Last week’s movie conversation was all about a certain very high-priced vanity documentary with a ginormous promotional budget. But that attention-magnet did not win the weekend box office, nor did “Shelter,” the crown going to a second heavily-advertised mainstream thriller, “Send Help.” However, it just narrowly beat out a new release that was on almost no one’s radar — except, it turns out, a huge online fanbase.
“Iron Lung” is a first theatrical feature endeavor for Mark Fischbach aka Markiplier, a YouTube personality who’s grown a massive following largely on the basis of videos in which he comments on games as he plays them. It’s not the most sophisticated
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