Streaming's End: Notorious Ladies, Super Powered Twins, and Desk Sets
Tuesday, October 25, 2016 at 10:09PM Netflix has a paltry offering of new movies coming in November but they're losing a lot of titles (which is their MO of late) so you have just a week to watch the following titles. Amazon Prime is also losing a lot (though they have very strange and sometimes very short streaming schedules and the following titles may be back again before you know it).
It's your last week to watch these titles. You know how we do -- we'll freeze frame a handful of titles and random places just for fun and share what we found. Share your memories of these movies, too.
No. You get the fuck out. This is my house and I don't want you in it.
The Accused (1988) Leaving Amazon Prime
I'll never stop agonizing over the 1988 Best Actress race which went so wrong in so many ways! Susan Sarandon (Bull Durham) should have won but she wasn't even nominated. And since she wasn't Glenn Close should have won (Dangerous Liaisons), and she lost the second year in a row despite being at the peak of her gifts.
[Psychic Message V.O.] Thunderhead, remember what I told you!
Escape to Witch Mountain (1975)
The first superhero movie! Shut up. It was for me. I was really into these twins as a child. In this scene Tina is calling a horse to rescue them and Tony is doing something with a harmonica? I think he can levitate with it? Was anyone else obsessed with these movies as a child?
-I shall be back tomorrow.
-Do what you will. Or what you must.
The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981) leaving Amazon Prime
THE DRAMA OF IT ALL. Was this the time frame when Katharine Hepburn was dissing Streep's gift a bit -- click.click.click? They were up against each other in Best Actress. This performance doesn't work for me at all, though I'm aware mileage may vary. It's the least awesome of Streep's nominated performance from the first two decades of her screen career.
If you can remember anything that might help me, you could give me a call... You're a very pretty girl Epiphany. Your name suits you.
Angel Heart (1987) leaving Netflix
The 1980s had so many MPAA ratings controversies! That doesn't seem to happen anymore. Probably because mainstream filmmakers stopped trying to push the sexual envelope and any amount of violence is now okay with the MPAA since you can see formerly R rated violence on network TV any night of the week. This movie was rated X at first and they appealed. Lisa Bonet was on leave from The Cosby Show (demoted to a "recurring character") for a couple of years to pursue other career opportunities. Naturally people were freaked at her sexualized presence in this movie about a PI (Mickey Rourke) getting more than he bargained for in an investigation in New Orleans
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Into the Wild (2007) leaving Netflix
Remember when this was going to get either a ton of nominations (it was very popular with SAG) or like none? It eventually ended the season with only 2 nominations for Film Editing and Supporting Actor (Hal Holbrook). In this sequence above starring a very cute doggie, mopey Kristen Stewart is getting left behind.
They want to get inside women's heads and reach them on a real level. Now don't take this the wrong way but yesterday you got jumpy talking about a lipstick...
What Women Want (2000) leaving Netflix
No comment.
-Caroline was a model 5'10" in stocking feet.
-You had an occasion to measure her?
-Among other things.
