H.o.p. woke up sick and has been down for the count all day. Marty’s out being filmed for a BBC documentary (I’ll describe later). Oh, here comes H.o.p. now. And I’ve been reading about Netflix and throttling. Will we end up being disappointed in Netflix as well? Probably. Because I’m a new customer may be why all the films in my queue (excempting one) are showing available now. Except I do read that if your viewing tastes are down the line of foreign films, indies etc., then this is when a service like Netflix is a good deal and you may do well with it. Fact is, nearly every movie we really want to watch for a while we’ve been forced to buy, because it’s almost always a foreign or indie film not available at the local rental place, and there are a lot of movies out there that I’d like to watch that I’d prefer not to purchase. Like Fellini’s “The White Shiek” and “The End of August at the Hotel Ozone” (1967 futuristic Cold War Czech film). Not to mention all those documentaries for H.o.p. which predominate the queue.<\/p>\n
I was figuring if we got 12 movies a month out of the service it would be good but I read “smoothing” can occur eventually where they don’t have a quick turn-around time and you end up averaging 7 a month. Even if we do end up at 7 a month, as long as they’re not broken discs, it still may be worthwhile so we don’t have to purchase “The Red Tent”, the 1961 “Hercules in the Haunted World” and Nova’s “Mystery of the Megaflood” (about the scab lands in Washington State). I don’t want to purchase “Chased by Dinosaurs” or “Microcosmos” (bugs) or any one of the hundreds of foreign films and indies I’d like to finally see but would prefer to spend my purchasing money on old Charlie Chaplin (which we recently got).<\/p>\n
So, we’ll see how it works. Right now, 2\/3rd’s of the queue are what I consider educational supplements for H.o.p. so bythe time I get around to watching Teshigahara’s 1964 “Woman in the Dunes” maybe it will have been released. (Incredible movie by the way.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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