I have never knowingly watched something from Netflix. Or, for that matter, any other streaming movie. My friends who do watch such stuff think I’m strange. I reciprocate…
Growing up we had three channels, no remote, had to turn an antenna to get them in clearly… and because of the Fairness Doctrine, there was no Fox “news”. Good times …
Netflix should have a “watched” indicator. How many times I’ve started watching a movie and only realize after 25 minutes that I’ve already seen it… :-|
Netflix algorithm is dreadful, their menu is awful because it doesn’t offer the full choice but the choice it believes will fit you. They have a lot of good content but if you just follow the trends and suggestions you often end up watching bad things, cheaply designed to attract audiences with poor taste. But if you check elsewhere for suggestions then you just need to input the titles in the search box and you get to see good things if they are available. Still, an hour wasted searching on netflix is better than a minute wasted watching any tv reality show or those singing or dancing contests that are a good reason to hope for global warming to get worse.
what they need is a ‘channel surfing’ feature. you just go up and down and each channel starts somewhere in the middle of act 1 or act 2 of a film and you go “oh, this one. ok, this will work”.
nobody actively puts on, say, a Harry Potter film anymore (unless showing it to the kids that hadn’t seen it yet). but if you flip channels, and Prisoner of Askaban comes up right at the Buckbeak introduction, then you’ll just leave it there.
Yep! Reminds me of work. The guys would leave the bldg together and walk down Main st, passing lots of good restaurants without agreeing where to stop for lunch. We’d end up at the end, … McD’s.
I canceled Netflix. I wasn’t using it and they kept raising prices and there’s no shortage of things to watch.
I would subscribe to a streaming service that had all the old movies. Chaplin, Cagney, Bogart, Laurel and Hardy. But I don’t think it exists. TCM has streaming, but ONLY if you also get their cable TV, which is really stupid.
My uncle has commented several time that any streaming service is like going to Blockbuster too late on a Friday; a few A-List titles left that everyone’s seen, with only a lot of B and C-list muck left.
Amazon Prime is like that too. I’ve actually scrolled through menus for 3 hours looking for something good to watch but finding nothing. If you don’t want to watch what THEY want you to watch, you might as well leave.
i might watch Netflix once in 6 weeks or so. i must say i prefer the French, Scandanavian, & German offerings to American ones, especially the crime & sci-fi series.
At least the streaming service usually HAS the movie you want to see, unless there’s some issue with the rights or they want to renew things. Video rentals has the chance the movie you wanted to see was already rented out. Thankfully, I’ve got my DVDs.
Can’t speak to The Netflix Experience, but I will acknowledge the loss of lotsa time trying to find a decent free movie to watch on YouTube that I haven’t already seen before (sometimes I have to watch a few minutes before I realize that I have already seen this one)….
DH has spent our entire TV watching time just looking for something to watch. My eyes can’t stand the scrolling, so I can’t participate.I like Pluto or Roku better, wouldn’t miss Netflix.
Now, if we don’t find something quickly, we just watch Stargate.
C over 1 year ago
Net loss
BE THIS GUY over 1 year ago
I thought people just watched the trailers.
BasilBruce over 1 year ago
I’ll say it again: Bring back video rental stores!
Erse IS better over 1 year ago
I have never knowingly watched something from Netflix. Or, for that matter, any other streaming movie. My friends who do watch such stuff think I’m strange. I reciprocate…
carlsonbob over 1 year ago
Time and money wasted.
Cactus-Pete over 1 year ago
Just select “Surprise Me”. That’s what it’s for.
ronaldspence over 1 year ago
still quicker than going to Blockbuster
MichaelAxelFleming over 1 year ago
Alphabetize them.
Gent over 1 year ago
Them Netfreaks! They not has nothing better to do.
The dude from FL Premium Member over 1 year ago
Went to the movies today, 1st time since I moved to FL (1yr) Theater was in Leesburg (50 min 1 way) never been in a theater that big. Had everything
Johnny Q Premium Member over 1 year ago
My precious minutes are spent playing Elvenar…
lavender headgear over 1 year ago
So glad I don’t have a TV.
Doug K over 1 year ago
Average wait time this week: 73 minutes.
Length of the ride: about 3 minutes.
feverjr Premium Member over 1 year ago
Growing up we had three channels, no remote, had to turn an antenna to get them in clearly… and because of the Fairness Doctrine, there was no Fox “news”. Good times …
Ermine Notyours over 1 year ago
NullFlixing.
iggyman over 1 year ago
Almost as bad as what to pick for dinner!
Egrayjames over 1 year ago
My television, iMac, and iPhone ….are all “black holes” just waiting to entrap me!
akachman Premium Member over 1 year ago
Haven’t turned on the TV in a couple of months. Not missing it.
SNVBD over 1 year ago
Netflix should have a “watched” indicator. How many times I’ve started watching a movie and only realize after 25 minutes that I’ve already seen it… :-|
some idiot from R'lyeh Premium Member over 1 year ago
Oh no, I have too many options! I should be carefully spoon fed content instead.
alien011 over 1 year ago
Average length until you realize that the netflix movie is worse than the one you saw before (and that one was already pretty bad): 5 minutes.
wrd2255 over 1 year ago
First world problem. The struggle is real. How about “hours wasted watching loser shows because we just wanted to watch ‘something’”
buer over 1 year ago
Netflix algorithm is dreadful, their menu is awful because it doesn’t offer the full choice but the choice it believes will fit you. They have a lot of good content but if you just follow the trends and suggestions you often end up watching bad things, cheaply designed to attract audiences with poor taste. But if you check elsewhere for suggestions then you just need to input the titles in the search box and you get to see good things if they are available. Still, an hour wasted searching on netflix is better than a minute wasted watching any tv reality show or those singing or dancing contests that are a good reason to hope for global warming to get worse.
