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Reviewing Adam's and Dean's queues, I see the same tendency I have, to add a bunch of movies by the same director (or actor or whatever) all at once. So how much queue management and tweaking does everybody do? Do you actually rent like 5 movies in a row by the same director, festival-style, or do you scatter them out? I tend to do the latter, out of fear of overdosing on a given director or genre.

I add movies as they pop into my head. Occasionally I will watch a film and want to add other films by the director, writer, actors ... etc etc and I'll do it. Other than that, I try to make sure that each shipment has one disc of a TV show, one disc of something light (a comedy usually) and then one disc or something more involving. It's hard enough for me to find time to watch things that I try not to make it too difficult (i.e. - queueing up Tarkovsky.)

― The Ghost of Dean Gulberry (dr g), Friday, 19 August 2005 00:05 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I've been doing that with the Orphic trilogy -- breaking it up with kung fu and Anchorman.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Friday, 19 August 2005 00:28 (twenty years ago)

(Hell, I boo-ern a number of them to be watched later at my discretion.)

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 19 August 2005 00:58 (twenty years ago)

how can one hate ben gazzara!?!!?

― huell howser (chaki), Friday, 19 August 2005 01:02 (twenty years ago)

i want more netflix friends! zednd at yahoo!

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Friday, 19 August 2005 01:05 (twenty years ago)

EXCEPT Rosemary, who only watches musicals and old british tv shows.

you forgot Tom Fontana series!! (Although, I just watched the British version of Pennies from Heaven, which, uh, fits your description, huh)

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Friday, 19 August 2005 01:10 (twenty years ago)

A Woman Under the Influence is great!

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Friday, 19 August 2005 01:13 (twenty years ago)

I just sent a bunch more invites. Won't you be my neighbors?

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Friday, 19 August 2005 01:38 (twenty years ago)

I just doubled my Netflix friends today! And no it isn't, Jeff!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 19 August 2005 14:28 (twenty years ago)

(Jeff, Alex practically makes a living from being WRONG, it's okay)

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 19 August 2005 15:13 (twenty years ago)

My taste is impeccable (and unlike Adam I don't change my mind every three minutes.)

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 19 August 2005 15:15 (twenty years ago)

It's okay, he only hurt my feelings a little bit. I'll go cry over my cassavetes box in the corner

ps. I've actually only watched WUTI and Shadows from it. I buy dvds and never watch them in lieu of netflix dvds.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Friday, 19 August 2005 15:18 (twenty years ago)

I can't believe you guys all hated Scream. WTF is wrong with you people?

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 19 August 2005 15:31 (twenty years ago)

Fuck that movie is AWFUL!!!!!

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 19 August 2005 15:32 (twenty years ago)

AWFUL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 19 August 2005 15:32 (twenty years ago)

(I watched My Best Fiend last night and it was kind of disappointing!)

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 19 August 2005 15:32 (twenty years ago)

You are crazy. I would rather watch Scream 3 (which wasn't that good) than some crap Cassavettes film with his wooden bunch of crap failed NYC stage actors.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 19 August 2005 15:34 (twenty years ago)

I haven't seen Killing Of A Chinese Bookie, so I can't comment. But Scream was not good.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 19 August 2005 15:35 (twenty years ago)

Haha wtf Adam you liked JERRY MAGUIRE and you are badmouthing Scream?!?! Put the crackpipe down.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 19 August 2005 15:35 (twenty years ago)

Jerry Maguire is sweet. Also I liked Renee Zellweger before she went weird.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 19 August 2005 15:36 (twenty years ago)

Wait, waht did I give Jerry Maguire? It's still a 3 star movie at best.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 19 August 2005 15:37 (twenty years ago)

chinese bookie sucks

― The Ghost of Dean Gulberry (dr g), Friday, 19 August 2005 15:39 (twenty years ago)

Thank god someone else agrees with me there.

Adam, do you just genre films? Cuz Scream is really good if you have even a passing love for slasher thrillers.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 19 August 2005 15:41 (twenty years ago)

Adam, do you just genre films?

Just what? Just HATE?

No, I don't hate genre films, I just hate bad smug boring meta ones like Scream.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 19 August 2005 15:51 (twenty years ago)

Haha but you like every other kind of bad smug boring meta films? So it's just bad smug boring meta thrillers that bug you?

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 19 August 2005 15:54 (twenty years ago)

Movie in my queue I'm strangely most looking forward to seeing.

-- Eric H.

I saw this recently! A friend at work gave it to me. It was pretty interesting, I guess. Most of the Arabs are played by Caucasian actors, which is unfortunate, but maybe it couldn't really be avoided. Also there is the rule that prohibits Muhammad from being depicted, so he never appears on screen. I think it's funny that to get around this, some shots are in the FIRST PERSON from Muhammed's eyes - I thought that would be a worse offense than depicting him!

