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I was just wondering a bit about this. I read some of your comments here and, as I sometimes do, writing and discarding before submitting my response.

But it just occurred to me... Maybe Netflix should do half-movies next. The movie is designed to be appealing on the menu, to have a good but not too engrossing first 30 minutes, and then start ramping down the budget drastically for the remaining of the film, which -it seems- people aren't watching any more. Like don't bother with FX, then just don't bother with actors, then just insert shots of the storyboard or don't even bother with the story at all and just insert stock video, etc. Maybe at the end add a narrated summary of what happened (or didn't happen).

>>geneze+(OP)
This was actually pioneered by Bruce Willis. He would get paid a lot to show up in a couple of introductory scenes for really low budget films. They'd put his face on the movie poster, they'd pay him like half the budget of the film, then he'd move on to the next one.

(Unfortunately, it turns out he was struggling with dementia and it seems he was trying to cash out before he couldn't act at all)

>>geneze+(OP)
sounds like the nonsense at the end of 2001.

>>habitu+cG
I watched some of those movies - my god they were terrible. I'm pretty sure Willis filmed his parts in front of a green screen because he was never in shot with other actors.

Knowing the reason why though, I don't blame or fault him for doing it.