Are cinemas expensive and elitist?

The directors of the new Netflix film The Gray Man have suggested that cinemas are expensive and elitist. Go ahead… try and argue otherwise.

The Russo Brothers have a new Netflix film coming out called The Gray Man. Advance word is that it isn't very good. But it did cost Netflix around $200 million to make it.

On the publicity circuit to promote this very expensive streaming film, the brothers were inevitably asked about the release of this film, initially conceived as a big-screen experienc…