Netflix - Not bad! Qwikster - uh, never mind...

My daughter has highjacked our Netflix queue and loaded it up with anime. Frowny emoticon!

Is there a way to just see an alphabetical listing of all the movies Netflix has available? Instead of having to pick a genre and then looking through the Featured selections and the Critics Picks and Top 25 and all that?

Oh never mind, I guess I can "sort by title" within the genre, that's not too bad.

It has a better selection than 85% of video stores could hope for.

Jeff Puhtittle: the Apted Up series was already high on my queue before I saw that you'd seen it recently. Nice. I'm excited.

It's good, it'll teach you how to teach you how to speak like a toffee-nosed British child, like me!

I READ THE FINANCIAL TIMES

I read the Observer and THE TIMES.

Yeah, I loved the up series, but I watched them all in 2 days, so I got real tired of the recapping after awhile. I could almost recite 7 up from memory. 49 Up is scheduled for this year, if any of those crappy fucks want to be interviewed again.

Wot I Watched:

All About Eve (1950)
Making the Misfits (2001)
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
The Prince and the Showgirl (1957)
Marilyn Monroe: Memories & Mysteries / Hometown Story (1951)
Love Nest (1951)
Born Yesterday (1950)
Marilyn Monroe: The Mortal Goddess (2002)
There's No Business Like Show Business (1954)
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)
Niagara (1953)
Speedway (1968)
A Place in the Sun (1951)
From the Terrace (1960)
Serial Mom (1995)
The Men (1950)
Imitation of Life: Double Feature (1934, 1959) (1934)
All That Heaven Allows (1955)
JFK: Special Edition (1991)
The Misfits (1961)
The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)
The Wild One (1955)
The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
U.K. Subs: Punk Can Take It (1979)
Long Day's Journey into Night (1962)
Grand Illusion (1938)
Now, Voyager (1942)
The Iceman Cometh: Disc 2 (1973)
Jubilee (1977)
Music Hall Days (2004)
Classic Albums: Elvis Presley (1956)
Depeche Mode: The Videos '86-'98: Disc 2 (1998)
The Iceman Cometh: Disc 1 (1973)
King Creole (1958)
The Last Picture Show (1971)
The Fabulous '50s (2002)
Absolute Beginners (1986)
Elvis '56 (1987)
Gerry (2002)
Pet Shop Boys: Somewhere (2000)
The Filth and the Fury: A Sex Pistols Film (2000)
Depeche Mode: The Videos '86-'98: Disc 1 (1998)
Intimacy (2001)
Bartleby (2002)
Sweet Sixteen (2002)
New Order: 316 (1981)
The Cure: Trilogy: Disc 2 (2002)
The Cure: Trilogy: Disc 1 (2002)
Death in Venice (1971)
The Cramps: Live at Napa State Metal Hospital (1981)
Night Flight from Moscow (1972)
In a Lonely Place (1950)
Bullitt (1968)
King and Country (1964)
Romper Stomper (1992)
Alice Adams (1935)
Modesty Blaise (1966)
I Could Go On Singing (1963)
Giant (1956)
Night Porter (1974)
The Collector (1965)
The Damned (1969)
Two-Lane Blacktop (1971)

after a long period of being anti-netflix (made easier by my former roommate being a member, so i could still enjoy the fruit while cursing the tree), i've been doing it for a bit over a month now and am enjoying it greatly. did "netflix friends" get noted elsewhere? you can see how other people you know on the system ranked movies, and see the last things they've watched. too fancy.

here's what i've returned so far:

Irma Vep, 1996
Metallica: Some Kind of Monster, 2004
My Best Fiend: Klaus Kinski, 1999
Beau Travail, 1999
Schizopolis, 1996
Underground, 1995
Days of Being Wild, 1991
The Iron Giant: Special Edition, 1999
Election, 1999
Arrested Development: Season 1: Discs 1-3

Bigpond Movies are the aussie version of Netflix. Here's my queue, primarily a ploy to turn my girlfriend into a geeky geek nerd fangirl.

