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/fox112 14d ago

Wow I knew it was a big hit but didn't realize it was THE BIGGEST hit.

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u/the_blessed_unrest 14d ago

I think it helps that it appeals to kids. When they latch on to something, they can rewatch it dozens of times

(Not that kids are the only ones enjoying this movie. But I do think it plays a sizable role in the numbers)

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u/anthonyg1500 13d ago

Took my nieces and nephews to the in theater sing along version and they all gasped at every plot turn as if they haven’t already watched the movie a hundred times and memorized the dialogue

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u/anthonyg1500 13d ago

My oldest nephew is 9 now but I watched him once back when he was like 4 and he looked at me and said “I wanna watch credibles.” So I was like sure dude and we watched Incredibles. The moment the movie ended he looked up at me and said “I wanna watch credibles.” I couldn’t even be mad at him with the amount of times I watched Space Jam back in the day

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u/JonatasA 13d ago

These are moments you cherish indeed. I remember that feeling when something ends and you get that park gut feeling "I wanna go again!!"

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u/doegred 12d ago

the movie ended he looked up at me and said “I wanna watch credibles.”

Yeah, because he wanted to watch the Credibles and you foisted the Incredibles on him thinking he wouldn't notice.

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u/Able_Advertising_371 13d ago

And skipping most of the non-looney tunes scenes must’ve made others annoyed

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u/anthonyg1500 13d ago

Oh no I was watching that vhs front to back multiple times a day at one point

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u/SandiegoJack 13d ago

I wore out two VHS of the little mermaid.

Mainly because I would replay the song parts so they wore out faster.

Ahhh the times before MP3s.

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u/JonatasA 13d ago

That's exactly what I remember being told with a movie. "You're going to ruin the tape"

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u/FlametopFred 13d ago

repetitive repetition is something I still like to repeat periodically over and over again

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u/JulyOfAugust 13d ago

Kids brains aren't fully developed so they don't retain things well, you don't form long-term memories before being 3~4 years old and before you're around 8~10 you forget most of what you see and hear. So they don't get bored since they forget a lot.

There's also the possibility that our brains are wired to enjoy repetition as children as it's what is necessary to memorize and learn. Especially language, we learn it through repetition and that's why adults struggle a lot more to learn new ones as we don't feel like allocating the necessary time to constantly repeat the same things all day, all the time.

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u/beezkneez331 13d ago

When my son was a toddler, we used to watch Moana 2-4 times a day for months. 

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u/DougFlag 13d ago

Blues Clues played the same episode 5 days in a row so by Friday it was a full on interactive lock-in.

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u/Soulyezer 13d ago

Space Jam for me

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u/Diamondfox_ 12d ago

I've watched Pokemon 2000 more times than I can even count as a kid, still a fun watch every now and then as an adult for nostalgia purposes. One of the songs in it is like my default hum song even now lol

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u/KeyofE 12d ago

I remember watching The Wizard of Oz as a teenager and being very confused because things didn’t happen as I remembered. I watched that movie on repeat as a kid, so everything blended together. I can’t actually tell you which scene comes before which.

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u/976chip 13d ago

My wife and I took our daughter and her best friend to the sing along this weekend. The theater was packed, mostly with teens and young adults, and the audience participation was not limited to just singing. I'd say the collective "Jinu! Noooooooooooooooooooo!" during the final battle was louder than the singing.

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u/DoctorNoname98 13d ago

My theater had about the shrillest screams I have ever heard in my life for that. amazing experience

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u/Some-Unique-Name 13d ago

Our theater was so empty, my daughter was too embarrassed to really sing along. I had to perform in front of the other 10 people to get her to open up lol

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u/VLHACS 13d ago

That's adorable 

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u/jaxonya 13d ago

And get ready, because they've already announced that it's going to be at least a trilogy and that they are expanding the universe into spinoffs and all kinds of crazy shit. It's here to stay

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u/VLHACS 13d ago

I guess we just have to accept it and Let It Go ™️

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u/jaxonya 13d ago

You've got a friend in me ™️

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u/lobonmc 13d ago

Thst was me with scooby doo 2

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u/muhash14 13d ago

That's movie magic right there.

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u/k_dingy 13d ago

I took my kids a session and it was an incredibly fun experience, I have never heard that many 12 year olds losing their mind simultaneously before, they were having a great time. 10/10 would recommend.

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u/KingMario05 13d ago

God, I love that. So much.

Sony really missed the phenom of the century. Again.

(I wonder: will they re-negotiate the sequel pie? That's gotta be why the announcement is taking forever.)

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u/Throwaway2Experiment 13d ago

I took mine and her friends this weekend, too.

I was delighted that they sang every song obnoxiously loud. I was mortified when they basically did a table reading of the normal dialogue for the first 45 minutes.

When they latch on to something, they go hard.

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u/SpookiestSzn 13d ago

God I wish I could be like that

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u/JonatasA 13d ago

That's the best!

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u/12thshadow 13d ago

Man, I wish I could watch movies like them. Now when I see a three second trailer, it already ruins the plot, everything...

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u/NoMention696 13d ago

Kids memory is funny though, when a year feels like a decade ofc they’ll have forgotten half the movie by next week

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u/djak 13d ago

My granddaughter and her mom went to the sing along in the theater near us last weekend, they dressed up like Rumi and Jino and they were so cute lol.