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Narrow_Soft_9225 t1_j7otvuu wrote

They had to rewatch it to confirm “is it really that bad?”

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implicitpharmakoi t1_j7otzgp wrote

That’s … sad.

It wasn’t a terrible completely unwatchable movie, but your best?

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ButtholeQuiver t1_j7ov9o5 wrote

That's interesting. I watch a reasonable amount of Netflix but I've never heard of this movie

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Thedorf69420 t1_j7owb6f wrote

The Adam project was a great movie. The kid acting as younger Ryan Reynolds really nailed being younger Ryan Reynolds

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Beavshak t1_j7owgxe wrote

I’d completely forgotten about Bird Box, but dang did that movie blow up i to a thing when it came out.

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AverageCowboyCentaur t1_j7ox8rl wrote

Fun fact: a vpn to your house keeps the local IP block with Netflix's new system intact for anyone that wants to watch on the go (or lives in a different place cough cough) Works by looking like you live there, just connect in every 3 weeks and you are golden. Even figuring that out I still cancelled, such a bad service now. Was with them since they rented DVDs even piloted the PS3 console app and wrote letters detailing my expertise for it. The company went to crap, unable to retain anything and quality of their series declined to the point I said goodbye.

Monthly cost keep going up for less content and I'm not going to pay a fortune for 4k, no thank you! Not as bad as Hulu, that place is a joke, their CDNs are hot garbage. HBO, Prime and Disney is pretty much it and a month a year for the others if I need to see something. Disney may be moving to 1-2 months a year soon.

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LordBogus t1_j7oyfbv wrote

Why is the masterpiece 'Irishman' at 10??

Also, still can't get over the fact that in 'the grey man' they demolished a city without getting 5 stars, like multiple helicopters and the army. Biggest movie misstake there.

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st4n13l t1_j7oz7so wrote

I think it would be better to view it based on something like hours per week since some have been out longer than others. For example, Glass Onion is catching up to Red Notice quickly, but it hasn't been out nearly as long.

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kcgil87 t1_j7p3sxr wrote

I thought at least one of these movies would be good. I was wrong.

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pk10534 t1_j7p6sli wrote

Did anyone else think “don’t look up” was just…not very good? Idk I thought the writing left a lot to be desired and the general vibe of the movie seemed to be “haha society stupid, me smart” in a pat-yourself-on-the-back kind of way.

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JackdiQuadri97 t1_j7p7anu wrote

You fucked up number of subscriber line, the x-axis is different for the two informations you are plotting, the subs number is from 2013 to 2023. Instead of plotting data from mid 2018 to 2023 for that you plotted what would have been the line for 2013 to 2023 over the other graph.

Didn't it look like an obvious mistake that the graph showed netflix 8x their subs in less than 5 year?

P.s. Now that I look at it better actually also the dots are fucked up, places around 20M higher than they should be (i guess prolly a % error), anyway means you fucked up Y axis too

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Deceptikhan42 t1_j7p9kkx wrote

I think you may need to express these as a rate. Views doesn't account for how long it has been out. Round 2 begin!

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corink420 t1_j7pap9k wrote

Replying to pk10534 (#1,752,539)

I think the message they were going for got across in a very blatant but disturbing way. people in power are greedy and will only work for themselves while belittling those who aren’t, and that the advent of social media causes a mob mentality to believe and follow whatever is trending, and behave naively as if the influencers are more credible than somebody who knows and is certified in what they’re talking about. I think the movie did a good job at showing how our modern society would react if something like an extinction level event is revealed, and hopefully world leaders would act like world leaders about it and not like how the president/people in power in the movie reacted

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pk10534 t1_j7pbmr1 wrote

Replying to corink420 (#1,752,772)

In a sense I agree with you, I guess I just feel like the satire was kind of blunted or damaged by how blatant it was, because it almost felt like it was explaining the joke a little too thoroughly at times.

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SmartInDisguise t1_j7pdcwc wrote

Interesting. Feel like don't look up was kinda terrible though so no idea how it has so many watch hours.

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Koboldsftw t1_j7pesdy wrote

There is simply no reason to believe Netflix’s viewership stats.

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SpiderFarter t1_j7ph8h4 wrote

282 million views for bird box? The only movie that could make Don’t Liok Up almost watchable

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[deleted] t1_j7pi13n wrote

Wow so much diversity! I guess this is why I haven’t watched any of these horrible Netflix trash movies. They all seem to be a similar genre too!

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rev_daydreamr t1_j7plpec wrote

I like the idea of including the subscription numbers to put the viewership in context (although as someone else pointed out the axis might not match the span of the data), but the way the movies are plotted and annotated is pretty confusing. At first I thought the small dot next to the text marked the position on the xy axes, until I noticed it would put Don't Look Up into 2022. Perhaps simply getting rid of the small circle at the end of the line extending to the movie thumbnail would alleviate any confusion.

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PuffinChaos t1_j7pni3a wrote

The Irishman only made the Top 10 because it’s over 200 minutes long

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hfoblues t1_j7pp7el wrote

The Irishman is one hell of a movie. Underrated as per this chart.

