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About 10 years ago Netflix became available in the country where I was living back then. I was very excited about it, I was on their email list for years, waiting for the announcement. As I got the email that they are available, after work literally the first thing I did was to grab my credit card, and subscribe.

I found 4-6 movies I wanted to watch, but when I saw that they had Godfather 1 and 3 without 2, I had a good laugh. Then I watched all the Archer episodes they had, and tried to find something interesting for 2 more days before I cancelled my (still trial) account.

Though I stopped watching movies some years ago, until than I used to watch them on the same old pre-netflix way.

Of course I have heard that they have spent many billions on content since then, I'm sure they have some interesting stuff... but that came way too late for me.

Maybe I'm getting old, lol

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If a movie has a Netflix label in it, it is a sure signal of a bad movie with a boring script made based on data.

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

This includes movies "streamed or distributed" by Netflix. Like the parent mentioned, Netflix has streamed the Godfather.

If you click through the movies on that list, you will find that almost none of them were actually produced by Netflix.

Movies produced by Netflix are highly likely to be as described, with a small handful of exceptions.

I mean when your company has enough money to essentially bankroll the creation of a greater-than-average number of productions and simply pay the individuals involved in the production of these films whatever it takes to get them on board, isn't it sort of inevitable that you end up featuring in the list of awards a greater-than-average number of times?

Some of those are other networks shows that just happen to be distributed by Netflix. For example, Wallace & Gromit. This is not a useful set of data to draw conclusions from. Which is precisely the problem that Netflix has.

Yes, very damming considering their spend to not ever have won a best picture/actor/actress/screenplay.

The Academy Awards? Who the heck cares for those?

The only thing they say is "the powers that be in Hollywood chose to highlight your product", but surely the information content regarding quality is as close to zero as it is possible to get.

In all of that time there are two best directors and two best supporting actress wins of the major Oscar categories. That is not much considering how much money they have dumped into movies. Netflix has always been quantity over quality.

Based on data (and Twitter) part is true of any studio since a decade, in any case Netflix has produced or co-produced a good bunch of movies.

Also, some excellent documentaries.

We should coin a new term: "Straight to Netflix"

I don't know why you're being downvoted because you're absolutely right. I'd say for me Netflix movies have less than a 5% hit rate. They're an excellent place to start if you desire a suitably (and needlessly) racially and sexually diverse cast, the most bland cinematography and grading possible, and scripts explicitly designed for viewers who are paying more attention to their phones than the show[1].

[1] https://comicbook.com/movies/news/netflix-reportedly-has-biz...

That has been my experience as well. When I see that logo it's a bad omen on how the film is going to be.

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