What's in your Netflix queue?

Cafe Society
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I just got it and I don’t know what took me so long. We are the type of family that would pay 20$ in late fees and never actually watch the movie. Our queue relfects how different the four of us are in our tastes.

1 Reservoir Dogs R Action & Adventure

09/20/04 09/22/04

2 The Big Lebowski R Comedy

09/20/04 09/22/04

3 Starsky & Hutch PG-13 Comedy

09/20/04 09/22/04

DVDs in Your Queue

Timeline PG-13 Sci-Fi & Fantasy

American Pie NR Comedy

American Pie 2 UR Comedy

American Wedding UR Comedy

Wattstax R Documentary

Fahrenheit 9/11 R Documentary

The Green Mile R Drama

An American Werewolf in London R Horror

Bad Lieutenant NC-17 Drama

Black and White R Drama

Slaughterhouse Five R Sci-Fi & Fantasy

The Chinese Connection R Foreign

He Got Game R Drama

The Charge of the Light Brigade

Post your queue too.

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I actually own both Reservoir Dogs and The Big Lebowski on DVD… they’re among the movies I can watch over and over again and never get bored of 'em, a rather short list as it turns out.

I find Netflix is a perfect way to ‘test’ movies… I can get it sent to me, watch it, see if I like it. Don’t pay big bucks at the theater, don’t buy a disk that I don’t like. (With a few exceptions, but that’s fodder for another thread)

Currently in my mailbox, gonna go get 'em here in a bit:
1 200 Cigarettes R Comedy

2 A Night at the Opera UR Classics

3 Of Mice And Men PG-13 Drama

And in my Queue, some of which has been sitting there for a while now:

Frank Zappa: Baby Snakes NR Music & Musicals

Harold and Maude PG Comedy

Cowboy Bebop: The Movie R Anime & Animation

The Magnificent Seven UR Classics

Grosse Pointe Blank R Comedy

The Madness of King George PG-13 Comedy

Cyborg 009: Disc 1 NR Anime & Animation

Night on the Galactic Railroad NR Anime & Animation

Spider-Man: Season 1: Disc 2 NR Television

X-Men: Evolution: Season 1: Vol. 3 NR Children & Family

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I just returned that today. You’ll be getting it soon :wink:

I think I’m gonna add Big Lebowski to the queue. I’m a girl - do you think I will ‘get’ it?
1 The Black Adder NR Television
2 Party Monster UR Drama
3 Frank Zappa: Baby Snakes NR Music & Musicals

The Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Disc 1 NR Children & Family
Black Adder the Third NR Television
The Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Disc 2 NR Children & Family
Black Adder Goes Forth NR Television
The Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Disc 3 NR Children & Family
Black Adder Back & Forth NR Television
The Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Disc 4 NR Children & Family
Secretary R Romance
The Conversation PG Thrillers
Cube R Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Suicide Kings R Comedy
Kalifornia R Thrillers
Love Liza R Drama
Copycat R Thrillers
Cabaret PG Classics
Twin Falls Idaho R Drama
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom PG Action & Adventure
Matchstick Men PG-13 Comedy
Eyes Wide Shut R Drama
Tuck Everlasting PG Children & Family
The Cannonball Run PG Comedy
The Cannonball Run II PG Comedy
Gone in 60 Seconds PG Action & Adventure
Frank Zappa: Does Humor Belong in Music? NR Music & Musicals
Good Burger PG Children & Family
Big Fish PG-13 Drama
Pirates of the Caribbean PG-13 Action & Adventure
Shakespeare in Love R Romance
Chocolat PG-13 Comedy
The Dukes of Hazzard: Season 1: Disc 2 NR Television
The Dukes of Hazzard: Season 1: Disc 3 NR Television Now
M. Hulot’s Holiday UR Foreign
Mon Oncle

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Ours is a little out of control:

