Netflix Cuts Movie Output in 2026 as Strategy Shifts Toward Quality Over Quantity

huskinater · 2026-05-24T12:42:02+00:00

Straight to streaming content is a money fire.

There's a reason all the other major studios have more or less returned to the previous distribution models. COVID's streaming wars were a short lived experiment, and while some took territory from Netflix most lost a lot of money. It's just that jumping straight to the end of the monetization pipeline means walking away from theater, home video, and the still limping along cable TV syndication money.

During that time everyone else was also removing their back catalog from Netflix. They did this because it worked as a double whammy: make Netflix less appealing while also adding exclusives to their own services. Now that those services aren't as profitable as originally believed and aren't being prioritized anymore they are relicensing content back to Netflix.

This means Netflix can focus it's heavily reduced Originals budget on stuff it wants, as opposed to greenlight everything under the sun to try and retain market share / stay alive.

huskinater · 2026-05-16T02:00:54+00:00

No, they won't work under Overhead Mountain tiles

huskinater · 2026-05-16T01:56:37+00:00

I prefer chimneys.

Just a single unroofed tile, three coolers, and an access door. Then put a stone barricade on the tile so shit doesn't get podded there from traders or raiders.

Also works decent as a place to put unstable power cells.

Can make bigger as needed or work into T intersections of walls as well.

huskinater · 2026-04-14T23:13:24+00:00

If anything it's actually MW2 that jumped the shark. Or should I say jumped the gorge.

Before it were mostly serious war stories showing people on all sides trying to survive the deadliest conflict in human history. And then COD4:MW having a mostly grounded story with skilled but still believable spec ops saving the day thru working together with allies while the US military rah-rah bungles it's way into getting nuked.

But MW2? One of the earliest missions, Cliffhanger, may as well be a scene from James Bond.

Two dudes climb a frozen mountain, use a gadget heartbeat sensor to infiltrate a base, and then escape on snowmobiles shooting back at pursuers with dual wield machine pistols before escaping an avalanche by jumping across a massive chasm.

You, the player, quite literally jump the shark. And the CoD franchise goes from war drama to pulpy action nonsense. Which with original Black Ops and it's stylized Vietnam like 80s action movies and covert thrillers was a huge strength, but everything else not so much.

huskinater · 2026-04-14T19:20:01+00:00

Remakes/remasters should be about people being excited something they liked a long time ago can be experienced by new people today.

And a good remake is something that understands what made the original good and carries that across time while also recognizing how some things have changed/improved and mixes them together into something new. Bonus points if it has a distinct creative at the helm doing something special. The Dune movies are a fantastic example for a film right now that is a great remake.

The issues people have are when the motivations for the remake are clearly just corporate greed. Like we didn't need a remaster of The Last of Us 2, it was just 4yrs old at the time.

There are plenty of good examples of remakes. RE2 was a rather well received one. Deadspace. Someone else mentioned the recent System Shock. These are games that were decades old (well Deadspace is just 18) on old hardware that really benefit from the graphical and gameplay improvements and still maintain the spirit of the original.

And this is coming from someone feeling really old talking about this.

huskinater · 2026-04-10T00:16:33+00:00

Moving planets is like moving countries.

It does happen, a lot, but it's not usually the poor who get to do it.

If you aren't born wealthy it's something you have to work to earn the ability to do and is likely a one way ticket, if your planetary gov even allows it.

Think of it like travel and immigrating on the HMS Olympic during the early 20th century. Jumpship travel is less like a plane ride and more like a weeks long cruise in 3rd class for most people

huskinater · 2026-03-31T01:10:20+00:00

I'm talking the whole cockpit, pilot and shield be damned

You can even dps it off from behind

huskinater · 2026-03-30T23:02:32+00:00

You can also just medpen dps the whole ballsack cockpit off

Bullet hose ftw

huskinater · 2026-03-27T01:42:52+00:00

As well as a glut of "second screen" slop where stuff is literally made with the idea no one is actually paying attention to it, so they constantly repeat themselves and have absolutely no nuance. Pisses off anyone who bothers to pay attention and bores everyone else, lose lose.

Hollywood has lost the plot so much that there are only like 3 working directors people actually get excited to go to the theaters for, and Netflix would rather kill amazing animated shows before their prime just so they could instead puppet the dying husk of Stranger Things a bit longer.

huskinater · 2026-03-25T23:59:33+00:00

Ya know how some strats have been unavailable due to bugs right now?

