Posted on 02/23/2010 11:18:29 AM PST by raccoonradio
2. Netflix is the only place I can think of where you can get classics such as "The Battle Of Algiers" (greatest war movie ever made) without making a $40 purchase.
I’m currently watching every single movie in a coffee table book someone gave me about 500-must see films. I could not do this without Netflix.
If you have a movie in mind, Netflix is insanely efficient. I do not like the Netflix recommendation feature however.
(And for the record, I like Will Smith. He has just enough charm to make ludicrous movies entertaining - though I don’t ever watch him in Oscar-bait. He can make something as stupid as Hitch a worthwhile way to kill a Wednesday night).
One thing that has become indispensable for me is the availability of star ratings by other members of the public (not critics). The correlation of satisfaction and star count is pretty high.
Many movies look good per box description only to find out later that you wasted two hours of your life watching and it only had two stars. If I recall Blockbusters does not readily disclose star count, so renting from them is a crap shoot.
Even HBO on Direct TV has star count on their listings, a great piece of information.
>>Where am I going to rent “Breakin’ II Electric Boogaloo” On VHS?
At the public library.
It’s borderline. It’s not really considered porn, but it’s pushing the envelope.
The recommendation feature works pretty well once you’ve rated most of the stuff you’ve seen. You can actually ignore movies you’re not remotely interested in, so they don’t pop up again.
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