Comments on: Unlimited Movies, No Time

By: martymankins

martymankins — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 16:30:49 +0000

delmer – LOL… that’s funny, but so true. I’ve gone to the DVD player and found a movie in from before, wondering when was the last time I had watched it.

By: delmer

delmer — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 15:51:39 +0000

I stuck a movie in the DVD player one day and it was a week before I had time to press “play.”

But, by God, I was ready and could have been watching at a moment’s notice.

By: martymankins

martymankins — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:58:46 +0000

tori – I used to have such a friend, back in the VHS and Laserdisc days. I borrowed a lot from him. Then I started building my own library of Laserdiscs and people started borrowing from me… what comes around goes around. But it sounds like you are hooked up for some time with movies, without needing a Netflix or Blockbuster.

xisor – Oh yes. Sometimes, that’s the best option.

blondebogger – Ah. See, I don’t have Tivo or any DVR yet, and watch most of my TV online (with the exception of Monday nights for all of the CBS shows up to CSI: Miami [blech!]), a distraction I don’t have to worry about (yet).

By: BlondeBlogger

BlondeBlogger — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:23:25 +0000

I am in the same boat, but for a more pathetic reason. I got the live feeds for Big Brother and am not watching anything but that. I’m constantly hitting delete on my Tivo even. I’ve been meaning to put my Blockbuster account on hold, but I think I procrastinated too long. I think I was due to be billed a few days ago.

By: Xisor

Xisor — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:19:46 +0000

Just don’t answer the phone!

By: radioactive tori

radioactive tori — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 19:29:44 +0000

We have the best movie rental system ever. Since we rarely see movies anywhere near when they come out, we have a friend who BUYS a ton of movies as soon as you can. When he comes over about once a month, I feed him dinner, we play some games and then he gives us all the movies he has watched so we can watch them and return them the next time he comes over for dinner. It is working pretty well for us. Maybe I should introduce you to our friend?

By: martymankins

martymankins — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 04:21:33 +0000

kris – The Blockbuster we go to is on 7000 S. and Redwood. It’s not that far away, but hard to get to in traffic. Your’s is closer to you. Much easier to get to your’s without a car.

kapgar – The 3 month hold last year was nice… gave us a small reprieve during the summer. But I think we’ll hold off doing that this year. After all of the suggestions I’ve gotten so far, I think I really need to find a way to make more time for movie watching. Too many movies I don’t want to miss out on.

By: kapgar

kapgar — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:42:48 +0000

I had thought about putting Netflix on hold a couple times. Then just as I’m about to push the button, we wind up watching a ton. But the one thing we know is we’ll never go back to a bricks and mortar video store ever.

By: breakaway9

breakaway9 — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:26:18 +0000

That is true. more people make it more worthwhile… our blockbuster is very close, I can ride my bike down to it most days…. if you don’t have one close that does stink…. The way we have it set up is karen and I, usually Karen select the movies she wants to see, then when that one gets watched we let the kids take it back to the store and get whatever they want. The cost of the blockbuster plan is higher but if you take into account that we can have three movies out at any time, plus three more that same day, plus a game, it works out well in our situation, I think there normal game rental is about $8.50 alone… So even if we just watch 3 movies and rent one game it is reasonable…

By: martymankins

martymankins — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:03:39 +0000

ajooja – Cost wise, I’m not all that concerned. It’s the point of having these movies sit around for a couple of weeks and not being watched that bothers me the most. I think the bigger part of this is better time management for me to watch a movie. Adding into this is my wife, who would like to watch the movie with me, so when I have time to watch, she doesn’t. Coordination is a key to all of this. Your suggestion is a good one to drop down to 1 out at a time would help ease my concerns about these discs sitting around.

The selection that Netflix has is incredible. There’s a been a lot of independent films that no one else had (for example, a indy doc called “Kissing On The Mouth” which was pretty good). So even if I go to the next lowest unlimited plan, I’ll keep Netflix around at least for the selection.

kris – The main advantage you have is multiple people in the house watching movies, plus the game rental. For us, it’s just Reba and I. Earth tries to borrow our movies, but most of them that we’ve gotten are Blu-Ray, which we are the only one with the player. And unless Earth wants to come over and watch the movie at our place, they continue to sit.

Since they closed a Blockbuster and Hollywood Video (the one on Redwood and 7000 South) close to our home, we now drive a bit further (at least for the Blockbuster) to get movies. The Hollywood Video in the Wal-Mart parking lot is not bad, but their selection has sucked pretty bad the last few times we’ve gone there. I’ll check out Blockbuster’s plans again to see what they have to offer, which could help our movie viewing.