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vexinq t1_j7psf7r wrote

Replying to st4n13l (#1,752,221)

I think it’d be flawed either way since hours per week heavily favors newer movie releases (older movies watch time per x will decay when most people have seen it or it loses popularity). Since it’s not strictly better I’d keep total watch time personally because it feels easier to communicate/work with.

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Kolada t1_j7pw81u wrote

I'd be curious what the method was for estimating hours watched. To my knowledge, Netflix doesn't release that info.

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Bugsarecool2 t1_j7py385 wrote

So the best Netflix can do is a group of mediocre films? I miss the theater.

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pinkshirtbadman t1_j7q1n05 wrote

Replying to SpiderFarter (#1,753,136)

not views, 282 Million hours of time viewing it

it's slightly longer than 2 hours which means that's less than 141 Million views, and even that number is kind of weird to work with since it would assume no viewers that abandoned it part way through.

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bvanbove t1_j7q3fz5 wrote

That many people watched The Adam Project?!?!? I saw no conversation about it online at all, and no one I know has watched it. At least every other movie on here I heard or read about after it’s release, or watched it myself.

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snarcasm68 t1_j7q3u07 wrote

I’ve never heard of any of them. Not a movie watcher.

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pinkshirtbadman t1_j7q46lh wrote

Length of viewing time as a metric for popularity doesn't really work here. A 90 minute movie watched 1,000,000 times is 1.5 million hours of viewing time. A 2 hour movie watched 800,000 times will beat that with 1.6 million hours of viewing time and be more popular on this graph despite having 80% of the views.

"Popularity" is already kind of a nebulous thing to define anyway. If 10 people like movie A, but have no intent to ever watch it again and 8 people absolutely love Movie B and call it their favorite movie of all time, constantly re-watch it, and introduce it to others but the other 2 hate it... which movie is more popular?

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bight99 t1_j7q4gv8 wrote

Replying to pk10534 (#1,752,826)

Maybe it’s just my rose colored glasses liking Leo movies but I kinda thought that’s what the point was. Scientists have been shouting climate change from the rooftops for DECADES now - it’s an extremely obvious thing and we already know how it’s going to affect us. But even though it’s so blatant there’s still little change.

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BBOoff t1_j7q9dos wrote

Replying to xhyzBOSS (#1,754,078)

No, I mean that art-house snobs like to circle-jerk themselves with movies that require 3 re-watches and intimate knowledge of the history of an entire genre of cinema to understand, while the rest of the planet just wants something that will make them laugh/cheer/gush for two hours before they get back to their real lives.

;P

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Maguncia t1_j7qfm44 wrote

I just realized Red Notice and The Gray Man are two different things.

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musememo t1_j7qheua wrote

Couldn’t get through it. Maybe it’s a sign I should cancel netflix.

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TomasNavarro t1_j7qnqpi wrote

Looking at this I'm guessing I'm alone in that I really liked red notice

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iamansonmage t1_j7qnt7q wrote

They really need to look at more than just hours watched! Yes, I watched it. No, I did not enjoy it. It’s almost like they have a thumbs up button that could determine if people actually thought it was good or something. Just because I was duped into watching it by your marketting team doesn’t mean I liked it. 🤷‍♂️ Red Notice was garbage.

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Nenu_unnanu_kada t1_j7qo7tf wrote

I regretted watching red notice throughout and after the movie.

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Caesar_Gaming t1_j7qolmd wrote

If I’m understanding correctly, don’t look up rated higher than 50% on rotten tomatoes and red notice rated lower than 50%?

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FalconGhost t1_j7qqrd0 wrote

Some good flicks here, but The Gray Man was bad, i couldnt get through it

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Renegade7559 t1_j7qqye4 wrote

Weird. I like the actors but that movie is freaking terrible

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KellyKellogs t1_j7qsl3f wrote

Replying to pk10534 (#1,752,539)

I thought that, as a satirical parody film, it was shit and most of the jokes didn't land. It was also a bad satire of Trump's Whitehouse and just not very creative.

I think the ending was beautiful but the rest of the film switched constantly between serious drama and bad satire that it kept taking me out of the film.

It's like they made a satire film, realised it wasn't good enough and so added a whole bunch of dramatic scenes to try and improve it.

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jaketocake t1_j7qt2gl wrote

I really liked Red Notice tbh. I thought Don’t Look Up was mediocre though.

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PlannerSean t1_j7qvs4h wrote

Hours watched seems like a strange metric to judge popularity

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jonjonjay t1_j7qvup1 wrote

The Adam Project being the only one worth a damn too

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MrWisdom39 t1_j7qxejv wrote

Hated all of these movies, I began watching like half of them, and never finished them.

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Hugejorma t1_j7qxv8n wrote

Replying to ButtholeQuiver (#1,752,045)

It was on the main slot forever in my Netflix home page. I only watched the movie by miss click and knew nothing about it before. It was ok funny movie when I turned my brain off mode. I would like to know the same type of statistic about TV series.

