Amazon Prime Video, what gems have you found? (NO SPOILERS)

Amazon Prime Video, what gems have you found? (NO SPOILERS)

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irish boy

3,535 posts

236 months

Friday 22nd March
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Anyone watched roadhouse yet? Will maybe put it on tonight. Loved the original.

Ads don’t bother me, they’re very short and infrequent. Certainly not enough to either stop watching the service or to pay more.

Cotty

39,544 posts

284 months

Friday 22nd March
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croyde said:
The ads suddenly cutting in with no warning is what's putting me off.

YouTube is virtually unwatchable now. Even stuff that barely has 1000 followers has ads, sometimes every 5 minutes.
Get an add blocker. I have one on my PC and my mobile. I never see adverts on YouTube unless its build into the video like a word from our sponsor segments but they are early to skip/fast forward.

Cotty

39,544 posts

284 months

Friday 22nd March
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irish boy said:
Anyone watched roadhouse yet? Will maybe put it on tonight. Loved the original.

Ads don’t bother me, they’re very short and infrequent. Certainly not enough to either stop watching the service or to pay more.
There are some reviews on the Films I watched this week thread
https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

liner33

10,690 posts

202 months

Friday 22nd March
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irish boy said:
Anyone watched roadhouse yet? Will maybe put it on tonight. Loved the original.

Ads don’t bother me, they’re very short and infrequent. Certainly not enough to either stop watching the service or to pay more.
We watched it last night, don't compare to the original just enjoy the romp. Macgregor was awful, so bad it was funny.

Seemed to get a lot of hate on imdb but we quite enjoyed it and some funny lines , as said not a patch on the original but I'm a Jeff Healey and Sam Elliott fan and im biased

There was an ad at the start but don't recall any others

Richtea1970

1,115 posts

60 months

Friday 22nd March
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irish boy said:
Anyone watched roadhouse yet? Will maybe put it on tonight. Loved the original.

Ads don’t bother me, they’re very short and infrequent. Certainly not enough to either stop watching the service or to pay more.
Just watched it tonight, started well but got a bit silly when McGregor arrived. The CGI was also a bit off putting (never seen it used in fight scenes before). Doubt I’d watch it again but ok for a disengaged brain, Friday night film.

Smollet

10,579 posts

190 months

Friday 22nd March
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Richtea1970 said:
irish boy said:
Anyone watched roadhouse yet? Will maybe put it on tonight. Loved the original.

Ads don’t bother me, they’re very short and infrequent. Certainly not enough to either stop watching the service or to pay more.
Just watched it tonight, started well but got a bit silly when McGregor arrived. The CGI was also a bit off putting (never seen it used in fight scenes before). Doubt I’d watch it again but ok for a disengaged brain, Friday night film.
Enjoyable but daft especially McGregor. I hope he sticks to his day job

suffolk009

5,402 posts

165 months

Saturday 23rd March
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I paid money to watch Argylle last night. What a waste. Wait until it's free to air somewhere.

Tycho

11,605 posts

273 months

Sunday 24th March
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Watched Tremors with my son as he's never seen it. Great film but adverts during it. I might have put up with ads at the start but during a film is too far. Cancelled my prime membership this morning.

andburg

7,292 posts

169 months

Sunday 24th March
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Smollet said:
Richtea1970 said:
irish boy said:
Anyone watched roadhouse yet? Will maybe put it on tonight. Loved the original.

Ads don’t bother me, they’re very short and infrequent. Certainly not enough to either stop watching the service or to pay more.
Just watched it tonight, started well but got a bit silly when McGregor arrived. The CGI was also a bit off putting (never seen it used in fight scenes before). Doubt I’d watch it again but ok for a disengaged brain, Friday night film.
Enjoyable but daft especially McGregor. I hope he sticks to his day job
Story poor
CGI awful
Connor terrible

Gyllenhall just about holds it together

irish boy

3,535 posts

236 months

Sunday 24th March
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‘Conor was ok. He basically just was himself.

Clockwork Cupcake

74,565 posts

272 months

Tuesday 26th March
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Off topic, but I've noticed another "shrinkflation" about Amazon Prime. Not only do we now get adverts on Prime Video but physical purchases with Prime shipping now arrive late in the afternoon unless you either pay £1.99 extra or spend more than £20, in which case they arrive by 1pm. Unless the item doesn't qualify for that in which case it's late afternoon again.

biggbn

23,351 posts

220 months

Tuesday 26th March
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Smollet said:
Richtea1970 said:
irish boy said:
Anyone watched roadhouse yet? Will maybe put it on tonight. Loved the original.

