Movie Thread

If they enjoy it.. why should they??

 

That's exactly my point.

 

The problem is people have no self control. We're in the age of binge watching. People watch an entire season of a show in three days instead of three months. There needs to be a constant flow of new content and Netflix has gotten to the point of throwing **** against the wall to see what sticks because they don't have much of a choice.

HBO and Showtime get to pick out fewer high-quality shows and original movies because they still control the flow of the content. One episode of the Game of thrones per week instead of four episodes of Stranger Things on Saturday.

 

Yeah, it's kinda ridiculous. Ten bucks a month for a ton of content. And oh btw, no one is forcing you to subscribe. I agree the movie selection is generally lackluster but it's worth the price of admission for the shows/originals alone for me.

Yeah I've been saying this for awhile now. Surprised there's not anything like that yet. I have Netflix, Prime, HBO, Showtime, and used to have Hulu. It can be a chore scrolling through each one individually. And sometimes there's something in particular I know I want to watch and it's a "which service was that on again?" situation.

 

All the big companies want that Netflix money so they pull their content to put it on their own platform, is: disney.

It's just cable all over again.

 

I cannot do appointment tv, so I'm fine with a small subscription fee. Some shows I just watch via network apps, such as The Flash via the CW app. The only show I pay for exclusively is Agents of SHIELD, and that $2/episode keeps.the ads at bay. All that said, if it ever gets to being as costly as the cable it was meant to avoid, I'm cutting the Roku.

 

I watched The Desolation of Smaug over the weekend. I enjoyed it, the Tauriel crap could be left out but Smaug looks incredible.

For all the crap the movies get, they still made a billion each, or close to.

 

Yeah. We're heading towards a world where every single content provider worth half a crap has their own subscription platform. Fine by me really. There's enough good stuff out there that I could probably stay busy with a few services at a time and just rotating subscriptions as necessary.