They’ve gotten more specific in their recommendation categories. Today I’ve got:
[ul][li]Critically acclaimed independent movies (There Will Be Blood, Au Revoir Les Enfants)[/li][li]Cerebral comedies (La Dolce Vita, The Girl in the Cafe)[/li][li]Romantic Dramas based on contemporary literature (Elegy, Little Children)[/li][li]Visually-striking Showbiz Movies (Son of Rambow, Day for Night)[/li][li]Witty Movies (She’s the One, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang)[/li][/ul]
I like!
I’m a little miffed at Netflix right now for quadrupling my Blu-ray access charge, and so I haven’t been to the site lately, but those new categories sound very interesting: thanks for mentioning them!
I saw them.
At once, I hated how they only had 3 qualifications for them
I’m still a bit peeved that I can only rate a movie 1 - 5.
2.What should you do to a movie that, you like the concept, but hated the execution?
Not sure I know what you mean by “qualifications.”
I just rate the movie overall – I don’t overthink the various components of “this element was good but that element didn’t work.” I rate the vast majority of movies 3 stars – I liked it just fine, thanks. Four means I liked it a lot (and I’m sparing with fours), and five means one of the best freaking movies I’ve ever seen (very few fives). Two stars means I didn’t like it but I watched the whole thing; one star means completely unwatchable, I gave up after 10 or 15 minutes. Very few of either of those ratings, because I usually have some expectation that I’ll enjoy the movie before I sit down to watch it.
That’s pretty much my rating system, too. 
Agreed. I was perfectly willing to do $1. But at the same time that Blu-ray costs to the consumer market are going down (I’m seeing a lot of sub-$20 movies for purchase lately, and occasionally even a few breaking the $10 barrier), we’re supposed to believe that for commercial buyers (whether per movie or economy of scale), it’s so much more expensive that they have to jack up the charge? I call BS, and they’re losing at least this customer’s extra blu-ray dollar (or four) at the end of this billing cycle; I know I’m not alone.
I agree that it’s BS, but I only own 1 Blu-ray disc so far and don’t plan to start buying them the way I did DVDs, so I’ll suck it up and keep paying them – for now, anyway. I do plan to switch down to the 2-at-a-time plan, though, which is $4 less (including Blu-ray access).
Attention Netflix: We’re not stupid.
First of all, I’m not going to take seriously your “Critically Acclaimed” category. When I hear that phrase, I think of Dr. Zhivago or Citizen Kane. As much as I enjoyed it, and you could probably dig up a critic who liked it, I fail to believe that “Spaceballs” was critically acclaimed.
Second, merely switching around the order in which the “new arrivals” scroll will not convince me that you are adding more movies.
Gees. Everyone is a critic…
Oh. Unless THATS what they meant. :eek: