The news of the tragic death of Gene Hackman (RIP!) reminded me that even tho I had always wanted to watch it, I had never seen the French Connection. I did a web search to find out who was streaming it, and I noticed in the search results that archive.org had it on their site. Just Watch said on their site that Amazon Prime could stream it for free. My wife has a Prime account, so I made a mental note and decided to go to Archive.org and watch it there since I’m sitting at my computer. It loads up and starts playing, no problems, and then at about 10 minutes in, my browser throws an error, and Voila! just like that the video is gone, suddenly no longer available. I get immediately suspicious and log in to Prime, and no, in fact, I cannot stream it for free, but I can rent it for $3.99. Nobody on this planet can convince me that Amazon’s greed didn’t have something to do with it getting yanked from Archive.org…
Opportunistic assholes.
Just fired up Prime to see.
The movie is there, but you have to have the “Hollywood Suite” or rent/buy it to watch.
Paid subscriptions need additional paid subscriptions to work. 🫠
This is more than mildly infuriating, tbh.
Even more infuriating, Amazon charges the same price for ad-free premium channels as stand-alone subscriptions. They then insert ads into that 3rd party content if you haven’t paid Amazon’s additional fee to remove ads from Amazon’s content. I’ll never again subscribe to anything through Amazon.
Looks like it’s free on dailymotion: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7zdlzz (via [email protected])
🏴☠️ fuck amazon
Arrr!
Indeed.
Though I don’t see how there could be a connection (other than coincidental) between OP browsing on Archive and it being removed from there.
Never underestimate the mechanical eyes.
Sounds like a perfectly good reason to check out whether your local library has it. And/or take up a career in sailing.
The Conversation is another good Hackman film from the early 70s
I only just found that movie back in late December. It’s excellent!
note that the car chase scenes in the French Connection weren’t on closed sets. they were filmed in public traffic. real accidents with real civilians are in the movie. that could never be done today for liability.
Ahoy there matey.
Prime is garbage. Even if it’s free on Prime, I hoist a sail.
If you have access to Kanopy they have a few of his films available.
🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️
I believe The French Connection is the movie that started the current script for car chases.
Another Hackman movie worth your time is The Royal Tennenbaums.
All of that said, someone around here can probably dm a way to watch for free.
The Quick And The Dead is clearly the best movie he’s in.
And yeah, anyone smart enough to “brave the fediverse” is smart enough to figure out how to watch it for free.
I believe The French Connection is the movie that started the current script for car chases.
Bullitt would like a word
That’s not how that works
