Look, I enjoy the convenience of Netflix as much as the next guy, especially with the theatres all closed due to the disease.
But I can’t help but feel that a lot of made-for-Netflix movies seem rushed, cheap and flabby, at least compared to their theatrical counterparts of the not-so-distant past. There are plenty of great filmmakers and actors making movies for the platform, but rarely do the films they make for Netflicks truly rank with their best work.
Netflix movies also look very “digital”, as if they don’t feel pressured to make a product that looks sumptuous and immersive on a big screen for an (over)paying audience. Even a movie like the Irishman — though not a “cheap” film — looks a bit discount compared to Scorsese’s most famous movies such as Hangs of NYC.
Some of their non-movie content is above average. They have done some great true-crime docs such as the Night Stalker (although their Unsolved Mysteries reboot is a bargain-basement insult to the original). Several Netflix TV series are “high quality TV” (a la HBO) but on the flip side, their long-format movies feel like straight-to-video B pictures from the 90s.
The comedies especially lack something — for example I’ve never seen a Netflix movie up there with, say, Step Brothers, in terms of funniness.
I did like a few Netflix movies very much, such as Buster Scruggs and Uncut Gems. I also enjoyed the recent Tom Holland movie, although again, I think it would have been tightened up for the big screen. Those movies all made my wife cry and leave the room, so I guess that says something about the Netflix movies I like.
But I didn’t mean this to be a rant — I actually want to know if other people feel this way and whether anybody on the net has written an analysis of why it might be. Or maybe it’s just me, that’s ok too, I am definitely known as a complainer in my village.
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