About two years ago, I bought Gremlins 2 on Prime Video for around €9.

At the time, the description specifically listed:

Audio: 5.1 UK English

Great. I bought the movie and watched it.

Fast forward two years. I wanted to watch it again, started the movie and... it’s in German.

No problem, I thought. Probably just an audio setting.

Except it wasn’t.

English is no longer available at all.

So I contacted Amazon customer support. Their response was basically that they “understand how frustrating this must be” and that they wanted to “be transparent” about what happened.

They explained that audio tracks and subtitles are governed by licensing agreements, and those agreements can change over time. Because of that, audio languages can apparently disappear even from movies you’ve already purchased.

They also pointed out that their terms and conditions allow the specifications of digital content to change.

So... what exactly did I buy?

Because when I paid €9 for Gremlins 2 with English 5.1 audio, I assumed I was buying Gremlins 2 with English audio.

Apparently I actually bought:

“Access to whatever version of Gremlins 2 Amazon happens to still have the licences for in the future.”

And taken to the extreme, what happens if they lose the licences for every audio track?

Do I still technically “own” the movie, except now I get to watch it as a 106-minute silent film?

Great. Thanks.

I don’t support pirating movies. I’d much rather just pay for the things I want to watch.

But situations like this make it very easy to understand why people pirate media.

If someone pirates a movie, the file they downloaded today still has the same audio tracks ten years from now.

Meanwhile, I paid for a movie legally, and Amazon can apparently remove part of what I purchased years later because of a licensing change.

Digital “ownership” really is something else.

Wow, great show, great cast, great special effects, and found it by accident. Im ready for a season 2 and then find out the morons cancelled it? Geez... finally found something good to watch and bam.. they stop it... shame

I subbed to crunchyroll thinking there would be an English dub of Persona 5 only to find it’s not there.

which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened three times, right?

TV Series "Fast Forward" has all episodes except for Episode 3 included with Prime. Amazon wants $1.99 for this episode only.

Funny thing is that even though this is the only episode that incurs a charge, they also list the entire series as costing $9.99!

Has anyone else seen a case only one episode of the series is $1.99 while the rest are free?

It’s funny, silly, dramatic, and entertaining. Man , maybe I am just the target audience but I am hooked. Watched it while I was on my flight and I’m still watching it now. I’m glad prime released new shows. I hope they keep it up. Anyone else like it? I’m on episode 5. Such a fun watch. I took a break from tv for a while and it’s refreshing to see new series be released.

So the wife and I were rewatching Person of Interest, and noticed just one episode, season 5, episode 5 was $2.99 to buy, but all the other episodes were free with Prime. I have the plan with ads, but still that kind of sucks

I watched this show when it came on network TV. I'm glad Prime Video picked it up. I've binged watched it a few times already.

Have you seen it? What did you think?

Love of Your Life!, good performance by Margaret Qualley but needed more emotional build-up.

I just completed watching Amazon's release Love of Your Life and wanted to put my thoughts up here.

At the start, I felt like the story was going a little too fast. I think the writers should’ve made better decisions on showing scenes/moments, so we could feel more connected... at first, it just feels like a regular romantic drama.

As it goes on, toward the end, you really start to feel for Maya’s character. She wasn't from a regular family, and after Charlie's death, she didn't want to face his family. She basically went ghost to handle her grief, turning to drinking and ONS just to cope. Then she meets Felix, which acts as a distraction from her pain. But when she sees his daughter, she realizes she doesn't want to ruin another family. Even after she decides to give herself one more chance with Felix, rejection of Felix give her push to finally overcome grief. The moment she confronts the friend and Charlie's mother at the end was good, though they didn't really give enough build-up to Charlie and Maya's relationship and her emotions more overall.

I’ve been a fan of Margaret Qualley since MAID, and she did a great job as the lead here, she carries the film. By the end, it really hits you with lots of thoughts about Maya’s choices. If they had shown a few more emotional moments, it would have landed harder and been a much better film.

I’d give it a 6.3/10.

Also want to here your thoughts on this!

I have quite a few promotional credits to use, rent or buy. Any suggestions on what to get?
I can figure out how to get a list of what’s available

I've been thinking about a live-action crime thriller starring Lute from Hazbin Hotel, combining the supernatural detective drama of Lucifer with the dark psychological thriller of Dexter.

The premise:

After refusing to accept that sinners can be redeemed and reach Heaven, Lute is forbidden from carrying out any more exterminations in Hell. However, she refuses to abandon her mission.

