{"id":221193,"date":"2021-04-07T20:00:14","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T17:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/examining-the-falcon-and-the-winter-soldier-release-problems-film\/"},"modified":"2021-04-07T20:00:14","modified_gmt":"2021-04-07T17:00:14","slug":"examining-the-falcon-and-the-winter-soldier-release-problems-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/examining-the-falcon-and-the-winter-soldier-release-problems-film\/","title":{"rendered":"#Examining the Falcon and the Winter Soldier Release Problems \u2013 \/Film"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Examining the Falcon and the Winter Soldier Release Problems \u2013 \/Film<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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(Welcome to\u00a0The Soapbox<\/strong>, the space where we get loud, feisty, political, and opinionated about anything and everything.)<\/em><\/p>\n

Over the last few years, an incredibly, disturbingly common refrain has arisen from the cast and crew working on a slew of big new TV series<\/a>, from <\/span>Big Little Lies<\/span><\/i> to <\/span>Stranger Things<\/span><\/i>\u00a0\u2013 \u201cIt\u2019s really a 6-hour movie\u201d. (Feel free to fill in a larger number to account for shows that have eight or nine episodes per season instead of six.) The war of film and television feels especially foolish to fight as we wind down from a pandemic that kept so many of us away from movie theaters, essentially turning everything into television whether it was intended that way or not. <\/span><\/p>\n

Marvel\u2019s latest show for Disney+, <\/span>The Falcon and the Winter Soldier<\/i><\/strong>, is no different, with star Anthony Mackie <\/span>saying <\/span><\/a>that the show would be like \u201ca six- or eight-hour movie\u201d last summer, and director Kari Skogland emphasizing it again during an interview with \/Film. Leave aside any amount of eye-rolling you might muster at seeing that comment again. Maybe a six-hour Falcon movie app<\/a>eals to you. That appeal would be more intriguing if Disney+ was treating <\/span>The Falcon and the Winter Soldier<\/span><\/i> like a movie, instead of\u2026well, a weekly television show.<\/span>
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\nWhen Disney+ opened its virtual doors in the fall of 2019, it zigged where services like Netflix or Amazon Prime zagged when it came to new programs. Yes, Disney+ had a buzzworthy new show with <\/span>The Mandalorian<\/span><\/i>, but episodes weren\u2019t released all at once, instead being treated the way HBO would treat <\/span>Game<\/a> of Thrones<\/span><\/i> or any of its many other boundary-pushing shows. By the end of the first season, it was clear that <\/span>The Mandalorian <\/span><\/i>had received an immense benefit by being the rare streaming show that was released week to week, instead of being immedia<\/a>tely binge-able. (I <\/span>wrote <\/span>this two episodes into the first season, and while I\u2019m still fairly unimpressed by the story of Baby Yoda and friends, I allow that I\u2019m very much in the minority on the idea that the show should\u2019ve been released all at once.)<\/span><\/p>\n

After the similarly massive success of <\/span>WandaVision<\/span><\/i>, it\u2019s easy to imagine that Marvel\u2019s next TV venture would be just as compelling, as strange, and as capable of drawing week-to-week interest among even those of us who aren\u2019t incredibly comic-book-literate. But halfway through the season (maybe Marvel has a second <\/span>Falcon and the Winter Soldier <\/span><\/i>season planned, but nothing\u2019s confirmed), Anthony Mackie appears to have been right. <\/span>The Falcon and the Winter Soldier<\/span><\/i> does<\/span><\/i> feel like a six-hour movie. And releasing its installments once a week is a terrible way to build its momentum.<\/span><\/p>\n

WandaVision<\/span><\/i> was more dramatically interesting in its first stretch of episodes, but the braintrust at Marvel made a wise decision of leaning into the roots of the medium. Even paying lip service to the idea of how television <\/span>used <\/span><\/i>to look allowed <\/span>WandaVision <\/span><\/i>to notably feel appropriate to getting a weekly release. If Wanda Maximoff was going to find herself in the middle of sitcoms from different televisual eras, it made more sense to give her and the audience a week in between to wonder what might happen next. Only on the premiere date did Disney+ break its own rule, releasing the first two installments of <\/span>WandaVision<\/span><\/i>, allowing for audiences to get a better grasp of how quickly things could change for the Scarlet Witch.<\/span><\/p>\n

