Friday, April 9, 2021

Netflix movies are weird as hell - UPDATE

UPDATE **JUST A NOTE: Ed and I were sold a bill of goods. This is a horrible movie. NOT so bad it's funny. But so bad, it's painful. And I loved the Eurovision movie!**

Netflix is blessed with lots of movie and a burning desire for programming. This has changed American TV in many ways. Some are simple and expected.

Netflix brings in lots of non-English movies, TV and TV series. For a people that used to hate subtitles in all things, Americans during the pandemic have become surprisingly tolerant of voice dubs and subtitles. For many British TV series, sub-titles make the experience much more interesting.

And then there are the movies. Netflix has, what my grandmother would have said, more money than sense. Sometimes these lead to funny, albeit inconsistent movies with fairly big names. Sometimes it leads to Academy Award Winners or nominees. Often it leads to romantic comedies with unusual leads.

And then sometimes it leads to this. A ripoff of "Shape of Water" where the handsome sea-monster is both much more handsome and much more monster. A truly what the hell moment.

He is a beautiful. albeit finned, killing machine.

1 comment:

  1. Makes me rather glad, We can’t get WiFi most of the time !

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