Last month, I sat and watched a Si-Fi series from Denmark...’Rain’. They had offered the English option but it was one-star in terms of the voices being used, so I switched back to English-subtitles. I have though...it was a pretty good story and will be waiting on season two.
I think the foreign movie and TV series idea is a good idea and at least gives you something different.
when you add the Obamas’s Netflix money to the Penguin Random House money, the ex-President is off to a great start in the race to match the Clintons and their foundations.
the Netflix Dem donor who brokered the deal for the Obamas was, unsurprisingly, involved in the Leonardo DiCaprio deal with its promise of more global warming propaganda!
March 2015: Variety: Leonardo DiCaprio to Partner with Netflix on New Documentaries
The partnership, which includes DiCaprio’s Appian Way production company, will focus on environmental and conservation themes. The actor, an ardent environmentalist, will be a producer or executive producer on all projects...
DiCaprio was named as a U.N. Messenger of Peace with a special focus on climate change in September, and addressed the U.N. Climate Change Summit...
“This partnership is a natural extension of our incredible relationship with Leo on ‘Virunga,’” said Netflix Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos...
http://variety.com/2015/film/news/leonardo-dicaprio-netflix-documentaries-1201446106/
Sarandos’s wife:
2012: Hollywood Reporter: Obama Dispatches Former Diplomat to Mend Hollywood Ties and Raise Campaign Funds (Exclusive)
Former Bahamas Ambassador Nicole Avant returns home to help fix the president’s troubled relationship with the entertainment industry. At least three meet-and-greet fundraisers are planned for his reelection campaign...
Nicole Avant, the daughter of longtime music executive and Democratic activist Clarence Avant, was one of Obama’s earliest and most dedicated Hollywood supporters — raising millions for the president’s 2008 campaign.
She was rewarded with a plum diplomatic post, which she has now put aside to support the president’s reelection in the city where she grew up...
Avant, with her deep ties to both the Democratic party and the entertainment industry, is being called upon to patch things over and rekindle at least some of Hollywood enthusiasm for Obama.
To that end, Avant and her husband, Netflix chief content officer Ted Sarandos, will host a major fundraiser attended by first lady Michelle Obama at their Beverly Hills home on January 31...
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/obama-diplomat-hollywood-bahamas-ambassador-278078
I agree, they should include foreign films and TV series, just put a mention of the language on the mouse over, or have different home pages. U.S home page and Internation & U.S home page.
I tried watching the dubbed version of Rain and couldn't stand it. I did like Das Boot years ago with subtitles. Some Norwegian films -- all subtitled. But you got it right, subtitled is the best way to go with good non english films rather then dubbed movie of a bad film.
I liked Rain very much.
If I have to read a movie whilst I’m trying to watch it, I won’t do it!
I do too. Get access to British series never heard of before. And some of the Nordic series are also pretty good - although it is funny you don’t see a single Muslim face in any of those Nordic series. Like they are living in some fantasy land of white people only.