The OP means how many movies you have in your “waiting to be delivered next” list… if that simplifies enough? heh
I’ve got around 70 or so currently. The main catch for me these days is actually watching them in a timely manner and not letting the discs sit around for a couple weeks.
It tends not to be a deal when looked at in a rough-cost-per-disc sense, but that’s more than made up for in opportunity cost savings–in being able to rent while naked, for instance. Retail stores tend to frown on that.
103 movies in my active queue, and 88 in my “coming soon” queue. So I guess that means 191 movies in my q as of this moment.
I’ve had no problems of any kind. I’ve been a member since May 2000 and I love it. I have the 8-movies-at-atime plan because I’m a spoiled brat. I’m also lucky because I have a location about 40 miles from me so the turnaround is virtually overnight. I have left movies in my mailbox that my postman has picked up at 5:30 pm, and at 10am the next day Netflix has new ones out the door to me. It’s amazing.
This has been a big month for me, I’ve watched 35 DVDs in the last 30 days. And it cost me the same as it did last month, when I watched about 6. It’s worth it even in the months I don’t watch as many because of the convenience factor.
Here’s what I’ve watched in the last month…pretty eclectic list:
** With a Friend Like Harry, ** <---- Sick and twisted French film. Yeeps! **
The Importance of Being Earnest, 2002
Friends: The Complete First Season: Disc 3, 1994
Austin Powers in Goldmember, 2002
Stuart Little 2, 2002
Pumpkin,
All About My Mother, 1999
Hearts and Minds, 1974
The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys, 2002
Triumph of Love, 2002
Unfaithful, 2002
Men in Black II: Bonus Disc, 2002
Men in Black II, 2002
40 Days and 40 Nights, 2002
Survivor: Season One: The Greatest and Most Outrageous Moments, 2000
Ice Age: Bonus Disc, 2002
Star Wars: Episode II: Attack of the Clones: Bonus Disc, 2002
Ice Age, 2002
The Scorpion King, 2002
Reign of Fire, 2002
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, 2002
The Sum of All Fears, 2002
Glengarry Glen Ross, 1992
Glengarry Glen Ross: Bonus Disc, 1992
Grave of the Fireflies: Bonus Disc
God’s Army
Big Trouble
The Piano Teacher
Grave of the Fireflies
XXX
L.I.E.
Y Tu Mama Tambien
Elling ** <-- Norwegian. Funny and cool.**
Lovely and Amazing
Amy’s O**
I also see a lot more movies overall, because I don’t have the “Is it worth it?” factor. Meaning, since I’m paying the same amount no matter which movie I get or how many, I’ll rent lots of movies I might otherwise have passed on, knowing that if I hate it I can turn it off and it wasn’t a waste of money. (It woulld have annoyed me to pay for ** XXX ** and ** The Scorpion King ** , for instance, and I wouldn’t have in a normal rental situation.)
ANd I think this thread should be in the Cafe.
61 in my Queue (i thought i had more for some reason). i have rated 191 movies and maybe thats why i thought my queue was bigger. i love netflix. never again to blockbusters will i go.
I’m a very organized movie fanatic.
The “My Movies” list I created at the Internet Movie Database has every feature that was ever nominated for any Academy Award that I have not yet seen, plus every New York Times “best of the year” from 1930 forward that I have not yet seen, plus every title nominated to the British Film Institute’s recent Sight and Sound poll of the best films of all time, plus every 4-star feature in Leonard Maltin’s movie guide that I haven’t seen, plus every Siskel & Ebert “best of the year” that I haven’t seen. . . and more . . .
Total titles: 2,156.
From that list, I have been able to find 166 DVDs at NetFlix, and so that’s the number of titles in my queue. Tonight we’re watching Great Expectations (1946).
I’ve also rated 737 films at NetFlix.
my queue 42
rated 371
I absolutely love this service also.
My wife and I have two small children and we rarely get to go out to the movies, so always having new DVDs to watch after the kids are in bed is great.
I love all kinds of movies, but my wife prefers the latest releases.
Here is a tip - Once every other week or so I’ll check out whats currently playing at the local theater. Movies that I’d like to see, or I know my wife would like I add to the Queue. They always have movies currently in release that can be added to your coming soon section.
If your looking for a hot title, I think the longer its in your queue the better chance you have of getting it. (not absolutely sure on that) It also helps to time a few movies to return at the time the title you want is released to DVD.
