Netflix

BDx13 - 1-5-2007 at 04:51 PM

i got a gift certificate for netflix for christmas. 1 dvd at a time, unlimited. seems like a good deal, but we'll see how it goes. i started my queue last friday night and didn't get my first dvd until today. holidays and gerry ford and all that i hope. anyway, the disc is beat to hell, so it better play.

here's the list i've put together. more documentaries than i expected. i wanna check out some older movies, too. stuff from the 60s or westerns or shit i never would have watched when i was younger. any suggestions?

Nacho Libre
March of the Penguins
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Devil's Playground
The Remains of the Day
Howards End
Terror: The Living Proof
The Weather Man
Who Killed the Electric Car?
Alfie
The Magnificent Seven
The Thomas Crown Affair
Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior
Flogging Molly: Whiskey on a Sunday
An Inconvenient Truth
Almost Round Three: The Almost Video
Jesus Camp
V for Vendetta
On the Road with the Dropkick Murphys

Jason the Magnificent - 1-5-2007 at 05:14 PM

Duane, add me as your friend....i think theres others on here too...maybe a thread with other emails pertaining to netflix...ngsrecords@comcast.net you can get recommendations see what other people have watched and liked etc etc...the more friends the better.

The cool thing with netflix is the more movies you review, it will make "smart" picks of movies you might like based on your reviews of other movies. This also works well with having friends on their because based on your reviews and theirs it'll tell you what % of similar taste you have with certain friends and is also usefull in helping choose. I have like 200 movies in my que right now, quite a few of these were from browsing through friends que's and already watched lists.

You might not be close to a shipment center which might be the problem with your long wait...the problem with 1 dvd is by the time you send it back and get the next one it is going to take 4-5 days in transit from you to them so you're only going to be getting 5 dvd's a month roughly. When you have the three at a time, you can kind of cylce it so you get a new dvd every couple days...if you watch them within a day or so of receiving.

BDx13 - 1-5-2007 at 05:58 PM

added. i'll look for that other thread. i think honus started it.

i hear ya on the different packages. the gift certificate is for six months, so we'll see how it goes. i don't watch much tv generally, so one or two movies a week would be the max, but the shipping time will really determine how we proceed.

my favorite feature so far is that you can add movies to your 'watch list' that are in theaters or just coming out. it only dawns on me that i might like to see a movie while they're shovign the new release ads down my throat. once it's out amd the ads are gone, i forget.

clevohardcore - 1-5-2007 at 06:11 PM

Nacho Libre ----------- Don't bother it sucked.
March of the Penguins------ I heard its awsome
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest--------- good
Devil's Playground
The Remains of the Day --------- really good
Howards End
Terror: The Living Proof
The Weather Man-------------- kicked ass
Who Killed the Electric Car?
Alfie
The Magnificent Seven
The Thomas Crown Affair----------- good stuff. Both of um
Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior
Flogging Molly: Whiskey on a Sunday
An Inconvenient Truth
Almost Round Three: The Almost Video
Jesus Camp
V for Vendetta
On the Road with the Dropkick Murphys

JawnDiablo - 1-5-2007 at 07:55 PM

Just watched:
Green Street Hooligans
Clerks 2
Thank You For Smoking
Silent Hill
2001 Maniacs
slither
feast
likes them all pretty good
netflix is awesome.

defstarsteve - 1-5-2007 at 08:03 PM

we are on 6 at a time and it's great
not a good video store within an hours drive both ways

we get a lot of kids movies and classics
a lot of indie and foreign stuff as well...

and whatever you do don't get a dvd burner
your collection will never be the same

JawnDiablo - 1-5-2007 at 08:06 PM

i burn allot of them
they are stacked.

Jason the Magnificent - 1-5-2007 at 09:41 PM

Duane I seen you got Magnificent Seven...you've seen Seven Samurai right?

joemaconmovies - 1-6-2007 at 01:37 AM

You should add me as a friend as well. I dunno how they do it but it's under the name Joseph Macon and the e-mail is joe@immaconmovies.com

BDx13 - 1-6-2007 at 01:38 AM

yeah, that's why i added the magnificent seven. that said, the relationship between those two movies is the only thing i know about westerns. hence... i gotta watch some more!

joemaconmovies - 1-6-2007 at 01:45 AM

magnificent seven is fucking awesome.

Jason the Magnificent - 1-6-2007 at 02:00 AM

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yeah, that's why i added the magnificent seven. that said, the relationship between those two movies is the only thing i know about westerns. hence... i gotta watch some more!

ah, gotta rent all the old Eastwood spaghettis westerns then also check out any john wayne western, ESPECIALLY the searchers and true grit...amazing flicks.

theres also a newer one came out not to long ago called the proposition set in frontier australia...slow moving but incredible.

plus the holy mother of all westerns...unforgiven.

joemaconmovies - 1-6-2007 at 02:05 AM

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lonesome dove is long but also very good.

Jason the Magnificent - 1-6-2007 at 02:13 AM

yeah, another good one...once upon a time in the west is also good.

BDx13 - 3-1-2007 at 12:59 PM

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Who Killed the Electric Car?

watched this last night.
probably shouldn't have.

Voodoobillyman - 3-1-2007 at 01:04 PM

Silverado was a rad Western for a newer one.

Jason the Magnificent - 3-1-2007 at 02:01 PM

yeah thats a good solid western...far and away the best of its era.

XHonusWagnerX - 3-1-2007 at 03:54 PM

I just watched 'THE DAY THE EATH STOOD STILL' and I got 2 movies in today 'TENACIOUS D AND THE PICK OF DESTINY' and a movied called 'THE ANARCHIST COOKBOOK' that isnt a documentary. Im not sure what its about.

Discipline - 3-1-2007 at 04:04 PM

The Anarchist Cookbook tries to be clever, but really has a giant case of the gay.

XHonusWagnerX - 3-1-2007 at 11:05 PM

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The Anarchist Cookbook tries to be clever, but really has a giant case of the gay.

Damn! Oh well.... I kind of thought it would suck, but I wanted to check it out anyway.

necrobutcher - 3-1-2007 at 11:09 PM

For westerns I recommend:

The Wild Bunch
Django
Django Kill (If You Live, Shoot!)

Also check out Extreme Prejudice. It's like a western set in the 1980's with one hell of a cast shooting the fuck out of everything. Nick Nolte, William Forsythe, Michael Ironside and the prison guard from Shawshank Redemption are all in it.

In addition, give Cemetery Man a watch. Pound for pound, it's my favorite horror film of all time.