"A quarter-century later, it's safe to say that those days have come to an end. Not only does the streaming-only Netflix of the twenty-twenties no longer transmit movies on DVD through the mail (a service its younger users have trouble even imagining), it ranks approximately nowhere as a preferred cinephile destination. That has to do with a selection much diminished since the DVD days"
"The general semi-engagement of Netflix viewers, as argued in the Nerdstalagic video at the top of the post, is reflected in the quality of the "movie-shaped product" now served to them. Far from the slapped-together approximations of Hollywood we once expected from films made for TV, the stream-chart-topping likes of Red Notice and The Electric State are mega-budgeted productions brimming with big stars and large-scale visual effects."
Netflix originally expanded cinephile access by mailing DVDs to viewers far from revival houses and curated video stores. Over twenty-five years the company became streaming-only and largely stopped mailing DVDs, resulting in a diminished selection of older films. The brand has been weakened by numerous bland, formulaic original productions. Netflix feature films attract large audiences but little critical respect, reflecting general semi-engagement among viewers. That semi-engagement shapes the emergence of "movie-shaped" products. Many top-streamed Netflix films are mega-budget, star-studded productions driven by algorithm-approved narrative elements rather than cinephile curation.
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