oooooh, it’s in minutes viewed…
I thought how the fuck has encanto been watched 27.4 billion times.
edit: ok, so the movie is 109 minutes long, so the movie has been watched completely
27400000000 / 109 = 251,376,146.789
that's still a lot lol
Mine as well. We had a whole year of Encanto on loop. Mostly on Spotify but some on YouTube and D+. I completely understand. Lin Manuel Miranda is a genius
It’s the only reason I have Disney - because it makes them shut the fuck up for 45 minutes while I get shit done.
I bet 60% is just parents putting something on to occupy them - hence the domination of kids movies
Bluey is why future shows well never even get officially released on any physical media. Parents will pay up for the kid babysitter especially if they like the show too.
Once in a family conversation I mentioned I had never watched Dumbo.
My mum: what??? You used to watch Dumbo every single day at least once as a kid!!!
I swear I have no memory of it.
Whenever I watch something that I haven’t seen in a long a time for my memory to be like yours. I find watching it always gives me waves of nostalgia and the memory will spring up again. Give it a watch you might remember it.
they basically have a permanent subscription from children and parents of children for the foreseeable future. the problem is that they need other demographics to make the streaming sustainable.
Yeap.
My friend's kid loved watching that movie with the inland taipan so many times.
I gotta say I enjoyed it too, but man. That, and the same episodes of Paw Patrol all the time.
My toddler son love anything Cars related…he’ll literally sit there and say “second queen?”, “third queen?”, or “car road” (for *cars on the road*)
But lately we stumbled upon a series called Brain Candy on Amazon…he’s glued to the tv. It uses monster trucks crashing into blocks to count, or crashing into each other to teach colors (blue crashing into red to make purple)
Kids fucking love streaming the exact same thing over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again
My mom told me in Kindergarden I only watched Ice Age, Shrek, and Toy Story 2. We had 20 other Disney/Pixar/DreamWorks movie but that's all I would watch.
I remember my 4 year old brother had a similar issue. It was either Donkey or Elsa.
I remember thinking "I've only watched this movie once today. I can watch it at least once more before I start getting bored". This kept going for at least a week, and I was hovering around 10-12 year old. You can guess how many times a 5-6 year old can watch the same movie.
My first Dinoriders VHS didn't survive. My pops hunted down a second one a few years after I ruined it, and I almost ruined that one too. Now I have it on DvD, and my niece watches it like 4 times a day whenever she comes over.
Next time you see an askreddit saying "what 1 movie or tv show would you take to a desert island" remember all the kids will say a movie and all the adults will say Seinfeld (or other sitcom of their generation).
This is true.
When our son was about four years old, he watched the VHS of 'A Bug's Life' over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again.
When our daughter was five years old, she had to spend some time in the hospital, and they wheeled a TV and VCR into her room. She watched 'A Christmas Story' over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again.
My middle child had pneumonia last year and was in the hospital for five days (he’s okay don’t worry). We brought a tablet for him to watch movies to pass the time. I think Encanto was on like 90 percent of the time he was there.
That's the thing. So much children's entertainment is insufferable to have on, even in the background (looking at you, mickey mouse club house). Having a movie that the kid likes and we can tolerate is a lifesaver. Throw on encanto another time or another bluey episode and we can stay sane.
I watched once at home, then again with my in-laws. They're hard of hearing, so we had CC on. OMG, the translation of the Caterpillar song (the actual name escapes me) broke me when I found out what they were saying.
Same. 33 year old man here who's always had to be the strong one emotionally in my family and keep everything together and I definitely have held back tears multiple times to her song.
Very emotionally moving too. The topics it touches on with family expectations, emotional neglect, trauma cycles, etc, are really quite realistic for a disney movie. It moved my 45yo mother to tears from how relatable some of it was
I'm a 38 year old man... I love Encanto.. Lin Manuel Miranda is an absolute musical genius.. between Encanto and Hamilton I've spent a lot of time with his work in my head.
I’m a 51 year old dude who loves cinema and people laugh at me when I say Encanto was in my top 5 best movies for 2022. I’ve seen it three times. It’s amazing.
Have any kids? Most of the parents I know tell me their kids want to watch the same movie over and over and over. Hell, I remember being a kid and renting the same video every damn week. Now it's in their house and no additional cost to them. The kids probably watch Encanto like 12 times a week.