― sleep (sleep), Friday, 19 August 2005 15:54 (twenty years ago)

My saved list:

Turtles Can Fly
Last Days
2046
Ken Park
Kings and Queen
Me and You and Everyone We Know
The Best of Youth
Tropical Malady
Two-Lane Blacktop

Be my netflix friends. gml = gmail.com. I'll send out invites later.

― sleep (sleep), Friday, 19 August 2005 15:55 (twenty years ago)

Tropical Malady was not good.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 19 August 2005 15:56 (twenty years ago)

Fuck that movie is AWFUL!!!!!

I finally agree with Adam on something!

― Leon C. (Ex Leon), Friday, 19 August 2005 15:57 (twenty years ago)

I wholeheartedly recommend Two-Lane Blacktop btw. Also The Cockfighter and The Iguana. Monte Hellman was amazing.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 19 August 2005 15:59 (twenty years ago)

Scream was the mean-spirted nadir of '90s self-referential pop culture. The worst kind of shallow "irony," self-congratulatory and gratuitously nasty. Everything interesting it did was in the first 10 minutes.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Friday, 19 August 2005 16:32 (twenty years ago)

Exactly!

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 19 August 2005 16:40 (twenty years ago)

also Drew Barrymore

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 19 August 2005 16:40 (twenty years ago)

SHE GOT KILLED! IMMEDIATELY!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 19 August 2005 16:44 (twenty years ago)

Also mean-spirited? What it was supposed to be the friendly slasher flick? I'll bite on the self-referential part, but that doesn't bother me if it's done well and Scream was done very well. But I love horror/slasher flicks and Craven esp. so maybe it's just me.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 19 August 2005 16:46 (twenty years ago)

Movies all three of my Netflix friends gave 5 stars:

Blue Velvet
Mulholland Drive
Rear Window
Vertigo

Lowest rated movies all three of my Netflix friends rated (two one stars, one two star):

The Beach
Death Becomes Her
Dogma
Garden State
Mystic River
Pearl Harbor
The Perfect Storm
What About Bob?

Hey, I liked Death Becomes Her!

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 19 August 2005 16:58 (twenty years ago)

Also there is the rule that prohibits Muhammad from being depicted, so he never appears on screen.

Yeah, I think that was the main reason I wanted to get the film: the controversy that surrounded it w.r.t the misunderstanding of its "representation" of God... and the hostages that were taken, et al.

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/entertainment/special_packages/passion_of_christ/8020436.htm

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 19 August 2005 17:02 (twenty years ago)

I wholeheartedly recommend Two-Lane Blacktop btw.

And yet you call Cassavettes boring!

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Friday, 19 August 2005 17:31 (twenty years ago)

haa

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 19 August 2005 17:33 (twenty years ago)

"And yet you call Cassavettes boring!"

Did I miss the auto-racing in AWUTI?!?! Fuck I'd rather watch Warren Oates pick his nose for an hour and a half than Ben Gazarra or Peter Falk.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 19 August 2005 18:56 (twenty years ago)

Adam, I have a confession to make... I cancelled our netflix subscription today! Can we still be real friends?

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Friday, 19 August 2005 19:08 (twenty years ago)

Oh no!!!!

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Friday, 19 August 2005 19:14 (twenty years ago)

Did I miss the auto-racing in AWUTI?!?!

You didn't see the director's cut? I do love Two-Lane Blacktop but I also find it almost Cassavetean. Cassavettian? Cassavesque?

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Friday, 19 August 2005 19:15 (twenty years ago)

Adam, I have a confession to make... I cancelled our netflix subscription today! Can we still be real friends?

That's CRAZY! but yes, we can.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 19 August 2005 19:21 (twenty years ago)

I need to take a break from the small screen anyway, but especially from H:LOTS. It wasn't until after we'd watched the last episode of season 6 that we learned there's a whole other season left! OH NO!

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Friday, 19 August 2005 19:24 (twenty years ago)

What is the saved section?

― älänbänänä (alanbanana), Friday, 19 August 2005 19:56 (twenty years ago)

Movies on your queue that don't have release dates.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 19 August 2005 19:57 (twenty years ago)

Wow, I've just started skimming everybody's ratings and queues, and my queue is growing at an alarming rate.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Friday, 19 August 2005 22:47 (twenty years ago)

(It's like a statscock with movie stars!)

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Friday, 19 August 2005 22:48 (twenty years ago)

Movies on your queue that don't have release dates.

here's the ones zip.ca doesn't have that are in my list:

Playtime
Repulsion (on order)
Two-Lane Blacktop (on order)

― älänbänänä (alanbanana), Saturday, 20 August 2005 00:08 (twenty years ago)

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