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Last shows i (I'm Brazilian) remember pirating: Mr Robot, cause i didn't even know where to watch it legally and Cobra Kay, which for some reason was on YouTube

by atum47 3y ago

Last shows i (I'm Brazilian) remember pirating: Mr Robot, cause i didn't even know where to watch it legally and Cobra Kay, which for some reason was on YouTube originals. The latter I've download and disturbed to my friends back in college on a pen drive, i did the show a favor. A sad thing, some what related to this is there's nothing worth pirating now a days. Every single movie or TV show is bad these days.

FirmwareBurner 3y ago
>A sad thing, some what related to this is there's nothing worth pirating now a days. Every single movie or TV show is bad these days. I get you, but I disagree. "The Boys" and "Invincible" are amazing shows IMHO. Great writing, great directing, great VFX, top cast delivering great performances. There's probably other great stuff out there but I don't have time to invest in finding and watching more. It's mostly big-name Hollywood productions that suck nowadays because of their terrible unoriginal writing focused around present day identity politics(South Park's famous jab at Disney's focus to "put a black chick in it and make her lame and gay!") coupled with the lazy and excesive use of VFX, but there's plenty of gems coming from the European(Nordics, France, etc) and Asian cinemas than nobody ever hears about unless you go looking for them. Especially Korea has been knocking it out of the park in the last few years. Foreign(from the US pov) cinema is killing it because they're not stuck chasing to milk existing franchises to death but cand afford to actually be original and take risks with new material, compared to Hollywood who's now the McDonalds/Starbucks of the entertainment industry, focused on selling bland predictable content at massive scale with insane marketing budgets, chasing profits.
- pokerface_86 3y ago
  gotta disagree on invincible, i thought season 2 especially has been pretty middling. a show that ironically you kinda have to pirate due to season 1 only being available on amc+ and season 2 being available through prime, but only in australia and new zealand is Pantheon. feels like something the HN crowd would eat up too.
  - FirmwareBurner 3y ago
    Yeah, second season of Invincible was mediocre, but I think that' because the first one was so good, it's difficult to top that, the curse of most sequels.
PrimeMcFly 3y ago
> Every single movie or TV show is bad these days. v Well that's patently ridiculous. Maybe you've just matured and have better ways to spend your time?
- rmellow 3y ago
  Nope, this is a very common thought these days. Many of my friends are watching media from the 90's to early 2010s, and I've been doing the same. I can only guess why: - More focus on content instead of message - Less political restriction on content compared to today And this includes friends across the political spectrum.
  - PrimeMcFly 3y ago
    It might be a common thought, but it's a goofy thought. There is plenty of content that is modern and has a focus on content, and 'less political restriction' isn't an issue unless you have shitty views.
  - itsoktocry 3y ago
    Or...perhaps they better relate to the messages of those periods? I don't enjoy today's politics, either. But art and entertainment was never really politics-free.
  - moffkalast 3y ago
    I would say I really miss filler episodes that were the norm for genuine TV shows, every damn series is a fucking miniseries these days with zero fat and it just doesn't let the writers do any kind of proper worldbuilding anymore because there's no time for it.
    - rmellow 3y ago
      Great point. Declining attention spans (or the perception of it / catering to these audiences) has borked the pacing. Watch an action movie from the 90s: they're _slow_ by today's standards, but if we stick to it with no distractions, it greatly adds to the viewing experience. This is great for building worlds and charismatic characters.
itsoktocry 3y ago
>Every single movie or TV show is bad these days. There is more, better content out there now than any point in history.
- andirk 3y ago
  There is also more obviously pumped out garbage labeled Netflix originals and it is sad. It's like they took over the video rental store, kicked out half of the good stuff and filled it with Blockbuster Exclusives made by the staff. Staff Favourites because they're in it. I resent streaming because of this. Replaced video rental stores with nothing.

by atum47 3y ago

FirmwareBurner 3y ago

>A sad thing, some what related to this is there's nothing worth pirating now a days. Every single movie or TV show is bad these days. I get you, but I disagree. "The Boys" and "Invincible" are amazing shows IMHO. Great writing, great directing, great VFX, top cast delivering great performances. There's probably other great stuff out there but I don't have time to invest in finding and watching more. It's mostly big-name Hollywood productions that suck nowadays because of their terrible unoriginal writing focused around present day identity politics(South Park's famous jab at Disney's focus to "put a black chick in it and make her lame and gay!") coupled with the lazy and excesive use of VFX, but there's plenty of gems coming from the European(Nordics, France, etc) and Asian cinemas than nobody ever hears about unless you go looking for them. Especially Korea has been knocking it out of the park in the last few years. Foreign(from the US pov) cinema is killing it because they're not stuck chasing to milk existing franchises to death but cand afford to actually be original and take risks with new material, compared to Hollywood who's now the McDonalds/Starbucks of the entertainment industry, focused on selling bland predictable content at massive scale with insane marketing budgets, chasing profits.

pokerface_86 3y ago
gotta disagree on invincible, i thought season 2 especially has been pretty middling. a show that ironically you kinda have to pirate due to season 1 only being available on amc+ and season 2 being available through prime, but only in australia and new zealand is Pantheon. feels like something the HN crowd would eat up too.
- FirmwareBurner 3y ago
  Yeah, second season of Invincible was mediocre, but I think that' because the first one was so good, it's difficult to top that, the curse of most sequels.

PrimeMcFly 3y ago

> Every single movie or TV show is bad these days. v Well that's patently ridiculous. Maybe you've just matured and have better ways to spend your time?

rmellow 3y ago
Nope, this is a very common thought these days. Many of my friends are watching media from the 90's to early 2010s, and I've been doing the same. I can only guess why: - More focus on content instead of message - Less political restriction on content compared to today And this includes friends across the political spectrum.
- PrimeMcFly 3y ago
  It might be a common thought, but it's a goofy thought. There is plenty of content that is modern and has a focus on content, and 'less political restriction' isn't an issue unless you have shitty views.
- itsoktocry 3y ago
  Or...perhaps they better relate to the messages of those periods? I don't enjoy today's politics, either. But art and entertainment was never really politics-free.
- moffkalast 3y ago
  I would say I really miss filler episodes that were the norm for genuine TV shows, every damn series is a fucking miniseries these days with zero fat and it just doesn't let the writers do any kind of proper worldbuilding anymore because there's no time for it.
  - rmellow 3y ago
    Great point. Declining attention spans (or the perception of it / catering to these audiences) has borked the pacing. Watch an action movie from the 90s: they're _slow_ by today's standards, but if we stick to it with no distractions, it greatly adds to the viewing experience. This is great for building worlds and charismatic characters.

itsoktocry 3y ago

>Every single movie or TV show is bad these days. There is more, better content out there now than any point in history.

andirk 3y ago
There is also more obviously pumped out garbage labeled Netflix originals and it is sad. It's like they took over the video rental store, kicked out half of the good stuff and filled it with Blockbuster Exclusives made by the staff. Staff Favourites because they're in it. I resent streaming because of this. Replaced video rental stores with nothing.