Thursday, 25 January 2007 05:36 pm
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deckardcanineI now count my Netflix account among the best presents I received a month ago. Aside from the obvious conveniences, I find myself inspired to get movies I never think to rent when I go to the store.
In fact, I seem to be learning about myself by perusing my queue. I didn't expect to order so many movies with an African-American focus: In the Heat of the Night, The Color Purple, Boyz 'n the Hood.... Am I making up for lost time? No blaxploitation comedies, tho.
As you probably know, Netflix suggestions based on your rental can be silly. Someone who orders The Motorcycle Diaries is not especially likely to want Nacho Libre. But at least I see the reason for that match. What's more perplexing to me is the group of suggestions that includes Independence Day, Armageddon, and The Day After Tomorrow. I didn't order a single disaster movie, much less one about the world's peril. The only pics that had arrived when I got the suggestions were Alexander Nevsky and Battleship Potemkin. Is Netflix hinting that communism, which Eisenstein implicitly endorses in both epics, threatens life on Earth as we know it? Dude, we're not even talking Cold War era.
In fact, I seem to be learning about myself by perusing my queue. I didn't expect to order so many movies with an African-American focus: In the Heat of the Night, The Color Purple, Boyz 'n the Hood.... Am I making up for lost time? No blaxploitation comedies, tho.
As you probably know, Netflix suggestions based on your rental can be silly. Someone who orders The Motorcycle Diaries is not especially likely to want Nacho Libre. But at least I see the reason for that match. What's more perplexing to me is the group of suggestions that includes Independence Day, Armageddon, and The Day After Tomorrow. I didn't order a single disaster movie, much less one about the world's peril. The only pics that had arrived when I got the suggestions were Alexander Nevsky and Battleship Potemkin. Is Netflix hinting that communism, which Eisenstein implicitly endorses in both epics, threatens life on Earth as we know it? Dude, we're not even talking Cold War era.
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Netflix is the best for obscure DVDs and TV series. No way the local Blockbuster is going to have all 50+ DVDs of Inu-Yasha in stock.