Netflix Is Why AT&T bought Time Warner, and Comcast and Disney want Fox

Re:Netflix Is Why AT&T bought Time Warner, and Comcast and D... by paganel on Sunday June 17, 2018 @03:07PM (#17333771)

I'll add that they have very good and especially very diverse shows. "La Casa de papel" is killing it (at least here in Europe), and that's because Netflix doesn't care if their shows are spoken in English, Spanish or Swahili, they know that bringing diversity into the cinematic game it's what is badly needed right now.

I'd compare this to Hollywood in the late '60s - early '70s, when it needed the breeze of fresh air brought by La Nouvelle Vague or by Kurasawa's and Jean-Pierre Melville's movies. Right now Hollywood (and the media companies behind it) is stuck in making movies for late-teenager geeks (the comic-book-based endless series, the Star Wars soap opera etc), movies which have almost no interest for the general public.

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Re:Netflix Is Why AT&T bought Time Warner, and Comcast and D... by jmknoll on Sunday June 17, 2018 @09:51PM (#17335410)

I agree with you on the importance of diversity and the quality of Netflix programming, but I don’t think it’s accurate to say that the general public has no interest in comic book movies or Star Wars. The Force Awakens is the third best-selling movie of all time, and Disney’s Marvel Cinematic Universe occupies about half of the top ten best selling movies.

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