[Streaming] and [TV] Thread: Limited 5 minute ad loops for $24.99/month

TexiKen

If you're wondering what's available where, Flixable is a good place to check for the US

Another place to see what's available is JustWatch, based by country/region

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVcVXTeHTLI

You say you're getting tired of trying to find a streaming service with movies and shows you actually want to watch but are filled with shows that just quite don't make it?

Yeah!

You say just once you'd like a streaming service to offer ad free as their base tier and be affordable, all at the same time?

Yeah!



Well I say, it don't matter. None of this matters.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3S_2axWPmV8


This is the new streaming thread where we're watching, waiting, commiserating about new shows and old shows we rewatch because there's nothing good on the service you're paying for.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsBipoG22Nw

Say it ain't so, I will not go (watch the rest of the Netflix Tomb Raider show), turn the lights off, carry me home (Arcane).

Quid

I'm watching ReBoot for the first time since I was a kid and it's aged a lot better than I would've expected. The writing is still very much a Saturday morning cartoon but there are a lot of jokes I missed. The visuals are good too since they don't go for realistic. The setting actually looks alive compared to something like when Beast Wars first aired and it was just some 3D animals on an empty plane.

Ninja Snarl P

Quid wrote: »

I'm watching ReBoot for the first time since I was a kid and it's aged a lot better than I would've expected. The writing is still very much a Saturday morning cartoon but there are a lot of jokes I missed. The visuals are good too since they don't go for realistic. The setting actually looks alive compared to something like when Beast Wars first aired and it was just some 3D animals on an empty plane.

Same company made both shows (a company called Mainframe, big surprise). They were a Canadian company and they had to struggle through mountains of censorship shit with the Canadian government, the struggle had been going on for years by the time Beast Wars rolled around. They also had some kind of struggle to survive in those later years and got bounced around. The show makes numerous jabs at the censorship they had to deal. Obviously, the censorship binome for the episode with Enzo's birthday was a very direct poke at the government, particularly since she kept rejecting almost everything. I think they were fairly distracted by the time they got into Beast Wars, though, not to mention that trying to animate workable living things in CG is orders of magnitude more difficult than animating a wholly technological world such as Mainframe.

But yeah, ReBoot holds up bizarrely well for the dialogue and is equally bizarre for how good it was as CG animated show in the frickin' 90s. They wisely leaned into the setting of it being a digital world, which covered huge amounts of things that would be considered graphical glitches or issues elsewhere. Hollow models, clipping issues, all of that stuff was covered pretty well by it all being in the operating system of a computer. Babylon 5 was really stretching decent use of CGI at the time and it was mostly a live-action show; ReBoot was completely CG and loooong before stuff like mocap was available. Hell, even industry-basic things like complex rigged models or inverse kinematics I don't think even existed yet so they were having to do some incredibly tedious animation, which is obvious in how clunky everything looks.

They went all-out on getting good voice talents, though, and I think that really made the show. Basically everybody had a good voice actor and they were always delivering things just right.

Quid

I saw one of the videos about the censorship. Just resubmitting a rejected script with zero changes and getting it approved the second time with no explanation.

amateurhour

I've heard rumors of a reboot remaster but yes it fucking rocks, hard. The closest thing that's hit me with those feels is Trek: Prodigy

Ninja Snarl P

The show did some pretty wild stuff for a kids show, though. A Mad Max episode, an Evil Dead episode, the whole thing with the web creature hunting people in the city depths, the whole city getting petrified, nulls being former residents of the city zapped by lost games, they really went out of their way to be more than just a kids show.

Quid

Also to be clear, as they kept gaining assets, Beast Wars became absolutely gorgeous.

MichaelLC

Continuing the drama discussion, my daughter had started watching The Rookie. Odd choice but happy for her to get some Fillion somewhere.

WiseManTobes

Just don't watch the reboot of Reboot, well unless you feel like being sad

daveNYC

Going into the back half of the last season of SatC, and the writers are pretty clearly scrambling to wrap up the characters and try and come up with something for the not-Carries to do. Shades of Friends and the Joey Rachel storyline.

Biggest issue, other than the incredible narcissism that continues to show up, is that there's no concrete sense of time passing. One arc: Charlotte finalizes her divorce, starts dating her divorce lawyer, discovers that he will only marry a fellow Jew, converts, goes on a rage-bender where she screams how lucky he is to be with someone as hot as her, breaks up, gets back together, and then they marry. And I honestly have zero idea how long this took. Three months? Six? Carrie is still in the wind, but they're wrapping up Miranda and Samantha, and it feels very end stage GoT in how it's all plot and character points happening, but no real sense of how we got there.