Desk Set (1957) leaving Amazon Prime
Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy made so many movies together. This is one of the more popular ones. Fun random trivia: This was director Walter Lang's follow up to his only Oscar nominated directing job on The King and I. (icymi here's Anne Marie's take on that movie)
Also Leaving Netflix on November 1st
The Addams Family (1991)
Almost Famous (2000)
Barnyard (2006)
Bratz: The Movie (2007)
The ‘Burbs (1989)
Can’t Hardly Wait (1998)
Chuck: Seasons 1-5
The Core (2003)
Deliverance (1972)
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Echelon Conspiracy (2009)
Eight Crazy Nights (2002)
Empire State (2012)
Equilibrium (2002)
The Family Man (2000)
Fatal Attraction (1987)
Fresh (1994)
Get Rich or Die Tryin’ (2005)
The Holiday (2006)
Kangaroo Jack (2003)
Legally Blonde (2001)
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde (2003)
Major League (1989)
Mansfield Park (1999)
Meet Joe Black (1998)
Mel Brooks: Make a Noise (2013)
Open Season (2006)
Open Season 2 (2008)
Open Season 3 (2010)
Patton Oswalt: My Weakness Is Strong (2009)
Powerpuff Girls: Seasons 1-6
Rounders (1998)
Scream 2 (1997)
Sex: My British Job (2013)
Shameless: Series 1-10 (UK)
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)
Something’s Gotta Give (2003)
The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (2004)
Spy Game (2001)
The Sum of All Fears (2002)
Total Drama World Tour (2014)
Underground: The Julian Assange Story (2012)
Urban Cowboy (1980)
Varsity Blues (1999)
Also leaving Amazon Prime by November 1st
Cruisin' (2014)
Desk Set (1957)
The Enemy Below (1957)
Joe the King (1999)
The Newton Boys (1998)
The Pirate (2012)
Saved! (2004)
The Way Back Home (2016)
Airplane! (1980)
Airplane II: The Sequel (1982)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Caddyshack (1980)
Dead Like Me (2 seasons) (2004)
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988)
The Eclipse (2010)
Election (1999)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)
A Good Woman (2004)
John Grisham's The Rainmaker (1997)
Kalifornia (1993)
Kicking and Screaming (1995)
Lethal Weapon (1987)
Lethal Weapon 2 (1989)
Lethal Weapon 3 (1992)
Lethal Weapon 4 (1998)
The Limey (1999)
The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)
Roman Holiday (1953)
Ronin (1998)
Rush (1991)
Scream 2 (1997)
Shattered (2007)
Stargate Atlantis Seasons 1 (2004) - Season 5 (2008)
Tales from the Darkside: The Movie (1990)
The Terminator (1984)
Training Day (2001)
Trees Lounge (1997)
When Harry Met Sally (1989)
A Year and Change (2015)
Reader Comments (15)
Re: Into the Wild - let's not forget Hal Holbrook's much deserved supporting actor nomination. If he weren't up against the juggernaut of Javier Bardem I would have loved to see him pick up a career capping precursor win or two
Netflix and other streaming services are hugely convenient at times, but this is the reason I still champion physical media. I want to be able to watch my movies whenever I have the urge to do so!
Oh, the perks of illegal dowload and watching what you want whem you want paying nothing
I loved the Witch Mountain movies as a kid! The sequel was my first Bette Davis film.
And Streep herself indicated she doesn't like her performance in The French Lieutenant's Woman on a recent Graham Norton appearance.
The really frustrating thing is that they don't release these lists earlier in the month.
Streep din say she din like her performance in TFLW, she says she felt her performance was overrated.
I dun tink K Hepburn especially targets Meryl for her performance in this movie, she could be referring to ALL the latter's performances up to date...anyway funny she said that cos, her Golden Pond win is truly a sentimental win...& I adore K Hepburn, but she is almost ALWS playing K Hepburn...the nerve to call a younger talented actress "click-click-click" when she herself is mother of the "click-click-click"!!! Lol.
I do love Streep in this movie. So skilled. Specially the scene in which she switches characters, from the actress to lieutenant's woman.
And I am really ok with Foster winning here.
I agree with Glenn, or make it into a Netflix category "items leaving this month".
I am never Ok with Fosters win end of story.
GLENN SHOULD HAVE WON PERIOD
It hurts even more knowing that if they only wait for 2 years, they could still award Jodie for her much better performance in TSOTL.
I would have given Holbrook the Oscar. He makes me cry every time.
Glenn Close was robbed. I will never get over her losing the Oscar to Jodie Foster. Never.
How is it that Netflix has been streaming all of the Open Season movies (whatever the hell they are) and but only one out of the four films in the Scream franchise? These choices make no sense to me.
Glenn - amen. Amazon doesn't publish the lists at all. these services are in many ways not making the antipiracy argument any easier since they make it so anti-consumer.
Right? And I used to do a "leaving netflix / arriving on netflix" column every week and, like, I sweat A Clockwork Orange and other really random titles would come and go every couple of months.
The idea that Netflix will soon be 50% original content is very easy to imagine. You'd think older movies would be cheap as chips to license, too.