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I think this also applies: https://medium.com/luminasticity/netflix-the-crap-you-put-up-with-4a672cf3790e https://medium.com/luminasticity/netflix-the-crap-you-
by bryanrasmussen 2y ago
I think this also applies: https://medium.com/luminasticity/netflix-the-crap-you-put-up-with-4a672cf3790e https://medium.com/luminasticity/netflix-the-crap-you-put-up...
>A signature characteristic of Netflix’s strategy over the years has been to define genres into microscopic sub-genres and develop content on very specific customer likes — for example “Urban teen geniuses who invent time travel”
>There is an unfortunate issue with making things bad and to somebody’s taste — the person whose taste you are courting may be happy to be courted but if all they ever get of things to their taste are things that are bad representations of that taste they may come to sour on what they once loved.
and that is I think what happens a lot with Netflix, they produce approximations of the thing you love, and by doing this bad half-assed version with the wires sticking out and everything, in the end you don't love that thing anymore.
Netflix in the hunt for quick engagement eats the seed corn of fandom, and are left with nothing to build on.
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- Loughla 2y agoCan you name a good apocalyptic movie? I'm really struggling to come up with one. Twister, sort of, and that's neither good nor apocalyptic really. Edit: Twelve Monkeys. I think that counts.
- fian 2y agoThe Book of Eli War of the Worlds 2012 Day of the Triffids (TV series) The Bodysnatchers Waterworld The Postman Contagion
- salgernon 2y agoNot that anyone is likely to see this older thread, but Earth Abides was just released as a series. I haven’t watched it yet, I hope it does the book justice.
- _m_p 2y ago_Until the End of the World_ _The Seventh Seal_ _The Sacrifice_ _La Jetee_
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- coffeebeqn 2y agoApocalypse Now, Apocalypto
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- Xenoamorphous 2y agoPossibly (and sadly) the most realistic.
- Loughla 2y agoI've read the book. That's enough.
- TZubiri 2y agoJokes on them, my thing is bad movies.
- bryanrasmussen 2y agomost bad movies will be unintentionally hilarious, Netflix' bad movies will be intentionally worth a chuckle or two.