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Netflix Now Only Has 31 Movies from IMDB's Top 250 List

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Re: Netflix Now Only Has 31 Movies from IMDB's Top 250 List

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Post by Jtsummers »

esharte wrote: post #430
Jtsummers wrote: post #204

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> the clerk will just let me take the stick of gum because he knows I'm good for it later. So you're still going to pay for it. That's not the same as the story here, where they paid for it, got a refund, then got it for "free". They aren't intending to go to the content creators and hand them $5 for it later.

The $5 isn't going to the content creators.

A portion of it is. But regardless, via pirating nothing goes to the content creators. Not one penny. If you actually like content, at some point you need to pay for it or you won't get more of what you like.

Re: Netflix Now Only Has 31 Movies from IMDB's Top 250 List

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Post by flycaliguy »

andybak wrote: post #146
flycaliguy wrote: post #20

Surely I'm not the only person who isn't interested in watching IMDB's favourite content. Give me the 6 outta 10s, that's my bread and butter. I'd rather be surprised and discover a personal favourite or have something on the TV that I won't be expected to dissect with the nerds at work.

I'm not sure I understand. Is it "I prefer movies that aren't especially good so that I don't have to listen to other people talk about them"?

More like, I don't usually want to watch something that I have to be overly attentive with or that others are buzzing about. It's not really anti-social although I can see that interpretation, I just like to put something on and have it be an escape from a reality that includes office talk.

Also, movies are subjective and honestly IMDB's rankings don't include the stuff I generally like to watch. Do people actually sit around and watch critically acclaimed Oscar winners all the time? I don't usually like Oscar winners, they always feel like they are trying to hard. It's boring.

I watch a lot of Survivor and Jeopardy.

Re: Netflix Now Only Has 31 Movies from IMDB's Top 250 List

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Post by flycaliguy »

sotojuan wrote: post #91
flycaliguy wrote: post #20

Surely I'm not the only person who isn't interested in watching IMDB's favourite content. Give me the 6 outta 10s, that's my bread and butter. I'd rather be surprised and discover a personal favourite or have something on the TV that I won't be expected to dissect with the nerds at work.

The IMDb top 50 is full of easily palatable and mainstream movies.

Right on, yeah I guess I assumed it was more Oscar batey sorta stuff.

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Post by j2bax »

SolaceQuantum wrote: post #137
JoeAltmaier wrote: post #119

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I know; I have to keep bringing it up because people keep pretending they're owed entertainment. This entitled generation is just disappointing.

This kind of piracy existed before. Remember sharing music CDs with friends? Remember libraries over buying books? Remember letting your friends borrow your comics or reading photocopies?

Sharing a piece of original physical media is different than sharing a photocopy or burned copy. Sharing the physical media with the license attached to it is legal, making a copy is not as you can't create an additional license (unless allowed by the publisher) with the copied media.

Re: Netflix Now Only Has 31 Movies from IMDB's Top 250 List

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Post by dexterdog »

bargl wrote: post #142

Does anyone else find this a really bad metric? This list is relatively static if princess bride is still on there. What about the top 10 by year? Most people want to see the best and latest movie not the best older movie.

But when looking for an older movie they are going to be more likely to look for the really great movies from the past.

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Post by afterburner »

TarpitCarnivore wrote: post #58
SCdF wrote: post #28

It sucks that Netflix is pushing their own content as a solution. Don't get me wrong, some of their own content is great, but I don't want to subscribe to 10 different streaming services that all have their own original content, I want to subscribe to one. Netflix--and others, like Amazon Prime--are becoming less and less worthwhile, and piracy is becoming more and more convenient again.

> I don't want to subscribe to 10 different streaming services that all have their own original content Funny how so many people screamed for al la care programming and now that it's happening everyone is realizing it's actually worse. I know people hated it, but there is something to be said about traditional TV and how it's consumed. Having a centralized menu/guide of all the content you can view makes it much easi…

a la carte programming assumed you would still access TV channels via one TV, using the same interface as before for all channels, ie. your remote. Click once and you're at a different channel.

Having to deal with several different content delivery services, each with their own sign-in, is much more complicated than that.

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Post by jameslk »

Nadya wrote: post #413
brown9-2 wrote: post #405

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I'm not particularly ashamed to say I turn to unlicensed torrents for this purpose, but I would prefer if it weren't necessary. It's not necessary if you accept the cost that the makers of these films want to charge you.

This assumes the product can still be purchased or is for sale in the country. Not every country has a licence to sell certain movies. Literally can't pay the money the makers of the films what they want to charge me because they don't want to charge me . This also applies to music and other products (though other products can't necessarily be pirated). My options are: a) Pirate the movie at no cost to the creator b)…

I'm not sure why you're getting downvoted. This is actually a pretty good argument for why piracy is still relevant. There's been numerous occasions when I wanted to share something with a friend, but the content was blocked just because of geographical differences. These limitations create incentives to find the content elsewhere, which is usually illegitimate means.

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Post by afterburner »

TallGuyShort wrote: post #39
ko27 wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You are basically saying that you can't "discover a personal favourite" when they are highly rated and talked by other people. That's probably the worst mindset for a avid film watcher.

Seems to work well for the Indie music crowd.

Doesn't the indie crowd also rely on word of mouth?

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Post by user5994461 »

bcrescimanno wrote: post #304

TL;DR: A former Netflix employee isn't surprised because films very little business sense for Netflix. Former Netflix employee here--though I left in late 2013. I remember sitting at a company meeting and Reed Hastings explaining that AAA film content was never going to be the bread-and-butter for Netflix for several reasons. Most importantly: Between traditional, "linear" television and Netflix, the experience that…

> the ability to watch as many episodes of a show as you want to watch whenever you want to watch them is VASTLY superior.

Only true for shows that are not in the top 250 shows.

Netflix: Offering cheap & unlimited access for everytone to shows that noone wants to watch.

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Post by [deleted] »

mokus wrote: post #366
sk5t wrote: post #77

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> Funny how so many people screamed for al la care programming and now that it's happening everyone is realizing it's actually worse. I wouldn't equate balkanization with a la carte. To stretch the restaurant metaphor, the current situation is akin to taking 5 cab rides between restaurants to cobble together a meal, there's a lot of overhead and waste. Traditional cable television is the restaurant with everything av…

Even worse; many of the restaurants still make you buy a whole bundle to get the one item you want from them. At the end of the day, in order to get your burger, fries and a shake you've also paid for 3 bowls of rice, 3 plates of nachos, 3 breakfast platters, 3 extra-large sodas, and (nobody knows why) 3 whole durian. Edit: oh, and a year of Prime shipping. Wat?

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