I just saw this and i'm genuinely shocked. I was on a £4 a month offer and i cancelled it, didn't really think it was worth £4. I suppose it depends on what you watch, but for me almost every movie fits into 3 categories. 1) old movies that i already have on blu ray. 2) new releases that i'm buying on blu ray anyway, and 3) stuff i have literally zero interest in watching.
It's not entirely Sky's fault, pretty much 95% of "big" new movies are a load of rubbish, remakes or superhero movies. There are maybe 10 new movies a year that i actually want to watch and so i usually buy the blu ray when they come out. I have watched the odd old classic that i've somehow never seen and a few lesser known new releases, but there really isn't much choice. 1,000 or 1,500 or whatever it is sounds a lot, but not when you delve into it. Plus nearly all the movies seem to stay the same almost forever. I can dip in on an offer, and pretty much everything is the same from 3 years ago.
One incredibly irritating thing, is when a new sequel gets put on but they don't have the previous movie/s on there. I don't get that at all. Surely somebody somewhere in Sky Towers thinks... so... this big movie sequel is coming out... we're promoting it... maybe it would be a good idea to put the previous one/s up, for people who haven't seen them, or even just want to watch them again. But nope.
There are obviously lots of good movies that i just never hear about and Sky just fall into that same trap of promoting the same old stuff like "Iron Man 643: this time it's even more Zincy". I suppose it's what the general public want, somebody must be paying to watch it. Though i'm clearly not the target market, because i wouldn't pay £11.99 whatever movies they had on there. No point having a large collection of blu rays or dvds, then paying good money to watch the same stuff again, in much lower quality. If they had a lot more choice, with easier to find more obscure new releases, i'd chuck in 5 or 6 quid. £11.99, no chance.
The entertainment pass is good enough for me, even if it's even harder to find stuff. Bung Gold on during the day as background noise, until the Last of the Summer Wine theme tune scares me off. A bit of "it's gone a bit crap these last 15 years or so" Simpsons. Catch up with The Good Doctor and all those "a bit boring, but amusing enough" time-fillers with Romesh, Russell Howard and the rest. Then find a documentary about some bloke who chopped up all his friends and hid their toes in his freezer. Jobs a good 'un.
