Discovery has done something good for a change.
Over the past month, its uploaded 30 different movies of varying quality to YouTube.
you might watch them right now for free.
Jeremy Irons acting too hard in 2000’s ‘Dungeons & Dragons.‘© Image via YouTube
This is the company that shelved thecompletedBatgirlmovie andCoyote vs Acme.
The sudden appearance of the movie dump was first noticed byErnie Smith over at Tedium.
Ive never gotten around to watching David ByrnesTrue Storiesbut Ive always wanted to.
Now thebarrier to entry is gone.
The list is full of cinematic masterpieces, obscure cult cinema, and absolute trash.
William Friedkin had a god-tier run of films in the 1970s.
He put outThe French Connection,The Exorcist, and ended withSorcerer.
Its supposed to be awful.
Most of these movies are not on Max, the companys premier streaming service.
Some of them are obscure gems, some are total crap, and some Ive never heard of.
Its a strange list and this feels like some kind of an experiment.
Warner Bros. is a 100-year-old movie studio with a back catalog filled with an uncountable number of films.
The studio has long tried to capitalize on that back catalog without breaking the bank.
In 2009 it launched something called the Warner Archive Collection.
Five years later, the Archive got into streaming.
But that all got shut down when Zaslav took over.
Most, but not all, of the catalog moved to Max.
Now, it appears, some of it is on YouTube.
Its a place where abandoned media can live without Warner paying hosting fees.
Nice Guy, a 1997 Jackie Chan vehicle, has15 million views.
The revenue on that isnt nothing.
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