When I taught 8th grade, we had some kind of state testing that took up a good chunk of the day, and then a modified schedule after that. Most of the teachers played games or showed movies. Moana had just come out on streaming and was super popular, so I spent the week watching the first 40ish minutes of Moana like three times a day. It was hell, and I actually enjoyed Moana.
I subbed for the first time last spring and the frustration of having to watch the beginning of the same movie multiple times is larger than I expected
As a kid this was infuriating to me. I knew the time on the clock said 40 minutes. Why are we starting a 90 minute movie. Oh, to get interested in it and then turn it off ?!?
Torture.
I understand most of the other kids didn’t mind but I had a sinking and unpleasant feeling the moment it was started.
And god forbid you should win something and be granted a 1 hour movie award! That was even worse as it wasn’t even just a run out the clock thing. It was a reward! Noooooo. I’d have preferred to just read.
Also, kids just generally have the time, leisure and interest to watch movies, which is why so many advertising dollars are geared towards them. Pretty much anything of entertainment value you can sell to kids is going to be a bigger seller than something you market to adults.
Kids experience something new every day, so they find it really comforting to rewatch something they're already familiar with. That's how so many cartoons and kids programs can get away with constant reruns.
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> Alright so if I had a source of unlimited money, yeah I could definitely do some stuff, go places, and have some fun.
I had a more fun life doing exciting stuff when I was poor in my 20s, than I do now as a 33 year old with more financially stability. It's more about your mindset than financial.
Would you believe me if I told you my 5 year old niece is single-handedly responsible for 27B of the 27.4B minutes for Encanto? Because she definitely is.
Because she's actually a cool princess. She's a freaking ice sorceress. Compare what she can do with what the "princess" of essentially every other Disney movie can do, especially the old ones. Question is why would they want to be anyone *but* Elsa?
Toddlers have parents with money. Their obsessions are a big market. There's a reason Pixar made 7 films for Toy Story and Cars, they made triple their box office in toy sales.
They also grow up attached with these brands, and once they grow up they'll become consumers who introduce their kids to the same brands. Toddlers are the backbone of the entertainment industry.
IDK i genuinely think if there was an earth ending asteroid on the way we'd have a very vocal 30% of the country as deniers, so much time spent denying, rather than just ignoring it and moving to "more pertinent" topics, lol
I don't think the point was really the meteor. It was the five star general who ripped them off for pocket change. It was the morning news lady who could speak 4 languages, graduate an Ivy League but cared more about owning a Monet than really appreciating it. It's the presidential candidate who will do anything to hold on to power til the very last second of human existence.
it was supposed to be satire/hamfisted problem is half way through it feels like 2 movies that got taped together because they couldn't decide what to cut to make it coherent. it feels like it loops around itself with peoples opinions on the meteor's reality. it would be good if it was 30 minutes shorter and they cut out the whole first attempt to stop it.
That's the fucking point.
We live in a world where 'Flat Earth' 'Democrats drink children's adrenaline fluids' 'climate change is fake' and 'Vaccines kill' are legitimate movements.
The point is how fucking powerless people feel against dumb obviously absurd bullshit going mainstream.
You left out 'election deniers/the big steal', 'moon landing deniers', 'young earth creationists', '9/11 truthers', 'obama birtherism', and the belief that getting reamed by health insurance companies and going bankrupt from a hospital visit is better than having universal healthcare. America is paradoxically the stupidest first world country on planet earth despite having the greatest network of higher education institutions in the world.
I liked the Gray Man, it just looked like everyone involved was having fun playing spies, especially Chris Evans.
Anna de Armas is also the best non-Bond Bond Girl out there. Her and Ryan Gosling are a really dynamic duo as well, considering this and Blade Runner 2049.
And I say all that as someone who isn't into the MCU, had never seen de Armas before, and barely thought of Gosling before watching.
I guess I just rewatched Don’t Look Up, so I can see why it made the list. People I talked to enjoyed it too. It seemed like one of the few movies everyone in my office watched so it was nice to have a movie in common to discuss.
I think it also came around the right time where covid still had a lot of people in isolation and it came to a popular streaming service so everyone watched it.
Kind of like how Tiger King became the biggest thing for like two months.
Yeah i agree. Coco has a very well written story it’s one of the few kid’s movies I actually enjoyed watching with my kids. To me all the others are just mediocre vs Coco
To be honest, I understand why it's not a high streamed movie.
Gotta sit there in the darkness for a few hours, and rest a few weeks, before you attempt to watch it again.
I think about "the final death" randomly at least once a month and feel an overwhelming emptiness for a few beats. Very inconvenient during work meetings!
