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DrVenkman posted:I keep hearing this idea that the reason Netflix aren't releasing their viewership is because the numbers are actually fairly low for any given show. I'm sure they're happy with their subscriptions, but beyond that I feel there's probably truth to it. I have to think these cancellations are getting to be a part of that. quote:Top 25 original streaming shows of 2016 (based on first 35 days of release):
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I guess this is timely given the talk about the repurposed Disney characters: tangentially related, I'd never seen a full episode of Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law until yesterday, again being introduced thanks to [as]'s Animation Marathon after ignoring it in the 2000s despite loving ATHF/SGC2C/Brak. There is something amazing about taking a bunch of idle, 1960s Hanna-Barbera characters and making a series about most of them going to court. Peter Potamus as some sort of clerk.  "Mr. Reducto, you're up, and make it fast, the Dawgs are playin' Tennessee".  e- It's the closest thing I've seen on TV to when you were a kid and your action figures wound up being given roles completely unrelated to what they were intended for and I love it. CBJSprague24 fucked around with this message at 21:34 on Jun 1, 2017 |
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Wheat Loaf posted:For example, one of my favourite videos when I was little was the Disney adaptation of the Prince and the Pauper with Mickey Mouse as the pauper. I seem to remember that playing in front of Rescuers Down Under in the theater. I loved the Prince and the Pauper but six-year-old me was bored to tears about halfway through Rescuers.
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Timby posted:I seem to remember that playing in front of Rescuers Down Under in the theater. I loved the Prince and the Pauper but six-year-old me was bored to tears about halfway through Rescuers. I'd forgotten about Disney movies usually having stuff immediately before the movie you were there to see. The weirdest example of this (I know this is WB, but still) I remember as a kid was the Twister VHS having a Looney Tunes short which featured Bugs Bunny and Taz in tornado form destroying everything in his path most of the way through. I think that was the last thing in the previews before the THX title card and movie itself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgXj-GvPGWo
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Jun 1, 2017 21:37
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That's just part of the movie, not really a preceding short...
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Jun 1, 2017 21:55
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Yeah they're from a third party company (And US only). I don't think Netflix or Amazon have ever commented on them.
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DrVenkman posted:SENSE8 has been cancelled folks.
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How many countries were they filming in? Probably a huge pain.
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:Jeez, Season 2 just came out didn't it? Was it costing too much to produce or something? Someone asked Sepinwall on Twitter who said it was one of the more expensive shows that Netflix makes (Clearly all that Internationally shooting) and clearly not enough people were watching. I liked the show, but I also didn't know anyone else who watched it.
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CBJSprague24 posted:I guess this is timely given the talk about the repurposed Disney characters: tangentially related, I'd never seen a full episode of Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law until yesterday, again being introduced thanks to [as]'s Animation Marathon after ignoring it in the 2000s despite loving ATHF/SGC2C/Brak. Yeah I've been rewatching them, highly underrated. Look up any ep focusing on Reducto, Birdgirl, that Hippo dude. There's a pretty great one about Funky Phantom that has the creator of Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell! that's worth digging up. You can look up his imdb for his eps, they're uniformly great. A great example of a show that got better as it went along, as it got weirder and more intricate. It didn't hurt that Colbert came back for the latter seasons after being shuffled off the show for what I'm guessing is his crazy schedule. The writing isn't random humor exactly, its close though, but somehow more substantive. Reminds me a bit of a high octane Better Call Ted.
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DrVenkman posted:Someone asked Sepinwall on Twitter who said it was one of the more expensive shows that Netflix makes (Clearly all that Internationally shooting) and clearly not enough people were watching. I liked the show, but I also didn't know anyone else who watched it.
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Mu Zeta posted:I kind of want the Wachowskis doing big action movies again so it's not all bad. The other director involved in Sense8, Tom Tykwer, actually got his show Babylon Berlin picked up by Netflix for the US. At $45 million it's the largest budget non-English language show in history. I don't think anyone's going to be giving them a big budget movie for a long time after the last few they've put out were such garbage. That's probably one of the reasons they moved to something like Netflix.
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X-O posted:I don't think anyone's going to be giving them a big budget movie for a long time after the last few they've put out were such garbage. That's probably one of the reasons they moved to something like Netflix. They are the Adam Sandler of Sci-Fi. Interesting to see Netflix get pickier with their content. If you're coming out with a big budget show on their service, it has to be real good.
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Well I mean 13 Reasons Why puts the lie to that one.
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13 Reasons Why seems like it had a really small budget. It also generated a ton of buzz for the company.
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I liked Sense8, but that show had to be expensive as hell. Unfortunately, I don't think it went out on a high note.
