{"id":5274,"date":"2026-02-02T09:34:49","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T05:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=5274"},"modified":"2026-02-02T16:32:44","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T12:32:44","slug":"i-dont-see-a-shadow-just-corporate-greed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=5274","title":{"rendered":"I don&#8217;t see a shadow, just corporate greed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the guy who literally wrote <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Greatest-Movies-Ever-Should-Watch\/dp\/1667866672\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1OSEAMNBOEGOO&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.QVP4B8RShlQyJ4DD1ow8UMwMdgL7JcLBW-ARzGOKdk7lYIY1YbPpxp7RenK0P0v6ut12MgAlnENa-TlfyNcNaabk5lRIRlsjbYugjtiKFFDNJKCR4XxvlQ9le4a78fNX8Ai5pwUvuU33HUsG20We8Wt-d2HjQoisXOoLw6Xwh82re4hvKY4wA0XumOXuuVzJKFPcki4DRtYaVdJ6p4d4692nixFqUX_WwUo3CP2m6Kk.iERU2AQTjnIyngkBP5UKzY95UreCkFNy8Xp3SHLVw7I&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=the+365+greatest+movies+ever+made&amp;qid=1770003388&amp;sprefix=the+365+greatest+movies+ever+made%2Caps%2C134&amp;sr=8-1\">the book<\/a> on dates and movies, I should note that today is Groundhog Day and there&#8217;s an obvious choice for what movie one should watch.<\/p>\n<p>In the streaming era this should be easy, right? It&#8217;s a popular movie; just see what streaming service has it.<\/p>\n<p>(Pause for clicking through options.)<\/p>\n<p>Clever, clever, the folks at Netflix are, who dropped\u00a0<em>Groundhog Day<\/em> from their roster on January 31, making us calendar-following chumps pony up a few bucks on Amazon to see it. It&#8217;s not as though they don&#8217;t understand what day people will want to watch this movie. They understand\u00a0<em>exactly<\/em> when people will want to watch this movie, and double down on some dirty &#8220;surge pricing&#8221; to collect a few bucks. Keep the Big Streaming Syndicate happy. Can\u2019t upset the cartel.<\/p>\n<p>Weak move, Netflix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the guy who literally wrote the book on dates and movies, I should note that today is Groundhog Day and there&#8217;s an obvious choice for what movie one should watch. In the streaming era this should be easy, right? &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=5274\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5274"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5277,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5274\/revisions\/5277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}