This has got flop written all over it

Aaaaaannnddd....it flopped.

https://www.datalounge.com/thread/30052416-surprise!-female-spy-teamup-%E2%80%9Cthe-355%E2%80%9D-flops-royally-

Probably the biggest factor in its flopping was that no one ever heard of it. Did they spend ANY money at all on advertising? I never saw one commercial or even knew it existed.

by Anonymous reply 14 January 9, 2022 7:59 PM

https://forum.dvdtalk.com/movie-talk/651485-355-2022-d-kinberg-s-chastain-kruger-cruz-nyongo-fan-stan.html#post14037691

Maybe delaying it 1 full calendar year wasn't the best choice by Universal. Also, it got hampered by lack of a big promotional push because everyone is panicked right now because of Omicron. I don't think Chastain went out to promote it.

https://boundingintocomics.com/2022/01/10/jessica-chastains-all-female-ultra-progressive-the-355-bombs-in-theaters-a-sign-that-woke-messaging-is-dead/

Now, when audiences look at The 355, they see Paul Feig’s abysmal 2016 Ghostbusters reboot. Instead of seeing an all-female version of The Expendables, they see countless bait-and-switches like Masters of the Universe, Hawkeye, and Loki. It doesn’t matter if the film is all of that, or none of that. The damage has already been done.

The film was directed by Simon Kinberg, a man with quite a few non-Woke properties under his belt. He’s written and/or produced films like Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, X-Men: Days of Future Past, and Deadpool 2. Unfortunately, his only other big screen directorial credit is 2019’s Dark Phoenix, which needs no introduction, or explanation.

Jessica Chastain, for her part, came up the idea for the film, and is credited as the producer. She somehow thought it would be a good idea to cast herself as the lead in the film, perhaps out of some misguided sense of authenticity following her stint in Zero Dark Thirty.

At 5’4″, and weighing around 120 lbs., Chastain is shown tossing burly, jacked males three times her size around like ragdolls. Where have we seen this before?

Like the old adage goes:

If the breasts are floppy, then the film is flopping.