Ok, I've About Had it With Netflix. It's starting to Suck.

[Dayze]

I was just commenting on this to my wife last night. we sat down and tried to find something to watch yesterday evening. my god...it's really 95% old movies and a ton of shit you've never heard of. Just, obscure and random movies I would categorize as B movies.

I still dig the documentary side, and the stand up comedy side of things on Netflix, but in terms of finding a 'newer' movie that might have been in an actual movie theater in the last two years.....forget it.

and we've had Netflix since around 2003-2004. back in the day, you could log in and click a TON of recent movies in your queue that had recently just been in theaters. Now, it's largely just random garbage.

Thinking about dumping them and maybe getting Hulu instead, or just get redbox movies here and there.

[rico]

Originally Posted by Dayze

I was just commenting on this to my wife last night. we sat down and tried to find something to watch yesterday evening. my god...it's really 95% old movies and a ton of shit you've never heard of. Just, obscure and random movies I would categorize as B movies.

I still dig the documentary side, and the stand up comedy side of things on Netflix, but in terms of finding a 'newer' movie that might have been in an actual movie theater in the last two years.....forget it.

and we've had Netflix since around 2003-2004. back in the day, you could log in and click a TON of recent movies in your queue that had recently just been in theaters. Now, it's largely just random garbage.

Thinking about dumping them and maybe getting Hulu instead, or just get redbox movies here and there.

I love Hulu. And they are starting to add a bunch of good movies. They used to have just a few.

I do love the comedy specials on Netflix. Norm, Chapelle, Hart, Gaffigan, Bo Burnham... I'll probably be pretty pissy when they take those down.

[BigRedChief]

Originally Posted by Dayze

I was just commenting on this to my wife last night. we sat down and tried to find something to watch yesterday evening. my god...it's really 95% old movies and a ton of shit you've never heard of. Just, obscure and random movies I would categorize as B movies.

I still dig the documentary side, and the stand up comedy side of things on Netflix, but in terms of finding a 'newer' movie that might have been in an actual movie theater in the last two years.....forget it.

i think Netflix is moving away from the big movies as a platform to grow and keep customers. They are expensive and most people have saw them anyway.

The original content is improving. It's still filled with no name actors talking about feelings. I did like Mindhunter, Stranger Things, Glow, Love, House of Cards and Ozark so I'll keep pAying them.

I like the comedy stand ups for the most part. Most are not my cup of tea but then I discover new comedians I've never heard of but are really funny.

[Valiant]

Originally Posted by Dayze

I was just commenting on this to my wife last night. we sat down and tried to find something to watch yesterday evening. my god...it's really 95% old movies and a ton of shit you've never heard of. Just, obscure and random movies I would categorize as B movies.

I still dig the documentary side, and the stand up comedy side of things on Netflix, but in terms of finding a 'newer' movie that might have been in an actual movie theater in the last two years.....forget it.

and we've had Netflix since around 2003-2004. back in the day, you could log in and click a TON of recent movies in your queue that had recently just been in theaters. Now, it's largely just random garbage.

Thinking about dumping them and maybe getting Hulu instead, or just get redbox movies here and there.

No one wants to deal with Netflix anymore. They made too successful of a model and they would rather try their own online service then give Netflix money. Netflix has some amazing original offerings. Only shit shows will be offered up by the networks or movie houses. Disney will be interesting to see what happens with theirs.

[Eleazar]

Originally Posted by Valiant

No one wants to deal with Netflix anymore. They made too successful of a model and they would rather try their own online service then give Netflix money. Netflix has some amazing original offerings. Only shit shows will be offered up by the networks or movie houses. Disney will be interesting to see what happens with theirs.

There's really no reason to pay for a subscription to something when there are services out there like Apple Store or Amazon where you can one-off rent the very few things you really want to see.

As with the struggles of Netflix and Hulu - nobody cares if it's unlimited when the content sucks. Neither cable nor any of these services individually are offering enough compelling content to keep people paying.

There's a total of 1 TV series that we follow. I have probably VODed 2 or 3 movies this year. Haven't been to a theater since Rogue One. All this and I don't feel like I have missed out on anything.

[BigRedChief]

Originally Posted by Eleazar

There's really no reason to pay for a subscription to something when there are services out there like Apple Store or Amazon where you can one-off rent the very few things you really want to see.

As with the struggles of Netflix and Hulu - nobody cares if it's unlimited when the content sucks. Neither cable nor any of these services individually are offering enough compelling content to keep people paying.

There's a total of 1 TV series that we follow. I have probably VODed 2 or 3 movies this year. Haven't been to a theater since Rogue One. All this and I don't feel like I have missed out on anything.

yeah it's going to be different. We are going to split into this alacarte silo approach for awhile. People will discover this isn't saving them money or they are not getting a better bang for their entertainment $.

Then we see another consolidation just like we saw with cable.

[Valiant]

Originally Posted by BigRedChief

yeah it's going to be different. We are going to split into this alacarte silo approach for awhile. People will discover this isn't saving them money or they are not getting a better bang for their entertainment $.

Then we see another consolidation just like we saw with cable.

Yeah. If you are waiting to vod a series of movie you will be spending more in the long run usually. Netflix is what 8 bucks a month? 10 with tax?

There future is og content. Which they have a leg up on currently. Only one hurting that would be disney with their future offerings.

[BigRedChief]

Originally Posted by Valiant

Yeah. If you are waiting to vod a series of movie you will be spending more in the long run usually. Netflix is what 8 bucks a month? 10 with tax?

There future is og content. Which they have a leg up on currently. Only one hurting that would be disney with their future offerings.

Disney is going to be gigantic hulk knocking everyone over when their Netflix contract is up.Its going to be just like the Amusement parks. Everyone else has to pay a license fee for beloved movies or characters. Universal and Disney don't. They can build out Harry Potter and Star Wars as big as they want without a dime in license fees.

Like you said, original content is going to decide who is the big dog when all this online/streaming dust settles.

[007]

Originally Posted by BigRedChief

Disney is going to be gigantic hulk knocking everyone over when their Netflix contract is up.Its going to be just like the Amusement parks. Everyone else has to pay a license fee for beloved movies or characters. Universal and Disney don't. They can build out Harry Potter and Star Wars as big as they want without a dime in license fees.

Like you said, original content is going to decide who is the big dog when all this online/streaming dust settles.

I'll stick to free OTA. If these companies continue to gouge they will only lose customers. Netflix technically isn't gouging per se but they have been increasing the price by about 50 cents per year while taking away all the content that I was paying for their service to get. This move to their own original content is really killing my interest. House of Cards, which has only gone downhill and stranger things are the only thing from their original content that I even like.

Right now, Hulu really seems like that only one worth the price but when all the networks start doing what CBS is doing Hulu will be gone too.