"Due to the sheer amount of money Netflix has to play with, the streamer often acts as a home for the unwanted goods of others, a digital island of misfit toys."
"Thrash is not a fellow exception to the rule; if anything, it acts as the very definition of what the rule usually is: a messily made, choppily edited and entirely misfiring cavalcade of bad decisions."
"Often when Netflix does buy a real studio movie, even the worst examples will boast a well-lit gloss that separates them from the standard Netflix originals."
Netflix spends heavily on content and often acquires films that studios have abandoned. Examples include Thrash, a poorly received film with a troubled production history. While some acquisitions, like Annihilation and the Fear Street trilogy, have been successful, Thrash exemplifies the pitfalls of such deals. The film appears low-budget and lacks the quality expected from Netflix, resembling a SyFy original. Its production issues include being directed by a Norwegian, set in the US, but filmed in Australia, contributing to its inauthentic feel.
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