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Re: Casual Viewing – Why Netflix looks like that

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Post by foobarqux »

Argonaut998 wrote: post #43

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 ever…

It’s amazing the checkboxes that stick out: having a dog for no reason for dog lovers; the relationship slop that appeals to women; the violence and sex slop to appeal to men.

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Post by jasdi »

Argonaut998 wrote: post #43

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 ever…

McDonaldization - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwvL6XDq0BQ

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Post by manarth »

wiredfool wrote: post #23
rich_sasha wrote: post #11

I find it very stressful when watching Netflix because I don't know what is going to happen. Maybe they could include the full story line at the start of the series, so I can read it ahead of time and remove all suspense and surprise.

They should bring back the prologue and the chorus.

And the intermission! They should call it "popcorn time"

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Post by manarth »

SunlitCat wrote: post #2

Oof. What's next? Announcing what they see? What items are around them and how they could interact with them (or not)? Like "Protagonist: I walked north and I entered a mysterious room, full of different bottles. They don't look like I could use them, but maybe I should take one with me?"

"I see you have Chekhov's gun hanging on your wall"

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Post by nkrisc »

gonzo41 wrote: post #10

Netflix is going to kill their golden goose. It's already dying slowly, but they really should be just taking more risks. It's a streaming company run by people who seem to hate movies or tv.

Netflix’s own produced content is the poison that’s killing Netflix’s value proposition, not its golden goose.

It’s the reason I, and others I know, unsubscribed. Over time it edged out all the movies I actually wanted to watch simply because it makes them more money. But making them more money doesn’t entertain me so I unsubscribed.

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Post by raverbashing »

Argonaut998 wrote: post #43

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 ever…

Honestly I can't blame them if current audiences have the attention span of a puppy golden retriever

The one use case I wanted to see for AI is "tunable" contexts for videos. If this is your first time, watch the whole thing but if you need less context just edit it so it skips over the obvious parts

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Post by strogonoff »

fabioborellini wrote: post #46

My wife considers “show, don’t tell” shows confusing and just bad. More dialogue, better the show. She chooses to watch shows in which characters address each other with full names and say their intentions out loud. My brain hurts.

One of my favourite films is called Upstream Color.

Below is not a spoiler, but I like to avoid reading anything about a good film before watching it, and I recommend to do the same here. You like it or you don’t.

This film has no staged speech that tries to explain anything. The little dialogue that it has is what would naturally arise given the situation. For the same reason, most characters have no names or no full names. No situation in which they would formally introduce themselves takes place.

Do I fully understand it immediately, or even after watching it once? No. Does it mean I dislike it? Rather the opposite. Actually, I enjoy being treated as an adult who can make conclusions without having given any pre-digested explanation.

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Post by bilekas »

katamari-damacy wrote: post #7

it's for training AI.... easier done that way, I think

Aha that's a really interesting tinfoil hat theory! I doubt it's true but reminds me of the recent YouTube drama about Google using the transcript to train their AI. Seeing Spotify generate ai music to bloat their library it is a nice harmless conspiracy theory for fun if nothing else.

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Post by mingus88 »

Argonaut998 wrote: post #54
dist-epoch wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yet you watch these instead of the ones with "soul". Seems to me they provide what the market wants.

My wife chooses the Netflix ones unfortunately. What ones are good?

There are a ton of great Christmas movies on Netflix. We just watched Christmas Chronicles again last night. Klaus is great. The Wallace and Gromit ones…I could go on

Maybe you aren’t being suggested kids movies. Most Xmas productions are. The hallmark/romance style of Xmas movie seems to be for housewives.

And there are lots of people who just want background noise. Before streaming it was just leaving the TV on while you did other stuff. Before that it was radio. Daytime programming has always been like this.

It’s not a Netflix invention.

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