'The Bodyguard' Pulled From Netflix to Prop Up DVD Sales? Update: Netflix Denies Tipped by Linklist 
After Whitney Houston died, the studio pulled the movie "The Bodyguard" from Netflix streaming in order to juice DVD sales, claims writer/producer/talk show host Dan McDermott. The movie is still available on Amazon, who may have more significant clout with Warner Brothers than Netflix due to their massive retail presence. McDermott got an interesting quote from a Netflix support rep when he called in to get an answer. "Okay Dan, I just went and talked to my main supervisor as to why the movie had been pulled and the reason it was pulled was the production company pulled the streaming rights from us because all the publicity after Whitney Houston's passing there was an opportunity to make really a very large amount of money on the DVD sales of her movies. So they're going to pull all the streaming titles we have of Whitney Houston so they can make more money off the DVD sales of her movies." There has been no official statement from Netflix, Kasdan Pictures or Warner Brothers on the move -- or which company made the call, but given Warner Brothers' previous attempts to strangle Netflix out of existence with new release delays and other licensing restrictions, it isn't out of character. Regardless of why it was pulled, the movie industry still doesn't quite understand that making your content more difficult to consume doesn't make sense when you're constantly complaining about piracy. Update: Netflix has issued a statement saying that McDermott's report is "simply not true" and that the streaming license expiration has "nothing to do with Ms. Houston’s unfortunate and untimely death." McDermott has issued a new post saying he was completely wrong, as was the support rep he quoted.
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//sigh RIP | |
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| | All to make a quick buc!! All to make a dollar...Kinda like how they raised some of her albums 5min after she died to make more money..
Disgusting! | |
| | | Never saw it for streaming I have been a Netflix streaming member for a long time now and everytime I checked "The Bodyguard" was never available for streaming, it always said it wasnt available to watch instantly. Way before Whitney's death I had checked on this, so its surprising to see a rep say "it was pulled" when it was never available to begin with for streaming. | |
| | | | | | I know it was on there last week when I was running through shows.. | |
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| Re: Never saw it for streaming said by gballer :I know it was on there last week when I was running through shows.. Yo. Overpaid Reynolds and Reynolds dude. Shouldn't you be pushing someones DMS data around?
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| | | Just about every movie I search for says it's only available on DVD, not streaming. Add that to the recent price increase from $7.99 to $8.55 and it's starting to get annoying. | |
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| Tomfoolery? Proudly call it Capitalism. When the demand for a product increases, its price rises. It should. This reminds me of the stories on the local newscasts that inevitably show up after any snowstorm - telling us about "gouging" and those that "take advantage" of the situation. Let those that rightfully own the copyright charge the amount that they are comfortable charging - if you don't want it - don't buy it. If they limit access to Whitney Houston merchandise, they will only suffer the consequences if demand exceeds supply. Artificial shortages only create a momentary price surge - in order to satisfy demand the supplier HAS to increase availability, or suffer less profits. | |
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kudos:1 | Re: Tomfoolery? Proudly call it Capitalism. Hmmm, same price here. $0 on the torrent sites  | |
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kudos:3 | Re: Tomfoolery? Proudly call it Capitalism. Still not a crap given. I wasn't breaking down doors to go see her movies before, and I have no reason to start doing so now. | |
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| It's has nothing do with with Supply and demand, it's all about greed. How much money can they make off Whitney's death before the clamor dies down.
The movie wasn't good enough for DVD sales last week, but now that she's dead all of a sudden it is.
Wait for the obligatory re-release and multiple repacking of greatest hits in order to bolster the bottom line.
This will be the ultimate downfall of capitalism, GREED. There are no limits, nothing that can't be exploited for a bucks.
It reminds me of a Flintstones episode where Barney goes to work for a Pawn Shop and his first job is to repo Fred's TV.
Fred gets into this speech about the only friend you got, is a buck, and the more bucks you got, the more friends you got.
This is the state of the world today.
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kudos:2 | Re: Tomfoolery? Proudly call it Capitalism. said by elwoodblues:It's has nothing do with with Supply and demand You don't believe there will be a demand? The insanity that I've seen and heard over the last week contradicts that belief. And yes, it is about pulling in a much revenue as possible. What business doesn't want to grow revenue? Blame it on the suckers that immerse themselves in this hoopla. | |
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| Re: Tomfoolery? Proudly call it Capitalism. said by openbox9:said by elwoodblues:It's has nothing do with with Supply and demand You don't believe there will be a demand? The insanity that I've seen and heard over the last week contradicts that belief. And yes, it is about pulling in a much revenue as possible. What business doesn't want to grow revenue? Blame it on the suckers that immerse themselves in this hoopla. No, look say I was a Whitney Fan, I would already have all her records, and other paraphernalia. So why would I run out to buy her "super duper greatest 20th century collection", with 10 songs on it for 20 bucks?
