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Didn't Netflix like JUST add poo poo like Dear White People and Transformers? Are they already gone? Netflix is kinda eating poo poo right now it feels like. Like, it's not 'doomed' or whatever, but it feels like every month their main additions are new seasons of tv shows when, ya know, they're the movie people.
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Oct 2, 2015 02:37
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Tatum Girlparts posted:Didn't Netflix like JUST add poo poo like Dear White People and Transformers? Are they already gone? it's been really disappointing for the last 3 months or so. Very little I've been interested in watching.
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Oct 2, 2015 05:06
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They've been slowly shifting towards a focus on original programming. Some of which is quite good, mind you, but it's really disappointing that they keep changing their mission- first they let the DVD department go to seed (the number of things the physical service doesn't have often surprises me), now they're like "Eh, who watches MOVIES anymore?"
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Oct 2, 2015 05:40
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Yea I like their shows but, ya know, I joined for movies.
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Oct 2, 2015 07:51
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Maxwell Lord posted:They've been slowly shifting towards a focus on original programming. Some of which is quite good, mind you, but it's really disappointing that they keep changing their mission- first they let the DVD department go to seed (the number of things the physical service doesn't have often surprises me), now they're like "Eh, who watches MOVIES anymore?" I mean they have all the data of what people are choosing to watch. So they're probably just following those numbers to cater to their users preferences in entertainment.
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Oct 2, 2015 12:50
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Magnus Gallant posted:I mean they have all the data of what people are choosing to watch. So they're probably just following those numbers to cater to their users preferences in entertainment. Probably this. The fact that people tend to jump on and marathon series when they come out goes a long way to driving content I'd imagine. I watch a pretty even mix of movies and shows and haven't noticed a dropoff in the number of movies I watch / would want to watch to be honest but my consumption habits are probably less than a lot of other viewers. Point being, I don't think their movie choices are limited at this point compared to the other services I have access to.
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Oct 2, 2015 13:07
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I rarely watch movies so this isn't surprising to me at all. Like Hugo and Transformers 4 are the only two movies I've watched since June or thereabouts.
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Oct 2, 2015 13:27
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Hulu has Miami Vice, Crime Story and Wiseguy streaming.
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Oct 2, 2015 14:04
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Gotham is just terrible writing and acting its like a few degrees off of being a popcorn mess that's fun in its wrecked form however. That current standard bearer is Under the Dome formerly Dexter. My personal issue with Fargo TV is that it felt like a cheap carbon copy of Fargo. Same notes, sameish song, worse cover band. Whens Under the Dome going out to streaming pasture?
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Oct 2, 2015 14:18
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I end up watching way more shows streaming than movies simply because of the time commitment. Watching a 1hr episode every day is easy to squeeze in; watching a 2hr movie is a bit more cumbersome and basically prevents you from doing much of anything else.
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Oct 2, 2015 14:26
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david_a posted:I end up watching way more shows streaming than movies simply because of the time commitment. Watching a 1hr episode every day is easy to squeeze in; watching a 2hr movie is a bit more cumbersome and basically prevents you from doing much of anything else. Yeah this too, also it's usually not 1 hour but closer to 45 minutes. You can finish two episodes in the span of an average kid's movie (which is itself much shorter than an average film today).
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Oct 2, 2015 14:31
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Don''t worry, Netflix is probably going to get 20000 Oscar nominations for Beasts of No Nation and they'll start pushing movies again.
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Oct 2, 2015 15:08
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I've never really thought of Netflix streaming as having an extremely deep catalog, anyway. They still seem to be adding all of the mid-budget indie/boutique movies I don't get around to seeing in theaters, so I'm getting my money's worth
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Oct 2, 2015 15:17
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I think its worth keeping my Netflix subscription just for the original stuff alone(Daredevil, Narcos, House of Cards, a few more I'm forgetting). Still its a bummer that things are going in this direction because I'm a movie guy, I watch a ton of movies. I love that if I'm not sure if I'll like something, I could usually wait on it and it would pop up on Netflix a few months down the line. I saw The Guest, Noah, You're Next and Nightcrawler that way just recently, I'd be a lot less current in my movie watching if not for Netflix.