On the subject of Charlotte, holy shit her outburst was basically a full on red flag dealbreaker. "Do you know what people think when they see us (that being a tall, slender, attractive Kristen Davis and a less tall, rather chonky, very bald Evan Handler) walking together? Do you know what they think?"

Like Goldenblatt, my man, putting a ring on her finger isn't going to undo the fact that that's a chunk of how she views your relationship. Ain't no shiksa worth that.

Another weird note, they had Heather Graham as a guest star. She shows up with another character, says two words and goes to get pretzels. I guess she was in town and was friends with the producers or something? They had Lucy Liu in an earlier episode and actually used her in the story. Heather is just... there...

And there's the classic episode where Carrie needs 30k for a down payment on her apartment because her building is going coop. She mentions this at brunch and Samantha and Miranda offer to loan her the cash, Charlotte doesn't. Carrie then shows up at Charlotte's door late night and yells at her for not offering her money. Charlotte then feels bad enough about this that she gives Carrie her engagement ring to sell to get the money (which I feel is incredibly unrealistic given the normal bid-ask spread on used diamonds) and this is played as a good thing for all involved. Carrie gets her apartment, never mind they have already in this episode calculated that she's dropped over 40k on shoes and I guess will be free to continue to live paycheck to paycheck in the future, and Charlotte something something gets closure on her previous marriage.

Gilgaron

Quid wrote: »

Also to be clear, as they kept gaining assets, Beast Wars became absolutely gorgeous.

My siblings and I started watching Beast Wars during weekday breakfast as we usually watched the local news before school, but channel switching one morning stumbled across a talking Velociraptor on a space ship and it was a very "... what the hell is that?" to be shortly followed by "Oh its Transformers! That's awesome!" We enjoyed that it tied in with the OG timeline and wasn't just a reboot too. We reminisced about watching it when the trailer for the latest Michael Bay one with Optimus Primal came out but I don't think any of us have actually bothered to watch it.

daveNYC

Beast Wars was a hell of a lot better than it had any right to be.

Chiselphane

The Reboot scene that has always stuck with me the most is the end of Painted Windows when Bob pulls Hexadecimal's mask off, and it turns out that was a very bad thing to do. She completely loses it, even for her. A heart wrenching scream and begging Bob to save her, and after he does she's curled up in a fetal position, arms guarding her face, twitching. It was like a gut punch as I was dealing with severe mental issues at the time, and not dealing with them well. So it felt like the show saw me. That scream she does is *harrowing*

Etiowsa

Reboot did some crazy shit. I still remember when they trapped Megabyte behind a firewall, big deal, we're save forever, and then like the next episode Enzo loses an eye and a game and suddenly there's a time skip and he's a gun toting muscle man.

shryke

Etiowsa wrote: »

Reboot did some crazy shit. I still remember when they trapped Megabyte behind a firewall, big deal, we're save forever, and then like the next episode Enzo loses an eye and a game and suddenly there's a time skip and he's a gun toting muscle man.

That was seriously some crazy shit at the time for the type of show it was.

DiannaoChong

WiseManTobes wrote: »

Just don't watch the reboot of Reboot, well unless you feel like being sad

I just finished watching Star Trek Prodigy and it is completely Reboot coded with the designs and animation. It's kinda wild. Also reminds me of the sims for similar reasons.

MegaMan001

Etiowsa wrote: »

Reboot did some crazy shit. I still remember when they trapped Megabyte behind a firewall, big deal, we're save forever, and then like the next episode Enzo loses an eye and a game and suddenly there's a time skip and he's a gun toting muscle man.

I bought the Shout Factory box set and everything in Reboot holds up.

Bedigunz

Etiowsa wrote: »

Reboot did some crazy shit. I still remember when they trapped Megabyte behind a firewall, big deal, we're save forever, and then like the next episode Enzo loses an eye and a game and suddenly there's a time skip and he's a gun toting muscle man.

Dot's scream was absolutely heartbreaking

Quid

daveNYC wrote: »

Beast Wars was a hell of a lot better than it had any right to be.

Just going full biblical prophecy with a neon gorilla jet tank hybrid at the end was wild.

nexuscrawler

Dinobot’s death was genuinely heartbreaking.

