It is easy to predict which movies will seem unsuccessful on Netflix. While on the television side of the show, the beautiful new or return beats always become the top broadcast show, the Calculus does not always add the same way to the movie library. For example, this week one of Netflix’s top films was 2018’s 12 Strong, a Chris Hemsworth-based war film set in Afghanistan after 9/11.
When the movie was released, it received an average review from critics and an unspecified $ 70 million box office, about half of Hemsworth’s latest film, Thor: Love and Thunder, was released over the weekend. So why is this movie just released, but the most memorable one making a heavy play on the broadcast giant? Because of its star.
It seems that while the new movie is cleaning up in the box office, Netflix users are hungry to keep eating the content from the lead actor (s) of the movie. The same thing happened recently when Top Gun: Maverick climbed to first place at the box office; movie lovers at home were hungry to keep eating Tom Cruise movies, posting Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol over Netflix’s highly watched script. If your name is in zeitgeist, your movies will find a lot of play on Netflix.
That’s not the hardest thing to think about. It makes sense, it imitates, but why exactly the Twelve Strong are making numbers when Hemsworth has a new Netflix original film, Spiderhead, available along with films like Extraction, Michael Mann’s Blackhat, and Ron Howard’s F1 biopic Rush? That’s a little hard to explain.
12 Strong centers at Hemworth’s Mitch Nelson, U.S. captain The Army with Green Berets Operational Detachment Alpha (ODA) 595 volunteered to lead 595 in Afghanistan immediately after the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. Michael Accompanied by the legendary CW5 Hal Spencer (CW5 Hal Spencer) (Shannon), Nelson and the 555 army along with Northern Alliance leader Abdul Rashid Dostum (Legion’s Navid Negahban) in their battle with the Taliban and their leader Mullah Razzan.
Critics, including ours, were right with their low scores on the good 12 Strong. For the most part, it is the number of battle film. There are some great performances by Michael Peña, Shannon, and Negahban, but Hemsworth’s standard action lead is no exception, inviting comparisons to the other lifeless works of Chris Pratt. Rob Riggle, who has real-life experience in weapons services, brings some real-life experiences to the first episodes of the film, and Taylor Sheridan, now known as the author, director, and mastermind behind Paramount’s hit Yellowstone. , briefly visible, but unforgettable.
Anyway, the movie takes the form of preparation for Nelson and Dostum arguing, then learning to work together, and even though there are a lot of explosions and firefighting to keep the film’s speed up, there’s nothing special about that way any of the action. shot or frame. More importantly, the film takes a non-judgmental approach to the United States’ presence in Afghanistan, failing to use the rear view to convey a deeper message about war and military capture. One is led to believe with the film’s claim that the war in Afghanistan ended shortly after the55 victory.
It seems like Hemsworth’s cultural era, being the star of one of the worst summer movies, is the only thing driving the success of the film on Netflix. Partners with other MCU mainstays should be hoping that their previous projects will be the next to see this bump on Netflix. If you have worked with a cash cow in the past, then your movie could get a second air as well.