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Oct 2, 2015 15:28
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Maxwell Lord posted:They've been slowly shifting towards a focus on original programming. Some of which is quite good, mind you, but it's really disappointing that they keep changing their mission- first they let the DVD department go to seed (the number of things the physical service doesn't have often surprises me), now they're like "Eh, who watches MOVIES anymore?" For a while they'll have mixed content and eventually they'll probably have their service split again or something, like when they split instant and the DVD portions. I imagine redbox is murdering them on the DVD front.
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Oct 2, 2015 15:32
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Junkie Disease posted:Gotham is just terrible writing and acting its like a few degrees off of being a popcorn mess that's fun in its wrecked form however. Surprisingly season 2 is actually legitimately awesome so far. It's like a completely different show.
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Oct 2, 2015 15:38
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Basebf555 posted:I think its worth keeping my Netflix subscription just for the original stuff alone(Daredevil, Narcos, House of Cards, a few more I'm forgetting). Just get a Hulu subscription. Netflix is starting to suck rear end with their commitment to their awful Originals and loving TV shows. I hate TV shows.
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Yaws posted:Just get a Hulu subscription. Netflix is starting to suck rear end with their commitment to their awful Originals and loving TV shows. I have both, and up to this point I felt like I was getting my money's worth. I'd drop Netflix today if it weren't for the original stuff that they keep putting out. For instance I don't see a point in dropping it now for a few months, only to pick it up again when Daredevil Season 2 comes out. Like I said they have their hooks in me with a few shows that I don't want to give up, not unlike HBO back in the day when I used to like True Blood and Game of Thrones. That's the HBO model and it works. All you need is each subscriber to be hooked on one show, and they won't cancel the subscription. Most people don't like to cancel and restart subscriptions constantly, its easier to just be lazy and pay the 8 bucks a month. Basebf555 fucked around with this message at 16:26 on Oct 2, 2015 |
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Movie studios are getting greedy now that streaming is the one platform that is actually growing and rival platforms like Amazon and Hulu are using the money and connections of their massive parent companies to try and elbow in on the market via exclusivity deals with shows, like it or not original programming is the surest thing they have going for them. Especially since premium cable networks are finally breaking into a la carte subscriptions and pulling their shows off of competing services.
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Oct 2, 2015 17:16
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Sleeveless posted:Movie studios are getting greedy now that streaming is the one platform that is actually growing and rival platforms like Amazon and Hulu are using the money and connections of their massive parent companies to try and elbow in on the market via exclusivity deals with shows, like it or not original programming is the surest thing they have going for them. Especially since premium cable networks are finally breaking into a la carte subscriptions and pulling their shows off of competing services. Yeah it's this. I mean I wish Netflix had all the movies but production companies get competing offers from different services.
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Oct 2, 2015 17:20
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I'm just wondering if we're any closer to that scenario that's been hinted at for the last couple of years, where every studio sets up their own movie streaming service. Because right now, with the death of Blockbuster, the decreasing importance of DVDs, and the unwillingness of content holders to license their stuff for streaming, it feels like movies are diminishing in cultural importance, not to mention as revenue sources.
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Ludicrous Gibs! posted:I'm just wondering if we're any closer to that scenario that's been hinted at for the last couple of years, where every studio sets up their own movie streaming service. Because right now, with the death of Blockbuster, the decreasing importance of DVDs, and the unwillingness of content holders to license their stuff for streaming, it feels like movies are diminishing in cultural importance, not to mention as revenue sources. Yeah but people still go to the gently caress out of the theater. e: I mean obviously not as much as in some days but whether it's the Alamo Drafthouse or your local Carmike 32, people still really enjoy going out to the movies (and getting themselves some snacks)
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Oct 2, 2015 19:06
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I'll believe movies have diminished cultural relevance when a majority of toys aren't movie tie ins.
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Oct 2, 2015 19:07
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computer parts posted:I'll believe movies have diminished cultural relevance when a majority of toys aren't movie tie ins. Toys have diminished cultural relevance too so it's fairly appropriate.
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Sleeveless posted:Toys have diminished cultural relevance too so it's fairly appropriate. What about Skylanders or whatever.