Disco11

Quid wrote: »

daveNYC wrote: »

Beast Wars was a hell of a lot better than it had any right to be.

Just going full biblical prophecy with a neon gorilla jet tank hybrid at the end was wild.

That religion sounds rad

Stabbity Style

Finished watching season 2 of Jujutsu Kaisen a couple days ago. Absolutely incredible season. The Shibuya Incident is like, an all-time arc of any show, up there with like, Chimera Ants and whatnot.

Also started watching through Twin Peaks. Started it ages ago but fell off for whatever reason. Up to the last episode of season 1 right now. Still really good. Weird to see Tri-Cities, Washington get a shout out.

Bogart

Season 1 of Twin Peaks is a miracle. There's no way it should work, trying to marry goofy humour, soap-opera plots and Lynchian horror. Coop on the page is surely a ridiculous caricature! But it works, somehow, and Kyle MacLachlan's performance is one of my favourite things in the world.

Stabbity Style

Season 2 is such a different vibe right off the bat. Also, like, WAY fucking creepier.

S2E2 spoiler:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3tIgaJ1j7w

Extremely upsetting to see on my basement TV at 4am.

Bogart

Yeah that bit traumatised millions forever and its just a guy seeing the camera and clambering towards it.

How is it so disturbing? Is it that it feels like he's going to climb through the TV? Is it the horrible conjunction of a comfortable, safe family home and this horrible denim clad monster just there? That heavy breathing? The music?

Stabbity Style

There was a bit earlier in the episode, too, where they were showing the sketch drawings to Ronette and the way they first held the sketches back out of focus and then pushed the sketches towards the screen and into focus was super fucking scary, too. Idk if I miss-saw it or something, but like, the way it came into focus gave the first face this weird sort of 3D effect to me where the drawing looked like it had depth and was fucked up.

Legit might be getting too spooky for me, lol.

RazielMortem

So I've started watching Poker Face. Hell of an elevator pitch 'What If Columbo and The Incredible Hulk. End of pitch'. The choice to use the Columbo font and title card - perfection. Smart not only getting a New Yorker (so similar to Falk's speech pattern and pitch) but someone with a characteristically deeper voice. Let's see where this goes...

DemonStacey

Stabbity Style wrote: »

Finished watching season 2 of Jujutsu Kaisen a couple days ago. Absolutely incredible season. The Shibuya Incident is like, an all-time arc of any show, up there with like, Chimera Ants and whatnot.

Also started watching through Twin Peaks. Started it ages ago but fell off for whatever reason. Up to the last episode of season 1 right now. Still really good. Weird to see Tri-Cities, Washington get a shout out.

JJK is the most into an anime I have been in YEARS.

That second season is just fuckind full throttle almost the whole time. Just incredible. One of those shows that me and the partner just blew through.

Stabbity Style

DemonStacey wrote: »

Stabbity Style wrote: »

Finished watching season 2 of Jujutsu Kaisen a couple days ago. Absolutely incredible season. The Shibuya Incident is like, an all-time arc of any show, up there with like, Chimera Ants and whatnot.

Also started watching through Twin Peaks. Started it ages ago but fell off for whatever reason. Up to the last episode of season 1 right now. Still really good. Weird to see Tri-Cities, Washington get a shout out.

JJK is the most into an anime I have been in YEARS.

That second season is just fuckind full throttle almost the whole time. Just incredible. One of those shows that me and the partner just blew through.

Yea, it's wild that it's a season with two arcs that are both absolute bangers. The wildest thing about the Shibuya incident is like, just how it keeps going. It's one huge thing after another. Really, the only downside is I guess MAPPA was like, super abusive to its staff, like even by anime industry standards. Puts a bit of a taint on what is otherwise like, an all-timer bit of anime.

Taramoor

My 7 and 10 year old have been asking if they can watch some anime show about horses that reincarnate into schoolgirls or something? Does anyone know if Uma Musume is going to be fan servicey or inappropriate? So far the best clip I can find online is this one:

https://youtu.be/KpnIqpEZC9M?si=x4za4RwHcyqCHU3g

Stabbity Style

Taramoor wrote: »

My 7 and 10 year old have been asking if they can watch some anime show about horses that reincarnate into schoolgirls or something? Does anyone know if Uma Musume is going to be fan servicey or inappropriate? So far the best clip I can find online is this one:

https://youtu.be/KpnIqpEZC9M?si=x4za4RwHcyqCHU3g

I guess I don't know if the anime took any liberties with it, but the producers of the game take a pretty firm stance against fan service and sexualizing their characters. I think you're probably fine.