1 Lost in Translation
2 Soul Plane
3 Y Tu Mama Tambien

The Hot Rock
American History X
Mississippi Masala
Bank Shot
Solaris
Secretary
Donnie Brasco
What’s the Worst That Could Happen?
Notorious
Beetlejuice
Timeline
North by Northwest
Heathers
A Mighty Wind
Desperado/El Mariachi
Kalifornia
The Company
The Full Monty
Good Will Hunting
Clueless
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
Igby Goes Down
Nobody’s Fool
American Beauty
Magnolia
Bad Santa
You Got Served
Undercover Brother
The Cooler
Master and Commander
Fast, Cheap & Out of Control
Ruthless People
Sex and the City: Season 1: Disc 1
Sex and the City: Season 1: Disc 2
Hellboy
House of Games
My Bodyguard
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
Titan A.E.
The Professional
Hiding Out
Tears of the Sun
Maverick
The Magnificent Seven
Sexy Beast
Reservoir Dogs
Gangs of New York
What’s Eating Gilbert Grape
To Kill a Mockingbird Recommended based on your ratings
King of New York: SE (Widescreen)
Scarface: 20th Anniversary Edition
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
Gallipoli
Pi: Faith in Chaos
Super Size Me
Walking Tall
Thief
The Italian Job
Fahrenheit 9/11

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Out:

Buffalo Soldiers
Dirty Pretty Things
Green Snake

Queue:

Croupier
Kwaidan
Stalingrad
Metropolis (Anime Version)
The Work of director Spike Jonze (music videos)
20 Million miles to earth
13 Ghosts
Phone Booth
Once upon a time in China
Fulltime Killer
The Big sleep
Chronos

And about 70 more.

Like the OP I can’t believe it took me so long to sign up for this. No late fees, convenient door to door delivery, and so far I’ve had no problem playing the DVD’s although the drive on my computer can be very tempermental about any scratches.

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I’m almost embarassed to show how thin my queue is:

Lonsome Dove
The Passion of Christ
Donnie Darko

But I wanted to warn Big Girl about Bad Lieutenant. Don’t! It’s absolutely terrible. Watch Reservoir Dogs twice instead-- you’ll want to anyway.

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I have 166 movies in my Netflix queue. These are the top 15:

  1. Father (Father: Diary of One Week) (Russia)
  2. Hiroshima Mon Amour (France)
  3. Little Murders (USA)
  4. Operation Thunderbolt: Disc 1 (Israel)
  5. Operation Thunderbolt: Disc 2
  6. Smash Palace (Australia)
  7. Genocide (Academy Award-winning documentary)
  8. Pauline at the Beach (France)
  9. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (USA)
  10. Robinson Crusoe (Mexico)
  11. Footloose (USA)
  12. Dangerous Moves (Switzerland)
  13. Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan (UK)
  14. A Private Function (UK)
  15. Salvador (USA)
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I can’t list them all for reasons which will become apparent, but here’s a few:
DVDs You Have Out

1 Power and Terror: Noam Chomsky
2 The Dead Zone: Season 1: Disc 4
3 The Dead Zone: Season 1: Disc 3
DVDs in Your Queue

1 Night of the Living Dead
2 Day of the Dead
3 Threesome
4 Shiri
5 Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky
6 Westworld
7 Existenz
8 The 10th Kingdom: Disc 1 of 3
9 The Omega Man
10 A Better Tomorrow
20 Ken Burns’ The West: Disc 1
30 La Separation
40 Monty Python’s Flying Circus: Vol. 6
50 Being John Malkovich
75 Firefly: Disc 4
100 My Big Fat Greek Wedding
125 Body Heat
150 Croupier
175 Empire of the Sun
200 Faraway, So Close!
225 Five Easy Pieces
250 Lord of Illusions
275 The Castle of Cagliostro
300 The Dead Zone: Season 2: Disc 5
325 The Fisher King
Plus 5 that haven’t been released on DVD yet.

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Wow, I thought I was pushing the bounds of self-restraint with my paltry 26 entries. I bow to Walloon.

