Good day to you all gentle readers of filth and porn. Recently on Ooh Sometimes, aside from various attempts at doing videos on games, we had also been writing about Oscar Bait films, all hoping to win the glorious accolades from themselves.

However, this time we focus on something which is only most likely to win a piece of leftover tin foil used for cooking Christmas dinner in; Netflix’s The Ridiculous 6, a comedy-wannabe about stuff in the Wild West.

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COME BACK!!!

Ok, Ok, I get it.

Just at the mere mention of that pile of rotten socks, you’re already drinking battery acid and removing your eyes with spoons to avoid reading any more. I understand, I really do. But stick with me on this one and you will reach a weird conclusion as to why The RIdiculous 6 has been actually one of the best things to happen to Netflix.

This is the point where you’re remarking “Wha….Why?” in a confused daze.

Well let me explain all. With this film, a result of a deal struck between Netflix and Adam Sandler’s production company to produce original content for the streaming giant for at least 4 films so, Netflix are on the hook for even more of these monstrosities. And surely they will be crying at this.

After all, the signs of it being complete b*llocks are there just after the opening credits proclaim the film is available in 4K.

Look, it’s “flying low” (a slightly better joke than the names used in the film….)

Our lovable rascal Adam Sandler plays an expert white-man knife bloke raised by indians named Tommy or White Knife (White Shite would be better here, so that’s what I’m going with for the rest of this post). He’s about to get hitched to an attractive Native American Indian woman (who probably wouldn’t go for Sandler in real life) who goes by the name of Smoking Fox. Though at one point she’s also referred to as “Poca-hot-tits”… Oh yes, you already see the level of intelligence required here for this epic.

White Shite has an unexpected run-in with Nick Nolte who clearly had free time on his hands. Sorry, that should read; Nick Nolte who tells our mono-toned hero that he’s his not-dead dad before being led off at gunpoint by Danny Trejo over some money buried somewhere next to a singing windmill or something. This sets off White Shite on an epic quest, to raise the money himself and pay off Danny Trejo, even if he becomes the Wild West’s version of Robin Hood.

And so we come to the crucial hook of the film. Get ready to laugh…..

Jackass.

White Shite is united with five brothers from other mothers he never knew, starting with Rob Schneider. Before you ask, no, I don’t think Rob has ever gotten any more work now away from Sandler’s productions either. This time, he’s being a mexican, in only a mildly racist way so that’s OK. Rob’s mexican character has a best friend and secret weapon is a donkey who apparently communicates that he really likes someone by completely shitting himself. In case you’re wondering, this got a smile of out me, I have to confess.

By the way ladies, in case you wondered what happened to the hunky chap from Twilight, Taylor Lautner (had to look up who it was, still not watched it…) well this film is your answer as here, he plays a retarded hillbilly with bad teeth. Ladies, he’s still available! I wish I could have been more gracious. But as this film is striking for the lowest of the lowest of the lowest of the low in terms of cerebral activity among it’s audience, so must I. Especially as the only laugh came from what Lautner did in one scene which can only be described as a genuine what the f*ck moment; swinging around on a noose (around his neck no less) having fun while people are horrified below.

The laugh came more from astonishment and a complete lack of belief of what I was seeing more than anything. I also couldn’t believe that Mark Twain was turned into a rapper or what I believe was supposed to be a mockery of the famous author. The slight detour of how Baseball was created and played out for the first time, was just dire. Perhaps disbelief is the best way to sum up a lot of what happens in all honesty.

This is my boomstick…I wish I watching Evil Dead instead….

The other brothers are there to fill out the time with I guess funny bits, but the one surprise entry on the brother team to see was Terry Crews. Why he turned up in this role, aside from possibly easy money, I don’t know. But maybe only Terry Crews would ever be able to pull off the “playing the piano with his penis” gag. Nope, you read it right. It’s in there.

I actually didn’t get why some of the other actors turned up for this either; Nick Nolte, I know he’s had his issues but at times, he actually seemed like he was acting in a real film. Harvey Keitel clearly doesn’t need to be here as the rotten smiling saloon owner who dies at the hand of Rob Schneider. Steve Buschemi also has been involved in a lot better productions too, so perhaps for all these actors, it was a chance to get some extra spending money to blow in Vegas one evening.

The biggest amazement was how you cannot shake the feeling that the donkey was the star of the film. Seriously he seemed to give more emotion than Sandler who I guess tried to take the p*ss with a gravely voice maintained throughout and be all noble or something, but…..sigh….ah come on, why even attempt to critique it. If Adam Sandler could pull off getting money from Netflix like this after the trash he’s brought out, good luck to him. Maybe that’s what I should do…..write a terrible script and mail it over, see if that can be one of Netflix’s next originals….

Remember everyone, they got paid for this….

So the film is awful, a mess even. I was even astonished that at times, it tried to shove in some attempts at drama at the end. It actually didn’t even make sense with the rest of the film in terms of tone, and would anyone actually have cared about what happened to anyone? In essence, quite early on, this is one of the best car crashes of a film I’ve seen in 2016.

But remember, I actually stated this may have been one of the best things to happen to Netflix earlier and here is why.

It got people talking about it and watching it on Netflix which is what they want.

For starters on the talking front, there was walkoffs from the set after the cast were getting upset with the script being racist and how Native American Indians were being portrayed (Those names used will not have helped!). This even hit news networks as you can see from this clip from CNN below;

While mocking a particular group is not new for the purposes of comedy and many times has been used to great effect, it seems this was one step too far for people working on set. Sandler also had complete creative control for this too. Which means, there was no-one to stop him at any point to say, hang on a minute, isn’t this a bit crap? It’s also not the first time this came up when regarding one of his company’s productions in the past, so wouldn’t people know what they are getting themselves into on both sides of the screen?

And you know what? It doesn’t seem to matter at all.

Netflix Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos stated that upon release for the first 30 days, it was at the number one spot for the territories that they were operating in. For a complete flop, that actually is pretty impressive going, even if we won’t know the complete details of said figures. It could be just covering up for their expenditure, but to even say that, it raises the eyebrow.

After all the meh surrounding this production, was it just the fact that everyone flocked to it, just to see how truly awful it could be? We all love to stop and gawk at something bad and this sure would be one of those things.

This of course would play right into Netflix’s hands as people would of course need a free trial or a subscription to watch. With people focusing on their platform for the two god awful hours this was, it took away from something else people may have watched and so forth. and that will play right into their hands when the next one comes along. After this, who wouldn’t want to see how much lower the production company can truly sink?

It’s kind of the same power that Internet Trolls have, doing things that no one would in their right mind agree with or want, but it’s out there and like moths to a flame, we come slowly back towards the light for more. In turn, Netflix take our money for it.