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pseudorandom name posted:Then why would anybody subscribe to Max? The end result is probably to actually end their streaming service.
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pseudorandom name posted:Then why would anybody subscribe to Max? Well, they have a lot of reality shows now
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My favorite part of Leave the World Behind is when the 10 year old child recites a Jed Bartlet monologue from West Wing in its entirety and then Julia Robert’s character is like “why did you do that?”
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Dec 12, 2023 04:34
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I liked when Julia Roberts was like gently caress your jazz Mahershala lets listen to "Too Close" by Next.
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Dec 12, 2023 06:36
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Leave the World Behind Milked the premise too long, but overall was well made and acted. I was getting sick of the vertical turned horizontal camera gimmick by the end. Less is more.
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If anyone is looking for an south asian cinema kick, Jigarthanda DoubleX on Netflix is very fun. Much lower budget than RRR or Pathaan or Jawan, but knows how to work it for similar effect - though don't expect the same kind of spectacle. Go in thinking Tropic Thunder but with a staighter face.
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Inspector Hound posted:Why are they removing actual HBO shows? To kill HBO and sell it for parts. This statement can be applied to WB as well
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Dec 12, 2023 18:07
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That's so sad, HBO Max was my favorite service for a bit. I like getting stoned and watching political comedy and now there's one season of even their own stupid shows. I don't dare search for Looney toons, I won't voluntarily ruin my day
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Haptical Sales Slut posted:Leave the World Behind I enjoyed it overall though. It was sort of like the ~40 minute one-off dramas you'd sometimes get on kids tv in the uk - hokey and incompetent but sort of spooky and charming anyway
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Wolfsheim posted:So they can rent them to Netflix/Tubi/etc Ok but  I mean gently caress Zaslov anyway though, this is completely within the realm of what they would do.
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Dec 12, 2023 20:43
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I mean, they basically just did that maneuver with a bunch of other HBO shows. Although, if they wanted to just delete the second half of the Watchmen series, I'd have no emotional reaction over that.
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Dec 12, 2023 20:54
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Yeah I wasn't being pithy lol I just remember seeing Insecure on Netflix one day and going "oh okay" I know some article awhile ago speculated that the reason Zaslav is making what seem like a bunch of insane moves is that he's just trying to make the numbers look lean enough to sell it off to Disney or whoever and that this is common quasi-legal CEO bullshit but because the company in question is a thing people actually care about they're actually being scrutinized for it this time
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Dec 12, 2023 21:16
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Baron von Eevl posted:Ok but lol why would you believe this for one second? They also  accidentally listed a bunch of Looney Tunes cartoons as leaving Max as well but corrected the mistake once a bunch of people got mad about it.They're removing everything they can get away with to license to ad supported services because they can't make money any other way.
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Dec 12, 2023 21:45
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Did that many people get mad about Watchmen specifically getting removed? I liked it but I thought I was in the minority on that.
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Baron von Eevl posted:Did that many people get mad about Watchmen specifically getting removed? I liked it but I thought I was in the minority on that. It was good-ish except for the last episode but it's more about how it's a symptom, we are soon back to the era where the BBC taped over the originals of Dr. Who episodes because the people in charge don't have respect for their content
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Dec 12, 2023 21:55
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I would hope anyone who pays money for Max would get mad when they remove content, regardless if you watch it or not.
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Removing Jeremy Irons content from my streaming services should be illegal
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Baron von Eevl posted:Ok but https://x.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1734576728918421658?s=20 You're not wrong!
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ONE YEAR LATER posted:I would hope anyone who pays money for Max would get mad when they remove content, regardless if you watch it or not. I understand the sentiment but I'd be okay if they removed almost all the Discovery content.
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McCloud posted:https://x.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1734576728918421658?s=20 The superior service gains the most movies
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Dec 13, 2023 00:53
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I don’t understand the appeal of Tubi and Pluto. I don’t care what content they have, no loving way am I going back to ads.
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What, you don't like your movie being interrupted by the exact same ad telling you public healthcare is evil and the election was a lie?
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I’ll dry-hump a bandsaw before I ever willingly watch another loving commercial
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Brocktoon posted:I don’t understand the appeal of Tubi and Pluto. I don’t care what content they have, no loving way am I going back to ads.
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Brocktoon posted:I don’t understand the appeal of Tubi and Pluto. I don’t care what content they have, no loving way am I going back to ads. It's starting to grow on me again. Go grab a beer, go to the bathroom and be back just in time for stuff to start again.
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Dec 13, 2023 03:30
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Ad blockers do a great job of blocking Tubi ads.
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No ad blockers on my Roku.
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Brocktoon posted:I don’t understand the appeal of Tubi and Pluto. I don’t care what content they have, no loving way am I going back to ads. The biggest pros for me are the MST3K channel and lack of sign up process. There are other good channels too, if you can get by the aforementioned commercials, weirdly specific ones for individual series, multiple cooking channels, even a couple boring news ones of varying trustworthiness. e the ads are definitely obnoxious and usually the same two or three. I hope you don't mind meditating on disgusting laundry.
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Field Mousepad posted:It's starting to grow on me again. Go grab a beer, go to the bathroom and be back just in time for stuff to start again. Throw on tubi and I find some random five star film I've never heard of. I just hit mute when the ads come on and do other poo poo. Like I would pay for a tubi without ads I guess? The answer for why people gently caress with it imo just has more to do with the fact that most of the paid adfree services just have a bunch of poo poo that's either stupid or I've already seen.   > Tubi > all paid streaming services
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Dec 13, 2023 07:57
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it's almost like they are fishing for viewcounts to see how their midrange stuff does on Tubi with ads. I bet they partition out Max with ad plans tiers like everyone else + something else unimaginably dumb we won't foresee.
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Brocktoon posted:I don’t understand the appeal of Tubi and Pluto. I don’t care what content they have, no loving way am I going back to ads. Better selection than literally every other streaming service. That's the appeal.
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Also adblockers work and I usually watch tubi stuff on a pc. However I do think tubi has the fewest ads of the streaming services I've used on devices. Hulu is the worst offender I've experienced
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As somebody who hates and despises ads and would pay a premium to not watch them, Tubi's are honestly pretty innocuous. The content on there more than justifies it, I feel.
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MacheteZombie posted:Also adblockers work and I usually watch tubi stuff on a pc. However I do think tubi has the fewest ads of the streaming services I've used on devices. Hulu is the worst offender I've experienced Doesn't every Hulu paid tier also include ads??
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Tubi is good but the ads can be a bit egregious, I watched Pieces of April last night, a 75ish minute movie, and there were at least five ad breaks lol
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Doesn't every Hulu paid tier also include ads?? gently caress if I know, I mooch off a family account that's the lowest paid tier iirc. It's a terrible service and everytime I watch something on it I regret not just hunting the file down online.
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I haven't used hulu in a long time but I think someone said that there are only like two shows on it that have ads on the paid tier and which nobody would want to watch anyway (I think it's related to the details of the licensing arrangement for those shows)
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Hulu has always been rear end. Even back in the day when Netflix was a little interesting I hated Hulu.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Doesn't every Hulu paid tier also include ads?? no, i get zero ads on Hulu. Ads aren't fun to watch or anything, but i do net get being full-throated with hatred of them. If i watch a movie without ads, i still tend to pause it a few times to piss, or get snacks, or make another adult beverage or something. It's like ads have killed people's house pets or something.
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