The State of Streaming: Netflix | SVU

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Speaker 2: Off hundreds of thousands of movies. Netflix has about four thousand of them? Is that good? Are you getting your money's worth? I'm Jordan Hoffman.

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Speaker 3: And I'm Matt Singer. With more movies, more series, more stuff going straight to streaming than ever before, it felt like the right time for a podcast that keeps track of it all, and that podcast is Film Spotting Streaming Video Unit. This week the start of a semi regular series on the podcast. We're calling the state of Streaming. Our subject this week the Big Red Machine Netflix, plus some new to streaming titles, some deep cut streaming REX, and a game.

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Speaker 2: It's all coming up on Film Spotting SVU.

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Speaker 3: Welcome to Film Spotting SVU. I'm Matt Singer. Later in the show, we're gonna run down this week's new streaming titles. We've got everyone's favorite segment to say, if not to listen to Rex Egg, I guess I should save that. I just want to do it every time I mention it. I think every time that those two words are said, we should add the sound effects because you seem to really enjoy it. Yeah, continue, Okay, Well, we're gonna we're gonna recommend some titles we got in honor of our episode about Netflix. We're gonna be recommending some Netflix movies. We also have a personalized streaming recommendation that was sent in by an SVU listener, and it would have been great if it was about Netflix, but this person really likes movie. So we're gonna be recommending some titles you can watch on movie movie B movie or not movie, that is the question. And we've also got a game producer, Sam will be testing our knowledge of the streaming service we've all been studying this week. The game is called says here the Netflix Capacitor, the Flux Capacitor, and I like it.

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Speaker 2: I like the name.

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Speaker 3: We're gonna go back in time. Tell me, doctor Jordan, there are we going this time?

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Speaker 2: They're all questions about Huey Lewis and the news.

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Speaker 3: That's good because I actually know Huey leasing news. I'm doing it all for my baby this week on Film Spotting SVU. But first let's Netflix and chill.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Now, like we said, we're gonna take a break from our usual format on SVU this week for the first of what we kind of intend to be an occasional, infrequent series of episodes on the podcast. Instance is a very special episode that it literally occurring. That's right, This literally is our first very special episode of SVU. Instead of the usual review of one title on streaming, we're going to review an entire streaming service. We're going to discuss how easy it is to use, uh, the quality of their library, whether it's worth what they expect customers to pay. We're calling this the state of streaming. And at the end of our discussion, we're going to assign scores based on these different categories. And our hope is that when we do this for other episodes, we will be able to compare those scores, and then eventually we will determine scientifically, once and for all, what is the greatest streaming service of all time, in the history of the world.

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Speaker 2: Ever.

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Speaker 3: Nice, maybe we can put someverb under there, Sam, Yeah, maybe in post excellent.

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Speaker 2: Or just cut it out.

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Speaker 3: Now, as it is the most heavily used streaming service. The company that basically invented this whole ecosystem of digital streaming movies red One. You call it the Big Red One. I like to call it the big Red Machine because I'm a wrestling nerd. Let's talk about it. It is Netflix. It was founded in nineteen ninety seven as a company that sold DVDs through the mail. They rented them to you in these little red envelopes, and then they began this revolution in the film world in two thousand and seven when they launched their service that allowed subscribers to also watch movies over the internet. This was an also originally, but over time it proved very popular, and within a couple of years they decided to go so all in on this concept. They were gonna spin off the DVD business onto a new entity with a new name. Do you remember the name, yes, Jordan, can you name Quickster?

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Speaker 2: Quickster?

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Speaker 3: That's right, q w I k st R. And this move was so ridiculed. Yeah, they just completely abandoned that. They said, never mind, forget we said that.

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Speaker 2: I guess the idea is that the discs come to you fairly quickly, which they did back in the day.

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Speaker 3: Not as quickly as a stream streaming Now, roughly twenty years into this streaming revolution, Netflix is basically the industry standard. So that's where we're starting our State of Streaming series. And we're gonna look at this. I have five categories. We're going to spend a couple of minutes on each, and at the end, well, and we can give numbered ratings, let's say, from zero to ten for each of these five categories, and we'll add them up at the end. Hopefully someone's got a calculator, because I certainly can't figure that out.

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Speaker 2: But before we get into the what, what do you have any because it is the bit, the first big one. Do you have any nostalgia for early Netflix? Like? What is your relationship with Netflix? Well?

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Speaker 3: Very met on a ball me day in two thousand. I was sitting at a cafe outside and this red envelope floated past me on the wind. I don't remember what year I started using the envelope Netflix, but I pretty much was a subscriber from as soon as I learned about it until until quick Stir. Until that era, I was still using you know, I was still using the the envelopes and uh, I mean it was a it was a good service. It was because because it could be frustrating, I remember, because you had a queue and you would and they were supposed to send you what was at the top of the queue, but very often that would be you know, someone else in you know, someone in East Jabip, Kansas had taken out the copy of the Girlfriend Experience that you wanted, and so you would instead get like meet me in Saint Louis, and you would be like, well, this is not at all what I wanted to watch.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, get it. But it was particularly annoying if you were in the middle of a series. If you were watching The Sopranos season two, that was a yes, and disc three didn't come or Disc three did come and it would be scratched and unusable, and then there was there was the reason why I asked, actually because I haven't thought about this in over ten fifteen years or whatever. Well, first of all, there was a series. There was a service before Netflix that did that was a kind of streaming service. I know this because my parents were briefly early adopters to this, and they had a little do hickey that was attached to their TV and you could rent for a few bucks. Uh what would have been at you know, at a video store. Whatever year the Thin Red Line came out, I remember being in their home and I said, I'm gonna pay. Can I put five bucks on your on your bill and watch the Thin Red Line? And they said sure, they said no. So I whatever year that was, and it didn't last. They like ninety eight, I think, yeah, so it didn't a big red one. No, no, no, the the thin red line. Yeah, it's all about red one movie Thin.

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Speaker 3: Red Line, which is what I mean, the nineteen ninety.

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Speaker 2: Eight Okay, So so it didn't last, and like within a year or so they had gotten rid of that thing. And then I remember when the did, when the big red envelopes were coming, and I had always got to be a little bit of a pain in answer about something. When Netflix started being being ubiquitous, I was like, now I don't use Netflix. I use Green Sinny. Do you remember Green Cinny?

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Speaker 3: Green scene? I think green scene. It might have been how they probably preferred it to be said.

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Speaker 2: But yes is why they failed. This is why they failed. They were they were they were trying to be the elitist snob version of sure of Netflix, and they failed because you know, they were focusing more on you know, Eric Romere films and whatnot as opposed to having two thousand copies of Batman begins. So, but then I eventually relented and got Netflix. But here's the funny part. Here's what I really wanted to bring up. This is quick. When the streaming first started, I had a pick. When I got my first Blu ray player. I just looked this up the other day. I got you know, I was DVD guy in the like there's a new thing. There's Blu Ray. I'm like, oh, give me a break, a new thing, Blu Ray. And then it's like, now you gotta get Blu ray. It's better. Fine. I got a Blu ray player and it had an attachment. It had four things at the bottom. You could click a yellow A, a green B, a red C, or a blue D, and it had access to other platforms on the Blu ray Player that you could stream. One was YouTube, believe it or not, One was Pandora Radio, which I did use from time to time. Another one was Netflix obviously, and then the fourth one. Can you guess was it Bazooga? It could have been Bazooka, it would have been better. It was Blockbuster, Oh, Blockbuster to in their death throws, right.

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Speaker 3: They had what was it called. It had a name.

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Speaker 2: It was called like Blockbuster First Rentaler or something. I don't know, but it was it was their last ditch. Holy shit, we got to catch up and they tried to be Netflix. But I never used it because it was something that you could use Wi Fi. But my Wi Fi wasn't that good for me yet. I didn't have a good work But this was early, this was like nine two thousand, two thousand and one or whatever. So but I had another friend who had the same machine, and he just had a really long cable that went from the thing into the cable and and you plugged it in that way. But my cable wasn't big enough. My wife didn't let me get an extension cord through the house, and it was I never used it.

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Speaker 4: All.

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Speaker 2: Right, now, let's talk about Netflix. Okay, So.

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Speaker 3: With that preamble out of the way, the way we're gonna do this is we've got a bunch of categories we're going to discuss one by one different kind of universal subjects we can discuss about any streaming service we want to talk about. So they are the library, how easy it is to find the titles and what they have, the playback interface, how easy it is to watch, rewind, do whatever you want to do with what you're watching. The reliability kind of what you were just talking about. How good does it look? How often does it crash? Is there issues with the greeniness with that being out of sync? The originals library? How much do they have, how good are they how often you actually want to watch the things they are making just for this service, And last and most important, probably for a lot of people, the price. How much do they charge you? And is it worth it? So that's it, So let's dive right in. We've already yammered on about an obsolete format for seven minutes, so we might as well now talk about the actual subject of this episode.

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Speaker 2: So history is important. Don't forget your history.

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Speaker 3: That's right, You're absolutely right. So let's talk about Netflix's library.

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Speaker 2: First.

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Speaker 3: Do you have any general thoughts about about the size of it, Jordan, And it's not just the size that matters, it is how you use it. How easy is it to find things on Netflix?

