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The Snow Queen 3: Fire and Ice
Снежная королева 3. Огонь и лед
2016 · Film · 89 min
Part of Snow Queen Collection
Directed by Aleksey Tsitsilin
After heroically defeating both the Snow Queen and the Snow King, Gerda still cannot find peace. Her dream is to find her parents who were once taken away from them by the North Wind and finally reunite the family. Thus, Gerda and her friends embark on an exiting journey to find her parents and encounter new challenges along the way: they discover an ancient magical artifact of the trolls, the Stone of Fire and Ice. From that moment on, things don't go according to the initial plan...Will Gerda be able to tame the mighty forces of the magical elements and get her family back? The answer will be reveled in 2016. This is a story which encompasses everything you love about Wizart: kindness, bravery, friendship, mystery, love of one's family, and a happy ending, of course!
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Straight up: it's too expensive.
At $8-10/month it was an always have whether I watched it or not, particularly before all the "me too" balkanized streaming platforms limped into existence.
I understand that in this changing world, Netflix needed to produce original content. IMHO how they went about it was completely wrong: they just threw money at the problem and that's just not a way to effectively create good content.
A really hard problem to avoid is to have all your content feel a bit "same-y". Netflix has this problem. They have a proclivity for one-word names (some executive think sthey'l be easier to remember), for example. Your favourite restaurant can get this way too.
Here's what they should've done: create studios to make independent localized content for particular languages. Have a studio in Spain (and probably Mexico) producing Spanish-language TV aimed specifically at Spanish speakers. The indepedent part cannot be ovverstressed.
But here's where scale comes in: for content with wider appeal, you dub it and push it to a wider audience. Some of Netflix's most interesting content has been foreign language (eg The 3%). So Netflix is doing this to some degree but it's not their core strategy. Instead they're seemingly spending most of their money on big-budget productions. Movies in particular are a loser (IMHO). Theaters is what makes movies profitable.
For some reason the voice actors that end up getting used for dubbing are (IME) universally terrible and it seems to be like the same 8 people. They're awful. This could be done so much better.
The point here is that lower-budget locale-specific content is likely to be more appealing and what becoems popular is a good indicator of what might have wider appeal.
But anyway, Netflix is now $15.50/month for HD (who is going to pay $9.99 for 480p?!?!? Or $20/month for 4K?!?!). That's more than HBO and HBO is still way better at producing original content and has a much deeper library of such content.
Personally I'll now just sign up to Netflix for 1-3 months a year to catch up on things I care about instead of having it all the time.