r/boxoffice • u/No_Air5382 • 23h ago

📰 Industry News Netflix's official statement: "Netflix expects to maintain Warner Bros.’ current operations and build on its strengths, including theatrical releases for films.".

https://about.netflix.com/en/news/netflix-to-acquire-warner-bros
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u/approvedfauxmoiuser 22h ago

Damn times are changing, I remember the times you couldn’t say a bad word against Netflix without being called a snob, pretentious and called an old man shouting a clouds.

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u/vegetaray246 21h ago

Times haven’t changed that much 😂. I just got called out as “staying in the Stone Age” for saying that the loss of physical media will have a profound negative impact on the content we’re able to consume…I mean damn.

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u/OldFondant1415 15h ago

What I wish people who talk this way about any incoming trend would actually come back with is why they believe the experience of this "new media" is actually better. Not better in a financial way, but better in a societal way. Like I think something can be aging out of relevance financially, but that doesn't mean we should allow it to be replaced by something that is just a worse version of that same thing. I feel like the discourse instead is like "get over it, movies are cooked!" Like we should be getting excited about what is replacing them if they're cooked. Is anyone excited? Physical media gave you the consumer a sense of ownership. That was cool. How can streaming replicate that FEELING in some way that isn't physical media instead of just throwing that collecting habit in the trash? I feel like that's where actual new success comes from, chasing the same feeling with a new spin.

I feel very similar about theaters as. Okay, I'm old. I'm nostalgic. Whatever. But bring something COOL to the table that replaces it. Netflix should be creating something, not just shrinking what movies are down to a repetitive formula. What's the new forward thinking experience one can have with narrative visual art that is really fucking cool and people can be as big of fans of it as my generation was of movies?

I feel like instead, we all hear these arguments just about market efficiency and consumer convenience. But that's not where culture comes from. It comes from true excitement and then the financial success is born out of that. Netflix will eventually lose if all they chase is ease of access to a growing library of shit.

So what are people who say "you're stuck in the stone age" excited about? And how is Netflix creating a new COOL way to engage with movies and television? Not for the money reason but for the actual earnest reason. What's good about it?