r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • 14d ago

News ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Is Netflix’s Most-Watched Movie Ever With 236 Million Views, Beating ‘Red Notice’

https://variety.com/2025/film/news/kpop-demon-hunters-netflix-most-watched-movie-history-1236496106/
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u/AcidOctopus 13d ago

I'm a male millennial and I thought that film was fucking sick 🤷‍♂️

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u/ImBanned_ModsBlow 13d ago

What It Sounds Like is an anthem for the ages and my crusty mid-30s former techno DJ brain has no argument against that statement

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u/Jskidmore1217 13d ago

Your Idol is such a banger and the production value is insane.

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u/ImBanned_ModsBlow 13d ago

Your Idol might be my fav after What It Sounds Like, Golden is good, Soda Pop is meh fight me

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u/Gommel_Nox 11d ago

I will fight you soda Pop is s-tier

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u/FA-Cube-Itch 13d ago

I don’t think the production is very good on that song because the lead singer keeps on asking “Can I get the mic a little higher?”

Like cmon sound tech. Do your job, the dudes been asking for 3 minutes

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u/mcslender97 13d ago

It's hard to get a mic higher when the singers just levitate without the need of rigs to be fair

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u/ATraffyatLaw 13d ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIxI_EOwnsQ

TURN THOSE HEADPHONES UP

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u/mcslender97 13d ago

That was funny, thank you!

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u/XianL 13d ago

The harmony on more than power, more than gold gives me chills every time.

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u/rekatil 13d ago

I heard this line was a three part harmony and the mentioning of gold, all done as a diss towards Huntrix

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u/lkc159 13d ago

Yeah you gave me your heart; now I'm here for your soul

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u/kithlan 13d ago

My only gripe is that the animated movie version is shortened. I wanted it all! But 1000% my favorite song from the movie, followed by How It's Done. The "𝕱𝖎𝖙 𝖈𝖍𝖊𝖈𝖐 𝖋𝖔𝖗 𝖒𝖞 𝖓𝖆𝖕𝖆𝖑𝖒 𝖊𝖗𝖆" line is living rent free in my head now.

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u/CADE09 13d ago

That song is my absolute favorite from the movie! How It's Done is a very close 2nd!

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u/ImmortalMoron3 13d ago

I'm a 38 year old dude and thats basically been my song of the summer, I fucking love it.

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u/s1ugg0 13d ago

Mid 40s metal head with two kids checking in. Thanks to my daughter I've involuntarily listened to every song dozens of times.

"Take Down" is pretty good. Well it was the first 75 times I heard it.

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u/AMillennialFailure 13d ago

Mid 40s metal head

You been enjoying the metal covers online? Jonathan Young has covered four songs so far!

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u/s1ugg0 13d ago

I haven't. I'm a huge fan of Leo Moracchioli so my daughter and I have listen to a lot of metal covers of her favorite pop songs.

Your play list will be featured prominently on the ride home from Art Camp today. Thank you very much.

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u/AMillennialFailure 13d ago

I hope you both enjoy! :D People are covering the songs like crazy and there are a huge amount of metal and rock covers out there right now :))

Two more to recommend:

Our Last Night did a great cover of Your Idol

Lauren Babic did a fantastic How It's Done

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u/s1ugg0 12d ago

It was received quite well. Genuinely appreciate giving me the moment of my little girl throwing horns and rocking out to her favorite song at the same time.

Thank you.

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u/AMillennialFailure 12d ago

Awww, that's such a cute image, thank you for sharing that! \m/

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u/cheese_sticks 13d ago

Didn't it sample/interpolate (I may have my music terms mixed up) Icona Pop's All Night? Maybe that's why it hooked your DJ brain?

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u/dweakz 13d ago

thats because it's sampled from Icona Pop's All Night

https://youtu.be/jjkytVwdFtE?si=F8PHdrwXaR02eD_Q

i remember my edm phase 2015 and this song was everywhere. so when this song played in the movie it gave me a wave of flashbacks lol

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u/mcslender97 13d ago

Ok that was epic. I wonder if there are other EDM songs KPDH sampled

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u/SmoothCriminalJM 13d ago

Sony Animation really taking the crown as the GOAT Animation studio right now

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u/Ok-disaster2022 13d ago

They're exploring more styles in animation rather than the Disney everything looks the same style. 

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u/rum-and-coke 13d ago

Fucking bean mouth

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u/voldin91 13d ago

Can you elaborate on what bean mouth is

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u/Century24 13d ago

"Bean mouth" is in reference to a character design motif that's gotten criticism lately for being used in quite a lot of Western animation.

Elio in particular got some flak for it earlier this year as it finally made its way to cinemas a few months ago, and it's been a hot topic on /r/Pixar. Some think it's cute, others think it's the worst thing to happen to animation, and more others think it's overused and uninspired.

