Red Sparrow

[chris_gerrib]

Over the weekend, I went to my local dinner-and-a-movie place and watched Red Sparrow, the Jennifer Lawrence spy movie. I attended the 4:30 pm show and it was not crowded. Black Panther is apparently still packing the seats.

Regarding Red Sparrow I found it a 7 out of 10. Well-acted, professionally-shot, no actual plot holes. Lawrence's character was perhaps a bit more competent than she deserved to be, but not somebody I at least felt like rooting for. It was a bit like she was playing a Katniss Everdeen that hadn't actually volunteered for anything but had just "won" the lottery straight up. Still, it was entertaining.

In other news, I've committed writing again - cranking out around 1,000 words on Eastville. Go me!

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[nodrog]

Black Panther is apparently still packing the seats

Meaning that there were actually people in those seats.  A friend of mine here was the only one in the otherwise-empty theatre a while back.  I attended the premier showing of Man of Steel, and only a third of the seats were taken - because the still-unsold tickets had been given away!  (The only reason I went.)


I wonder how many showings of these “blockbuster” movies do, in fact, play to the chairs.

[chris_gerrib]

well, going by my twitter feed and the crowd at the theater, Black Panther is playing to, if not packed houses, comfortably full ones. Since theaters have no incentive to overstate the number of tickets they sell, I suspect in general blockbusters do play to crowds.

[nodrog]

Fair enough; the lesson of the Enlightenment is, Don't blindly accept Authority, see for yourself!

- which is why I said what I did; I'd be more likely to believe they do play to crowds if I ever heard of them doing so.  What I hear is of them NOT.  But I don't know everything.