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Casual Viewing – Why Netflix looks like that
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Re: Casual Viewing – Why Netflix looks like that
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Every parent I know forbids Youtube, for obvious reasons. Even the content on the Kids service is utter crap (I know several who tried the service and dropped it.)
The app has 2.5 million reviews and 131 million downloads, so it is obviously used by a lot of parents. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1251942/global-youtube-k...
we’ve all seen the people with the kid glued to youtube and clearly self-navigating. just because there are many people doing this doesn’t mean it’s a good thing.
Re: Casual Viewing – Why Netflix looks like that
#203I 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.
You should ask an AI to watch it for you
You kid, but I find myself doing this often for long-form videos on YouTube with Gemini / NotebookLM. Works nicely.
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Not sure what you mean by families, but I would be willing to bet that most families today already let their children watch more YouTube family content than Netflix content. And I do believe Netflix introduced a cheaper ad tier recently?
Every parent I know forbids Youtube, for obvious reasons. Even the content on the Kids service is utter crap (I know several who tried the service and dropped it.)
Anecdote is not data. We have data
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1301730/us-time-spent-ch...
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> You can't do 100% "show, don't tell" unless your movie is 15 hours long You most certainly can, though it relies on trusting the audience. Flow (2024) Sasquatch Sunset (2024) Hundreds of Beavers (2022)
> Hundreds of Beavers (2022) Hundreds of Beavers! So pleased that someone else here has seen this awesome film
It's like a live-action Looney Tunes cartoon
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> You can't do 100% "show, don't tell" unless your movie is 15 hours long You most certainly can, though it relies on trusting the audience. Flow (2024) Sasquatch Sunset (2024) Hundreds of Beavers (2022)
It also probably depends on having a generally undistracted audience which you probably don't have a lot of the time especially outside of a movie theater.
I watch a lot of films and series (mainly SciFi) at home and I find that when I start to get bored is when I'll pick up my phone and half-watch the TV. It's one sign of a great show that I'll be paying it 100% attention and not mucking around with a phone.
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The Mandalorian, oh my lawd, the dialogue was just narrative explanation. Just terrible. Terribly terrible.
Covering the main character's face in a helmet isn't great for drama.
Sylvester Stallone thought the same about Judge Dredd. That was such a great movie because of the decision.
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#208Earlier quoted context omitted.
The app has 2.5 million reviews and 131 million downloads, so it is obviously used by a lot of parents. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1251942/global-youtube-k...
we’ve all seen the people with the kid glued to youtube and clearly self-navigating. just because there are many people doing this doesn’t mean it’s a good thing.
I didn’t claim it was a good thing, I just said it was popular.
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If you enjoyed Upstream Color, I highly recommend checking out Carruth's previous project, Primer, if you haven't already. It's a movie that takes a dozen rewatches to make full sense of. Natural dialogue, organic cinematography, and no hand-holding. Upstream Color was a great movie as well, it's a shame what happened between Carruth and Amy Seimetz.
Seen Primer first, though it’s 100% due a rewatch. I think it lacks certain poetry that Upstream Color has. I don’t know if we should denounce the art if the artist turns out to be a bad person in some ways, previously had some thoughts about it but forgot what they were. Maybe the answer is “we should if we know about it”. However, no person is unchanging, and by that logic the person who creates the art is not the…
I do generally separate the art from the artist, it just sucks given that Seimetz starred in Upstream Color, which is definitely proximal.
For example, I recently watched It Ends with Us, a book-turned-movie about a woman, played by Blake Lively, dealing with physical and sexual abuse from her boyfriend, played by Justin Baldoni, who also directed the movie. Well, it just came out that he and other staff sexually harassed her constantly throughout the filming of the movie. That would make any rewatch significantly more difficult for me, as I know that Lively did not enjoy the process and that the director, someone with power over her, treated her as such.
Personal issues aside, Carruth ultimately had a professional responsibility to Seimetz which he broke, and his subsequent behavior and general rejection of the Hollywood apparatus means we likely won't get any more films from him.
However, I don't want to derail the discussion away from Upstream Color or Carruth's other work. Just mentioned that because it saddened me.
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#210Earlier quoted context omitted.
Any time one is tempted to post a sarcastic comment, it's good to re-read Poe's law[0] first. It does in fact always apply when posting on the internet. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
I’m afraid that the risk of failing to understand my sarcasm is one my readers will have to take, unaided by sarctags and helpful expositions
What you seem to be missing is that people are reading your post in a non-sarcastic, non-ironic manner and agreeing with it. As Poe's law points out, that will always be the case.
Poe's law speaks to the size of the population on the internet and of the range of viewpoints it hosts as a result.