Now if you are borderline fan, why would her death push you over the edge and make you enough of fan go out and get gouged by the media companies?
And if you are like me, saw the Bodyguard, thought she looked pretty damn good, and wanted to watch it again on Netflix..oh wait I can't, Netflix (despite paying money for the right to stream it) has been sacrificed on the alter of greed in order for another media company to sell more content to the mentally challenged.
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| Re: Tomfoolery? Proudly call it Capitalism. said by elwoodblues:said by openbox9:said by elwoodblues:It's has nothing do with with Supply and demand You don't believe there will be a demand? The insanity that I've seen and heard over the last week contradicts that belief. And yes, it is about pulling in a much revenue as possible. What business doesn't want to grow revenue? Blame it on the suckers that immerse themselves in this hoopla. No, look say I was a Whitney Fan, I would already have all her records, and other paraphernalia. So why would I run out to buy her "super duper greatest 20th century collection", with 10 songs on it for 20 bucks? Now if you are borderline fan, why would her death push you over the edge and make you enough of fan go out and get gouged by the media companies? And if you are like me, saw the Bodyguard, thought she looked pretty damn good, and wanted to watch it again on Netflix..oh wait I can't, Netflix (despite paying money for the right to stream it) has been sacrificed on the alter of greed in order for another media company to sell more content to the mentally challenged. You ask that question and yet there are hundreds of thousands of people going out to buy her albums and watch her films. You ask why? I would guess that people are morbid. Either that or to catch what they are missing. Who knows.
Point is that what they are doing is 100% legal and in their right to do. If you don't want to spend that much, then don't buy it. The masses won't turn to free alternatives because the masses don't know much about torrenting anyway. They want simple solutions such as to throw the disk in the CD player and hit play.
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kudos:2 | People will purchase her stuff. It's been shown to be the case several times with other celebs. The rights holders would be foolish not to capitalize on this event. | |
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kudos:3 | said by elwoodblues:said by openbox9:said by elwoodblues:It's has nothing do with with Supply and demand You don't believe there will be a demand? The insanity that I've seen and heard over the last week contradicts that belief. And yes, it is about pulling in a much revenue as possible. What business doesn't want to grow revenue? Blame it on the suckers that immerse themselves in this hoopla. No, look say I was a Whitney Fan, I would already have all her records, and other paraphernalia. So why would I run out to buy her "super duper greatest 20th century collection", with 10 songs on it for 20 bucks? Whitney's "The Greatest Hits" has 36 songs and sells for $14.99 on Amazon. Her singles are still selling for $1.29 each. In this case it appears AMAZON has not raised prices.
Second, you're trying to apply your method of logic to what is anything BUT logical in real life. You can apply the "if they were fans they'd already have all her stuff" and you'd SOUND right... to yourself. But, it's not the case, nor ever is it the case.
Whitney CLEARLY had many fans.. despite any of her shot comings, she was an incredible performer and she also had a pretty long history of charitable work and support. Most people are not shallow and focus on a few bad years of her life. However, taking even that aside, the fact remains that when someone dies, those that ever felt a connection or a sense of nostalgia with the person, history has proven one thing - even the remote fans will go out and grab something and take a walk down memory lane. That may come in the form of her movie, or some of her music... in this case it's been a little of both.
On Amaon, The Body Guard is available on DVD, new, for $5.97 and the DVD pre-release price, slated for March, is just $13.49, and $19.98 once released. At Target, in my area, the availability is the exact same today as it was the day the news broke. (I checked as soon as the news was released as I had a hunch this would be the next topic up for discussion...)
The point is that there is no way to try to rationalize the way people react when a loved one passes, OR a celebrity passes.. but one thing for sure is that there is ALWAYS a surge, of some sort, once someone passes.. be it from fair-weather fans, die hard fans, or those that just feel they need to check out again why it was they liked or loved said person. You simply can't rationalize it with a simple common sense approach. | |
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kudos:3 | said by openbox9: You don't believe there will be a demand?
You mean "slow news day media demand"?
