2025-09-26
40 分钟This is The Guardian.
What is the Netflix algorithm done to our films?
By Phil Hode.
Read by Adam Sims.
When the annals of 2025 at the movies are written, no one will remember the electric state.
The film, a sci-fi comic book adaptation,
is set in a world in which sentient robots have lost a war with humans.
Netflix blew a reported $320 million on it, making it the 14th most expensive film ever made.
But it tanked.
Though the electric state initially claimed the number one spot on the streamer,
viewers quickly lost interest.
Today, it doesn't even feature in the company's top 20 most viewed films,
a shocking performance for its most expensive production to date.
It became just another anonymous mockbuster,
crammed with the over-familiar flashy signifiers of big-screen filmmaking.
A Spielbergian childhood quest, a Mad Max post-apocalyptic wasteland,
fallout-style retrofuturistic trimmings.
Another way of classifying the electric state is as an example of the algorithm movie.
the kind of generic product that clogs up streaming platforms and seems designed to appeal to the broadest audience possible.
Directors Anthony and Joe Russo,