Movie thread

[snickerd3]

^great movie

 

[Master slacker]

I still haven't gotten around to Netflix to post up my recent watches. However, from memory, here is what I have seen:

The Gumball Rally

Smokey and the Bandit

Fullmetal Alchemist: The Movie: Conqueror of Shamballa

Trick 'r Treat

There are more and I'll give my crappy reviews at some point.

 

[willsee]

Recently Watched:

Limitless

My Soul to take

Something Borrowed

Don't waste your time...limitless is ok

 

[Supe]

Watched Thor last night. What a stinker. Boring, and surprisingly, VERY poor production values. The animation/CGI looked really bad, and half the movie was out of focus.

 

[snickerd3]

Watched Thor last night. What a stinker. Boring, and surprisingly, VERY poor production values. The animation/CGI looked really bad, and half the movie was out of focus.

THIS!!!!

 

[Road Guy]

I am going to watch "The Burbs" and "The Great Outdoors w.John Candy" tonight...

I kind of miss going to a video store and walking around looking at movies, the redboxes and such are most always out of what you want to see (if you dont plan days in advance) and netflix online is getting worse in terms of movie content...

 

[willsee]

I kind of miss going to a video store and walking around looking at movies, the redboxes and such are most always out of what you want to see (if you dont plan days in advance) and netflix online is getting worse in terms of movie content...

We have a video store that we started going to more and more just walk around, pick up movies, look at the box and decide what we want.

More older movies as well

 

[Master slacker]

... and netflix online is getting worse in terms of movie content...

All depends on what you're looking for.

 

[Road Guy]

soft porn

 

[Master slacker]

It does have some nip flicks. Mostly foreign... or 80's-ish.

 

[roadwreck]

...and netflix online is getting worse in terms of movie content...

I saw an article yesterday saying that Netflix saw a much larger then expected drop in the number of subscribers after their "price increase". As a result their stock took a big hit yesterday. The article speculated that this would make it even more difficult for Netflix to come to terms with movie studios for streaming rights to their material. They were also losing their content from Starz, which was actually a pretty decent chunk of their "good" streaming movies.

I'm actually one of the people that dumped Netflix. The "price hike" wasn't the major factor for us canceling their service, it just made me reexamine their service, and I just didn't feel like it was worth it for us anymore. We were barely watching the dvds anymore. To watch more then one a week was a struggle and literally the only thing I would watch on streaming was episodes of Top Gear (the British version). That didn't seem worth $16 a month.

 

[Capt Worley PE]

I'm actually one of the people that dumped Netflix. The "price hike" wasn't the major factor for us canceling their service, it just made me reexamine their service, and I just didn't feel like it was worth it for us anymore. We were barely watching the dvds anymore. To watch more then one a week was a struggle and literally the only thing I would watch on streaming was episodes of Top Gear (the British version). That didn't seem worth $16 a month.

We don't stream, but we watch two movies a week plus keep at least one cable series going (currently SoA season 2) when there's nothing to watch, so the $18/month works out pretty well for us.

 

[Road Guy]

we just do the online, I read in money magazine that netflix wants to permanantly drop the mail in program and go 100% online, which they said was part of their strategy in the price increase...

Were trying to catch up on weeds, so its cheaper than HBO, but sometimes I spend 20 minutes trying to find something to watch, then we get agitated and go play left 4 dead on the xobx...

 

[Capt Worley PE]

we just do the online, I read in money magazine that netflix wants to permanantly drop the mail in program and go 100% online, which they said was part of their strategy in the price increase...

Never heard that. And there was no price increase fo mail-in only...

 

[roadwreck]

we just do the online, I read in money magazine that netflix wants to permanantly drop the mail in program and go 100% online, which they said was part of their strategy in the price increase...

Never heard that. And there was no price increase fo mail-in only...

Streaming only is definitely their plan for the future and makes up the majority of their users now. The article I read indicated they have just under 3 million dvd customers and just under 10 million streaming customers.

 

[ALBin517]

Contagion was OK.

It started good but went slow in the middle.

It was weird in that I'm still not sure who "the star" of the movie was.

I didn't get the whole story with Jude Law's character - seems like he could have been lifted right out of the movie.

 

[ALBin517]

The Help ... had some hilarious moments.

Saw Apollo 18, it's a turd.

Connected? :dunno:

 

[snickerd3]

The Help ... had some hilarious moments.

Saw Apollo 18, it's a turd.

Connected? :dunno:

:lmao:

 

[Capt Worley PE]

we just do the online, I read in money magazine that netflix wants to permanantly drop the mail in program and go 100% online, which they said was part of their strategy in the price increase...

Never heard that. And there was no price increase fo mail-in only...

Streaming only is definitely their plan for the future and makes up the majority of their users now. The article I read indicated they have just under 3 million dvd customers and just under 10 million streaming customers.

Something isn't adding up, since they have 24 million customers...

 

[roadwreck]

we just do the online, I read in money magazine that netflix wants to permanantly drop the mail in program and go 100% online, which they said was part of their strategy in the price increase...

Never heard that. And there was no price increase fo mail-in only...

Streaming only is definitely their plan for the future and makes up the majority of their users now. The article I read indicated they have just under 3 million dvd customers and just under 10 million streaming customers.

Something isn't adding up, since they have 24 million customers...

I don't think those numbers include people who have both streaming and dvd's.

http://www.investorplace.com/2011/09/netfl...scription-plan/

The company announced it now tallied 2.2 million DVD-only customers in the U.S., a dramatic 26% shortfall. The streaming video numbers also missed the mark, with only 9.8 million down from a 10 million projection. That’s a 1 million loss to the total headcount of viewers.