To those of you not in the know Starz licenses some content to Netflix. As of the February 29th that contact expires. Unfortunately Starz was responsible for a decent amount of the good old movies (not all) my family watches so I've gotten the shaft. It's a bit disheartening to see comments like the below on the net but they should communicate my perception of Starz leaving Netflix and more so my perception of the world...
Ho, ho, ho shoot me now. The hole I crawl into to get away from these "special" people is going to get a little bit smaller come the 29th -_- .
Bottom line if you wanted to watch a specific old movie/program check now as many are going off. As a suggestion here is a simple character based show with excellent morals (Gene Roddenberry wrote some of them BTW). I like it very much but it expires on the 29th so watch a few while you can. So few shows just feel "right" like it does. It has a lot of great guest stars too. Young people it won't hurt you and you only have to repress the "ew it's not in color" reflex for 30 minutes.
Have Gun Will Travel
http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Have_Gun_Will_Travel/70140392?trkid=496624
Warning additional rant contained within spoiler.
Ho, ho, ho shoot me now. The hole I crawl into to get away from these "special" people is going to get a little bit smaller come the 29th -_- .
Bottom line if you wanted to watch a specific old movie/program check now as many are going off. As a suggestion here is a simple character based show with excellent morals (Gene Roddenberry wrote some of them BTW). I like it very much but it expires on the 29th so watch a few while you can. So few shows just feel "right" like it does. It has a lot of great guest stars too. Young people it won't hurt you and you only have to repress the "ew it's not in color" reflex for 30 minutes.
Have Gun Will Travel
http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Have_Gun_Will_Travel/70140392?trkid=496624
Warning additional rant contained within spoiler.
It's is not a matter of my opinion but overwhelming fact that modern media is a lot more vulgar and no better written than media past. I've watched scores upon scores of old programing to compare to new, I know trust me. While not perfect older media is so much more moral and cleaner overall. For example the Macfarline shows are plagiaristic of older things, blatantly indoctrinatingly liberal and always vulgar (not to mention his Fox shows are the same sit-com family formula regurgitated >.<) . Yet people like the above commentators will not even watch the old shows Macfarline's steal from, can you say shallow?
I know not everything old is good but they have been time tested. New things have had no such tests so you get whatever fad studios decide to spew out chucked full of modern immorality. This is why articles like the recently linked to one on Mass Effect are laughable. Come back in 20 years and then tell me it was groundbreaking (because it's not /will restrain self here as I did on the Mass Effect thread). Also I frequently find nonsensical plots in both old and new media so don't tell me writers are any better today. Dialogue is however vastly superior in older films. Actors and writers came from stage, vaudeville, and radio backgrounds back then which stressed what you said much more than what you did. Today's special effects and action sequences are better, I'll give modern media that, but that's all. So the choice comes down to do you want to have immoral sparkly shallowness or moral meaningful thought.
I know not everything old is good but they have been time tested. New things have had no such tests so you get whatever fad studios decide to spew out chucked full of modern immorality. This is why articles like the recently linked to one on Mass Effect are laughable. Come back in 20 years and then tell me it was groundbreaking (because it's not /will restrain self here as I did on the Mass Effect thread). Also I frequently find nonsensical plots in both old and new media so don't tell me writers are any better today. Dialogue is however vastly superior in older films. Actors and writers came from stage, vaudeville, and radio backgrounds back then which stressed what you said much more than what you did. Today's special effects and action sequences are better, I'll give modern media that, but that's all. So the choice comes down to do you want to have immoral sparkly shallowness or moral meaningful thought.
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, that's exactly what I meant by time tested. Unfortunately it also seems some good stuff gets buried as companies licensing content are passing over paying for lesser heard of films for another vampire soap opera or reality series that was just on TV. Most people should have just seen these shows is it really worth the money? Do people really re-watch something they just saw that much?
