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Don't wait, just cancel now. Netflix has gone rapidly downhill in terms of content quality in the past couple of years. They have ceded ground to their competition by removing the broad range of content they once had, in favor of their own mediocre content.

I think there could be a genuine market opening for a streaming platform that exclusively has films made before 5-10 years ago. Somethjng curated, with less attempts at using AI to predict what you like. Something for movie enthusiasts (and perhaps TV) to enjoy good cinema, not watch the latest politically charged soap opera with poor dialogue, instagram filter cinematography, and overly safe humor.

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The Netflix logo on a poster is literally a stamp of bad quality. Like 90% of netflix originals are absolute trash.

The series are also getting canceled after 1 season. I stopped watching Netflix originals just like you.

I used to think so too, y watch a show that's gonna get cancelled.

Then I realized there do exist some good shows that only had very few seasons: pushing daisies, doll hiuse, sense 8. The problem is many Netflix shows are bad...

> The problem is many Netflix shows are bad...

Most shows are bad; Netflix is neither more nor less consistent with Sturgeon’s Law than any other network. They probably have far more bad shows than any single broadcast or cable channel simply because they aren't limited by the economy of time slots in how many shots they can fire to see what sticks.

Isn't that the formula? Acquire or create a series on the cheap, and axe the series instead of paying the actors/creators a higher rate for additional seasons?

> canceled after 1 season

More isn't necessarily better?

That depends on whether Season 1 ended on a cliffhanger or not.

sometimes even when watching a trailer without seeing the logo i still get a hunch that its a netflix original. i dunno what it is, maybe a combination of the camera gear they use, lighting, actors I've never seen before, the bland dialog

This somewhat sounds like https://mubi.com/ or https://www.criterionchannel.com/?

Check out Youtube's Free with Ads movies. Seriously. They've got a good selection of great movies (especially comedies) from the 80s and 90s on there.

Naked Gun series, Oh Brother Where Art Thou?, Raising Arizona, Idiocracy, The Terminal, Major League, Top Secret!, Hot Shots!, Beavis and Butthead Do America, The Terminator, Delirious, Robin Hood Men in Tights, Captain Ron (crap, it's not free anymore), original Robocop, Secret of Nimh, Ghost, I'm Gonna Git You Sucka, Silence of the Lambs, Teen Wolf, to name a few.

It's a smaller selection and they don't seem to stay Free for more than a few months, so you have to keep checking it, but there's some good stuff on there.

YouTube maintains an official playlist of these movies: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHPTxTxtC0ibVZrT2_WKWUl2S...

Bleh, ads. Spoiled by ad free Netflix for a decade...

I understand, but it's no Hulu at least. 5-10 seconds and you can click to skip and go back to the movie, like you can with other Youtube videos.

I only use it because someone else lets me use their account for free. There's almost never anything worth watching on it though.

You make it sound like this is Netflix's fault, whereas tlit seems to me that 10 years ago it was mich easier to acquire licenses for streaming. now some of the big studios have their own streaming services, so licensing isich harder/impossible

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