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Toys
1992 · Film · 122 min
Directed by Barry Levinson
Leslie Zevo is a fun-loving inventor who must save his late father's toy factory from his evil uncle, Leland, a war-mongering general who rules the operation with an iron fist and builds weapons disguised as toys.
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Does no-one remember the 1992 Robin Williams film - Toys? This has been coming for a lonnng time. Question is when there are two armies operating on the same principle do we reach some kind of nash equilibrium?
That was the premise for a 1992 film starring Robin Williams [1] called "Toys"
[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_vxkIm9z8k [video]
This is a huge shift for Netflix.
Until recently, the motivating impression was that Netflix just plain had every movie out there (which its continuing DVD service kinda does). I subscribed because it was a cheap replacement for buying anything I wanted to see: they had everything I wanted and could want. My to-watch list was very long, and I thought it would remain.
Now, studios and competitors are making that model untenable. Netflix can't carry _everything_ because studios/distributors want an ever-larger cut of the profits, and competitors are willing to pay for exclusivity. Suddenly, I find large sections of my to-watch list disappearing off Netflix as contracts expire and don't renew (the biggest blow was when "Toys" disappeared - something old & obscure enough that I thought surely they'd manage to keep that license).
Netflix just pivoted.
They're no longer the long-promised "long tail" of movies, hosting all but the latest & biggest (yeah, I'm willing to pay extra individually for those). They just gave up on that model.
Now they're becoming a "channel" focused on hosting a curated collection, including their own productions.
That's a big shift.
Toys is a different film from Toy Story.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toys_(film)
(http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105629/)
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toys_(film))
And "Toys" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toys_(film) ]. Warfare has become a game of economics (for the winner, at least).