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Here's what went wrong - too many god drat streaming services.
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Crows Turn Off posted:Here's what went wrong - too many god drat streaming services. We're going to have the a la carte cable fight again
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Oct 21, 2020 21:05
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Wow, shocking.
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Oct 21, 2020 21:07
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their decision to not being able to cast/take screenshots thus not allowing things to go viral/being turned into memes is one of the biggest media self owns of the decade
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Oct 21, 2020 21:08
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This is the first time I've heard of Quibi, lmao.
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Oct 21, 2020 21:17
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SunshineDanceParty posted:Yeah I used to enjoy movies like that, but for Death of Stalin I wasn't in the mood for multiple casual rape mentions in the first half and never went back to it. I think this describes my feelings on it as well. There were a few funny parts like when they were moving the body around and such, but when the secret police chief tells multiple jokes about raping women in exchange for letting their families out of gulags I was very confused at how anyone could find that humorous at all.
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Oct 21, 2020 21:56
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Midgetskydiver posted:I think this describes my feelings on it as well. There were a few funny parts like when they were moving the body around and such, but when the secret police chief tells multiple jokes about raping women in exchange for letting their families out of gulags I was very confused at how anyone could find that humorous at all. Yeah Im pretty much in the same boat. I watched it when it first came out and found myself really uncomfortable and put off by the way they framed Beriyas historically accurate penchant for serial rape. I definitely was laughing a lot in the movie but there was just something tonally jarring, even for a black comedy, about those scenes.
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Oct 21, 2020 22:05
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Finally watched I Am Mother on Netflix. I put it off so long because Netflix movies seem to be firmly in the 6.5/10 category..... but this one was really good.
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Oct 21, 2020 22:07
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Weaponized Cum posted:their decision to not being able to cast/take screenshots thus not allowing things to go viral/being turned into memes is one of the biggest media self owns of the decade Yeah, out of all the stupid things about Quibi, this one was the stupidest. It's astounding how out of touch Katzenberg and the rest of the Quibi higher-ups are.
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Oct 22, 2020 00:30
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Quibi makes perfect sense if you are the kind of person who is busy and rich enough you mainly engage with media on uber or lyft rides in short bursts on your phone, and also you're too old to know about youtube. This was a lot of investors and not a lot of actual viewers.
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Oct 22, 2020 00:42
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They say a candle that burns brightest burns the fastest. Quibi was not a candle that burned bright. No, Quibi was a candle burning at both ends. Except, this candle had a really short wick that kept going out so you had to cut slices off the wax to get more wick and it just made an annoying mess and you were never able to get a good amount of wick.
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Oct 22, 2020 04:23
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Quibi's remaining assets should be seized by the government and used to fund Cobra Kai-style series-sequels to other 80s classics
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Oct 22, 2020 05:25
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The gimmick that you watch everything in a zoomed portrait mode, cutting off over three quarters of every given shot, is absolutely fuckin bonkers - and they made it a major selling point I’m only familiar with Quibi from its advertisements, and the ads invariably looked like the video broke somehow. Add a promise that the everything will automatically pause every 10 minutes and it’s like they were begging people to stay away.
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Oct 22, 2020 05:25
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I never really understood Quibi's phone orientation gimmick, but it seems like this show (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ule-CRT6ENo) at least experimented with something different: "Two narratives play out simultaneously: watch horizontally for a cinematic view; twist vertically to experience Andy’s phone as your own, as he fights to stay alive." So it sounds like you watch two completely different things (maybe with the same audio?), depending on the phone orientation. That sounds sort of neat. I could imagine a murder mystery show where the horizontal orientation shows you the characters like a normal show and the vertical view let you see the detective's casebook or scroll through other evidence. The challenge would be to review the evidence and figure out the case before the detective reveals things.
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Oct 22, 2020 05:49
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they better release the golden arm.
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Oct 22, 2020 05:49
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DorianGravy posted:I never really understood Quibi's phone orientation gimmick, but it seems like this show (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ule-CRT6ENo) at least experimented with something different: "Two narratives play out simultaneously: watch horizontally for a cinematic view; twist vertically to experience Andy’s phone as your own, as he fights to stay alive." So it sounds like you watch two completely different things (maybe with the same audio?), depending on the phone orientation. That’s basically an extremely poor substitute for normal editing, a one-button FMV game that rewards you with a Quibi show, and/or a direct simulation of checking your phone during a movie because you’re bored.
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Oct 22, 2020 06:05
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Midgetskydiver posted:I think this describes my feelings on it as well. There were a few funny parts like when they were moving the body around and such, but when the secret police chief tells multiple jokes about raping women in exchange for letting their families out of gulags I was very confused at how anyone could find that humorous at all. From what i know of soviet humor, it was incredibly authentic to the time period. Just the bleakest, most pessimistic, dry chuckles at the most horrific bureaucratic atrocities possible. The scene with the concert recording? Pitch loving perfect. I found the funeral coup sequence absolutely hilarious and slapstick in the best ways, but yeah ymmv on everything else.
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Oct 22, 2020 07:01
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:The gimmick that you watch everything in a zoomed portrait mode, cutting off over three quarters of every given shot, is absolutely fuckin bonkers - and they made it a major selling point It launched without support for watching on your TV. Like I feel vaguely sorry for the people who had contracts and jobs and were trying to make content for this thing, but it was a perfect storm of dumb ideas. And apparently nobody used the format to just make an old-fashioned cliffhanger-strewn serial with cars flying off bridges every 15 minutes.
