Ray & Open Water

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Tue Mar 01, 2005 10:53 am

Ray (***1/2): Real good. Great music. A little overwrought. Foxx deserving of award.

Open Water (***1/2): Masterpiece of minimalism. Inspiration to any wannabe filmmaker with a DV recorder and a dream. (And a shark wrangler.) Could have done without the obligatory "well, this whole thing is YOUR FAULT!!!" scene. Could have also done without the gratuitous nudity, but she was fairly hot, so we'll deal with it.

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Tue Mar 01, 2005 11:19 am

Man, I'd like to catch these movies, but Netflix is throttling me down to like one movie a month at this point.

What a load of horseshit. In a way I feel I'm experiencing the magic of the movie "Ray" right now because with Netflix I CAN'T SEE SHIT.

nessman · Post by **nessman** » Tue Mar 01, 2005 9:26 pm

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:Man, I'd like to catch these movies, but Netflix is throttling me down to like one movie a month at this point. .

Why the limit all of a sudden? Demand outstripping supply?

R Gere's Gerbil · Post by **R Gere's Gerbil** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 6:25 am

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote: I CAN'T SEE SHIT.

I smell it,but I don't see it

Richard Gere's Gerbil · Wed Mar 02, 2005 7:29 am

Wait... No! Now I see it. Now I see it! OH NOMMPDSHITAAAAUURGHPHPMPHGAUHHGHHGHH

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 11:43 am

nessman wrote:
Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:Man, I'd like to catch these movies, but Netflix is throttling me down to like one movie a month at this point. .
Why the limit all of a sudden? Demand outstripping supply?

What I read indicates that Netflix "loses money" if you rent more than x number of movies in a month. Not sure what the value of x is. Definitely 30... but we were renting far less than that. 15 a month, maybe?

Netflix still wants to advertise unlimited rentals. Which is horseshit. They pretend to not get your movies to slow you down. The last thing that occurs to them is to be honest about it, of course.

Anyway, I doubt they'll be around in five years. Blockbuster has the ability to not throttle downloads. I predict that they will ape Netflix's business model minus the annoyances and then crush them and then make their own subscription service 100x worse than Netflix's.

nessman · Post by **nessman** » Thu Mar 03, 2005 9:19 pm

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:Anyway, I doubt they'll be around in five years. Blockbuster has the ability to not throttle downloads. I predict that they will ape Netflix's business model minus the annoyances and then crush them and then make their own subscription service 100x worse than Netflix's.

Netflix and Blockbuster will be history in the next 5 years video-on-demand through the cable company slowly takes over.