Well, we shall see how this works

Despite some of the things I’ve read, I went ahead and got a Netflix subscription. We don’t have cable, the movie rental places closest to us are very slim on anything but current flicks, and I wanted to make available to H.o.p. documentaries/educational DVDs without having to purchase them.

We must be very dull people because I loaded up the queue with movies and all of them show as being available now. Our first three choices are a Magic School Bus film for H.o.p. on bugs (at his request), a fun film for him and a sci fi film for me, Rocketship X-M, which I’ve wanted to see ever since I did the painting of Richland Theater’s Rocketship X-M float entry in an Atomic Frontier Days Parade. I’ve filled the queue with documentaries and old Foreign films, some classics we’ve not seen in a while or never seen and a very few new films. Maybe that’s why they’re all showing as available. Science and Nature documentaries and older foreign fare aren’t as popular as I imagined they might be. I had this idea that one would have to wait in line for a while to get films like The Bicycle Thief, Cat Women of the Moon and Walking with Prehistoric Beasts. Not so!


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3 responses to “Well, we shall see how this works”

  1. Tild Avatar

    Good luck with the Netflix sub. Maybe because of your choices you’ll never get stuck with a Netflix queue that has absolutely nothing available on it….but i’m not so sure that it doesn’t turn into that for everybody eventually.

    If you end up with some titles on hold or perpetually unavailable, let me know. I’ve got quite a few of those nature-documentary-older movie titles, and my 2 kids are now so mature and sophisticated (i.e. 18 and 16 yrs old) they never watch them anymore. I’d be happy to lend you some titles!

    Like the Walking With Dinosaurs/Prehistoric Animals series; I think we have all of them.

    And please give H.o.p. a little hug from me. 🙂

  2. Idyllopus Avatar

    Thanks for the offer. I may take you up on it if things don’t work out. Sounds like you or someone you know had a subscription and were frustrated by it.

    H.o.p. has the Walking with Dinosaurs series and watched it an insane number of times when he was younger. Poor kid woke up sick today (he was feeling warm yesterday) but so loved the idea of the subscription that he huddled by me a long while in the chair while I chose films, delighted and excited by the prospect of being able to see this, that and the other. Then he sacked out for the rest of the afternoon on the futon. I’ll give him that hug when he wakes up. 🙂

  3. Bob Myers Avatar
    Bob Myers

    Can you give me your Netflix ID so I can register as a “friend”? I’d love to share recommendations with you…

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