Netflix is garbage as well so this doesn't bother me so much. Cancelling Netflix was one of the best decisions I've made recently, the price just getting higher and higher while the content got worse and worse.

Both deals would’ve been bad (and all this because Ellison put up some money to buy a company that wasn’t for sale), but at least Netflix buying them would still allow them to operate as a major studio and so we’d still have 5 (now it’s down to 4, or I guess really 2), and they’ve done physical media releases of their shows in the past for anybody concerned about that (a legit concern).

This is going to diminish the number and quality of films made as with all major acquisitions (Sinners more than likely doesn’t get made if this deal happened a few years earlier) and you’re only kidding yourself if you seriously think they’re gonna honor the 38 films a year thing (19 from Paramount and 19 from WB or whatever it was), that’s not how studio acquisitions work. Look at Fox’s output ever since they were bought.

Funny, Netflix was historically my favorite, but I am considering a cancel too.  Apple (who I typically loathe) and HBO are my two favorites.  

Obviously shitty news. Not gonna watch any new WB movies going forward then. Wouldn't have either if they got bought by Netflix. I cancelled all my film subscriptions a while ago, as they are basicly just a scam. The content is laughably low, the prices have just gone up, the quality is worse than Blu-Rays and their algorithms are absolute garbage, whether it be MAX or Netflix. If I remember right MAX also decided to remove 3 min of 2001: A Space Odyssey at some point. F*** that. DVDs/Blu-rays, Cinemas, on demand and broadcast TV keeps me going. For shorter periods I might sign up for Mubi, as they generally seem to care about the art.

You say that like they had a choice in the matter. They didn’t.

So basically what people thought Disney did for Fox, Paramount/Ellison actually did here. WB literally by law couldn’t refuse to sell once they got into a bidding war bc they’re a publicly-traded company (remember the Dodgeball ending?). If you’re gonna blame/boycott anybody for this, blame/boycott David Ellison and Paramount.

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