The Hollywood epic was a common sight in the 1950's and 1960's as Hollywood tried to combat the rise of television programming with a horde of movies that used gargantuan budgets to bring to life massive-in-scale stories that usually took place in ancient periods of history. How funny then to consider that the newest Netflix original movie
Outlaw King, which reunites director David Mackenzie with his
Hell or High Water leading man Chris Pine,
is an obvious homage to those types of movies, complete with a $120 million budget that makes it the most expensive Netflix movie yet (Martin Scorsese's
The Irishman is waiting in the wings for its chance to turn to
Outlaw King and say "Hold my beer!"), yet it'll be seen by the vast majority of people on...televisions!
