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>>meetpa+(OP)
> Combination Will Offer More Choice and Greater Value for Consumers, Create More Opportunities for the Creative Community and Generate Shareholder Value

No doubt about the last part, but how does merging two giants create "More Choice"? I know corporate double-speak is already out of control and I know they're writing whatever they can do avoid regulators who surely are looking into the acquisition, but surely these executives cannot believe acquisitions lead to more choice, right?

>>embedd+Y
More choice as in more content available to choose from on Netflix?

>>Shaani+s1
So when they say "Consumers", it should really have been "Netflix Customers", as for everyone else there is less choice, only already paying Netflix users get more content.

>>embedd+D1
Already paying Netflix users will get to either agree with a price increase or leave :)

After all, there is more "content" now.

>>nottor+L1
I'd really prefer better quality over quantity. Everything just feels like slop now and I find myself mostly only enjoying older movies. I find it's incredibly rare when I can actually find something half decent that's new on Netflix.

Edit: Btw I find Max is like a better quality version of Netflix. But after a while I have the same problem there too. I find myself just watching something on YouTube instead most times

>>weird-+r2
I cancelled my NetFlix subscription already, what, 7 years ago, for that reason... However, it is not just NetFlix. Most newish movies don't do anything for me. I prefer a movie from the 90s (or even earlier) over almost anything produced in the last 5 to 10 years. It is likely a generational thing, and a case of old man yelling at clouds. If studios think effects are more important then the actual story, well then, so be it.

>>lynx97+74
May be that our tolerance for samey bullshit reduces with age. After all, we’ve seen it all before. The movie industry isn’t that imaginative.

Also, survivor bias. You have to go out of the way to find mentions of crap 3rd rate old movies. We only remember the good ones.

>>nottor+K6
It’s fun to pick a year and do a deep dive on everything that was released to theaters (old newspapers with movie times are great for this) - so much crap you never heard about, unless it was phenomenally bad.

>>bombca+Ua
Speaking of which, I recently ran into scans of some local magazines from the 30s.

There was a cinema magazine, and i ran into a 6 page obituary for this guy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lon_Chaney

Some silent movie star. Never heard of him before. Looks like he was worth 1/8 of the non-ad content 1 year after his death in 1931.