Yeah, I can't recall anyone genuinely giving a damn in any of my circles. If anything, most are laughing over how much the news media is hyping the crap outta this.
Just another case of X being popular because everyone on the media circuits is telling us that it is. | |
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| Re: Tomfoolery? Proudly call it Capitalism. said by Thaler:most are laughing over how much the news media is hyping the crap outta this. WhitHou is currently more popular than the Princess Die + Natalie Halloway cameo in Weekend at Bernie's IV.
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kudos:2 | Demand is demand. Buzz is buzz. Death sells. Make it a strung out celeb and you've got a recipe for $ucce$$. | |
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kudos:3 | Re: Tomfoolery? Proudly call it Capitalism. Media demand is bullcrap and artificial. Getting talking heads to remind us daily about how (not) important an event is doesn't actually change the significance of things.
Long story short, the attachment people (that I've seen, YMMV) had for Whitney Houston is about on par with that of Macaulay Culkin. Probably even more so with Macaulay for me, because at least then I can claim to have seen and/or remembered his movies. | |
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kudos:2 | Re: Tomfoolery? Proudly call it Capitalism. said by Thaler:Media demand is bullcrap and artificial. Never underestimate a good marketing strategy. | |
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kudos:3 | Re: Tomfoolery? Proudly call it Capitalism. said by openbox9:said by Thaler:Media demand is bullcrap and artificial. Never underestimate a good marketing strategy. I'm not saying marketing is ineffective. All I am saying is that there's a difference between something that's important to me, and things that other people tell me that *should* be important. I tend to lump the later into the "bullcrap" category. | |
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kudos:2 | Re: Tomfoolery? Proudly call it Capitalism. And in our society these days, I believe you and I are in the minority in this regard. | |
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kudos:3 | Re: Tomfoolery? Proudly call it Capitalism. said by openbox9:And in our society these days, I believe you and I are in the minority in this regard.
Oddly enough, my opinion seems to be in a higher frequency than usual. I've polled my friends and family for a general census, and I couldn't find a single one that gave a damn regarding the Whitney coverage. To compare to other frequencies, I actually got some discrepancies when Jackson and/or other celebrities died.
I guess what I'm saying is that this particular media hype up is coming across as a little too obvious. Previously, my polling group (ie. friends & family) showed a variety of answers. For Whitney, it's been a unanimous "it's always unfortunate when someone dies, but I don't give a crap about her personally." | |
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| | | | said by elwoodblues:It's has nothing do with with Supply and demand, it's all about greed. How much money can they make off Whitney's death before the clamor dies down.
The movie wasn't good enough for DVD sales last week, but now that she's dead all of a sudden it is.
Wait for the obligatory re-release and multiple repacking of greatest hits in order to bolster the bottom line.
This will be the ultimate downfall of capitalism, GREED. There are no limits, nothing that can't be exploited for a bucks.
It reminds me of a Flintstones episode where Barney goes to work for a Pawn Shop and his first job is to repo Fred's TV.
Fred gets into this speech about the only friend you got, is a buck, and the more bucks you got, the more friends you got.
This is the state of the world today.
/soapbox
I hate to break it to you, but apart from Whitney Houston singing in the choir at Church, her whole life and most of her singing and acting was pretty much for profit. | |
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Camden, TN | said by KCrimson:When the demand for a product increases, its price rises. It should. In the case of something tangible that's how it works because there is only so much of it. Where tlaking about a streaming movie or a music download which there is bascially an unlimited supply.
This reminds me of the stories on the local newscasts that inevitably show up after any snowstorm - telling us about "gouging" and those that "take advantage" of the situation.
Let those that rightfully own the copyright charge the amount that they are comfortable charging - if you don't want it - don't buy it. If they limit access to Whitney Houston merchandise, they will only suffer the consequences if demand exceeds supply. Artificial shortages only create a momentary price surge - in order to satisfy demand the supplier HAS to increase availability, or suffer less profits.
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| | | The fact of the matter is she wanted to view it today. If it was available at the redbox she checked she would have gotten it there. She didn't want to drive around all freakin day looking for it, if it was there on netflix they would have gotten a cut as netflix would have seen we viewed it. However, she knows there's other ways of getting what she wanted so it was done...and they lost out on whatever small amount of $ they could have gotten | |
| | | | I guess all on those contracted rights to stream something aren't worth the virtual paper they're printed on. (This kind of behavior just makes the studio(s) look desperate and pitiful [not to mention low-class (oopsy--mentioned it  )].)
