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Netflix announces 45 million accounts watched Bird Box in the past 7 days; biggest Netflix film debut
- Thread starter RastaMentality
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I watched it with my family and I'm pretty sure they decided to watch it due to some slick astroturfing
For real, I only watched it out of curiosity lol
It was ok, but ehh
That's pretty impressive. Too bad the movie wasn't as good as it could've been. It was alright though.
Hopefully a good portion of those people read the (better) book that it's based on.
Hopefully a good portion of those people read the (better) book that it's based on.
I liked it.
It's better than Annihilation, though not as good as A Quiet Place. Cast is kind of loaded for a Netflix film.
It's better than Annihilation, though not as good as A Quiet Place. Cast is kind of loaded for a Netflix film.
I always wonder how this actually makes Netflix money. Do people subscribe to Netflix just to watch this content? I always felt like I would never watch most Netflix shows or movies if I didn't already subscribe to Netflix.
But maybe that's easy for me to say because I've always had it. It certainly builds the value of the brand if they ever decide to sell, but how do they actually make back their money?
But maybe that's easy for me to say because I've always had it. It certainly builds the value of the brand if they ever decide to sell, but how do they actually make back their money?
I don't know why it is always the most mediocre netflix movies that get noticed like Bird Box, Bright, or Cloverfield.
It does make you wonder, and I've wondered the same thing. I guess they hope for word of mouth and reviews, or star power like Sandra Bullock, to get them new subscribers. They also raised prices $3, at least in Canada.
Wife and I quite enjoyed it, nice to see Sandra Bullock still performing too.
Also would have liked to have seen the creatures or whatever the hell they were.
They're not described in the book. It's left up to your imagination.
How many accounts "watched" this movie when the dash board launched into the film after their tiny preview window. Also as with every time they release these marketing promos, someone pushing play on a service they already pay for doesn't mean anything. When people have to get in a car to go see something is when I'll pay attention.
Oh, so this is what happened. I launched Netflix to watch it and while getting ready it started playing and had no idea why it did that. I figured I must have hit play somehow without realizing it.
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Not sure why Quiet Place is being compared since this film is based on a book that did the concept first
I'm curious if it actually was the biggest of the week but I can't find any numbers on actual individual ticket sales and I'm also working rn. Anyone?
This was a really OK movie. I tend not to watch crappy movies and this was as close to the borderline as any movie I can ever remember where I was always an inch away from getting up and leaving my wife to watch it alone. The ending long sequence made up for a lot of the doldrums though.
It's not about making money in the traditional sense, they are already making money. It's about annual budgets and creating content that can stir the public interest to maintain subscribers in anticipation and hopefully gain new ones.
Correct. The goal is retaining monthly subscriptions by releasing big content on a regular basis.
You are most of the way to a part answer here. Netflix getting new subscribers is important, and new (and exclusive) content is part of that strategy, but also important for them to be bringing enough new content to the table to keep existing subscribers reupping.
If they do just enough to keep you on the hook (as you imply they are), then this sort of film is doing its job.
Netflix advertises their own shit, on a platform and mailing list that their customers can't ignore?
Seriously, if you booted up Netflix any time in the month before Bright came out, you saw the trailer.
I imagine most people never heard of the book before they saw the Sandra Bullock headshot in their queue, and A Quiet Place is one of the better pop-horror films of the last few years with a somewhat similar concept. I dunno, just telling people what to expect. I do think that the threshold for quality goes lower with streaming services, since all of these movies are "free" with your sub.
Doesn't change the fact that they're both recent horror films where a family lives in the post apocalypse where they have to suppress a sense to not get killed by a monster.
Because they're both movies that share a similar premise.
Between this and Bright, the big budget Netflix Chrsitmas movie is just going to be a thing from now on, huh? It makes sense, people are exhausted from dealing with family or need something to watch with their family and are all probably broke from spending God knows how much on presents, so they sit at home and click on that huge banner with an actor that they know on it.
