Agree 100 percent.
My wife got into Once Upon A Time, then Merlin on sky/netflix, then they pulled them & she frantically hunted for the dvds.
Netflix etc are more useful for trying new stuff (and I do mean NEW, hardly any old or classic stuff on these things), but for anyone interested in film, they're useless.
We don't want 6 of Ben Affleck/Cameron Diaz/Will Smith's average movies, we want some directors filmography. Just putting all the Harry Potter or Fast & Furious films on there won't cut it, and Hitchcock isn't the only famous film maker (Sky TV!!!).
Scrolled through Netflix the other day, and while it's great for my son (lots of kids shows etc) I struggle to find anything decent. It's all the £7 stuff you find in Tesco or stuff we have all seen like Species.
Sitting on my (creaking) To Watch shelf are Opera, Phenomena, Maniac (Lustig), Phantasm, Gamera movies, My Man Godfrey (criterion) and too many others to list. The average streamng service has nothing on what physical media does.
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