Hard disagree. A lot of the main "research" seems to be about loose remarks by Hastings 25 years ago (compare to Hollywood, legendary for *never* exaggerating…). It exalts the role of advertising (!) and acts like Hollywood studios are auteurs, when Fast & Furious has ~as many versions as MS Word. - ThreadSky

shriram.bsky.social • 149 days ago

Hard disagree. A lot of the main "research" seems to be about loose remarks by Hastings 25 years ago (compare to Hollywood, legendary for *never* exaggerating…). It exalts the role of advertising (!) and acts like Hollywood studios are auteurs, when Fast & Furious has ~as many versions as MS Word.

Reposted from Aaron Stewart-Ahn

This deep dive on Netflix purposely turning movies into barely distinguishable forgettable slop is so insightful, researched & brutally hilarious. A must read if you want to really know what’s happening to the business AND culture of movies.

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hbarbosa.bsky.social•149 days ago

I agree the article is oversold, but I think it summarizes well how dismaying the landscape is, and how intentional Netflix has always been on getting to this point. Hollywood is far from innocent, but they are still at least in the business of making films people wanna see.

hbarbosa.bsky.social•149 days ago

(Although less and less 🙃)

shriram.bsky.social•149 days ago

I'm not as much of a film buff as you, so I am not best placed to judge the nuances of Netflix film quality. Though it's worth noting that Netflix isn't in the film business so much as streaming video business [*]. Which, for instance, includes not only the documentaries that the article pans… ↵

shriram.bsky.social•149 days ago

… but also includes categories the article doesn't mention at all, and which Hollywood doesn't produce at all, such as stand-up comedy. (Not like Hollywood produces documentaries either.)

But more to the point: ↵

shriram.bsky.social•149 days ago

I really don't believe the claim that N is not in the business of making content people want to see. That makes no business sense. It's *hard* to turn off cable since it's an all-or-nothing, but it's super-easy to turn off Netflix. Indeed, I turn it off every few months for a while. ↵

shriram.bsky.social•149 days ago

Also, there's no shortage of people who also argue that Netflix is overly driven by "what people want to see" — the endgame being AI-generated slop. Even this article sort of claims that (re. all the data collected). So how can it be it collects all this data YET makes things nobody wants to see?

angadh.com•149 days ago

Fast and furious feeds the true auteurs tho.

https://youtube.com/shorts/zosZrx1HCiI?si=cR-oCN0OYnjQXU8G

shriram.bsky.social•148 days ago

Oh, that's very nice! I should watch some of them. (-:

8bitcricket.bsky.social•149 days ago

📽️Gone Wrong:
*The lack of support for original IP
*The drawn-out painful sequalisation death of once good IP
*Too much & Bad CGI
*The mass-bombardment of the wrong kind of superhero movies (they should be reluctant, unique, isolated, suffering for their curse-not throwing skyscrapers at each other)

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