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Princess Mononoke is one of my favorite movies of all time but Netflix is more or less straight up garbage. Even their flagship offerings like Stranger Things a
by tjr225 4y ago
Princess Mononoke is one of my favorite movies of all time but Netflix is more or less straight up garbage. Even their flagship offerings like Stranger Things are creatively bankrupt references for bored millennial parents.
- me_me_me 4y agoNetflix has many good interesting shows, however they have a habit of cancelling them.
- madrox 4y agoPerhaps, but I don't think you could argue that how things were 20 years ago was better.
- tjr225 4y agoAt least we had stuff like princess Mononoke!
- mcphage 4y agoStudio Ghibli doesn’t scale well.
- _ofdw 4y agoPerhaps not everything needs to "scale".
- dylan604 4y agoThis needs to be a motivational poster hung up in everyone's office. I'm trying to think up which generic imagery the block font should be on top.
- _ofdw 4y agoWasabi?
- hypertele-Xii 4y agoThe Mona Lisa.
- mcphage 4y agoCampbell's Soup Cans?
- mcphage 4y agoNo, but Netflix has billions of dollars burning a hole in their pocket, and they need the content to keep subscribers—so they'll keep trying.
- nibbleshifter 4y agoArt generally doesn't scale.
- mcphage 4y agoNope, it doesn't.
- thwoe234234 4y ago
- dls2016 4y ago> Even their flagship offerings like Stranger Things are creatively bankrupt references for bored millennial parents. Geez, as someone who doesn't actively watch TV (whatever the tween children or my millennial wife is watching), you're making me feel even worse about wasting time slogging through the entirety of the most recent season.
- tjr225 4y agoSorry dude it was not intended to make you feel bad. I sincerely think this is what the producers are talking about in boardrooms and zoom calls when getting ready for every season .
- dls2016 4y agoI was joking about making me feel bad. What you said is the reason I only consciously watch one or two series per year. Many of them look great, but few hold my interest.
- unethical_ban 4y agoI can watch Stranger Things and Casablanca on the same night. ST is a fun, well produced drama with lots of American 1980s callbacks. It doesn't make it garbage - not everything needs to be arthouse.
- nineteen999 4y agoAgree with this. Even if the story and writing are a bit twee, there are heaps of details in the cinematography, lighting, colour, audio, music, VFX etc to appreciate. On a related note, this video showed in my Youtube feed this morning: https://youtu.be/tOJmvOj15tw https://youtu.be/tOJmvOj15tw
- bitwize 4y agoMy mind was blown when Stranger Things used a Tandy 2000 as a prop to represent a POS terminal in a video store. Very few people outside hardcore nerds and Charles Bukowski fans even remember the Tandy 2000. In addition to being on-brand for the series (which also featured Realistic and Micronta electronic equipment and a character who worked at Radio Shack in the first couple of seasons), it shows they did their homework, as by 1986 the PC ruled business and "POS terminal" was about the only viable use case left for the Tandy 2000. In general the producers really did do their homework to capture the time and feel of the 1980s, instead of just shitting out low-effort vaporwave. And it's bored generation X/Xennial parents, you insensitive clod -- millennials were born too late to even remember half that stuff.
- bentley 4y agoYeah, but then the characters downloaded HTML via a 1980s BBS.
- bitwize 4y agoAnd C# code, but... yeah. At least they used an Amiga with its monitor set to green mode! Even the Tandy 2000 wasn't shown completely accurately. It was shown with a monochrome monitor option, but the display was in color. And the font was wrong; this was the default Tandy 2000 font (it was reprogrammable, but almost nobody did that): https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/fontlist/?4#tandy https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/fontlist/?4#tandy There's a bit of wiggle room here for artistic license. "Just repeat to yourself it's just a show, I should really just relax..."
- ddrdrck_ 4y agoThere is actually at least one good anime produced by Netflix, to my great surprise : she-ra and the princesses of power. Just discovered it and watching it with my two daughters (5 and 8 years old). Not saying it is comparable to Princess Mononoke, but certainly no garbage (especially compared to other cartoons intended for a similar audience)
- mixmastamyk 4y agoIt is mostly good but at some point turns to adult sexual relationships and gender politics front and center. I think it is too much for pre-teens and now regret watching. (Kids at that age don't even want to see adults kiss, although grow out of it as they approach teenhood).