What does it mean that Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon was this week sitting pretty at the top of the Netflix Top 10, other than that viewers of the app will watch pretty much anything? This is after all, the streaming service that gave Adam Sandler, the actor-producer behind such totems of modern cinema as Jack and Jill, I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry and Grown Ups 2 a multiple movie contract as far back as 2014. One of the films that sprang fully formed from that deal like a putrid zombie hydra head was 2015’s execrable The Ridiculous 6, which boasts an impressive 0% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. But boy was it popular – maybe these guys just know their audience.
I should point out that there is also a considerable amount of excellent material on Netflix. The streaming service often seems to be interested in movies that people are likely to watch casually (at least once), as much as those they will view a dozen times, recommend to friends and generally bind to their own personal cultural carapace for the next decade or so. Which is perhaps where Snyder comes in.
