By Here’s a partially true fact about me: If someone wants to be my friend, they have to watch Joseph Khan’s Detention. If I spend any amount of time with a person and they haven’t seen it, I hound them about it until they do. Before, I needed to pull out my Blu-ray and invite them over for movie night and whatnot.
But now I don’t have to, because Detention is on Netflix. If you haven’t seen it (and let’s face it: you probably haven’t), then you are under new marching orders. Whatever you thought you were going to be doing today is no longer your top priority. Watching Detention is.
Detention is also one of the only films I definitely underrated back when I reviewed it. (That score was posted under our older, much stricter system. My decision to cut to go with an 89 was based on the fact that I think the editing during some of the fights isn’t great and the end cuts to black about half a second too soon. (We were really strict back then.)) Were I to review it today, it would be at least five points higher. If such a thing were to exist, it would be a personal 100.
What I’m trying to say is that it’s probably my favorite movie ever made. And if you don’t like it, then we really can’t be friends. You don’t have to love it as much as I do (that may not be possible anyway), but anyone who can’t appreciate its brilliance is pretty much definitely a bad person.
(How’s that for raising expectations, huh?)
Also, other things were added, but none of them matter, not even Spaceballs. But if you’re curious, you can find the list below.
- 1492: Conquest of Paradise
- 3 Ninjas: High Noon At Mega Mountain
- 3 Ninjas: Kick Back
- 3 Ninjas: Knuckle Up
- 30 for 30: Hillsborough
- 30 for 30: White, Blue and White
- A Price Above Rubies
- A Simple Plan
- A Year in Burgundy
- Alistair MacLean’s Air Force One is Down
- All the Light in the Sky
- American Experience: 1964
- American Experience: Butch Cassidy and…
- An Animal #$*% My Vacation!
- Anaconda
- Anastasia
- Antisocial
- Assassination
- Auction Hunters: Season 2
- Audrey Rose
- Axel: The Biggest Little Hero
- Barbershop 2: Back in Business
- Being Mary Jane
- Being Mary Jane: Season 1
- Blood Glacier
- Bloodsport
- Blue Ruin
- BoJack Auditions for Frank Underwood
- BoJack Auditions for Horse Beast
- BoJack Auditions for Larry
- BoJack Horseman
- BoJack Horseman: Season 1
- Boys and Girls
- Brother’s Shadow
- Californication: Season 1
- Californication: Season 2
- Californication: Season 3
- Californication: Season 4
- Californication: Season 5
- Californication: Season 6
- Californication: Season 7
- Cesar’s Last Fast
- Chasing UFOs: Season 1
- Chuck & Buck
- Citizen Koch
- Comedy Warriors: Healing Through Humor
- Cool Runnings
- Count Yorga, Vampire
- Criminal Minds: Season 1
- Criminal Minds: Season 2
- Criminal Minds: Season 3
- Criminal Minds: Season 4
- Criminal Minds: Season 5
- Criminal Minds: Season 6
- Criminal Minds: Season 7
- Criminal Minds: Season 8
- Criminal Minds: Season 9
- Crocodile Dundee
- D3: The Mighty Ducks
- Dark Space
- Dead Silence
- Death Warrant
- Detention
- Dhoom:3
- Doomsday Preppers: Season 1
- Doomsday Preppers: Season 2
- Doomsday Preppers: Season 3
- Dread
- Drones
- Duplex
- Eddie Pepitone: In Ruins
- Escape from Alcatraz
- Event Horizon
- Eve’s Bayou
- Eye for an Eye
- Fairy Tale: A True Story
- Fashion
- FernGully: The Last Rainforest
- Fido
- Flight of the Intruder
- Flubber
- Forces of Nature
- Foyle’s War: Series 7
- From Dusk Till Dawn
- From Dusk Till Dawn: Season 1
- Ghost in the Shell: Arise
- Ghost in the Shell: Arise: Season 1
- Girl Rising
- Girlfight
- Go for Sisters
- Good Morning, Vietnam
- Great Expectations
- Grosse Pointe Blank
- Guess Who
- Gurren Lagann
- Gurren Lagann: Season 1
- Hamlet and Hutch
- Happy Valley: Series 1
- Hard Rain
- Have You Met My Ghoulfriend?