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Speaker 2: Well, It is funny because you know, we're old enough to remember Netflix first being through the Mail where they really did have almost every details and enormous and it's been a long term bait and switch because now their catalog is pretty lousy in terms of like other movies, especially older movies.

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Speaker 3: Things they didn't make, things that pre date Netflix exactly.

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Speaker 2: Good luck finding anything older than Smoking the Band The Airport. Airport was the oldest movie I could find. It's nineteen seventy correct. But there their homegrown stuff, the stuff that either they produced themselves or that they acquire is the is the industry standard. I mean, it is great. There's always something big happening Netflix. Right now it's The Lord of the Flies, which we talked about last week, and there's that Sally Field thing that's big, and next week it's going to be something else that's big, and it's always there's always a big Netflix show. If it's Anya Taylor Joy playing chess, or if it's Love on the Spectrum, which I've never seen but people really like, or they're British throwdown baking show glass blowing shows which my wife consumes regularly. I mean, they are a really good creator of very watchable things, you know, I mean, you get hooked. Okay, so let's doing that.

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Speaker 3: Well, sure, and we can discuss that more on our section about like specifically the things that they're making. We can talk about how many and what we like, but let's focus more before we move on on what you were saying about the bait and switch. I think is a good way of describing it. And I have no way of ascertaining this. I wish I could. I hope somebody figures it out. I would love to know how many like non originals are streaming on Netflix right this moment as we record this in the middle of May of twenty twenty six, versus when they first launched that service. Oh yeah, in two thousand and seven. I think it was I surely read. When I was doing some actually doing research for my upcoming book, Funny Business, which will be available on October six and you can preorder right now. I was looking at the origins of Netflix, because that's actually the timing of that I think is very important to what was happening in Hollywood in the too late two thousands into the early twenty tens. And I found an article with Read Hastings the grand poobah of Netflix for many years, you know, saying oh, we don't expect this to you know, we expect our DVDs to be around for a very long time.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 3: We have seventy thousand DVDs and we have like seven thousand streaming titles or something like that. And I don't know if the numbers were was throwing out. We're just hypotheticals. But just the idea that that Netflix at any point would have like thousands of non Netflix movies in this day and ages is unconceivable.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's it's lousy, and it is a pro I mean, Netflix is not where you go to find a good old movie, which is weird because for some people it's the only service they have. They don't tell HBO Max or Hulu or whatever. So if you want to if you want to watch a movie you love, you want to watch Indiana Jones, You're out. You're out of luck, that's right. Not only that they have so much of their own material, it is impossible to find anything. So this kind of leads to the big question you were getting to, which is how how what is their navigation like? And the answer is is absolutely Bysmal it's terrible. I don't I don't have any solutions for them other than having a button that says A to Z. I mean, an A to Z would be nice, but for whatever reason, they don't have an A DIZ.

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Speaker 3: Well. But let's just say this, until recently, they did have one. And literally in just the last few weeks, while we were prepping this episode, I discovered this. They got rid of it until recently. If you looked at Netflix on your laptop, on your laptop your computer, you could there was a way you had to go through a few steps, but you could see every title on Netflix. You had to go through them by genre, but you could list from A to Z, from Z to A or from.

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Speaker 2: The year they were released.

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Speaker 3: You could go through the entire Netflix catalog, which for dorks like us, that's important, right. I want to be able to recreate the kind of experience of browsing a video store when I'm using these services, where I can just kind of look at everything and say, oh, I did want to see that, Oh they have this, how many by this person? Do they have any movies by this?

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Speaker 2: And that?

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Speaker 3: In just recently, in the last few weeks, Netflix has like they just kind of quietly removed it. I discovered this while I was prepping on this episode, and then I confirmed with other websites that kind of cover Netflix that they observe this too. Can you now are basically just totally no matter how you access to Netflix, you are at the mercy of their algorithms. Yeah, and whatever they think you want to watch and whatever they want you to watch.

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Speaker 2: When I was poking around and I wasn't using my laptop, and I sometimes do watch Netflix on my mop top, but I was using my in front of my TV, and I have an Apple TV. I used to have Roku. Now I have Apple, and Apple's pretty good. It is impossible to find anything. You have to click on the little magnifying glass for search, and so I'm just going to tell you a little bit of some of the things I did when I clicked on search. You click on search and then it does auto populate some categories for you, and those are primarily alphabetical. And I saw one that said astrology. And this was a category like.

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Speaker 3: You would notice this as well. It's a recent addition to the It's listed under genres.

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Speaker 2: When you look at you look think that's where comedy, documentary, you know, But the astrology, it's like, oh, what the hell's in astrology? I clicked it and it was Stranger Things, Okay, And now we're not alphabetical because s is not. It was Stranger Things, the movie The Fifth Element. All right, maybe Independence Day, Welcome to Earth, that's not astrology. Stargate SG one the series maybe sounds more like these are all astronomy? Do they not know the difference between? And here's where it gets weird. Then they had some series and I don't know if these were originals or not. One was called The Minimalists. Less is Now and it's maybe about decluttering your house. And another one was called Heads Guide the Sleep, and I said, what the hell is that I clicked on it. It was like a health special, four part health special on how to get better sleep. What does this have to do with astrology? Absolutely nothing. So I got out of that category and I started looking around some more and I said, you know what, let me try to find classics, something old, because I'm an old man. And they had there was no classics. I said, let me type in the word classics. I typed in the word classics, and there were some things that came up, some of which I will give them credit for. They were relevant, Like I said, movies from the eighties if you consider those classics. And I'll get to that in a minute. But then this is what's fascinating. They had some other things. You popular is the first thing on the left. I typed in classics said vintage movies, Vintage movie classics. Colon, it's war. So I said, oh, this must be war movies. I'm going to see Paton. And they were expendable. So I clicked on vintage movie classics, It's War and it said and by the way, they brought the topic up to me. I didn't bring up to them. It said, we don't have vintage movie classics. Its war but you might like instead colon Airport. That's old, at least by their old nineteen percentage. It's not a war movie. I love Airport, but it was a good movie. Then it had Colossal, which is like from twenty fifteen. Remember that one with I think Ann Hathaway's Half Away. That's vintage. Good movie. It's not vintage. Its war Fletch. Fletch is not a warmer.

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Speaker 3: Well, it's a war of the It's a war of the soul. When you think about it, he's he's a man horn asunder with all his different persona.

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Speaker 2: I got the hell out of air and I clicked the next one, which was vintage movie.

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Speaker 6: Classics colon No, no, sorry, it was TV Classic Westerns colon us Marshall okay.

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Speaker 2: And I said, all right, TV Classics Western us Marshall. What's that nothing? It said, same thing, we do not have it. Give me a So then I got back to it, and here's what it is. I said, they had movies from the seventies. I'm like, what do you got? They had nine movies from the seventies, nine Slapshot American Graffiti Airport, and then the Great Waldo Pepper, which is I'll give them credit. That's a weird. So that's a deep cut to have on that foot. That's not like anybody's top, like Where's the Godfather? Where seven people want to watch? And then of the nine, three of them were Bollywood movies. Now I love Bollywood movies, but that should be in the Bollywood section. I mean, movies from the seventies should be, you know, Sidney Lumette movies. The same thing with the eighties. I think it was even fewer than No.

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Speaker 3: No.

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Speaker 2: I clicked on classic romance. Here's what they have, Tutsie, pretty woman, She's got to have it. There's something about Mary. There are four good movies solid. Yeah, some of those classics. I mean there's like Mary's.

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Speaker 3: It's better than some of these other options you've said.

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Speaker 2: And then four Bollywood movies. Again, no dis to Bollywood, but classic romances. I want to see Catherine Heppern in summertime, you know what's going on.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you're not gonna find that. They also, we need to wrap up this area of our discussion or we will be here literally all day. But you're touching on all the things that I found when I was looking for anything. It's very difficult to navigate, very hard to see what they have, and then what you find is often very disappointing. I did just want to very briefly mention there. Did you see the thing called like match your Mood?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it was a very strange thing that they're pushing now, where it's like kind of like the astrology, I guess, where instead of a genre, it's like, well, how are you feeling? And we'll give you a movie based on that. But then some of them are just like, well, this isn't a mood. Like one of them was called Activating beast Mode.

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Speaker 2: Okay. This is taken directly from Spotify's book. By the way, is that what it is? There's a great book that came out about a year ago called Mood Machine, all about the inner working to Spotify is fascinating, okay, and they're they're following that.

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Speaker 3: Okay, So let's give a here on this category from zero to ten, what would you rate the library and the ease of searching for Netflix? You want me to go first?

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Speaker 2: I give it a one? You Oh, okay, really bad? Well, I'm gonna get when we get to our rex eg it dovetails from my inability to find something that Netflix produced. I couldn't find it on Netflix.

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Speaker 3: Okay, all right, I'm gonna do a little better because I feel like they're I don't know, one seems too low, especially for the first time we're doing this. I'm gonna give it a three. I'm gonna give it.

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Speaker 2: I'll give it too. I'll give it too.

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Speaker 3: Okay. I Fore, God, can we we got to write these down somewhere so we can keep track.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna I'll write them down here a two.

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Speaker 3: And Matt gave it a three. Okay, all right, let's come on to our next topic.