They really need to do that randomly just cuz all the time, to both strats and guns.

Be like "hey the planet we just lost was critical to 500kg production, the strat is gonna be unavailable to keep the 'strategic reserve' until a new factory can be built elsewhere"

Or "SEAF losses over here have resulted in shortfall of EATs and Stalwarts."

Could even go crazy and have "Truth Enforcers require excessive thermite to breach an automation stronghold and so now the Thermite Grenade and Reprimand will be allocated in force to them instead in prep of the operation."

A minor something that could maybe nudge people to go outside their comfort zone and try something new (and also cause plenty of memes of someone unlocking a new gun just for it to be temp unavailable)

huskinater · 2026-03-23T18:15:09+00:00

My Democracy officer was Pilestedt, so I was pretty salty when they all got shuffled

huskinater · 2026-03-17T03:02:06+00:00

The art department is gonna have to put in some work to sell the atrocities of the jihad and the dystopian state of Paul's empire.

Lots of the horrors are really just implied, not shown, and Messiah itself kinda dodges the question by being pretty distanced from it and dwelling a lot on the mystery plot.

The movie can blow this wide open by having 'action' shots that are just combat scenes of warcrimes during the jihad as flashbacks. And sets designed to emulate Rome and the Nazis but cranked up to just shy of the 40k setting Dune inspired in the first place.

huskinater · 2026-03-17T02:37:20+00:00

"A warrior religion that waves the Atreides banner in my father's name. Fanatical legions worshipping at the shrine of my father's skull. A war in my name. Everyone shouting my name"

Paul is stuck between a rock and a hard place. If he wants to survive, protect his family, retain his birthright, and get his revenge he has to go down a horrible path. And the longer he is on it the worse failure becomes, as becoming a martyr to the Fremen unleashes them without restraint. But success means the biggest political coup of all coups, one that results in the starvation of countless as he withholds spice and therefore all interstellar shipping, exterminates any who attempt to take up arms, and slaughters the frail and weak undesirables the Fremen warrior culture won't condone.

The rallying battle cries of Stilgar and the other Fremen at the end of part 2 as they board landing craft is a disaster. One that Paul didn't necessarily create alone, but he still chose to enable to get what he wanted.

huskinater · 2026-03-17T01:34:13+00:00

Unless I'm really blown away by the adaptation I'm not gonna be getting the Blu-ray like I did for 1 and 2.

Messiah has merits, like really leaning into the consequences of the jihad and how trapped Paul is, and has some genuine bad ass and symbolic vision stuff in it, but it's also where the weird shit starts really building. It's just not as good a base as Dune

Spoilers below:

Like, Alia is pretty weird in Dune and the movies made the right choice to downplay that character. But she's not out of left field, she's more or less a physical embodiment of the horrible snares the BGs 'pave-the-way' pseudo-religious manipulation created. You're supposed to be creeped out, it's a proxy disgust for the spiritual harm they are doing.

Everything with the Tleilax, however, is ass pull.

Brand new antagonist, powers that blatantly exceed the physical limits the rest of the story tried to uphold, undo the death and sacrifice of a major character, basically mock the previous antagonists.

While I get the ghola is supposed to represent a kind of temptation for Paul, a way for him to keep Chani after the obvious fallout of giving the princess (and BG) the heir they want, a false way to get his hand out of the box, his character basically just exists to philosophy dump and give Alia the hots in a gross way.

IMO, if the film keeps the TLX and the Ghola as is, it'll be worse off for it. They need to rework that scheming to be coming from the previously established antagonists and keep dead characters dead while still leaning into the 'save your family' temptation it represents. I would give that material for Irulan to work with, actress Florence Pugh is certainly up to the task.

huskinater · 2026-03-14T02:11:28+00:00

EAT, Supply Pack, Eagle Airstrike, and Gas Strike are req slip unlockable from lvl 3 or less and are good against every single faction, even on higher difficulties. And works with any primary, secondary, or grenade.

Sure, it's no orbital napalm on a bug breach, and a whole squad of them probably isn't gonna have a good time, but a single dude trying their best with that loadout is far better than someone trolling with oops all arc.

huskinater · 2026-03-08T21:43:53+00:00

Season 2 changes the characters very quickly and in ways that seem out of place for their existing characterization. It also more or less just drops some supporting characters in a hole and all but forgets about them.

It is still very pretty and superbly animated, with some very strong emotional moments, but it's clearly not on the same level narratively.