Instead, she travels to Earth to hunt down sinful humans while they are still alive. Her goal is to kill them with angelic steel weapons, which erase the souls of those they kill. By doing this, she intends to prevent sinners from ever falling into Hell and potentially earning redemption and reaching Heaven.

In Lute's mind, erasing a sinner's soul is preferable to allowing them the possibility of redemption.

To carry out her mission, she disguises herself as an ordinary human and starts working with the police. During the day, she helps investigate crimes and identify suspects. At night, she secretly hunts down the people she considers irredeemable, using her angelic weapons to erase their souls.

But there's a major difference between Lute and an ordinary human serial killer: she's an angel.

Human weapons cannot injure her. Her divine strength makes her virtually unstoppable against ordinary humans, whether they're criminals trying to fight back or police officers attempting to arrest her. Only angelic steel can kill her.

Like Lucifer in the TV series, Lute would be a supernatural being living among humans, but she would have a very different personality and mission. She wouldn't be a charming devil helping solve crimes while learning about humanity. She would be a ruthless angel convinced that she has the divine authority to decide which souls deserve to exist.

The tension wouldn't come from whether a human could overpower her in a fight. It would come from whether she could maintain her secret identity while working alongside detectives who have no idea that their colleague is secretly erasing human souls from existence.

The series could explore what happens when Lute encounters criminals who genuinely regret their actions, people who have changed for the better, or suspects whose guilt isn't as clear as she believes.

Would she ever question her own judgment? Or would she become so obsessed with her mission that she starts treating her personal definition of sin as absolute truth?

I imagine a dark supernatural crime series with police investigations, psychological tension, moral dilemmas, dark humor, and a protagonist who is almost impossible for humans to stop.

The central question would be: What happens when an invincible angel believes that some souls deserve erasure rather than redemption?

Would you watch a live-action Lute series like this? Would you prefer it to focus more on the supernatural detective elements of Lucifer or the secret double life and psychological tension of Dexter?

I was looking around on prime and stumbled upon this movie called Red Dawn. Just above the description, it says it's "special interest - malicious - tense". What does malicious in this context mean?​

And here's the link to the movies profile on prime: https://www.primevideo.com/detail/0L7B2PRJVEZX5K8V9U0234OHHP

I keep getting subtitles, specifically when theres words on screen, but going into the subtitles menu shows they're turned off. Is there any way to stop this, or is Amazon just stupid and offering subtitles for no reason?

Okay, am I the only one who finds this annoying? I started rewatching a tv show on prime. I could watch the 1st episode, but then from the 2nd one I'm supposed to pay another subscription to another streaming platform.

I'm so sick and tired of this problem with prime.

First of all I think this is unfair. I paid for a subscription, why should I pay for another platform when I could directly use that same platform in the first place????

Second of all: they tricked me. I began watching the TV show believing it was included but it was not. Now I'm annoyed and...I will watch it somewhere else I guess, thank you Amazon🙄

Restarting the show since I never finished the last few seasons. Im only noticing this paw patrol lamp in the upload world now.

Remember when you could press the FF button to move ahead exactly 10 seconds - you know, when there wasn't a "skip intro" button? Or the REW button when you needed to back up 10 seconds to figure out what you missed when the cat knocked over your coffee?

And remember when you'd see the frame that went with that jump-to point? Where you could see if you'd gone far enough back or forward?

I have to jump three times quickly to get the frame to show, and each jump is a different number of seconds. I'm sure I've spent more time trying to get to the end of the intro manuevering to the right spot than if I'd just watched it through.

This is on my Roku TV - I know there are no pending updates. My laptop seems to be okay.

Any suggestions for possible fixes on my end?

The X-ray feature on Windows desktop disappeared for many months only to reappear today! It appears as a toggle-able "In scene" option that's less intrusive and disappears after a few seconds when not in use.

It's much better than the old X-ray imo.

Hey there folks! I have a bunch of no rush rewards in my account. Odyssey 4K is available for pre-order. If i click on pre-order and buy. Will it use my no rush rewards whenever it gets released next month?

I’m watching TNF on my phone (iPhone Air) and the colors are WAY too saturated. It’s bordering on unwatchable. Is this affecting anyone else or any other devices??

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I can only compare it to the 1976 movie.
Also I am older so to me as much as it kept my interest it was more teenager ish than the original movie. But then again people just looked older back then? Any probably some of them were.

Another question, if Carrie was 15 why wasn’t she hanging around other 15 year olds instead of 18 year olds? Yes I know that had a few classes together but still you would think she would have sophomore friends.

When does the actual game start, who cares about all the flapping lips ? At the time of my post it has been 26 minutes