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They'd already have a copy of the movie.
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Did I accidentally step into a time portal to 2001 when DVD was still relevant?
It's time to move on, kids. It's all about Blu-ray now. | |
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00000 | Re: DVD sales? said by 45612019:It's time to move on, kids. It's all about Blu-ray now.
Blu-ray? I think you're the one looking old, pops. | |
| | | | | Re: DVD sales? Really? There is no better video and audio available right now than blu-ray. | |
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00000 | Re: DVD sales? I'm not saying it isn't. I'm saying that people aren't adopting blu-ray because dvd is still good enough for them. For most consumers, the improvement over up-converting dvd players isn't worth it. Add the convenience of streaming or downloading high def content over the internet, and blu-ray already has one foot in the grave. | |
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kudos:22 | Where does the MAFIAA gets its education ?
Cutting off Netflix will not cause Netflix subscribers to go out and buy the DVD. People who end up buying the DVD would have done so whether the movie was on Netflix or not.
This is especially true since this surge in sales is just a flash in the pan.
But cutting off Netflix garantees reduction of revenues from Netflix, so the movie studio ends up reducing total revenue. They are shooting themselves in the foot.
Not sure what hollywood school has trained the MPAA accountants who make those decisions, but MPAA would do well to get accountants from the real world.
Piracy exists to serve people movies that MPAA doesn't want on Netflix.
Netflix is a tool to reduce piracy.
DVDs are for people who want a permanent media to put i their collection.
Cutting off netflix will NOT cause people to buy DVDs, they will just pirate the movie. | |
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| And the story is??? Where's the beef?
What a non story... people making a profit... what were they supposed to do.. lower the price?
Its amazing how many nerds are socialists at heart.
Its supply and demand or its government controlled. If you like government control I know plenty of places to move that have it.
Besides how many of you will steal it no matter the price? You know.. high morals and all of the Internet crowd.
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| | | | Re: And the story is??? Screw You !! I may not be into Whitney Houston's Art but she was an Artist and taking advantage of someone's death is plain wrong.
Has nothing to do with your lame comment on socialism and your claims that we would all steal it.
I could care less if I ever sit thru that film.Never saw it nor do I intend to. | |
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| | If Hollyweird Wants To Shoot Itself In The Foot... ...I certainly don't care. As for Whitney Houston: Great voice. Some terrific music. Can't say as I ever saw any of her movies. But ever were I inclined to watch one: I'd just wait until it came back or I'd go rent it on disc. I cannot imagine many people are actually going to go out and buy a DVD or BD just because she died. Well, idiots w/no real life, maybe, but they'd have bought it, anyway.
Besides: Some of the others are right: This is how capitalism works. (Or, if I'm right, doesn't work, in this case.) Not everything Hollyweird does is necessarily Evil. | |
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Royal Oak, MI | So what? Now really, who cares about this movie? Will WB be getting your money? Right, I didn't think so. This was a mediocre movie that only hardcore Houston fans care about now. I wonder how many times it was streamed on Netflix when it was available?
She was a great singer, but she was also another strung-out dopehead. The only affect her death has on me is that I can use it as yet another example to show my kids what the dangers of drugs are. So let WB make some extra money off of the stupid people out there. I bet it will be back on Netflix streaming within a month. You can watch it then. | |
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kudos:5 | said by mogamer: This was a mediocre movie that only hardcore Houston fans care about now.
On IMDB 43,000 users rated it an average of 5.7 out of 10. So it was a middle of the pack movie.
»www.imdb.com/title/tt0103855/
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| | | | said by mogamer:This was a mediocre movie that only hardcore Houston fans care about now.
Which [if true] only places it far and above most of the crap being released now--and in the past decade or more. It's actually worth watching at least once.
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marketing jacks up prices on itunes for all Whitney's hits. Somebody notices and calls Sony on it. Sony apologizes and blames over-zealous marketing schmo.
Warner see opportunity, afterall, RIAA and MPAA have to keep the status quo with being greedy douchebags. First target is always the one making money off your mistakes...THE CUSTOMER!
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Chesterfield, MO | When An Artist Dies... The value of what they created, goes up. This shouldn't be news to anyone.
I don't have NetFlix so maybe this is a silly question. Do they have pay-per-view? If so, what should have happened is the studio should have increased NetFlix's costs and left it up to them whether they want to bleed money for every view of the movie or move it to their pay-per-view service.
