Comments by "Snack Plissken" (@snackplissken8192) on "So I Watched Lady Ballers..." video.

  1. For a film done soup to nuts in a few months by a studio that has either distributed or backed existing projects before and couldn't get many professional actors to agree to star in, it's a lot better than you'd expect. It definitely could have used more time to cook, but it's serviceable as a sports comedy in the vein of Dodgeball. The meanest jokes come at the expense of Jeremy (Rob), Matt (Kris), and the Crane and Company guys (Jake, Blaine, and David) who are most of the main cast, and it's the "Lady Ballers" and the reporter who pushes them who are the villains of the film so it does not come off as mean as the movie's tagline suggests. Despite that, the ending is surprisingly heartwarming. It will probably take a few years of experience before DW+ hits their stride, but they are betting the farm on building a platform that will attract creators whose projects are unpalatable to the major studios and that large swaths of the public want badly enough to excuse less than Hollywood level polish. If it encourages more small studios to make genres of film audiences want with smaller and less risky budgets, it might help to convince Hollywood to leave their rut of the "safe" budget-busting blockbuster sequel flops that Disney and Warner Brothers keep pumping out.
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