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I sort of dislike the "recently watched" list since it sometimes limits what I am willing to watch. There's a British movie on Netflix, at least in Canada, cal
by AgentConundrum 15y ago
I sort of dislike the "recently watched" list since it sometimes limits what I am willing to watch.
There's a British movie on Netflix, at least in Canada, called Cashback. It was a really decent movie, but it was really poorly marketed. The cover art is a woman frozen in a state of undress (with the title obscuring her bare breasts), and the description of the plot talked of a bored employee at a grocery store with the ability to freeze time who used the frozen time to undress customers and sketch them nude.
I was curious, as many men would be, but I didn't want to watch it because I didn't really want that to be the first thing on screen in the "recently watched" list when my girlfriend turned on Netflix.
In fact, I only ever watched it because Netflix later recommended it to me as "mind bending", which seemed like an odd description of the boob-filled teenage sex romp it seemed to be. I looked it up on Amazon and discovered the real plot, and decided to watch it anyway.
The frozen time nude artistry was mostly contained to a single throwaway scene (the time freezing was also initially presented as a time-passing fantasy rather than a real ability, though the film does play fast and loose with that line as the movie progresses), but it still made me hesitate because of the "recently watched" list.
I have no idea how I'll get away with watching Barbarella.
- km3k 15y agoThat's interesting. Netflix keeps recommending me Cashback too, even though I don't normally watch that type of movie. It's been recommending it so consistently for so long that I've been curious too, but I still haven't watched it.
- nnnnni 15y agoI watched it. You should do the same. May not be the best movie that you've ever seen, but I thought that it was good.
- mhb 15y agoI thought Cashback was disappointing. But the same premise is explored in the book The Fermata by Nicholson Baker and his writing is delightful.