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less laughter posted:random streaming ratings without any source I can't believe more people watched Love than Narcos. I have never met anyone else IRL that has watched Love (I watched both and enjoyed both, I'm just saying) Also surprised to see Black Mirror and Bojack so low on the list. Didn't the first two seasons of Black Mirror do like 20 million viewers an episode in the UK?
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Just a quick reminder the National Spelling Bee final rounds are about to start on ESPN. I've got my beer ready!
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13 Reasons Why actually had a very strong back half. I will be tuning in for season 2. I still don't really recommend it to anyone, because the first 7 episodes are pretty dire.
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J33uk posted:Just a quick reminder the National Spelling Bee final rounds are about to start on ESPN. I've got my beer ready! This would be perfect to stream online while I'm at work. Wish it was on Twitch or Youtube or something.
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Snak posted:13 Reasons Why actually had a very strong back half. I will be tuning in for season 2. The thing is that pretty much everything good about the story was in the book. And everything stupid wasn't. That's not 100%, but it's a terrible baseline for a show that is starting a second season of entirely new material: All the new material being the weakest part of your show.
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That's a good point. I feel like both hooks for season 2 are really strong, but also don't belong in the same season, so... It could be a real shitshow.
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Looten Plunder posted:This would be perfect to stream online while I'm at work. Wish it was on Twitch or Youtube or something. Sadly unless you have WatchESPN available I don't think that's an option. Not cool.
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Snak posted:13 Reasons Why actually had a very strong back half. I will be tuning in for season 2.
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I thought the whole ending was actually very good and did the subject justice. The actual scene of her doing it and then her parents finding her was powerful stuff. It would have been more powerful if the first entire half of the show wasn't literally every character being a petty moron. My bugfsst problem with the show was Clay continually trying to confront people without having all the information, even though he had access to it. By the last 2 episodes, he has almost all the information and is making informed decisions for the first time in the show.
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Snak posted:My bugfsst problem with the show was Clay continually trying to confront people without having all the information, even though he had access to it. And that is entirely a show invention, which makes me wonder exactly what these people would bring to a season 2.
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DrVenkman posted:SENSE8 has been cancelled folks. gently caress! at least that last episode wrapped things up nicely. 
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BSam posted:gently caress! At least we can imagine them being victorious after that Unlike say, Alphas
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Wheat Loaf posted:I was a kid who loved old Disney animated movies and TaleSpin was weird to me then (I should emphasise again, as a kid) because Balloo and Shere Khan and King Louie etc. didn't wear clothes and everything in the Jungle Book movie. And where was Mowgli? Wasn't he the main character in the movie? I just didn't get it - I didn't get the idea of having those different tales on those characters, probably not particularly helped by the fact that, at least as far as I was then aware, Jungle Book was the only classic movie that was being reimagined and repurposed in that way. I know you already replied to this, but between that, Chip and Dale dressing up like Indiana Jones and Magnum P.I. and teaming up with a mechanic and a junkie to fly around in a dirigible toothpaste tube and solve mysteries, and Goofy being a widower living with his kid in the suburbs, the Disney Afternoon was a pretty wild and crazy place in general. raditts fucked around with this message at 03:26 on Jun 2, 2017 |
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Regy Rusty posted:At least we can imagine them being victorious after that The Only Living Boy in New York.
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X-O posted:I don't think anyone's going to be giving them a big budget movie for a long time after the last few they've put out were such garbage. That's probably one of the reasons they moved to something like Netflix. Unprofitable, sure. But Speed Racer was a goddamn masterpiece.
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Cloud Atlas had some good scenes surrounded by a bunch of poo poo. They need better editors.
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I watched Speed Racer again this year and that movie's way better than I remembered.
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Pretty much all of their films aside from the first Matrix suffered from severe critical backlash and the last two, Cloud Atlas and especially Jupiter Ascending, basically pushed them into Shyamalan laughing-stock territory. And that's before you even get to the most important part, all of them being financial disasters.
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Mu Zeta posted:Cloud Atlas had some good scenes surrounded by a bunch of poo poo. They need better editors. I don't think the best editors in the world could have salvaged Cloud Atlas.
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never saw it, but i loved the book
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See I really enjoyed Cloud Atlas (admittedly some of the stories much more than others), but Jupiter Ascending was genuine trash. Just awful on every level.
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Arist posted:I watched Speed Racer again this year and that movie's way better than I remembered. Agreed. If you are going to do an animated series as a live action movie, then you have to embrace the cartoon nature, and I felt the Speed Racer movie really did it well.
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drat, now I feel horrible for not watching the latest season of Sense8 yet. Just hadn't gotten to it.
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