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Oct 22, 2020 08:56
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Famethrowa posted:From what i know of soviet humor, it was incredibly authentic to the time period. Just the bleakest, most pessimistic, dry chuckles at the most horrific bureaucratic atrocities possible. The scene with the concert recording? Pitch loving perfect. Also, the joke Ianucci is making isn’t, “hahaha rape” it’s, “this guy actually did these things AND the system was so hosed up that he could casually joke about it without fear of reprisal”
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Oct 22, 2020 13:00
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I wonder how Quibi would have done had they not launched a mobile device only streaming service just days before the world went into quarantine and nobody left their homes for months. Quibi even refused to pivot and launch an app for smart tvs at first. Did they ever?
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Oct 22, 2020 13:02
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Nihonniboku posted:I wonder how Quibi would have done had they not launched a mobile device only streaming service just days before the world went into quarantine and nobody left their homes for months. Quibi even refused to pivot and launch an app for smart tvs at first. Did they ever? The app for smart TV's launched this past Tuesday...
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Oct 22, 2020 13:10
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The humor in The Death of Stalin is hosed, and sad, and grappling with horrendous acts, and at the end, both cathartic and foreboding. What a wonderful movie.
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Oct 22, 2020 13:34
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https://mobile.twitter.com/anafabregagood/status/1319057036857036800
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Oct 22, 2020 13:51
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Shageletic posted:The humor in The Death of Stalin is hosed, and sad, and grappling with horrendous acts, and at the end, both cathartic and foreboding. It checked so many thematic boxes for me that I look for in a movie: cutthroat politics, historical, black comedy, kafkaesque insanity, human foibles. drat, I think I'll rewatch it. I'll also have to check and see if Ianucci's other works are streaming. I need something to fend off the nausea I get from seeing a West Wing holiday special out there. Still haven't seen Veep.
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Oct 22, 2020 16:14
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Nihonniboku posted:I wonder how Quibi would have done had they not launched a mobile device only streaming service just days before the world went into quarantine and nobody left their homes for months. Quibi even refused to pivot and launch an app for smart tvs at first. Did they ever? Poorly. The “busy tech guy” in the backseat of an Uber isn’t looking for bespoke short form media to entertain them. They’re on Slack or watching YouTube.
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Oct 22, 2020 16:20
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So if Quibi shuts down entirely, will the shows end up somewhere like Netflix or Amazon, or will they disappear entirely? How do you even translate the aspect-switching gimmick onto a normal TV?
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Oct 22, 2020 16:49
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The legendary shoe structure
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Oct 22, 2020 16:56
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DorianGravy posted:So if Quibi shuts down entirely, will the shows end up somewhere like Netflix or Amazon, or will they disappear entirely? How do you even translate the aspect-switching gimmick onto a normal TV? Rumor was that most of the directors shot their Quibi stuff so that they'd be easy to assemble into full movies/episodes and in a sane aspect ratio because they know the service was doomed.
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Oct 22, 2020 16:57
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And if The Fugitive reboot was anything to go by, the only thing to the aspect switching schtick was basically watching something widescreen vs. full screen.
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Oct 22, 2020 17:31
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DorianGravy posted:So if Quibi shuts down entirely, will the shows end up somewhere like Netflix or Amazon, or will they disappear entirely? How do you even translate the aspect-switching gimmick onto a normal TV? Maybe it’ll end up like Seeso’s content and just be scattered to the lesser-known streaming services. A Quibi channel on PlutoTV
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Oct 22, 2020 17:40
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Oct 22, 2020 18:35
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DorianGravy posted:So if Quibi shuts down entirely, will the shows end up somewhere like Netflix or Amazon, or will they disappear entirely? How do you even translate the aspect-switching gimmick onto a normal TV? Quibi owns very few of the shows which is one of the reasons they couldn't sell anything to anyone. So most of it will pop up somewhere.
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Oct 22, 2020 19:06
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Why do they jump over the shoe to get to the end?
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Oct 22, 2020 19:18
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Iron Crowned posted:Why do they jump over the shoe to get to the end? Shoes, especially tall shoes like that one, are a serious tripping hazard. Jumping is a good way to avoid it safely.
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Oct 22, 2020 19:32
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Honestly, the whole thing about Quibi being entirely founded on "how can we get around WGA and SAG rules" makes me really, really hope everyone who made stuff for Quibi, whether actor, writer, director or producer, gets blacklisted. I know that includes Sam Raimi but sometimes you gotta kill the Buddha when you meet him in the road.
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Oct 22, 2020 19:39
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A colleague of mine was a lead producer on a big comedy show for Quibi and whenever I trashed Quibi on social media hed always reply defending the content, insisting if you look past the platform format that it provides good content. It was always kinda sad because while I would never wish for any kind of failure upon him, it was like watching him yell from inside a bus clearly headed for a cliff that the people inside were fine and maybe the bus could fly. "Narrator: It could not"
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Oct 22, 2020 20:27
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lmao what if movies but in tate mode??
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Oct 22, 2020 20:35
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I just signed up for the week trial of Peacock premium plus because there is a few things I want watch and it seems like a dumb move to remove visibility of what content is only available with premium after you sign up. Theres no visual indication of what extra you are actually getting for an extra 5 or 10 dollars a month lol.
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Oct 22, 2020 20:50
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I hope I get to see the one season of RENO 911! that was on Quibi somewhere.
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Oct 22, 2020 21:11
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Crows Turn Off posted:I hope I get to see the one season of RENO 911! that was on Quibi somewhere. I think they did two? But since it's Quibi it's probably a few hours worth of content.
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