Netflix to help subscribers’ new year’s resolutions to watch less TV by cutting nearly 100 shows and movies
As the new year rapidly approaches and people everywhere vow to lose some weight, learn a language, or maybe watch less TV and read a goddamn book every once in a while, Netflix is making it a little bit easier to switch off its streaming-video service: By January 4, American viewers will have nearly 100 fewer films and TV series to watch. As we reported in May, Netflix is no longer announcing these kinds of cuts, but a Reddit user figured out the impending changes and posted this list:
TV Shows (expiring Jan. 1, 2014)
Dark Shadows (original from late 1960s)
Saturday Night Live The 2000s
Mr Bean
The Kids In The Hall
Perfect 10 Model Boxing (Volume 1)
Films
EXPIRING DECEMBER 29, 2013
Transformers Dark Of The Moon
EXPIRING JANUARY 4, 2014
Alice In Wonderland (1951 Disney)
Immortals
Dynamite Warrior
EXPIRING JANUARY 1, 2014
The Rundown
Brick
Being John Malkovich
Back To School
Battle Of Britain
Born On the Fourth Of July
Braveheart
Body Of Evidence
Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo
Man On The Moon
Lionheart
1492 Conquest Of Paradise
Killer Klowns From Outer Space
Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
FX
Do The Right Thing
Desperado
Up In Smoke
Can’t Hardly Wait
Capote
Biloxi Blues
Seed Of Chucky
Jarhead
As Good As It Gets
In The Name Of The Father
Inside Deep Throat (documentary)
I’m Gonna Get You Sucka
In Like Flint
Hard Target
Foxy Brown
Frankenstein And The Monster From Hell
Gallipoli
Half Baked
Flashdance
50 First Dates
For The Love Of The Game
The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas
The Bad News Bears
The Russia House
The Secret Of Nimh
Revenge OF The Ninja
Roman Holiday
Rob Roy
Jay And Silent Bob Strike Back
Remo Williams
Requiem For A Dream
Quigley Down Under
Pumpkinhead
Platoon
Once Upon A Time In Mexico
October Sky
Mystery Men
The Skulls
Titanic
Ronin
Romeo And Juliet (1968)
Tales From The Crypt: Bordello Of Blood
Tales From The Crypt: Demon Knight
The Woman In Red
Top Gun
Street Fighter
TNT Jackson
Serpico
Seed Of Chucky
Scary Movie
Running Scared
Troll II
True Grit (1969)
War And Peace
Talk Radio
War Games
We Were Soldiers
What Dreams May Come
Windtalkers
World Trade Center
The Private Life Of Sherlock Holmes
The Odd Couple (1968)
The Mask Of Zorro
The Great Train Robbery
The Faculty
The Dream Team
Best Of Times
Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot
Species
Mashable broke the news after A.V. Club Podmass contributor Maggie Serota wrote about it for Death And Taxes, making a crack that no one would miss Jay And Silent Bob Strike Back. Kevin Smith didn’t appreciate it, and that turned into a whole thing because of course it did. But Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot makes Jay And Silent Bob Strike Back look like Citizen Kane. And it’s probably best if we all purge our memories of World Trade Center, even though we promised never to forget.