charlieF

george kaplan said:

davgreg said:

So how do we know it was a success without any trusted metrics?

I know many people who qualify for the free year of Apple TV+ and almost nobody uses it.
I qualify by multiple devices and do not see much of anything worth watching.

We don’t know for sure (same problem with Netflix, which also doesn’t report viewership).

But your concept that you don’t know anyone who saw Greyhound, therefore nobody saw it, is as foolish as it sounds. There are 1.4 billion iOS devices around the world, many of which have access to Apple TV+ in the nation of the owner. If half have access to ATV+, then that is 700M devices. If 5% of those devices watched Greyhound, that would be 35M views. Given a subject matter which crosses international boundaries (war and action movies) and a global star in Hanks, interest would figure to be high.

If movie tickets ballpark for $10 each, a $200M opening is 20M tickets sold.

Even if you don’t know anyone who saw it, the numbers are quite plausible.

We watched it last night in fact. I got to say, in part it's pretty edge of seat stuff, especially the chasing down of the 'German 'wolf pack' U-Boats. The film launches in to action pretty much from around 5-6 minutes in and doesn't really let up until the last 5 minutes.

I'm a very cynical and jaded viewer of movies and am forever picking holes in, continuity, costume (for period set movies, since my wife is a movie/theatre costume designer), ridiculous lighting and prop use, plus completely implausible and unrealistic scenes. Now I wouldn't say it's the best 'action' pic I've ever seen, but considering it's based on a true story, hats off to the screenwriters and actors. All of my cynic's red flags were dead on accurate for WWII and it was thoroughly enjoyable.