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This looks bad

posted 2 years ago by emori (3661)
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It has the same feeling as all those other overexpensive Netflix movies - it looks cheap. I dont know how they do it. But when you watch blockbuster movies at the theater - you feel how big it is. It looks grand.

When you see those 200 millions budget Netflix movies - they all look like they were made for 60 millions. They have dark colors. Everything looks depressing and sad.

And then of course Netflix will claim how it was watched by 50 billions of people and is super successful ))) If this movie would open in theaters - it would flop with some 40 millions overall. Since neither Ryan Gosling and Chris Evans are box-office movie stars.

This is exactly why Netflix is falling apart financially now. They spend 200 millions of such bad movie and then get nothing in return. Despite their effort to lie everyone how they actually are.

[–] bozo_500 (13108) 2 years ago

yep

[–] HarlemEagle42 (17735) 2 years ago

Well that's a bummer.

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_gray_man_2022

[–] WhereIsRent (1080) 2 years ago

I saw it today and I enjoyed it a lot, lots of great action, quick pacing and none of that bloated 150 minute running time the last few Bond films have had.

Lots of stylishly shot fist fights as well with clear editing and solid fight choreography as you’d expect from the directors of The Winter Soldier. A few big action set pieces as well, you can tell it’s $200 million and it looked good on the big screen.

Gosling is perfectly suited for the lead role but it’s Evans who is so fun to watch as this smarmy asshole of a villain. There’s nothing original here, it leans into the tropes of the action thriller genre and has fun with them and that’s all good as far as I’m concerned.

Overall if you like action movies this is a very entertaining one and the critics got it wrong this time. Netflix have made some utter crap action films in recent years (6 Underground, Red Notice, The Old Guard) but I enjoyed The Gray Man from start to finish and I hope they make a sequel.

8/10

[–] prolelol (1428) 2 years ago

Cool review, thank you! I'm curious how Julia Butters was in it, did she have a big parts? Loved her performance from Once Upon Time... Hollywood.

[–] WhereIsRent (1080) 2 years ago

Thanks and you’re welcome, hope you enjoy the film if you watch it.

Julia Butters’ character is basically the equivalent of Dakota Fanning’s character in the 2004 film Man on Fire. We see in a flashback sequence that Ryan Gosling’s character Sierra Six is assigned to be her bodyguard by her father (played by Billy Bob Thornton) and Gosling and Butters have some amusing conversations in this flashback sequence.

It’s not a big role but she gives a good performance but she mainly just appears towards the start and towards the end of the film.

[–] [deleted] 2 years ago

It is bad.