muteKi
Geno Cidecity
Software companies! *jazzhands*
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Netflix: Flicks? On the Internet? That's just crazy talk!
- Thread starter SpoonyBard
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Software companies! *jazzhands*
What is important to remember is that the concept of a video rental store has been well and truly destroyed. Wait, I mean Blockbuster Video. Blockbuster already destroyed the concept of a video rental store that was not already owned by Blockbuster Video. So at least Blockbuster Video was disrupted!
At least cable television is floundering and near dead, too! I was worried I might have to spend the rest of my life traveling and always just turning on a TV and watching something when I left my home! Now I have to remember the netflix password if I want to watch something in a hotel room! Convenient!
(I generally like Netflix, but I have a hard time seeing it as a net good for your average consumer. Lotta good and bad there.)
I am legit mad that Centaurworld in particular could be on the block.
Centaurworld had what felt like an ending at least. Though I wouldn't turn down more. I dug Inside Job, and while I wouldn't mourn it I would be a bit bummed if Disenchantment loses it's opportunity to accomplish.... literally anything.
What about the raunchier toons, like Big Mouth and Human Resources?
What about the raunchier toons, like Big Mouth and Human Resources?
I wouldn't be surprised if Netflix merges with HBOMax or Paramount+ at some point.
It seems like every streaming service is now playing catchup with Disney+ and its massive IP catalog.
I look forward to a future where there are 1-2 mega streaming services to chose from priced reasonably at $30 a month.
It seems like every streaming service is now playing catchup with Disney+ and its massive IP catalog.
I look forward to a future where there are 1-2 mega streaming services to chose from priced reasonably at $30 a month.
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Netflix still has nearly twice as many subscribers as Disney+. The difference is that their spending is out of control.
Well, and they had a decade-long head start
Nice to see it get some recognition! It feels like it kinda slipped under the radar.
muteKi
Geno Cidecity
They want the biggest streaming provider online to be bought out by COMCAST?!
jpfriction
(He, Him)
Big Mouth is great. Human Resources is less great.
I liked inside job a lot, RIP.
I liked inside job a lot, RIP.
With Big Mouth, I've encountered a lot of people who watched it and loved it, and a lot of people who assumed it was sub-Family Guy crap and never engaged with it at all.
I thought it was fine. Fairly well thought out stories about learning about your sexuality as a teen in a show that the people who would benefit from seeing those stories likely will never watch.
I thought it was fine. Fairly well thought out stories about learning about your sexuality as a teen in a show that the people who would benefit from seeing those stories likely will never watch.
karzac
(he/him)
Didn't the Exploding Kittens show just get announced like yesterday? Not something I was excited for, but sucks for the folks working on it.
I've been watching Kim's Convenience on Netflix recently. It's a Canadian sitcom about a first/second generation Korean immigrant family that runs a convenience store. I'm on season 3 right now and while I've been enjoying it, it kind of seems like it has less to say as the show goes on. I learned that it originated from a stage play so that pretty much tracks with extending a premise out to five seasons. Still, for a low key kind of watch, it's been fun.
Kim's Convenience is really good, highly recommend to anyone in a sitcom sort of mood.
It's just a shame how it all ended. It was originally going to end with season 6 but those plans were scuttled near the end of season 5, I believe, and thus season 5 ends with a number of unresolved threads.
Not entirely clear on what happened behind the scenes, but it's too bad such a funny, earnest show had to end that way.
It's just a shame how it all ended. It was originally going to end with season 6 but those plans were scuttled near the end of season 5, I believe, and thus season 5 ends with a number of unresolved threads.
Not entirely clear on what happened behind the scenes, but it's too bad such a funny, earnest show had to end that way.
I heard an interview on CBC Radio with one of the lead actors a few years ago where he was lamenting this fact. He really wanted to push certain angles and felt like the writers got cold feet. (Or something of that nature; I barely remember the interview, so I may be slightly off.)
I'm watching Old Enough!, a show about Japanese toddlers going on chores without adult supervision in their pedestrian-friendly neighborhoods. As an American, this show makes me jealous! I hope it inspires conversations about how Americans can make their built environment friendlier to pedestrians so American toddlers can go outside again in some places.
Despite the Cowboy Bebop adaptation going over like a wet fart Netflix is full steam ahead for One Piece!
Y'know, the set design actually looks damn good. It's a shame this is all likely a doomed effort.
Y'know, the set design actually looks damn good. It's a shame this is all likely a doomed effort.
So. Uh. Hm.
I honestly dig the vibes of like 90% of this trailer. The casting looks solid (though someday Krysten Ritter will get to play Morticia, I don't care if she's not tall enough, it's too perfect otherwise) and Wednesday herself had me sold on her by the end of it.
But, uh, castrating a teen via piranha was distractingly excessive, wasn't it? Is it just me?
ArugulaZ
Fearful asymmetry
Seems a little harsh for a Tim Burton production, yeah. Maybe the guy was such a complete tool that he deserved it, but that's not evident in the clip. I'm just wondering why they're turning the Addams Family into Harry Potter, because that's the vibe I'm getting from the trailer.
Ive made my peace with the idea that we’re never going to get Paul F Thompkin’s playing Gomez.
And I get why, but still…
And I get why, but still…
jpfriction
(He, Him)
Gomez looked off but otherwise looks like something I’ll watch a couple of episodes of before getting distracted by something else. High praise.
Honestly Luis Guzman as Gomez is much closer to the originally drawn version of the character than Raul Julia was.