Comment on Hollywood Is Cranking Out Original Movies. Audiences Aren’t Showing Up.

• MimicJar@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m still confused by what happened with this film. I knew it was coming out, but I didn’t get around to seeing it opening weekend, then by Wednesday of the next week the headlines stated that it was leaving theaters and heading to streaming.

  I would have seen it in theaters, but once the streaming was announced I didn’t mind waiting another week or two.

  I just saw it and enjoyed it.

  I feel like it didn’t have any time to build momentum, just kicked almost straight to streaming.

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  • lordnikon@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The problem is the short time windows in theaters and yeah it was a good movie. The fact it was a trump analog hurt it and Paterson is a great actor fuck twilight but the Batman was a great movie and the penguin is a masterpiece of television.

    Black bag didn’t get any advertising. The problem is studios have trained their audience to expect slop then they put out a few good original movies for a short time window then point at it and say see audiences don’t want original films.

    • guy that watches original movies every weekend in the theater

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  • triptrapper@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I had the same thought. How were they calling it a bomb after like 5 days? Keep it in theaters long enough for word-of-mouth to spread and things would be different.

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• xyzzy@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I liked the movie, but it had no chance. The budget was way too big. It should never have been given such a big budget.

  I want more mid-budget original movies that actually have a chance of financial success.

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  • slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I liked it more than i thought i would. But i hate movie theatres way way more to ever go there.

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• brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Things are kinda invisible if they don’t trend on social media.

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• dohpaz42@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This is a shame too, because it was for all intents and purposes a good movie. And I say that as someone who did not like Pattinson as an actor (thanks Twilight).

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• w3dd1e@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I didn’t hear about that one almost at all and I go to the theater every week.

  I only knew about it because I like the director and go out of my way to look up interesting movies.

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