The problem is that 9/10 of the movies available to stream on Netflix suck. If I get the urge to watch some older movie, it always tells me that I need to subscribe to their DVD option. Netflix is good mostly for TV series, where you can watch a year's worth of episodes continuously.
I happen to like old horror stuff like Vincent Price and Christopher Lee.
If not for Netflix, I would never have been able to ‘catch up’ with Breaking Bad before the final season started.
They have lots of documentaries, which I really like.
I’m currently enjoying old Columbo and Kolchak episodes.
For $7, I find enough stuff.
:)
The other night I was watching episodes one after another and a little pop-up appeared, asking me if I was “still watching”.
I guess it thought I had fallen asleep.
I wish Netflix had more of the Criterion titles. They seemed to have stopped stocking the “newer” (Hula dispute?).
I have the boxed set (BBS Story?) that has this (with 2 commentary tracks, I think one may be Dennis Hopper’s laserdisc commentary which was not used for the mass market DVD, a new and “less informative” track was recorded).
I haven’t sat down to rewatch it (or dig through the bonus materials).