<p>It’s too cold to go out and I only have 3 movies in my queue I added the Illusionist thanks to the recommendation on favorite movies 2006 thread. Wordplay came today. What’s in your queue?</p>
<p>Moulin Rouge, Thank You For Smoking, Breakfast at Tiffanys, Chicago, Black Hawk Down, Rent, Walk the Line, Wedding Crashers.</p>
<p>Good Thread! The Illusionist, Entourage-great HBO show, Marie Antoinette (in line for when it comes out because I missed it at the theater, Running Wit Scissors, Blue, The Story of Us.</p>
<p>This is what we have home right now: Miami Vice, The Break-Up, The Guardian, Sherrybaby.</p>
<p>My daughter wants us to get “The Importance of Being Earnest,” as we went to an avant-garde theater production of this recently and now would like to revisit the normal version.</p>
<p>interesting! I liked Walk the line and wedding crashers, just put Running with scissors (the book) on hold at my library yesterday! I think our library has Thank you for smoking, dvd, so will get that there. okay, back to netflix with some additions! The other two (besides the Illusionist) I have in queue are Quinceanera and Madagascar.</p>
<p>I don’t think my Netflix queue has ever had fewer than 30 selections on it. </p>
<p>My current top 13 (3 at home and next 10) are:</p>
<p>My Architect: A Son’s Journey
High Fidelity
Texas Ranch House
Annie Hall
Bananas
Closer
The Yes Man
Where the Heart Is
The Shop Around the Corner
The Bob Newhart Show, Season 1
Soap, Season 1
The Thin Man
After the Thin Man</p>
<p>Pretty strange list, really. The next two are “Smiley’s People” and “Double Indemnity.”</p>
<p>Washdad:</p>
<p>I hope you get the TCM channel since they play many of the movies on your list as well as similar ones. They sometimes have ‘Thin Man’ marathons where they play a number of those back to back.</p>
<p>Hitchcock movies are always good.</p>
<p>Just watched these 2 and enjoyed them: </p>
<p>In Good Company
First Wives Club</p>
<p>Deadwood - HBO series - same quality as Six Feet Under. Gritty with lots of swearing. I didn’t expect to like it as much as I do. </p>
<p>HBO’s Six Feet Under - best TV series ever in my opinion. Great storylines, acting, character development, photography, and music. Funny, poignant, serious, and real - TV with depth.</p>
<p>Deep Blue - a documentary about the Ocean, similar to March of the Penguins. If you get it , watch the "making of " special feature.</p>
<p>Maria Full of Grace, The Devil Wears Prada , and who killed the Electric Car (if you’re a hard core conservative, you might not appreciate it’s critical viewpoint - it’s kind of long and meandering , could have used some editing)
We also just watched the Illusionist and Quinceanara, both good choices.</p>
<p>Not much in my queue at the moment other than Hollywoodland, which is not yet out. But my recent Netflix movies include Songcatcher, which I liked a lot; the Appalachian music and setting are wonderful even though the story itself is sort of weak; I also enjoyed The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, which is in really beautiful color. Also join others in recommending Thank you for Smoking and The Devil Wears Prada. If you are a fan of Sex and the City, it’s fun to get the disks in order starting with season 1 from Netflix.</p>
<p>USCUCLADad, to get TCM (which I would love) I would have to spend another $20 a month on the next-upgraded cable service. </p>
<p>It’s a little thread drift, but it IS about television and movies…</p>
<p>We replaced our 18-year-old 26-inch Mitsubishi television with a new 37-inch LCD TV I picked up for a song ($700) right before Thanksgiving. (Consumer guilt – OK, I blew $700 on a teevee, but it is the first one I’ve purchased since 1988…) The thing is – it’s wonderful. DVDs look fabulous – crisp, clear, sharp, and bright colors. I LOVE watching movies on this thing. Which leads me to the question, what do you all think of as the best delivery mechanism for HD programming: digital cable or satellite? </p>
<p>My wife and are pretty serious movie buffs, and my youngest son has already shot his first short on video. This recently led me to replace a big part of my old VHS library with DVDs. We justified this with the fact that most older movies are now only $8-12 each. We’ve been having a lot of fun this winter watching widescreen versions of our favorites that we’ve only been able to see on pan-and-scan since their last theatrical release (you really can’t see “Lawrence of Arabia” properly on anything less than a 60-foot screen, but it sure looked nice on the new teevee). I only bring this up to make the point that saving at least a couple of hundred bucks on a new television has now cost me at least $250 on new DVDs to watch on it. On the other hand, a movie and snacks for our family of four at the theater (which how God means movies to be watched) now easily runs $70-75. That buys a lot of new entries for the family film library.</p>
<p>I see I’m rambling here. Back to tonight’s showing of “City Slickers.”</p>
<p>Washdad:</p>
<p>It only gets worse - now that you have an HD-capable TV you have to be careful of buying DVDs since they’re not HD and you’ll get stuck with them. You could spend a bunch more money and by an HD-DVD or Blue-Ray player so you can start getting the HD quality DVDs but they’re still in a battle of format dominance. I think the best bet is to either make this leap or keep using NetFlix until the battle is sorted out when the players become les expensive - probably in a year or two.</p>
<p>If you have an HD tuner in your TV then you might be able to pick up some programs over the air. Other than that, just compare pricing on cable versus satellite. I have cable and was too lazy to consider satellite. To get HD cable though I had to upgrade to a digital box and then up to HD - they nickel and dime you (i.e. $5 and $10) on every upgrade.</p>
<p>Movies really are better in HD as is the Discovery channel and football games. </p>
<p>I just bought a 55 inch plasma and more often than not I’m watching an old B&W movie on it.</p>
<p>A mine-rant on this slant - AMC used to be great for old movies but then they switched to mostly newer movies (80’s on up) and tons of commercials so I had to mostly quit watching them. TCM is still good though.</p>
<p>I’m watching three TV series(es) on Netflix right now…so much cheaper than buying DVDs, and you don’t have to store them! They are “Gilmore Girls”, “L-word”, and “Veronica Mars”. I don’t watch TV at all, so never saw them the first time around. I have “I, Claudius” on the list too, and a bunch of dumb chick flicks and comedies, which I adore. S is working his way through “Hogan’s Heroes” and Tom Cruise’s oeuvre. H likes foreign films, documentaries, and anything depressing. His list includes “Sketches of Frank Gehry”, “Nowhere in Africa” and “China’s Lost Girls”.</p>
<p>Thanks for suggestions above, will add “Six Feet Under”.</p>
<p>Has anyone else ever noticed that if you start returning Netflixes rapidly (like one every day) that they slow down shipping them to you, claiming that your next series disc is in, say, Taos New Mexico?</p>
<p>HeliMom:</p>
<p>For your H - “Band of Brothers”, an HBO WWII series available on DVD.</p>
<p>ucsd…His aunt gave S “Band of Brothers” a year or two ago. It’s been sitting here. Thank you…I’ll encourage H to watch it.</p>
<p>I sometimes think our netflix distributing place must be next door to the post office because they are received and delivered so quickly. We’re the biggest bottleneck - finding two hours in an evening to watch movies is not always easy. </p>
<p>I watched Wordplay last night. It was interesting. My daughter got us into watching documentaries and this one was about crossword puzzles, the people that play and make them and a Crossword tournament. The biggest drawback to being on the one at a time plan is that if you’re in the mood for a comedy and you have a drama (or whatever) you can’t pick from something else.</p>