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Sunday June 4, 2006

Netflix Again

With the end of the regular TV season, I figured it was time to try Netflix out again. They tried to raise the price from $20 a month, but competition from Walmart and Blockbuster forced them to actually lower the price to $18. Still, I decided to go for the $15 per month plan that gives you only two movies at a time. That should still allow me to see three movies a week which is about the most I was ever able to watch the last time I joined.

I really do like Netflix. I enjoyed going through recommendations and finding some obscure movies and movies that I would probably never pay to rent, but would still like to see. Also, I decided to rent the first disc of Season 1 of 24 to see if I like the show and would like to buy the whole season. I came very close to buying the Season 1 DVD today, but then decided it was too big a risk for a show I had never watched and didn't know if I would even like.

Anyway, my first two movies should arrive Tuesday.


Here's my queue that I set up today. It took me at least an hour, but it was fun.


  1. March of the Penguins
  2. Wedding Crashers
  3. Sin City
  4. Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
  5. Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
  6. Kill Bill: Vol. 1
  7. 24: Season 1: Disc 1
  8. The Royal Tenenbaums
  9. Kill Bill: Vol. 2
  10. I, Robot
  11. The Sum of All Fears
  12. Seven Samurai
  13. Mystic River
  14. The Constant Gardener
  15. Hotel Rwanda
  16. Beyond the Sea
  17. Proof
  18. Mr. and Mrs. Smith
  19. Secondhand Lions
  20. The Last Samurai
  21. City of God
  22. Spellbound
  23. Seven Up / 7 Plus Seven
  24. Brokeback Mountain
  25. Bubble Boy

Posted by Ted on June 4, 2006 5:51 PM | |

Comments (7)

I really liked March of the Penguins. One reviewer said Morgan Freeman's voice sounds like God. After everyone headed to bed I played the extra track. This was from the point of view of the two guys who filmed the movie. They did the narrating. It was more like watching a National Geographic special. There was also a lot more Penguin poop on screen. Enjoyable none-the-less.

Posted by Jeb | June 4, 2006 7:04 PM

Dodgeball is one of my all time favorite comedies. Dodgeball quotes are eternal inside jokes with a lot of my friends. 24 is great, but my biggest issue with it is that it keep escalating higher and higher into levels of ridiculousness that my suspension of disbelief disappears. I think my family should give netflix a try, but I don't know if my dad would be too eager to do it.

Posted by Eric | June 5, 2006 7:02 PM

I think for a family it would be fun to try Netflix for the summer. I will probably cancel some time in the fall once I catch up on a lot of these movies I want to see and new TV episodes start coming on.

As expected Netflix shipped my first two movies this morning for arrival tomorrow.

Posted by UT | June 5, 2006 9:04 PM

I got the two movies Tuesday. I watched Wedding Crashers last night and put it in the mail today, so potentially I could get my next movie on Friday. The last time I was doing this the movies went back to Duluth, essentially Atlanta. This time they are going to Birmingham.

Posted by UT | June 7, 2006 9:21 AM

I got new movies on Friday and Saturday and returned them today, so I got to watch 4 movies in one week. This time they were from Duluth, so that center is still open.

Posted by UT | June 12, 2006 3:37 PM

That is a good list of movies. I enjoyed Wedding Crashers, that was funny. Sin City is a good time too. Was not so impressed with Brokeback Mountain. Of that whole list though, my favorite was Hotel Rwanda. It was the most thought provoking.

Bubble Boy = Travolta's Boy In the Bubble??

Posted by Nicole | June 13, 2006 10:48 PM

Bubble Boy is a comedy with Jake Gyllenhaal, but I have moved it way down my list. I think it is probably pretty bad.

I was able to watch 13 movies the first month. But right after that they spent a day "processing" my next movie and then sent it from Colorado which added an extra day of mailing time. I sent it back Monday but they didn't receive it today. If they do that again (I've gotten two movies since then from Atlanta) I will be suspicious, but I'm hoping it was just an isolated event.

Posted by UT | July 18, 2006 7:02 PM

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