While I'm sure we don't like what the movie studio is doing, given the same circumstances, we would all probably do the same thing. | |
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| | Why can't it be that Netflix pulled it? Why must it be assumed that the studio had it pulled?
Yes, that is likely.
But what is also likely is that it was using a huge amount of Netflix's bandwidth, so they pulled it to control their bandwidth flow. | |
| | | | Re: Why can't it be that Netflix pulled it? Those people are just going to watch something else. | |
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kudos:3 | Greed is the cause of this. Sony raises the prices on her music 30 minutes after she died.
»www.techdirt.com/articles/201202···ke.shtml
Someone else is now doing this out of utter greed.
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| Stupid I don't know why suddenly people are up in arms about this. This sort of thing has been going on forever and in all mediums. When a famous painter dies, same thing. It's the nature of mankind. We're a bunch of ghouls.
Whitney had a lot of problems and this pretty much sums it up.
»www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/ar···ord.html | |
| | | Why *Could* They Pull It? I'm surprised. Why would Netflix have allowed this to be in their contract with Warner Brothers?
I assume that it has to be there otherwise Netflix would tell WB to go pound sand.
The only good excuse I can think of is the WB pays them some chunk of money to pull it.  | |
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| Product is now in demand, value goes up ...and so what is wrong with that? You always would have paid Netflix to watch it previously...via subscription. So now that there is a little more than "run of the mill" demand for it, they intend to profit from that.
There is nothing morally "bad" about that. Besides, it has only been televised about 1,000 tmes already...if 'ya loved it that much, you caould have always TIVO'dit, or bought the DVD.
Hell, it was not even a particularly good flic in the first place. I wouldn't go out of my way to watch it for free...much less pay a premium. Besides, her music is endlessly available, it is not as if anyone is being deprived.
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| No need to act like a toddler "The movie industry still doesn't quite understand that making your content more difficult to consume doesn't make sense when you're constantly complaining about piracy."
The best thing is a a little maturity and delay of gratification. I can wait years until I can purchase the DVD on the second had market or it is stream. Furthermore it is not a big deal if I do not see a movie. The only got to haves in my life is Christ, food water and shelter everything else is just luxury. Then again, this is debatable. If the decision to limit streaming is more profitable then dose this call in question the profitability of streaming? | |
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The movie industry still doesn't quite understand that making your content more difficult to consume doesn't make sense when you're constantly complaining about piracy.
The best thing is a a little maturity and delay of gratification. I can wait years until I can purchase the DVD on the second hand market or it is stream. Furthermore it is not a big deal if I do not see a movie. The only got to haves in my life is Christ, food, water and shelter, everything else is just luxury. Then again, this is debatable. If the decision to limit streaming is more profitable then does this call in question the profitability of streaming? While your patience and ability to practice delay of gratification is admirable, you need to realize that not everyone is like you. In fact, this kind of behavior probably makes you a minority. While impatience and desire for instant gratification are probably wrong by your standards, millions if not billions of others don't see it this way: they don't like to wait for months or years, they want things now (or at least as quickly as they can get their hands on them). I'm not saying that they are right by doing so, but if you look at the world from a realistic perspective, you will find it hard to deny that it is happening and there is very little (if anything) you can do to change the behavior of the masses.
Which brings me to the next point. Why waste money, time and efforts trying to change the way the masses act, when at the end, there is no guarantee that you will succeed? Instead, what smart business men/women do is adapt to the masses and/or exploit their "weaknesses" while profiting very handsomely from it. There are thousands of businesses and even entire industries that are built around people's impatience and fulfilling their desires of instant gratification, many of which are quite successful. What I do not understand is why can't Hollywood jump on the same bandwagon, especially when they have the content and the means to get it out there.
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New Orleans, LA | said by Scatcatpdx: The best thing is a a little maturity and delay of gratification.
For you, yes
For me and others, no. When I want to watch a movie, I will try all legal means that I own including my Roku, Amazon, Apple TV, Netflix, Hulu, DirecTV Cinema, etc...accounts.
If none have them? I will simply torrent it.
Example? Thirteen Days. Love it. Would buy it online in a second. Nobody sells it. So? I torrent it.
Whether that makes me "immature" or whatever, I could not care less. I beg these companies to TAKE MY MONEY | |
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| | And we are surprised why?? What else is new. Probably all of her other movies as well. The body guard is the most mainstream she's made that I know of. | |
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