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Movie posters have used salacious and sensational words and imagery for as long as they've existed. If anything, Netflix titles have been slowly working toward
by robbedpeter 5y ago
Movie posters have used salacious and sensational words and imagery for as long as they've existed. If anything, Netflix titles have been slowly working toward parity to that standard, as opposed to devolving to actual clickbait.
- Ozzie_osman 5y agoI see your point, but movie posters didn't live in your home and didn't have the power of mass personalization. An analogy might be junk food. Sure, it's advertised in all sorts of tempting ways in supermarkets, but imagine if your refrigerator suddenly gained the ability to show, prepare, and serve you customized/personalized junk food whenever you opened it.
- robbedpeter 5y agoMovie posters were ubiquitous in homes, a favorite of teenagers, often the racier the better. I see your point, but I don't see a problem with Netflix content using sensationalism to drive clicks. In fact, it's probably one of the vanishingly few legitimate uses of that type of visual manipulation. They pull visually stimulating stills from the content itself, combined with text that gives you a quick indication of what's in store. I take issue with low effort or misleading titles, but it's a constrained medium in a commercial context. Not a lot of ways to vary the interface. The article just seems like a silly take, to me.
- bryan0 5y agoCan confirm. I had several gratuitous movie posters in my room growing up, which told you very little about the actual content of the movie.
- bryan0 5y agoYeah this makes me feel so old. This is not really different than scanning the box covers at a Blockbuster store or, as you mentioned, movie posters which have probably been misleading for nearly a century.