I haven’t seen an uncut version of Blazing Saddles in forever and I am looking forward to it. It really isn’t the same movie on network TV or basic cable. We recently watched Spaceballs on BBCA and half my favorite jokes were cut for either time or crudeness. It was disappointing.

Lords of Flatbush, The Wandereres, heck even Sha-Na-Na...as a kid in the 70's I thought the 50's was the greatest decade ever. I named my first pet (a dog) Fonzy.

Netflix is totally gonna buy all of TCM when Zaslav puts it in a box outside his house with a sign “20 bucks or best offer”

My barbershop is also a for-profit company doing business because it wants to make money. When my barber picks up the mirror after cutting my hair, I tend to just say my hair looks good, without falling into a pissy little lecture about capitalism.

Even more annoying is the lack of research or context: Netflix has carried older movies this whole time, and while the 1974 movies are new to it right now they’ve carried them previously. Netflix has been cycling old movies in and out since time immemorial. The news is the actual *section* highlighting these movies.

This is very cool .... looking forward to more. Great to see Blazing Saddles on the list.1974 isn’t complete without it. Parents unknowingly took me to see it in theatre when I was 9; we all loved it though.

Crash tests. They've been tops for a long time. And people really responded to that "they lived" commercial. 

Subaru may be behind in active safety, but they’ve positively built a reputation on acing crash tests. 

This is doing them a bit of a disservice.

Subaru got the timing right too.

Weber had eight Subarus. With the exception of my SVX and Justy, they’ve all been essentially the same car, made over four decades.

Spot on in so many ways.

To add: Bland, oversized blobs with agrarian engines with poor fuel economy and a distinct lack of refinement.

They may have known what they were doing at some point, but they peaked 10-15 years ago, and have been making bland, oversized blobs just like everyone else ever since.

Correction: Subaru knew it could pander to people’s sense of “I’m a rugged individual”, or their feelings of “I don’t really care what I drive, as long as it’s practical and AWD”, or their satisfaction that a PZEV badge on the back means it’s environmentally friendly even with thoroughly mediocre fuel economy.

While they may have aced the AWD and Turbo classes, they slept right through the Head Gasket Engineering classes and handed in an origami throwing star for the final project. 

It must be a lot of fun to get paid millions of dollars to go on vacation with your friends and make bad movies, but I wish Adam Sandler was interested in actually actin more often because he’s pretty good at it when he puts some effort into it.

This particular move makes a ton of sense to me. Amazon is likely willing to pay more for non-exclusive rights to the LotR movies right now than streaming companies would be normally. They’re great movies, of course, but they’re also fairly old at this point. It’s unlikely people are subscribing to HBO Max (or any…

There were existing deals in place, they couldn't cut them off instantly. But they did as soon as the deals ran out.

I feel like other places (maybe here) have already hit the head on the nail on this.