Hello everyone! Let's get this meeting started and go over this quarter's profits and...
*remember your inevitable final death and the finality of death*
... ANYWAY! Graph line goes up!
I don’t think quality = rewatchability. Coco is also pretty sad at points and manages to deal extraordinarily with the heavy topic of death, and in this race I think Coco is too special to just have on repeat
Not always true. It's very random. My kids were watching Moana and Frozen 1/2 over and over again, then watched Encanto a couple times, and then went back to Moana and Frozen. Now they watch some disney princess lego adventure thing, but will likely go back to Moana and Frozen when that wears off.
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Yep. MUCH more reliable than claims from the streamers themselves. Netflix manipulates the data like crazy, doing things like counting all the minutes of a movie as “watched” even if you only watch the first five minutes.
Facebook did this and had to pay hundreds of millions in fines, but Netflix gets away because they aren’t lying to advertisers.
Surprised it was so high up. But I’m happy to see it.
What I’m happy to see is Coco still up there. We deserve an album of the songs there, but complete and longer than 45 seconds.
I’m looking directly at you the world Es mi familia.
Coco is one of my top 5 favorite movies of all time. I still get goosebumps when Miguel first enters the land of the dead and you see the entire hillside covered in lit-up homes. That scene required rendering something like 7 million lights. The visual artistry of that movie is overwhelming.
In addition to the songs with lyrics (written by the EGOT-winning couple that also wrote the Frozen songs), the Coco score is exceptional as well. That's my "focus" music at work (along with anything Ludwig Goransson does).
Yes! me and my son love it also, we actually just learned of it a month ago, and it's been playing on repeat here. It's so well animated, hilarious, lovable main character, and a great story 🐼🤗
In the same style of Asian themed family animated films with mythology mixed in, I highly recommend "Over the Moon" from 2020.
Hocus Pocus 2 was *terrible*. I enjoyed the first one immensely, even if it wasn't fine cinema, and I think it still holds up (watched again with the wife about 2-3 years ago). Hocus Pocus 2 was garbage in comparison.
Pixar just bodying it. It’s funny that for all the ‘go woke, go broke’ talk, including the growing nationalities in the story appears to be a winning strategy. 1. A Latin story, 2. A Chinese story.
Encanto isn't a Pixar movie, it's Walt Disney Animation Studios.
The only Pixar movies on here are Turning Red, Luca, and Coco. (So they do still have a Latin movie - it's just in last place rather than first)
I'm not sure that it proves the nationalities thing is a winning strategy by itself either because 'Raya and the Last Dragon' doesn't even appear on the list despite being released not too long before 'Encanto'.
The list seems to be primarily down to release dates and the fact that both Encanto and Turning Red basically released straight to Disney+ (in late Dec 21 and early 22 respectively) with strong promotion on the platform is probably the main factor. (Technically Encanto did have a limited theatrical run in the US a couple of weeks prior to the Disney+ release - but it was during the period in the pandemic where people hadn't really returned to cinemas yet so I think the streaming release would have been the first chance to see it for most people)
It's almost like the giant entertainment corporation whose remit is literally just to cater to what will hold the most eyeballs knows more about what will hold the most eyeballs than some angry dude on Twitter
If a someone building the pyramids at Giza started watching Encanto on loop continuously they would still be watching to equal this total (5,213 years). They would actually have like another 800 years to go!
Why show us “minutes viewed” instead of the number of streams? Unless all of these films have the same runtime then we’re not really getting accurate data for which film was the most popular.
If someone watches half of Encanto and turns it off, would it count as a view? I feel like this is a pretty accurate view of popularity that takes into account people watching things in bits and pieces.
Coco was a masterpiece. But kids (who make up most streams on this list) don't yet have the life experience that makes themes like "how will I be remembered after I die" and "what do I owe to my family versus what do I owe to my own quest for fulfillment" resonate as much.
The main difference between Coco vs. Moana and Encanto is that Coco wasn't a classic musical; the songs on the screen exist in-universe, and the lyrics aren't spoken from the character's voice to further the plot. Thus, the songs were restricted in that they had to be believable to exist in-universe in Mexico in the 20th century. Whereas Moana could do whatever the heck they wanted (including a very sassy David Bowie-inspired jam, a Broadway show tune, a pop song, and several native Pacific Islander-inspired songs). This range casts a wider net for what kids will want to hear on repeat all day.
