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Apr 16, 2021 18:26:15 GMT
Post by mllemass on Apr 16, 2021 18:26:15 GMT
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Apr 16, 2021 18:48:14 GMT
Post by queenzod on Apr 16, 2021 18:48:14 GMT
Here in the US it’s the same as The Mauritanian to rent: $20. That is an outrage. Not even to purchase but to rent! I haven’t seen either of these movies b/c I don’t have millions to spend on something I can only watch for 3 days. Very unhappy at the greed. 😑
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Post by prudence on Apr 16, 2021 19:29:02 GMT
Here in the US it’s the same as The Mauritanian to rent: $20. That is an outrage. Not even to purchase but to rent! I haven’t seen either of these movies b/c I don’t have millions to spend on something I can only watch for 3 days. Very unhappy at the greed. 😑 This is the rental price when the film is also in the theaters. It will come down when it goes to regular rental. It stinks when you live alone because you are paying twice as much as you would for a movie ticket, but if there's more than 1 person watching the rental, it's cost effective as compared to going out to the movies.
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Apr 16, 2021 20:13:07 GMT
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Post by roverpup on Apr 16, 2021 20:13:07 GMT
I re-checked the TIFF site and I see it is up there now. It's $2 more to rent it on TIFF but that no big deal. I don't know if the rental time allotted is different but I may support TIFF anyway to keep their service viable (I figure Amazon is big enough to sink or swim on their own).
I figure paying even $22 for a viewing is still a pretty good bargain! That's about the same as one ticket to get into the cinema and you can freeze the picture when you have to pee!
The Mauritanian is only about $7-8 per showing here I think, Dan and I paid $10 to see it on that PBS site.
The Courier rental is still waaaaay cheaper than going to the cinema! I was expecting it to be more honestly. We paid $22.59 for 2 people to view The Father and that is still cheaper than if we went to the cinema in person.
And yeah, singles get ripped but it's that way with a lot of things - when you share a cab with another person the ride costs the same as if you are in the cab alone.
I don't see how the streaming service could do it any other way frankly. They can't charge by eyeballs looking at the screen.
Besides, we're still in lockdown here and this is a godsend as far as I am concerned! If it wasn't for these streaming services I wouldn't be able to see it until the DVD came out.
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Apr 16, 2021 20:54:51 GMT
Post by queenzod on Apr 16, 2021 20:54:51 GMT
Daytime Cinema early show is like $6. And I bought Patrick Melrose for $10 while it was in its first showing. So this, to me, is wildly exorbitant. I’d buy it for $20 so I could watch it over and over for years, but not rent it at that price for 3 days. It seems like price gouging. Are movie tickets really $20 per person now?
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Apr 16, 2021 22:12:17 GMT
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Post by roverpup on Apr 16, 2021 22:12:17 GMT
In our city in Ontario tickets for frontline movies were usually about $18 pp. Unless you went on half price days. If you went to a big extravaganza movie (like say, The Avengers) it was more like $25 pp. And then getting anything from the concession stand doubled the cost. So for us these prices are amazingly low!
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Post by mllemass on Apr 17, 2021 2:26:44 GMT
Roverpup - TIFF actually has it for the same price as everyone else. They’re just giving you the cost with the taxes. I just watched it through Amazon, and they emailed me my receipt for $16.94, which is $14.99+tax.
Since this is my very first time “renting” a movie this way, I discovered that it’s really very easy to do! I stopped and started it a number of times, and there were no problems.
There was one little thing, though, that might only be an issue with Amazon. I changed the settings so that I would have subtitles. Subtitles weren’t an option with the free screener I watched, and I think I missed some dialogues because the speakers on my sister’s computer aren’t great.
So tonight I watched the first half with subtitles when it occurred to me that when the characters spoke Russian, there weren’t any subtitles. When I watched the screener, I remember that the English subtitles for the Russian dialogue appeared over the annoying “Lionsgate” watermark. So half-way through the movie tonight I had an idea! During one of the scenes with Russians talking, I paused the movie, went into settings, and turned off the subtitles. When the movie resumed playing and the Russians were still speaking, there were English subtitles!
I just want to point that out for anyone who might make that same mistake: turning on subtitles will turn off the subtitles that are part of the movie.
Also, after the movie ended, the screen with information about the movie came up, telling me “You rented this - You have access to this video for the next 70 hours”. So does that mean I can watch it over and over for the next 70 hours?
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Post by queenzod on Apr 17, 2021 5:14:51 GMT
Mllemass yes that means you can watch it 30 times! Get viewing! 😂
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Apr 17, 2021 5:24:24 GMT
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Post by roverpup on Apr 17, 2021 5:24:24 GMT
Got to go to bed but just a quick comment - we watched it tonight on the TIFF site and LOVED it!! Dan gave his one word review - "Outstanding!". I concurred. 😊👍👍
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Apr 18, 2021 20:51:47 GMT
Post by mllemass on Apr 18, 2021 20:51:47 GMT
I just watched it agin - which makes it 4 times. I now have 27 hours remaining on my rental!
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