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Speaker 2: I will say, by and large, when my wife is the primary Netflix viewer and she will be watching The Great British Bakeoff, and then when it ends, she sees the recommendation and says, oh, that looks good, and that keeps the cycle going. So it works for her when I go to Netflix. Because I'm in the biz as you are, I kind of know.

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Speaker 3: What you just put on sunglasses, as you said, so.

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Speaker 2: I'm rarely doing the search. I'm going I'm like, oh, I gotta watch Lord of the Flies. Is that a Hulu? No, that's that's a Netflix. Okay, let me go and type in Lord. So I know what I'm doing there. But if I were just like an everyday guy, go into the video store, what's on Netflix, You're not going to find you'll find something to watch. There's four million things that look interesting, but you're not going to really find a good movie.

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Speaker 3: You're increasingly and it's fair. I mean, this is not you don't need us to tell you this. They're focused on their original content that they control forever, that they don't have to license from other people, and and that will just keep you keep you in the Netflix ecosystem as long as possible. All right, let's move on to our next category, which is the playback interface. When you're using this on your you said your Apple TV. I also use Apple TV. I also use my laptop a lot. You know, how do the the actual interface of what you're using?

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Speaker 2: How do you? How do you like it? What do you what do you do?

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Speaker 3: You? Are you satisfied with the experience?

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Speaker 2: I do like it. It's fine, it's intuitive and it works well. There are some other streaming services that are not intuitive. I think Paramount plus is annoying. Plex is impossible, But the Netflix interface is good. I have no notes. I really don't.

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Speaker 3: It's fine, It's perfectly acceptable. You got the skip forward and back, which I appreciate because I like to skip back. Sometimes I miss a line of dialogue. Yeah, it's very easy on my computer when I'm using it, play pause, skip forward, back, volume, audio subtitles. Speed authority issue that I think we should discuss another time, when we have more time.

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Speaker 2: I will say, though speed only works on your computer, is that you try If you try to use speed at least on Apple TV, you can't. You can't make it a little.

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Speaker 3: Quicker, meaning you're able to on Netflix if you wish to watch something at one point five speed meaning everyone's kind of yeah, chipmunking a little bit. If you're bored and you just want to get through something, that is that is an option if you wanted to watch Eyes Wide Shut, precisely as Fanley Kubrick always intended with the you know, the people in the big mansion scene, moving eve thrusting. I guess quicker at one point you could do that. Now you can also slow it down. I don't know why anyone would want to maybe if you wanted to watch that exact same scene longer.

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Speaker 2: It's had a really rough day and you're just going slow. Man. The speed manipulation, I will confess I have used from Timetime. It's good for podcasts. There's somebody listening to this podcast.

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Speaker 3: Sometimes you came for trashy documentaries is where I sometimes use that.

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Speaker 2: You can't poop cruise. If you're watching poop Cruse, that's a perfect example. But you can't do a crappy documentary, but you can't do it on the TV. But the other thing that I like is that it's very intuitive on how to put the subtitles on and off, because I I like to have subtitles on. My wife old yes, she's always like turn the words off, turn the words off. So when we're doing it, and if it's Paramount plus and one of the others is like, christ the hell is it again? Out on now it's one of these buttons. I accidentally hit the wrong button for Netflix, it's intuitive. Hats off again. So let's give it a score. What's the score for the playback? Eight?

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna go exactly the same eight for me as well. Eight out of ten all right now. Next topic the I'm calling this like the reliability. How often are you watching Netflix and there's an issue where you go, oh, it's you know, it froze or I gotta stop it, or I suddenly everything gets blurry on the screen, anything like that. Does that happen to you when you're using Netflix?

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Speaker 2: No, it's good. I know that when they do their live shows. They had some glitches the first time they did a major sports event live, which I didn't see, but I have. I think they're fine. They got the bandwidth, they got the power, they got the big red juice. So they get a thumbs up for me on their on this category.

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Speaker 3: Okay, generally I will agree, but I will say this is something. Maybe this is just me. I don't know if anyone listening will agree with me. Maybe someone listening will be like, yes, this is happening to me.

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Speaker 2: I thought I was the.

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Speaker 3: Only one lately when I am watching again, like, I do a lot of watching in the evenings on my computer because I don't have a television in my bedroom. So when i'm you know, before I go to sleep, a lot of times I'll be watching things on my laptop.

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Speaker 2: That's it. Because the bedroom is not for watching, it's for making love.

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Speaker 3: I don't don't. I don't care for that.

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Speaker 2: I don't care for that at all.

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Speaker 3: So when I'm watching these things on my laptop. The thing I've noticed recently, and I don't know if Jordan has noticed this, maybe Sam has, maybe no one has. Maybe it's just my computer, uh, is that I have this occasional issue where suddenly the stream will kind of stutter for a second, and then when it starts up again, the audio is out of sync with the picture. And it's not a big deal. You just have to refresh the page or reload it and it starts working again. But this is something that I have. This is not and isolated. It's happened to me one time. This is something that happens to me at least once every couple of days. I have this issue, and it's been going on, I would say now for at least a month or two where it's a it's persistent enough that I'm raising it here. So I'd say I would say the visual quality on Netflix is very good. I would say it's generally more reliable, more consistent than I have. There are other services I don't know about.

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Speaker 2: You Jordan.

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Speaker 3: But when you're watching them sometimes you'll notice that the quality goes down as the internet buffers or whatever it is.

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Speaker 2: I very rarely have.

00:29:54
Speaker 3: That issue on Netflix, but that that issue with the sink is something I've been encountering lately, so I have to It may not be any points for that.

00:30:01
Speaker 2: That may not be a Netflix issue. That may be a if you use Spectrum or FiOS, so whatever you use, it could be a.

00:30:08
Speaker 3: It's possible, except I have not encountered this very specific glitch on any of the other services which I use, like half a dozen other ones all the time in the same conditions.

00:30:18
Speaker 2: Yeah. No, I mean it's that's unfortunate, you need to update or something. But I have not experienced that. But if you want me to get read Hastings on the phone, he can.

00:30:28
Speaker 3: I would love that. Can you text him?

00:30:29
Speaker 2: Can you? You know? I once had a very long conversation with read Hastings without knowing who he was.

00:30:36
Speaker 3: This is until the classic Jordan anecdote that we were.

00:30:41
Speaker 2: At Sundance and we were online to see something and we were in the the more exclusive line. I didn't realize how exclusive. Yes, and when you're at Sundance and you're waiting on a line for thirty two minutes. You smooved to the guy next to you, sure, and his name badge was reversed, and we had a really fun conversation about all kinds of topics and at the end I said, hey, by the way, my name's Jordan. He goes, oh, hey, I'm reading. I'm like, hey, read, and like, are you like and ID I'm like, oh, are you a film critic too? I said, And he's like no, and he turns his badge around. I'm like he's like, oh, I'm like, oh, you read Hastings. I'm like, oh, yeah, I know. I'm like I say, I think and I made a joke. I'm like, oh, I'm getting that disc back in the mail any day now, I swear. He's like yeah, yeah, yeah, come on. But I had a conversation with like for like security. Get this take away from it. He was a zillionaire, so there you go. Seemed like a nice chap. Yeah. I liked And then what movie were you waiting for?

00:31:30
Speaker 3: It?

00:31:31
Speaker 2: Not recall it was some I don't know. Rachelle Rochelle was at the the Echols Center where the Pizza lives. You know, you know it well.

00:31:41
Speaker 3: All right, so let's give a score for reliability. I don't think we did that from zero to ten. What's your score for the reliability of the Netflix experience?

00:31:50
Speaker 2: Give it a nine?

00:31:51
Speaker 3: Wow? Okay, I'm going to give it a seven because I've those issues that I was talking about. All right, let's move on too. We've already kind of touched on it, but we should probably spend another minute or two. The originals, the original content they produce, the quality of it, the breath of it. And I would say also, like how often do you find yourself going like, you know, afterwards, like would you have paid to see this movie beyond the whatever price we're going to talk about price, but you know, like is it worth? You know a lot of times when you're only paying one monthly fee, the threshold is lower. But let's say you had gone to see this for fifteen dollars and driven and taking the time, how often would you be like what we waste of our time and resources?

00:32:36
Speaker 2: That was? This is really where the movies and the other content are separate, because they excel at their you know, Queen's gambit Emily in Paris, which I think is a Netflix you know those shows that are yes, it is it is those shows that are water cooler shows. You know, they have, you know, the crown all that stuff. Their movies are Usually it's not what they produce, it's what they acquire. We've brought it up once or twice as sort of the gold standard of like Train Dreams for example, I love Train Dreams from last year. They did it from these trange leams Train Dreams. They bought it and then they pumped it out at the end of the year for awards consideration, where it did, in fact get nominated for an Academy Award. Then they do have a handful of their premiums like Frankenstein for example, which also got nominated, that they produced, and that's a great movie. But there are other movies, the Apexes of the World, which we've been talking about. No, they're not that memorable. But it's their shows and their original program and their reality shows. Uh they're baking shows, their competition shows. Love on the spectrum. I don't watch, but a lot of people do. That kind of stuff that's there, that's their big water coolst of I don't know what is their big series right now, what is there the Crown that's happening right now.

00:33:50
Speaker 3: That's a that's a good question. At this very moment, I'm not sure there is at this very second, like a huge buzzy Netflix show.

00:33:57
Speaker 2: Might have been The Lord of the Fly is at that level? Are not real? Not real? Not real? I mean they have there. I know this.

