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Why Is Every Streaming Blockbuster So Bad?

Patrick (H) Willems

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A hard-hitting investigation into these movies that cost hundreds of millions of dollars and might as well not exist.

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20 Comments

@Akhilesh_Bhatt 3 months ago

It is still weird that Amazon spent 1 billion dollars on The Lord of the Rings series. For that amount of money, they could have let their employees have toilet breaks.

@krisha-cz 3 months ago

streaming blockbusters remind me of dubai, trying to mask the lack of a culture by throwing zillions at it

@kolonarulez5222 3 months ago

Don't worry my old retired dad watches these. He couldn't tell you a thing about them afterwards but he puts them on.

@pdkonkol 2 months ago

Heart of Stone? Back in Action? Lift? I've literally never heard of these movies. Never HEARD of them.

@ItsNket 3 months ago

streamers just found a way to make "made for tv" movies more expensive

@tractor-o1j 3 months ago

I love the idea of meeting John Krasinski and telling him that you absolutely loved The Fountain Of Youth to see his reaction

@Auheppa 3 months ago

Netflix movies are just the new "straight to vhs"

@IAmVenix 2 months ago

I have never understood what kind of car crash of circumstances would lead to it somehow being more profitable for Netflix to shovel out mountains of garbage movies than it was for them to simply host movies people want to actually watch.

@Tiriris 3 months ago

We tried to make a once-a-month flopbuster screening with friends, just for the laughs, but nobody wanted to continue after only two sessions.

@themanwhosestillthursday 3 months ago

Blockbuster put a curse on the streaming services with its dying breath, "you can kill me, but you'll never perfect my namesake..."

@TalonsUmbra 3 months ago

They don't hire artists to make art; they follow algorithms to hit blockbuster trend keywords in film categories.

@mustang8206 2 months ago

"If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses" - Henry Ford

@Dyler 3 months ago

Netflix can't figure out how to make Blockbusters...Ironic.

@Mico605 3 months ago

John Krasinski looks out of place in every movie

@chadjones1266 3 months ago

Never forget the easiest way to become successful in Hollywood is to have parents who are successful in Hollywood

@TheChrisHype 2 months ago

You know, when Patrick laid out the plots of each of the Streaming Blockbuster side by side, you start to realize that every single one of them sounds like the plot to a Rick and Morty episode.