American Splendor (M)

Barton Fink (M)

Buena Vista Social Club (G)

The City Of Lost Children (Citi des enfants perdus) (M)

The Civil War (Ken Burns) - Vol 1 (G)

The Civil War (Ken Burns) - Vol 2 (G)

The Civil War (Ken Burns) - Vol 3 (G)

Delicatessen (M)

The Devil's Backbone (MA)

Dodgeball (M)

Down From The Mountain

Fahrenheit 9/11 - Disc 1 (M)

Fahrenheit 9/11 - Disc 2 (M)

Firefly - Season 1: Disc 1 (M)

Firefly - Season 1: Disc 2 (M)

Firefly - Season 1: Disc 3 (M)

Firefly - Season 1: Disc 4 (M)

Gangs of New York (MA)

Gangs of New York - Bonus Disc (MA)

Ghost Dog - Way Of The Samurai (MA)

Laputa - Castle In The Sky (G)

Miller's Crossing (M)

Princess Mononoke (M)

Queen of the Damned (M)

Shaolin Soccer (PG)

Time Bandits (PG)

Ultraviolet - Disc 1 (MA)

Ultraviolet - Disc 2 (MA)

The Untouchables (M)

I'm so against the idea of rating movies, and I feel like I'm being bullied into it.

Oh and also, Napoleon Dynamite won't play in my computer. It's not fucked up or scratched or anything like that -- but my computer thinks it's a blank DVD for some reason. I have no idea whose fault this is, but I'm wondering if this is grounds for getting a replacement. If so, what do I say? (It doesn't fit into the categories of scratch/skip/broken.) Also, could it have anything to do with the fact that it's a double-sided DVD (to my knowledge, I've never played one before)?

if you tell them it's skipping they'll just send you another one, no big deal. i'm sure they'll check it first or run it through the cleaner before they throw it out, and so as long as you don't send too many back you'll have no problems with netflix & your karmic balance won't take too big a hit.

but if it's some weird conflict you have with the disc assembly, you're probably screwed either way, which is possible. e.g. my dvd/cdr combo drive refuses to recognize SACD hybrid music discs.

i signed up to lovefilm. i watched peeping tom last night, it was great

It is, isn't it. They did a revival in the US a couple of years back. I quite liked it.

Anyone use Blockbuster Online recently? I just browsed their selection online, and it seems like they have a lot of films that Netflix doesn't carry. I don't know if they're just there on the site and never actually in stock, though. Cuz if they have comparable speed to Netflix and better selection and prices, I'd be tempted to switch.

fuck blockbuster!! they cut their movies!

I need more Netflix friends, this is fun!
ANYONE?

I give all Bond movies at least four stars!

Don't be his friend! He'll recommend you watch HEAT!

Hahaha!

What's really funny is that I have been rating all these films that I haven't seen since I was a kid.

"Adventures In Babysitting? That was AMAZING!"

Hahaha

You can be my Netflix friend, Adam! But I don't rate any movies! EVER!

DUMBO GETS FIVE STARS!

Awesome film. Very sad, too.

If you snub Pinnochio. . .

My rules for netflix ratings:

1) Any Bond film gets at least four stars
2) Any film with Kirsten Dunst in it, even in a minor role, gets at least three stars, usually four
3) Most critically applauded debuts by young directors get less than three stars
4) Any film set or shot in the Bay Area gets at least three stars (except Patch Adams)
5) All Woody Allen films made before 1999 get at least four stars
6) Any movie about cheerleaders or girls in a band or girl surfers or evil girl neighbors/babysitters gets at least four stars
7) Most golden age Disney films get at least four stars
8) Any 80s film about gadgets or robots gets at least four stars
9) I don't rate friends or sex and the city DVDs
10) No Steven Soderbergh film gets more than two stars (maybe)

Short Circuit 2 gets FOUR stars!!?!? WHY?!?!

It's about a robot.

Okay, I have two new friends! More please!

how do we become netflix friends?

you invite me with this address or I invite you with your address! Please be my friend!

Adam I can't believe you think Punch Drunk Love is even GOOD let alone better than Time Bandits!

i sent you a friend request adam.

I got it, Sam!

Maybe I am rating these things too fast. Punch Drunk Love should be a 3.

Wait, an ADAM SANDLER film better than Time Bandits. I slay you.

The Wedding Singer was even better. But I like Punch Drunk Love mostly for the Jeremy Balke visuals and the first ten minutes.

IS THAT A CRIME?

Blake

Adam -- I am serious. I will not rate any movies. I have trouble evaluating things all willy-nilly-like. If I started, I would obsess about it way too much, and I would cry.

i always end up going back about 6 months later and lowering every rating a star or so. it's kind of depressing really.

"IS THAT A CRIME?"

YES!

Jaymc, why does it look like you haven't ever rented anything?

I invited you too, other Adam!

cool!

I loves these friend quizzes!

I don't have time to watch movies!

Wait, is it supposed to show you every movie I've seen, or only those that I've rated?

OH NO! It shows people when you pick "not interested"? I have been using that for movies I am interested in, but haven't seen and don't feel like adding to my list! Flawed!

adam you can use my email address to add me.