SusieB over 1 year ago
Very true!
Joseph Shelby Premium Member over 1 year ago
what they need is a ‘channel surfing’ feature. you just go up and down and each channel starts somewhere in the middle of act 1 or act 2 of a film and you go “oh, this one. ok, this will work”.
nobody actively puts on, say, a Harry Potter film anymore (unless showing it to the kids that hadn’t seen it yet). but if you flip channels, and Prisoner of Askaban comes up right at the Buckbeak introduction, then you’ll just leave it there.
MS72 over 1 year ago
Yep! Reminds me of work. The guys would leave the bldg together and walk down Main st, passing lots of good restaurants without agreeing where to stop for lunch. We’d end up at the end, … McD’s.
HOTLOTUS1 over 1 year ago
Blockbuster. how old are you?
Ellis97 over 1 year ago
Too bad they’re getting rid of their animation division.
rhpii over 1 year ago
Might I suggest a book?
david_42 over 1 year ago
My wife is the movie watcher. I think she has Netflix and D+, not certain.
tripwire45 over 1 year ago
Good thing I don’t have a streaming service.
bittenbyknittin over 1 year ago
I live alone, subscribe to three streaming services, and still can’t find anything to watch.
Cameron1988 Premium Member over 1 year ago
Haven’t had Netflix for like 5 years now
Ignatz Premium Member over 1 year ago
I canceled Netflix. I wasn’t using it and they kept raising prices and there’s no shortage of things to watch.
I would subscribe to a streaming service that had all the old movies. Chaplin, Cagney, Bogart, Laurel and Hardy. But I don’t think it exists. TCM has streaming, but ONLY if you also get their cable TV, which is really stupid.
Goat from PBS over 1 year ago
Maybe next time, draw names from a hat.
Wichita1.0 over 1 year ago
Orrrrrr, just nee use Netflix. Works for me.
aerotica69 over 1 year ago
This is why I usually end up turning to the classical music channel and reading a book.
l.vaillancourt over 1 year ago
My uncle has commented several time that any streaming service is like going to Blockbuster too late on a Friday; a few A-List titles left that everyone’s seen, with only a lot of B and C-list muck left.
gigagrouch over 1 year ago
1st World problems…
hollisson Premium Member over 1 year ago
Amazon Prime is like that too. I’ve actually scrolled through menus for 3 hours looking for something good to watch but finding nothing. If you don’t want to watch what THEY want you to watch, you might as well leave.
Zebrastripes over 1 year ago
No Netflix….how many streaming companies are there? How can people afford all these and cable? Sickening
Linguist over 1 year ago
Sorry, Netflix … I’d rather read an e-book on my tablet than stream a movie.
Count Olaf Premium Member over 1 year ago
Considering the movies on Netflix not unusual. And completely understandable.
The Famous Eccles over 1 year ago
I don’t have any streaming service, so no problem!
gigagrouch over 1 year ago
i might watch Netflix once in 6 weeks or so. i must say i prefer the French, Scandanavian, & German offerings to American ones, especially the crime & sci-fi series.
198.23.5.11 over 1 year ago
I want to watch the new PINOCCHIO,but I can’t!!!
Tom Hanks is suddenly box office poison??
NWdryad over 1 year ago
Yet another great reason to be single.
schaefer jim over 1 year ago
My time is longer then the 3rd panel!
John Jorgensen over 1 year ago
That’s why I don’t watch with other people, unless we’ve already agreed on the movie ahead of time.
Buoy over 1 year ago
Ahhhh yes, such Freedom in so many choices, no?
KEA over 1 year ago
and just getting to the Netflix list takes at least 47min. Too many choices is one of the major problems of contemporary life.
Bilan over 1 year ago
They forgot to include the times you pause the movie to go do a chore or get food.
Ceeg22 Premium Member over 1 year ago
How long does it take to go back and watch something in your Watch List
asrialfeeple over 1 year ago
At least the streaming service usually HAS the movie you want to see, unless there’s some issue with the rights or they want to renew things. Video rentals has the chance the movie you wanted to see was already rented out. Thankfully, I’ve got my DVDs.
knight1192a over 1 year ago
Not just Netflix. If you don’t know what it is you wan to watch, it takes longer to find a movie than it does to watch it.
Otis Rufus Driftwood over 1 year ago
Technology doesn’t always make things better.
Sisyphos over 1 year ago
Can’t speak to The Netflix Experience, but I will acknowledge the loss of lotsa time trying to find a decent free movie to watch on YouTube that I haven’t already seen before (sometimes I have to watch a few minutes before I realize that I have already seen this one)….
rogthedodge1 over 1 year ago
I have never owned a television machine.
franki_g over 1 year ago
DH has spent our entire TV watching time just looking for something to watch. My eyes can’t stand the scrolling, so I can’t participate.I like Pluto or Roku better, wouldn’t miss Netflix.
Now, if we don’t find something quickly, we just watch Stargate.
We have achieved “Screw it”.