01.30.2009, 02:42 PM | #1 |
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So I've been getting Netflix for about four years and I think its pretty damn great, and I take it probobly many if not most of you are also members. So I have a few questions:
1. What do mostly rent on Netflix? A. New Releases B. Indie and/or forgein flims C. Televison series D. "I'm not going to be a member till you can rent porn." 2.How many DVDs do you get at a time? 3. How long do you keep your movies? Do you watch them the minute they arrive or do you put it at the bottom of your mail, don't see if for days or weeks, until you discover that you have a movie at home and didn't realize you had it? 4. List all the DVDs currently in your queue. Can't think of anything else to ask if you think of more questions feel free to contribute them. |
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01.30.2009, 02:43 PM | #2 |
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I smell atsonicpark coming...
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01.30.2009, 02:58 PM | #3 |
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1. I mainly rent old movies I may have missed or wish to see again. Most foreign movies, I've already bought non-region-1 copies of if they interest me. Though I still rent the occasional movie I've missed, I usually try to buy ones from companies I like (Media Blasters, Anchor Bay, and so on).
2. 8 at a time. Me and my friend share the same account, and he watches lots of TV shows and art documentaries for his school stuff, so really only half the thing is my movies, and yes I usually watch 'em right away if I can. 3. I watch them when they arrive, but they all arrive at different times, but we usually get 12-16 movies a week. 4. Well, mine's always maxed out at 500. Here's the first few in my queue that aren't tv shows or art documentaries (which, again, I don't rent): Party 7 The Last Seduction Screwed Battleship Potekmin Man with the Movie Camera Family Portraits: A Trilogy of America (featuring "Cutting Moments") Benny's Video Thin Blue Line Nails People Who Do Noise Dynamic1: Best of DavidLynch.com Totally Fucked Up Living End Cure American Movie Where A Good Man Goes Hero Never Dies Running Out of Time In a Glass Cage Full Contact Black Roses No. 3 Black Roses Eye in the Sky XTRO Samaritan Girl 3-Iron The Bow Time Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring Buffalo '66 Butterfly Kiss Jubilee Anatomy of Hell Frontier Dear Pillow 2046 Days of Being Wild Happy Together In the Mood For Love The Hidden Werckmeister Harmonies The Worst Horror Movie Ever Made Strip Nude for your Killer Pierrot Le Fou Perth Following Marebito Sisters Decasia Beast Cops Zombie 3 What Have You Done to Solange? Just Before Dawn Splatter University Horror House on Highway 5 Martin Eyes of a Stranger King of the Ants Delicatessen Slide Effects Hard Rock Zombies Geek Maggot Bingo Mutilation Man Lady Terminator A Zed and Two Noughts Dr. Otto and the Riddle of the Gloom Beam Munchie Ninja Supremo Killer Nun Vigilante Blood Mania Firecracker Death Bed: Bed that Eats Lucker the Necrophagus Scalps Delirium Mighty Peking Man Paris, Texas Baraka Maitresse In My Skin School of the Holy Beast Man, Woman, and the Wall Accion Mutante Cannibal The Hazing The Fifth Cord The Killer Must Kill Again Forbidden Photos of a Lady Above Suspicion Night Train Murders Picnic at Hanging Rock Cannibal Man All the Colors of the Dark Your Vice is a Locked Room Case of the Scorpion's Tail Strange Wrath of Mrs. Wardh Case of the Bloody Iris Don't Go Near the Park Glass Dolls Slaughter Hotel Bloodstained Shadow My Dear Killer Spasmo House with the Laughing Windows Stagefright Seven Deaths in the Cat's Eye Photos of Gioia Who Saw Her Die? Black Belly of the Tarantula Pyjama Girl Case Sister of Ursula Trouble Every Day Bad Johnny Suede Tuvalu Slacker Hardcore Mirror Bad Boy Bubby Baxter L'Ennui Mala Noche Straight to Hell Love and Pop Alucarda Belly of an Architect Element of Crime Odd One Dies Sympathy for the Underdog Hana and Alice Chuck and Buck Wesley Willis: Daddy of Rock N Roll One Take Only Spider Forest Curdled + every Herzog film not available on instant watch or that I haven't already seen + every Troma film on Netflix I haven't seen Then the rest are tv shows and art docs and other stuff my friend watches. |
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01.30.2009, 03:12 PM | #4 |
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1. B, plus some movies my wife and kid will like.