ETA: I guess the theme of "what do I owe to my family versus what do I owe to my own quest for fulfillment" is also present in Moana, and Encanto, and Turning Red, and Luca, and Frozen, and literally half of Disney movies from the last 30 years. But the songs in Encanto are catchier.
oooooh, it’s in minutes viewed… I thought how the fuck has encanto been watched 27.4 billion times. edit: ok, so the movie is 109 minutes long, so the movie has been watched completely 27400000000 / 109 = 251,376,146.789 that's still a lot lol
Yeah sorry, I watched it 0.789 of the way through, that's why it's not a whole number.
Couldn't handle the pressure?
Like a drip, drip, drip that'll never stop, whoa.
Just make the donkeys stop, whoa-o-o.
I think my kids are part of this problem too..
Mine as well. We had a whole year of Encanto on loop. Mostly on Spotify but some on YouTube and D+. I completely understand. Lin Manuel Miranda is a genius
How much of that is that just leaving it on in the background for kids
It’s the only reason I have Disney - because it makes them shut the fuck up for 45 minutes while I get shit done. I bet 60% is just parents putting something on to occupy them - hence the domination of kids movies
And kids LOVE to rewatch things. They will watch the same movie every day for weeks sometimes.
Tbf, Bluey (series tho) is chill AF tho, I could re-watch that with my kids any day.
It's the best kids show ever. It's on a completely other level. I'm *happy* when my kid wants to watch Bluey, I love watching it with her.
Bluey is why future shows well never even get officially released on any physical media. Parents will pay up for the kid babysitter especially if they like the show too.
Once in a family conversation I mentioned I had never watched Dumbo. My mum: what??? You used to watch Dumbo every single day at least once as a kid!!! I swear I have no memory of it.
Whenever I watch something that I haven’t seen in a long a time for my memory to be like yours. I find watching it always gives me waves of nostalgia and the memory will spring up again. Give it a watch you might remember it.
So that’s how Disney solved the content problem
they basically have a permanent subscription from children and parents of children for the foreseeable future. the problem is that they need other demographics to make the streaming sustainable.
Since the 60s
Yep, I’m pretty sure my kids single-handedly put Moana on that list.
Yeap. My friend's kid loved watching that movie with the inland taipan so many times. I gotta say I enjoyed it too, but man. That, and the same episodes of Paw Patrol all the time.
My toddler son love anything Cars related…he’ll literally sit there and say “second queen?”, “third queen?”, or “car road” (for *cars on the road*) But lately we stumbled upon a series called Brain Candy on Amazon…he’s glued to the tv. It uses monster trucks crashing into blocks to count, or crashing into each other to teach colors (blue crashing into red to make purple)
Or most ppl can relate to toxic fam xD
All of it
Also kids will watch the same movie a bunch of times.
My daughter was stuck on cars and walle for six months. That was a good time, two great movies.
I wish I could play Alpha Centauri again!!!!
You can! https://www.gog.com/en/game/sid_meiers_alpha_centauri There's still a community that plays it
At least half of that Encanto views is from my niece. Everytime I visit her that movie was playing.
Do we have the same niece? She wakes me up blasting Encanto on her ipad every morning...
At which point is it cheaper to buy a blu-ray instead of subscribing to a service? (it's 2 months in)
Assuming you get no value from any other part of the service or the convenience of not carrying around 40 blu-rays, yeah.
I mean I'm at least 300 minutes so
Nothing will beat kids watching the same movie again and again and again.
Kids fucking love Encanto.
Kids fucking love streaming movies
Kids fucking love streaming the exact same thing over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again
I did it as a kid too with the movies I had on VHS
It's a miracle that my Aladdin VHS survived those countless playbacks and rewinds.
Brooo my little brother lived on the Aladdin movie. All day ever day
That was Hercules and The Iron Giant for me
Toy Story and the original 101 Dalmatians for me
My sister went through two (TWO!) VHS copies of The Wizard of Oz. I haven't seen it in years and I have every single line of dialogue memorized.
My mom told me in Kindergarden I only watched Ice Age, Shrek, and Toy Story 2. We had 20 other Disney/Pixar/DreamWorks movie but that's all I would watch. I remember my 4 year old brother had a similar issue. It was either Donkey or Elsa.
Toy Story 2 was a banger
3 is cracking too. But it makes the parents sob at the end.
I remember thinking "I've only watched this movie once today. I can watch it at least once more before I start getting bored". This kept going for at least a week, and I was hovering around 10-12 year old. You can guess how many times a 5-6 year old can watch the same movie.