65 in my queue.
My roommate and I have recieved about 20 movies in the past few months. We’ve had 2-3 that have had trouble playing at times, with one of those being REALLY bad.
Still happy with it though.
Keweenaw: shhhh!
I have 38 in my queue and have rated 360.
I have also marked at least 100 as not interested . Is it better to mark that way, or rate with 1 star if it is a movie that you haven’t seen, but are absolutlely certain you would hate?
As of today… 222
I’ve only got the three-in-the-queue for $20/mo. deal.
I’ve been a member for about a month, and I think it’s great. It helps, though (as it’s been repeatedly stated in the OP), that we’re close to a distribution center. We dropped three movies in the mailbox for 5PM pickup on Tuesday, and I got three movies in the mail today. That’s sweet.
I used to keep well over a hundred in the queue but one day I looked at the titles and realized I couldn’t remember why I’d chosen half of them. I dumped a bunch and now I keep it at around 30.
I normally kept about 50-60 in the queue until I canceled it after 8 months of service.
I rather liked the service, actually, but simply took too long for them to turn the movies around – it averaged about 10-12 days from the time I dropped one in the mail until a replacement hit our mailbox. The weird thing is that some movies would take like 3 days to turn while others might take two weeks… I guess it’s a question of whether they had THAT movie in a disty point that was closer or further away.
The delay was definitely OUTbound from them: the mail-back envelope went to Flushing, NY (local to me), and they’d usually record it as received back the day after I mailed it… Then it would pick up the next movie from my queue – usually in 24 hours, but it took DAYS for it to appear far too often.
I also noticed that when I first joined even brand-new movies were always available, but over time more and more newer releases started showing up as “very long wait”… I NEVER actually got any movie sent to me that showed “very long wait” – had a few of 'em in my queue, but not one ever actually got sent, it just rolled down to the next “available now” selection.
Also, maybe I’m just being paranoid, but it sure seemed that the service degraded over time: like new members got extra-special-fast service, but after you’d been there 2-3 months and they figured you were “hooked” then it slowed up…
Once it became painfully obvious that we were waiting more than we were watching, I went back and calculated how many movies we’d got. For the last two months I had the service, we got 3.8 movies per month, which is $5.25 per movie… About the same as the local Blockbuster… So still not a “ripoff,” but not a fantastic amazing deal either. The problem was I had the Netflix sub and was still renting 3-4 movies a month at the store because of the slow turns (about the same rate as before Netflix), so it became purely incremental money. A couple times I even ended up renting something from the store that was already on my Netflix list – usually because Mrs. Lizardo or the Lizardette JUST HAD to see it THIS WEEKEND and it just wasn’t showing up in the mail…
Like DMark, I ended up spending the same amount to order up a couple premium channels on cable, and now maybe rent at the vid store once a month…
The concept is great, and it’s a very nice convenience; if it had turned a bit faster, I probably woulda stayed a member long-term.
I should clarify: we typically watched and returned the movies we did get the day of receipt or the next day. It wasn’t a matter of holding on to them for days and weeks before we sent them back.
Same reason we just quit. It seems like they are getting fewer and fewer new titles (especially in the smaller genres) and getting fewer copies of the DVDs they do get. I think that we’re going to try numberslate.com once the semester is over, and we have more time.
I used to have Netflix - and I used the queue to the fullest! I had 500 in my queue - which was the limit. I stuck anything in - and culled as I went along.
Susan
I love Netflix, especially because I’ll never have to pay another penny to the Great Blockbuster Satan…
I love that they have great obscure/foreign/indie stuff, as well as all that Hollywood crap too, for when I’m in the mood for it…
I have 77 in my queue; I’m a “3” member (June '01) but was an “8” member for about six months of 2002.
I have some tips for the uninitiated:
Never ever have anything but a “Now” movie as your next selection; otherwise it delays the shipment of the next available movie for an extra day. It took me six months to realize this.
You can return up to two movies in a single envelope. If you start doing this, you will develop a surplus and can throw away the return envelopes from Netflix centers which are not close to you. So if you’re in Fresno you can just have San Jose envelopes on hand and ditch the Phoenix and Minneapolis ones. I just realized this a month ago.
Anyone else have tips?
-AmbushBug
On the one hand, good tip.
On the other, it essentially means “you’re not gonna get new releases through this service”
Interesting… I never, ever got an envelope that returned to any center by the one local to me in Flushing, NY.