It's hard to say who's winning the streaming wars, but customers are losing

Re:It's hard to say who's winning the streaming wars, but cu... by ethbr0 on Friday November 19, 2021 @04:40PM (#29282918)

I think of that as "Look at all the new shows Netflix has" -> "95% of new Netflix shows wouldn't have been funded under the old model, because they're bad"

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Re:It's hard to say who's winning the streaming wars, but cu... by jfengel on Friday November 19, 2021 @04:55PM (#29283081)

Most of them aren't so much "bad" as "of narrow taste". They certainly look awful to me, but Netflix isn't just throwing money away. They've got a ton of data on what people want to watch. Somebody is watching this dreck.

Some of it is genuinely a failure. Funding an entertainment project is always a pig in a poke. Even promising things sometimes just flop. But streaming makes it possible to lower the opportunity costs of those flops, so they can take bigger chances.

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Re:It's hard to say who's winning the streaming wars, but cu... by ethbr0 on Friday November 19, 2021 @08:47PM (#29284869)

I say "bad" in the sense that Transformers is bad.

In the sense that an F-22 is used for CAS / bombing in The Tomorrow War (which I'd assume was one of Amazon's better funded efforts).

A lot of them just feel like "Oh, you just gave some money to people, removed the usual checks and balances that exist in filming, and told them to deliver a movie ASAP."

It'd be one thing if they were making niche or more interesting content, but it feels like they're mostly just making more action movies and baking shows... faster and at lower quality.

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Re:It's hard to say who's winning the streaming wars, but cu... by kyriakos on Saturday November 20, 2021 @08:46AM (#29288004)

> A lot of them just feel like "Oh, you just gave some money to people, removed the usual checks and balances that exist in filming, and told them to deliver a movie ASAP."

Describes Red Notice by Netflix

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Re:It's hard to say who's winning the streaming wars, but cu... by WalterBright on Friday November 19, 2021 @07:56PM (#29284579)

I've been sort of watching "La Brea" thinking this show is pretty bad. Then I'll watch some sci fi made-for-TV movie from long ago, and that'll be far worse.

How does one even write lines like:

"We need to work together!" "I won't give up on you!"

It's like an AI bot wrote the dialog.

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Re:It's hard to say who's winning the streaming wars, but cu... by ethbr0 on Friday November 19, 2021 @08:49PM (#29284889)

tunes up his banjo To the laaaaand of the Lost (lost, lost, lost)...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6c9GdOJbi_c

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Re:It's hard to say who's winning the streaming wars, but cu... by jessaustin on Friday November 19, 2021 @08:22PM (#29284716)

Are you subjecting yourself to this sort of punishment for more than a few minutes at a time? b^)

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Re:It's hard to say who's winning the streaming wars, but cu... by WalterBright on Friday November 19, 2021 @08:47PM (#29284870)

I have a sort of morbid fascination to see just how bad it is going to get.

The thing is so ripe it would have been easy to take the next step and make it a sly comedy.

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Re:It's hard to say who's winning the streaming wars, but cu... by porknubbins on Friday November 19, 2021 @09:44PM (#29285127)

There was a time when Netflix shows seemed to be almost made by algorithm or big data- as if someone said like 32-37 year olds love detective shows with angry but smart main characters. My sense is its gotten better with more quality and less quantity lately though.

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