![]() ![]() What happens if Disney buys Netflix and shuffles any adult-leaning properties off the streaming service, or banishes them to a weirdo niche service that costs too much? What happens if Netflix needs to sell off licensing of certain properties to pay back some of their massive spending debts on original content? Hell, what happens if Anonymous hacks every single streaming service and deletes all the source files off all the source servers just for the lulz? I’ll tell you what happens: You’ll wake up one day, ready to spend three and a half hours on a slow-burning tale of crime and regret, and it simply will not be on Netflix any longer. Sure, Netflix was a production company on Marriage Story from the ground up, and their acquisition of and investment in The Irishman was a huge play for cultural cachet, giving them incentive to keep it on their service as long as possible. But as we’ve seen with previous Netflix mainstays like Friends, Parks and Recreation, and all the damn MCU movies moving to their respective studio-owned streaming services (not to mention the forthcoming loss of The Office in 2021), these facades of streaming ownership are only as good as the last dollar spent. Yes, at the moment, you can stream The Irishman and Marriage Story on Netflix. ![]() ![]() Let’s start with the sometimes bitter truth of rights and licensing issues in the wild west era of streaming, and how frustratingly fluid they can be. Here, then, are some reasons to buy Netflix movies on Blu-ray even though they’re streaming, using two recent Criterion Collection packages of excellent 2019 Netflix feature films, The Irishman and Marriage Story, as case studies. But even if you have an inkling of buying Blu-rays of Netflix properties, I implore you to go for it. Why purchase Blu-rays of Orange Is the New Black, Stranger Things, or Roma when you can simply pull them up on that ubiquitous red N and tell it you’re still watching? If this is, sincerely, your opinion, I welcome you and invite you to stream away. This perspective must be even more accurate with the granddaddy of streaming services: Netflix. ![]() In our era of numerous, pervasive streaming services all offering swaths of library content for any taste or niche, no matter how broad or centered, it can seem antiquated, costly, and even silly to maintain a physical media habit. ![]()
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