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Atlantic Rim
2013 · Film · 85 min
Directed by Jared Cohn
When monsters suddenly appear from the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, a special team pilots giant robots to combat the new threat.
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Good old Atlantic Rim movie.
> A subscription to Netflix already grants me access to way more than I can reasonably watch. If my tastes were perfectly aligned with what Netflix offers
Your primary issue here is referring to volume. Netflix has their own content, then pays for a small handful of extremely popular/valuable titles (see the recent Seinfeld and Big Bang Theory streaming deals, as an example), and then the rest of their content library is cheap trash they got for pennies on the dollar. Entire markets now exist for making cheap movies just to fill out streaming catalogs. (Check out the business model of a company called The Asylum[1].)
Most of the value you're getting is in a very small portion of the overall library of any given company. People aren't going to stay subscribed to Disney+ because it has some old Disney shows which are $10 one-time to own on DVD. They're going to stay subscribed because it has the very latest handful of Disney titles.
[1] https://www.gq.com/story/sharknado-atlantic-rim-pacific-rim-asylum-movie-spoof
or your kid accidentally starts playing one of the "mock buster" movies. like the absolute garbage take off of Pacific Rim called "Atlantic Rim."
Now my feed is full of those. I wish Netflix would stop buying those movies.
I'm still amazed at the number of "mock busters" that are on torrent sites. The awful, low budget, garbage take offs...Like one called "Atlantic Rim." I think you can guess what it was a take off of. Fired up Popcorn Time recently and the list was packed full of those types of movies.
Atlantic hasn't been spared too:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Rim_(film)