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It was only recently I watched a Godard film all the way through without falling asleep.
Good, I feel lighter now. But this topic of entertainment guilt and Netflix customers paying to have a film sit unwatched has got me thinking. We’re entering a time of redefining what a spontaneous movie pick means. Apparently, it’s not when you pull Dumb and Dumberer from the shelf labeled “Bob’s favorites” at Blockbuster. It’s when you suddenly feel an urge to better your intellect by throwing Alphaville into your queue because your job is underchallenging and you’ve been feasting on Doritos and the Die Hard Box Set too long.
I wonder if this is a weird side effect of The Long Tail?
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The Netflix copy of Munich sat on our coffeetable for 30-some days, when my husband and I finally decided that we “weren’t in the mood to sit and watch it”.
We returned it to Netflix, unwatched. Not in the mood to see a film like that for more than 30 days?
We went though four other exchanges with the other two rentals, comedies, thrillers, BBC Comedy series… These came through the mail quickly, it was great variety, and we both enjoyed every single one of them.
But there sat Munich. I thought, “I should really watch this movie, because it’s costing me money”… not because I want to see it? Sigh.
We’ll probably stick it back into our Que some rainy Wednesday night when we’re in the mood, but it arrives on Friday, two days later, we’ll be in the mood for a “light hearted comedy”… and it will sit, again.
Then we’ll walk over to BallBuster Video or the library and rent whatever is left over after everyone has snatched up what we really wanted to see tonight!
I’m pretty sure Netflix will never work for me. I can’t stand the thought of paying for a movie everyday because I don’t have time to watch it, or I’m not in the mood to watch it.
I get movies from the library. Its actually quite similar to Netflix, only its free. I pick them out online, and a few days later when they are delivered to my library, I pick them up. Then they sit at my house unwatched because I don’t have time or I’m not in the mood - until they have to be returned.
What I would really love to do is download a movie and watch it on my TV. I think I would pay $5 to download a movie and not keep it. Although I’d pay full price to download a movie and be able to keep a copy in my collection.
Can “entertainment guilt” breed better discussions?
Do “difficult” films spur better discussion than purely entertaining films, or can we have the best of both worlds?