Christopher Hudspeth posted a great article on Buzzfeed called Netflix’s List Of Their Most Watched Movies Ever Is Fascinating To Look At.
He reveals the week’s most watched film (Hustle) and points out it doesn’t come close to Netflix’s most watched movies ever. He counts them down from 10 to reveal:
“1. Finally, the most streamed Netflix movie of all time is Red Notice, which was watched for 364,020,000 hours! Over 4 million more hours than Don’t Look Up. The movie stars Dwayne Johnson, Gal Gadot, and the man who is in Netflix’s most streamed movies for THREE different films, Ryan Reynolds. Here’s how Netflix describes it: “An FBI profiler pursuing the world’s most wanted art thief becomes his reluctant partner in crime to catch an elusive crook who’s always one step ahead.” Red Notice has a 36% from critics and 92% from audiences on Rotten Tomatoes. That’s the highest audience score of any movie on this list, and the largest discrepancy between critics and fans, so it’s worth watching for yourself to form your own opinion!”
The article is based on Netflix’s Most Popular Films (English) at the very bottom of the page.
Here are the Top Ten:
- Red Notice
- Don’t Look Up
- Bird Box
- The Adam Project
- Extraction
- The Unforgivable
- The Irishman
- The Kissing Booth 2
- 6 Underground
- Spenser Confidential
Seven of the ten movies came out in 2020 or later so I wonder how difficult it will be for new films to capture even more eyeballs from an increasingly less-captive audience.
My take: with Ryan Reynolds on the list three times and Sandra Bullock on it twice, I wonder if the Netflix Algorithm is calculating how a new movie with both of them would do. Maybe it has to factor in 2009’s The Proposal as well though.
Sandra recently shared a memory (39:37) about shooting the shower scene with Ryan.