Brad Jones, The Cinema Snob

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I still listen to Radiodrome. He still has a war on netflix and bingewatching.
Also has a girlfriend who forces him to watch new movies, aka movies he does not like.

I stopped listening a few years ago, so I haven't heard him rant about netflix and binge watching, but ranting about that is so him.

"blah blah new thing, blah blah fucking sucks blah blah only idiots blah blah! Back in my day blah blah blah we blah and that was the only way to blah and blah blah blah it was the best way!"

It's the continues cycle of "Netflix is bad because it is destroying the homevideo market". And "bingewatching is bad because now you never have to wait for an episode to come"

Also did a few interviews with Uwe Boll and some other directors.

[wildmage]

I still listen to Radiodrome. He still has a war on netflix and bingewatching.
Also has a girlfriend who forces him to watch new movies, aka movies he does not like.

And that's the mark of someone with 0 grips on reality.

[JohnnyCocksville]

It's the continues cycle of "Netflix is bad because it is destroying the homevideo market". And "bingewatching is bad because now you never have to wait for an episode to come"

Also did a few interviews with Uwe Boll and some other directors.

He's so simultaneously stuck in the past and up his own ass, that he doesn't realize Netflix and other streaming services are the home video market. It's literally video directly to your home, beats the hell out of video stores. As well, as the fact that TV upped it's game when binge watching became a thing everyone did. a season of TV these days is like an awesome 10-13 hour movie. This is only a problem to someone who likes schlocky 80s cop shows, if you watch episodes back to back of a subpar tv show, you start to notice the faults of the over arching plotline. If you have to wait a week, then you don't notice the finer details, like the detail that there are no finer details.

Nothing wrong with consuming low brow entertainment, so long as you understand that's what you're doing.
The problem is when someone starts thinking they're part of some great intellectual elite, because they've watched "They Live", or some shit like that.

Dude, I love me some low brow schlock. Hadley doesn't understand that kind of entertainment is just fun, nothing else.

[Guest]

It's the continues cycle of "Netflix is bad because it is destroying the homevideo market". And "bingewatching is bad because now you never have to wait for an episode to come"

Also did a few interviews with Uwe Boll and some other directors.

He's so simultaneously stuck in the past and up his own ass, that he doesn't realize Netflix and other streaming services are the home video market. It's literally video directly to your home, beats the hell out of video stores. As well, as the fact that TV upped it's game when binge watching became a thing everyone did. a season of TV these days is like an awesome 10-13 hour movie. This is only a problem to someone who likes schlocky 80s cop shows, if you watch episodes back to back of a subpar tv show, you start to notice the faults of the over arching plotline. If you have to wait a week, then you don't notice the finer details, like the detail that there are no finer details.

Nothing wrong with consuming low brow entertainment, so long as you understand that's what you're doing.
The problem is when someone starts thinking they're part of some great intellectual elite, because they've watched "They Live", or some shit like that.

Dude, I love me some low brow schlock. Hadley doesn't understand that kind of entertainment is just fun, nothing else.

In my opinion Netflix is shit but for different reasons. I don't like most series and netflix is all about that. A lot of series would be far better of to just put in a movie and that's that. You can see it in the writing with the same cliches for just stretching something. Westworld is an example of this. A remake of the original 2 movies would be far better than the pseudo shit philosophy and horrible writing.

I want movies from the 50s and 60s in cinemascope. Or stream some Buster Keaton, but yet that cannot be done.

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That was me.

[AlexJowski]

He's so simultaneously stuck in the past and up his own ass, that he doesn't realize Netflix and other streaming services are the home video market.

I've fought with Hadley on this before. It's because he's a Luddite that only bothers to listen to the opinions of other Luddites. So Charles Band bitches about how Netflix is putting independent producers out of business simply because Full Moon is struggling with distribution. So Hadley believes that to be the norm. "Netflix is evil because I say so and this old fuck who makes shitty Killer Bong movies agrees with me." No matter how many times myself or others try to explain to him the evolving nature of all media that he's got his head up nostalgia's ass, he refuses. He forgets that the VHS, which he loves so much, was seen by people just like him as the potential death of movies and televisions 40 years earlier. VHS didn't kill movies, companies adapted to the new technology and moved on. The fact that these companies adapt instead of catering to the caveman beliefs of nostalgiatards like Hadley also angers him so much.

[AlexJowski]

A guy whose entire worldview was fed to him by Hollywood. The type of person who thinks stupid, ham-fisted garbage, like George Romero movies and Star-Trek episodes are incredibly deep, nuanced, multi-layered "social commentary"...

Well, since the only authors he's read are Hunter S. Thompson and Harlan Ellison, Hadley's ideas of what "social commentary" is are rather crippled. There is social commentary in Romero movies and Star Trek episodes, but it sure as hell isn't deep or nuanced; it's pretty heavy-handed and trite. "Dawn of the Dead" is about consumerism, so it takes place in the most obvious of places: a mall. That's not deep or nuanced. And the statement made in Romero's flick about consumerism is littler more than "people like to buy shit." There's a lot of Star Trek episodes about racism that are simply: This alien is different so people hate him, then they find out he's not so they accept him. It's every after-school special, just with Shatner and company in it.

There are plenty of works with all kinds of different social commentary and enlightening things to say about the world. Which Hadley won't ever watch because he likes to live in ignorance and claim that "Land of the Dead" is the high-point of artistic merit.

[unknownelement]

I dig me some Romero but i agree with Jay from RLM that the accidental social commentary of NIGHT slowly infected the rest of the series leading to the cum dribbling down the thigh of the fanbase that was DIARY OF THE DEAD

[TheManWithNoPlan]

Very true and lets be real the original of the Dead trilogy can be enjoyed without ever noticing any of the social commentary.

[rabidtictac]

Very true and lets be real the original of the Dead trilogy can be enjoyed without ever noticing any of the social commentary.

Like all the best movies.

My favorite romero films are the original Night of the Living Dead and the one in the military bunker. I think that was Land, but I'm not sure. That one was relentlessly dark and depressing and I loved it. The opening with the calendar is awesome.