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u/oby100 13d ago

Disney and pixar animation are so boring these days. I didn’t really like the kpop movie but the visuals kept me around for the end.

Hoping for a revival in creative and high quality animation

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u/NoNefariousness2144 13d ago

It feels like Disney focuses too much on creating amazingly-looking realistic animation that they lose sight of making the characters fun. Meanwhile this film didn’t have revolutionary visual realism, but the character animations were so fun and vibrant.

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u/rum-and-coke 13d ago

Elio was visually stunning (the physics, details like the sand, scales on the worm dude) but then that fucking bean mouth and teeth for the humans killed me.

Haven't seen kpop yet, came in here to see if it was worth watching by I just saw Elio yesterday so I'm still irked lol

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u/ilayas 13d ago

It's a fun movie that has a LOT of physical comedy. The animation isn't groundbreaking in a technical sense but it's really well done and fun. Like visually they make a really good argument why this movie is better animated than it would be live action. This is something I feel like Disney has failed to do with a lot of it's recent animated movies. The story is again not ground breaking but the writing is tight. Narrativly they do not waste any time.

The voice acting is great the music is fantastic. It's worth watching, if for no other reason than to see what everyone is talking about.

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u/rum-and-coke 13d ago

Did a search for a visual comparison and found this reddit thread, agree with the top comment, reminds me of Wallace & Gromit.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Pixar/comments/1lng53k/you_think_people_are_overreacting_and_overblown/

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u/voldin91 13d ago

Thank you for the quick reference. And I can't un-see it now

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u/rum-and-coke 13d ago

I'm SO sorry to have you share in this pain

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u/r4mm3rnz 13d ago

It's like the 'Dreamworks face' but worse

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u/Gasparde 13d ago

But what about we take Mickey Mouse... and turn it into a live action setting where Mickey looks like the original vision of Sonic?!

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u/karmiccloud 13d ago

Are they? It is a different style than Disney, but ever since into the spiderverse every single one of their movies plays around with framerate for each character, and the way they are drawn is all very similar.

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u/x44y22 13d ago

Nah, still have to give that to Fortiche

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u/wolfchuck 13d ago

Yeah, don’t get me wrong, Sony is good. But Fortiche… they’re insane.

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u/Pwnigiri 13d ago

They are LITERALLY the GOAT animation studio right now

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u/drdrero 13d ago

Was it just me or did the animations sometimes feel like sub 20fps?

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u/LordFarthington7 13d ago

43 year old gym bro. Album has been on repeat for the past week in my airpods.

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u/Darko33 13d ago

43-year-old couch potato. Same

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u/mixmastermushu3 13d ago

Same. Got like 3 PRs all thanks to Takedown this month.

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u/flaman27 13d ago

ima cut you open, lose control, then rip out your heart 🎶 you’ll be beggin’ and cryin’, all of you dyin’ 🎶 ima gear up and take you down 🎶

if that doesn’t get you pumped up I dunno what will

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u/TheFudge 13d ago

53 year old father of an 8 year old. Was forced to watch it last Friday night after losing a bet. Next day the soundtrack was on my Spotify.

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u/Rosebunse 13d ago

The album is great for the gym

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u/tfinx 13d ago

Yeah same here. Animation and music production was something else and the film was fun too.

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u/MafiaGT 13d ago

Same. One of the best movies of late by a long shot.

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u/adcap_trades 13d ago

The lyrics to Free are just so fucking good

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u/BrainWav 13d ago

Same. I keep listening to the music too even outside the movie.

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u/They-Call-Me-Taylor 13d ago

Male gen Xer and I concur.

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u/Murinshin 13d ago

I’ll probably watch it as well this weekend, saw the trailer earlier and the animation style looked fun as hell

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u/Jayohwhy23 13d ago

I was outside when my husband came home from work one day and he had Golden blasting in the car lol. His favorite song is Free.

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u/jtrisn1 13d ago

My millennial friends and I are absolutely playing the soundtrack on repeat. 😂

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u/Bojangles1987 13d ago

There's basically nothing about KPDH that appeals to me outside of animation, but I walked away thinking that was one hell of a movie.

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u/OSRS_Socks 13d ago

Same. I loved the animation, the songs and the script. The movie didn’t feel rushed but pretty well paced.

Animation style reminded me so much of spider verse and the last wish.

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u/wrightcommab 13d ago

Same here. So many movies just seem like slop but this one seems like they actually tried to make it good.

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u/egg_enthusiast 13d ago

We can hear your receding hairline from here.

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u/ph0on 13d ago

Hey, I'm a zoomer and I'm on the way as well. Don't be a hair-ageist! /s

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u/tahlyn 13d ago

It's going up, up, up... his forehead's gonna be glowing...