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Admittedly, it’s a slow news day, but I refuse to write about CHANNING TATUM’S DICK. Anyway, Patton Oswalt’s Big Fan is out on DVD today, and I have heard good things but I have not seen it, and so I went, like any American would, to Netflix and put it in my queue. At which point Netflix suggested the following movies to me, not a single one of which seems to have anything (really) to do with Big Fan. I’m not an idiot, I know how ALGORITHMS WORK (that is probably not true), I understand how Netflix could think that any movie that involves a comedian and sports would inevitably lead the curious fan to WATER BOY (or the somewhat more difficult cinematic experimentation of The Game Plan), but also come on, Netflix. You already have computers doing the work for you, so make those computers do it right! At the very least, shouldn’t this list include Buffalo 66? They are both about sad people obsessed with sportsletes, and they both star Kevin Corrigan as Schlubby Friend #1.
This could basically be a Best New Party Game. Surely there must be some other examples of Netflix getting it hilariously wrong. FIND THEM.
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Is it bad that I now want to sign up to Netflix and start adding films JUST so I can join in with the Best New Party Game?
MLIV
The side panels of Videogum were at one time suggesting that I see (500) Days of Summer. Barf.
I don’t get it.
Your avatar does
Who is that in your avatar?
Maybe this is Netflix trying to help you find new Worst Movies….
Also, is using “FAIL” like that still used in 2010?
Netflix does get it right sometimes, recognizing my love of heartfelt gay and lesbian comedies it tipped me off to Noah’s Arc. I died from the looks in that show, then I came back to life and continue to watch the heck out of it
Okay, I know Gabe doesn’t really want to talk about it, but can we just at least discuss this description of Channing Tatum’s dick? It looks like a hot dog that’s been left too long on the grill. The tip is hot-pink, singed, and shriveled. It appears angry. WHAT? I mean, sorry, that has to be horrible on a very personal level for Channing, so why is it in the first paragraph of an article about him? That is too many DETAILS, Details Magazine.
DETAILS is a great magazine if you’ve run out of cologne
-B2Fw/ZG
I’d like to join this conversation of nine inch males.
Jenny Lewis > Jean Claude Van Damme
I wish Bend It Like Beckham had been a gritty look at fandom and obsession from the writer of The Wrestler.
Big Fan:
More like Big Fan:
I’m playing correctly, yeah?
No, it’s depressing movies with sports and Kevin Corrigan in a supporting role. I’m going with Lonesome Jim, where Corrigan is Casey Affleck’s brother and a suicidal basketball coach.
what do you mean, no?
WINDMILLS DO NOT WORK THAT WAY! GOOD NIGHT!
Aren’t those proposed ratings determined by other movies you’ve watched and rated? So, you either rarely like anything, or rarely like sports movies. The fact that Netflix suspects you’d like Fired Up the most out of the listed movies is a sad, sad thing.
You don’t hear the word “schlubby” enough.
i have the blockbuster equivalent to netflix, and when i typed in ‘revolutionary road,’ not only is one of the tags “crumbling marriage” but ‘waterboy’ was a suggestion! get out of america’s heads adam sandler!! in fairness, the other suggestions seemed pretty valid, and for all i know, there is a crumbling marriage in the waterboy.
Maybe it’s suggesting you are a huge Kathy Bates fan? That seems pretty logical to me.
Is anyone that huge a Kathy Bates fan?
A 30ish attractive gay man I know told me that he is somewhat bisexual because he has been and continues to be attracted to some women. I ask him for an example, and he says “I think that Kathy Bates is incredibly sexually alluring.”
He was completely serious, and could not understand why I found it hilarious.
i can’t figure out how to post pictures as a comment, but ‘food inc’ yields funny resultz
is this what you got, Gabe?
Weird, I got a double-posted comment too. (secret level: if you click the image, it goes to a hi-res version! Neat!)
i was actually going to submit this (i get it, but i mostly giggled at the cow/milk thing):
maybe this works?