That technique would\u2019ve been extremely beneficial to <\/span>The Falcon and the Winter Soldier<\/span><\/i>, considering that its first episode ends before Sam Wilson and Bucky Barnes have\u2026met up. It\u2019s risky, to say the least, to name a show after the two former best friends of Captain America, advertise said show based on these two guys teaming up, and then\u2026not have them team up in the first episode. (The premiere episode also barely offers up any hint as to <\/span>why<\/span><\/i> Sam and Bucky would even team up.) This isn\u2019t the first show to brag that it\u2019s really like an extended movie; the problem is that most of those shows are released all at once\u2026like a movie. As Sam and Bucky try to take down the Flag Smashers, recruiting the villainous Baron Zemo to their cause temporarily, it\u2019s becoming more challenging to get invested in a show that truly feels like it was meant to be watched in one fell swoop. This is the inherent problem with advertising your show as being like an extended movie: people may be best served by watching it that way.<\/span>
\nAnd <\/span>The Falcon and the Winter Soldier<\/span><\/i> isn\u2019t the only such Disney+ original struggling through the weekly-release strategy. The streamer also has <\/span>The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers<\/span><\/i>, a revival of the 90s film series in TV form, starring Emilio Estevez once more as Gordon Bombay, the formerly grumpy lawyer who has to teach kids hockey who is now\u2026a currently grumpy ice-rink owner who will have to teach kids hockey. (Everything old is new again.) <\/span>Game Changers<\/span><\/i> is just two episodes into a ten-episode season, with some basic conceptual roles reversed. This time, it\u2019s the Mighty Ducks themselves who are the bullying team in town, who inadvertently inspire a single mom (Lauren Graham) to start up her own ragtag team simply to offer a less aggressively prepared and scheduled version of the sport to a grab bag of goofball kids.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is, in essence, a 21st-century version of <\/span>The Mighty Ducks<\/span><\/i> (which was itself a cuddlier version of <\/span>The Bad News<\/a> Bears<\/span><\/i>). You know. A <\/span>movie<\/span><\/i>. And just like <\/span>Falcon and Winter Soldier<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>Game Changers<\/span><\/i> is being released once a week, a decision that only saps whatever momentum the sports-focused show might try to accrue. It\u2019s not just that this show is inspired by a movie (thus raising the question of why this wasn\u2019t a movie too, or at least released all at once). It\u2019s that <\/span>Game Changers<\/span><\/i> feels like Disney+\u2019s response to another streaming service\u2019s TV revival of a sports-focused film series. First on YouTube, and now on Netflix, <\/span>Cobra Kai<\/span><\/i> has taken the basic concept of <\/span>The Karate Kid<\/span><\/i>, flipped it on its ear (originally positioning the formerly villainous Johnny Lawrence as a new kind of hero, with Daniel LaRusso as the thorn in his side), and become pretty damn popular in the process.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Cobra Kai<\/span><\/i> isn\u2019t perfect, sometimes avoiding the real-world consequences of the violence being perpetuated in the community of the show. (And like a number of 80s movies, it\u2019s a show that basically ignores the idea of parents in the community being infuriated at their kids being in violent karate attacks.) But <\/span>Cobra Kai<\/span><\/i> has the benefit of having its seasons released all at once, and by creating punchy enough cliffhangers on an episode-to-episode basis that encourage immediate viewership of ensuing episodes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Game Changers<\/span><\/i> is, like <\/span>Cobra Kai<\/span><\/i> did in its first season, slowly following the template of the underdog sports movie. In the second episode, the Don\u2019t Bothers (the team Graham\u2019s character starts) have their first game and play horrendously. By the end of the episode, we get more hints that the tetchy Bombay will soften and coach once more (because <\/span>of course <\/span><\/i>he will). And it\u2019s easy to imagine that by the end of the ten-episode season, the Don\u2019t Bothers may yet be victorious. But where shows like <\/span>Cobra Kai<\/span><\/i> allow you to watch the full journey of the underdog in the course of a few hours, treating <\/span>Game Changers<\/span><\/i> like a traditional TV show is only serving to highlight its creative inefficiencies. Watching a five-hour underdog sports movie is one thing; watching it over the course of three months in dribs and drabs isn\u2019t terribly rousing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This plea isn\u2019t intended to echo Veruca Salt, begging for something <\/span>now<\/span><\/i>, just because. The issue is more fundamental than that: not all streaming shows are created equal. Though it\u2019s kind of funny to watch streamers like Netflix and Disney+ talking about creating a new paradigm of releasing their shows \u2013 by which they mean they\u2019ve recreated how broadcast networks have always released their shows \u2013 some of these shows don\u2019t benefit from a weekly release. <\/span>WandaVision<\/span><\/i>\u00a0\u2013 whatever its creative faults were \u2013 became a much bigger water-cooler show <\/span>precisely <\/span><\/i>because it wasn\u2019t released all at once. But some shows need that binge-able strategy. The more that creators are encouraged to treat their shows like overlong movies, the wiser it is to release them like movies.\u00a0<\/span>
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