Now that the last of the boys is off to college (except right now, during summer) we cut down to one at a time and find it to be plenty.
Maybe it's just me but after awhile it's hard to find enough movies I actually want to watch to fill up three at a time.
Or maybe I've just seen too many movies and the current crop just (mostly) sucks. I liked Star Trek, though.
I’d cut back but for three factors:
- we use “profiles”, so my queue is already down to one-at-a-time
- our tastes are radically different (chick flicks vs. post-apocalyptic thrillers) so we really do need to maintain two separate queues (otherwise ratings & recommendations are meaningless and we’ll bicker over who’s movie comes next)
- between us our queues total over 300 movies, so we need to watch as many movies as we can* before metabolic cessation sets in.
(* - and that’s 300 movies _now_, plus whatever we’ll add in future, vs. spending that same time watching 500 channels of dreck. I ain’t got time to watch commercials, there’s uninterrupted quality films to get thru!)