2. 3 at a time. 3. I typically try and watch them and send them out as soon as possible, but I've been known to keep movies for weeks. 4. Coming in the mail tomorrow: Grey Gardens Into The Wild At Home: Sawdust and Tinsel In Queue: Crime and Punishment Run, Fatboy, Run The Band's Visit Radiohead: Logical Emotions Inside The Living Body Through a Glass Darkly Tokyo Drifter Son of Rambow Metropolis Autism: The Musical The Buisness of Being Born Best of The Muppet Show: Peter Sellars Ducktales: Vol 1: Disc 1 Ducktales: Vol 1: Disc 2 Ducktales: Vol 1: Disc 3 Chip 'n' Dale Rescue Rangers: Vol 1: Disc 1 Chip 'n' Dale Rescue Rangers: Vol 1: Disc 2 Chip 'n' Dale Rescue Rangers: Vol 1: Disc 3 Radio Days Cassandra's Dream My Night At Maud's Bob Le Flambeur The Dinner Game Chronos Drift The Sea Inside Illusion What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? Scenes From a Marriage Time Out Parenthood Yojimbo Django Sanjuro Seven Samurai Children of Paradise The Squid and The Whale Junebug Flow: For The Love Of Water Cheech and Chong's The Corsican Brothers Weekend The Seventh Seal Lost Boys Of Sudan The Assination of Jesse James There Will Be Blood Baraka
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01.30.2009, 03:37 PM | #5 |
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my ex-wife had Netflix forever. she was a big movie buff. I have never had it for myself.
do not have hours to devote to movie watchin
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01.30.2009, 03:40 PM | #6 |
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Contrary to popular belief, Netflix is not just for those people who want to watch movies all the time. Don't let atsonicpark fool you. You can just get a queue of movies you want to watch, and watch them at your leisure, without having to worry about when it needs to get back.
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01.30.2009, 03:43 PM | #7 |
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Yeah, but why would someone pay $16 or so a month and just sit on 3 movies or whatever for a month? The main reason people get netflix is to watch (or, uh, whatever people do with movies) as many movies as quickly as possible and send them back and get more as quickly as possible. Otherwise, they'd just go to a rental store, if any still exist, and pay $3 per movie or whatever.
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01.30.2009, 03:53 PM | #8 |
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I'm not saying it's not ideal for watching tons of movies, but you can pay less than $10 for a package of one movie at a time, and if you only get 3 or 4 a month out of it, I don't know if you ever rent from places like Blockbuster, but that's one heck of a deal, fella.
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or to the dollar kiosk at the supermarket.
ha!
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i never rent movies. My g/f will go to hollywood if she wants to wathc a recent release.
I hate spending time in hollywood or blockbuster. it irritates me.
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01.30.2009, 03:55 PM | #11 |
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Yeah, but those dollar things they put everywhere nowadays piss me off, because not only are you usually standing there FOREVER while some old lady returns 3 movies at a rate of 4 minutes each, but they don't have a great selection, and a lot of times they don't even have the movies that the sign says they have. Plus, I procrastinate horribly, so I don't like the idea of a dollar a day.
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01.30.2009, 04:10 PM | #12 |
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We don't have a Blockbuster here. It went out of business. We do have a few of those dollar machines; unfortunately, they stock shit movies.
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01.30.2009, 04:12 PM | #13 |
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I've mostly just seen HBO miniseries on Netflix.
But I've never had a Netflix account, just friends and family. |
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01.30.2009, 04:13 PM | #14 |
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My local supermarket has movies to rent to, but I'm not intrested in renting "Turner & Hooch", or some other mostly family friendly fare. And such a limited selection of films.
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01.30.2009, 04:19 PM | #15 |
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The thing is, Turner and Hooch is still a million times better than all the shit those red box rental things have in 'em.
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01.30.2009, 04:32 PM | #16 |
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Netflix on demand - I watched all three seasons of the new Doctor Who that was available on there - I've also been watching a lot of documentaries and old movies like "It Happened One Night"
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Ah, yes, the Watch Instantly feature is nice, now that they have decent stuff there. It used to be only old movies, 80's comedies, and the occasional good movie.
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01.30.2009, 04:33 PM | #18 |
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1. What do mostly rent on Netflix? mostly indie/foreign but sometimes a+c
A. New Releases B. Indie and/or forgein flims C. Televison series D. "I'm not going to be a member till you can rent porn." 2.How many DVDs do you get at a time? 1 3. How long do you keep your movies? Do you watch them the minute they arrive or do you put it at the bottom of your mail, don't see if for days or weeks, until you discover that you have a movie at home and didn't realize you had it? usually watch it right away or within a few days 4. List all the DVDs currently in your queue. at home : Porco Rosso Queue: 96 of them (5 are inavailable because unknown 68 in the instant queue
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yeah, instant watch kicks dick!
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01.30.2009, 05:16 PM | #20 |
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i don't even know what netflix is.
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