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Regardless of your opinion of the show I don't understand why you'd be "depressed" about other people's entertainment choices.
Just open youtube in a private tab and tell me you dont immediately become depressed about other people's entertainment choices.
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The more people watch TBBT, the more Netflix is motivated to maintain the license to keep it in the library (and while I'm not positive about this, I thiiiiink the more they have to pay to maintain that license). Money they take out of their budget to keep TBBT in their library is money they can no longer spend to keep shows that I, personally, care for alive. It's the same thing as cable: by paying for a Netflix sub…
> Money they take out of their budget to keep TBBT in their library is money they can no longer spend to keep shows that I, personally, care for alive. On the same token, money spent keeping TBBT on the network reduces customer churn and increases earnings, which can be invested in other shows. TBBT is the symptom, not the problem. Netflix would be delighted to not pay CBS a fortune every year. The problem is that Ne…
And another way of putting that is "I find it depressing how many people watch TBBT (compared to shows I prefer)"
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Gen Z fallen to the fallacy that you won’t own anything, smh
Just think of all the amazing content from decades past, even movies from not long ago in the 90s, that many gen z will never see and experience and enjoy in their whole lives because they can’t buy or rent or play dvds any more, don’t use torrents, and streaming providers have very little content from years or decades past. It a loss.
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Just think of all the amazing content from decades past, even movies from not long ago in the 90s, that many gen z will never see and experience and enjoy in their whole lives because they can’t buy or rent or play dvds any more, don’t use torrents, and streaming providers have very little content from years or decades past. It a loss.
A legitimate reason to own a current-gen gaming console: unlike most gaming PCs, they still have optical drives.
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> you can throw it on in the background while you're doing other things. Nobody asked, but my thing to watch like this is everything-Star-Trek (TOS, TNG, V, Ent, etc. including the movies)
Dude. It blows my mind there are over 25 episodes per season of most of the older series. I know most of the series had rough starts, but they really get good in the later seasons. I tried to tell someone to just watch it, and tell them how in Season 3 or 4 it gets really good. That means, you just gotta watch 50-75 episodes to get to the good stuff. LOL. That doesn't seem to convince anybody. I mean, personally I lo…
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I think we have a US exhaustion. There are some really great movies that does great locally, then gets a remake by Hollywood and flops because it gets americanized, and then you kill not only the american version but the local one as well, as it becomes harder to market it, killed by association. American movies are great, don’t get me wrong, but it’s too much.
I don’t feel like I can name an example of a good foreign film that got poorly remade such that the local one is bad Bad American remakes seem kind of rare too, with the exception of terrible live action adaptions
Most horror remakes are seen as bad and a lot are forgotten, The mist, The Shining, Psycho. Shows imported from britain are bad, like The it crowd, a good deal of panel shows from britain crashed and burned.
Hollywood also has the capability of throwing away movies if they think are bad enough. "Release the snyder cut". There's plenty of bad remakes, I'm not young but a lot of things are remakes from the 50s 60s 70s 80s and we just don't know, apart from the adaptations of foreign movies and films.
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A legitimate reason to own a current-gen gaming console: unlike most gaming PCs, they still have optical drives.
But then you still need to get the DVDs from somewhere and most people don't want to buy a movie just to watch it, and renting DVDs is a thing (mostly) of the past.
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> but in reality they just couldn’t handle the data If you mean from a "critique" standpoint then no. If you meant from a "data wrangling standpoint then yes, as binary like/dislike data is just a lot easier to work with for recommendation algorithms. There are many good reasons to move from a five star rating system to a binary rating system, and yeah, I think many of those fall into the "people lied to themselves"…
> Netflix also displayed the ratings as 5-star "adjusted ratings for the viewer", which already took your preferences into account. It was not adjusted to your preferences. It was adjusted by algorithm to ... something that has nothing to do with my enjoyment.
But, I've rated many hundreds of shows/movies, and the rating is very accurate, for me. Very biased and scaled, but completely predictable/reliable.
In my case, the rating can be corrected with Netflix 7 being my 0, and Netflix 10 being my 10, mostly linear. For a Netflix show, 8 is my 0, since those are biased a bit more.
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I don’t feel like I can name an example of a good foreign film that got poorly remade such that the local one is bad Bad American remakes seem kind of rare too, with the exception of terrible live action adaptions
What you said did not make much sense, if it got poorly remade how can the local one be bad? that would mean the local one is better because the remake is worse. Most horror remakes are seen as bad and a lot are forgotten, The mist, The Shining, Psycho. Shows imported from britain are bad, like The it crowd, a good deal of panel shows from britain crashed and burned. Hollywood also has the capability of throwing away…