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Disney Infinity is the ultimate hell combo of all these things
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Oct 3, 2015 01:10
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Dark Was the Night is a by the numbers movie about something strange is happening in a little town and its livestock. Then it shits the bed with a giant slide whistle of a ending. Avoid.
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Ludicrous Gibs! posted:I'm just wondering if we're any closer to that scenario that's been hinted at for the last couple of years, where every studio sets up their own movie streaming service. Because right now, with the death of Blockbuster, the decreasing importance of DVDs, and the unwillingness of content holders to license their stuff for streaming, it feels like movies are diminishing in cultural importance, not to mention as revenue sources. precision posted:Yeah but people still go to the gently caress out of the theater. Perhaps you enjoy spending 5 bucks on a soda and 7 on popcorn after then having a pimple-faced fat kid rifle through your girlfriend's purse asking about "weapons", when the white adult males in camo are ignored.. But that was just my most recent experience going to the movies. It was too loud, too expensive, and I felt like I was going through a fake-rear end TSA checkpoint which only checks backpacks and purses rather than asking the big redneck guys if they were packing a gun. coyo7e fucked around with this message at 01:58 on Oct 3, 2015 |
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Lol the gently caress kinda theater you going to
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I have never encountered that.
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Dred Cosmonaut posted:Lol the gently caress kinda theater you going to It was hilarious though, that three huge redneck white guys in my group who were literally wearing camo were ignored but the pimple-faced kid asked to search my 70 year-old mom's purse. I mean, I know my dad has a concealed carry permit, and my brother does as well, on top of his "home defense" room-sweeper pistol-grip 12 gauge. Yep, they were totally worried about safety rather than someone sneaking in some candy and water bottles. http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/movie-theater-chain-regal-checking-bags-nationwide-after-shootings-n412996
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I've never been frisked or searched at the movies and my girlfriend and I always sneak in bottles of green tea or whatever. We eat before or after the film, not during. Not even at Drafthouse style places. 
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As a fan of internet stories involving dogwhistle racism, passive-aggressiveness, and "...and then everybody started clapping!" improbable finales I will weep the day the last movie theater closes and that great schadenfreude engine finally stops.
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coyo7e posted:Cinemark. I think I saw the latest mission impossible because my folks wanted to take my nephew.. The one with simon peg in a ghillie suit? That's about all I recall because it was retarded. Where on earth?
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Sleeveless posted:As a fan of internet stories involving dogwhistle racism, passive-aggressiveness, and "...and then everybody started clapping!" improbable finales I will weep the day the last movie theater closes and that great schadenfreude engine finally stops. People who bring toddlers or infants to R rated movies deserve a slow painful doom. Because they make noise, I mean, not because they're bad parents. But also because they're bad parents.
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Oct 3, 2015 05:54
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Dred Cosmonaut posted:Lol the gently caress kinda theater you going to They did this recently when I went to see The Visit at the local Regal Cinema. Or rather the employee looked in the older woman's bag in front of me and ignored my wife's. Funny thing was my wife was acting really stiff and awkward as we bought our tickets because I told her I'd tell the employee to gently caress off with that if she tried to open my wife's purse. So if anything she'd look suspicious. Anyway didn't get searched. I guess theaters must really be hurting for snack revenue if this policy is becoming commonplace.
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I wonder if the big chain theaters are ever gonna figure out that they would probably make more profit on snacks if they lowered the prices and also served food that wasn't sub-gas station tier garbage? I mean surely there are a lot of people like me who would buy a coffee or some popcorn or whatever if it wasn't marked up 1000% I mean five fuckin' dollars for a bottle of AquaFina. Do they really make more by relying on people with no impulse/money control rather than the sane rest of humanity?
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precision posted:I wonder if the big chain theaters are ever gonna figure out that they would probably make more profit on snacks if they lowered the prices and also served food that wasn't sub-gas station tier garbage? I mean surely there are a lot of people like me who would buy a coffee or some popcorn or whatever if it wasn't marked up 1000% Coincidentally, I just found out today that my theater (a Cinemark) is now serving Starbucks.
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