Apple TV Plus are trying to take a page out of the Netflix playbook by making big dumb action movies starring famous stars.
These kinds of movies are very popular on Netflix, think “Red Notice,” “The Adam Project,” “The Gray Man,” What does that tell you about the general populace’s movie tastes?
“Ghosted,” starring Chris Evans and Ana de Armas, has become the most watched movie debut to date in AppleTV+ history. It’s goofy, in a non purposeful way. The acting is atrocious, the stakes are non-existent. I can’t say I finished the whole thing, maybe saw 90% of it. It was mind-numbingly bad.
“Ghosted” currently has a 29% on Rotten Tomatoes and is at 35 on Metacritic.
In the film’s first two days of streaming, the Dexter Fletcher-directed movie pulled in 328,500 viewers. This beats previous record holders “Finch,” at 228,500. “Tetris” is in the top five, at least that movie was watchable.
Written by Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick, Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers, “Ghosted” has Evans falling for de Armas’ Sadie before he makes the shocking discovery that she’s a secret agent. It’s the kind of brain dead project that gives streaming originals a bad name.
Some people just don’t care about story, or anything really, as long as they see actors they like. These kinds of movies feel like they’ve been written by CharGPT. The budget for this shlocker is said to have been around $40 million.
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