I just assumed the Netflix top 10 were movies/shows they were trying to push, not based on actual veiwership.
That’s a bingo. Any “trending” algorithm is designed to get you to click on it. It’s not a source of accurate information.
It’s the same with search results. You’re searching for X? Here’s something X-adjacent we’ve been paid to show you that you might click on while looking for X. We’re going to call it “what others buy” and hope you do, too.
I don’t get why the streaming services would care what media people watch. Are they pushing stuff that is cheaper to license?
They want to get recommendations just good enough to keep you hooked. If they show you just the objectively best, you would instantly know after seeing the best ones, that the rest of the catalogue is worse and worse.
This is how Netflix was in the beginning. I actually unsubscribed for a while for yhis reason. Now I’m as hooked as ever, there might still be a few good ones out there - I just need to keep scrolling for a few hours. /s
Browsing YouTube while logged out is 1,000 times worse.
the absolute blessing of never seeing Mr. Beast’s face whenever I am signed in.
I didn’t even know who he was until recently. I don’t even understand why he’s popular.
His early videos that got him popular were insane and novel. I watched them from curiosity. As for why he’s still… I have no idea. I don’t know anyone who watches him. It can’t just be kids.
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Why exactly can’t it just be kids?
And the sheer amount of weird pseudo-reality-show-shovelware! Good grief, people! If you want made up content that’s supposed to look like the real thing, watch porn!
Remember when Netflix had a million dollar competition to improve their recommendation system by something like 10%? Remember when they had user ratings and reviews? Remember when they threw it all in the fucking trash?
The original recommendation engine was amazing. Showed me stuff I loved that I would have never found myself. My favorite example is the French claymation acid trip called “A Town Named Panic”
Now all I get recommended are shows that are cancelled and that I’ve already watched.
The goal isn’t to give you stuff you want to watch, the goal is to do just enough that is just good enough to keep the highest amount of users subscribed. We like to think those are the same thing and they are usually aligned, but don’t have to be. It’s better for Netflix if you find those slower and just keep coming back to look around, kind of like some frustrating streaming gatcha game.
When it doesn’t occur to you that the list is made up entirely by Netflix to get that engagement, really making it the “Top Ten Things Netflix Wants You To Watch Right Now, Please” list.
Godzilla minus one is currently dominating that and I absolutely agree with that choice!
I wanna take a minute to plug criterion channel. Objectively the value is worse than Netflix. But they have an amazing collection of films nonetheless. I put their 24/7 channel on and just watch whatever is on. Never in a million years thought I would be into classic French cinema.
On a side rant fuck the French and their films! They drop you right into a situation with no clear good or bad guys. The films have meandering plots that go nowhere because why would they!?!? At the end there’s no resolution, just an empty chasam in your soul you’ve somehow overlooked your entire existence. And the worst part is they just put “fin” up on the screen and that’s that. Fuckin foreign nonsense
There’s all sorts of treasures, may be worth a peek.
It keeps trying to get me to watch the new Zack Snyder Star Wars rip-off.
I watched the first one. I’d take a prostate exam by Edward Scissorhands before I waste another two hours of my life on the sequel.
Rebel Moon. Oh yeah, they’re so bad. And apparently a third one is on the way, and the extended cuts for all of them.
“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“LOL just grab all that shit off the cutting room floor. Four hours sounds about right for a movie!” – Zack Snyder
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You can find good stuff aound 5+ sometimes.
The Outfit is good. Atlas is shit.
I liked Atlas…
Behold, I am both of you: I liked it and I thought it was kinda shit 😎
Right? Like it has its moments of good and bad. I mean it’s not an Oscar winner, but it wasn’t so bad that I lost interest.
Tbh I thought JLo did a pretty good job.
Damn JLo was my main reason not to watch, historically she’s just not that great. But if she pulled it off or made it kinda self-aware I’ll check it out.
65 is also really good.
Well it’s still JLo. If you aren’t much a fan you won’t be too impressed. Imo she can be fairly one directional in her movies.
That said, when I watch a movie that has heavy CGI I try and take a step back throughout the movie from all the special effects and evaluate an actors performance.
Ya ok sounds pretentious, but I try to imagine the environment they are in when acting. It’s basically nothing but a green box, with someone off to the side reading lines.
If they can give a fairly believable performance I’m impressed, because we see all the special effects, editing, direction and production. The actor has to imagine it, and hope they don’t look like a dumbass in post.
65 was alright. Wanted more dinosaurs though lol
I’m so disconnected I don’t even have Netflix or any other streaming service
What’s television? Is it that thing boomers use?
TV and streaming sucks. Movies suck. I’ve seen so many of them in the past that there’s really nothing new out there that’s any good any more because it’s all just rehashing and reimagining the past. Same with gaming. Same with books. And music. We’re so buried under a ton of entertainment that we can just stop making new entertainment and watch everything done in the past and still have enough to last us our entire lifetime. So what’s the point? If we’re going to have streaming, give us everything old – EVERYTHING – for a very low cost or free with limited ads and stop making new shit for your platform, all on one service.
I hear this a lot and do understand the sentiment but oh man in the last 3-4 years there have been so many great original and lower budget not blockbuster movies that have come out it’s great. Horror has really had a renaissance in the last 3 years with fresh ideas and plenty of new actors who are very good. It’s just not the things that are ever advertised a ton and probably have to scrounge through trailer YouTube’s to find them or sign up for newsletters. Some examples from recent years are Barbarian (2022), Infinity Pool (2023), Monkey Man (2024), The Holdovers (2023) and Perfect Days (2024).
Nothing makes me feel more disconnected from humanity than the YouTube trending tab
I feel that way when I see YouTube shorts. Some of them are big titted girls doing shit which I can understand why those get clicked on but a lot of it I can’t even figure out what is supposed to be happening.
