Who watches this crap? Why is 95% of stuff on Netflix unwatchable?

Star wrote:

But 5% of it is pretty good.

With the shear volume, that means there is plenty if good material to watch, and you don’t need to waste any more time than that on Netflix.

I do wonder how much if it hits is actually watched or is there and audience for all of it.

yeah, if i could filter out the 95% it might be ok. it's buried though.

interracial garbage wrote:

Just stick with your kind, it's no that difficult

Would you say more or less difficult than spelling?

You remind me of that 90-year-old Japanese guy they found on a deserted island in the 1990's that thought the war was still going on.

It's over. You lost.

I won't join in the rant, different people have different tastes, but I'll just say we had Netflix for years and then some time last year we noticed that no one in the family had watched anything on Netflix in six months or more, so we cancelled it.

Then last Christmas my wife and daughters saw there was a new Anne of Green Gables, which they adore, on Netflix, so we re-activated. Unfortunately it was unspeakably terrible and we cancelled again within a week. I haven't seen anything advertised that would entice me to re-activate.

huhhh???? wrote:

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.

Ummm... you're stupid. Who types "ummm?" Do you really think simulating uncertain speech will help your argument?

What they do with their "own shows" is their business, but the delivery even of those costs them nothing and is not part of their value. If they want to make money, they shouldn't put them online. They should build theaters and sell tickets, like Hollywood does - give the people something they still can't get at home.

What people like you refuse to understand about copyright is it was never about the content, but the distribution. Publishing was initially an expensive, risky business, and the publishers agreed on a self-imposed rule to protect their investment. The author got no such protection; you can spend 10,000 hours and waste thousands of dollars creating a work, but if the publisher doesn't think it will make a buck, you are SOL. Only within the context of the publisher's services does a work gain economic value and the rights associated with that.

And that makes sense only when the publisher is performing a service with economic value, which is no longer the case. Now publishers merely draw imaginary lines around digital content that the public can easily access themselves. Authors can easily provide digital copies of their stuff to the public without involving anyone. There is no service being performed, no value to consider unless there's a law that says so. Sure, the author doesn't get to make money anymore - too bad. Part of the economy disappeared and that's that. Progress is what it is.

Honest question:

Are you drunk?

This is perhaps the dumbest interpretation of reality that I have ever seen on LRC.

flick net wrote:

I won't join in the rant, different people have different tastes, but I'll just say we had Netflix for years and then some time last year we noticed that no one in the family had watched anything on Netflix in six months or more, so we cancelled it.

Then last Christmas my wife and daughters saw there was a new Anne of Green Gables, which they adore, on Netflix, so we re-activated. Unfortunately it was unspeakably terrible and we cancelled again within a week. I haven't seen anything advertised that would entice me to re-activate.

Was that the Anne of Green gables where she is engaged to a Black guy ?

Who watches this crap? People on house arrest.

Everything Sucks was good and it got cancelled after the first season. Sex Education second season is coming soon. Insatiable was awful. Obviously Stranger Things, but it's incredibly overhyped because it's one of the few good programs.

Unless there is a sporting event on TV,. I only watch YouTube. I have 6 or 8 people I watch that post enough content to keep me occupied the 8-10 hours a week I jog on the treadmill. I do like to watch the Price is Right!!

What's worse is that Netflix donated to Obama's presidential campaign

It's not great, but a few are ok wrote:

Everything Sucks was good and it got cancelled after the first season. Sex Education second season is coming soon. Insatiable was awful. Obviously Stranger Things, but it's incredibly overhyped because it's one of the few good programs.

I think Stranger Things is a bit symptomatic of some of the issues. The first two seasons were amazing, then it tried to both up the scale and broaden the appeal and it kind of killed the magic. A lot of season three seemed to be trying too hard to be blatantly GIFable and Tweetable, rather than just do what it did well in season's 1 and 2, which was focus on character and story in a small town setting.

Where as season 1 mixed in D&D and arcades in seamlessly with the story as natural world building, season 3 was marked by a cringe-worthy, painfully long musical ode to Neverending story that seemed ridiculously forced.

I don't think the point of that scene was story, but more for something for people to share on twitterr "OMGZ i cannot believe they did that!! 80's nostalgia Rulz!" Also the little sister lines were obvious GIF farming, as well as all the yelling by Hopper. Maybe having a character yell everyline makes for more amusing GIFS, but it make a horrible viewing experience.

It just seemed to be trying way too hard to tap into more and more nostalgia fans rather than just focusing on what it does well.

another case of an awesome show/movie that makes $100 million evolving into a mediocre show that makes $110 million. Boo.

You can be butthurt, but you're still admitting you're wrong if that's all you've got. Thanks for playing though.

Anyone who "binge watches" anything is automatically a loser

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.

That’s why it costs next to nothing to watch “stuff” online.

If I watched 10 Hollywood-produced movies at a movie theatre, it would cost me ~ 200 bucks. I can do the same online and more for $15.

why so much crap? wrote:

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

Why are there 6 Rambos and 7 Transformers? This isn't a new or a Netflix issue.

OP - welcome to the real world! 95% of everything is utter crap - music, books, websites, products, posts on this site, etc. Every generation produces a ton of content and only a small fraction of it is good enough to stand out and stand the test of time. There were a great many artists in Florence during the Renaissance and only a handful are remembered today. Hundreds of composers wrote music for the courts of Europe centuries ago, relatively few pieces are preserved and performed now. The cycle continues...

The entertainment industry as a whole is lost. 80% of what we see now is remakes, same story/different people, ETC.

Books are where I've found my place.... buying a Kindle was one of the best decisions I've made for my brain. Now if my authors would finish the next damn books in the series i'm reading......

SunRunner82 wrote:

The entertainment industry as a whole is lost. 80% of what we see now is remakes, same story/different people, ETC.

Books are where I've found my place.... buying a Kindle was one of the best decisions I've made for my brain. Now if my authors would finish the next damn books in the series i'm reading......

lol.....series.

Stuff today is just throw away.

Very few classics, just shoot something and discard. Easy to do when its digital.

No need to develop any film.

:-)