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Starks posted:My love for Bobby Cannavale has tricked me into (briefly) watching two terrible Netflix things in the last two weeks. Reed Hastings please put this man into something good I beg you There will never be another Third Watch, or Mr Robot but we can dream.
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Tiny Timbs posted:720p? Is internet media just regressing now? YouTube has also been doing A/B testing on setting people to low res automatically. The $9.99 Netflix basic plan TODAY is still 480p so the ad plan is actually an upgrade. (They are also upgrading the basic plan to 720p too.)
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Tiny Timbs posted:The reduction in catalog is something I totally didn’t expect for the cheap tier. How ridiculous. I think they've also indicate that they're abandoning the idea of binge watching in favor of weekly releases going forward, so they've clearly decided that it's more important to boost their number of subscribers that maintain the way the service has worked before.
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Oct 16, 2022 01:49
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smackfu posted:The $9.99 Netflix basic plan TODAY is still 480p so the ad plan is actually an upgrade. (They are also upgrading the basic plan to 720p too.) Wow, I had no idea. That’s expensive for such low quality.
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Oct 16, 2022 01:50
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I'll just miss out on a show rather than deal with a single ad. I have FOBA: fear of bastard ads.
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Oct 16, 2022 02:15
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They are driving me back to the filez
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Oct 16, 2022 03:01
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The Watcher is so bad but i keep watching it. It’s the quality of one of those lifetime originals or something lol.
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Oct 16, 2022 03:19
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I remember when Netflix streams first started I thought 'Someday this will be pretty cool' but in many ways it's gotten worse since then.
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Oct 16, 2022 03:25
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Netflix got the ball rolling but it can't be destroyed soon enough.
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TOOT BOOT posted:I remember when Netflix streams first started I thought 'Someday this will be pretty cool' but in many ways it's gotten worse since then. For a while there it was amazing. They got to a point where every time they released a new series, you wanted to watch it, and were expected to talk about it. But once it became clear that all the movie studios and television networks were going to try and do their own thing, Netflix went into overdrive into building their own catalogue, and spread themselves far too thin, and have put out a lot of crap trying to appeal to absolutely everybody. I'm at the point where I occasionally cancel my subscription and sign up again when they've built up enough content again to make it worth subscribing again.
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Oct 16, 2022 03:50
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The trailer for After Midnight implies a much better film than you get. It's too bad, I feel like a second run at the script or even the editing might have fixed it.
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Oct 16, 2022 03:54
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Nihonniboku posted:For a while there it was amazing. They got to a point where every time they released a new series, you wanted to watch it, and were expected to talk about it. But once it became clear that all the movie studios and television networks were going to try and do their own thing, Netflix went into overdrive into building their own catalogue, and spread themselves far too thin, and have put out a lot of crap trying to appeal to absolutely everybody. I'm at the point where I occasionally cancel my subscription and sign up again when they've built up enough content again to make it worth subscribing again.  againI don't see how all these services can make enough money to survive at this point
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mystes posted:I don't see how all these services can make enough money to survive at this point For real. I signed up for AMC + to watch the final season of Better Call Saul, and despite the loving fact that they advertise that you can watch it on their service, it is not on their service. So in the 7 day free trial I watched the 2nd and final season of Kevin Can gently caress Himself (good), and the first few episodes of the new adaptation of Interview with a Vampire (good). But the rest of the content, woof. How are they expecting people to pay for that every month?
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Oct 16, 2022 04:04
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In Australia an AMC+ subscription bundles in Shudder and Acorn so you also get a bunch of spooky movies about violent death and cosy shows about violent death (the Acorn catalog being 95% English murder mysteries and police procedurals)
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Oct 16, 2022 04:16
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One of the strategies is to heavily discount a yearly subscription and then hope people just pay the full price the next year.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Halloween Ends is so loving bad. I’m a little over halfway and it’s not quite as bad as Kills yet, but it’s still impressive how they’ve managed to completely piss away all the good will generated by the 2018 movie. Came here to post about this. What the gently caress did I just watch?!
