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[Geoff]

Aren't these services pay per play? I don't see how they are equivalent to a rental service. It is a difference business model and likely subject to different terms with the movie studios that license their content for digital distribution.

Why would Netlix voluntary hold back releases for the first month? So Blockbuster can clean their clocks via local distribution? Any cost savings, as you suggest, would be lost in potentially alienating customers (such as yourself) that care very much about watching movies as soon as they are released. It just doesn't make sense from a business perspective to reduce services and allow your competition to gain an advantage.

Netflix has arranged a pricing deal where they pay far less for content in exchange for waiting 30 days before putting the big box office movies into their rental pool. They think they'll make more money this way since they are now IP streaming more content (mostly older content) than by-mail DVDs. If you look at their annual report and financial press releases, they say they expect to be mostly in the IP streaming business a few years from now.

If some other competitor offered new releases and the same IP streaming library, I'd change in a heartbeat. Nobody else seems to be stepping up to compete with Netflix in that space. When you have such a dominant market share, you do what you think makes you the most profit. Apparently, that's waiting 30 days for new releases to pay much less for the content.

 

[Edd]

Waiting 30 days doesn't bother this customer. What concerns me is the ratio of available streaming content to what is actually on DVD. I can only guess but my guess is at least 100 to 1.

 

[severine]

Just watched Pervert! :lol:

 

[Geoff]

My latest three were The Expendables, Knight and Day, and (500) Days of Summer. None of them were keepers.

 

[severine]

My latest three were The Expendables, Knight and Day, and (500) Days of Summer. None of them were keepers.

I wasn't impressed with (500) Days of Summer either.

Been watching episodes of The Tudors from time to time...

 

[ctenidae]

My latest three were The Expendables, Knight and Day, and (500) Days of Summer. None of them were keepers.

Knight and Day had its moments, I thought. 500 days of Summer was bad.
Watched Letters to Juliet (not by choice). Terrible. Really really horrible. Awful. Just bad. All teh way around. No redeeming qualities. In short, I didn't like it.

 

[severine]

Knight and Day had its moments, I thought. 500 days of Summer was bad.
Watched Letters to Juliet (not by choice). Terrible. Really really horrible. Awful. Just bad. All teh way around. No redeeming qualities. In short, I didn't like it.

I couldn't even finish Letters to Juliet.

 

[ctenidae]

I couldn't even finish Letters to Juliet.

Fortunately, I had a fresh handle of bourbon.

 

[Geoff]

Knight and Day had its moments, I thought. 500 days of Summer was bad.

I thought 500 Days of Summer was kind of depressing. Who wants to watch that kind of relationship breakup crap. I have plenty of my own.

Knight and Day did indeed have its moments but I don't think I would buy it for my Blu Ray collection even if it were in the $5.00 bin. Since it has name actors in it but was a kind of lousy movie, we'll be seeing it on Netflix streaming video, AMC, and everywhere else for free soon.

 

[WakeboardMom]

My latest three were The Expendables, Knight and Day, and (500) Days of Summer. None of them were keepers.

I actually saw The Expendables in a theatre. : (

 

[riverc0il]

I thought 500 Days of Summer was kind of depressing. Who wants to watch that kind of relationship breakup crap. I have plenty of my own.

That perked my interest. I don't do Romantic Comedies (perhaps the worst genre of movie out there, IMO). So I bypassed this movie instantly while browsing Netflix despite Netflix' "best guess" for me being rather high. If this is about depressing relationship breakup stuff rather than a generic lame romantic comedy, I am all over it. Non-linear plot too, I am a total fan boy of non-linear movies. After reading this review following reading the comments here, this movie has gone into my queue.

 

[severine]

That perked my interest. I don't do Romantic Comedies (perhaps the worst genre of movie out there, IMO). So I bypassed this movie instantly while browsing Netflix despite Netflix' "best guess" for me being rather high. If this is about depressing relationship breakup stuff rather than a generic lame romantic comedy, I am all over it. Non-linear plot too, I am a total fan boy of non-linear movies. After reading this review following reading the comments here, this movie has gone into my queue.

