Comment by rich_sasha
1 year ago
I find it very stressful when watching Netflix because I don't know what is going to happen. Maybe they could include the full story line at the start of the series, so I can read it ahead of time and remove all suspense and surprise.
A number is enough. You just need know which of the 5 movie templates they used.
Five? I thought there was eight.
Overcoming the Monster, Rags to Riches, The Quest, Voyage and Return, Comedy, Tragedy, Mystery, and Rebirth.
Don't worry, they have got the perfect solution for you. That cool series you just heard about but haven't had time to watch yet? It's cancelled. That's it. That's the story. Now you don't even need to watch it!
I sort of unironically agree with this. Time is limited and most tv and films don’t fit my criteria for “worth watching”, so I will read the plot synopsis for media that I think may be terrible, so I don’t have to find out later.
I do constantly have to tap out with the stress in many programs, takes me ages to pick up and finish programs. Many people need tension to drive a narrative forwards, but for me it often gets too much.
I remember 80 Days Around the world where peril of missing a connection gave it tension; ever since documentaries seem to have used this more and more.
The BBC Horizon episode on Voyager passing Jupiter was so inspirational to me, but now we just being ridden by TV personalities.
The irony of your comment is that Horizon famously went through a phase of making programmes that were all about doom a while ago. Asteroids hitting the Earth, Global warming, food supply collapse, tsunamis, volcanos, etc - and all with portentious narration.
Yes I remember, that and episodes on cosmetic surgery to broaden the appeal
In a world where things happened...
They should bring back the prologue and the chorus.
And the intermission! They should call it "popcorn time"
I dearly miss intermissions at movie theaters. The theater I went to as a kid had them, and I can't understand why nobody else does. It's so useful to have the chance to get up and use the bathroom, or get a snack/drink, without missing part of the movie.
| And the intermission! They should call it "popcorn time"
/me sings "Let's all go to the lobby! Let's all go to the lobby! Let's all go to the lobby ... and get ourselves a snack!"
Anyone else remember the dancing cartoon popcorn and coca-cola cup?
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True, but plots are only half the story. I'd be very grateful if they could give me some sample scenes (ideally automatically, so I don't have to go through the trouble of starting them every single time). I mean, how do people even decide whether a movie might be for them without having first inspected a good portion of it?
It's weird to me how the first two replies to this comment completely missed the sarcasm.
Do we need to start using the "/s" tag here like became necessary on reddit? I don't like the thought, but maybe it's a different issue in this case-- more of a non-native-English or on-the-spectrum thing than an inexperienced teenager thing? I hope so.
Being English-as-in-UK I often run into situations where my dry/sarcastic humour completely fails to be clear to USians.
Then again from the UK POV the leftpondians barely count as native English speakers anyway ;)
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Any time one is tempted to post a sarcastic comment, it's good to re-read Poe's law[0] first. It does in fact always apply when posting on the internet.
[0]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
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/s is would be more of an tone indicator for those who struggle to understand word communication portrayed by text.
In this case understanding the context of being sarcasm. It's annoying as you now have messages ending in /hj /lh.
Discord especially where the audience is young; but as we now cater to a world audience of those with disabilities and those without where do you tow the line?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tone_indicator
> It's weird to me how [...]
Counterpoint, it's weird to me to be surprised to encounter a problem when you knowingly avoid preventing that problem.
> I mean, how do people even decide whether a movie might be for them without having first inspected a good portion of it?
You can read review of journalists you usually agree with, ask for advice from your friends, check if you liked other movies from the same filmmaker, check if the movie has been displayed in your favorite movie theater or in the movie theater you dislike (but okay, won't work for netflix movies).
> I mean, how do people even decide whether a movie might be for them without having first inspected a good portion of it?
You’re describing watching the movie. Which is what most people do. If the movie is terrible then you just stop watching it, or if you finish it you can then decide if you liked it or not.
That's where piracy shines. You can scrub freely. You can watch 2 seasons in an afternoon just skimming.
You can award the content exactly as much time as it deserves according to you.
You should ask an AI to watch it for you
You kid, but I find myself doing this often for long-form videos on YouTube with Gemini / NotebookLM. Works nicely.
Now you're really on to something - someone give this person some VC money, please!
I just wish they wouldn‘t so disproportionally often drift off into extreme sillyness (That, I can take.) or extreme brutality and gore (That, I find revolting. When did showing so much splatter on a regular basis start being considered good film making outside of the occasional Tarantino?).
Can you quickly elaborate on the media sources where you do know what is going to happen?
The GP was being sarcastic.