Princess Diaries + Parent Trap + Great British Bake Off

November 28, 2018 8:17 PM

The Netflix Algorithm Wrote " The Princess Switch" Which Is Why You Should Watch It

Everything The Princess Switch Taught Me About Chicago

Every Move The Princess Switch Stole A Plot From

posted by the man of twists and turns (31 comments total)

Dialogue from the film, quoted in the Vice link:

“Someone’s crushing big time on Prince Mothballs”

That someone is probably me. I’m gonna have to trick some friends into a viewing party.
posted by armeowda at 8:36 PM on November 28, 2018 [2 favorites]

I have already seen this movie twice and it is glorious.
posted by Eyebrows McGee at 8:47 PM on November 28, 2018 [3 favorites]

So, my 9 year old son was watching this movie, and he said, unprovoked, "Dad, this movie is really bad." Very perceptive. We watched it all the way to the end.
posted by MythMaker at 8:53 PM on November 28, 2018 [12 favorites]

Chicago is home to “vulgar American divorcées.”

where's the lie?
posted by Halloween Jack at 8:55 PM on November 28, 2018

Lady Margaret, tortured by the idea of spending the rest of her life with Prince Ed, the cardboardish man to whom she is betrothed, pulls a Lindsay Lohan and begs Stacy to switch places with her for two days so that she may experience a brief stint of normalcy.

uh, pulls a Hayley Mills, if you please
posted by roger ackroyd at 9:07 PM on November 28, 2018 [26 favorites]

My kid was home sick for 3 days. Why didn't I know about this before now?
posted by k8t at 10:06 PM on November 28, 2018 [2 favorites]

45 Important Questions About 'The Princess Switch'

posted by ominous_paws at 11:01 PM on November 28, 2018 [3 favorites]

5. Is there a Netflix Christmas Movie Extended Universe now?!

I too would like to know this.
posted by Harald74 at 11:38 PM on November 28, 2018 [6 favorites]

Given that A Christmas Prince exists as a Netflix movie in this movie's universe, then... I'm going to need to sit down and work this out.
posted by ominous_paws at 12:06 AM on November 29, 2018 [6 favorites]

People know that ‘Belgravia’ is the name of the poshest district of central London, right? (After Belgrave Square, I think.)
posted by Segundus at 12:17 AM on November 29, 2018 [2 favorites]

What Netflix now needs is an AI that can throw together movies and tv series using Garry's Mod.
posted by Foci for Analysis at 2:15 AM on November 29, 2018 [8 favorites]

Is there a Netflix Christmas Movie Extended Universe now?!

looking forward to the Bright (heh. remember Bright?) crossover - "She's a baker! He's an orc! Together they will solve the biggest crime of all - FORBIDDEN PASSION."
posted by robocop is bleeding at 3:49 AM on November 29, 2018 [9 favorites]

They’re talking about Parent Trap, but of course the ‘swap places’ plot is practically archetypal. The earliest I can think of is The Man in the Iron Mask, but I wouldn’t be shocked to hear that there’s a set of clay tablets relating how Gilgamesh and Enkidu swapped places - with hilarious consequences!
posted by Segundus at 4:07 AM on November 29, 2018 [13 favorites]

23. Does every princess movie use the same twinkly gazebo?

That gazebo is coterminous with all points in time and space. This is Occult Truths 101, listmaker!

"She's a baker! He's an orc! Together they will solve the biggest crime of all - FORBIDDEN PASSION."

I think you mean FORBIDDEN PASSIONFRUIT PURÉE WITH GROUND PISTACHIOS AS A NICE FILLING. THE JUDGES THOUGHT IT INNOVATIVE, ALTHOUGH STILL FORBIDDEN.
posted by GenjiandProust at 4:21 AM on November 29, 2018 [25 favorites]

Chicago is home to “vulgar American divorcées.”

Mamet's really let his career slide, eh?

Is there a Netflix Christmas Movie Extended Universe now?!

Waiting for the Netflix CMEU/Hallmark Channel Christmas Movie Extended Universe crossover.
posted by octobersurprise at 6:34 AM on November 29, 2018

The A Christmas Prince sequel (about the royal wedding) drops tomorrow, I believe! And from the promos, they have leaned into the stuff the internet found the most enjoyably ridiculous from the first one.
posted by Eyebrows McGee at 6:51 AM on November 29, 2018 [1 favorite]

Is this 2018's Pottersville?
posted by graventy at 7:03 AM on November 29, 2018

Is this 2018's Pottersville?

This is 2018; it's all Pottersville. Just Pottersville, from here to the horizon in every direction.
posted by penduluum at 7:41 AM on November 29, 2018 [1 favorite]

What Netflix now needs is an AI that can throw together movies and tv series using Garry's Mod.

I would sacrifice everything in this world and the next to get a Repercussions of Evil series.
posted by FatherDagon at 8:58 AM on November 29, 2018

People know that ‘Belgravia’ is the name of the poshest district of central London, right?

Don't worry, Buzzfeed's got you covered: A Guide To All The Fictional Vaguely European Countries That End In VIA
posted by brainmouse at 9:14 AM on November 29, 2018 [1 favorite]

I enjoyed this movie SO much, even though that pink suit was offensively badly fitting and the fake jewels were designed to look extra fake and clearly they were trolling bakers with half of it. I need way more of this trash.
posted by jeather at 9:16 AM on November 29, 2018 [1 favorite]

I'm so disappointed in the linked article. Going by the title and the use of algorithm, I assumed this was the first AI-written and produced movie. That's such an unfair tease.
posted by sardonyx at 10:13 AM on November 29, 2018 [6 favorites]

I will have to keep my 7 year old daughter far, far away from this or else I fear she will watch it continuously, forgetting to eat or sleep, until her brains run out of her ears.
posted by It's Never Lurgi at 10:26 AM on November 29, 2018

People know that ‘Belgravia’ is the name of the poshest district of central London, right?

Would rather fancy myself a citizen of Fitzrovia, myself.
posted by octobersurprise at 11:28 AM on November 29, 2018

but I wouldn’t be shocked to hear that there’s a set of clay tablets relating how Gilgamesh and Enkidu swapped places - with hilarious consequences!

wait ok I would watch this immediately
posted by numaner at 11:52 AM on November 29, 2018 [4 favorites]

How does it compare to Sunspring?
posted by thedward at 12:00 PM on November 29, 2018

45 Important Questions About 'The Princess Switch'

i really did consider watching this movie but after reading this i knew it was a good idea not to because i would be so upset about like at least half of those questions.
posted by numaner at 12:00 PM on November 29, 2018 [1 favorite]

WE TRAINED A NEURAL NET ON 10,000 HOURS OF CHRISTMAS PRINCESS MOVIES AND THIS IS THE SCRIPT IT CAME UP WITH
posted by rum-soaked space hobo at 3:14 PM on November 29, 2018 [1 favorite]

I posted it to FanFare as part of the Holiday Movie Club.

I couldn't help myself.
posted by the man of twists and turns at 3:23 PM on November 29, 2018 [1 favorite]

The earliest I can think of is The Man in the Iron Mask, but I wouldn’t be shocked to hear that there’s a set of clay tablets relating how Gilgamesh and Enkidu swapped places - with hilarious consequences!

The earliest swap story I know is Vice Versa: A Lesson to Fathers (1882) about a boarding school boy and a business dad who switch places because of a magic stone from India (because Victorians).
posted by mmmbacon at 8:59 AM on November 30, 2018

There are long-lost twins who switch places in at least one Roman comedy, too.
posted by chaiminda at 3:48 PM on November 30, 2018 [1 favorite]