# How organized is your Netflix queue? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 27, 2005, 9:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-organized-is-your-netflix-queue/292138 "2005-02-27T09:50:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![KGS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/90ced4/32.png) [@KGS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KGS)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2005, 9:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-organized-is-your-netflix-queue/292138/1 "2005-02-27T09:50:38Z")
I just spent the last few hours organizing & alphabetizing my Netflix queue, which had been out of control for quite a long time. Do you ever feel the need to do this? Here’s the system I came up with: [ul]1-25: The “Short List” - all stuff that I plan to watch over the next couple weeks. This section changes constantly as I’m always bumping stuff to the top, and only five minutes later find something else to bump on top of that. Current selections include _Cinema Paradiso, The Black Sabbath Story, My Own Private Idaho_ (comes out on Tuesday…can’t wait!!), _Titanic, Ed and His Dead Mother, The Bicycle Thief_ and _Saw_.[/ul] [ul]26-50: Movies w/bonus discs - BTW, it irritates me when Netflix screws around and sends the bonus disc a week after the movie disc…or, worse yet, sends the bonus disc several days BEFORE the movie disc! I just know they do it on purpose to piss me off.[/ul] [ul]51-55: _21 Up, 28 Up, 35 Up_ and _42 Up_ - Are these worth watching? A lot of good things have been said about them, but I recently rented the first disc (_Seven Up/7+7_) and was greatly underwhelmed. Haven’t decided whether to delete these or not.[/ul] [ul]56-135: Individual movies - from _Amarcord_ to _Whale Rider_. Nearly half are foreign and/or independent films.[/ul] [ul]136-215: Music concerts - from AC/DC to _Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars_.[/ul] [ul]216-225: TV series - this section used to be much, much larger until I deleted all those massive 40-disc sets like _Star Trek_ and _Hercules: The Legendary Journeys_. The queue’s got a 400-disc limit, after all…[/ul] [ul]226-240: Stand-up comedy - also known as “The George Carlin Section” :)[/ul] [ul]241-285: Documentaries - this section’s growing like a weed right now. I keep finding cool stuff.[/ul] Anything I’m missing? Still got another 100 slots to play with… ---
**Author:** ![Large\_Marge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/50afbb/32.png) [@Large\_Marge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Large_Marge)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2005, 10:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-organized-is-your-netflix-queue/292138/2 "2005-02-27T10:22:56Z")
Clearly, mine’s not as organized as yours. 😃 I have only about 60 slots taken. I just can’t get that far ahead of myself. One suggestion for your queue: move the Indys up. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2005, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-organized-is-your-netflix-queue/292138/3 "2005-02-27T10:48:21Z")
Mine’s not organized at all. I have 330 slots filled and the last hundred or so are random classics, things I’ve discovered by randomly poking around, and foreign films but that’s the only part that’s got even a marginal theme. The other 200 or so is even more random. They’re all movies though. No TV series or documentaries. ---
**Author:** ![middleman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@middleman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/middleman)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2005, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-organized-is-your-netflix-queue/292138/4 "2005-02-27T14:35:17Z")
I have had mine only a week and it is not really organized very well. I have moved some of the ones I want to watch right away toward the top, but I always reorganize just before I put the return copy in the mail. My wife will log-on and change it around anyway, so there is no need for order. ---
**Author:** ![KSO](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f07891/32.png) [@KSO](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KSO)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2005, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-organized-is-your-netflix-queue/292138/5 "2005-02-27T16:20:47Z")
Mine’s not organized at all. I check it the day I send a movie back and move movies to the top. Otherwise, I just add movies to the queue as I think of them or as I browse. ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2005, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-organized-is-your-netflix-queue/292138/6 "2005-02-27T18:32:42Z")
Ever since I bought my first VCR in 1988, I’ve had a goal of watching every motion picture ever nominated for any Academy Award. I started with the earliest nominees in 1929, and have worked my way chronologically to 1987 (_Crocodile Dundee_, Best Original Screenplay), now using DVDs, Netflix, and TiVo. However, lots of older features are not available on home video and never get shown on television, it seems. I still have 742 features to see, and that will only take me to 1993. ---
**Author:** ![Idlewild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8491ac/32.png) [@Idlewild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idlewild)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2005, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-organized-is-your-netflix-queue/292138/7 "2005-02-27T18:50:46Z")
Mine’s split into two queues, one for stuff that I specifically want to see but that may not interest my husband at all, and one for stuff that both of us will probably enjoy. This way we can be pretty sure we won’t end up with all stuff I’m the only one who wants to watch at any time, or all stuff we were saving to watch together. Within those categories, the queues both have a few tv series in them, which are in correct order but broken up so we don’t watch a series straight through, but have other things coming in between them. I don’t really care to be much more fanatically organized than that. This stuff is all purely entertainment to me, I don’t have a particular agenda with what I’m choosing to watch. ---
