Netflix as Sociological Phenomenon.
2005-07-27 at 9:12 p.m.
Netflix is a genius idea, evidenced by it showing up in comic strips, on TV shows, and in conversation everywhere. "I'll have to netflix it," you say to a friend, when you're reminded of some mid-90's movie that you'd always meant to see and you'd never remembered until now.The one thing Netflix can't answer? How does a married couple share a Netflix account?
If you go by our account: poorly.
You can scroll through our queue and see when Andrew was adding movies versus when I was adding movies.
"Starsky and Hutch", "Along Came Polly", "50 First Dates"--Definitely Andrew.
"Cheaper by the Dozen" DEFINITELY Andrew.
"Riding Giants", "House of Sand and Fog", "One Hour Photo", "Auto Focus"--that was me.
it's funnier to see the phases we went through. Our queue is now nearly 300 movies long, so it may have been months ago when we went through the some Asian movie phase that put "Belle Epoque", "Eat Drink Man Woman", "Yojimbo" and "Rashomon" all together one after another in our queue. It's about 140 movies away.
Then there's our Cheesy Sci-Fi phase. Someone was craving unisex suits and dystopias when we got a rush of "Soylent Green", "Waterworld", "Rollerball, "The Omega Man", "Ice Pirates" and "When Worlds Collide" bam bam bam. Those are about 40 movies after our pan-Asian feast.
We've got a stand-up comic festival about 20 movies after that, there's The Classics You Should Have Seen about 15 movies later, and there's a hard core Sydney Poitier Love Fest after that.
Right now we're halfway through the series Deadwood, which I highly recommend. But we've got to get on this movie watching, if we're to give Sir Poitier the love and respect he deserves--he's way down at 221, starting with "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner."