Film Courage: Off of the top of your head, what are the biggest movies that have gone straight to streaming?
Scott Menzel, Film Critic, Writer, Hollywood Critics Association Founder: CODA, Tick, Tick…Boom!, The Mitchells vs. the Machines. That’s probably all…oh, Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers I think is a good example of that too. To me as someone who loves movies, most movies that end up on streaming don’t have all the elements that make them worthy of going to the movie theater. I think we would have seen CODA in a movie theater if it wasn’t for the pandemic but I think a lot of these movies, again I don’t mean to crap on Netflix when I say this, Netflix to me is the most guilty of all this. They have movies (so many movies) that have right elements but they never have the movie that embodies everything. So The Irishman, there’s a great movie there, not at three hours. There’s a great movie there somewhere at two. You have to have control of that. Mank, there’s a great movie there, don’t know where it is? It’s lost somewhere but they have them. They just need to kind of have more we want creative control for our filmmakers. But you have to sometimes look at a cut of a movie and kind of say this doesn’t work even a movie like The Prom which I would say is a streaming movie that I actually really wished went to movie theaters. That movie is even 20 minutes too long. I think there’s a struggle with a lot of streaming platforms is this creative freedom of being able to make the movies that they want but it doesn’t really hold up to a movie goer because there’s elements to it that maybe we as film critics or industry professionals like the fact that…(Watch the video interview on Youtube here).
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Born and raised in New Jersey, Scott Menzel has been a life-long fan of all things entertainment. His love for film started at five years old and has only grown over the years. Scott started writing reviews in early 2002 and has been conducting interviews since 2010. He currently serves as the Editor-In-Chief of We Live Entertainment and the founder of the Hollywood Critics Association.
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