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Mike Spencer
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Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> writes:
> Netflix has a search engine. Their list of content is publically
> searchable. The real problem is that most of the movies are shit. I
> watched 3mins and 27 seconds of "Wonderwoman" last night; utter shit. And
> about an hour of "Wolverine"; gave up when we decided we didn't GAS
> about the characters and were sick of endless chase sequences. Watched
> "American Gangster" a couple of nights ago. Made it to the end, but it's
> w-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-y too long. Ditto "American Sniper" one day last week.
Jeez, I've been both vexed and wistful because $EVERYBODY has
broadband and can (I've supposed) watch good movies that they missed
in the theater. We have dialup so a feature-length movie isn't doable.
But now that the industry has decided that DVDs are dead, I drop in at
one of the places that has discount bins full of them every fortnight
or so. Yes, there is a *vast* superfluity of truly ghod-auful movies,
ones that can be identified as such just from the jewel case pic/blurb
and it takes 20 minutes to browse over them.
But in the last several years we've hit quite a few great movies.
Ratatouille; The Italian Job; Chinatown; Buster Keaton's The General;
both versions of Oceans 11 and of Solaris; Do the Right Thing; The
Hunt for Red October -- probably three dozen watch-every-year-or-two
good ones and maybe 300 entertaining-once & good enough to watch
again "sometime". Maybe half dozen sorry-I-watched-that mistakes that
we've donated to the volunteer fire department's yard sale.
Going rate seems to be $C2 to C$10, sometimes 2, 3, 4 or more movies
on one disk/set. We never got into buying tapes or DVDs new. Twenty to
40 bucks a pop? Nah. Read a book. How did $THEY ever hit on that
price point? I think we went for new full-price DVDs on fewer than a
dozen occasions -- LotR, some Kurosawa movies, Pratchett's Going
Postal.
So, given Huge's remarks supra, now I feel less deprived, TYVM.
--
Mike Spencer Nova Scotia, Canada
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