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I'm guessing it's for when things are translated into other languages. It's really bad though, the presentation of onscreen text is important. It's like visual dubbing.
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I watch with CC on a lot (dad is hard of hearing). It's a real pain in the rear end when CC covers up info bars or subtitles, for example, and it happens more often than you'd think. I'm not saying the current handling is great, just that I think that's their motivation.
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Feb 13, 2015 16:22
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Party Plane Jones posted:Netflix replacing title cards and onscreen text wholly with captions is still one of the most aggravating changes they've done. Yeah, this is an insane thing for them to do.
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Party Plane Jones posted:Netflix replacing title cards and onscreen text wholly with captions is still one of the most aggravating changes they've done. Wait, what is this?
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Feb 13, 2015 18:50
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Shooter was really good, probably the most solid action flick I've seen in a decent while. It got hilariously preachy about The Evils of Big Oil near the end, but it was an incredibly fun ride from beginning to end.
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Sergeant_Crunch posted:Shooter was really good, probably the most solid action flick I've seen in a decent while. It got hilariously preachy about The Evils of Big Oil near the end, but it was an incredibly fun ride from beginning to end. I think this movie just reminds us that if you're an evil dude never bust out the hard liquor -- that's a guaranteed way to make the hero attack.
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Feb 13, 2015 20:42
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Should I watch regular Iron Sky, or the director's cut? Both are on Netflix.
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marktheando posted:Should I watch regular Iron Sky, or the director's cut? Both are on Netflix. Gonna have to go with a flat "no" in this case.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Gonna have to go with a flat "no" in this case.  I turned off Iron Sky about a third of the way through out of boredom. That's the film's biggest crime; managing to make the concept of Moon Nazi's boring.
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Feb 13, 2015 21:55
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Same here. The premise sounded so great to me but I ended up just being bored and disappointed. I watched the theatrical release but I can't imagine the director's cut being much better.
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Feb 13, 2015 21:55
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Ah that's a shame, I will instead watch Dredd again for the millionth time.
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Paper Kaiju posted:
Counterpoint - watching with friends while drunk is entertaining enough. Don't watch alone though, drinking or not.
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Chaotic Flame posted:Counterpoint - watching with friends while drunk is entertaining enough. There are so many things wrong with this statement, but I'm just going to say that I don't drink.
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Chaotic Flame posted:Counterpoint - watching with friends while drunk is entertaining enough. I never get this argument. Watching almost anything with friends while drunk is entertaining. That's still no excuse to watch garbage.
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Feb 13, 2015 22:54
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Iron sky is about a million times better than almost everything currently available on Netflix, simply because almost everything Netflix has is garbage.
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Sarchasm posted:I never get this argument. Watching almost anything with friends while drunk is entertaining. That's still no excuse to watch garbage. Yeah why would anyone like to make fun of movies with their friends? Huh, whats that? Mystery Science what?
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Tezcatlipoca posted:Yeah why would anyone like to make fun of movies with their friends? Huh, whats that? Mystery Science what? You would have a point if it wasn't for the fact that you (seemingly) intentionally left off the word 'drunk'. On a further note, saying a film is enjoyable when drunk with friends is saying 'this film is only enjoyable if you are voluntarily and temporarily mentally disabled AND surrounded by people with whom you are predisposed to enjoying yourself, who also happen to be in a similar state'.
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Feb 14, 2015 00:07
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Drinking makes you stupid, so you're better equipped to watch stupid movies.
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stickyfngrdboy posted:Iron sky is about a million times better than almost everything currently available on Netflix, simply because almost everything Netflix has is garbage. Yeah, okay. You sound like my college roommate who would complain that there was nothing on Netflix and then watch the same episodes of Family Guy over and over.
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Feb 14, 2015 01:14
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GonSmithe posted:Yeah, okay. You sound like my college roommate who would complain that there was nothing on Netflix and then watch the same episodes of Family Guy over and over. Do you disagree that the vast majority of Netflix films are garbage? Because they definitely are. There are some really good things on there, yeah, but few and far between. Iron sky isn't great, but there are thousands of worse ways to spend ninety minutes on Netflix.
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Feb 14, 2015 01:18
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There are enough good films on Netflix to justify the money I spend on it. I'd hardly call the vast majority crap.
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The interface is designed so poorly that a lot of the time you are just completely unaware of how big the library is. Browsing on a TV for example, you pretty much have to know the name of what you are looking for or hope its one of the movies that is recommended.
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Feb 14, 2015 01:55
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The ratio doesn't really matter because the volume is so high. Supplement with a site like instant watcher so you can easily find the good ones and there's more than enough to ever run out. Unless you're unemployed and watch movies all day which maybe isn't that uncommon in cined.
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Eggnogium posted:The ratio doesn't really matter because the volume is so high. Supplement with a site like instant watcher so you can easily find the good ones and there's more than enough to ever run out. Unless you're unemployed and watch movies all day which maybe isn't that uncommon in cined. Just wait, those cinematic subtext analysis jobs are going to be popping up any minute now.
