Latest Netflix Selection?

[BackLoafRiver]

Just finished The Walking Dead Season 1. Pretty awesome.

 

[vcunning]

Phineus and Ferb . . . probably the best written kids show ever!

 

[legalskier]

The T.A.M.I. Show

If you're into great live performances by early rock and roll and soul acts, this one's for you. Originally filmed in 1964 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium for a brief theatrical run, the legendary footage stayed under the radar for decades. It finally was released in DVD this spring. All the bands (and go-go dancers) are terrific, but James Brown stole the show. "In interviews, Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones has claimed that choosing to follow Brown & The Famous Flames was the biggest mistake of their careers, because no matter how well they performed, they could not top him." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T.A.M.I._Show (good article on the film's history). "The T.A.M.I. Show, the most praised, most coveted and perhaps least viewed concert film in history, is finally resurfacing after 45 years....Quentin Tarantino ranks T.A.M.I. among the three best rock films ever, and rocker Steven Van Zandt calls it 'the greatest rock movie you've never seen.'" (http://www.usatoday.com/life/music/news/2010-03-18-TAMI18_CV_N.htm)

 

[bvibert]

It's painful to see a cable channel stretch an SD quality program with 4:3 framing out to 16:9. It looks shitty and drives me insane. My girlfriend doesn't even notice.

I can't stand 4:3 content stretch to 16:9. I know a bunch of people who don't care, or claim to not even notice. It drives me nuts.

 

[Geoff]

I can't stand 4:3 content stretch to 16:9. I know a bunch of people who don't care, or claim to not even notice. It drives me nuts.

+1

Besides, 4:3 looks OK on a 50" plasma. It doesn't end my world when the content is SD. I just watched the entire Star Trek: Next Generation series.

 

[riverc0il]

Well, I am glad to see the latest news that DVDs are staying within Netflix and they are not going to spin DVDs off into a subsidiary with separate billing and web site.

That said... if they could so easily be swayed by popular opinion... how sound was their reasoning of going with the change in the first place? How much research had they done? How far along had they progressed into separation before turning it around? It just seems like Netflix really doesn't know what their customers want or doesn't understand their customers. They knew they were going to lose some customers both with the price adjustment and the separation. How much had they under valued customers who might decide to change to a different service?

Ultimately they did the right thing for their customers (to save their own skin perhaps) but it raises some pretty fundamental questions about the company and its business model and its commitment to its customers. And they say they are adding all these movies to streaming but I just don't see it. I keep checking my DVD Queue for the Watch Now button but there are so very few.

 

[ctenidae]

Ultimately they did the right thing for their customers (to save their own skin perhaps) but it raises some pretty fundamental questions about the company and its business model and its commitment to its customers.

It's good that they're a fairly agile company, because they do keep screwing things up pretty badly.

 

[Geoff]

It's good that they're a fairly agile company, because they do keep screwing things up pretty badly.

I'll bet they've lost a lot of customers and this was a last second executive conference room decision. There's zero barrier to entry into their business. If you're going to go with a streaming-only product, Amazon Prime looks to be a much better deal. When people were forced to look at their Netflix account with the split of DVD vs streaming, I'll bet a lot of people just shut down their account.

 

[Nick]

Wow they are insane. I love Netflix streaming but it just seems like the stupidest management decisions I've ever witnessed in the last few months .

http://blog.netflix.com/2011/10/dvds-will-be-staying-at-netflixcom.html

 

[riverc0il]

Wow they are insane. I love Netflix streaming but it just seems like the stupidest management decisions I've ever witnessed in the last few months .

http://blog.netflix.com/2011/10/dvds-will-be-staying-at-netflixcom.html

How so? They like to think of themselves as a streaming company that also does DVDs. But the customers have stood up and loudly said NO. You are either a DVD company with streaming or both a streaming and DVD company. But you are not a streaming company with a DVD side project. I think the outcry was pretty severe. I contemplated jumping ship. I would have done so by now if Blockbuster had more DVDs and a better interface. I think they are saving face and doing damage control. It was that bad that they had to reverse themselves... think about that one! Notice that this message is not from the CEO this time either, lol.

