• MimicJar@lemmy.world
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    3 days 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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      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.

      – guy that watches original movies every weekend in the theater

      Also studios don’t want original movies they want shit that they can make toys for or tie-ins with McDonald’s. They also don’t want directors with their own vision messing up their synergy with their marketing partners. They want people to put out content not art.

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      2 days 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.