Good movies,,, well there are a few.......

[WinterDeere]

...we signed up for the prime 30 day freebie!!!

I've been a Prime member since the service first started about 20 years ago, before they had streaming. Their streaming service got pretty good for awhile, but anymore it just seems to be a paid service that allows you to see previews of other paid services. Damn near every show or movie I want to watch on Prime anymore requires me to sign up for Paramount, Peacock, or one of a dozen other services. Useless.

 

[Jstpssng]

I've been a Prime member since the service first started about 20 years ago, before they had streaming. Their streaming service got pretty good for awhile, but anymore it just seems to be a paid service that allows you to see previews of other paid services. Damn near every show or movie I want to watch on Prime anymore requires me to sign up for Paramount, Peacock, or one of a dozen other services. Useless.

I just canceled my free trial of Prime. (Again)
Aside from the free shipping- which I can generally get anyways- it seems like any advantage has gone away. The order I placed last Monday is estimated to get here next week; 14 days minimum.

 

[WinterDeere]

I keep it for the shipping, but we use it a LOT, and I often want my items same-day or next-day. But I consider the video service to be a throw-away, at this point. It's really terrible, I wouldn't recommend anyone get Prime if their goal is streaming video.

 

[gstrom99]

I keep it for the shipping, but we use it a LOT, and I often want my items same-day or next-day. But I consider the video service to be a throw-away, at this point. It's really terrible, I wouldn't recommend anyone get Prime if their goal is streaming video.

Same here. Rarely is a full movie I want to watch included free. I'll sign up for Prime, if it's free or saves me $ on shipping, then cancel before renewal hits. I almost always remember, but it really annoys me that we have to dig down deep in their site, find and click a little box to have them send an email reminder before the renewal $...

 

[Alan46]

I asked my bride to cancel my free 30 day subscription,
She knows how to maneuver around the Amazon site!!!

I asked the mailman if we had a lot of packages compared to other people, he said NOT EVEN CLOSE!!!

 

[JeepHead]

We pay for so many different streaming services that we probably rival the full cable TV rates. I rarely watch TV but she does and the 14 year old twins do constantly. I do enjoy my Amazon Music and Spotify accounts though as I always have good tunes going in the shop.

 

[tradosaurus]

How about Papillon? I still love that movie!!! Seen it maybe 4 times, we haven’t watched it for 20 plus years, I think it’s time for another viewing

Ugh. My wife couldn't stand that movie and I thought it depressing.
The movie has Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman and was based on the 1969 autobiography by the French convict Henri Charrière.
I didn't believe most of the movie happened the way Henri Charriere recounted.

 

[tradosaurus]

I just canceled my free trial of Prime. (Again)
Aside from the free shipping- which I can generally get anyways- it seems like any advantage has gone away. The order I placed last Monday is estimated to get here next week; 14 days minimum.

I got rid of Prime years ago after the many price increases. There was absolutely no advantages for me to pay $150 / yr for a service that rarely gets my packages to me any quicker or cheaper.

 

[drssg]

Ugh. My wife couldn't stand that movie and I thought it depressing.
The movie has Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman and was based on the 1969 autobiography by the French convict Henri Charrière.
I didn't believe most of the movie happened the way Henri Charriere recounted.

I watched "A Beautiful Mind" a long time ago, and it uses a similar approach. It is "based on" a biography of a real guy, but the entire story line is fictionalized. If movies reflected reality, they would probably be boring.

I thought the movie was entertaining, but I found it strange that the hype pretended that it was a true story.

 

[garry1p]

I recall an article about a movie being cast for Eleanor Roosevelt and they were going to use a black actress.

When questioned about how that would go over the director said most Americans won't know the difference.

Kind of like the rerun of Walking Tall.