Netflix friends

[Alex]

Ah, I hadn't realized that they'd made the whole queue visible. When they first rolled it out a couple years ago it was just what the last few they had seen.

[innerSpaceman]

First of all, no, I don't want my queue visible, sorry.

Secondly, the only urge I have to rate movies is for the movie musings thread right here on the LoT. What silly irony it would be for me to now start rating movies on the netflix site just so that my LoT buddies could see them!

[Gemini Cricket]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

First of all, no, I don't want my queue visible, sorry.

Don't worry, we won't laugh. If you don't share, we'll be forced to guess and make up movies that we think are in your queue.

innerSpaceman's Netflix queue:

1. The Smurfs Meet the Snorks
2. The Land Before Time Part 22 - Littlefoot's Hang Nail Adventure
3. The Notebook 2 - (Movie description: Noah and Allie find a treasure map and go on a quest. Featuring Harvey Korman reprising his voice character, the Great Gazoo.)
4. 40 Pounds of Trouble - (I'll let you guess why I put this one on the list.)
5. Crash 2 - Cruise Control


And, to be fair, I'll let you all in on my queue at the moment:

1. Dealing With Anger (The movie version starring Sean Penn, Naomi Campbell, Bjork, Nick Nolte, Jane Fonda and Gary Busey.)
2. F.A.G.S. (Kind of like D.E.B.S. and B.A.P.S. combined)
3. Listen Here, See (Old 30's B/W movie starring over-rehearsed actors that smoke a lot and talk too fast. They say things like 'Why I Oughta' and 'What are you? A chicken? Are ya yella?' and 'I'm gonna sock you in the nose, pal.'
4. The Phonebook - Unabridged (A British Merchant Ivory film sans Merchant where Judi Dench, Emma Thompson, Maggie Smith, Colin Firth, Ian McKellan, Ian Holm, Imelda Staunton and Alan Rickman read phonebook ads to each other in an abandoned castle.)
5. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 2 and Thelma and Louise 2
6. The Wild Bunch 2 - Wilder and Bunchier

[Snowflake]

Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket

Don't worry, we won't laugh. If you don't share, we'll be forced to guess and make up movies that we think are in your queue.

innerSpaceman's Netflix queue:

4. 40 Pounds of Trouble - (I'll let you guess why I put this one on the list.)

Aw damn! I can't mojo you again! GC you're priceless!

But, back to 40lbs of trouble, stinky movie, until they get to Disneyland.....it's one of my guilty pleasures, this movie. I'll watch it, just for the vintage footage

[Gemini Cricket]

Originally Posted by Snowflake

But, back to 40lbs of trouble, stinky movie, until they get to Disneyland.....it's one of my guilty pleasures, this movie. I'll watch it, just for the vintage footage

I saw this awhile back on either TCM or AMC I forget which. And I thought the same thing: stinky. Then all of a sudden everyone's running around at Disneyland! Then I was like 'Waitaminute! Slow down. Should have taped this. Waitaminute! Go back. Dang it.'

[BarTopDancer]

It appears you can have seperate queues for different purposes. That would be a PITA though. I just signed up again.

[Alex]

The separate queues can be pretty useful.

It was originally set up so different people in the house could have their own queue (I know several married couples that split their alotment). When a disc is returned from Queue A the next movie in Queue A is sent.

I used it for a while when I was watching a lot of TV DVDs. I would always either move the entire series up to the top of the queue and then I was stuck either with only that TV show to watch or constantly having to manipulate my queue. Instead, I put all the TV shows in one queue, assigned it one of my 4 DVD slots and so I always had one TV DVD and 3 movie DVDs going without having to keep a constant eye on my queue.

iSm: The rating is a simple click, you don't have to actually say anything if you don't want to. I was using it before the Friends thing was available because their engine actually does a fairly decent job of making recommendations based on what how you rated movies.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Originally Posted by Alex Stroup

iSm: The rating is a simple click, you don't have to actually say anything if you don't want to. I was using it before the Friends thing was available because their engine actually does a fairly decent job of making recommendations based on what how you rated movies.

Same story here. We've used the recommendations to lead us to new movies before. And we've never written anything, just clicked once to show how many stars we rate it. It's very satisfying when you return a really crappy movie and want to pan it with one click.

I like the idea of seeing what friends recommend. As for seeing my queue - what the hell can you be hiding on Netflix, Steve? I already recommended "Secretary" here.

I never knew about seperate queues. We've been rationing our TV shows manually (ok, we returned one, let's bump on up) which is a bit annoying. Thanks for the tip!

[Cadaverous Pallor]

I'm enjoying this already. I type in "Metropolis" in order to suggest it (the movie came up in conversation at work today) and see this:

Originally Posted by Netflix

Alexander Stroup didn't like it.

It's feeling like home already.

[Alex]

Egad. I changed my profile to get rid of the ander. Can you confirm for me that it is changed in your view?