00:34:03
Speaker 3: The animated Stranger Things came out a few weeks ago, and that's got a lot of you know anything, Stranger Things continue.

00:34:10
Speaker 2: I never watched the final season of Squid Games. I said to myself, I've seen enough people get shot. I just can't do I. I I can't, I can't. Squiggins is disgusting. Did you watch Wig Games?

00:34:20
Speaker 3: I I and finish it either it's too much.

00:34:22
Speaker 2: I can't take it anymore. Too much. Read. We're on the line here for Rochelle. Rochelle, can you do something about the Squid Games? What's with all the squids? What's all? What did there were more squids? There was so much shooting and killing. I just said, I have been killing. I said, life is hard enough. I don't care anymore. Let them let them.

00:34:40
Speaker 3: I think you're I think you're. What I find so interesting about about Netflix's originals is the range. You know that there can be. And I'm gonna speak mostly about movies because I do watch some Netflix TV shows, but certainly I'm no expert on them. I'm watching movies most of the time. And in terms of movies, they have had some wonderful originals or as you said, things they acquired that become Netflix originals. You know you mentioned Train Dreams was a lovely movie. You know, when when I look at this list of things, I go back through my top ten lists of the last few years and I see which ones are Netflix movies. There's movies like the Power of the Dog, The Mitchell's Versus The Machines, May December, His Three Daughters, The Irishman, The Five Bloods.

00:35:26
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a lot. Those are good movies. Are those are marriage story? Marriage? Marriage Story is another one.

00:35:32
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's these are respectable movies. They're made by good filmmakers. And I think that's really the key. It's like when they because from at least anecdotally, what we hear is that Netflix they don't tend to give a lot of notes. We've talked about like Matt Damon saying they want like a big action scene in the beginning and people explaining things, but that they're largely like kind of like they they kind of especially with filmmakers, they kind of let them do what they want. Giermel del Toro gets to make the Frankenstein movie he wants, you know, and he's always dreamed of.

00:36:07
Speaker 2: Sometimes this kicks them in the ass, like what was it? Bardo? Right? Unwatchable because they didn't what's that director's name? I forget his name?

00:36:15
Speaker 3: Wasn't that Alejandro Gonzalez and Yarra two?

00:36:18
Speaker 2: Yes, they're like, your genius, we love you, do your thing, babe, and they should have given him notes. The movie is terrible. And there are other examples like that where they let you know who else? After Marriage Story, they let back Bound back do White Noise, the book which had never been adapted after being in development for thirty five years, and guess what, it was bad, right.

00:36:41
Speaker 3: Because I didn't particularly love j Kelly either. That that wasn't me like that was kind of a rough first draft, a second draft, yeah, a good idea that just he didn't quite refine and.

00:36:52
Speaker 2: J Kelly was okay, okay, oh my god, wait this just in a dissenting voice from Sam White Noise is a great movie. There's the one we found the One White Noise fan.

00:37:02
Speaker 3: I think we might have to relitigate that on a future episode. They're calling it the airborne toxic event.

00:37:07
Speaker 2: They won't come this.

00:37:08
Speaker 3: Way, Well, we have to leave our home, of course, not you.

00:37:12
Speaker 5: I just know, Okay, what if it's dangerous.

00:37:22
Speaker 3: My point being, Look, okay, so, but but when you give a great filmmaker the freedom to make a bad movie, that's not necessarily the worst thing in the world either.

00:37:30
Speaker 2: I can appreciate that.

00:37:32
Speaker 3: What's commend where this also backfires is that they just make a lot of Drek, where they just like, we have a couple of stars, and we have a premise that our algorithm tells us people will like fabulous. That's all we need.

00:37:42
Speaker 2: I don't care. Just put it up.

00:37:43
Speaker 3: Put the slop up, Give them the slop.

00:37:45
Speaker 2: They don't care. There's ten apexes for One White Noise.

00:37:49
Speaker 3: And things like Red Notice and Lift and Heart of Stone and Rebel Moon and Your Place Are Mine and Marmaduke. Have you seen the Marmaduke animated Marmaduke?

00:37:59
Speaker 2: No, I didn't even know. If you ever.

00:38:01
Speaker 3: Really anger me, I will force you to watch it. And that's when you'll know that our friendship has been irrevocably destroyed because it is one of the worst things I've ever encountered.

00:38:11
Speaker 2: In my Rebel Moon, God, Rebel Moon is terrible.

00:38:14
Speaker 3: Rebel two parts, and there's director's cuts that are even longer too.

00:38:20
Speaker 2: Twelve Frontier was a good one. You ever see Triple Frontier?

00:38:23
Speaker 3: Triple Frontier is a good movie? Yeah, I mean, but that's the thing. It's like, it is a real crapshoot. So it's kind of hard to give a score here, but I think we should at least try. What would you give a score for the quality of original content? The original content on Netflix?

00:38:38
Speaker 2: Because we're taking it in totality here.

00:38:40
Speaker 3: You got to do it in totality.

00:38:43
Speaker 2: It's a six point five.

00:38:44
Speaker 3: Oh, a point five, Okay, I wrote down in my notes I had a six, so we're on the same page. I have a six.

00:38:50
Speaker 2: There's a lot of stuff on there. There's a lot of stuff very.

00:38:53
Speaker 3: Quickly here at the end, the last category, the price. I'm just gonna run this down for people I looked. I look this up right on their website. Netflix Standard with ads currently as we record this in May of twenty twenty six, eight ninety nine a month, so that gets you ten eighty PhD. You can have two devices simultaneously, and you have you can have two download devices. The standard plan without ADS nineteen ninety nine a month.

00:39:21
Speaker 2: That's a little high. It's a little an ADP.

00:39:23
Speaker 3: Full HD same thing with the devices to watching simultaneously, to download devices simultaneously. Then the best of the best is the premium that is twenty six ninety nine a month, that gets four K ultra HD streaming with HDR resolution, whatever that is. I admit I'm not an expert.

00:39:46
Speaker 2: Charles. Theon comes out of your screen during APEX to say help.

00:39:50
Speaker 3: Spatial audio again, whatever that is. I don't understand technology. You get four devices simultaneously and six six download devices. Who even has six devices to download on?

00:40:03
Speaker 2: I don't know family the whole bit there you go too much, that's too much money, too much money. It's a little high. It's twenty bus, I will confess. And I don't know if you do this mad. Do you get your Netflix for free?

00:40:14
Speaker 3: Do they get pay I have paid for mine since time?

00:40:18
Speaker 2: Sam? Do you pay for your Netflix? You can answer in the chat you neither of you. I'll give you the guys, now Sam has Netflix. I think you just outed him. You should not be paying. I mean it's a tax right off, and maybe your company pays you back. I don't know, but I can write it off on my taxes. Yeah, well you should.

00:40:34
Speaker 3: But I do pay for it every month.

00:40:36
Speaker 2: Okay, I don't pay. There are other ones I do pay for, and there are other streaming services that I don't get the freebie. But the publicist one time said to me, why are you paying for our programming here? And he gave me the gave me wow, look at you. Look, I'm gonna say that.

00:40:49
Speaker 3: Talk to read in the line, and he was like, let me tell you something, Jordan, I'm gonna.

00:40:52
Speaker 2: It's a little high. Twenty bucks for that middle one is a little high. I mean you do get a lot, you get a lot of these premium shows. I would say it should be seventeen ninety nine, not nineteen ninety nine. So I'm gonna give it for his price, I'm gonna give it a.

00:41:05
Speaker 3: Six, A six, I'm going to say a five. I think I agree. I think I think it's a little much. And again, you know, when these things first started happening, the streaming revolution, the idea was, well, cable is so expensive, and you're gonna and now these these services are so segmented. One, even a big one like Netflix, is not going to provide everything you probably want.

00:41:25
Speaker 2: Because you need Disney plus you're.

00:41:27
Speaker 3: Absolutely and these things, if they're all going to be twenty bucks, pretty soon, you're way over what you were paying for your cable previously. So I'm gonna say, what, did I say five for the score?

00:41:36
Speaker 2: Yeah?

00:41:36
Speaker 3: Okay, so I said five.

00:41:38
Speaker 2: They've also put a put a clamp down on password sharing. Why would you know that.

00:41:42
Speaker 3: It's not like you would ever take someone's password that didn't belong to you.

00:41:47
Speaker 2: That's another that's another episode about password sharing.

00:41:50
Speaker 3: Okay, but we're going to add up these scores to get our final tallies. Do you have them?

00:41:54
Speaker 2: Sam? Is it possible to put those in the Chatais in the chat? Is like when when we eventually do Amazon Prime and we talk about the price. Yes, you have to take into consideration that Amazon Prime is secondary, Yes, to the fact that every time you order toilet paper there's no shipping costs.

00:42:12
Speaker 3: That's right.

00:42:13
Speaker 2: I mean Prime is an add on for your toilet paper.

00:42:15
Speaker 3: I mean in the same way that Netflix instant, as they used to call it, literally was an add on a free be a tossing for the discs for quick stirs. Yes, yes, okay, exactly, We're gonna take a little break. Let's take a break. He's getting the aboicus out. He's gonna add it all up, yes, and then we're gonna come back, and then we'll talk about our rex seg, because my rec seg comes directly from the inability to find something on Netflix. All right, so let's take a little pause. We're gonna use our abacuses is abb abakai.