**Author:** ![middleman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@middleman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/middleman)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2005, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-organized-is-your-netflix-queue/292138/8 "2005-02-27T20:52:49Z")
> [@Walloon](#): > > Ever since I bought my first VCR in 1988, I’ve had a goal of watching every motion picture ever nominated for any Academy Award. Since I joined Netflix, I decided at the VERY least, I could watch every Best Picture Winner. I am going to start my goal as seeing the ones that have one in my lifetime. While that is 30 films, I have already seen most of them (Missing are- Driving Miss Daisy, The Last Emperor, Out of Africa, Terms of Endearment, Chariots of Fire, & Ordinary People.) Once I hit those, I’ll tackle the rest. ---
**Author:** ![middleman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@middleman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/middleman)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2005, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-organized-is-your-netflix-queue/292138/9 "2005-02-27T20:54:49Z")
That should be “won” not “one.” “Ones that have won” is difficult to type. IN FACT, I even inverted it just now typing the previous sentence. ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2005, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-organized-is-your-netflix-queue/292138/10 "2005-02-27T21:50:38Z")
Ours is split into two queues. One for our 6 year old son. This one is organized so that he gets a good mix of live action as well as animated movies, Disney and non-Disney. The other queue is not organized in any way. We are often surprised by whatever film ends up in our mail box. It’s kinda fun that way. ---
**Author:** ![Indygrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@Indygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indygrrl)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2005, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-organized-is-your-netflix-queue/292138/11 "2005-02-27T23:03:41Z")
I just joined last week,so I think I need to go look at it some more. I just have one main list and any movie I want, I click on. I pretty much have only gotten old Jack Nicholson movies so far, and I don’t imagine they’re in huge demand like the new releases. I think I’ll go on there now and see wassup. ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2005, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-organized-is-your-netflix-queue/292138/12 "2005-02-27T23:05:25Z")
My list is in chronological order, but I have only about 40 titles in my queue. The rest (which includes TV series) are on a master list on disk. I have 2 or 2 1/2 years’ worth of movie watching ahead of me! I have a rule that I have to read 50 pages of my current book each night before I can see a movie, and some nights I’m too tired to stay up that late. Eventually I want to see all of the [Top 250 movies](http://www.imdb.com/chart/top) on the IMDb that I haven’t already seen (I’ve already seen most of 'em). I also have suggestions from [MovieLens](http://movielens.umn.edu/main) to go throught, but those are for later. **KGS** , _definitely_ hang in there for the _Up_ movies. But I wouldn’t watch 'em all in a row – go back for a “visit” every now and again. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![easy\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/eb8c5e/32.png) [@easy\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/easy_e)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2005, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-organized-is-your-netflix-queue/292138/13 "2005-02-27T23:07:33Z")
I’m overly anal about it. Right now my boyfriend and I are working through season 2 of both **The West Wing** and **The Wire**. We’re on the 3-at-a-time plan, so I organize it so we get one disc of each series and one movie. Since there’s one extra season of **The West Wing** available, this will change soon. We’ve got other TV series on the list– **Homicide** , **The Shield** , **Absolutely Fabulous** , and **Six Feet Under** , as well as a miniseries ( **Band of Brothers** ) and a bunch of concert discs. We have a lot fewer movies, so I’ll probably continue with alternating one movie with two different series discs for a while. We’ve got 130 or so discs in the queue, so this should last us a while. ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2005, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-organized-is-your-netflix-queue/292138/14 "2005-02-28T00:32:27Z")
I only joined about two (or so) weeks ago, and I haven’t had HBO or Showtime, so I’m doing a lot of TV watching. (Sopranos, Six Feet Under, The Wire, etc.) So, mine rotates so that there’s an actual movie every third slot. Other than that, not really organized. ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2005, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-organized-is-your-netflix-queue/292138/15 "2005-02-28T01:10:13Z")
The only organizing I’ll do is to move movies that I’m more anxious to see up the list. ---
**Author:** ![Zjestika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/8edcca/32.png) [@Zjestika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zjestika)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2005, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-organized-is-your-netflix-queue/292138/16 "2005-02-28T05:13:22Z")
> [@KGS](#): > > [ul]51-55: _21 Up, 28 Up, 35 Up_ and _42 Up_ - Are these worth watching? A lot of good things have been said about them, but I recently rented the first disc (_Seven Up/7+7_) and was greatly underwhelmed. Haven’t decided whether to delete these or not.[/ul] I’d go with 28 Up as your next. They do a lot of flashbacks to the more interesting parts of the characters’ lives in the later installations, and the characters are most interesting as they are realizing that life sucks. Since it sounds like you have a lot you’d rather be watching, though, the Up series can probably wait. ZJ