Out Now:

Inspector Lynley: Missing Joseph
Inspector Lynley: Payment in Blood
Inspector Lynley: For the Sake of Elena

Queue:
Evolution: Disc 3
Mrs. Bradley: Speedy Death (Pilot)
The Singing Detective: Disc 1
Evolution: Disc 4
The Mrs. Bradley Mysteries: Disc 1
The Blue Kite
The Mrs. Bradley Mysteries: Disc 2
The Singing Detective: Disc 2
Mockingbird Don’t Sing
Star Trek: Nemesis
Bloody Sunday
Bonus Material: The Singing Detective
House of Cards
Wire in the Blood: The Mermaids Singing
Master of the Flying Guillotine
Foyle’s War: Series 1: Disc 1
Dr. Bell and Mr. Doyle
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy: Disc 1
Rebecca
Secret Agent A.K.A. Danger Man: Vol. 1
Hetty Wainthropp: Series 1: Vol. 1
Hetty Wainthropp: Series 1: Vol. 2
Hetty Wainthropp: Series 1: Vol. 3
Inu-Yasha: Vol. 1: Down the Well
Inu-Yasha: Vol. 2: A Girl’s Best Friend
Inu-Yasha: Vol. 3: Fathers and Sons

The mysteries are my girlfriend’s doing (though I enjoy the Inspector Lynley series as well), as is the Inuyasha. I think I’ll go fatten the queue with a few more choices of my own …

10

I’ve seen Bad Lieutenant. I saw it in the movies, in fact. My son has been dying to see it and I kept telling him “No. He’s just too bad. Bad, bad lieutenant.”

Now he’s seventeen.

I liked Bad Lieutenant. Well, the parts I watched when I wasn’t closing my eyes and cringing.

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Out:
The Osbournes: Season 2: Disc 2
The Sting
Red Dragon

Queue:
The Complete Monterey Pop Festival: Disc 1 NR Music & Musicals
The Complete Monterey Pop Festival: Disc 2 NR Music & Musicals
The Complete Monterey Pop Festival: Disc 3 NR Music & Musicals
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets PG Children & Family
Spirited Away PG Children & Family
Evelyn PG Drama
Drumline PG-13 Drama
Standing in the Shadows of Motown PG Documentary
Bound NR Drama
25th Hour R Drama
Frida R Drama
Dances With Wolves: Special Edition PG-13 Drama
Tears of the Sun R Action & Adventure
To Kill a Mockingbird NR Drama
Spellbound UR Classics
The Omen R Horror
Tully R Independent
What’s Cooking? PG-13 Drama
Punch-Drunk Love R Romance
Shanghai Knights

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I just watched 42nd Street and have Intolerance and Meet Me In St. Louis awaiting viewing.

Next up:

Battleship Potemkin
The Perils of Pauline
The Whales of August
Broadway Melody of 1940
It
For Me and My Gal
Thief of Bagdad
To the Manor Born: Complete Series: Disc 1
The Man in the White Suit
Rumpole of the Bailey: The Lost Episode
Mapp and Lucia: Series 1: Disc 1
The Philadelphia Story
The Cook and Other Treasures
City Lights
There’s No Business Like Show Business
Three Ages

plus a bunch of others.
I only signed up a couple of months ago but I’ve already watched more movies, etc than in the last ten years. It’s a lot of fun.

13

Explain Netflix to me. I think I understand the basic premis - you pay amonthly fee and they send you up to 3 DVDs you can watch and return. When you return those, you get three more. But can you designate which you want to see when? I mean, what if you really want to see Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, and that’s number 25 on your list? Or you’re in the mood for action/adventure and the next three movies on your list are romantic comedies?

How long is the turn around once you send the movies back?

I usually just buy movies used at Hollywood video.

StG

14

You get a queue of the movies you want to see. You can re-arrange your queue at any time, putting whatever you want to see at #1. Of course, if a movie is already being mailed to you, you can’t change that, but it only takes a day for them to arrive. You don’t have to rent them in blocks of three, three is just the max you can have out. (They offer more expensive packages where you can have up to 8 movies out, and a budget package with only two movies and a limited number of rentals a month.) Of course, getting the movies theoretically depends on availability, but I’ve never had this problem. (In other words, all the movies I’ve wanted have been available when they were at the top of my queue.) In the situation you describe, you would simply move seven brides to the top of you list, and that would be the next flick shipped out to you. Or you could move your three romantic comedies up top, if that’s what you wanted. For me its a three day turnaround. Usually I’ve got one movie at home, sometimes two.

