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Bailing out on streamed movies has become a regular thing now

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Posted on April 7, 2025 at 15:56:58
violinist3
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 There are so many movies that I'm getting used to watching them till I figure that they are going nowhere, and I go look for something else. At this point I'm not that enthused about finding something really good.
Sorry about being a spoilsport.
I'm tending towards more documentaries.

 

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RE: Bailing out on streamed movies has become a regular thing now, posted on April 14, 2025 at 07:12:17
Rod H.
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 I almost always look a film up before starting to watch. Doing this avoids having to bail about 95% of the time for me. The down side is that some evenings it takes me 30 minutes to find something to watch when I don't already have a film lined up. This is particularly the case on Prime, which tends to have a really high percentage of garbage to dig through to find a gem.

 

Steady diet 2 weeks of new jfk videos on YouTube, e.g., Armstrong #1-4. Nt, posted on April 8, 2025 at 14:50:42
Geoffkait
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Similar , posted on April 7, 2025 at 18:13:03
grantv
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 We have Netflix, Prime, Disney+, and a few more. I tend to look up info then give it a shot.
Finding some miniseries are working out well. Adolescence for me was one of the best of late. It kept me interested from start to end, and each episode had its own topic, which made it very unique.
Majority that I enjoy are overseas; less violence, blood, etc.

 

RE: Similar , posted on April 8, 2025 at 23:13:40
MaggiesAndCats
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 Ditto on the overseas shows. We have BritBox and AcornTV through Prime and really enjoy the British, Australian, New Zealand, and Canadian shows. The "people who watched this also watched" recommendations are usually pretty good.

Regards,

Steve

 

RE: Similar , posted on April 9, 2025 at 14:40:36
troutbum
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 Brit stuff is usually good but often I don't understand what they are saying.

 

RE: Similar , posted on April 9, 2025 at 14:51:48
MaggiesAndCats
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 I use close captioning on everything these days. Even American films. The foreign accents can be hard to get and the music in films can mask the dialog for me.

It's funny when the CC gets it wrong, but it's almost always right. The colloquialisms are fun to learn - The wife and I are always saying "mind how you go" to each other. Or changing the "ed" at the end of words to "t", as in skint instead of skinned, which means out of money to the Brits. (thanks to Vera for that one)

Regards,

Steve

 

RE: Similar , posted on April 9, 2025 at 09:28:28
grantv
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 I've even watched some subtitled and voice over shows/movies. Norway, Holland for example.
And clicking on "similar shows" also helps out.
Maybe I'm getting old, or maybe more open to new things (or both).

 

RE: Similar , posted on April 7, 2025 at 23:22:39
violinist3
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 I check out reviews on Rotten tomatoes. It saves me lots of time.

 

Same, but still use my own taste, discretion. , posted on April 9, 2025 at 08:05:44
grantv
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 I often also do a parents guide, not into gore, horror...

 

Grateful here for being able to delete the "Continue to Watch" attempts..., posted on April 7, 2025 at 16:42:50
musetap
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 THAT was getting out of control.

"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination"-Michael McClure



 

Hear, hear. *, posted on April 12, 2025 at 12:45:05
Billy Wonka
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