Have our tastes gotten worse or have companies doubled down on appealing to the lowest common denominator and just pumping out more and more of whatever safely turns a profit?
some other services like HBO are sometimes a bit better, but overall we are saturated in mindless garbage
Who watches this crap? Why is 95% of stuff on Netflix unwatchable?
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OK Boomer.
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Cheap product
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They pay as little as possible for mostly crap content to increase their profits. If they purchased movies that were actually good it would cost them a lot more money and decrease their profits. They sell people shite because people are willing to pay for it.
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OK Boomer wrote:
OK Boomer.
You actually watch this crap?
Not a boomer. Boomer TV was awful too. TV was trending up with shows like The Wire, Sopranos, Mad Men and Breaking Bad, early run of House of Cards and maybe the first season West World. Now it seems to be backsliding again. When was the last show that was in the same league as those? Now it just seems to be flooded with cheap superhero knockoffs, bad over-stylized dramas and some teeny-bopper crap with zero depth. -
I’d say closer to 99%
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Profit margins wrote:
They pay as little as possible for mostly crap content to increase their profits. If they purchased movies that were actually good it would cost them a lot more money and decrease their profits. They sell people shite because people are willing to pay for it.
I mean yah, you're right. It just seems to be accelerating. I think in the past there was at least some amount of pride in putting out profitable quality work.
Now if something is even 5% more profitable but 50% worse, it gets chosen over the better material every time.
Plus, audiences' expectations are slowly being lowered as they are inundated with lower and lower quality material. So they become less and less demanding over time even w/o realizing it. Eventually, they want crap. It's depressing from a cultural standpoint. -
Stop huffing the TeeVee and read a book Moran!
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Dirty junkie wrote:
Stop huffing the TeeVee and read a book Moran!
read tons. maybe that's the issue. -
Might not be enough.
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Mah someones wife is prbly marathoning that crap.
Anthony Hopkins has a good new movie on Netflix, "Two Popes". -
LMAO at every poster who still pays to watch anything on the internet. Why? What service is the host performing for you, other than locking stuff behind a paywall? Distributing stuff online costs next to nothing.
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Bad Wigins wrote:
LMAO at every poster who still pays to watch anything on the internet. Why? What service is the host performing for you, other than locking stuff behind a paywall? Distributing stuff online costs next to nothing.
If i was broke i would watch youtube with adblock on too. -
Bad Wigins wrote:
LMAO at every poster who still pays to watch anything on the internet. Why? What service is the host performing for you, other than locking stuff behind a paywall? Distributing stuff online costs next to nothing.
Ummm...well for one Netflix and HBO pay hundreds of millions to produce their own shows. And hundreds of millions to buy the rights to the rest.
It's a bit like saying, "Who pays for cars? It cost next to nothing to have cars sit on lots waiting for people to but them"
yeah, I know, a dealer pays by car while an online distributor has very little extra cost per additional unit consumed, so we can argue that the impact of theft is reduced, but there is a very real cost involved in acquiring the product.
Your implication that nobody should pay is assinine and would quickly lead to those companies closing shop and the product being unavailable to steal for any of us. -
I’m 24. I hate TV and the like. Our generation seems to be split between my point of view or being completely and hopelessly addicted to Netflix. I agree, the vast majority of Netflix shows appeal to the same interests and largely share all their viewers. There’s only a few I’ve seen because they are on other, actual quality, platforms such as HBO.
In college I really had no idea how people could afford to binge Netflix for hours because I felt between class, studying, running, and hanging out 1-2/week I was already pretty busy. Staying up late watching TV would just cause my schedule to implode...
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standard propaganda wrote:
It's the usual vomit-inducing holocaust, gay, interracial, retard-comedy, or white man bad-type movies (either the dumb white guy or the killer white guy). It got old 20 years ago when my parents were watching this.
No, i mean they are just poor quality. I'm not some tinfoil hat-wearing racist paranoid lunatic. So now even 'interracial' is considered offensive to these wannabe sheet wearing neckbeards? Sorry buddy.......you lost. -
standard propaganda wrote:
It's the usual vomit-inducing holocaust, gay, interracial, retard-comedy, or white man bad-type movies (either the dumb white guy or the killer white guy). It got old 20 years ago when my parents were watching this.
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I figured that out long time ago. Most movies on netflix are just garbage and there search engine is really bad. I unsubscribed long time ago.
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OP here wrote:
standard propaganda wrote:
It's the usual vomit-inducing holocaust, gay, interracial, retard-comedy, or white man bad-type movies (either the dumb white guy or the killer white guy). It got old 20 years ago when my parents were watching this.
No, i mean they are just poor quality. I'm not some tinfoil hat-wearing racist paranoid lunatic. So now even 'interracial' is considered offensive to these wannabe sheet wearing neckbeards? Sorry buddy.......you lost.
That other guy is right about Netflix just being another US propaganda outlet. It's well know that the US Military directly funds or controls the content in many Hollywood films:
https://www.globalresearch.ca/documents-expose-how-hollywood-promotes-war-on-behalf-of-the-pentagon-cia-and-nsa/5597891 -
If you are watching this sh*t, YOU are the one losing, not the poster you responded to. Everything that comes out of media organizations like Netflix is created and owned by people who hate you more than you can possibly imagine.
