ivan510 t1_iyardyq wrote
AMC has had some pretty great shows but trying to watch some of their stuff is soo difficult and I don't want to get AMC+. I mean for $1 than AMC+ you can get Paramount+, Peacock premium, Disney+, prime video, or hulu. All which offer better shows, more shows/movies and regularly get new content.
A lot of their content has also become heavily focused on the walking dead franchise.
Also shudder could be soo much better i mean its the only serivice like it.
diiejso t1_iyat944 wrote
You mentioned shudder. If you like horror check out Tubi. It's free (has commercials) but they have an insane number of horror movies.
gaytechdadwithson t1_iyawfdg wrote
Tubi has minimal commercials and i watch more on that than any service that exists. i have access to about everything.
KitchenReno4512 t1_iybnelj wrote
Don’t commercials take you out of the immersion that’s so important for scary movies?
gaytechdadwithson t1_iybnlap wrote
somewhat, but often it’s a movie i’ve seen or the movie itself is just “meh”. so it doesn’t matter. this isn’t a knock against Tubi, just the shitscape of content out there
also, again, it has a shocking minimal number of commercials (for now at least)
KitchenReno4512 t1_iybnuh3 wrote
Sweet. I’ll check it out. Thanks for the rec!
gaytechdadwithson t1_iybnz6k wrote
np. Maybe I just don’t watch a lot of scary movies. Mostly comedy and documentaries, which they do pretty good on. I kind of feel like the first 20 minutes of anything I watch I don’t even see a commercial. So sometimes I forget i’m even using that app on my television.
Varekai79 t1_iyd1mq6 wrote
I was thinking that too but there aren't that many ads on Tubi, just a couple every 20 minutes or so. Not a bad payoff for a free service.
GuiltyGun t1_iyb3fyg wrote
Shudder is also fantastic but its pretty much all horror/thriller. There is an argument for variety with other services.
Note: I've had a Shudder sub for three years and I'm not canceling it lol.
diiejso t1_iyb3qly wrote
Oh I wasn't trying to imply that shudder is bad but I figured anyone subscribed to it would also appreciate knowing about Tubi if they don't already.
GuiltyGun t1_iyb3umn wrote
Gotcha. I'll have to check that one out. I'm assuming its not a lot of bleedover with Shudder's catalog.
diiejso t1_iyb5mbf wrote
I'm not too familiar with the shudder catalog tbh. Tubi has a decent collection of mainstream but slightly older stuff but where they're awesome is cheap (mostly bad) horror if you enjoy that sort of thing. I'll just put random stuff in the search like "shark" and they'll have a few dozen oddball shark horror movies.
I searched for Thanksgiving the other day out of curiosity and found gems like The Last Thanksgiving (Meet the Brimstons. They're a normal American family with one exception: Every November, they hunt down anybody who doesn't celebrate Thanksgiving.), Derelicts (Thanksgiving day for a dysfunctional upper class family takes a terrifying turn when their suburban home is invaded by a gang of sadistic drifters.), and Thankskilling (A murderous turkey hunts down five college kids on their Thanksiging break. Can the survivors break the curse and defeat the possessed bird?)
hacky_potter t1_iyczb64 wrote
For the price Shudder might be my favorite streamer. I love throwing on some random horror flick and just letting it ride.
Disgruntled_Viking t1_iycs5lu wrote
They also have the worst apps available on the least amount of devices.
Hs39163 t1_iyb0g10 wrote
I briefly subscribed to AMC+ a year or two ago to catch up on TWD (I really wanted to see the show out for some reason). New eps unavailable after airing. What’s the point?
Turns out I’m content with a wiki article when confronted with that nonsense.
joejill t1_iyctak1 wrote
TWD died with Glenn.
It became unwatchable. I tried but the show just wasn't the same.
BeetleBreakfastDrink t1_iyd4gfq wrote
Yeah after they spent the entire off season swearing up and down that they weren’t going to follow the comic and kill Glenn, just to immediately do it anyway, I was done. It wasn’t even the loss of the character that turned me off, it was entirely the lazy ass way the show runners handled everything.
KumagawaUshio t1_iyayyu2 wrote
AMC owns 8 streaming services that's a lot to divide up their rather meagre catalogue.
Severe_Cheesecake165 t1_iycwyt8 wrote
Yeah, AMC’s best bet would have been to be bought out as a prestige brand.
Unfortunately their handling of the walking dead directly clashes with a handful of really good content they produce. All the poor decisions with that show cancelled out any good reputation created by Breaking Bad, Madmen, Halt and Catch Fire, etc
hacky_potter t1_iycz47z wrote
Why not license their shows out to other streamers? I’m sure it costs a lot of money to keep that streamer up and running.
r-b-m t1_iyd3lpl wrote
As mentioned elsewhere, most of their popular series are owned by Sony, Lionsgate or partner companies like BBCA and Acorn. AMC doesn’t hold those rights to sell off. Of the series AMC does own outright, I believe only TWD and FTWD have existing licensing agreements (with Netflix and Hulu respectively). The majority of the remaining AMC-owned content could potentially be licensed off en masse if they decide to fold AMC+ entirely, but while that would lead to a short-term gain, it wouldn’t leave them with much of a runway for the future. AMC Studios isn’t really much of a production arm, and the development team attached is rather mediocre. That being said, the only way I can foresee AMC sustaining is through a merger with another media company that controls a streaming pipeline, since that clearly isn’t something AMC can be relied upon to handle themselves. My guess would be Comcast or Roku.
NotAlwaysSunnyInFL t1_iybrw1g wrote
I have 5 different streaming subs at a time and I still sail the 7 seas quite frequently.
Edit: Ohh no!! A corporate shill found my comment! Shiver me timbers..
FUMFVR t1_iycb4ns wrote
AMC+ might be the worst implemented app on the technology side.
hacky_potter t1_iyd03od wrote
I’m trying to watch Mad Men again and it’s such a pain in the ass to just find the next episode to watch after you take a break. It’s also hard to cycle through their catalog.
MadeByTango t1_iycpws3 wrote
The problem streamers are fast approaching is that they have smaller catalogs, and if one or two of their main shows ain’t my thing then the whole channel is pointless to subscribe to half the year. They don’t have the individual film volumes anymore to make up for it. All save Netflix, but I’ve suffered too many cancellations and green screen films at this point to keep steady.
And sports makes anything immediately more expensive than it’s worth.
So, the old media is being killed be the new media, but the new media still isn’t ready to carry prime time.
tomato_rancher t1_iycwn21 wrote
I wanted to sign up for AMC+ but couldn't because I don't have a "TV Provider" ... You know, because I chose to stream TV instead?
jblanch3 t1_iydbhv2 wrote
OMG, you need a cable subscription to subscribe to AMC+? No wonder they're having trouble getting subscribers.
r-b-m t1_iyepnzk wrote
No, you don’t. AMC+ is a DTC app just like Netflix, Hulu, etc. Not sure what that person’s talking about.
skamjamz t1_iye5ehy wrote
You can add it through Amazon Prime
bergskey t1_iyd2rh9 wrote
Last year around Christmas time I paid $24 for an entire year of amc plus. Keep an eye out for that deal this year!
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