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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MimicJar@lemmy.world 2 days agoI’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 2 days 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.