Posted on 10/14/2004 8:23:11 AM PDT by conelrad
I don't watch TV. (I don't have a TV.) I just signed up for netflix for DVDs to watch on my computer.
I started out with the old TV show Combat! and some Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoons. (Showing my age.)
Since netflix has so many thousands of offerings, I wonder if freepers would recommend out-of-the-way DVDs, or movies / shows they enjoyed but never saw at their video store.
netflix doesn't have the TV episodes of Rocky Jones: Space Ranger. :-(
any mel brooks flick.
Pick a favorite actor (like John Wayne) or director (like Sam Peckinpah) to search on, start piling. Pay attention to the "other people that rented this" section. Your queue will stack up in no time. They have both The Prisoner and Secret Agent Man. Babylon 5. It's a lot of fun, I actually watch a lot of absolute dreck from NetFlix, cause it's funny and you don't actually pay by the movie.
Black Hawk Down as a reminder.
Sling Blade is a must.
That's what I do: pick a genre/actor/director and load up the queue. Some ends up being junk but since I'm on the 8 DVD plan I don't really care.
The Netflix Twilight Zone series is complete, but I found the DVD menus so irritating that after watching 3 or 4 I deleted the rest from my queue. A couple years ago Netflix bought the entire Tai Seng Video catalog, and I think I watched every Chow Yun Fat movie ever made (20+). Right now I'm in a little 70's retrospective, e.g., David Carradine in Cannonball; Kelley's Heros; Where Eagles Dare; a couple Steve McQueen flix.
MST3K
Funny, and a must see!
What's fun is to get your queue to the point where stuff you pick today won't be there for months, then when the movies arrive try to remember why you picked that "what mood was I in that day".
Band of Brothers - all ten hours and each one worth it.
Not showing your age but a discriminating taste in superior cartoons!
Why?
I rented it and was sorry I did, terribly, terribly depressing
Patton
Walking Tall w/ Joe Don Baker
Lean on Me
The Magnificant Seven
True Grit
The Fightin' Sullivans
It's a Big Country (1952)
Dogville with Nicole Kidman, The Office(BBC comedy), Ali G Show, Bullshit (Penn & Teller), The Fog of War (Docu), Touching the Void (Docu)
I can't wait to see the Office Christmas special!!!
The In-Laws (original with Peter Falk and Alan Arkin)
Office Space
All Mel Brooks' films prior to "Men In Tights"
Hellboy
"Melena" a very good Italian film with Monica Berlucci, the most beautiful woman on earth.
Run Serpentine...
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