Highly recommend "Sick Note" for anyone looking for a new comedy series to watch. Rupert Grint (of Ron Weasley fame) and Rupert Glint (Shaun of the Dead/World's End) both put in outstanding comedic performances.
What? No love for Nick Frost? For shame....
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Really? I havent minded most of the Netflix original content. Yeah there are some definite 'swing and a miss' but for the few bucks a month that doesnt bother me all that much.
FYP, /petpeeve
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Streaming is turning into a baffling knot of expensive, restrictive choices, which is but one way that this model is starting to get kind of annoying...
Streaming is turning into a baffling knot of expensive, restrictive choices, which is but one way that this model is starting to get kind of annoying...
I keep seeing articles like this and I get a chuckle out of them, especially when they're written by mid-20 year-olds from pseudo-news sources with Journalism degrees whose ink is still wet, as though this is some sort of Machiavellian plot or feat of Nostradamian prediction..
"Netflix is, like, getting worse man! Its going to suck!"
Netflix at its inception it was incredible and innovative but as soon as all of the networks that Netflix hosted shows from saw that they were losing the residual value of their own content to a third-party provider what did they do? They became or are working on becoming their own streaming service.
Television networks werent set up to offer their own content in its entirety or even manageable chunks the way Netflix could. They could re-run episodes, but not in any meaningful capacity to satiate the changing appetite of viewers.
Netflix really didnt do anything insanely complicated, they just hosted content that people could watch at their leisure rather than have to set their PVR's and wait.
So someone else put all of the time and effort and investment into the content and Netflix paid them for the privilege of providing a service to host that content.
Even the eventual dawn of 'On Demand' viewing was clunky and unreliable.
So now every major outlet figures: Why just take money to let Netflix host our stuff when we can just do it ourselves, keep the money and maybe even double-dip a little?
Yeah, Netflix doesnt suck because they're pimping their own content hard, thats just smart because eventually the major players got wise to the game despite being very, very far behind the curve and werent going to license their content to Netflix when they could keep it themselves.
So yes, perhaps the overall quality of Netflix is going to be perceived to be in decline because the shows they host are going to only be on their proprietary networks' streaming service.
Thats not Netflix's fault per se, that was just the natural progression.
So in the cadence of the upcoming Generation:
"Netflix like, doesnt, like, suck man, its just like, becoming regular TV...."
Where every network is just going to support their own content. Just differently.
Just wait until Live Professional Sports cant prop up the existing cable structure and format. Then theres going to be a real reckoning coming.
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There is still nothing wrong with saying that a lot of the new content coming to Netflix, from Netflix, isn't really that great and doesn't quite keep with what people have expected originally - which was some pretty high quality Netflix originals, and a bunch of Hollywood movies and shows. That dynamic has changed a lot in the last couple of years.
There are only two things that really bother me with Netflix these days.
1) There aren't very many movies any more. I wish they had more classics from all generations.
2) The fact that they took the user ratings away. Even if I didn't always agree, it was good to see what other users thought of the shows, which is somewhat important when there are always so many new ones coming online. The whole "match" thing is fairly useless...I'm not just looking to watch a genre or topic, i want quality too.
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Depending what you mean by "Classics", Kanopy has some classic films from the 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s.
For those that aren't familiar, Kanopy is free with your Calgary Public Library card (and many other libraries). It has some recent independent films, classic films, world cinema, documentaries. Pretty much everything except Hollywood blockbusters. If you are bored of cycling through the same posters of Netflix movies, you can browse the thousands of titles on Kanopy and at least feel like you are cultured because you briefly considered watching an indie or even a non-English movie.
With the holidays and holiday parties coming up I think it is the perfect time to brush up on your pretentiousness.
"Have you seen A Star Is Born?"?
"The 1937 film starring Janet Gaynor and Fredric March, the first colour film nominated for Best Picture? Why, yes what a wonderful film."
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Depending what you mean by "Classics", Kanopy has some classic films from the 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s.
For those that aren't familiar, Kanopy is free with your Calgary Public Library card (and many other libraries). It has some recent independent films, classic films, world cinema, documentaries. Pretty much everything except Hollywood blockbusters. If you are bored of cycling through the same posters of Netflix movies, you can browse the thousands of titles on Kanopy and at least feel like you are cultured because you briefly considered watching an indie or even a non-English movie.
With the holidays and holiday parties coming up I think it is the perfect time to brush up on your pretentiousness.
"Have you seen A Star Is Born?"?
"The 1937 film starring Janet Gaynor and Fredric March, the first colour film nominated for Best Picture? Why, yes what a wonderful film."
Kanopy is cool. I just Airplay the stuff to my AppleTV. Lots of Charlie Chaplin, random educational videos, etc.
To quote Norm Macdonald "You know they always say those old time actors are the best with the black and white and they say 'oooh they could really act without effects', you ever try to sit through that ****?"
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And the Netflix films have been more miss than hit (from what I've seen).
So browsing the catalog, looking at the movie posters "Hmm, what's this? Oh, Netflix Original. Pass".
That said, as a big Coen brother's fan, I did end up enjoying "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs". It's an anthology of six short films set in the Old West. The first couple didn't really hook me, but the later shorts were really well done.
Just finished watching The Ballad of Buster Scruggs and really enjoyed it. Was really cool to see Tom Waits playing the prospector. He's so old now...
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Okay...I just looked that up on IMDB and you couldnt force me to watch that at gunpoint.
I'd tell you to pull the trigger. Repeatedly. Make sure you dont miss.
Yeah, before even looking at what it was about, I made the bold prediction that it would be some tween movie. I don't get the appeal to adults, but I suppose there are grown adults who are into My Little Pony, so different strokes, I guess.
