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Miracle on 34th Street
1994 · Film · 114 min
Directed by Les Mayfield
Six-year-old Susan Walker has doubts about childhood's most enduring miracle—Santa Claus. Her mother told her the secret about Santa a long time ago, but, after meeting a special department store Santa who's convinced he's the real thing, Susan is given the most precious gift of all—something to believe in.
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> Have you seen Miracle on 34th Street, where Kris Kringle convinces Macy's and Gimbels to tell their customers that their competition has what they're looking for? That isn't as fictional as Santa Claus. I was in a Walmart yesterday when I heard a clerk tell a customer that the hardware store down the street has the thing that Walmart didn't. It happens a bazillion times a day.
One of my favorite movies, yes! And I absolutely believe that a clerk will do this; if there was ever a loyalty of staff to the retail companies for which they worked, it was probably misplaced then, and is definitely misplaced now. But that's a matter of human discretion that overseers haven't yet been able to engineer out, whereas here we're talking about something that would have specifically to engineer in. The unwillingness of Amazon even to try to confront the massive review-gaming and counterfeit-items problem leads me to believe that, to the extent that they ever viewed their mission as getting the customer what they wanted, they don't now—and so will not change their search in a way that would facilitate that.
It's almost completely gone in the US on Netflix also. I've had better luck watching older movies on Youtube 'Free with Ads' service, especially 80s and 90s movies, than I've had on Netflix. And there's no ads if you get Youtube's premium service (I currently don't, but don't mind the ads).
Currently on there is Wrongfully Accused (funny Leslie Nielsen movie), Glengarry Glen Ross, Robocop (1987), Ghost in the Shell, The Mask, License to Drive, The Neverending Story, Tombstone, Leon The Professonal, The Amityville Horror, Over the Top (some Stallone movie), Miracle on 34th Street, Con Air, Edward Scissorhands, Gone Fishin', Look Who's Talking, While You Were Sleeping, The Craft, Red Dawn, So I Married an Axe Murderer, Secret of Nimh, Killer Klowns from Outer Space, Revenge of the Pink Panther, Mad Max, Das Boot, Little Shop of Horrors, Hackers, .... okay, I'm just going to stop now, but t keeps going, I'm only a third of the way though the list.
I don't understand why the major streaming services don't have the good Christmas movies. They all have these new "made for TV" quality awful movies they push really hard.
It's A Wonderful Life
A Christmas Carol
Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer (old animated version)
How the Grinch Stole Christmas (old animated version)
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
Home Alone
Miracle On 34th Street
Elf
White Christmas
There's tons of GREAT Christmas movies. On any given Christmas season Netflix might have 1-2 of the greats. Same for Amazon Prime.
I'm confused because it seems like an easy win for these streaming services. Is licensing them really so expensive?