"The Ridiculous 6" is robbing views from other options on Netflix.
The company announced this week that the knee-slapping Western, fronted by Adam Sandler and friends, is riding off into the streaming sunset, squashing records as the most-watched movie held by any previous opening on Netflix. That includes Netflix originals and licensed movie titles.
The streaming giant's chief content officer told The Verge: "It's been the most-watched movie in the history of Netflix. It's also enjoyed a spot at #1 in every territory we operate in, and in many of them it's still #1."
"You guys play brothers, which is funny just to start with, but you're all half-brothers?" Jimmy Kimmel asked Adam Sandler.
"Yeah, Nick Nolte is our dad," Sandler explained.
But the funniest part isn't the movie. It's how poorly it's being received. "The Ridiculous 6" has a whopping zero percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes and is described by a critic as "a two-hours-too-long cesspool of gross-out gags and casual bigotry."
Since the reviews of this Western have gone way south, people have questions about what the label "most-watched" means. Most-watched all the way through? Most-watched in the first 10 minutes? Most-watched when desperate at home over the holidays? We just don't know.
It's an uncommon look into a company that rarely shares its viewership data, perhaps because when it does, we the people are more confused than Taylor Lautner's character in "The Ridiculous 6."
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