And anyone with half a brain could have foreseen that asking people to sign up for a half-dozen services in order to have a reasonable amount of content options, to the point that it was more expensive than the cable they were ostensibly cutting, was a losing proposition.  There’s just not room for more than a handful.

Seriously.  Someone knew when to hold it.

i saw boogie nights and it was packed. guy next to me said he wasn’t even born when the movie came out. everyone cheered like an avengers movie for phillip seymour hoffman’s entrance. it was great.

The kids are hungry for old movies! It’s the boneheaded studio execs who wrongly assume there’s no money there.

Is there a big screen version of Oedipus Rex?

Dude, don’t be salty about studios licensing their films to other streamers.

if you thought the blazing saddles header image was outrage bait, wait until its birth of a nation

I’m a talking a whole section of big-mood cat films. It’s great.

Way way back, I couldn’t understand why my wife hated Blazing Saddles. Eventually, it came to light hat she had only ever seen the local UHF Saturday afternoon movie version.

TCM has it’s own streaming service, available if you have a cable subscription that includes TCM,  which makes available all of the films broadcast on TCM for the past 30 days or so.  Not sure how much the TCM streaming costs if you’ve cut the cord.

i think it’s a good thing that market research dictates this was worth doing and worth continuing to do for an entire year.

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.

My contrarian viewpoint- Blazing Saddles is Brooks’ #2 masterpiece, behind Young Frankenstein. The Producers is a distant 3rd.

Meanwhile The Criterion Channel has been absolutely kicking everyone’s ass up, down, and sideways with their truly inventive topical curation of late. Cat films, motherfuckers, I’m a talking a whole section of big-mood cat films. It’s great.

Thank GOD someone has saved “The Gambler”

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”

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.

I like the idea of preserving much better than the idea of making media disappear forever simply for a quick tax break.

Seeing him first as Willy Wonka, Gene Wilder was the reason I watched The Little Prince.