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So I find it quite fascinating that 211 (a 2018 Nic Cage film) is at #6. I do not understand why this is so popular. Any thoughts?

• cheschire 5y ago
  Here's an article about it from 8 days ago so apparently it's not exactly a blip. https://wegotthiscovered.com/movies/one-of-nicolas-cages-worst-movies-is-inexplicably-popular-on-netflix/ https://wegotthiscovered.com/movies/one-of-nicolas-cages-wor...
• londons_explore 5y ago
  I wonder if perhaps Netflix's data isn't quite as clean as they hope? A bot clicking play a million times I'd imagine could easily bring stuff to the top of these charts if the data collection and aggregation wasn't built with that in mind.
  • not2b 5y ago
    They aren't counting clicks, they are counting hours watched, and a subscriber only gets so many simultaneous views. The bot would have to hold the data connection open for a million hours. Now, I don't know the details of how long the viewer has to watch a show before it counts as a view. But people stopping early is treated as a downvote, if I understand correctly.
• mhh__ 5y ago
  There is a lot of awful (subjective, but you know what I'm getting at) stuff which can seem inexplicably popular because the kind of people who watch it don't write home and tell anyone.
  • selcuka 5y ago
    Sometimes you accidentally watch such movies. I watched a Bruce Willis movie on Netflix a few weeks ago without checking IMDB first thinking that it could be semi-decent because the cast was ok. It turned out to be a disaster and I later found out that the IMDB score was something like 2/10.
    • somedangedname 5y ago
      Cosmic Sin? Even in the trailer you could tell he didn't want to be in that :D
      • selcuka 5y ago
        Yes, that was it. I wasn't even remembering the name. To my defence he never looks like he wanted to be in that movie.