Netflix pisses away Three Hundred and Twenty Million Dollars

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RedKingXIII said:

LegitHyperbole said:

Like I said above, this is frivolous spending when they aren't spending near enough of the profit they make on reinvesting in content. They could have made three really high quality 10 hour episode TV shows with this or many, many dozens of hours of B tier content. He'll, if they were smart with investing with talent and building their own quality stuff they could get dozens of hours of content people would lobe to watch, LOST the TV show had a budget of 4 million an episode, they could have gotten three 24 episode seasons of that for like 72 hours of viewing. Maybe a little less cause of inflation. All I'm saying is they either need to expand their spending massively and they can afford to by a triple or quadruple easily and still be profitable or they need to be smarter with the money. I for one can't support this shit anymore, we're giving them money to burn it chunks of it and hoard the rest and instead of being smart and good with money they just up the price. 

Why does it matter if it's a quality TV show or a movie? Good content is good content. If they want to invest $200m making a good movie I think that's well spent money? I'm not seeing the issue really. 

What I really don't like about Netflix is the whole model of releasing too many stuff and seeing what sticks. But that's a winning formula for them that I don't think will ever change lol

It has changed though. I started Netflix at 6.99 and last month they took 21.99. I changed tier at some point myself but never manually consented to any price increase. Content has surely took a nose dive, they haven't learned anything or had a HBO moment. The closest they've come has been the Three Body Problem and they literally bought that Team out from under HBO and ruined Game of Thrones by offering the two dufuses so much money.

Perhaps your right and they could get something really special out of it, they'd still need to know the difference of choosing who's right for that money. The best stuff they have put on the site is always from British TV but they won't give invest 320 million in the media there or in the people who have brought (or they bought) the best of their content. Offer 320 million to Steven Knight or oher visionaries, hell offer 320 million to Kojima to make a 30 minute CGI film. Go all out and assemble a team of all the best for a cool billion or two to create a HBO level empire on a scale we've never seen from the ground up. Get all the smart talent, they can certainly afford it. I suppose we both see eye to eye on this but it takes the suits to make proper decisions with the money. All that money they could do something with and they won't and instead like you said just throw everything at the wall.