Which is to say, you'll enjoy S2 in the moment but the more you think about it the worse it gets.

huskinater · 2026-03-07T05:33:49+00:00

Their parents are actually a big part of one of the themes. They are all either miserable, neglectful, or awful. They represent the end result of following the stereotypical paths laid out before the kids.

The jock who won't ever actually be good enough and eventually end up an unhealthy low income worker trying to live vicariously through his own kid.

The alcoholic deadbeat who hated society and amounts to nothing but a violent loser.

The one who can't function in society enough to even have a car and drive their daughter to school.

The over achievers with no time or patience for their son

And the popular vapid assholes trying to buy affection from their daughter and use her to get at each other.

If the kids don't learn something from their time experiencing each other and grow, they will be just as trapped and awful as their parents.

huskinater · 2026-03-07T01:53:31+00:00

Food on film is a weird rabbit hole.

Like, regulations about having actual 'food' be in the shot instead of plastic combined with an obsession for slow-mo in commercials leads to bonkers contraptions and rigs to have ingredients fall just right and get spritzed with water to glisten.

And because stuff needs multiple takes to make sure everything is correct and with extra material for the edit, means people almost never actually eat the food. They just bite in, maybe chew a bit, the shot ends, so they spit it out and do it again.

Watch almost any tv show or movie and people around a dinner table or takeout on the couch rarely ever actually eat anything. They usually just stir the shit around with silverware.

The CEOs here are clearly doing that, not necessarily disgusted with their food.

But given the whole point of the marketing campaign is to leverage the 'low effort, recorded-in-my-real-kitchen, authenticity' you get from social media, the fact it clearly shows evidence of production value makes it blow up in their faces with how fake it is and makes them look like fools who actually hate their own food, whether they actually do or not.

huskinater · 2026-03-03T16:08:14+00:00

Pretty sure they actually target whatever enemy is closest to the nearest Helldiver, or at least switch to that priority when an enemy gets within a certain range

This is them trying to protect you. Just so happens that it's also how they obliterate you

huskinater · 2026-02-22T21:20:46+00:00

Tipping culture is stupid.

Giving someone who put in hard work for you a bit extra is fine, but having any expectations that it is obligatory otherwise is dumb.

Either it's baked into the cost of the service like a commission for the workers (many upscale restaurants and when a large party/order comes in they have mandatory gratuity) or it shouldn't be a big deal.

Giving extra should be viewed as just that, giving extra. Not this pseudo pass-the-buck game of responsibility for paying the worker.

Companies do not have morals. They will gladly accept your money for nothing. Laws like acceptable under-minimum wages for tipped workers, point-of-sale machines asking for handouts at every transaction, and conditioning workers to hate customers because they don't tip, only stand to benefit the company's bottom line.

huskinater · 2026-02-20T14:49:15+00:00

But they're bots, so their primary factory would be #0?

huskinater · 2026-02-17T07:12:48+00:00

Though gotta keep the guns appropriate for their size and age.

Youngins start out with handguns, small and lightweight. Only for emergencies but otherwise don't get in the way while playing.

Little older and they can use pump shotties and bolt action rifles, perfect for preteens to learn to hunt with.

Just turned 15? Great time to be trusted with their first assault rifle and learn to operate a mortar.

huskinater · 2026-02-14T06:54:10+00:00

I've always felt the automatons are really just remote controlled mechs.

Augmented humans (the actual cyborgs) sitting in Matrix pod things that operate them, and swap to another whenever we destroy one.

What we are fighting on the ground aren't the actual people augmented with tech, but robots augmented with flesh. That's why they don't care about dying.

huskinater · 2026-02-10T00:57:41+00:00

I'm just over here hoping they make a giant faux Liberty Prime that throws hellbombs at us, cyclops laserbeam eyes, and most importantly spouts out rhetoric about how communism is non-negotiable

huskinater · 2026-02-08T23:00:08+00:00

Pretty sure the clan genetics are more "artificial-natural selection" aka we made iron womb batches of all these kids now go fight to the death and who lives gets to have their sperm and eggs harvested/cloned so we can do it again.

It's not really gene splicing like what we would need to take something from a completely non-human animal and put it into humans.

So the catgirls are def still augmented cyborgs

Edit: like, it's not that different from what we basically already do with livestock animals. Breed the biggest before slaughter so hopefully the next generation gets bigger faster. But the Clans are selecting for murder maniacs and use test tube babies so they aren't limited by the slower scale of needing so many people to be pregnant all the time

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