00:42:44
Speaker 2: I don't know.

00:42:45
Speaker 3: I'm really bad at math. We're gonna add up these numbers and we're gonna find out our final score and get to our rec seg.

00:42:51
Speaker 2: He's a fingerman on the fingerman two.

00:42:54
Speaker 3: You know what I can do.

00:42:57
Speaker 2: An auto multiple by nine nine times three two three.

00:43:03
Speaker 6: Twenty seven.

00:43:04
Speaker 3: All right, So here is the state of streaming for Netflix in terms of these numbers. We gave our scores. This is out of a possible fifty. Jordan gave Netflix thirty three points and I gave Netflix twenty nine points.

00:43:22
Speaker 2: Damn.

00:43:23
Speaker 3: We were saying, you know, when we stop down there for a second, you know, Netflix sort of, They're they're the guinea pigs here, and it's possible that over time we may go, well, that score doesn't really reflect how we really feel in comparison to other things. But we can talk about Netflix again in a year, in two years and whatever. We can revisit this if things change, if they add a better, better search engine, if they increase their library. Who knows visiting.

00:43:54
Speaker 2: Their live events that they got the oscar Is YouTube has the Oscars YouTube is going to host the But they've got more baseball this year. They do.

00:44:01
Speaker 3: They had Opening Day and I think they have the All Star Game this year.

00:44:04
Speaker 2: Are they probably eventually going to have probably going to have, you know, playoffs on Netflix. I would imagine football. I mean, they're definitely Reds. That is the name of a baseball team. They only show the Reds. They should only show the Reds.

00:44:21
Speaker 3: Well, they would be big in Cincinnati if they did. I guess all right, Well let's move on now to Rez Yeah, boxer, breg Zeg breg Zeg, I can hear the audience chanting along in excitement at home?

00:44:35
Speaker 2: Can you hear them? Rex Egg? I can hear them.

00:44:39
Speaker 3: I can hear them all right, so we are we are going to do because we talk instead of doing normally. Our first recommendation on this segment is connected to whatever movie we reviewed. We didn't review a movie this week. We reviewed Netflix. So we thought, let's do a recommendation of something on Netflix. Jordan, you said, you have something that comes directly, directly out of this conversation. I gotta know what it is. What is well for sure? Because there was a show series limited series that came out in twenty twenty at like peak of the COVID pandemic, and so nobody watched it and nobody remembers it. But I really like it, and it is a direct to Netflix. It only lives on Netflix. I said, let me try to find it using the search because I haven't watched since twenty twenty. So here's what's funny is that it was written, co written or written by Jack Thorne, who is now Netflix's guy. He did Lord of the Flies and he did Adolescence and he's a big deal Leonola Holmes movies.

00:45:40
Speaker 2: He's all he's missed.

00:45:41
Speaker 3: An ef he is, He's all up in Netflix.

00:45:43
Speaker 2: He's the Netflix in house scribe and one of the producers and the director of some of the episodes is Damien Chazelle. Pretty important directory, you know, Whiplash, Lala Land, First Man, Babylon. You know, did he win the Oscar for Best Director. I think he did.

00:46:02
Speaker 3: We'll have to fact check that.

00:46:03
Speaker 2: I think he won the Oscar famously, did not win Best Pictures, didn't, but I think it was That's what it was. So he was a big director. But yet this show and it stars Andre Holland, pretty big actor. Mandola Steinberg is in it if that's her last name. Some other uh, some other good people are and it's called The show is called Being Around the Bay. The show is called The Eddie E d d Y, And it's about a jazz club in Paris, and it's a great show about that. It's kind of like the Bear for a jazz club. He's trying to bring a jazz club back to life and he's got problems and it all leads to ahead. But you get to know every musician. You get to know. There's the guy who plays bass and he doesn't talk much for the first three episodes. Then episode four is a flashback. You learn all about the bass player and he's fascinating. There's the singer. It's set in Paris, but it's very multiculture. There's Americans, there's Tunisians, there's all kinds of people in there. It's wonderful, wonderful, wonderful show. Can't find it. So I'm in the search section. I click on musicals and music and musicals. I'm like, it's got to be there, because there is a lot of music in it. I went to the entire thing and I could not find it there anywhere. And I found some other things, and I'm like, oh, you know, Netflix has a deep bench for musicals. I'll give them credit. They got documentaries up the Yin Yang about led Zeppelin, and they got Springsteen on Broadway. They have concert films. They had this Indian film called The Disciple about an Indian singer that I absolutely love. The movie's phenomenal. But then there were other things in The Five Bloods was in their musicals category. How did that get in there, I don't know. So then you scroll all the way down to the end, and this is again why they they got a two for search. I'm like, oh, I'm at the end. I'll just go and out type in Eddie. You can't type, you have to scroll all the way back up. It take five minutes to scroll all the way back up the dicas. I had to type in the word edd y to find this show that Netflix either produced or acquired, had never lived anywhere else. It's their own damn show. And unless you know about it, you're never gonna find it. But you, the listeners of Film Spotting SVU now know if you want to see Andre Holland as a jazz promoter in Paris, dealing with the mob and dealing with all kinds of stuff. It's so good, good and there's a lot of great music in it too. And Damien Chazelle was the director of the first two episodes, and Alan Pohl p o u l was another director. A woman button named the name of Layla Marakschi and she's done some features too. She's a French Moroccan director.

00:48:38
Speaker 3: Uh.

00:48:38
Speaker 2: Anyway, those are the directors. Good show.

00:48:41
Speaker 3: How much do we go with.

00:48:45
Speaker 2: Your club has that your club has big problems.

00:48:56
Speaker 3: Yes, Damien Chazelle did win the Best Director Oscar for La La Land, so you were correct about.

00:49:01
Speaker 2: That once in a while. I'm correct, mate.

00:49:03
Speaker 3: This is something very briefly we did not mention during our discussion of the you know, the overall Netflix experience. But it's probably worth mentioning just that they have so much stuff and original content, which is not necessarily a bad thing. It's great that they give you options, but that things can just vanish into the black hole of Netflix. And as you were saying, they can be hard to find. People forget they exist. Here, this show still exists. Here is the you know this acclaim director working with the writer of their biggest show of the last couple of years. And I bet if we asked one hundred people on the street, you know, what is the Eddie?

00:49:43
Speaker 2: No?

00:49:44
Speaker 3: Yeah, and they would be like, I don't know Eddie, the guy named Eddie, the WHOOPI Goldberg movie, Eddie?

00:49:49
Speaker 2: What's Eddie? I don't know who is Eddie? What is Eddie?

00:49:51
Speaker 3: They would have no idea. And it's and it's not necessarily an indictment of the show or of any show if we asked at random a random title on Netflix, but it would probably speak to the fact that they just they have so many things, and it just gets things get so quickly and so easily buried on there. Yeah, that you know, it's almost like someone should do a podcast about these services and what's there so that people know what to watch. Somebody should do that one of these days.

00:50:18
Speaker 2: Yeah. And by the way, someone else involved in this show is Glenn Ballard. He was a producer and he co wrote a lot of the music. He's like a huge music producer, I mean gigantic. You know. He the Jagged Little Pill Alana Horset's album that sold ten zillion albums.

00:50:36
Speaker 3: Isn't it ironic that he worked on this and yet nobody even remembers that it exists.

00:50:42
Speaker 2: He's and a lot of He's won fifteen Grammys and he made a show for Netflix with Chazelle and Andre Holland and Thorn and you can't.

00:50:50
Speaker 3: Find this is a perfect thing to recommend on this show. Thank you, Jordan. All right now, I want to point out another issue that I had with Netflix here because I thought, well, I want to recommend something I've actually watched on there, relatively recently. And it made me realize Netflix doesn't have like a page that I know of where you can just go like through your like viewing history and see what you've recently watched. I had to go to my letterboxed account and I keep because I'm a pathetic dork. I keep track of everything I watch, and so I was able there to look at everything I've seen, and then you can on your Netflix diary. There is a way you can search by service, so you can click just the things on Netflix and it'll show you all the things you've watched that are on Netflix, which is a great and useful tool for a pathetic dork, which I would love if Netflix offered this to its users, but it does not. Anyway, Once I did that and looked through the last few months of things that I have watched, I decided that I should. I wanted to recommend something from Arguably you argue, you will argue and disagree Jordan arguably the most consequential film artist to sign on to work with Netflix. Again, I say consequential, not necessarily greatest. They their their their artwork might not have changed lives or you know, with heartrending beauty, but simply because this person, whether they're a visionary or a calculating mercenary or probably both, signed on with Netflix to make original movies back when Netflix I look this up. Their first movie with Netflix came out in the fall of twenty fifteen, when they signed the deal and announced the deal with Netflix. It was the fall of twenty fourteen. They did not have Netflix did not have an original movie to their name when they signed this deal.

00:52:47
Speaker 2: Do you know what I'm talking about? Well, originally I thought you were talking about David Fincher, but now I'm not sure.

00:52:51
Speaker 3: No, any other guesses. This is a It is a film artist, but he is a actor. This is not necessarily and a writer but not a director. Let me let me give you a little let me give you. I think Sam is writing in the chat. It looks like he thinks he knows Sam. He's saving you the answer. It's the samman. It is the samm Adam Adam Sandler after the.

