# Fuck Netflix! Hamlet is a Two-Disc Movie! Warning to all Netflixers!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-netflix-hamlet-is-a-two-disc-movie-warning-to-all-netflixers/416218
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [August 20, 2007, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-netflix-hamlet-is-a-two-disc-movie-warning-to-all-netflixers/416218 "2007-08-20T04:26:52Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2007, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-netflix-hamlet-is-a-two-disc-movie-warning-to-all-netflixers/416218/41 "2007-08-20T20:36:30Z")
It’s the **Character Name In Title** that gets my blood racin’.
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### Author:  [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2007, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-netflix-hamlet-is-a-two-disc-movie-warning-to-all-netflixers/416218/42 "2007-08-20T20:44:59Z")
[QUOTE=SkipMagic]
It’s the **Character Name In Title** that gets my blood racin’.
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What’s my name? (Slap) What’s my name? (Slap) What’s my name?
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### Author:  [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2007, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-netflix-hamlet-is-a-two-disc-movie-warning-to-all-netflixers/416218/43 "2007-08-20T20:45:50Z")
[QUOTE=SkipMagic]
It’s the **Character Name In Title** that gets my blood racin’.
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Right – because all the good Shakespeare movies have that, including Hamlet. If Shakespeare does it, it must be good.
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### Author:  [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swallowed_My_Cellphone)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2007, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-netflix-hamlet-is-a-two-disc-movie-warning-to-all-netflixers/416218/44 "2007-08-20T20:47:01Z")
[QUOTE=Ponder Stibbons]
You mean, _The Wiz_?
_d&r_
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Oh… Oh, that’s so very, very wrong.
And I laughed. So I’ll sit next to you for the trip to Hell, yes?
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### Author:  [@Algher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Algher)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2007, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-netflix-hamlet-is-a-two-disc-movie-warning-to-all-netflixers/416218/45 "2007-08-20T21:14:00Z")
The obvious problem is that you ordered Hamlet from Netflix.
> [@](#):
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> Neither a Borrower, nor Lender Be!!!
Yeesh. People STILL ignore the advice.
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### Author:  [@Just\_Some\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Some_Guy)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2007, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-netflix-hamlet-is-a-two-disc-movie-warning-to-all-netflixers/416218/46 "2007-08-20T21:51:43Z")
[QUOTE=ArizonaTeach]
I don’t know what wussed out, bowlderized, Charles and Mary Lamb version of Hamlet you’re reading, but the one in my head clearly shows everyone dying. And monkeys. Mine has monkeys.
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I believe the monkeys were only in the first folio. They were removed by 1630 and most scholars refuse to put them back in because they were silly.
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### Author:  [@ACC\_Expat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ACC_Expat)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2007, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-netflix-hamlet-is-a-two-disc-movie-warning-to-all-netflixers/416218/47 "2007-08-20T22:30:45Z")
Man, am I glad that I grabbed it at Borders (sort of on impulse along with _Raise the Red Lantern_) instead of keeping it at the top of my queue. I would have been…displeased.
I buttered myself up for The Big One by watching _Henry V_ yesterday. Branagh as young Hal = smoldering
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### Author:  [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2007, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-netflix-hamlet-is-a-two-disc-movie-warning-to-all-netflixers/416218/48 "2007-08-20T22:37:51Z")
> [@](#):
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> I don’t know what wussed out, bowlderized, Charles and Mary Lamb version of Hamlet you’re reading, but the one in my head clearly shows everyone dying. And monkeys. Mine has monkeys.
That scene at the end - where Fortinbras is riding along the beach and sees the statue of the Little Mermaid and says, _“Oh my God. All the time, it was Denmark. You Maniacs! You killed everyone! Damn you! God damn you all to hell!”_ - pure movie magic. This Shakespeare guy can write. Is he working on any new movies?
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### Author:  [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2007, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-netflix-hamlet-is-a-two-disc-movie-warning-to-all-netflixers/416218/49 "2007-08-20T22:39:58Z")
[QUOTE=Little Nemo]
That scene at the end - where Fortinbras is riding along the beach and sees the statue of the Little Mermaid and says, _“Oh my God. All the time, it was Denmark. You Maniacs! You killed everyone! Damn you! God damn you all to hell!”_ - pure movie magic. This Shakespeare guy can write. Is he working on any new movies?
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Bwahahahah! Good one!
