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Not sure which previews were at your showing, but I brought the kiddo to see it (he's almost 9) and the preview for M. Night's "Old" freaked him out to the point where he wanted to leave.
We sat in the hallway and watched the "What If..." trailer to kill time and talk about it until BW started.
How much time do we give until we openly discuss the Loki finale?
I think there's a law against that. Or maybe there was. Studios couldn't own theaters.I could see Disney buying a few theaters in each town and letting subscribers watch movies in person for $5 a person and charging non subscribers full price.
A friend of mine and I debated the issue of premium access last night. She doesn't think it is right. If you have the service, you shouldn't have to pay extra for some of the content. She thinks it should be like Netflix. I get the other side of it, that it is a way for people with the service to see the movie if they don't want to go to the theater and don't want to wait, though really, she's probably right.
That said, I bought premium access for the first time today so my daughter and I could watch Black Widow. She didn't want to go to the theater and I didn't care either way. I just wanted to see the movie.
I thought it was good, somewhere in the middle of the pack of MCU movies. It was almost like it was going for a Bond movie feel, but it was more Roger Moore than Sean Connery or Daniel Craig.
And yes, there is a post-credits scene.
Netflix makes movies to release on their own platform. Disney and other studios make movies to release on a bazillion platforms, including their own.
Disney has released a few over the past year straight to Disney+ but if not for the pandemic none of their movies would have been there first anyway. So it's kind of a cool bonus to get the chance to see it right away at home. For the price, which is basically two people going to a show and maybe not even that with food, you get it for as long as it's on Disney+ and access to it months before it would have been there anyway. It's not a bad deal, we've done it for a couple of others.
Black Widow the first movie back in the theater for my wife and me. It was kind of weird being there and it was full too.
I liked it a lot, although agree probably middle of the pack. The opening credits are almost worth the price of admission. I didn't mind the timing, knowing what happened a few years later. It was kind of an interesting element to me.