00:53:13
Speaker 2: Way you know talking about because when you were talking about big, big names, we forget Wes Anderson has all these short film shorts. Film I had.

00:53:23
Speaker 3: Unlike Wes Anderson's short films. Our conversation was long.

00:53:27
Speaker 2: I did have like him.

00:53:28
Speaker 3: Listed as amongst kind of the notable things.

00:53:30
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's got these short films that are very good that it's just ridiculous. They didn't even bundle them. That's ridiculous.

00:53:35
Speaker 3: I think Sam are the fact they did. They are now bundled. They were originally released individually, they are now listed like collectively as.

00:53:42
Speaker 2: They got my note name.

00:53:44
Speaker 3: When you talk to Read Hays things in the line at the see Rochelle Rochelle, and you yelled at him about.

00:53:50
Speaker 2: Why can't I just have all the Wes Anderson.

00:53:52
Speaker 3: Short said what he listened?

00:53:54
Speaker 2: So which Sandman movie?

00:53:56
Speaker 3: Well, that's the thing I wanted to talk about is that when he started there, let's let's be honest, let's be let's be blunt. His first couple of movies for Netflix were amongst the worst comedies made in this century, things like The Ridiculous Six, The Do Over, These were wretched. Over the last few years, the Adam Sandler presence on Netflix has really improved.

00:54:24
Speaker 2: And I say Andy Wexler was the turning point.

00:54:26
Speaker 3: Is that the one you're gonna pitpoint. I think his track record in the twenty twenties and mostly on Netflix is surprisingly solid. Not a lot of home runs, but a lot of doubles, maybe even a triple or two.

00:54:40
Speaker 2: Wow.

00:54:40
Speaker 3: He's also worked with We mentioned Noah bound Back, we mentioned Ja Kelly. I thought he was maybe maybe the best part of J.

00:54:46
Speaker 2: Kelly. He's straight in other people's in non Sandler movies and in the.

00:54:50
Speaker 3: Myerwood Stories, which is also a bound back Netflix movie, A wonderful movie that's also like like the Eddie has like been lost to time because it only lives in the in the in the the sub basement.

00:55:02
Speaker 2: Of Netflix's catalog.

00:55:04
Speaker 3: But I will even his kind of old school comedies in the last few years have gotten better. I've laughed at some of his movies. I liked Leo his animated movie where he voiced a talking and singing class pet, very charming. I liked You Are So Not Invited to My bot mitzvah.

00:55:21
Speaker 2: That's a good one.

00:55:21
Speaker 3: Another amusing, likable comedy. His daughters play his daughters in the movie. It's about the perils of like middle school friendships. Very likable. The one that I want to single out and recommend because I have a lot of affection for, mostly because it really feels like he plucked a Happy Madison movie out of the nineties and somehow like transported it.

00:55:41
Speaker 2: I'm gonna guess, go ahead, give it to me, Hub Halloween, you got it on the button, my friend you be.

00:55:47
Speaker 3: Halloween's directly by longtime Sandman collaborator Stephen brill By Sandler himself with Tim Hurley, another guy who he makes all these movies with. He makes all the movies with the same five people every time, over and over. It is a classic Sandler Goofball hero movie. He's this bumbling loser with an unplaceable, bizarre speaking voice. He loves Halloween. He anoints himself the Halloween Monitor, and he must solve a mystery on one particularly eventful version of one edition of Halloween of the Holiday, I guess you could say, Jale, what are.

00:56:22
Speaker 2: You going to do? You every actually thirty perch make sure.

00:56:30
Speaker 3: No one would you lose your thermos?

00:56:34
Speaker 2: I never.

00:56:38
Speaker 3: Look is Hube Halloween Preston's surges, It's not even the wedding singer, but it's very sweet, has some very funny running gags. The mystery plot, says, has a couple of surprising twists.

00:56:54
Speaker 2: It's got June's squib in t shirts with Randy language on.

00:56:58
Speaker 3: The certainly does. And the cast is just unbelievable. In this movie, he brought back a lot of his kind of old favorites. I think in part to kind of recreate that happy medicine nineties vibe.

00:57:10
Speaker 2: You got.

00:57:10
Speaker 3: Julie Bowen, Steve Buscemi, Tim Meadows, Colin Quinn, Ben Stiller reprising his role from Happy Gilmore. He plays like the mean, orderly hal again, and everybody wants to work with the Sammon. Everybody loves him. He's the most beloved man in Hollywood. You know, it's it's true that he's they You've read articles about this, about how he's so loyal to his friends and how his friends will do anything for him.

00:57:32
Speaker 2: So it's great.

00:57:33
Speaker 3: And look, he if hocus Pocus can become like a Halloween ritual, ritual for teenagers to watch every year, I see no reason why Hub Halloween should not be. I think I'm going to show my kids Hub Halloween on Halloween this year. Maybe not.

00:57:51
Speaker 2: I don't know how appropriate it would be for you. Got to check it. I got to look Chubri Whibbs, teachers swims.

00:57:58
Speaker 3: I'm gonna have to preview it and we'll see if they can watch it. But eventually, when they're thirty or thirty five years old, I will allow them to watch it, and I think they will.

00:58:08
Speaker 2: They will like it.

00:58:08
Speaker 3: And so look, Adam Sandler is now so enmeshed in the Netflix machine. He's been working there for over a decade now and again they're not all great. Do not watch the Ridiculs list six.

00:58:22
Speaker 2: I beg of you. Don't just say what your mystery has come up on this program before and murder Mystery too, and that.

00:58:30
Speaker 3: It was Yes, it was fine, it was fine.

00:58:32
Speaker 2: I mean the editing. The editing is the Eddies a different beast. But the Eddie and Hub Halloween go well together.

00:58:38
Speaker 3: That would be a wonderful double feature. Really, I can't think of anything better. But yeah, so there you go. That's my recommendation Hub Halloween on Netflix.

00:58:45
Speaker 2: Let's jump ahead to our next rex Egg because we are running out of time. Yes, the next rex Egg. You want me to read the email? Why don't you read it? Yeah?

00:58:56
Speaker 3: We got this is our personalized recommendation. We got a listener writing in Why don't you read what he sent us?

00:59:00
Speaker 2: He wrote, dear SVU for him. I never thought it would happen to me. No, he wrote, Hi, Matt and Jordan was just listening to your latest episode, and I love your offer to receive film recommendations. I just got movie m ub I the first month free trial, and I've already seen The Mastermind in ephis I liked. I liked those movies, and I'm excited for Jim Jarvish's new one, which is called Father, Mother, Brother, Daughter or something like that, and Grand Theft, Hamlet, Blah blah blah. What do you? Basically, he's like, what do you? What do you? What do you recommend for me to watch on movie? Is what he said. So, Matt, what was your movie recommendation for our reader whose name Michael? Michael? Michael movie Michael? What do you mean?

00:59:43
Speaker 3: Michael Fels, Thank you Michael for the email. And what I did was he sent us. With his email, he sent a screen grab of his watch list on movie and he mentioned things that he had watched yet already, but things I assume that the things that were on there that he didn't mention, he hasn't seen. So I picked out the one that caught my eye that I liked that I wanted to stump for. So this is something he was at least interested in, and I want her to say, go for it, watch it. And that film is the History of Sound from twenty twenty five, directed by Oliver Hermannus. Michael mentioned in his email part of the blah blah blah part that you just blah blah bl lot over that he's part of a little film discussion group and they're doing The Mastermind, and that sounds lovely. I actually, in my spare time, one of the things that I do is I am like the moderator, facilitator, discussion leader for a private film club. It's like a book club for movies, where this group of friends. Once a month they get together and I help them pick out a movie and I give them some background on the movie and the director, and then we'd all discuss it. It's all.

01:00:48
Speaker 2: It's amazing. And they tell you they pay you to take them to talk to them. I've heard that they're willing to pay double for you to not show up. Thank you, Joe Jumps.

01:00:59
Speaker 3: Okay, Back in twenty twenty five, we did as one of our movies, The History of Sound, and we had a really nice conversation about it and it stars. If you like The Mastermind, it's got The Mastermind's Josh O'Connor in one of the two key roles, and the other role is filled by Paul Meskell, who I'm always pronouncing his last name wrong, but Jordan corrects me that I get it right that time.

01:01:19
Speaker 2: It's Mescal yeah good.

01:01:21
Speaker 3: They play a pair of students who meet in the nineteen teens at a music conservatory and they quickly fall in love, but then they are separated by World War One, and then the film kind of follows them as they reconnect and they separate again over the years, and eventually Paul Meskal's character is invited. He returns home to Kentucky, very rural Kentucky after school, and he's invited via a letter by Josh O'Connor's character to join him on this tour of Maine to kind of document folk songs using early sound recording equipment like those phonograph cylinders, and the film follows their trip, it follows what happens afterwards.

01:02:07
Speaker 2: Don't sing love song.

01:02:11
Speaker 3: You wake my mother, she's sleeping here.

01:02:19
Speaker 2: If I have what you had, I'd leave, I go far away, flee and right.

