, but look at this one! It's the Frog Prince! The princess is still black so you know it's legit!" I won't subject a kid to these terrible knockoffs. Even as a kid I could see how cheap and sad those thing were.
I was all over the whole transition to digital distribution for music and movies. However, only music has really made the full transition. Movies are still in this bizarre world where studios are terrified to actually give out their licenses for any length of time (note to studios: the correct length of time is "until the unmaking of the universe").
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)
