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Just read the below:

“Netflix has announced its plans for further world domination, with the reported expansion of its services into an Apple-Arcade style subscription model, a move that follows the success of Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, and Stranger Things: The Game.”

I’m usually all for all things postmodern and quirky (I love The French Lieutenant’s Woman and meta-fiction is a lifelong interest), but I really didn’t dig Bandersnatch. Don’t know if it was the tech aspect that threw me out of the experience or the unwelcome video game connotations, but I could never appreciate it.

Anyone have thoughts on this? Interactive entertainment, exciting as it is, doesn’t seem to align too well with the idea of film as an immersive experience (unless we take 4D enhancement with relevant flavours/surround sound etc), or am I wrong?

Does anyone feel excited reading the announcement, or is this the latest “tech” gimmick?



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Complete disinterest.

As a kid, I liked to imagine that, in the future, we'd have interactive movies, videogames that would be films in which we controlled the characters.

We have that now. It's called videogames.

So.



Bandersnatch was a total failure imo..

For an interactive experience I play Warzone..


Haven't watched Netflix in a while and cancelling my subscription crossed my mind several times last month.. so I don't think they will 'dominate' anything.



Looks like we’re all aligned on that, then. Good to know, I fully agree with the above.

Then again, I do love Resolution with a passion, and you’d think it’s the same thing conceptually.



Bandersnatch. Don’t know if it was the tech aspect that threw me out of the experience or the unwelcome video game connotations, but I could never appreciate it.
Was that in Black Mirror? If so, the entire thing left me stone cold.
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I thought Bandersnatch was quite bad. For all the dialogue about choice, I didn't find it developed the theme in any meaningful way beyond the gimmick. But I've also been left cold by most of what I've seen of Black Mirror. Settles too easily into a "what if [modern technology] but worse?" formula but with fairly trite insights.


I imagine the format works better when there's no pretense of artistry, but like Flicker said, at a certain point you might as well be playing actual video games.



Was that in Black Mirror? If so, the entire thing left me stone cold.
Technically, yes, but as far as I’m concerned, that’s a totally separate thing. I was left unimpressed by the majority of the show, but I really liked the Jack Dorsey diss Smithereens, that was pretty perfect to me. Other than that, I liked Hated in the Nation (a stand-alone film length-wise) and, of course, The National Anthem (truly unrivalled, and again, my occupation made it that much more fun). The rest was mediocre.



Technically, yes, but as far as I’m concerned, that’s a totally separate thing. I was left unimpressed by the majority of the show, but I really liked the Jack Dorsey diss Smithereens, that was pretty perfect to me. Other than that, I liked Hated in the Nation (a stand-alone film length-wise) and, of course, The National Anthem (truly unrivalled, and again, my occupation made it that much more fun). The rest was mediocre.
My favorite was the very weird pilot. Don’t remember the names of the episodes I liked, but I watched a ton of them. Then I got tired of the show.



My favorite was the very weird pilot. Don’t remember the names of the episodes I liked, but I watched a ton of them. Then I got tired of the show.
I agree, that’s The National Anthem. Knocked it out of the park, and it was so meticulous about the Westminster minutiae.

But to this day, I think making a pilot like that is shooting yourself in the foot. Yeah, you’ll hook people, but it’ll be constant disappointment after that. A bit like the 2006 Casino Royale.

The others I mentioned are the one about electronic bees and Facebook-ish tech giant & “cabbie” bent on revenge.