01:02:25
Speaker 3: And I thought this was a lovely, lovely movie. It is about music, It is about memories. It is about, you know, preservation, because these guys are recording this music, but it's also about kind of preserving lives, preserving these relationships that are kind of at the time were very secret and couldn't be known about, and I found it very moving and very effective, and I don't want to spoil what happens. If Michael hasn't seen it yet, I want him to just watch it. But I think if you like Josh O'Connor, if you like The Mastermind, I think you will enjoy this movie.

01:03:01
Speaker 2: So that's my.

01:03:02
Speaker 3: Recommendation for him and for anyone else listening the history of sound on the movie.

01:03:09
Speaker 2: That's a good rec seg for movie Mobe movie movie the one that I picked. It's funny because yours is music related, and I talked about the Eddy, which is music related, and this is straight up a music documentary. It's called Crossing the Bridge colon the Sound of Istanbul, and it came out in two thousand and five. The director is a fairly well known. He's a German director of Turkish origin named Fati a Kin. I could be pronouncing it Feti akin Akin. I don't know how it's pronounced. But his most famous films are he made Head On, which came out in two thousand and four. He did the Edge of Heaven. He did The Cut, which is about also about war than the Armenian genocide, and in the Fade. It came out not long ago that was a little bit more successful, and Soul Kitchen he made Soul Kitchen to that, but forget his other credits. What about this A crossing the Bridge the sound of Bistenbeld. The basic premise is this Istanbul, as I'm sure everyone listening knows, is the great city that bisects east and west. You know, it's always been that in history. It's a midpoint. It's a cultural melting pot, and that is felt nowhere more than in the music.

01:04:27
Speaker 3: It's an emotional level. I think in the Turkish stuff more often than there is in the English stuff.

01:04:39
Speaker 2: It's a little bit like Buenavis a social club a little bit, and how there's kind of like that they go to explore, you know, what is Cuban music? And in this it's like what is what is Istanbul's music? And the narrati the kind of the lead is the German guy from the band and I can't pronounce it correctly Issersteine Nuibauten now, which is a They're a German rock band that are announced since the eighties. And he the guy he I don't know. He traveled to Istanbul and fell in love with the city, so it's about him exploring and it's just him meeting musicians. And some of them are you know, just rock bands that sound like a typical rock band you'd hear in the USA or Britain. And some of them are very traditional Turkish musicians that are using you know, oods and hammered dulcimer's. And then there's the blend. And then there's Turkish hip hop artists, which at the time was very new in two thousand and five, and some of them are very impressive. You know, they do that eminem thing where they talk as fast as possible. It's pretty cool. And then they talk about the difference between Turkish hip hop and American hip hop, and you know, there's there's some diss bombs that are thrown at America from the Turks. You know, some of the young Turkish hip hoppers think that the American hip hoppers are too into the bling man and they're forgetting the soul of the essence of the blah blah blah. And then there's a lot of cultural stuff because there are minorities in Turkey of course, that have been persecuted over the years, so they investigate that they go into the roma population of a suburb. It's like west, Yes, west of Vistambol, like right on the border of Greece, and they have a huge Roma population. They go to a bar and they just hang out with these Roma musicians and think it was getting hand and just playing and it really becomes like a jam band show. They're just rocking out. These guys are incredible. And then there's a lot of stuff about Kurdish musicians and this is fascinating. Until the year nineteen ninety it was illegal to sing in Kurdish in Turkey.

01:06:36
Speaker 3: Wow.

01:06:37
Speaker 2: Turkey is a country that has some political difficulty. I don't want to get too controversial, but I'll say that they need some reform and some aspects of their culture and it is getting better over there. But you know, you could go to jail for singing in Kurdish. Not anymore.

01:06:52
Speaker 3: So.

01:06:52
Speaker 2: They have some Kurdish musicians that are like sort of bringing back the Kurdish tradition and you could hear you know, traditional Turkish versus Kurdish. And then they have some old timers that if I knew more about Turkish music, I would say, oh my god, that's the Paul Simon of Turkey. You know some old, some older guy, the Tom Jones of Turkey, and they gat him and you know he's old now, but they show old footage of him from nineteen seventy two and he's and now they had him now, so it's great. I mean, I didn't know any of the specific musicians going into it. I do know one or two turkishpans that are popular now. Alton Goo is a really good one. But this is before that. This is twenty years old. This is in two thousand and five, so and it's shot on two thousand and five video probably mini DV at the time, so it kind of looks a little shoddy, but it's great, a great time capsule and a fabulous movie. And if you don't like one musician, just wait because then they go They're going to the next bar five minutes later to meet somebody else, so you can't get bored. Okay.

01:07:48
Speaker 3: So to recap this week's rex EG, We've got the Eddie and Hub Halloween on Netflix, and then we have the History of Sound and Crossing the Bridge the Sound of Istanbul on movie. And if you would like a personalized streaming recommendation from Jordan or myself, maybe both of us, send us an email feedback at film spottingsvu dot com, tell us what streaming services you use, the kinds of movies you like, and we will provide you with your own personalized streaming recommendation. Also, if you want to see all of the movies and TV shows we have been recommending and reviewing here on film Spotting s FU. We wanted to give a quick shout out to a letterbox list that the great Sam van Holgren created, which you can find on letterbox. It's called now Streaming on bazooga, everyone's pay past streaming service, and it is a running list. It contains every single title we have discussed on the show, and we're weekly updating it. And actually, if you go to like the click notes where you can see the descriptions, I noticed Sam is even like going above and beyond and including little kind of summaries of what we say about them. Yeah, almost take me to listen to the show. I almost think he wants people not to listen. Is that what's happening exactly? Is that what you're trying to do, You're trying to muscle us out. Well, it's not going to work, Sam. Anyway, if you want to check out list. It's a great it's I've been looking at it. I just think it's wonderful because we're going to have this running kind of like this is the library of movies. If only they really were streaming on bazooga and we could watch them all there, it would be it would be pretty.

01:09:28
Speaker 2: It's a fun list because it's like a lot of weirdo stuff because it's not like, you know, we haven't mentioned Citizen Kanaan or anything like that. How we got to put it on there. Thanks a lot, Jordan, I'm sorry.

01:09:40
Speaker 3: Shall we pray for our weekly game segment on s F you We're welcoming back. Sam Van Holgren, producer of the show. He is also hosting this week's game. He he asked me if I wanted to do it, and I said, it's fine, I can. I can lose to Jordan again.

01:10:00
Speaker 2: Well who knows. I mean, you are a game master. I beat you pretty firmly last week, but who knows. This is a new game, so we don't know it's true.

01:10:08
Speaker 5: So we've got a heart out this time.

01:10:10
Speaker 2: That's right.

01:10:10
Speaker 5: And the outro of the show always takes twenty minutes, which is less time than we have So I'm going to do this as like a five minute lightning round so much I came up with like eight questions. You guys literally covered half of them, I mean by title, specifically in your earlier segment. So this will be ex sort of like a quick open book test for anybody that's listening. So I'm gonna just look at the timer. I'm gonna give five minutes. Whoever has most points. At the end of five minutes, I'm going to declare the winner.

01:10:40
Speaker 2: Awesome.

01:10:40
Speaker 3: So I'm gonna get the first question right, and then I'm gonna fill a buster four minutes and fifty seconds.

01:10:46
Speaker 5: Okay. So I'm looking at a one twelve thirty six recording at one seventeen thirty. We're gonna stop. We'll see where we're at. Okay, okay. Number one sorted by genre. Netflix has fifteen films labeled as westerns. Fifteen the oldest from nineteen sixty six the Professionals with Burne, Lecaster, and Lee Marvin. The rest are from twenty ten or later, akay, the Golden Age of Westerns. Among them is this film, a Netflix original, which won it's director the Best Director Oscar in twenty twenty two.

01:11:21
Speaker 3: Is it the power of the dog, that's.

01:11:23
Speaker 5: Right, Jencampion Best Director winner.

01:11:27
Speaker 2: How don't we consider that a Western?

01:11:29
Speaker 5: Consider this is my point? This is kind of my point.

01:11:32
Speaker 2: It's a drama that involves a horse, So I guess that's the Western.

01:11:35
Speaker 5: Yeah, lightning ground, lightning round.

01:11:37
Speaker 3: Sorry, no, let's learning to just think about this for a minute.

01:11:42
Speaker 2: Let's debate whether it is alright, that's the next question.

01:11:46
Speaker 5: According to a cursory Google search and Netflix subscribers ranked by country US eighty one million, UK eighteen million, and then these three countries Brazil, Mexico, France. Brazil sixteen million, Mexico fourteen, France thirteen point five. So this is a point, a chance to claim three points here. I'm going to play a little bit of key chain a little bit. I'm going to use keywords to talk about the most popular film on Netflix from these countries.

01:12:16
Speaker 3: This is this is right now or all time.

01:12:19
Speaker 5: Right now, all time most popular but currently playing on netfolks. Again, this is this is a letter boxing, So all of my information is like derived from letterbox on Netflix. Okay, so we'll start with Brazil. These are the We're going to start. Keywords you jump in whenever you want. This is the most popular?

01:12:38
Speaker 3: Can I just guess?

01:12:39
Speaker 2: Is it?

01:12:39
Speaker 3: Balls up?

01:12:42
Speaker 5: The Key Chaine Dictatorship nineteen seventy one, based on a true story, Oh Widow. It's a twenty twenty four movie and an International feature winner for Best Oscar Best International Feature.

