Recently watched movies

[Carol the Dabbler]

I looked it up on Wikipedia, and it sounds interesting.  Also, I've seen (and enjoyed) most of the cast in other productions, meaning that they must be pretty high-profile people, since I don't see all that many things.

But of course it's on Netflix.  *sigh*

 

[besleybean]

Yeah, watched it at my son's.

But last I checked, we were still able to use his Netflix.

[kimber8ada]

I've missed out on several programs on Netflix. My nephew was letting me use his account but sharing with other households has been banned and I'm not paying for another streaming service.

[Carol the Dabbler]

28 minutes ago, kimber8ada said:

I'm not paying for another streaming service

I know what you mean!  Seems like every movie studio and every broadcast network now has its own streaming service.  There must be at least a dozen at this point (I've lost track), and each must be paid for separately -- and of course each movie/show that I'm interested in is on a different service.  Besides which, if your internet service isn't the best, you can spend half your time watching it buffer.

I wouldn't mind so much if they'd at least offer DVDs eventually.

 

[J.P.]

At least in Germany, most services offer one-month subscriptions. So I mostly buy one month, watch, what I find interesting and then hop to another service. Watching Netflix, Amazon, Sky and Disney this way.

[Carol the Dabbler]

As far as I know, all of the US streaming services are effectively available by the month -- you sign up and then cancel before the month ends.  You have to given them your credit card number, though, which makes me a bit nervous because we've sometimes had difficulty cancelling a service.

 

[J.P.]

I use PayPal for all the transactions. I think once or twice it happened that the service wasn't cancelled, but it's not so much money, definitely less than paying several services parallelly.
Amazon btw. offers instant canceling and they give you a partial refund. Don't know if it's permanent or they just try a new thing.

[Carol the Dabbler]

Amazon does seem to honor cancellation requests very reliably.  But we've had enough trouble with a few other companies that our standard mode is caution.

We used to have a Paypal account, but they cancelled it without us asking, and without even notifying us.  So we figure phooey on 'em.