I rarely buy DVD’s because I’ve got enough damn clutter with my books and music, and there are few movies I’m going to see over and over. Of course alot of people do buy movies and there ain’t nothin’ wrong with that. :slight_smile:

15

This week I sent back five discs which they received all at once, but only sent out two that day. The other three didn’t ship til the next day, for no apparent reason (no wait list or anything.) What the hell? First time the bozos ever did that…

Currently Out:

  1. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
  2. The Tin Drum
  3. Bonus Material: The Tin Drum
  4. Bonus Material: Fight Club
  5. Bonus Material: Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life

In Queue:

  1. Medea (Long Wait)
  2. Sling Blade
  3. Noises Off!
  4. Withnail and I
  5. Easy Rider
  6. A Man Called Horse
  7. Miami Blues
  8. The Boys of St. Vincent (Releases on DVD Sep 28, 2004)
  9. Indictment: The McMartin Trial
  10. The Night of the Hunter
  11. I’ll Remember April
  12. Motorama
  13. The Gods Must Be Crazy
  14. Creature Comforts
  15. Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death
  16. Ed And His Dead Mother
  17. Bridge on the River Kwai
  18. Bonus Material: Bridge on the River Kwai
  19. Pulp Fiction
  20. Bonus Material: Pulp Fiction
  21. Reservoir Dogs
  22. Bonus Material: Reservoir Dogs
  23. Boyz N the Hood
  24. Bonus Material: Boyz N the Hood
    (am I the only one who likes bonus discs? It seems like it…)
  25. The Great Muppet Caper
  26. A Shock to the System
  27. The Tic Code
  28. Reversal of Fortune
  29. Bully
  30. Gummo
    …followed by about 50 more movies, several TV series (South Park, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Penn & Teller’s Bullshit, etc.) and over 100 rock concerts. I’m always bumping up stuff to the top that I want right away, so Gummo probably won’t arrive for another year or so. :slight_smile:
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Okay, I’ll play, mostly because I’m curious what I’ve got in there:

Currently Out:

  1. Father Ted: Series 1
  2. Black Adder the Third
  3. Six Feet Under: Season 1: Disc 1

Queue:
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind [can’t wait to see this]
The Passion of Joan of Arc [based on recommendations from the SDMB]
Stray Dog
Network
The Sopranos: Season 1
The Last Samurai
Monster
Six Feet Under: Season 1
Dersu Uzala
High and Low
The Kids in the Hall: Season 1
Strangers with Candy: Season 1
Black Adder Back & Forth
The Black Adder
Monty Python: The Life of Python: Vol. 1
Monty Python: The Life of Python: Vol. 2
The Ladykillers [the only Coen Bros movie I haven’t seen yet]
Dude, Where’s My Car? [only because Harold & Kumar had its moments]
The 39 Steps
Monk: Season 1
Event Horizon
Blade
Minority Report
Last Tango in Paris
Taxi Driver [I’m ashamed I’ve never seen this movie]
Unforgiven [or this one, for that matter]
A Beautiful Mind
The Work of Director Michel Gondry
Bowling for Columbine [I hate Moore, but I can’t criticize him until I’ve seen it]
The Hours
Far from Heaven
Schindler’s List
The Big Picture
The Emperor’s New Clothes
Women in Love
Eddie Izzard: Dress to Kill
The Best of the Original Avengers: Vol. 1
The Best of the Original Avengers: Vol. 2
Love Actually
Almost Famous
The Exorcist: Restored Version
Dancer in the Dark [for screen grabs only; I LOATHE this movie]
The Dish
Bridget Jones’s Diary [never saw it, and I’m curious]
The Bourne Identity
Phone Booth [it’s got Colin Farrell in it]
Traffic
Snatch [just so people will stop telling me “you HAVE to see this movie”]
The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror
Final Fantasy Unlimited: Vol. 1: Phase 1
Lone Star
Born Yesterday
Paris When it Sizzles [because William Holden rocks so hard]
Damien: Omen II [friend suggested I see it because it’s so laughably bad]
Dead Calm [it’s got Sam Neill in it]
Sirens [got it for Sam Neill, but it’s not worth it. I’m going to remove it]
Fahrenheit 9/11 [see Bowling for Columbine]
Koyaanisqatsi: Life Out of Balance
Black Adder Goes Forth Recommended based on your ratings
Father Ted: Series 2: Disc 1
Chuck & Buck
Faraway, So Close! [because I love Wings of Desire and didn’t know there was a sequel]
The Shape of Things
Jeeves and Wooster: Season 1: Disc 1
Chopper
Sexy Beast
Donnie Darko
Blue Velvet [because it’s been years since I’ve seen it]
Alfie

