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Sweet November gets a stethoscope-assisted review from Rob Anderson

Selective Viewing groups six films into a very particular genre, from The Bucket List to P.S. I Love You.

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Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.

A movie character who’s dying but LOVES the attention

Rob Anderson puts on a stethoscope, then questions the romantic logic of spending your remaining time trying to improve an advertising executive. His subject is Sweet November, with Charlize Theron as Sara and Keanu Reeves as Nelson, the man she takes on as a monthlong project.

The recap finds plenty to work with: an upside-down ice cream cone, a hidden medicine cabinet and Nelson serenading Sara in a white tuxedo. Anderson's target is the film's elaborate version of romantic quirkiness. Viewers pick up on the peculiar hot-dog advertisement, while others remember finding the movie romantic when they were teenagers.

"A movie character who's dying but LOVES the attention" was the most-watched of his two uploads this week, reaching about 193,000 views. It also has the most momentum right now. The broader episode, "I watched movies where they take FOREVER to die | Selective Viewing with Rob Anderson," builds a whole collection around that premise, bringing Sweet November together with The Bucket List, A Walk To Remember, Love Story, The Fault In Our Stars and P.S. I Love You.

The channel added 2,000 subscribers over the week. Across the nearby movie-and-TV commentary channels, its weekly views gain was among the strongest, with In Deep Geek drawing a similar weekly audience and Let Me Explain having a larger week. Away from the film melodrama, Anderson's animal-shaped handbag collection remains his third-busiest upload right now: a distinctly different kind of character study.

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What viewers say

This was so romantic to teenager me. I had issues 😅
@FarxiyoMuqtaar-vw4hySee it on YouTube
That hot dog ad looked very AI generated but this was before that was a thing so A HUMAN PAINTED THAT, DELIBERATELY
@KipDrordy-t4cSee it on YouTube
They were together in the devil's advocate, too. Lol. I have a feeling devil's advocate is an exponentially better movie than this is. Lol
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