Netflix's New Chapter

Re:Netflix's New Chapter by WalterBright on Monday January 23, 2023 @03:04PM (#34494199)

If you're going to spent $100 million on a movie, why settle for a boring plot and pedestrian dialog?

I watched the La Brea show for a while. Lots of expensive special effects. But the dialog was just pablum. The characters each talked like they were the same person - using the same words and phrases. They behaved the same, too.

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Re:Netflix's New Chapter by dbfx on Monday January 23, 2023 @05:26PM (#34495993)

Because it makes money anyway and getting actually good people would cost more nd take longer.

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Re:Netflix's New Chapter by WalterBright on Monday January 23, 2023 @06:28PM (#34496625)

I quit watching it, mainly because of the execrable dialog. When you want all the main characters to be eaten by a gru, something is wrong with the writing.

I expect the cost of a good writer is a pittance compared with the cost of the production.

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Re:Netflix's New Chapter by TylerE on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @12:40AM (#34499823)

Because bad/simple dialog is way easier for the over 50% of the modern box office that isn’t the US. CGI explosions don’t need to be dubbed/subtitles in 20 or 30 different languages

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