Edit: Yeah, anime seems fine.

Bogart

Oh dang there’s another series of Wolf Hall starting in a week or so. I assume it’ll be the last one but half a dozen episodes of Mark Rylance and Damian Lewis tussling will be a treat.

TexiKen

Nonstop Nut November '24 starts with these additions to the loser services, look at those losers, just being losers.

Netflix adds:

-Harold and the Purple Crayon
-Goosebumps
-Free State of Jones
-Sea of Love
-The Whale
-Whiplash
-Oblivion
-Peabody & Sherman (!!!)
-Pearl
-Whitney
-Pompeii


Amazon adds:

-Outlaw Johnny Black
-Hundreds of Beavers
-Hondo (!!!!)
-Mr. Mom
-The Mist
-Terminator 1
-Die Hard
-The Godfather 1 & 2
-Dune '20
-Airplane 1 & 2
-Catch Me If You Can
-Kingsman 3 The Kings Man
-Leprechaun 1-4
-Death Wish 2-4
-Pan's Labyrinth
-Children of Men
-Run Lola Run
-Scrooged
-Johnny Mnemonic



HBO adds:

-Christmas Vacation (!!!)
-The Hangover
-Elf
-Goodfellas
-Jurassic Park 1-3
-The Vampire's Assistant
-Unforgiven
-A Christmas Story
-X
-Maxxxine
-The Polar Express
-Krampus

Taramoor

There’s some good stuff on each of those lists but holy crap Amazon killin’ it this month.

emnmnme

HBO ate up all the Christmas movies.

(Except Die Hard.)

Stabbity Style

That Roadhouse remake was better than I thought it would be. Like, it's a big dumb action movie, but so was the first. I like that they decided to go a different direction with it and not just make it a beat for beat remake. Still the same overall premise and even some lines from the original (and a lil reference with a store next to the book store being called the Double Deuce), but otherwise entirely its own thing. Connor McGregor was better than I thought he'd be in it, too. Like, he's not a good actor, but he does a good job of being a big intimidating force of nature whirlwind of muscle and carnage.

Also watched some more Twin Peaks. Still great. Took a couple days to work up the courage to watch it again after that one scene, lol. Also holy shit this did not age well at all:

amateurhour

run lola run is a name I haven't heard for a long time

nexuscrawler

Who's up for a leprechaun rewatch party

Rhesus Positive

Stabbity Style wrote: »

That Roadhouse remake was better than I thought it would be. Like, it's a big dumb action movie, but so was the first. I like that they decided to go a different direction with it and not just make it a beat for beat remake. Still the same overall premise and even some lines from the original (and a lil reference with a store next to the book store being called the Double Deuce), but otherwise entirely its own thing. Connor McGregor was better than I thought he'd be in it, too. Like, he's not a good actor, but he does a good job of being a big intimidating force of nature whirlwind of muscle and carnage.

Also watched some more Twin Peaks. Still great. Took a couple days to work up the courage to watch it again after that one scene, lol. Also holy shit this did not age well at all:

It's like every vampire from What We Do in the Shadows smooshed into one body

DoctorArch

Stabbity Style wrote: »

Taramoor wrote: »

My 7 and 10 year old have been asking if they can watch some anime show about horses that reincarnate into schoolgirls or something? Does anyone know if Uma Musume is going to be fan servicey or inappropriate? So far the best clip I can find online is this one:

https://youtu.be/KpnIqpEZC9M?si=x4za4RwHcyqCHU3g

I guess I don't know if the anime took any liberties with it, but the producers of the game take a pretty firm stance against fan service and sexualizing their characters. I think you're probably fine.

Edit: Yeah, anime seems fine.

This is great to learn about. My 9 year old is getting increasingly interested in anime and I've been at a loss of what to watch with her.

HappylilElf

The remake of Roadhouse wasn't bad until McGregor showed up

I mean it wasn't great but a remake of Roadhouse doesn't really need to be

Then Conor McGregor shows up and he's so, so fucking bad in it. His line delivery is terrible but I kinda half expected that. What got me is that you wouldn't think a UFC guy would have trouble looking intimidating. But the first time he tried to do a cartoonish tough guy walk I started laughing and I don't think I stopped until the end of the movie.