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### Author:  [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2007, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-netflix-hamlet-is-a-two-disc-movie-warning-to-all-netflixers/416218/50 "2007-08-20T22:46:53Z")
[QUOTE=Just Some Guy]
I believe the monkeys were only in the first folio. They were removed by 1630 and most scholars refuse to put them back in because they were silly.
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No, not quite correct. The original had _monks_ screeching and flinging their feces at Hamlet.
Later, Church of England censors changed _monks_ to _monkeys_.
Finally, PETA convinced publishers to remove all references to monkeys, claiming the passages were libelous should monkeys ever achieve the civil rights they were entitled to.
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### Author:  [@fachverwirrt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fachverwirrt)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2007, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-netflix-hamlet-is-a-two-disc-movie-warning-to-all-netflixers/416218/51 "2007-08-20T22:50:04Z")
[QUOTE=Boyo Jim]
No, not quite correct. The original had _monks_ screeching and flinging their feces at Hamlet.
Later, Church of England censors changed _monks_ to _monkeys_.
Finally, PETA convinced publishers to remove all references to monkeys, claiming the passages were libelous should monkeys ever achieve the civil rights they were entitled to.
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If an infinite number of feces flinging monks had an infinite number of typewriters…
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### Author:  [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2007, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-netflix-hamlet-is-a-two-disc-movie-warning-to-all-netflixers/416218/52 "2007-08-21T04:34:52Z")
I have a good friend who is a professional actress and a Shakespeare scholar. I called her and read her this thread. I thought she was going to pass out she was laughing so hard.
When I read her **Boyo Jim** ’s post about the monks flinging poo, I think she wet herself.
Very well done to all of you.
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### Author:  [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2007, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-netflix-hamlet-is-a-two-disc-movie-warning-to-all-netflixers/416218/53 "2007-08-21T08:27:31Z")
[QUOTE=Bricker]
Hamlet sees dead people, including Kyser Soze.
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And Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.
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### Author:  [@GrizzRich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrizzRich)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2007, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-netflix-hamlet-is-a-two-disc-movie-warning-to-all-netflixers/416218/54 "2007-08-23T01:23:49Z")
…and there’s a Spanish swordfighter, and a giant, and a six-fingered man, and a lisping brainiac, and a mask-wearing blonde (with a great English accent, by the way), and an evil prince, and kissing… but not too much.
…and don’t say his name on stage, or it’s bad luck!
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### Author:  [@Kuboydal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kuboydal)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2007, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-netflix-hamlet-is-a-two-disc-movie-warning-to-all-netflixers/416218/55 "2007-08-23T15:28:40Z")
I like the part about robots.
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### Author:  [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2007, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-netflix-hamlet-is-a-two-disc-movie-warning-to-all-netflixers/416218/56 "2007-08-23T15:39:16Z")
What company only sells one disk of a two disk movie in the first place?
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### Author:  [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2007, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-netflix-hamlet-is-a-two-disc-movie-warning-to-all-netflixers/416218/57 "2007-08-23T17:35:07Z")
[QUOTE=dalej42]
I think it is probably fairly simple. Whoever put the discs into inventory probably put the second dvd as “bonus material.”
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So does that mean Netflix normally ships out “bonus” DVDs as a separate title?
If so, I’ll stick to walking into a Blockbuster, where the second DVD is already in the box.
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### Author:  [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2007, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-netflix-hamlet-is-a-two-disc-movie-warning-to-all-netflixers/416218/58 "2007-08-23T18:50:15Z")
[QUOTE=gotpasswords]
So does that mean Netflix normally ships out “bonus” DVDs as a separate title?
If so, I’ll stick to walking into a Blockbuster, where the second DVD is already in the box.
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Yeah, but where they never have the movie you want in the first place.
Yes, the bonus discs are generally not included and you have to add them as a seperate disc.
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### Author:  [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2007, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-netflix-hamlet-is-a-two-disc-movie-warning-to-all-netflixers/416218/59 "2007-08-23T19:34:00Z")
I was under the impression(from my phone call to Netflix) that they do not purchase the bonus discs very often.
I assumed they have a deal with some distributor that allows them to purchase individual discs since they buy such large numbers.
Am I wrong about that?
By the way, I’m thrilled that my thread is featured in Threadspotting! I didn’t even submit it! 🙂
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### Author:  [@Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laughing_Lagomorph)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2007, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-netflix-hamlet-is-a-two-disc-movie-warning-to-all-netflixers/416218/60 "2007-08-23T23:01:19Z")
[QUOTE=Giles]
… keeps Fortinbras up to date with the Danish situation. …
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“They’ve still got some lemon, and a few cherry, but the prune are all gone…”
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