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disrupts industry; forgot they were part of that industry. Dies
I cancelled a few years back after getting tired of the rate hikes. Now that Stranger Things is done I honestly have no idea what ongoing series or movie franchises they have at this point. Is there anything still in the zeitgeist now? I don’t hear about anything.
They’re focused on solely making content you can double screen, while watching, so all super slow repeating what’s happening frequently, nothingness. Personally, I judge a show on whether I reach for my phone or not. If I reach, I know it’s bad or at least mid. I won’t double screen. I stop watching. So It’s nice to be told there’s nothing on Netflix for me.
Oof. That is the type I hate the most, second only to reality TV. When I watch something, I sit down to focus on it. It’s not something on another screen or in the background.
I gave up on them when they kept hiking the price and removing features.
It’s literally why we have Netflix. It is constantly playing on the background as my wife works. I prefer music for work. Apple TV and Dropout for streaming entertainment.
Why pay for elevator music?
Do you think elevator music was free? Muzak was a successful company for many years, selling background.
How much did it cost those in the elevator?
Wednesday, Bridgerton, Kpop Demon Hunters, The Diplomat, Nobody Wants This, One Piece, Stranger Things spinoffs
Bit late to this comment but I also wanna add they have a lot of exclusive anime, notably JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure
Fuck I forgot they have JoJo on there… Hulu only has like the first 4 parts or so.
Yeah part 7 is currently running right now with a new episode every week, only on Netflix unfortunately.
I mostly watch stuff I already know, and mostly stuff that aired decades ago. I should just buy those old series on DVD, throw them on Jellyfin and cancel my subscription.
people were done with stranger things, it took like 10 years to put out 4-5 measlely seasons i heard, basically what AOT did.
Bro it was 10 years from the end of season 3 to the beginning of season 5 alone.
wow, that sounds terrible, no wonder there was so many memes about millie brown.
In addition to the shows already mentioned there’s all the Mike Flannigan shows which are great. Umbrella Academy is great. Monsters seasons by Ryan Murphy are also well done. There’s a lot of slop on there but also some gems if you know what to look for.
the reasons are: restricting how much people can use it, increasing the price constantly, also eliminating content from the library.
cancelling shows 1-2,3 seasons, only 8 episodes per season and extremely long hiatuses in between seasons,
I’d say they lost when they decided to show netflix “exclusives” in theaters.
I hate exclusives.
I’d pay to watch your movies and shows, but you decided you don’t want that money. We could both be happy, but unless it’s the maximum money I could pay it’s not good enough.
And so I don’t give them money.
Like, I live Mike Flanagan’s work, but I guess I’m just not going to be able to see it since it only exists as Amazon and Netflix exclusives now. It’s a shame.
I guess I’m just not going to be able to see it since it only exists as Amazon and Netflix exclusives now.
Netflix was a good idea but they got greedy, but luckily there are alternatives.
I still remember, in the early days, their ceo bragging about them “not having and never having ads”, and that you could share your password with friends as a feature.
Between going back on those features/promises, hiking prices way the fuck up, and making big budget slop movies before ai slop… I’ll be surprised if they don’t, ironically, go the way of blockbuster some day
They used to also be known is the company that saved cancelled shows. Now they’re known as the company that always cancels shows before they complete.
they probably realized the immense cost of having a streaming service around, so they try to squeeze whatever penny out of people. its why they kept trek as long as they did for paramount.
unfortunately they are the ones producing the shows though, albeit with varying degrees of quality.
And what makes you believe Netflix is protected from piracy?
Any company who stops servicing their customer and starts nickel and diming them to death will ultimately fail. Short-term cash grabs keep the shareholders happy though.
This whole idea of “keeping the shareholders happy,” is also such bad business. The modern share holder being catered to is the day trader: buy in before we grow large, dump the stock when we peak before we lose all value.
The classic and traditional shareholder being “middle class America holding the stock of companies whose mission they believe in,” is long dead, if it were ever real.
Most stock in large companies is actually held by index funds. It’s your retirement they’re growing. Or realistically a bunch of old people’s who own a lot more than you or me
“Big Popcorn” wins again.
I go to the movies every week as a ritual, but it’s not a Netflix competitor to me?
…Honestly, our TV looks better. I can eat whatever I want. I can watch anything on Earth, including serial TV. It costs exponentially less. Theaters cant compete with that.
But the theatres have:
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A different form of curation, stuff I wouldn’t necessarily pick but am glad I went to see.
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Decent, fun restaurant food (at our Movie Tavern).
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The social “get out of the house” factor, friendly staff.
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The “seen a popular movie” social factor.
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In the case of IMAX, a truly unique viewing “form factor.”
Netflix can’t offer that.
I view them as two completely different things.
I’d add two things:
1: The popcorn at the theater is just different. Its extremely hard to recreate at home.
2: You are less likely distracted with your phone at the theater, wich improves the movie watching experiance dramatically.
Closest we’ve managed to theater popcorn is a popper like this:
With butter of course and then seasoned with Flavacol:
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Exclusivity is intolerable.
Yarr
No time to chill.
2 shows i liked they had to end early, i give them that sandman was almost done, but with gaiman and what not. blood of zeus was suppose to have way more than what season 3 produced.