01:13:04
Speaker 2: I don't know.

01:13:04
Speaker 5: I didn't directed by Walter Sallas.

01:13:07
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that one. I saw it. It was good. Got it?

01:13:10
Speaker 3: What's it called?

01:13:11
Speaker 2: Who's got it? There on the beach? And then they're then is it? Is it like?

01:13:16
Speaker 3: I'm still here?

01:13:17
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I'm still here.

01:13:20
Speaker 3: We shun that way sooner.

01:13:22
Speaker 2: It's a good movie. But I forgot the next.

01:13:24
Speaker 5: Totally went on Mexico, Key Chain, Male Friendship on the Road Beach.

01:13:36
Speaker 2: Threesome, Oh yeah, Tom, eat you Mama, tombyam from two thousand and one from Alfonso Quarros.

01:13:44
Speaker 5: We're going to France here. Maybe I should I start by telling you the year of the film. Whatever you are here we go, most popular film from front right.

01:13:54
Speaker 3: But it doesn't have to be on that, which I didn't realize because.

01:13:56
Speaker 5: No, I'm sorry, right, it's not an original.

01:13:58
Speaker 2: None of them have been so far right, that's right.

01:14:01
Speaker 5: Keyword writer Chalet snow Dog or dog. I should do the new jersey for dog like This is a twenty twenty three film, also an Oscar winner for Best Original School.

01:14:19
Speaker 2: The Anatomy of a.

01:14:22
Speaker 5: Anatomy of a Fall almost a tie. They're hard to call it.

01:14:25
Speaker 2: So let's see.

01:14:25
Speaker 3: I think we're at I think we're at two.

01:14:29
Speaker 5: Yes, it's all right, and we've got one minute left. God, okay, okay, So again this is I'm just gonna go with this, even though you guys maybe reference this. These some of these titles on the show earlier, sorting by oldest to newest. There is nothing older than nineteen sixty two on Netflix. You kind of got into this one notable. I think there is exactly one notable title from the nineteen sixties. It's Night of Living Dead, where a couple of seventies a public a public train exactly, that's exactly right. American graffiti, slapshot, animal House are are are on the service from the seventies good films and also a film and it's two sequels which went on to inspire one of the greatest comedies of all time, or at least of nineteen eighty. What are those three films that inspired nineteen eighties funny film and one of the funniest films a time.

01:15:24
Speaker 3: When are the three films that inspired the film? Yes, right, Well mention the airport. That's definitely.

01:15:31
Speaker 5: I mean you're talking about airplane, you got it. So I'm looking for the three the three films that are available on netflit inspired that inspired the movie?

01:15:40
Speaker 3: Well, Airport he mentioned. Airport is zero hour on Netflix. Can't.

01:15:46
Speaker 5: I'll give you a clue. I'll give you a hint, since we're running out of time. They're all called Airport, Airport seventy seven, the Conquest A seventy nine. You got an airport seventy Airport seventy seven. I think you're going to take the win with that. You you talked about Sandler, and of course I was going to I have a question that's related to Sandler. I loved finding that. So the second, the first, the first Netflix original that ever appeared on the service Beasts of No Nation. It was October twenty fifty. Second movie the second in December twenty fifteen, was.

01:16:25
Speaker 3: Was It the Ridiculous? Was It Ridiculous?

01:16:28
Speaker 5: Ridiculous Sex? That was the film's most popular review on letterboxed, with fourteen hundred and fifty four likes states I paid nothing and I still want to refact. That's math singers.

01:16:41
Speaker 2: Wow.

01:16:42
Speaker 5: Popular review on letterboxed four. Yes, the ridiculous.

01:16:45
Speaker 2: I just got to back it up and say the three Airport sequels are ridiculous. The first Airport is a damn good movie. This is correct, and it.

01:16:55
Speaker 5: Were seen Martin.

01:16:57
Speaker 3: Yeah. The ceiling inspired airplane is Airport nineteen seventy five. That's the one that they took the most from, which is like a literal actual movie that they literally dialed off the premise and dialogue and character names like Ted Striker.

01:17:12
Speaker 5: Maybe not the best worded question, but anyway, Matt you I'm declaring you the winner. I think you. Yeah, well done.

01:17:18
Speaker 3: I'm gonna I get to do I get I get the con sure whatever, we whatever, get.

01:17:23
Speaker 5: Get the couch. But let's let's let's do the outdro of the show. Let's get let's get everyone out of here.

01:17:28
Speaker 3: Before we get out of here this week, let's run down some of the new notable titles on streaming also stuff you can rent or buy on vod Let's let's start there. I'm going to run down some titles here. We've got Lee Cronin's The Mummy, not to be confused with Jordan Hoffman's The Mummy. We've got David Lowry's Mother Mary, not to be confused with Jordan Hoffman's.

01:17:51
Speaker 2: Yeah.

01:17:52
Speaker 3: Uh, that one I'm actually quite looking forward to.

01:17:54
Speaker 2: I remember both, Yeah I have.

01:17:57
Speaker 3: I'm a big David Lowry fan, and I missed Mother Mary, so this is one I'm looking forward to checking out. We've got Bob Odin Kirk in Normal, another movie where he plays like a muscly surprisingly resourceful action hero. This is like his new thing. He's reinventing himself, as Keanu reeves. That one is directed by Ben Wheatley, Who's made some good movies. That's an interesting pair of director and star. And finally, our favorite listener's favorite movie, the Super Mario Galaxy movie Mario the Plumber from Freehold, New Jersey. Wherever you are, Congratulations, you can finally watch the Super Mario movie at all. All of those movies will be available to rent or by on Tuesday, May nineteenth, and some theatrical releases that are coming to streaming now. We have Arco the Best Animated Feature Oscar nominee from last year, will be available on Hulu.

01:18:57
Speaker 2: Did you see Arco?

01:18:58
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was okay, my favorite. A good streaming title, I think, And if you have Hulu, that also means you can watch it on Disney Plus if you have both of those things. I never watch Hulu on Hulu. I only watch it on Disney Plus.

01:19:11
Speaker 2: I don't know how that works. I don't know.

01:19:12
Speaker 3: Very confusing, and this is a very much of interest to me streaming on Peacock kill Bill, the whole bloody Affair. This is the recut version of kill Bill, which he, you know, Quentin Tarantino famously wanted to make one movie and I think Harvey Weinstein, of all people, I think, demanded he chop it up because it was too long, they could sell more tickets, and he basically never put it back together in a form that was widely available until now. They did a theatrical release, and now they are doing a streaming release of it on Peacock. That might be something to discuss on the show.

01:19:52
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's like a and I think there are some even if you've seen kill Bill volume one and volume two one hundred times, there are elements in the new one that you've never seen that's right, which you know he did with our friends Netflix for The Hateful Eight. There's a there's a longer version.

01:20:07
Speaker 3: Of the Turned On too, like a TV mini series.

01:20:10
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, and I actually did a breakdown of what's new. I forget, but there were there were some Let's talk about some direct to streaming opportunities. This week, Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan Ghost War with John Krasinski is on Amazon Prime. That's coming up very soon. Over on the Netflix The Burrows, which is a big new show. They're pushing it pretty hard. It's an eight episode supernatural thriller about a bunch of misfit retirees who band together to battle a malevolent force. So imagine stranger Things at the Old Age Home basically as the premise. Alfred Molina is in it. Everybody loves him, Geena Davis. Good to see her back in something. Alfred Woodard, blow up the damn ship. Picard, you gotta chase your whale. Love her.

01:20:58
Speaker 3: Jordan, you would make a great someday. You're gonna make a great misfit retiree who has to band together to battle a malevolent force. I think that's your going.

01:21:07
Speaker 2: People are in it too, Bill Pullman, Clark Peters, Jenna Malone.

01:21:12
Speaker 3: We celebrate our Independence Day.

01:21:15
Speaker 2: And the guys who did the twenty nineteen Dark Crystal are involved in the Burrows. That's gonna be a big, big I think it's going to be a success. Mating season, new series from the team behind Big Mouth, voiced by, among others, Nick Kroll, Zach Woods, June, Diane Raphael and Sabrina Jalis. And then something else, which I think we're going to be talking about, a feature film called Ladies First. Sasha Baron Cohen. What's he been up to since Borat two? I don't know. He's been making something called Ladies First, a charismatic ladies man who finds his life of money and power upended when he ends up in a parallel dimension ruled by women. Rosamond Pike is in it, and Richard ye Grant directed by THEA. Sharrock who did Wicked Little Liars.

01:22:02
Speaker 3: And this is I believe correct, that's on the Big Red Ones. So we're going to talk about that when we're going to do maybe next week we might review that one.

01:22:09
Speaker 2: So I want to watch it. That sounds funny, all.

01:22:11
Speaker 3: Right, So maybe that's what we'll do, all right. So in the meantime until we enter an alternate dimension where what was it? He wakes up? It's a parallel dumb dominated by women. I'd also like to see you in that premise too, Jordan. I'd like to see you in a lot of the I feel like you would be an entertaining subject of almost any movie that you just described.

01:22:30
Speaker 2: Anyway, it's good.

01:22:31
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01:23:17
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01:23:26
Speaker 3: Want to let them know you're doing this show. I think it might be in your best interest to keep the foreign and the domestic kind of well.

01:23:34
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01:23:55
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01:24:00
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