6/10.
Thought the first 2 acts were mostly good to great but the third act, especially once he meets edgerton character just screeches to a halt and it's a mess of poor pacing.
Kind of surprised by DB2. The trailers painting the character as an anti hero after the events of the first film turned me off completely and I really enjoyed the first.
I wonder how slow the HBO MAX international roll out will be. Its obvious WB/ATT didnt plan this out long term. They make rash decisions out of nowhere.
Imagine the subscriber numbers if HBO Max was worldwide and they did the day 1 strategy all over.
As is I imagine the roll out will be a slow process with missing content all over because of all the deals they have signed.
I'm in Canada and almost all the max stuff comes on Crave here. I recall when Prime video first launched here it took a couple years before it wasnt total shit due to the deals they had signed.
I remember I watched the big sick not knowing anything about the film. Not a trailer not sypnopsis not even an idea of genre.
Ended up being one of my favorite films and such a ride that could not have been experienced the same way knowing anything about the film.
Maybe it was just my expectations. Honestly felt like a film that could have benefited from myself not knowing what it was about and not watching the trailer and going in blind.
I've started doing that more often with films and have to say, it's always a positive thing and added to the film. Some trailers straight up ruin stuff.
Maybe I'm biased because I didn't like it at all but I expect a 70% drop for TSS and I dont think audience reception is as strong as some people think it is.
Those who like it really like it but I think its turning off a not insignificant portion of the audience.
There would be no conceivable reason to hide them.
You show a shot of the 3 of them in the trailer and the hype in the mainstream audience explodes and the trailer does gang busters.