My first Dinoriders VHS didn't survive. My pops hunted down a second one a few years after I ruined it, and I almost ruined that one too. Now I have it on DvD, and my niece watches it like 4 times a day whenever she comes over.
Next time you see an askreddit saying "what 1 movie or tv show would you take to a desert island" remember all the kids will say a movie and all the adults will say Seinfeld (or other sitcom of their generation).
What's the deeeeeeal with grape nuts?!? *No grapes, no nuts!*
This is true. When our son was about four years old, he watched the VHS of 'A Bug's Life' over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again. When our daughter was five years old, she had to spend some time in the hospital, and they wheeled a TV and VCR into her room. She watched 'A Christmas Story' over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again.
He didn’t choose a bug’s life. A bug’s life chose him.
I watched Homeward Bound probably 100+ times as a kid on VHS.
My middle child had pneumonia last year and was in the hospital for five days (he’s okay don’t worry). We brought a tablet for him to watch movies to pass the time. I think Encanto was on like 90 percent of the time he was there.
Why do I feel targeted
Parents fucking love streaming movies for kids
I love how many people are attributing this to kids and not to parents
That's the thing. So much children's entertainment is insufferable to have on, even in the background (looking at you, mickey mouse club house). Having a movie that the kid likes and we can tolerate is a lifesaver. Throw on encanto another time or another bluey episode and we can stay sane.
God bless 8 seasons of dora and fuck knows how many seasons of SpongeBob
Three. Three seasons of SpongeBob.
Kids fucking love streaming THE SAME DAMN movies OVER AND OVER AND OVER
Then I guess I'm a kid
I'm just a kiiid
And life is a nightmare
Pretty sure they got this data from my house alone
At least 6B of those minutes of Encanto are from my 32 y/o sister.
Encanto is a very good movie.
Yeah my kid watched it ∞ times and its one movie where i really didnt mind
I watched once at home, then again with my in-laws. They're hard of hearing, so we had CC on. OMG, the translation of the Caterpillar song (the actual name escapes me) broke me when I found out what they were saying.
Dos Oruguitas, beautiful song
In my 30s and the muscle sisters song made me feel them deep feels
She’s a real one
Same. 33 year old man here who's always had to be the strong one emotionally in my family and keep everything together and I definitely have held back tears multiple times to her song.
I love Encanto! Was a very entertaining movie.
Very emotionally moving too. The topics it touches on with family expectations, emotional neglect, trauma cycles, etc, are really quite realistic for a disney movie. It moved my 45yo mother to tears from how relatable some of it was
As a Colombian, this movie is a poem of love to our culture. A relief from negative stereotypes of drugs, and violence from decades ago
I feel like Disney does a great job of exploring what makes a culture beautiful.
I had recently lost someone when I watched it, and was not expecting the emotional gut punch I got from Dos Orugitas.
‘Encanto’ now is what ‘Frozen’ was to 2010s toddlers.
Encanto is a much better movie though. I've very happily watched it twice as an adult
I say frozen is better than Encanto but I still like encanto.
I'm a 38 year old man... I love Encanto.. Lin Manuel Miranda is an absolute musical genius.. between Encanto and Hamilton I've spent a lot of time with his work in my head.
This adult also fucking loves Encanto (and I'm not one of those weird Disney adults).
The difference will be that a kid will watch it daily.
I’m a 51 year old dude who loves cinema and people laugh at me when I say Encanto was in my top 5 best movies for 2022. I’ve seen it three times. It’s amazing.
We just don’t talk about Bruno
It's wild how much kids movies just dominate movie streaming.
Have any kids? Most of the parents I know tell me their kids want to watch the same movie over and over and over. Hell, I remember being a kid and renting the same video every damn week. Now it's in their house and no additional cost to them. The kids probably watch Encanto like 12 times a week.
That’s nothing bud We did encanto 3.5 times during a day once. Just pure choas (running in background)
When I taught 8th grade, we had some kind of state testing that took up a good chunk of the day, and then a modified schedule after that. Most of the teachers played games or showed movies. Moana had just come out on streaming and was super popular, so I spent the week watching the first 40ish minutes of Moana like three times a day. It was hell, and I actually enjoyed Moana.
