General Discussion

I noticed what must be all of the Starz Channel broken deal cast-aways marked in my Instant Queue as "Until 2/29/12." Let's see...as far as my biggest, I'm losing "Tangled," Party Down" and "Tron: Legacy."

What's your biggest loss coming soon? Are you going to have a big "Instant Viewing Party" this weekend...and this weekend only?

(But, as a side note, "Being Elmo" was just added and that looks cool.)

Oh man. I've been putting this out of my mind. I'll have to look down the list and watch everything this weekend in hopes of not missing anything.

Party Down is required viewing if you haven't seen it. Skimming the list, nothing else really jumps out at me.

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. Looks like I'm going to have to actually buy Tangled now.

this means i've got to watch Orgazmo and Mallrats

@numbbaby Being Elmo is great

@InsidiousTuna: Where is there a definitive list?

I almost never watch Starz content because none of it is HD. Also, they cancelled Party Down, so fuck those guys!

I do know my sister is going to be bummed to lose Tangled and the Miyazaki films for her kids.

I never watch Starz content on Instant Viewing anyway. The quality is shit, and it isn't even presented in wide screen. Not so sad about it.

@FinalDasa: I don't know about 'definitive list,' but the one I've found fairly accurate in the past is from "FeedFliks":

http://feedfliks.com/streaming/expiring-soon

Also a good place for what's coming up on Instant. I thought, with the loss of Starz content, they would step up and premiere lots of newer-ish stuff in March to fill the blanks. Going from this list (not sure how complete it is), that doesn't seem the case, but I know these deals must take forever to set up:

http://feedfliks.com/streaming/coming-soon

@numbbaby: Thanks :)

Well they struck a deal with the Weinstein Company to get some of their films available for streaming including The Artist. Most of Starz stuff is pretty lousy in terms of video quality so I'm not really going to miss their stuff. And besides some of their stuff is also in the wrong aspect ratio which is really annoying.

Crap, I've got quite a few Starz Play movies in my queue to watch: The Last Temptation of Christ, The Crazies, Tales From Earthsea, Apocalypto, Tron: Legacy, JFK, & Eight Men Out. I guess this also means I'll have to rent the discs for Spartacus if I finally decide to start watching it.

@rem25: Sounds like you've got close to 20 hours of stuff to watch this weekend. Good luck!

We've already lost Monty Python. I can't see it getting any worse.

The Pixar Story will be a big loss. I've been seeing that in my queue since I got Netflix. Buy The Ticket, Take The Ride will also be missed, but the Busey interview is on YouTube so I can already see the best part if I wanted too.

Clearly though, the biggest loss is White Chicks.

@BradGrenz said:

I almost never watch Starz content because none of it is HD.

This.

I just saw Cool World last night, and while I can't say that it was a particularly good movie, it's an interesting failure that I never would've been able to see otherwise. Also, pieces of the soundtrack & images from the film have been stuck with me for a good while now, so that must mean something. It's gone come March 1st so if any of you are interested...

In Canada the stuff is different but The Elephant Man goes away March 1st here. Anyone who hasn't watched that yet should.

While I guess it's kinda sad some of the stuff is going away, it's been there so long without me watching it, I don't think I ever would have if it stayed.

I have to suggest tron 2. The movie is very entertaining, better than the first, forget the first one. It's worth a watch so if you've never watched the first or second than check this out while you have a chance.

@numbbaby: Thanks so much for this thread it reminded to watch a couple of movies that I needed but sadly I won't have enough time to get through all of Party Down