So... was it worth for Netflix to spend 200 millions on? Did they gain millions of new subscribers?

I mean saying "Chris Evans is obnoxious in real life" is kind of petty especially when it's based on what? All the interviews with him you've hate watched on YouTube? Nice.

Guessing you haven't watched Knives Out as both Chris Evans and Ana De Armas are great in that film. And yeah Gosling can play stoic characters very well and he plays another in this film, pretty solid casting choice if you ask me.

"I dont care to see how Evans will try to catch Gosling and things will blow up while he will do it."

Sounds like action thriller films just aren't for you then and you should probably stop watching that genre and watch something that you do care about.

Since posting above I've watched The Gray Man, and it's anything but boring. It's like a James Bond move, only better, and certainly a film with high rewatch value. Not that rewatching is a key to Netflix succeeding. Just like a traditional movie studio, they need to continue creating new films and shows, to keep their current subscribers happy, and possibly add new ones.

You're right, they could have produced 5 films budgeted a $40 million apiece, but would any have made the splash The Gray Man did? Probably not, unless the captured lightning in a bottle and created one of the unicorns that is the inexpensive indie film that blows up, like My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Little Miss Sunshine, Juno, and so forth. Instead, they created a theater-quality blockbuster for viewers to watch at home, and I think moving forward they will continue to do so, while mixing in smaller, cheaper indie films.

Netflix, and streaming as a whole, is still in its infancy in comparison to the established movie studios. One assumes that they will continue to build on their success, and release an entire slate of films each year in the same way that, say, Disney or Warner Brothers do. In years to come, I can imagine Netflix releasing four blockbuster (couchbuster?) films each year, at about $200 million per film, along with maybe a dozen smaller indie films in the $40 million per film budget range you mentioned, along with the 100s of series they put out annually. I read that they spend about $18 billion per year on original programming. Tack on one Stranger Things-esque $300 million mega-show, and all told and we're in the ballpark of $1.6 billion per year spent on films and shows. That's about half of what they make from subscriptions in a month.

They absolutely have the budget for this, even without adding subscribers, as long as they keep their current subscribers happy, and/or replace lost each lost subscriber with a new one.