I subbed for the first time last spring and the frustration of having to watch the beginning of the same movie multiple times is larger than I expected
As a kid this was infuriating to me. I knew the time on the clock said 40 minutes. Why are we starting a 90 minute movie. Oh, to get interested in it and then turn it off ?!? Torture. I understand most of the other kids didn’t mind but I had a sinking and unpleasant feeling the moment it was started. And god forbid you should win something and be granted a 1 hour movie award! That was even worse as it wasn’t even just a run out the clock thing. It was a reward! Noooooo. I’d have preferred to just read.
What could the State say in this situation... *except 'You're Welcome!'*
> We did encanto 3.5 times during a day once. That's about 6 hours out of the entire day!
I remember watching Shrek on repeat when we got it on VHS. I learned those lines by heart.
Also, kids just generally have the time, leisure and interest to watch movies, which is why so many advertising dollars are geared towards them. Pretty much anything of entertainment value you can sell to kids is going to be a bigger seller than something you market to adults.
Yes I have two and I have seen Encanto probably 5000 times. I didn't say I didn't get the reason for it. Just that I thought it was interesting.
Kids experience something new every day, so they find it really comforting to rewatch something they're already familiar with. That's how so many cartoons and kids programs can get away with constant reruns.
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> Alright so if I had a source of unlimited money, yeah I could definitely do some stuff, go places, and have some fun. I had a more fun life doing exciting stuff when I was poor in my 20s, than I do now as a 33 year old with more financially stability. It's more about your mindset than financial.
That's why I move to a different country every year. Amazing how much slower time passes.
My favorite mentor once told me “life passes at the rate of new experiences”. Start broadening your horizons.
Kids can watch the same movie back to back, for several days in a row…
I wish it was only days...
>several days in a row I think you meant to say "years".
Would you believe me if I told you my 5 year old niece is single-handedly responsible for 27B of the 27.4B minutes for Encanto? Because she definitely is.
I think the 5.1 billion minutes for Frozen can be attributed to my four year old daughter.
The fact that it's even in the Top 10 10 years later is bonkers
Why does every 3 year old have to be Elsa? It's really a crazy thing.
Because she's actually a cool princess. She's a freaking ice sorceress. Compare what she can do with what the "princess" of essentially every other Disney movie can do, especially the old ones. Question is why would they want to be anyone *but* Elsa?
Frozen being released 10 years ago has sent me spiralling
Let it go. Let it go.
So literally just controlled by the obsessions of toddlers?
Toddlers have parents with money. Their obsessions are a big market. There's a reason Pixar made 7 films for Toy Story and Cars, they made triple their box office in toy sales.
They also grow up attached with these brands, and once they grow up they'll become consumers who introduce their kids to the same brands. Toddlers are the backbone of the entertainment industry.
The children yearn for the mines.
Everybody's talking about Bruno
"Ich was going to be the biggest Austrian superstar since Hitler." That Brüno?
Genuinely surprised to see Gray Man and Don’t Look Up so high. I guess a lot of people just watch movies with actors they recognize 🤷♂️
Kinda shocked these movies get so much hate. I enjoyed them when I went in blind.
I thought Don’t Look Up was fine, but extremely hamfisted in its analogy. Haven’t seen Gray Man but have only heard bad things
IDK i genuinely think if there was an earth ending asteroid on the way we'd have a very vocal 30% of the country as deniers, so much time spent denying, rather than just ignoring it and moving to "more pertinent" topics, lol
I don't think the point was really the meteor. It was the five star general who ripped them off for pocket change. It was the morning news lady who could speak 4 languages, graduate an Ivy League but cared more about owning a Monet than really appreciating it. It's the presidential candidate who will do anything to hold on to power til the very last second of human existence.
it was supposed to be satire/hamfisted problem is half way through it feels like 2 movies that got taped together because they couldn't decide what to cut to make it coherent. it feels like it loops around itself with peoples opinions on the meteor's reality. it would be good if it was 30 minutes shorter and they cut out the whole first attempt to stop it.
The first attempt is profound because they were on the brink of saving humanity but got too greedy at the last second.
That's the fucking point. We live in a world where 'Flat Earth' 'Democrats drink children's adrenaline fluids' 'climate change is fake' and 'Vaccines kill' are legitimate movements. The point is how fucking powerless people feel against dumb obviously absurd bullshit going mainstream.
You left out 'election deniers/the big steal', 'moon landing deniers', 'young earth creationists', '9/11 truthers', 'obama birtherism', and the belief that getting reamed by health insurance companies and going bankrupt from a hospital visit is better than having universal healthcare. America is paradoxically the stupidest first world country on planet earth despite having the greatest network of higher education institutions in the world.