 

[Nick]

How so? They like to think of themselves as a streaming company that also does DVDs. But the customers have stood up and loudly said NO. You are either a DVD company with streaming or both a streaming and DVD company. But you are not a streaming company with a DVD side project. I think the outcry was pretty severe. I contemplated jumping ship. I would have done so by now if Blockbuster had more DVDs and a better interface. I think they are saving face and doing damage control. It was that bad that they had to reverse themselves... think about that one! Notice that this message is not from the CEO this time either, lol.

Unless I'm misreading this, I think we are in agreement? haha

 

[riverc0il]

Unless I'm misreading this, I think we are in agreement? haha

Ha! I thought you meant they were insane for back peddling off their original plan.

:beer:

 

[bvibert]

I think they overestimated their hold on streaming customers and underestimated the online streaming competition.

 

[gmcunni]

could this be a "new coke" / "classic coke" kind of thing? shake up the market and then go back to normal?

 

[ctenidae]

could this be a "new coke" / "classic coke" kind of thing? shake up the market and then go back to normal?

Maybe they're just trying to figure out the profile of the truly loyal (or lazy) customer. What is the lowest common denominator?

 

[Nick]

could this be a "new coke" / "classic coke" kind of thing? shake up the market and then go back to normal?

Are you still on that free Fuller Wycliff rant? get over it, never gonna happen :smash:

 

[HD333]

Dropped Netflix yesterday. Sick of having that red envelope sitting around the house for a month without watching the movie. Redbox will be our go to or on demand.

 

[riverc0il]

Just saw Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. Gave it an extremely rare five stars.

I originally disregarded this film. Thanks to strong urging from Netflix recommendation system and customer reviews on Netflix, I gave it a go not expecting much.

What I got was perhaps the funniest movie I have ever seen. I can't recall laughing more at any other film. I don't laugh at comedies because comedies generally are not funny. They are one liners that have all been done and said twenty different ways before... but still the same humor.

This movie really pushes the genre. But you need to have the right past life experiences to appreciate it and really be into the jokes. Soooooo many cultural references it would probably take multiple viewings and I still might not get them all if I hadn't experienced some reference (e.g. I cracked up at the Link to the Past intro music with down panning camera but if you never played the game you wouldn't get the reference).

But comedy is one thing. This movie has substance and heart and intent. The jokes aren't just thrown around for laughs. I don't know if Hollywood will pick it up, but this movie should (in my ideal world) change comedy movies the way American Pie and Somthing About Mary charged the direction of movie comedy when they came out. This movie took two things I disdain in movies currently--comedy and heavy CG action--and made me love the movie for them both. Phenomenal.

 

[Edd]

Just saw Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. Gave it an extremely rare five stars.

I originally disregarded this film. Thanks to strong urging from Netflix recommendation system and customer reviews on Netflix, I gave it a go not expecting much.

What I got was perhaps the funniest movie I have ever seen. I can't recall laughing more at any other film. I don't laugh at comedies because comedies generally are not funny. They are one liners that have all been done and said twenty different ways before... but still the same humor.

This movie really pushes the genre. But you need to have the right past life experiences to appreciate it and really be into the jokes. Soooooo many cultural references it would probably take multiple viewings and I still might not get them all if I hadn't experienced some reference (e.g. I cracked up at the Link to the Past intro music with down panning camera but if you never played the game you wouldn't get the reference).

But comedy is one thing. This movie has substance and heart and intent. The jokes aren't just thrown around for laughs. I don't know if Hollywood will pick it up, but this movie should (in my ideal world) change comedy movies the way American Pie and Somthing About Mary charged the direction of movie comedy when they came out. This movie took two things I disdain in movies currently--comedy and heavy CG action--and made me love the movie for them both. Phenomenal.

I think I've mentioned this film earlier in the thread and fully agree. Very well done and it's gonna be a classic.

 

[legalskier]

Bronson

Watched it last night. Good description from rottentomatoes: "A stylized portrait of a criminal famous in his native Britain as perhaps the most violent man in Her Majesty's prison system, Bronson serves primarily as a showcase for Tom Hardy's undeniably brilliant performance."