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Why Netflix is lacking in unique ideas and concepts

Netflix is standing on top of the entertainment industry, but it is not a position that really has much artistic strength. There are some diamonds in the rough, but it isn’t enough. Netflix simply doesn’t have a unique direction to its productions.

Netflix seems to be more interested in remaking the greatest hits and not making anything new or surpassing what came before. Stranger Things remakes the Goonies or any teenage band of misfits movie from the 1980s. Ransom Canyon is basically many rural shows that were shown on various broadcast channels in previous eras. It seems that they want to be a facsimile rather something unique.

Considering that the company began as a way to deliver DVDs and collect your information while doing so, this isn’t surprising to me. Netflix is an information services company providing movies and tv shows in the form of data to your device here. They are still of Silicon Valley not Hollywood or any other studio city on the planet.

They may rent studios to shoot movies, but this is content not art.

Netflix has many subscribers, but does it have fans who like it for more than content?

Network effect really bolsters many of these companies, but Amazon is not Sears, neither is Netflix a new Hollywood which can capture the imaginations of Americans. These two companies have done great at capturing market share and making money but can they really sustain it? These companies are not really interested in America as nothing more than a place to sell their assets here.

Amazon has an easier time as their products are tangible. However, Netflix seems to be on shakier ground here. Their movies are not physical media but, in the cloud, here. Can they really create the same love for their movies as has remained for The Wizard of Oz, Casablanca, even Metropolis? These are old movies now but the fact that Netflix is buying Warner Bros show that they understand the importance of these symbols of Americana.

Making money is one thing but having staying power is another.

Why Netflix buying Warner Bros shows who runs entertainment now

Netflix is a company that seems to be a titan in our current age. In its early days, it was just delivering DVDs and disrupting Blockbuster. Now it is making those movies and cutting out the physical media and even the theatrical release. Warner Bros, a company that once dominated the movie industry, is now under threat of being acquired by Netflix. This is a company that is entertainment now, and everyone is simply a vassal in the shadow of its influence. This is a company that Hollywood saw as an add-on to the power. Now they are the ones who are an add-on to Netflix.

While Netflix does not have the same quantity of movies now as it did in the past, but it does have the revenue and userbase. It is continuing to grow and is formidable in its loyalty and willingness to put with the unfriendly customer service that Netflix has. This is very important for them to be able to pursue these takeovers of once influential American companies. Netflix is now the leader of the entertainment industry and is peering into the world’s many thoughts and visions.

Why Netflix is not the new cinema

The box office seems to be coming back to life now. Five at Freddy’s and Zootopia 2 are battling it out with other movies such as Wicked for Good and some other stragglers. It seems that the studios are pulling out the big guns in order to save this year so that they can make up some of the money they didn’t have in the previous parts of the year here.

Netflix has Stranger Things 5, Emily in Paris Season 5, but it seems that the magic isn’t there.

I remember years that Netflix would release new titles and it would garner attention. Now, it seems that they are attempting to hold onto their audience rather build it. This explains why they began punishing people who were sharing passwords and putting ads on the cheapest tier. This is adding to the expense of using Netflix and other streaming services. Instead of having one or two places to watch content, you now have them in so many places.

This is not a great arrangement for people now, especially with the novelty of streaming not as strong as before here.

Netflix’s inablity to make originals which match Hollywood’s early output is telling.

Where is Louise Brookes of Netflix? Simple answer: The culture is simply not there.

The idea of having a Charlie Chaplin or Joan Crawford is not happening in the Netflix age. The people who started Netflix were Silicon Valley who didn’t like Blockbuster’s return policy. They managed to create rental giant which became a streaming giant here. They were just interested in a business more than the art. It wasn’t until they began making originals that the art became more important; it was still subordinate in sense to a third concept, the information and archive culture of our age.

Netflix was more interested in using these shows to sell data back to the people who made the content rather than the artistic quality. A few shows and movies could have been seen to be of classic Hollywood quality, but there are not that many shows that reach the brilliance of Hollywood of many decades ago. Maybe of our age but Netflix is going to have be better than that, not just an addition.

Netflix is simply not the new cinema but more of a upstart which thinks it is. They have had successes but most of these were in the beginning of their time of making originals. They are just pumping out more reality television than ever before. Emily in Paris may appeal to many people but Netflix needs to really start focusing on creating artistic movies which can appeal to their audience.

They have a huge audience and yet they make the same content as one saw on the old broadcast channels.

Netflix will continue to gain subscribers counts but it needs more creativity if it wants to retain that audience.

Investors and tech guys generally do not care about creativity. Only investments. Netflix needs to learn how to treats is originals as something more than images on a screen.