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

Plus it's dirty.

I heard that Netflix were doing great because of the bad economy and everyone staying in instead of going out?

srs, i lost my job and upped my netflix orders, no lie.

am i the only person getting "unresponsive script" errors when i try to reorder my queue with firefox?

FRUSTRATING

esp since out of desperation i just opened IE to fix my queue and it got to the queue and completely froze.

Agggggghghghgghhhh

It's not doing this for me, sorry you are cursed.

apparently god doesnt want me to watch Tokyo Gore Police until um 448 movies from now then.

what is troublesome is that im getting the same error on 2 different computers, so if no one else is having this problem, then it must be account based?

my account has been infected with the "Leonard Part 6" virus maybe.

i get that now and then using firefox on my mac. i used to use safari and that never ever worked.

i've gotten "unresponsive script" errors too. and yes i use firefox.

Fuck.

almost every movie in watch instantly says "unavailable." For some reason Degrassi High does not.

yeah wtf 1 of the only 3 things it will let me watch instantly is macguyver season 1

Does anyone else's DVD queue have WAY more films on 'short wait,' 'long wait,' etc.? Did Netflix just sell off a bunch of discs or is it the more likely option of coincidence?

I just bought the Roku player, has anyone else used it before?

Scarface has been removed from your Queue. We no longer offer this movie for rental. We apologize for the inconvenience and hope you find many other movies to enjoy at Netflix.

:(

Ha! I bet too many people were renting it, keeping it, and saying it was 'lost in the mail' or whatevs.

We quit renting out Fight Club at the video store where I worked bcz people kept stealing it.

why do you have to pay extra for blu-ray? so dumb

yeah that is lame. they're already a bit overpriced as it is.

netflix randomly decided to send me an extra dvd. thanks netflix!

lol at Netflix suggesting I want "Critically-acclaimed Emotional Foreign Movies." Also I don't think they show any other type of 'foreign movies' in America.

"Critically-ignored Softcore Porn in the Guise of Arthouse Foreign Movies"

Tonight Netflix tells me I like "Visually-striking Cerebral Foreign Movies."

have had the PS3 Netflix disc for a while and have hardly watched anything. their selection isn't very good, and anything action-oriented is headache inducing. when the camera pans the whole screen sort of skips around in this weird way. could be my DSL isn't cutting the mustard.

It's almost like they've got a Meyers-Briggs profile for each movie.

yeah ive been hearing terrible things about the PS3 netflix being a jittery bandwidth hog, which is too bad because it works really well on xbox

"Visually-striking Emotional Foreign Movies "

I've only watched one movie with the PS3 disc, Persepolis, and it worked well enough I suppose. But it wasn't anywhere near the quality I'd expect, looked very fuzzy to me. And yeah, the selection is awful awful.

I've been using the hell out of the netflix streaming. The overall selection is mediocore, but there is some really good stuff in there. Lots of good docs and classics I haven't seen. There is more than enough to keep me entertained for months. And the selection seems to get better all the time.

http://instantwatcher.com/ is a really good site for keeping up to date on what's new with the instant watching.

If you're looking for newer movies you'll be disappointed with the selection, but if you want a seleciton of older movies it's pretty good. I actually looked for this thread to mention that in the last week or so there's been a rather large influx of terrific older movies - Kurosawa & Bergman films among others - and a bunch of new BBC shows.

instantwatcher.com is a great site; I subscribe to Netflix's New Instant Movies RSS feed but it's a bit hard to navigate the site to search for instant films.

There are quite a lot of good newer movies to stream though. The only gap is Hollywood films as far as I can tell and not to get all Morbs, but really who cares?

I kind of like the limited selection that the watch instantly feature has - it's forced me to finally check out a lot of stuff I've been postponing: the Up series (which is pretty awesome to watch over the course of a few days), Carnival of Souls, lots of stuff from the 30's/40's. And it's nice to have all 3 seasons of 30 Rock on hand when I get bored.

not surprisingly my high rating of andrei rublev has me on the "critically acclaimed cerebral foreign" list. they are also suggesting "dark dramas" because i like lars von trier.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/01/10/nyregion/20100110-netflix-map.html

Looking at the Chicago map, it's kind of hilarious to see Vicky Cristina Barcelona and Rachel Getting Married being rented most often along the affluent North Shore, and Marley and Me doing much better in the suburbs than in the city.

hilarious or expected?

Hilarious b/c it's expected.

I love Netflix on demand so much, although it has led to me watching way too much Doctor Who.

Just got this, starting off with father ted and only fools and horses

the LA one is making me sad. Can't someone in Compton rent Vicky Cristina Barcelona? Can't someone in West Hollywood see a Tyler Perry joint?

would love to see the maps around the time that Crash came out

<3 <3 <3 netflix for streaming L&O SVU

my nerdy roommate pointed out that the highest frequency "coraline" rentals in boston pretty much lined up with the red line, where many nerds live.

Hilarious b/c it's expected.

Yeah, hilarious like Milk doing well in the gay urban cores and Bedtime Stories doing well in the child-bearing suburbs.

Their streaming selection is much improved from the last time I looked! Just watched La Grande Illusion.

there's a ton of good stuff! I watched Claire Denis "L'intrus" yesterday <3<3<3.. in the middle of Chéreau's "Gabrielle" right now & am reserving judgment for the moment

"La regle du jeu" is on streaming as well btw

Just starting Dreyer's Vampyr now.

in the middle of Chéreau's "Gabrielle" right now & am reserving judgment for the moment

have been dithering over seeing gabrielle so if you want to add to the chorus please recommend/badmouth

i voted it number one in the films of the 2000s poll. it's a masterpiece. utterly unique and magnificent.

I am getting sick of seeing 'very long wait' for every new movie that comes out. I expect it with huge blockbusters, but even Black Dynamite is showing that to me. This didn't used to happen, and I've been a subscriber for years, and am always quick to return movies, so I don't really get why it's so bad right now. Anyone else think this is worse than it has been?