Ads don’t bother me, they’re very short and infrequent. Certainly not enough to either stop watching the service or to pay more.
Just watched it tonight, started well but got a bit silly when McGregor arrived. The CGI was also a bit off putting (never seen it used in fight scenes before). Doubt I’d watch it again but ok for a disengaged brain, Friday night film.
Enjoyable but daft especially McGregor. I hope he sticks to his day job
I think being an obnoxious IS his day job...

Trustmeimadoctor

12,601 posts

155 months

Tuesday 26th March
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andburg said:
Smollet said:
Richtea1970 said:
irish boy said:
Anyone watched roadhouse yet? Will maybe put it on tonight. Loved the original.

Ads don’t bother me, they’re very short and infrequent. Certainly not enough to either stop watching the service or to pay more.
Just watched it tonight, started well but got a bit silly when McGregor arrived. The CGI was also a bit off putting (never seen it used in fight scenes before). Doubt I’d watch it again but ok for a disengaged brain, Friday night film.
Enjoyable but daft especially McGregor. I hope he sticks to his day job
Story poor
CGI awful
Connor terrible

Gyllenhall just about holds it together
im not usually one to bother about it but there was no character arc at all for Gyllenhall he didnt progress one bit

hungry_hog

2,240 posts

188 months

Tuesday 26th March
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Clockwork Cupcake said:
Off topic, but I've noticed another "shrinkflation" about Amazon Prime. Not only do we now get adverts on Prime Video but physical purchases with Prime shipping now arrive late in the afternoon unless you either pay £1.99 extra or spend more than £20, in which case they arrive by 1pm. Unless the item doesn't qualify for that in which case it's late afternoon again.
Agree on the adverts

Delivery i find fine
I ordered a couple things Sunday 10am and they came Sunday 8pm. Not sure how much faster can be unless it's delivered by Walter Rohrl

C5_Steve

3,069 posts

103 months

Wednesday 27th March
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hungry_hog said:
Clockwork Cupcake said:
Off topic, but I've noticed another "shrinkflation" about Amazon Prime. Not only do we now get adverts on Prime Video but physical purchases with Prime shipping now arrive late in the afternoon unless you either pay £1.99 extra or spend more than £20, in which case they arrive by 1pm. Unless the item doesn't qualify for that in which case it's late afternoon again.
Agree on the adverts

Delivery i find fine
I ordered a couple things Sunday 10am and they came Sunday 8pm. Not sure how much faster can be unless it's delivered by Walter Rohrl
I find the delivery a bit all over the place and also kind of hidden a bit now. As CC said, some things now have the option to have it delivered quicker if you buy more, some things are next day before a certain time and then some things come a day later. All will be listed as "Prime". It's not a huge issue as I'm not normally in a rush for things but I agree when it was supposed to be part of your subscription it's just another way to squeeze a few more shackles out of users.

Clockwork Cupcake

74,565 posts

272 months

Wednesday 27th March
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C5_Steve said:
I find the delivery a bit all over the place and also kind of hidden a bit now. As CC said, some things now have the option to have it delivered quicker if you buy more, some things are next day before a certain time and then some things come a day later. All will be listed as "Prime". It's not a huge issue as I'm not normally in a rush for things but I agree when it was supposed to be part of your subscription it's just another way to squeeze a few more shackles out of users.
Indeed. That was what I was trying to say. yes

(Glad it's not just me who has noticed this with Prime delivery)

It's another example of what you were paying for being eroded, and you have to pay extra to get back what you once had. Exactly the same as with the adverts and being advert-free again.

richhead

873 posts

11 months

Wednesday 27th March
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watching the homesman with tommy lee jones, very deap and dark, but a good watch

rodericb

6,747 posts

126 months

Monday 1st April
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Land of Bad



I wouldn't say it was a gem as such but I know some of you like this type of thing hehe

The explosions from the missles from the reaper drone were spectacular.

Cotty

39,544 posts

284 months

Monday 1st April
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Lot of films and TV shows added today. Full list in the link
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-new...

tele_lover

295 posts

15 months

Monday 1st April
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Is there anything like Jack Ryan, Reacher, Night Agent, Night Manager etc?

Not in to gangs/drugs, but love spy stuff and political/financial thrillers.

Edited by tele_lover on Monday 1st April 23:37