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The world of streaming has evolved since the 2015 OP of the original Streaming Megathread. Now there are more options than ever! Here's your guide to what's worth watching on every notable service. Feel free to discuss films that are available on any of the following streaming services. Look below for service-specific recommendations. The #1 streaming service that went from a concept the film industry laughed at to the streaming giant. It used to have the greatest streaming library, now it's the strongest creator of original content from a streaming service.  The giant of capitalism has an exhaustive streaming collection. Has the widest variety in it's collection, with plenty to offer for those that love Popular Releases plus horror movies, B-movies, schlock, as well as. Notable for having a customizable library with other streaming services like Starz, HBO and VRV's offerings.  Originally created as an alternative to cable television, Hulu has defined itself for having a strong collections of Indie Films and Documentaries and the worst user interface of any streaming service.  The art house and international film label covetted by cinephiles has launched their own streaming services (after several failed collaborations). Classic films, obscure films, art-house films, all with excellent supplemental features such as commentaries, interviews, video essays, and behind-the-scene features. Officially launches on April 8th. Until then, they are offering a free Movie of the Week for those who sign up.  "Netflix for Horror Fans". Excellent collection of slightly lesser-known horror films. Guest curators and interesting original content, including shows and films.  YouTube, a free streaming site for user-created contect, has a paid streaming service with studio-created content.  Another streaming service for cinephiles with a constantly rotating film collection. Every day a new film is added, every day a new film leaves, in a 30 day pattern. Notable for their marketing department.  A free-ish movie rental site. Plenty of excellent films to watch for free, with commercial breaks added.  Free with ads and has an insane repertoire of horror movies, both good and garbage. Other Notable Streaming Services: CrunchyRoll, VRV, DC Universe, ESPN+, and premium cable like Starz, HBO, Showtime. Franchescanado fucked around with this message at 15:09 on Mar 4, 2019 |
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Before you ask where a movie is streaming, go to JustWatch.com and search it yourself. Letterboxd Pro users may also search to find where a movie is streaming. Streaming Service Originals, Exclusives & Recommendations Netflix Abstract Arq The Ballad of Buster Scruggs Big Mouth Bird Box Black Mirror Bojack Horseman Chilling Adventures of Sabrina Curious Creations of Christine McConnell Dark Tourist Dating Around End of the F***ing World F Is For Family Fyre Gerald's Game Glow Great British Baking Show Hip-Hop Evolution The Legacy of a Whitetail Deer Hunter The Little Prince Love Love, Death & Robots Maniac Master of None Michael Bolton's Big Sexy Valentine's Day Special Mudbound Mystery Science Theater 3000 Nailed It! Narcos The Night Comes For Us Okja Ozark Period. End of Sentence. Roma Russian Doll Springsteen on Broadway Ted Bundy Tapes Terrace House Triple Frontier Umbrella Academy Velvet Buzzsaw What Happened, Miss Simone? Wheelman Wild Wild Country Amazon Prime The Big Sick Bosch Comrade Detective Flags of our Fathers Fleabag Forever Goliath The Handmaiden Homecoming The Lost City of Z Manchester By The Sea Marvelous Mrs. Maizel Neon Demon Paterson Patriot The Tick Transparent Hulu 11.22.63 Castle Rock Deadbeat Difficult People Foreverman Fyre Fraud Handmaid's Tale Pen15 Quickdraw Runaways Shrill Criterion Channel TCC Library - a website where you can search & sort available films with links (created by fellow goon sciencehuh!) Letterboxd list of available films Shudder Horror Noire The Last Drive-In Primal Screen YouTube Red Cobra Kai Do You Want To See A Dead Body? Franchescanado fucked around with this message at 14:59 on Apr 10, 2019 |
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Mar 4, 2019 15:01
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Snowpiercer was trash, Train to Busan was a far more realistic take on the train genre.
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tweet my meat posted:Snowpiercer was trash, Train to Busan was a far more realistic take on the train genre. 3 posts in and thread is already trash, gas + ban. I'd also add TubiTV, which is free with ads and has an insane repertoire of horror movies, both good and garbage.
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Mar 4, 2019 15:06
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I'd add a small blurb for VRV to the op. It's more anime focused, but it has Shudder's entire catalogue, a few fun shows scavenged from seeso's corpse, classic Nickelodeon and Boomerang cartoons, some good slightly more indie animation, and a ton of other miscellaneous stuff.
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Mar 4, 2019 15:09
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married but discreet posted:3 posts in and thread is already trash, gas + ban. Done.
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Shudder is worth getting for the excellent Horror Noire documentary, which is all about black voices in horror. And you come away with a slew of recommendations.
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Mar 4, 2019 15:25
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Finally got around to watching Abducted In Plain Sight last night after hearing how  it was. Started off pretty standard amounts of interesting as true crime stuff goes, but I was hooked by the end. I'd say it adds layers of paranoia watching it as a relatively new parent. The moral of the story is pretty much don't trust any of your neighbors with your children as if we didn't already know that by now.
