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Re: Casual Viewing – Why Netflix looks like that

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Post by austin-cheney »

tuwtuwtuwtuw wrote: post #25
austin-cheney wrote: post #13

I suspect this appeals to two types of audiences. The first being people who play on their phones instead of watching the show. You can blame phone addiction and ADHD type behaviors for this but it feels like a slippery slope of stupidity in the face of good writing/acting as opposed to constant cartoon like action. (the wife and I do it too). The second set of audience this would appeal to are people with autism. Si…

I watch/listen to stuff when I do chores at home. If I am going to iron 30 things or knead a dough for 15 minutes, then it's nice to have some entertainment while doing it, even if I can't focus on it all the time. Not sure I fit into any of the two audiences you mention.

By the downvote I suspect you find this description of inattention, or chores, offensive. How is that, the complete inability to focus and the emotional hostility you imagine about it, not a form of ADHD?

Re: Casual Viewing – Why Netflix looks like that

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Post by PokemonNoGo »

keiferski wrote: post #15

Netflix thought they could take on Hollywood and beat them at their own film game. But in the process they realized that it’s not actually a game worth winning, and more importantly, that YouTube and TikTok are their real competition, not Hollywood. The future of most media is video-based, and I think Netflix probably understands this and is trying to get away from the historical model as movies you watch online and…

> Netflix thought they could take on Hollywood and beat them at their own film game.

Inadvertently an Inglorious Basterds paraphrase?

_Brief him._

Re: Casual Viewing – Why Netflix looks like that

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Post by Argonaut998 »

It’s just slop par excellence. I’ve been watching a number of movies with my wife over Christmas. Everything is so bland, repetitive and ‘design by committee’. It goes further than merely announcing what the characters are doing (in that new wannabe Die Hard movie we hear that they are expecting a baby three times in 5 minutes), you just know there are certain metrics used for every genre of movie accounting for every minute: “if it’s an action film with no action scene in the first 10 minutes then the audience loses interest”. They are all so soulless.

And this is fine when you realise that Netflix replaces direct-to-video movies and not that of cinema, as much as they refuse to admit.

Re: Casual Viewing – Why Netflix looks like that

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Post by chgs »

zo1 wrote: post #16
Dalewyn wrote: post #5

>Netflix execs have been telling their screenwriters to have characters “announce what they’re doing” so that viewers who have a program on in the background can follow along without having to miss plot strands. That's the critical bit of context, this is essentially radio you have on in the background while you do whatever.

There is very little good or "main" content these days on Netflix. Every single time without fail whenever I have an urge to watch a specific show or movie, sometimes an old one, it's never available on Netflix. And even if they did have it, they "licensed" it for a year and no longer have it. What good is that for me? So most of our usage these days of Netflix is just having something playing on the side or backgrou…

Why do you need something on in the background?

Re: Casual Viewing – Why Netflix looks like that

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Post by Brajeshwar »

Valentine to Harry Hart, “You know what this is like? It’s like those old movies we both love. Now, I’m going to tell you my whole plan, and then I’m going to come up with some absurd and convoluted way to kill you, and you’ll find an equally convoluted way to escape.”

Re: Casual Viewing – Why Netflix looks like that

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Post by chris_wot »

I'm thinking about unsubscribing from Netflix, only my wife discovered they have Friends. So I'm not.

It's not the new stuff that pulls me into Netflix. Instead I go to Paramount+. As it turns out, these guys actually know how to tell a compelling story. Nobody is more surprised than me!

Re: Casual Viewing – Why Netflix looks like that

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Post by HellDunkel »

keiferski wrote: post #15

Netflix thought they could take on Hollywood and beat them at their own film game. But in the process they realized that it’s not actually a game worth winning, and more importantly, that YouTube and TikTok are their real competition, not Hollywood. The future of most media is video-based, and I think Netflix probably understands this and is trying to get away from the historical model as movies you watch online and…

Can you please explain what this optimized video ecosystem of youtube is actually optimized for other than clickbait? Maybe it works for others but i fell into this for a while and now i look at it in disgust.

Re: Casual Viewing – Why Netflix looks like that

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Post by jsnell »

The source, https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-49/essays/casual-viewing/, seems like a much better article.

But it is hilarious in a meta kind of way that a bottom feeder "summarize real writing done by others, and slap on a clickbait headline" website pretends to have the moral high ground on this issue. I wonder what the guidance they give t to their writers is, and what metrics they're pushed to improve.

Re: Casual Viewing – Why Netflix looks like that

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Post by [deleted] »

lynguist wrote: post #32

It’s supposedly ragebait but it’s not actually bad. - Netflix produces the casual viewing content next to other niches, and just serves this as well. The other stuff doesn’t go away, this is in addition. - This is something you can put on during long car trips, no need to focus on the screen, just focus on the audio, and it’s easier to listen to than an audiobook (which is just a narrated actual book). - It has nothi…

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