Like everyone else I ran out of shit to watch a long time ago. So I've been hitting classics. Or just popular shit I missed. Been doing a lot of Best Picture winners that I thought were doo doo but figured they are Best Picture winners. Why not. Lots of terrible movies that won awards. Green Book, Driving Miss Daisy, Last of the Mohicans. Maybe some just don't hold up anymore. But Green Book was just awful.

Last night I watched Born on the 4th of July. What a fucking mess that was. It was just like let me cram as much about the horrors of war into 2 hours as I can. Jumping from situation to situation. Right from the jump I knew it was going to be terrible when young Cruise was playing little league and he hit the ball and the dad was jumping around like he just won the lotto. Even the war scenes sucked which is surprising coming from Oliver Stone. Then fast forward to the corny ass ending with Activist Cruise being pushed down the hall about to address the nation. Did not enjoy it at all.

One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest was brilliant though. I thoroughly enjoyed that one.

is it's really not set up to watch older movies that aren't classics.

I didn't think Last of the Mohicans was very good either, even with Daniel Day-Lewis.

A movie podcast I listen to (The Big Picture) did a draft from 1975 recently and it was pretty wild to search the picks as they came up and see maybe 2 of the 15 movies picked were available on streaming as part of a library (several could be rented)


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I was surprised One Flew was on netflix a couple of months ago. So I jumped on that. Besides like the super popular classics they just arent there. Id rather have a library with a heavy backlog of classics versus all the newest shit. The new stuff is easy to find.

I couldn't figure out to do it without hunting them out one by one or paying for each. Fuck that.

combination of netflix streaming and amazon prime video because the collection bounces back and forth between them along with borrowing a couple blu-rays. well worth it but not quick.

>I couldn't figure out to do it without hunting them out one
>by one or paying for each. Fuck that.

for one month at a time like twice a year (except some of the more recent ones). Gotta stream them fast cause they literally only license them for a month.

The Bond wag is about to go off with the MGM purchase. Bond is synonymous with Thanksgiving/Black Friday for so many second and third generation British Isles immigrants


Maybe Amazon won't capitalize year one, but I wouldn't be shocked to see Bond-branded hard drives and tea pots in due time lol


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I'm sure they're working on that right now.

I really wanted to like this one. Thought it was mediocre at best. Ledgers character was boring and just one note imo. Jake was great. But overall the movie was underwhelming. Makes me think it got all of the love because it was a love story between two men.