Netflix putting out a new movie every week in 2021

[Tamahome]

Wow, Roberservations from Youtube talks about Netflix having new movies they made come out every week of 2021. The Queen's Gambit was a huge success. Are the movie studios becoming obsolete? What do you think, Post-Geek Singularity? NETFLIX IS ON FIRE RIGHT NOW! ROBSERVATIONS Season Three #601

By the way, I think a 7 episode miniseries is the perfect way to adapt a novel, especially a shorter one.

[Tassie Dave, S&L Historian]

It's debatable whether 1 a week is a good thing or a bad thing given the low rate of good Netflix original movies.

For every "The Queen's Gambit" there are several "The Midnight Sky". Sorting through the garbage is hard enough as it is.

It might be better if they spent 4 times as much money to make 1 really good movie/TV series a month.

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

Tassie Dave wrote: "...It might be better if they spent 4 times as much money to make 1 really good movie/TV series a month."

This applies to every studio by the way.

[Tamahome]

It seems like a streaming service can take more risks and allow creative control more than a big movie studio can though.

[Trike]

I do wish they’d do a better job of telling us what’s new. I’ve been hearing this “new movie a week” for months now, but other than Outside the Wire and Midnight Sky, I have no idea what they are. Are series like Queen’s Gambit and Bridgestone part of that, or is it just feature length films?

Edit -> autocorrect turns “Bridgerton” into “Bridgestone”. :|

[Tamahome]

I usually just look at the top 10. I wish Amazon had something like that. I also like the "screensaver" that comes on when you idle with pictures of different movies and series.

[Tassie Dave, S&L Historian]

Geez I hope the US Top 10 on Netflix is better than the Oz Top 10.

I find it no guarantee of quality. Anything new or featured, will instantly jump high inside the Top 10

I would like to see a better rating system and a Top 10 based on ratings for the last week.

I find recommendations from friends, forums like this and podcasts I trust, like Cordkillers (Tom's show with Brian Brushwood) are best for me finding new content to watch rather than what Netflix tries to push or their Top 10 which is broken.

[Tamahome]

I use rotten tomatoes too, and watch the trailer. Sometimes I'll go for a lower rated movie anyway.

[Trike]

Here’s the official film slate. A few dates given in the descriptions. Series like Queen’s Gambit and Bridgerton aren’t part of it.

https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/...

[Tamahome]

Nice. Yeah, one has Gale Godot and Dwayne Johnson. And Halle Berry directs one for the first time.

[Tamahome]

Here's the release schedule. Now if I can just merge it with rotten tomatoes... https://www.cinemablend.com/news/2561...

Hmm, that list includes other things. Here's the tomato ratings I found:

1/07 76% Pieces of a Woman
1/15 37% Outside the Wire
1/27 67% Penguin Bloom
1/27 92% The White Tiger
1/29 87% The Dig
1/29 82% Finding 'Ohana

2/05 60% Malcolm & Marie
2/12 -- To All the Boys: Always and Forever
2/19 93% I Care a Lot

3/03 -- Moxie
3/12 -- Yes Day
-- -- Monster

4/13 -- Things Heard and Seen


Ooo Space Sweepers is live today...

[Rick]

The best way to sort through stuff is Just Watch. For example, here's all movies on Netflix with an IMDB rating of 7.3 or better, sorted by release year.

https://www.justwatch.com/us/provider...

You can filter by genre, etc too. Sub to more than one service? I do. Here's the same criteria, but for Netflix, Prime and HBO Max:

https://www.justwatch.com/us/movies?p...

But maybe you want to hike the bar to a rating of 8. Even then, you get 1052 choices. How about narrowing by filter. Here's all movies 8 or better on this 3 services but only the SFF titles, sorted by rating (highest first):

https://www.justwatch.com/us/movies?g...

[Trike]

Space Sweepers is okay. Pretty much just borrows the plot of River Tam’s arc from Serenity.

[Tamahome]

I liked the beginning the most when they were just happy go lucky space cleaners. I was confused by what happened to the other daughter. I watched some "ending explained" video, but he just read the press release. The comments helped clear it up though. Often in movies or anime, the visuals are great but the writing isn't so great. I think I really like novels adapted to a miniseries, like The Queen's Gambit.

[Tamahome]

I went a little nuts and collected the rotten tomato ratings for amazon studio movies from 2020 from a wikipedia article. At least they are distributed on amazon prime.

amazon films 2020 (23)

Black Box to Evil Eye are co-Blumhouse (horror)

01/10 88% Les Misérables (modern French drama)
01/17 68% Troop Zero
03/20 98% Blow the Man Down
04/17 88% Selah and the Spades
05/29 92% The Vast of Night
06/18 70% 7500
06/26 48% My Spy
07/24 62% Radioactive
08/21 60% Chemical Hearts
08/28 87% Get Duked!
09/09 100% All In: The Fight for Democracy
10/06 72% Black Box
10/06 43% The Lie
10/09 98% Time
10/13 62% Nocturne
10/15 48% Evil Eye
10/23 85% Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
11/20 96% Sound of Metal
11/25 77% Uncle Frank
12/04 81% I'm Your Woman
12/23 93% Sylvie's Love
12/25 98% One Night in Miami
12/30 93% Herself

02/05 27% Bliss