Are you mostly using the watch it now feature of netflix? We found it wasn't cost effective for us (we had blockbuster, tho) and switched back to using the library. We've rented from Redbox 2x, but a friend of mine just got scammed by them so I'm slightly gunshy. (OTOH, as long as you keep the emailed reciepts, you're fine. She'd deleted hers = mistake!) Mostly tho we watch hulu now (and see movies on our date day, which is ridiculously expensive but awesome. We're cutting back, tho.)
The library (even here) ROCKS. Ours charges $1 for movies.
Glad you liked the movie! I'm not ever gonna see that one, but I do love the soundtrack :-)
Much of our Netflix watching is for Blue. We go through phases with the on-demand watching but yes, it's been useful in the past. I have a queue 500 deep on Netflix always; we cycle through kid movies mostly and a lot of grownup ones too--there's another piece to this story--but sometimes we run up against adult movies that we have to hang onto for a while.
Having to actually GO somewhere and/or return a movie within a particular amount of time would not work for me AT ALL. So I can't really imagine dealing with the library, and I'm not sure how Blockbuster works--do they do it through the mail now?
The other thing is that the movies I really want to see tend to be on the more obscure side--though not always--and Redbox seems to have mostly new movies and blockbuster type stuff, IIRC. I rarely watch stuff like that. And last time I checked, Netflix's selection beat Blockbuster's by a mile, for the kinds of things I would want to see. I'll have to look again sometime.
Why aren't you going to see Into the Wild? Just not your bag, or...?
Blockbuster ie via mail AND you can exchange at the store, but they have time limits (if you past a few weeks you get charged for the movie). Stay with netflix :-)
Into the Wild: too emotionally draining. I know what happens and can't bring myself to watch it. (I just can't watch certain types of dramas anymore, i get too invested.)
Yeah, I just checked out Redbox and Blockbuster online and I'm pretty sure Netflix is still the right answer for me. I know myself too well to imagine that I'll ever return movies within a certain time frame reliably. ;)
I understand about the movie. I think that's a big reason why it's been sitting on my desk for so long... I just wasn't ready to watch it. But I loved the book and I wanted to see how they translated it, you know? Today I was so down anyway, I finally acknowledged that I wasn't going to work and I wasn't going to feel better and Blue was at playschool so I finally, finally sat down with it.
we signed up for netflix, got a few movies, sent some back, and let some just sit around and get "lost" in the mess. so basically we are just paying for the theoretical moment when we'll either watch stuff on demand or finally send back the dvds, which we've probably had for a year or something.
I've lost a DVD or two for a while before. But they always turn up eventually. Now I pretty much take them downstairs to the office immediately so they won't get lost.
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Date: 2010-01-30 04:18 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-30 04:29 am (UTC)Drop Netflix. Use redbox when you have time and want to watch a movie for $1 =)
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Date: 2010-01-30 04:32 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2010-01-30 05:17 am (UTC)The library (even here) ROCKS. Ours charges $1 for movies.
Glad you liked the movie! I'm not ever gonna see that one, but I do love the soundtrack :-)
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Date: 2010-01-30 02:15 pm (UTC)Having to actually GO somewhere and/or return a movie within a particular amount of time would not work for me AT ALL. So I can't really imagine dealing with the library, and I'm not sure how Blockbuster works--do they do it through the mail now?
The other thing is that the movies I really want to see tend to be on the more obscure side--though not always--and Redbox seems to have mostly new movies and blockbuster type stuff, IIRC. I rarely watch stuff like that. And last time I checked, Netflix's selection beat Blockbuster's by a mile, for the kinds of things I would want to see. I'll have to look again sometime.
Why aren't you going to see Into the Wild? Just not your bag, or...?
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Date: 2010-01-30 02:25 pm (UTC)Blockbuster ie via mail AND you can exchange at the store, but they have time limits (if you past a few weeks you get charged for the movie). Stay with netflix :-)
Into the Wild: too emotionally draining. I know what happens and can't bring myself to watch it. (I just can't watch certain types of dramas anymore, i get too invested.)
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Date: 2010-01-30 02:35 pm (UTC)I understand about the movie. I think that's a big reason why it's been sitting on my desk for so long... I just wasn't ready to watch it. But I loved the book and I wanted to see how they translated it, you know? Today I was so down anyway, I finally acknowledged that I wasn't going to work and I wasn't going to feel better and Blue was at playschool so I finally, finally sat down with it.
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Date: 2010-01-30 02:57 pm (UTC)At least it wasn't a task like cleaning up cat vomit that waited so long.
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Date: 2010-02-10 04:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-14 11:57 pm (UTC)I've lost a DVD or two for a while before. But they always turn up eventually. Now I pretty much take them downstairs to the office immediately so they won't get lost.