Netflix recommended Full Metal Jacket based on my love for Dr. Stranvelove and Caddyshack. Obvs! Netflix held an open-source contest to solve these issues, but apparently the winner didn’t do that great of a job.
The real tragedy is if this DVD had come out in August, we all would have been rich
After watching it, I felt like Big Fan was a total plot rip-off of Bend It Like Beckham with a worse soundtrack. (I’m lying. I haven’t seen Big Fan yet, but according to these Netflix suggestions, I’m going to LOVE it)
I like how it says “More Like Big Fan” because I read it in joke cadence like, “pfft, more like ‘big fan’!” Ugh, I don’t know, I’m having a bad joke day, please kill me so I can be reborn on Pandora :’(
THANKS FOR DOUBLE-POSTING THE WORST COMMENT EVER, VIDEOGUM DOT COM!
it’s okay, it was actually funnier the second time.
I like how it says “More Like Big Fan” because I read it in joke cadence like, “pfft, more like ‘big fan’!” Ugh, I don’t know, I’m having a bad joke day, please kill me so I can be reborn on Pandora :’(
You refuse to write about Channing Tatum’s dick…because…?
I don’t get it. In 100% of cases, if you liked “Arrested Development,” you will like “Lost.” That’s just factual science and truth.
This had to do with Big Fan how?
Shut up, Netflix.
“This had to do with *insert gum-ism here* how? Shut up, *direct object of gum-ism*” is the new “Relax, technojeremy.”
Who is Channing Tatum? No I will not Bing it!
my God, I’ve seen over half of these.
Natalie Portman: So what are you here for?
Zach Braff: What are you here for?
Natalie Portman: Waiting for a friend, you?
Zach Braff: I uh…
Natalie Portman: Oh fuck, that was so nosy. I’m sorry, ack. I am. I am so nosy. I didn’t I didn’t mean to be. I am sorry.
Zach Braff: No, I just get these headaches. I wanna have em checked out.
Sam: Cool…
Sam: So, can you kill the local Swedish fisherman for me so I can drink their blood (which you will also have to collect)? Just a weird hobby we can both be into.
Then his life is changed with The Shins’ “New Fang”
i got almost the same thing when I put Big Fan into my queue except they threw Friday Night Lights up there instead of the Game Plan which makes much more sense
You can lead a curious fan to water, but you can’t make ‘em twink.
I hope this works the other way too, so that someone who LUVS “Leatherheads” and “The Waterboy” gets tricked into watching “Big Fan” and they’re all like “WTF?” and Netflix is all like “Gotcha!”
I had it suggest Meatballs 2 when I added Eraserhead.
Ah shit, sorry, Meatballs 4. But also I cheated because it was a “watch instantly” so it limited suggestions to other instant titles.
Actually, this one might be better:
Saving Face, as you probably know, is the story of a Chinese-American woman dealing with her budding lesbian relationship and how to break it to her mom. Who is a paraplegic? Maybe?
So it suggested Happy Endings because Tom Arnold is in both movies? And not because Saving Face is about Asian-American Women?
I haven’t got a picture, but one time it recommended Tyson, the documentary about the vicious man-eating boxer, based on my interest in Pee Wee’s Big Adventure and The Office, Season 2. True story!
I feel like Kevin Corrigan is sort of in every movie. He pops up all the time. He may be behind me right now.
*quick over the shoulder glance*
He’s there.
Hopefully you can click to see the whole picture, or else this is just a comment fail.
yeah…..here’s the link:
Originally posted on Ugly.
That actually kinda makes sense to me.
Big Fan is great, but it is probably one of the least funny movies I have ever seen. If it had a higher profile, I think Patton might have landed an Oscard nom.
Big Fan is in my queue as well. It says “Very long wait’ next to it.
Big Fan is in my queue as well. It says “Very long wait’ next to it.
You raise a valid point, laufwei.