Killers Of The Flower Moon is now available to watch at home
You can now experience Leonardo DiCaprio's pout from the comfort of your couch
Aux News Killers Of The Flower Moon
If you were nervous about seeing a 206-minute epic with absolutely no intermissions in theaters, or you really wanted to experience Brendan Fraser and his “girth” from the comfort of your own home, today’s your lucky day. Fresh off nabbing both a Best Film win and a Best Actress win (for Lily Gladstone) from the New York Film Critic’s Circle Awards, Martin Scorsese’s Killers Of The Flower Moon is now available to rent and buy on demand.
Unfortunately, the film isn’t available to stream for free anywhere yet. It will eventually be added to Apple TV+’s roster, but for now you can purchase or borrow the movie on Prime, Google Play, and other VOD services. As of this writing, the film costs $19.99 to rent and $24.99 to buy on Prime.
Killers Of The Flower Moon, based on David Grann’s 2017 book of the same name, tells the story of a series of brutal murders of the Osage people in 1920s Oklahoma, at the hands of white settlers who wanted money inherited from the oil on their land. Lily Gladstone and Leonardo DiCaprio star as married couple Mollie and Ernest Burkhart (a role that was apparently Leonardo DiCaprio’s idea to cast himself in), alongside Robert De Niro, Jesse Plemons, Brendan Fraser, and more. (Not to mention, of course, one very special cameo.)
“Scorsese has always chronicled how America obtains its power and position over the rest of the world and the rotting underbelly of that status,” Murtada Elfadl wrote in his “A” review of the film for The A.V. Club. “The milieu might be different but that truth remains at the heart of his storytelling. Sometimes accused of glorifying violence, here Scorsese presents it in its ugliest shape; deliberate and intentional. Killers Of The Flower Moon is as momentous as the country it’s set in and as full of history as the people whose murder it depicts.”
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$19.99 to rent?! That’s insane.
I think most new releases are that much at the start. They usually drop a few weeks after that.
I mean SOME idiots must pay it because they simply can’t wait, otherwise they’d stop doing it
But it’s 206 minutes long, so at least you’re getting your money’s worth.
It’s the standard now. I think they make the price difference between the rental and purchase so small so that people* just shrug and say might as well own it for an extra $5.*(I’m people.)
Aww look, he thinks he’s people!
More like a sheep, amirite?
I digitally own a pretty random array of movies for exactly that reason.
I own the entire Rambo collection because it was 5 bucks more than buying First Blood separately. I liken it to a period in the ‘00’s when it was cheaper to buy a new desktop printer than replace the ink cartridges alone. Edit to make it clear I did not WANT (nor have watched) any of the others in the set.
I already downloaded a free copy. I would have watched it at the theater if it wasn’t so long. I stole it from Scorcese, and will watch it over 2 or 3 nights just to spite hum.
you can purchase or borrow the movie on Prime, Google Play, and other VOD servicesSix of one, half dozen of the other. Anything “purchased” on a VOD platform could disappear at any time.
Wow, what incredible insight! What are you doing giving this away for free?
But then you have to wait another month for it on disc. I’ll roll the dice that digital purchases aren’t going to disappear anytime soon or ever
I bought Pee Wee’s Playhouse Christmas Special on iTunes, and it was gone within a year or two. I haven’t bought a movie on VOD since, unless it’s only a dollar or two more than renting.
Surely there’s a way to download or otherwise capture the stream to just save on a hard drive in perpetuity…(Not hinting here, I genuinely don’t know, though I assume someone out there has come up with something by now)
There are, but most involve either some degree of programming skill, or a willingness to install questionable plugins and browser extensions that often come with a sidecar of adware and malware. Since paid downloads cost about the same as a baseline Blu-ray disc, I’ll opt for the latter when I can.
“There are, but most involve either some degree of programming skill, or a willingness to install questionable plugins and browser extensions that often come with a sidecar of adware and malware.”
Man, I could show you things that would blow your mind…
Good point RE malware.
I too would probably just by it on a disc, though if it’s on Apple TV+, I wonder if there is in fact a plan to release it on physical media— if I remember correctly, their Coen movie The Tragedy Of Macbeth has still not come out on Blu-Ray or DVD. Hopefully they’ll both be released on disc eventually. (I at least saw the Coen movie in the theater; I missed out on this one.)Edit: wait, it looks like maybe the Macbeth one is in fact now out on a disc…. so good news there and potentially for Killers Of The Flower Moon.
Legit curious, not challenging here: Do you think the time will come when the players for them aren’t readily available (or affordable)? Because that gives me pause when I think of buying physical media now. VHS players and cassette decks are still around, sure, but they’re now niche and cost a lot. Sigh. Fucking corporations…
It’s certainly possible, but VCRs were still in production until 2016, and have only really started getting hard to find in the last few years, nearly 20 years after they fell out of vogue. If I can get another 20 years out of my media collection, I’ll be 67 and should be downsizing by then anyway, in preparation for the icy hand of death.
There’s something both scary sci-fi and sweetly goth about our media expiring when we do.
Shit, there’s a song in there somewhere. Thanks! My writers block is cured!
Bitorrent and YTS movies, but that’s nor quite kosher. The fact is (unlike music which largely got rid of DRM) nobody is really ready to sell you an unburdened mp4 file.
Never on my preferred VOD platform Nilus+ where for the cost of being someone I like, I will give you access to my Plex server and things only get deleted off that when I start running out of space and usually I just clear out the real crap.
man that 45 day window goes by quick, feels like this just came out
It’s even still showing at my local Regal, but down to one showing per day (which is what they generally do when the movie will leave after a week or two).
Looks like it’s still showing at seven theaters in my city. A bit surprising.
Get the small soda, unless there’s a site somewhere that recommends strategic bathroom breaks.
What 45 day window? This movie isn’t distributed by Warners and it isn’t 2021.
I feel like studios are now planning around that 45 day mark too. I am almost 100% sure Disney picked November 10th for the Marvels so they can release it on VOD on Christmas as something for family parties to throw on
I’m gonna watch it on my phone, in the bathroom, in increments of 15 minutes spread out over 14 days, just like Martin Scorsese had intended it to be viewed.
Can I pause it to use the bathroom or get a snack, or is that something that hurts Marty’s artistic vision?
Cool, I can pause it whenever I need to use the bathroom.
You monster! I’ll bet you’ll even watch it on your phone just to spite Martin!
yes and on 1.25x speed.
Half watch it as a small screen in the corner while I play some stupid color match game
now THAT to me is kinda crazy, the idea of people watching these things at high speed.. why, i don’t know
It was mostly a dig at Scorsese and his hubris. Also, some of these movies are slow and they are fine at 1.25x. heck some informational youtube videos are fine at 1.75X and many podcasts are fine at 1.25-1.5 speed. If one has trained one’s brain to input, process, and retain information quickly it is fine.
Just in time to throw on at Christmas to hear all the choice words your racist uncle has about it
And the fact that it puts the FBI in a good light for once wouldn’t even save it in the hypothetical uncle’s eyes because among his group the FBI isn’t the defenders of law and order as it used to be among the right but rather a sinister instrument of the Deep State.
Wally’s got some valid points. I had no idea there was a Vellani Crime Family.