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 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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