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10 Beers posted:Came here to post about this. What the gently caress did I just watch?! Something something “show grief your loving TITS” as the cops sit back and watch the entire town throw a corpse into a scrap metal shredder
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smackfu posted:One of the strategies is to heavily discount a yearly subscription and then hope people just pay the full price the next year. I subbed to peacock a couple of months ago for the Northman and between the awful ads and the terrible PS5 app, the user experience is about the worst of any service I have used, but it does undeniably have some good content. I planned on canceling, but kept it around for a couple of months and they sent me an offer for $25 for a year that I sat on, but it seemed like a good deal. So I decided "gently caress it" and went to buy the sub but they wouldn't give it to me because the offer expired. I just cancelled it instead. What an absolutely moronic thing to put an expiration date on. Now they get zero dollars.
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Oct 16, 2022 07:39
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The new season of Derry Girls is even more delightful than I thought it would be. 3 episodes watched for review
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I read that She Hulk is almost entirely CGI instead of makeup, is that true? My patience with CGI has run out and I have little desire to watch computers act.
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Oct 16, 2022 16:45
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It’s a cgi cartoon yeah. Has no bearing on the show which is a goofy comedy
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I wish I had started watching the The Patient after all the episodes were released.
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It's tough to get makeup to make you look 7 feet tall.
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worms butthole guy posted:I read that She Hulk is almost entirely CGI instead of makeup, is that true? My patience with CGI has run out and I have little desire to watch computers act. She Hulk is exceptionally bad CGI too.
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mcmagic posted:I wish I had started watching the The Patient after all the episodes were released. I made this mistake too, but I thought I heard it was a six episode series and at the time that's how many episodes were out.
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Baron von Eevl posted:It's tough to get makeup to make you look 7 feet tall. I mean they did it in LOTR
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worms butthole guy posted:I read that She Hulk is almost entirely CGI instead of makeup, is that true? My patience with CGI has run out and I have little desire to watch computers act. Andor
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So they do this thing, it's called mocap, it's for faces too it's so the actors act much like Muppets
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Finally got round to watching Peacemaker and I loved it. Everyone in it seemed to just be having so much fun, with Vigilante being the obvious standout. Also the opening credits are an absolute masterpiece, I didn't even skip them once.
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I just watched Peacemaker earlier this year and drat it is great. I recommend it to everyone. And 100% agree on the opening Has anyone watched the new VHS movie by chance? I loved the first two but they kind of fell off after that. Field Mousepad fucked around with this message at 16:51 on Oct 17, 2022 |
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Wolfsheim posted:I will begrudgingly admit She-Hulk's second half is a lot stronger than its first, it definitely found its footing more after all the setup. They still needed way more cases though. Yeah it's all denouement and after effects. S4 does pick up things tho and ends spectacularly.
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Field Mousepad posted:I just watched Peacemaker earlier this year and drat it is great. I recommend it to everyone. Vhs 3 is the worst, vhs 94 is a return to form but doesn't quite hit the highs of 2, haven't seen vhs 99 yet
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The black phone was surprisingly terrible. Ethan hawk gave a pretty good performance…I guess? I was suspicious when I saw joe hill, because I knew it would have flimsy and pointless light supernatural stuff that only served to make a dull premise less dull.
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MacheteZombie posted:Vhs 3 is the worst, vhs 94 is a return to form but doesn't quite hit the highs of 2, haven't seen vhs 99 yet I read today 99 is coming out on the 20th. The IMDb scores are not good but I'll still probably check it out.
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Field Mousepad posted:I read today 99 is coming out on the 20th. The IMDb scores are not good but I'll still probably check it out. i gobble up found footage so ill find an excuse to like it
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drat, I just watched V/H/S Viral and don’t think I expected it to be quite that bad. The Parallel Monsters segment at least started off promising then really poo poo the bed for me. What a baffling follow up to V/H/S 2. I even watched Gorgeous Vortex (cut from the movie) afterward and it seemed like a film student horror perfume ad. Anyone have an idea why that short’s director chose not to make a found footage film for a found footage series?
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no clue but bonestorms my fav segment of viral
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There’s a great new documentary on Prime about the history of 007 music/theme songs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tcs5icPCTnI And there’s also a companion concert to go with the documentary which was filmed live at Royal Albert Hall.
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Good documentary if you like Bond music. Even talked about the rejected Radiohead song, which was surprising considering this was obviously endorsed by the Bond producers. Funny that they didn’t mention Madonna once, unless I missed it. Also didn’t realize there was a companion concert. Prime Video is really the worst app.
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