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personally i'm resisting netflix and all the mail-to-you dvds. i still shop my local independent videostore and try to send as many friends there as possible. once the indie shops go away it will be trouble for anyone who loves odd, indepdent and foreign films . . . you mark my words!!
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I suspect I will eventually succumb to the dark side - but where I am there are a couple of good indie video stores left and i'm going to try to support them until the bitter end!
(damn, I'm noble!)
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Don't get me wrong, I'm totally with you guys in theory, but I live in a rural, very overly christianized area where there are no indie stores and the local Blockbuster has the most bizarre area restrictions. They won't carry alot of R rated movies because they think they "violate the area standards". Can you imagine trying to get a UR foriegn film? Not freaking likely. Besides, I like being lazy. I work an average of 70 hours a week. If I get a rare day off, I want my pizza brought to me (we don't have any delivery places) and my movie in my mailbox.
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03-23-2007, 04:29 PM
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The thing about a place like Netflix is that they can have a much wider selection than a Hollywood Video or an indy store, because it's an online place. They're not tied down to the storage issues of a single building, so they could ship you a movie from wherever or have movies in multiple warehouses around the country, et cetera. And Netflix has plenty of weird or odd or obscure movies. Like Child Bride of the Ozarks. That fits all three of those.
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Aye, there's that, but what Netflix lacks in "watch the movie now" (although that's becoming less of an issue even than with the stores with "Watch it Now"), it makes up for with the possibility to get a constant stream of movies. Say I get three movies on Monday. I watch one on Monday, mail it Tuesday, watch another on Tuesday, mail it Wednesday, watch the third Wednesday, mail it Thursday. Well, Thursday I'll have a new movie, same with Friday and Saturday. Same with Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday of next week if I stick to watching a movie a day. So I could theoretically get a movie a day in the mail depending on how fast the mail is with Netflix (it's fast here). But even if I just got three a week, that's 24 movies a month for less than $20. And this is on the 3-at-a-time account. Get a 5-at-a-time account, you could very easily have a new movie every day if you watch them fast enough.
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03-23-2007, 04:56 PM
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Aside from this weekend when I put Borat and Paradise Lost on the top of the list, I haven't "ordered" from Netflix in I dunno how long. Our rental queue has almost 150 discs on it. The only drawback about it that I can think of is when you rent a TV show series/season you get it a disc at a time (aside from getting more than one disc in the mail on a particular day or something). But I'm not so hot on renting TV shows anyways.
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Ha! I'm so jealous. I used to live on the East Coast in a major urban area and had the most amazing selection of indie stores to choose from. It was great. Now, I swear, we have 1 music store (Christian only), 1 book store (Christian only), and Blockbuster (fascist version). I would love to be able to grab something cool when I'm just in the mood, even if it was in addition to my Netflix.
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