Wanna know where that extra money Netflix keeps adding to your bill is going? On 320 million dollar budget for a piece of garbage. For a film with no IP backing aside from a visual novel paperback. THREE HUNDRED AND TWENTY MILLION DOLLARS. 🤯

I can't understand how they can release 4 hours of some of the best, most emotionally hard hitting TV I've ever seen with Adolesense and all in one shot, no editing, just more difficult than expensive alongside this for probably over 300 million more. 😐 

THREE HUNDRED AND TWENTY MILLION ! To put that in perspective the Marvel super hero films have not exceeded 360 million and on backing that they'd make triple that back no doubt. Just throw the money away. Just burn it. Piss it all into the wind. 

This is such a shameful display of waste that once this month is up, I'll no longer be a customer, I was planning it anyway with the price increase to triple what I started with but this has cemented my decision. 

Sometimes I wonder how Netflix makes all of their money, if they can afford multiple flops such as this seemingly yearly, and still keep going.

I have to think $160 million or so of that is paid to the stars in the movie (Brown, Pratt, etc.) and even millions of that to the Russos.
I haven't watched the movie, but even with the effects the way I've heard they are I can't imagine the film would cost more than $125-150 million if it had cheap actors and directors.
$320 million is not sustainable for movies, and you have to imagine bonehead decisions like that gives Netflix extra incentive to raise prices higher and higher.

I don't think they have that much weight, neither the directors or the cast. It's the CGI and chasing the 90's astethic tbh, it's actually rather good, beats modern Marval by a long shot. 

At any rate, they got The Game of Thrones actors and showrunners with the Three Body Problem for 160 million. That's still a pretty steep investment but I feel that was a deserving project for 8 hours of high tier content and a safe bet. This is just beyond wasteful. 

Just like Playstation? ;p

Yeah by raising subscription prices :/

I joined up for CAD 6.99 a month, getting billed CAD 21.46 (18.99 pre tax) a month now for 1080p.


I'm open to suggestions for a different streaming service!

Problem is, the one advantage of streaming (vs Cable PVR) is no ads to ffwd through. Meanwhile streaming services all are adding unskipable ads for more affordable tiers. For example Crave Canada ad free is CAD 22 pre tax, CAD 14.99 with ads...

My cable service is starting to look cheap and includes Disney+ (with unskipable ads)

They're all shit. I've unsubbed from all of them as for now. The individual content that matters. Like grab a month of Disney plus, binge Shogun, What we do in the Shadows and whatever else and then scrap it. If you want something for background noise Amazon Prime is your best bet as it is the cheapest and has great long season shows like House. 

Silver lining: it motivated me to check out Simon Stalenhag's books. I'd seen some of his art online before but didn't realize he had so much printed/published work. Looks pretty good.

havent seen it, yet. I'll judge when I do

Watched it. Just plain terrible film. Its so bad.

I haven't read it yet but I've had the book on my reading list for a while because it looks pretty interesting. The film looks goofy though, which is a completely different tone to the book.