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InterrupterJones posted:Finally got around to watching Abducted In Plain Sight last night after hearing how I didn't really walk away from it with that feeling at all. This was more like a perfect storm of incredibly naive parents, a community who were to shy to warn them about this particular guy, and the fear of the LDS church gay shaming the father.
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Sock The Great posted:I didn't really walk away from it with that feeling at all. This was more like a perfect storm of incredibly naive parents, a community who were to shy to warn them about this particular guy, and the fear of the LDS church gay shaming the father. I walked away with that feeling mainly from the way they kept taking Jan on personal family trips. Maybe it's just the way things are now, but if I had a daughter and one of the dad neighbors in our neighborhood wanted to take her specifically that would set off a ton of red flags in my mind. I think the parents were naive, but that naivete only needed to last until he was able to manipulate them individually in different ways. The manipulation is what I think was most fascinating and scary.
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The current Criterion Channel Movie of the Week is To Sleep With Anger, with Danny Glover. It's a drama that concentrates on a quiet family which has their underlying issues dragged to the surface with the appearance of a devilish visitor. There's a strong emphasis on the spiritual and supernatural currents that flow throughout our lives. Walt Lloyd's cinematography gives the film a domestic "homey" feel, and Stephen James Taylor's score brings southern charm to the South Central LA setting (an interesting and disarming choice to emphasize Harry's presence in the film). While the movie is solidly a drama, Danny Glover's Harry is a ham with an evil toothy grin who lends a low-key sense of terror to his actions. While he's never as outright threatening as De Niro's Max Cadey in Scorsese's Cape Fear, there's a similar sense of glee in the games he plays and the harm he brings to those around him. The movie is surprisingly tense, from it's dreamy symbolic opening to it's Southern Gothic final act, despite a leisure pace and the grounded story of a family's dirty laundry. I'm tickled with the idea that Tyler Perry's entire filmography is a banal imitation of this film. There's three supplemental features with it. I've only watched the video essay (with interviews) about the supernatural/spiritual undercurrents throughout the film. Which was my absolute favorite part.
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I'm rewatching Frankenstein Chronicles again. Such a great show. As a Victorian era gothic horror period piece long form character focused crime drama with a dab of politics, it basically checks off all my boxes for Good Streaming Content with some solid body horror and a strong lead performance from Sean Bean. The second season also changes things up in a really big way so it never really gets stale.
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Mar 4, 2019 16:40
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PATRIOT PATRIOT PATRIOT
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Is there anything on the big three that's like Leverage?
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I'll stan for MUBI. Anyone who has it should check out Female Human Animal which just went up this week, so you've got a few to watch it before it cycles out. It's the film I wish Velvet Buzzsaw had bad. Novelist Chloe Aridjis plays a fictionalized version of herself, curating an art show of the works of Leonora Carrington, but soon finds herself being followed by a mysterious man. It's creepy and unnerving, dreamlike and surreal, hits on feminist themes around women and male violence in the art world, and best of all it's shot entirely on VHS. Absolutely worth signing up for a free MUBI trial to check it out. Only 75 minutes too!
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If you have a library card you should check if Kanopy is available for you. Free streaming, but I think you're limited to five things a month. I just signed up for it the other day, so I haven't looked over the selection that much but it looks like they have a fair amount of French New Wave and Janus stuff, including Cleo From 5 to 7, which I've been meaning to watch for forever. I signed up using my library card that expired a year ago, so I guess as long as you have a number and your library offers it you should be good.
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I finished Lorena yesterday and laughed pretty hard at the punchline that John Wayne Bobbitt's car and motorcyle's vanity plates are variations of "DJTRUMP." The dude's a straight up monster. The slow montage of him in a Punisher shirt and shooting at a gun range was pretty harrowing. I hope his Frankenstein monster dick falls off.
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We watched the new Studio 54 documentary on Netflix over the weekend. It's a good example of how not to do a documentary and I can't recommend it at all. It's really obvious the filmmakers really set out to make a love story to the club and consequently skim over almost all of the important or interesting things.
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Prime just got Midnight Cowboy, which has the best opening credits to watch when you're having a bad day.
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Is Sling TV left out of the OP for a reason, or is it just overlooked?
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Anybody watched Killer Mike's Trigger Warning? The first episode was good but then the show gets dumb. I see plenty praise for episode 3, but comparing a gang to Coco-Cola and making the Crips and gangs in general seem like a positive aspect to their respective communities is ridiculous. EDIT - Even more ridiculous was him stating that the media never depicts the Crips and black gangs in films as a guilty pleasure entertainment. punk rebel ecks fucked around with this message at 05:14 on Mar 5, 2019 |
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Losers on Netflix is a really well done and interesting documentary series that focuses on notable "losers" of non-major sports around the world, and how that failure has impacted their lives.
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I kinda just want people to stop naming things trigger warning
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amazon prime has all of the expanse, since jeff bezos doesn't understand that the antagonist is not the protagonist and saved the series from death.