- Hinterland
- Hinterland: Season 1
- Hoodwinked
- Horses of God
- Horsin’ Around
- Hugo
- I Am
- I Hate Luv Storys
- I Know That Voice
- Ice Castles
- In & Out
- In the Name of the King 3
- Ink Master: Season 2
- Inside: Pepsico
- Invaders From Mars
- Invasion of the Body Snatchers
- Jerry Maguire
- Jim Jefferies: BARE
- K-19: The Widowmaker
- Kill Theory
- Kitten Party
- Last Tango in Halifax: Season 2
- Lords of Dogtown
- Losing Isaiah
- Love
- Midsomer Murders: Series 14
- Midsomer Murders: Series 15
- Mirage Men
- Mission Blue
- Monkey Shines
- Mr. Mom
- Multiplicity
- Naked Ambition: An R-Rated Look…
- Noragami
- Note to Self An Officer and a Gentleman
- Old Yeller
- Once Upon a Time: Season 3
- Ordinary People
- Parenthood: Season 5
- Parts Per Billion
- Penny Dreadful
- Pint-Sized Preachers
- Pleased To Meet Me
- Poetic Justice
- Raajneeti
- Revenge: Season 3
- Rosemary & Thyme
- Rosemary & Thyme: Series 1
- Rosemary & Thyme: Series 2
- Rosemary & Thyme: Series 3
- Rowdy Rathore
- Saving Silverman
- School of Rock
- Serial Killer Culture
- She’s the One
- Sling Blade
- Small Apartments
- Snow Day
- Somebody’s Child
- Space Warriors
- Spaceballs
- State of Emergency
- Step into Liquid
- Strange Hill High: Season 2
- Strawberry Shortcake: Berry Bitty Adventures: Season 2
- Strawberry Shortcake: Berry Bitty Adventures: Season 3
- Sucker Punch
- Summer Rental
- Swan Princess: A Royal Family Tale
- Swiss Family Robinson
- Taboo
- Taboo: Season 9
- Teenage The Way Back
- Tere Naal Love Ho Gaya
- Test
- Thanks for Sharing
- The Addams Family
- The Assets
- The Believers
- The Best of Men
- The Blue Lagoon
- The Chef, the Actor, the Scoundrel
- The Dick Knost Show
- The Elephant Man
- The Final
- The Forsyte Saga
- The Forsyte Saga: Series 1
- The Forsyte Saga: Series 2
- The Ghost and the Darkness
- The Graves
- The Greatest Show on Earth
- The Grey Zone
- The Hamiltons
- The Horror Show
- The Incredible Dr. Pol
- The Incredible Dr. Pol: Season 1
- The Incredible Dr. Pol: Season 2
- The Lair of the White Worm
- The League: Season 5
- The Machine
- The Motel Life
- The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking
- The Next Space Race
- The Presidio
- The Protector 2
- The Reeds
- The Return of Count Yorga
- The Tortured
- The Unbelievers
- The Unknown Known
- The Vampire Lovers
- There Will Be Blood
- Thou Shalt Laugh
- Thou Shalt Laugh 2: The Deuce
- Unrest
- Vampire in Brooklyn
- Vanishing Pearls
- Varsity Blues
- War of the Worlds: Goliath
- We Always Lie to Strangers
- Weird or What?: Season 2
- Weird or What?: Season 3
- When I Saw You
- Where the Trail Ends
- Whitewash
- Wicked Tuna: Season 1
- Wicked Tuna: Season 2
- Wildest Arctic
- Wildest India
- Wildest Indochina: Season 1
- Wildest Islands: Season 1
- Wildest Islands: Season 2
- Wildest Latin America: Season 1
- Will Penny
- Yangsi
- Young
- Young Sherlock Holmes
- Zero Hour: Season 1
- Zero Hour: Season 2
- Zero Hour: Season 3
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Weekly Netflix Now Awards
Most Likely to be Watched First
Detention
Most Likely to be Rewatched First
Detention
Something Other Than Detention
Blue Ruin
Best School-Centric Movie That Isn’t Detention
School of Rock
Most Likely to Never Leave My Queue
Proxy
Wide Release Meant to be Seen via Netflix Instant
Flubber
Limited Release Meant to be Seen via Netflix Instant
Detention
Best Thing That Isn’t a Movie
Bojack Horseman
How Does This Exist?
In the Name of the King 3
Most Unsettling Name
Serial Killer Culture
Best Name
Detention