Unfortunately, the only advices I can give is no advice at all. We rent from Blockbuster. However, when we do rent, we find that one movie suffices.

by greg—Oct 2, 01:06 PM

we do netflix and actually are lavish and do 3 at a time.

this is because we have gotten into watching Homocide: Life on the Streets…and/or Monty Python

and so, we keep a DVD with a tv show.

the other two are split between movies we would watch together and movies only i would watch. i often watch flicks that t doesn’t have the patience for and a lot of foreign flicks (mainly latin american…under the pretext of needing to know what’s out there so that i can use them in my teaching)

3 works nicely, also becuase i go to bed later than t…though, lately, with the amoung of work i’ve been doing on articles and conference presentations i haven’t gotten much movie watching done.

by hermit x—Oct 2, 01:38 PM

Thanks for the advice. We are probably going to sign up for Netflix later tonight (for the one movie plan), and see how it goes. I guess we can always upgrade if we want to increase the extravagance.

by chris—Oct 2, 06:35 PM

we would welcome advice on movies to see, too, from those of you who actually watch movies more than once every couple of years.

by mary—Oct 3, 03:05 PM

My mother subscribed to netflix for my family and we get 3 movies at a any given time. I think it’s great and personally I wish we got 5 movies out at a time because I have about 60 movies on my list that I’m waiting to take out from them.
It was great for finding old or rare movies that you can’t find at the movie stores around here.

by mrE from textpattern forum—Oct 3, 05:00 PM

we’ve just watched metropolis by fritz lang…it’s a silent movie and stellar. you won’t be able to watch sci-fi (that is provided you actually start watching movies and enjoy the genre the same way)

also the wallace and gromit anamations are really quite good.

and, as i had said in an earlier post…the triplets of bellevile is good (but that too is anamation)

whale rider is, if you haven’t seen it, a really good movie…

but i don’t know what you’d like

The Big Lebowski is one of the funniest movies of all times…but you have to like the screwed up take on reality of the Coen brothers…and you have to like to quote strange movie lines to eachother…otherwise you probably would think it stupid

by hermit x—Oct 3, 07:50 PM

Like Jeremy said two weeks ago, Crash. Avoid Garden State. I second Whale Rider. Get Spellbound (either the documentary about spelling bees or the Hitchcock classic, although I was really referring to the documentary): if Neflix doesn’t have it, I’ll send you my copy.

by greg—Oct 3, 10:19 PM

(And welcome MrE.)

by greg—Oct 3, 10:20 PM

i would say stay away from love actually...it has a few nice story lines but a number that are just bathetic…

here is a list of flicks, you may have seen them you may have not, largely they are chosen on strength of story and character development

eat drink man woman(hong kong…about a widowed chef who is loosing his ability to smell and thus cook, and his 3 three daughters..theme reconciliation)
shall we dance?(the japanese version)

abre los ojos
(don’t bother with the very, very vanilla american remake, vanilla sky)
la dolce vita

anything, and i mean anything, by ingmar bergman (but you know that)

german flicks
aguirre or the wrath of god
fitzcarraldo
mostly martha

men with guns
hurly burly
smoke signals
(native american…a young man’s journey to find his dad)
crimes and misdemeanors
zelig
manhattan
bananas
i’ll stop with the woody allen now.

docus
spellbound (like greg said)
the eyes of tammy faye
promises
wattstax

i’ll stop now

by hermit x—Oct 4, 07:44 AM

thanks for the advice! we wil keep you updated on our progress through the netflix world.

by chris—Oct 4, 02:43 PM