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Dr. S.O. Feelgood posted:If you have a library card you should check if Kanopy is available for you. Free streaming, but I think you're limited to five things a month. I just signed up for it the other day, so I haven't looked over the selection that much but it looks like they have a fair amount of French New Wave and Janus stuff, including Cleo From 5 to 7, which I've been meaning to watch for forever. Same, but Hoopla Digital (which also has comics and music).
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Wakefield: Aw, I was really looking forward to seeing their reaction.
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Wasn't expecting a Flat Earther documentary to be meaningful commentary on the defining issue of our lives but there you go. Behind the Curve is good y'all.
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Detective No. 27 posted:I finished Lorena yesterday and laughed pretty hard at the punchline that John Wayne Bobbitt's car and motorcyle's vanity plates are variations of "DJTRUMP." The dude's a straight up monster. The slow montage of him in a Punisher shirt and shooting at a gun range was pretty harrowing. I hope his Frankenstein monster dick falls off. There's no reason at all for that documentary to be so long, particularly when Lorena kind of gets side-lined for it. They could have kept it to 2 parts and it wouldn't have suffered.
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Enos Cabell posted:Losers on Netflix is a really well done and interesting documentary series that focuses on notable "losers" of non-major sports around the world, and how that failure has impacted their lives. I watched the one with the golfer yesterday, pretty good, but it looked like the only episode that interested me.
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Hubbardologist posted:amazon prime has all of the expanse, since jeff bezos doesn't understand that he is the antagonist and definitely not the protagonist who saved the solar system from death. Fixed it for you. Also Netflix has Altered Carbon which is in prod for season and all signs point to confusion plot wise. There are strong hints at elements of Broken Angels, but also a multi century, multi system treasure hunt for Quelcrist's copy  Also Poe is somehow back, becoming some kind of wandering AI wordsmith looking for his humanity or something. I liked the character in the first one but I am really not sure about Kovac getting a scooby gang.
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Michael Corleone posted:I watched the one with the golfer yesterday, pretty good, but it looked like the only episode that interested me. I'm only halfway through, but I'd suggest giving the others a shot. I have little to no interest in figure skating or curling, but both of those episodes were great. So was the first one about the heavyweight boxer.
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Look, you're not going to get me less excited about a TV show by using the words "Scooby gang". My big fear for Altered Carbon season 2 is that it's going to lean into the self-indulgent stuff that the first season managed to not let get too obnoxious. The anime bullshit with the sister and the flashback stuff with the freedom fighters, specifically. I wouldn't be shocked if it did.
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feedmyleg posted:Look, you're not going to get me less excited about a TV show by using the words "Scooby gang". yeah, the anime sister showing up to that crappy White Zombie cover was the lamest thing in season 1 the biggest warning sign for season 2 is that the show was never intended by Netflix or the showrunner to be more than a one-season production
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feedmyleg posted:The anime bullshit. Guess what Netflix went and did...
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DrVenkman posted:There's no reason at all for that documentary to be so long, particularly when Lorena kind of gets side-lined for it. They could have kept it to 2 parts and it wouldn't have suffered. I didn't have a problem with the length. I watched one a day and didn't get fatigued by it. I thought it did a good job of capturing the zeitgeist of the years surrounding. Goddamn, the 90s were a trashy time.
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Finally watched Abducted in Plain Sight and uh wow. Even with the threat of blackmail, how on earth were the parents that loving stupid and gullible? It honestly makes me wonder if they were just selling her off to him or something. Just astounding. Every time you think "it can't possibly get worse", it gets orders of magnitude worse.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Finally watched Abducted in Plain Sight and uh wow. Even with the threat of blackmail, how on earth were the parents that loving stupid and gullible? It honestly makes me wonder if they were just selling her off to him or something. I didn't even get halfway through the film and this was my conclusion. No way they didn't know what the gently caress was happening to their daughter. They loving knew and they let it happen. Also, season 2 of The Patriot was somehow as good as season 1. That ending, Jesus. Like a punch in the gut.
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feedmyleg posted:My big fear for Altered Carbon season 2 is that it's going to lean into the self-indulgent stuff that the first season managed to not let get too obnoxious. The anime bullshit with the sister and the flashback stuff with the freedom fighters, specifically. I wouldn't be shocked if it did. If this ends up like total dogshit such as True Detective S2 and Goliath S2 I"m gonna be pissed.
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Altered Carbon season 1 was already completely idiotic. "Hmm, we live in a fancy sci-fi world where people can and do switch bodies easily and frequently. I, the richest man in the world, need to protect some of my valuables. Oh, I know! I'll get a safe that unlocks by checking my DNA. Yep, there's definitely no way this could go wrong. What? Just use a password that only I know? Nah, too old-fashioned." And of course, only the main character's brilliance is capable of noticing the problem.
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I mean, in real life there's apparently millions in cryptocurrency that cannot be used because the creator was the only one who knew the password and he's dead.
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