![]() ![]() Commentary tracks, trailers, other films to check out, deleted scenes, alternate endings, you name it, DVD extras are one of my all-time favorite features when it comes to watching a movie or a TV show on DVD.īut, you don’t really get all that extra stuff when you watch something on one of the streaming platforms. One thing I’ve always loved about DVDs (and hate about streaming) is that you usually get special features when you rent or buy a DVD. (Image credit: Embassy Pictures) Goodbye Special Features The fact of the matter is, I get a lot of my ideas for articles through movies that I’d watch on Netflix’s DVD service, and now I’m not entirely sure where I’m going to get my inspiration from, since I don’t spend much time watching stuff that’s streaming on Netflix. The same goes for my recent article where I watched Kurosawa’s The Hidden Fortress to compare it to Star Wars, which share similarities. For instance, I likely never would have written (or even bothered to watch) movies like Black Narcissus, which is about horny nuns, or the Martin Scorsese hidden gem, After Hours, if not for Netflix’s DVD plan.ĭid you happen to read the article about classic black and white films that we recently put out? Well, I wrote that, and it was only after going on a black and white binge from movies I watched on Netflix DVD. A vast majority of the articles that I pitch to CinemaBlend are for movies that I watched on Netflix’s DVD plan. I’m going to let you in on a little secret. (Image credit: General Film Distributors ) In Turn, There Are Probably Countless Articles I'll Never Write Sure, I’d probably never get a movie like Scarecrow in my mailbox no matter how long I waited (even though it starred both Gene Hackman AND Al Pacino), but now, with Netflix’s DVD plan ending in September, I’m almost positive that I’ll never get to see it, and that just blows. Also on that “unknown” list is Return to Seoul, which came out just this year. That’s on my “unknown” list, and I’ll likely never get to see it unless I go through Apple TV+, which I don’t want to do. During the pandemic, I watched almost every Best Picture winner (mostly through Netflix’s DVD plan), and do you know the one Best Picture winner that I haven’t seen yet? CODA, which came out in 2021. ![]() In fact, some of them are actually super recent. But, not all of the movies in my “unknown” queue are from the ‘70s and earlier. Now, a lot of those movies are mega old ( Soldier of Orange, a Rutger Hauer film directed by Paul Verhoeven, is the most recent film, at-gulp-1977). Let me just tell you some of the movies that I currently have in my queue that are listed under “Very long wait,”: Hearts in Atlantis, (which our very own Eric Eisenberg got to watch, but I didn’t), The Killing Fields, Jennifer’s Body, and Road House.ĭo you want to hear some of the movies that I have in my “unknown” wait queue? Scarecrow, Soldier of Orange, Gaslight, La Strada, The Deadly Trackers, and The Big Heat, just to name a few. ![]() (Image credit: Vendôme Pictures) There Are Still Several Movies In My Queue That I'll Probably Never Get To See ![]()
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