• The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.net
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    9 days ago

    are they marketing them thoug?, because the only things i hear about are disney remake bullshit and mcu slop

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      6 days ago

      marketing to asia, asia loves hollywood movies, especialy action ones. thats why they are making slop.

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      9 days ago

      Mickey 17 was well advertised imo with big names attached. Still bombed.

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        9 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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          9 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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          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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        9 days 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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        9 days ago

        Things are kinda invisible if they don’t trend on social media. Hence, meaning no offense to OP, they have not show up in OP’s feeds.

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        9 days 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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        9 days 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.