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Wpgjetsfan19 t1_j7qxxmj wrote

6 underground was better than Red Notice but I guess Ryan Reynolds, The Rock and Gal Gadot would be a bigger draw of a cast

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x3mcj t1_j7qy5wa wrote

Loved red notice, its a good movie to pass time
Liked the Adam project, yet i could have been better
Loved don't look up. Really, this is a pretty huge wake up call no one its taking!
Need to finish Glass onion, loving it so far
Need to watch The Irishma and Extration

the rest, not interested

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ethicsofseeing t1_j7qyd70 wrote

Interesting how AI now decide what we’d want to watch.

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Clemenx00 t1_j7qyoeu wrote

Replying to MrLevin (#1,752,542)

With the nature of how Netflix promo works I can see people missing releases all the time if they are not caught at release. Movie was plastered all over Netflix at and around release but it is likely Netflix moved on to a different thing less than a week it launched.

Such is the nature of fast entertainment.

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hiimred2 t1_j7qyqxt wrote

Replying to myspicename (#1,754,196)

Also (imo at least) not a ‘background’ type of movie. I don’t particularly do a lot of rewatching in general as there’s so much unseen content I want to get to, but when I do, it’s very often something I don’t need to pay much attention to because the time I’ll do said rewatching is when I’m semi preoccupied and won’t singularly focus on the movie/show.

That’s where these ‘it was fine I guess’ blockbuster style movies that make up most of this chart (and pop culture in general) really shine. I can turn on Red Notice and just poke my head out at particular scenes where the movie is actually at it’s best, or just listen for the quippy dialogue bits that stand out. Repeat for tons and tons of movie examples we can think of that follow this style.

Knives Out might be the exception here, but I guess on rewatch the mystery is solved and you can kinda watch it with less focus so maybe not.

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leon_nerd t1_j7r1wd7 wrote

Red Notice is also probably the most disappointing movie on Netflix.

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gordo65 t1_j7r27xk wrote

Replying to pk10534 (#1,752,539)

The bottom line is, it was a comedy that wasn't funny. I think I chuckled 2 or 3 times during the whole thing.

I get that it can be difficult to make a comedy out of a serious issue, but the iron rule of comedy doesn't change with the subject matter:

"A comedy must be funny, or it becomes annoying."

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Brewe t1_j7r4hz9 wrote

I follow popular media relatively well, but I've only heard about 4 of these movies and watched 2.

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SufficientGreek t1_j7r4tti wrote

Replying to TailorNormal (#1,755,832)

They're pretty mediocre movies that are heavily advertised on the netflix main page. I think the main audience are people who just sit down and want to watch something entertaining for 2 hours. Not many people are specifically looking to watch them.

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The_mystery4321 t1_j7r4wbt wrote

That seems like a pretty stupid metric to use no? Run time is gonna significantly affect results

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vorpalglorp t1_j7r78pj wrote

I watch netflix almost every day. I am so much not the target audience for that movie I don't even remember ever seeing it. Actually I've only seen 2 of these. I'm a sci fi watcher though. If it isn't sci fi or fantasy there is a 5% chance I'm watching it.

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GoodRiddancePluto t1_j7r8319 wrote

Anyone else assume that being released in the beginning of 2021 in the mist of the pandemic ,where everyone was staying in, helped it quite a bit? Everyone was at home watching Netflix and it probably got promoted to hell. I know I watched if for that reason. I will watch almost anything and even I thought it was meh.

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wigglerworm t1_j7r9qh9 wrote

TIL a lot of the movies I fall asleep too did better than the one I actually watched. Interesting

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Wpgjetsfan19 t1_j7rdmgd wrote

Replying to LordBogus (#1,756,689)

I have no problem with long movies and lots talking but just found that movie boring. I’m not the only one. Scorsese makes some excellent movies, in fact The Departed is one of my all time favourites, along with Goodfellas and Casino. The Irishman just felt like it was lacking something

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meesterdg t1_j7rglnb wrote

So roughly 10 people have watched the Irishman.

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dietcokefanatic t1_j7ro4p5 wrote

The relative sizing scale is shown using rectangles but graphics in circles, I find that confusing.

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Triggerhappy62 t1_j7s8qas wrote

Where's my reward! I haven't seen a single one of these.

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WGBWooWGBW t1_j7tb8ca wrote

I've seen half of the movies listed here and they were some of the worst, low effort movies I've ever seen.

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Snoreofthebear t1_j7thcxk wrote

I've seen Red Notice three times and I still can't recall a single scene or joke from the movie. Which is why i watched it 3 times in the first place

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jbird715 t1_j7tk7xe wrote

These are movies produced by Netflix and not just simply movies on Netflix, correct?

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aquatoxin- t1_j7wt9j6 wrote

Most Netflix movies watched of all time

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Libertuslp t1_j82wev7 wrote

I know 0 of those movies. And i live a happy life without monthly subscription fee

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