Netflix’s #1 Movie: An Underwhelming 2002 Angelina Jolie Film
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I mean, okay, weird. But why would this movie be doing so well? I have a theory that when a movie is old enough and not well-known enough, if it features a big star people recognize, they will flock to view it because they might think it’s a new release. I’ve seen this happen a few times on Netflix, and since the service will not tell you whether people think a movie is good or bad, everyone just watches without really knowing anything about it, or possibly even when it was released just because they see, say, Angelina Jolie in the preview art. But they’ll figure it out when it very much looks like a 2002 movie.
The movie co-stars Ed Burns and a pre-Monk Tony Shalhoub. Stockard Channing made her way in there too. I mean if people are liking this, more power to them, but I just think it’s always funny when one of these terrible old movies is suddenly one of the most-viewed films in the country out of nowhere. This one is a particularly amusing example. But I think it also demonstrates just how ageless Angelina Jolie is 23 years later.