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cheerfullydrab posted:Drinking makes you stupid, so you're better equipped to watch stupid movies. Me and a buddy of mine drunk watched Poultrygeist. That movie is so much better than it has any right to be. It is completely self aware, amazing, and hilarious. Great comedic timing and jokes. Also titties. Watch that poo poo.
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Yaws posted:There are enough good films on Netflix to justify the money I spend on it. I'd hardly call the vast majority crap. I can't keep up with the poo poo I add to my queue. Right now I have Thief, Chinatown, Leaving Las Vegas, The Wolf of Wall Street, The Conversation, Snowpiercer, The French Connection, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Das Boot, Mystic River, Barton Fink, Marathon Man, Pi, Total Recall, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, and Das Boot. And that's just the best of the best. I have about 70 movies on the list. Basebf555 fucked around with this message at 02:50 on Feb 14, 2015 |
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Have a look through any category on instant watcher and see how many genuinely good films you find. There's definitely no doubt that Netflix is worth the small cost, but there are still way more bad films than good. Iron sky was being slated as terrible, but I guarantee I could find one hundred worse films on Netflix in any one single category, in less than ten minutes.
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Basebf555 posted:I can't keep up with the poo poo I add to my queue. Right now I have Thief, Chinatown, Leaving Las Vegas, The Wolf of Wall Street, The Conversation, Snowpiercer, The French Connection, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Das Boot, Mystic River, Barton Fink, Marathon Man, Pi, Total Recall, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, and Das Boot. See now, there's the problem: I want to see like half of these and had no way of knowing they were on Netflix until now.
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stickyfngrdboy posted:Do you disagree that the vast majority of Netflix films are garbage? Because they definitely are. There are some really good things on there, yeah, but few and far between. No I don't disagree with the first part, but I definitely do not agree with the last part. It is not few and far between. There are literally thousands of things to watch on Netflix, and of course a large majority of them are poo poo, but my queue is ever-increasing because I realize a movie that I've heard amazing things about gets added at least once every update. I have something like 80 movies in my queue that I haven't watched yet, and that's just the tip of the iceberg.
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Anonymous Robot posted:See now, there's the problem: I want to see like half of these and had no way of knowing they were on Netflix until now. You can use Netflix's site directly but I've found it kind of annoying to navigate. These days when I'm checking out what's up on the service I use instantwatcher.com.
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Don't get too attached to external sites though, Netflix is actively shutting down their API and partners that use it. Its really sucks and is completely braindead on their part. And yeah I know some sites got an exemption, but it's just a matter of time before Netflix shuts them down too.
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Anonymous Robot posted:See now, there's the problem: I want to see like half of these and had no way of knowing they were on Netflix until now. You have to be willing to just go through each genre you like every once in a while and be thorough about it. It might take a half hour but you its not a big deal if you do it like very 3 months.
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mod sassinator posted:Don't get too attached to external sites though, Netflix is actively shutting down their API and partners that use it. Its really sucks and is completely braindead on their part. I'm sure that there will be solutions for creating a more streamlined Netflix Instant catalog that Netflix cannot shut down. I mean worst case scenario, someone makes a wiki.
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Random Stranger posted:I'm sure that there will be solutions for creating a more streamlined Netflix Instant catalog that Netflix cannot shut down. I mean worst case scenario, someone makes a wiki. Not really, if there's no API then you have to screen scrape. However you can't see anything on Netflix's site until you're logged in, and if you're logged in and screen scraping then they can detect that and shut down your account. They can definitely make it very hard / impossible to index their site.
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TrixRabbi posted:Wait, what is this? So for example, on Better Of Ted there will be fake commericials for Veridian Dynamics which have text. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ia8OKMlqxLs Any of the text that shows up from the original broadcast is removed from the Netflix version, so all you see is the logo on the left and the text through the captioning system, if you don't have the captioning system turned on, they won't show up. Other shows like American Dad which occasionally has onscreen text gags will just show straight up black screens because the white text was removed. Side note, I don't know why the hell closed captioning services have started putting text at the top of the screen rather than the bottom these days. It ends up blocking people's faces more often than not. Party Plane Jones fucked around with this message at 03:30 on Feb 14, 2015 |
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gently caress this I thought Iron Sky was a fun dumb movie, and I have zero regrets watching it.
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stickyfngrdboy posted:Have a look through any category on instant watcher and see how many genuinely good films you find. There's definitely no doubt that Netflix is worth the small cost, but there are still way more bad films than good. Dude, we get it, you just figured out Sturgeon's Law. No one cares.
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stickyfngrdboy posted:Have a look through any category on instant watcher and see how many genuinely good films you find. There's definitely no doubt that Netflix is worth the small cost, but there are still way more bad films than good. Why are you even in this thread? I'll do an easy one Look up Korean Movies. There is a ton of great movies right there.
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Party Plane Jones posted:So for example, on Better Of Ted there will be fake commericials for Veridian Dynamics which have text. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ia8OKMlqxLs That's stupid as gently caress.
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Paper Kaiju posted:You would have a point if it wasn't for the fact that you (seemingly) intentionally left off the word 'drunk'. You must be a hoot at parties.
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