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Thanks for reminding me about Croupier! It’s one that is constantly being recommended to me and I keep forgetting to put it in the queue.

Have you seen Kwaidan before? I bought it based on the description alone (I wasn’t a member of Netflix at the time). I don’t think it’s a great movie, but it’s mesmerizing. Unfortunately, none of the people I’ve recommended it to have called it “mesmerizing” but instead “painfully dull” and given up. If you get bored with it, I highly recommend you skip ahead to the last story in the set. It’s really cool.

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Thanks, I’ll keep that in mind. Generally unless a movie is a total waste i’ll see it through. I like Asian fantasy so I should be OK with it. I just saw Tsui Hark’s Green Snake which I really liked despite some cheesy parts, and Ugetsu is one of my favorite movies, so I’m looking forward to Kwaidan.

BTW, Faraway, so close is OK, but don’t expect it to be nearly as good as Wings of desire, which is Wim Wenders best movie, IMHO.

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I have 142 titles in my queue, 21 of which have not yet been released.

What I’m getting this week:

[ul]
[li]The X-Files: Season 3: Bonus Disc[/li][li]The X-Files: Season 3: Disc 6[/li][li]The Station Agent[/li][/ul]
The first 20 in my queue:
[ul]
[li]Brainstorm[/li][li]Bad Santa[/li][li]Japanese Story[/li][li]Secret Window[/li][li]The Human Stain[/li][li]The Big Bounce[/li][li]Starsky & Hutch[/li][li]The Dreamers[/li][li]Hellboy[/li][li]The Whole Ten Yards[/li][li]The Prince and Me[/li][li]Taking Lives[/li][li]Godsend[/li][li]GoodFellas: Special Edition[/li][li]Barbershop 2: Back in Business[/li][li]New Jack City[/li][li]Laws of Attraction[/li][li]Twisted[/li][li]The Ladykillers[/li][li]The Punisher[/li][/ul]
Like KGS, I’m constantly moving stuff up to the top (messing with the queue a lot, in general), so some of the stuff toward the bottom could conceiveably never get shipped. :slight_smile:

20

Alexander Nevsky
Love Hina 1: Moving In
Amadeus
Buffalo Soldiers
Gloria
She Creature
Bully
The Goonies
Maniac Nurses Find Ecstacy
The Brood
Vatel
The Sleeping Dictionary
Witch Hunter Robin
Golem: Spirit of Exile
The Train
The Mission
The Scarlet Pimpernel
From Russia With Love
The Enforcer
Miracle Mile
Patlabor WXIII: The Movie
Slayers DVD Collection
No Such Thing
Silent Running
Parallel Dual
Uprising
Dirty Pretty Things
Kon-Tiki
Occult History of the Third Reich
Cabeza De Vaca
The 6th Day
Cronos
Frequency
Geneshaft: Vol. 1
Milk Money
Assault on Precinct 13
Silent Mobius: Vol. 1
Instinct
Martian SUccessor Nadesco
Hyper Police: Episodes 13-16
The Others
Cool World
Peter Pan
Sunset
Interview with the Vampire
The Castle of Cagliostro
Last Exile: Vol. 5
Time Bandits
Heat Guy K
The Bone Snatcher
Full Metal Panic: Mission 01
The Whole Ten Yards
R.O.D. the TV series: Vol. 1
Six-String Samurai
God is Great, I’m Not
Dead Poet’s Societ
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (Vol. 2)
Thief
Demon Under Glass

A couple of the more embarassing titles have been left off, of course.