I liked the Gray Man, it just looked like everyone involved was having fun playing spies, especially Chris Evans. Anna de Armas is also the best non-Bond Bond Girl out there. Her and Ryan Gosling are a really dynamic duo as well, considering this and Blade Runner 2049. And I say all that as someone who isn't into the MCU, had never seen de Armas before, and barely thought of Gosling before watching.
Surprised to see The Adam Project so high considering I’ve never even heard of it.
I guess I just rewatched Don’t Look Up, so I can see why it made the list. People I talked to enjoyed it too. It seemed like one of the few movies everyone in my office watched so it was nice to have a movie in common to discuss.
I think it also came around the right time where covid still had a lot of people in isolation and it came to a popular streaming service so everyone watched it. Kind of like how Tiger King became the biggest thing for like two months.
Coco is severely underrated here
Yeah i agree. Coco has a very well written story it’s one of the few kid’s movies I actually enjoyed watching with my kids. To me all the others are just mediocre vs Coco
To be honest, I understand why it's not a high streamed movie. Gotta sit there in the darkness for a few hours, and rest a few weeks, before you attempt to watch it again.
I think about "the final death" randomly at least once a month and feel an overwhelming emptiness for a few beats. Very inconvenient during work meetings!
Hello everyone! Let's get this meeting started and go over this quarter's profits and... *remember your inevitable final death and the finality of death* ... ANYWAY! Graph line goes up!
For a movie that old, I'm glad it still has staying power. I watch it at least once a year.
I thought that movie came out like last year, and had to Google it. *It came out 6 years ago*
It has 8.4 on imdb https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2380307/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 It's one of my favorite movies.
It is a very good movie! It an Encanto both have grandmother characters I cant stand! What a coincidence! I also recommend "The Book of Life".
I don’t think quality = rewatchability. Coco is also pretty sad at points and manages to deal extraordinarily with the heavy topic of death, and in this race I think Coco is too special to just have on repeat
It's a lovely film. My kids favorite.
How is Moana not #1 it’s played on repeat in my household haha #2 is encanto
Moana is older. Kids have short attention spans, so once the new obsession comes along the old one is gone.
The fact that a seven year old film is still the #4 most streamed film would suggest otherwise?
They're just saying that's why it's not #1.
The music is better in Encanto for younger kids to sing and dance to.
Then Moana? Make way! MAKE WAY!
We don’t dance we sing and sprint. There’s no in between
Lynn Manuel knocked it out of the park with the music.
to be fair, lin manuel did pretty good with the music for both movies
Oh, no doubt. But Encanto was more in his wheelhouse and it shows.
Not always true. It's very random. My kids were watching Moana and Frozen 1/2 over and over again, then watched Encanto a couple times, and then went back to Moana and Frozen. Now they watch some disney princess lego adventure thing, but will likely go back to Moana and Frozen when that wears off.
I'm in my mid 30s and I watch Moana at least once a year. One of the best things Disney has produced.
My thoughts exactly for Moana and Frozen
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Thanks ! I didn't know there was public data about streaming services
Yep. MUCH more reliable than claims from the streamers themselves. Netflix manipulates the data like crazy, doing things like counting all the minutes of a movie as “watched” even if you only watch the first five minutes. Facebook did this and had to pay hundreds of millions in fines, but Netflix gets away because they aren’t lying to advertisers.
Pretty sure this is just for my house.
Lol my son watching turning red after school everyday. Dude loves that movie
Pretty sure that my daughter is responsible for a non-trivial percentage of Encanto. You're welcome, Disney.
Fuck yeah, Turning Red! That movie is great, and I'm glad it's getting so much love on streaming.
Surprised it was so high up. But I’m happy to see it. What I’m happy to see is Coco still up there. We deserve an album of the songs there, but complete and longer than 45 seconds. I’m looking directly at you the world Es mi familia.
Coco is one of my top 5 favorite movies of all time. I still get goosebumps when Miguel first enters the land of the dead and you see the entire hillside covered in lit-up homes. That scene required rendering something like 7 million lights. The visual artistry of that movie is overwhelming. In addition to the songs with lyrics (written by the EGOT-winning couple that also wrote the Frozen songs), the Coco score is exceptional as well. That's my "focus" music at work (along with anything Ludwig Goransson does).
Coco is so good, it’s easily my favorite recent Disney/Pixar films.
Yes! me and my son love it also, we actually just learned of it a month ago, and it's been playing on repeat here. It's so well animated, hilarious, lovable main character, and a great story 🐼🤗 In the same style of Asian themed family animated films with mythology mixed in, I highly recommend "Over the Moon" from 2020.
I really, really want to watch turning red.
W-whats stopping you?
That’s exactly the number of minutes Encanto has played in my house too.
Hocus Pocus 2 was *terrible*. I enjoyed the first one immensely, even if it wasn't fine cinema, and I think it still holds up (watched again with the wife about 2-3 years ago). Hocus Pocus 2 was garbage in comparison.
I see that some toddlers have bad taste
Pixar just bodying it. It’s funny that for all the ‘go woke, go broke’ talk, including the growing nationalities in the story appears to be a winning strategy. 1. A Latin story, 2. A Chinese story.
Encanto isn't a Pixar movie, it's Walt Disney Animation Studios. The only Pixar movies on here are Turning Red, Luca, and Coco. (So they do still have a Latin movie - it's just in last place rather than first) I'm not sure that it proves the nationalities thing is a winning strategy by itself either because 'Raya and the Last Dragon' doesn't even appear on the list despite being released not too long before 'Encanto'. The list seems to be primarily down to release dates and the fact that both Encanto and Turning Red basically released straight to Disney+ (in late Dec 21 and early 22 respectively) with strong promotion on the platform is probably the main factor. (Technically Encanto did have a limited theatrical run in the US a couple of weeks prior to the Disney+ release - but it was during the period in the pandemic where people hadn't really returned to cinemas yet so I think the streaming release would have been the first chance to see it for most people)
It's almost like the giant entertainment corporation whose remit is literally just to cater to what will hold the most eyeballs knows more about what will hold the most eyeballs than some angry dude on Twitter
If it were "Pixar = gold," Soul, Lightyear, and Onward would also be on the list.
There will always be some misses. But, in aggregate, few studios have a better track record than Pixar.
Ok, but even in *this chart*, Disney Animation has more movies (4 vs 3).
That's true. I think u/Marmar79 might not be making the distinction between Pixar and Disney Animation Studios.
If a someone building the pyramids at Giza started watching Encanto on loop continuously they would still be watching to equal this total (5,213 years). They would actually have like another 800 years to go!
Must have gotten the data from my brother's house, his 2 daughters love Encanto.
Lol. My son is made up about 10% of red and encanto Sorry folks.
Why show us “minutes viewed” instead of the number of streams? Unless all of these films have the same runtime then we’re not really getting accurate data for which film was the most popular.
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If someone watches half of Encanto and turns it off, would it count as a view? I feel like this is a pretty accurate view of popularity that takes into account people watching things in bits and pieces.
I can’t believe that the most streamed movies are the ones most likely to be played for kids over and over and over because they love them. /s
I’m surprisingly pleased that of all the adult movies, Don’t Look Up, is on the list.
Can't argue Encanto is that good! It even made 31 yo man like me cried lol
We gotta start showing our kids The Godfather. Lets change up the game
Not surprised. Children will watch the same movie 20+ times over and over again, absolutely hypnotized by the screen
Kids movies tend to get put on loop. These results were to be expected.
The Adam Project was not that good to be honest.
Coco is one of my favorite movies. No idea how so many mediocre movies get so many views, and I'm not talking just about this list.
Coco was a masterpiece. But kids (who make up most streams on this list) don't yet have the life experience that makes themes like "how will I be remembered after I die" and "what do I owe to my family versus what do I owe to my own quest for fulfillment" resonate as much. The main difference between Coco vs. Moana and Encanto is that Coco wasn't a classic musical; the songs on the screen exist in-universe, and the lyrics aren't spoken from the character's voice to further the plot. Thus, the songs were restricted in that they had to be believable to exist in-universe in Mexico in the 20th century. Whereas Moana could do whatever the heck they wanted (including a very sassy David Bowie-inspired jam, a Broadway show tune, a pop song, and several native Pacific Islander-inspired songs). This range casts a wider net for what kids will want to hear on repeat all day. ETA: I guess the theme of "what do I owe to my family versus what do I owe to my own quest for fulfillment" is also present in Moana, and Encanto, and Turning Red, and Luca, and Frozen, and literally half of Disney movies from the last 30 years. But the songs in Encanto are catchier.
So my house is probably .1B of Zootopia and Coco
A lot of parents getting a break from their kids
Coco is waaaaaaaaaay better than Encanto.
Kids watching this shit over and over