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LifeDistortion 01.30.2009 02:42 PM

What kind of Netflix boy or girl are you?
 
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.

al shabbray 01.30.2009 02:43 PM

I smell atsonicpark coming...

atsonicpark 01.30.2009 02:58 PM

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.

afterthefact 01.30.2009 03:12 PM

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

Rob Instigator 01.30.2009 03:37 PM

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

afterthefact 01.30.2009 03:40 PM

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.

atsonicpark 01.30.2009 03:43 PM

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.

afterthefact 01.30.2009 03:53 PM

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.

Rob Instigator 01.30.2009 03:53 PM

or to the dollar kiosk at the supermarket.

ha!

Rob Instigator 01.30.2009 03:54 PM

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.

afterthefact 01.30.2009 03:55 PM

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.

atsonicpark 01.30.2009 04:10 PM

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.

pbradley 01.30.2009 04:12 PM

I've mostly just seen HBO miniseries on Netflix.

But I've never had a Netflix account, just friends and family.

LifeDistortion 01.30.2009 04:13 PM

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.

atsonicpark 01.30.2009 04:19 PM

The thing is, Turner and Hooch is still a million times better than all the shit those red box rental things have in 'em.

mangajunky 01.30.2009 04:32 PM

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"

afterthefact 01.30.2009 04:33 PM

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.

davenotdead 01.30.2009 04:33 PM

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

atsonicpark 01.30.2009 05:04 PM

yeah, instant watch kicks dick!

greedrex 01.30.2009 05:16 PM

i don't even know what netflix is.


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