Better option: Peter and Vandy.

 

[Geoff]

That perked my interest. I don't do Romantic Comedies (perhaps the worst genre of movie out there, IMO). So I bypassed this movie instantly while browsing Netflix despite Netflix' "best guess" for me being rather high. If this is about depressing relationship breakup stuff rather than a generic lame romantic comedy, I am all over it. Non-linear plot too, I am a total fan boy of non-linear movies. After reading this review following reading the comments here, this movie has gone into my queue.

No tight black leather. No sex scenes. No guns & ammo, swords, or martial arts. The movie was useless. There are guy-friendly romantic comedies out there. Grosse Point Blank comes to mind. A little short on the tight black leather and sex scenes but otherwise totally acceptable.

I was ready to turn in my man card after watching 500 Days of Summer

 

[riverc0il]

No tight black leather. No sex scenes. No guns & ammo, swords, or martial arts. The movie was useless. There are guy-friendly romantic comedies out there. Grosse Point Blank comes to mind. A little short on the tight black leather and sex scenes but otherwise totally acceptable.

I was ready to turn in my man card after watching 500 Days of Summer

This helps as well. Kinda like a ski review, the review isn't worth much if you don't know about the reviewer's preferences. Personally, I don't care about black leather (shameless appeal to eye candy instead of good script) and sex scenes (if I want to watch a sex scene, I'll watch porn). And I think guns, ammo, and swords in movies is generally over the top, not a huge action fan unless there is something special about the movie. Grosse Point Blank? Ugh. I refuse to watch anything with John Cusack in it. Seeing John Cusack on screen is pretty much an automatic revocation of the man card. Even if he's not in a romantic comedy, his past goes with him as baggage. I thought GPB was a horrendous movie.

 

[Geoff]

My small-ish Blu Ray collection pretty much defines my taste, or lack thereof, in movies:

Blade Runner
The Fifth Element
Casino Royale
Terminator 2
Star Trek
2001
Batman Begins
Kick Ass
Inception (haven't watched it yet)
Julie & Julia (I'm a foodie)
Mr & Mrs Smith
Salt
Zombieland
Avatar

I've been given Batman The Dark Knight which I find unwatchable and Ratatouille which I like (I own most of the Pixars on DVD).

 

[severine]

Julie & Julia (I'm a foodie)

But did you read the blog and book behind it...?

 

[Edd]

I thought GPB was a horrendous movie.

And I now know you are a horrendous movie reviewer. This was a particularly helpful post. Thank you.

Millers Crossing from the Coen brothers. Pretty much my favorite movie.

 

[ctenidae]

I refuse to watch anything with John Cusack in it. Seeing John Cusack on screen is pretty much an automatic revocation of the man card. Even if he's not in a romantic comedy, his past goes with him as baggage. I thought GPB was a horrendous movie.

Come on- Better Off Dead? One Crazy Summer? Both classics. High Fidelity, Hot Tub Time Machine, good and funny. Stand By Me, War, Inc, both good.

Say Anything and The Grifters, not so good.The night I kicked him out of the bar for trying to buy drugs in the bathroom, not so hot. The next night when he was out with Bridget Fonda and ignored her all night while he lost at foosball, also not so hot. Him, anyway. Her, absolutely hot.

 

[riverc0il]

Come on- Better Off Dead?

Better Off Dead has two super quotes. The rest of it is pure trash. Can't stand him.

 

[Grassi21]

I am loving Netflix through my XBox.

I just wrapped up season 1 of Louis staring Louis CK. I was expecting an over the top comedy but they have some serious story lines that are really well done.

Watched the documentary Super High Me last night. Think Supersize me but with pot. It was decent.

Just started the UK Version of The Office with Ricky Gervais.