[RexBeach]

My wife and I use Netflix. Mighty hard to find a movie worth ordering. Most of it is drivel.

[Slicksadick]

Watched “Downfall” from netflix last night with my two older kids, great movie.

[a fool in paradise]

My wife and I use Netflix. Mighty hard to find a movie worth ordering. Most of it is drivel.

Depends on what you rent. If you are just looking at modern films and "blockbusters", yes. There are reissues of older films as well as documentaries. And why buy? Some titles will go out of print and eventualy disappear from the Netflix library. If you DO want to go back to a disc, it may not be possible. Hollywood will sit on a film even if there is a market for it. Can't say I'd buy The Path To 9/11 but there are plenty of people on record saying they would. I taped it off air but missed the first part of the second episode because of a speech from Bush.

[Duffboy]

I agree. Movies today, are drivel.
You get 150 minutes of what looks like a video game and 5 minutes of bad acting.
There is no originality any more..its all reworking the classics.
When moviemakers started filming cartoon characters like Casper, Flintstones, I had it!
Those Hollywood Libs can go jump in the great pond of bankruptcy.

[jslade]

I use Netflix too. What I really like is the free streaming movies I can watch on my computer monitor.

[Charles Martel]

My wife and I use Netflix. Mighty hard to find a movie worth ordering. Most of it is drivel.

It's not that hard to find something if you enjoy older movies. Netflix is far superior to the local Blockbuster for classic films. Try finding films like "How Green Was My Valley" or "The Long Grey Line" locally.

Back during the peak of the video rental business, those titles were on the shelves - but not now.

[calex59]

I have netflix and watch the old movies, most of the new ones are terrible, and the worse ones, which are the most plentiful right now, are the remakes of old classics. They stink. Hollywood has no new ideas and is full of left wing whackos who can't think for themselves and spend their time remaking, and ruining, old classics.

I enjoy the old TV series also, right now I am working my way through the original Dark Shadows, poor quality filming because it was a daytime soap, but very entertaining nonetheless.

[ctdonath2]

Oh there’s plenty to watch via Netflix. Almost anything you want to see is available; I’m adding to my queue much faster than I can empty it. Sure a lot may be drivel, but it’s drivel _I_ want to see, when I want, on my own terms, without commercial interruption.

With 150+ in my queue now, there’s no point in buying a movie when it will be an optimistic 3 years before I get a chance to watch anything a second time (and that’s without any more additions to the list).

I expect my only movie purchases in the next 5 years will be a dozen Blu-ray discs for those very few I re-watch and want to possess (Koyaanisqatsi, Watchmen, Matrix, Blade Runner, Being Human, Truman Show, etc.).