Farewell to Blockbuster
This past Friday I finally took the plunge and joined Netflix. I should recieve my first three selections tomorrow:
1. Once A Thief
2. Breaker Morant
3. When We Were Kings
The biggest factor in this switch is that I finally wearied of Blockbuster's piss poor selection of movies. Among my 98 movies in queue (yes, I went a little crazy) are numerous titles that I wanted to see but were simply unavailabe for rent (for reasons that escaped me in many cases), such as She Wore A Yellow Ribbon, Midnight Run, Big Night, Chushingura, and Lost Command. Not only movies, but 'special interest' DVDs, like the above-mentioned When We Were Kings, as well as the Shane MacGowan DVD and (forgive me) The Curse of the Bambino.
The icing on the cake was the huge selection of television titles available, as there are plenty of shows that I wanted to see but didn't necessarily need to own. Some of them - Firefly, Homicide, Sharpe's adventures - I suppose I could've found as a rental. Others however, would've been much more difficult to locate without Netflix: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy; House of Cards and it's sequels; Piece of Cake; plus loads of Highlander and La Femme Nikita.
1. Once A Thief
2. Breaker Morant
3. When We Were Kings
The biggest factor in this switch is that I finally wearied of Blockbuster's piss poor selection of movies. Among my 98 movies in queue (yes, I went a little crazy) are numerous titles that I wanted to see but were simply unavailabe for rent (for reasons that escaped me in many cases), such as She Wore A Yellow Ribbon, Midnight Run, Big Night, Chushingura, and Lost Command. Not only movies, but 'special interest' DVDs, like the above-mentioned When We Were Kings, as well as the Shane MacGowan DVD and (forgive me) The Curse of the Bambino.
The icing on the cake was the huge selection of television titles available, as there are plenty of shows that I wanted to see but didn't necessarily need to own. Some of them - Firefly, Homicide, Sharpe's adventures - I suppose I could've found as a rental. Others however, would've been much more difficult to locate without Netflix: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy; House of Cards and it's sequels; Piece of Cake; plus loads of Highlander and La Femme Nikita.
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