Netflix and imdb
It's that time again.. my netflix queue has dwindled to mere five selections and I felt the burning need to add to it. This led to a realization (of course!).. every time I look through "new releases" or "recommendations" on netflix I tend to steer a second browser window into imdb.. to read about the movie there.
It's not just the ratings (although I do look at those, if a movie is a 4 I probably won't rent it (imdb 4, not netflix 4 in case you're confused)) the movie descriptions on imdb tend to be more detailed and accurate.. Netflix appears to have the "back of the video box" description style.. Not quite useful when deciding how to waste a few hours of my life with mindless entertainment.
I can't possibly be the only person doing this (I know I'm weird, but I'm not that unique) and it seems rather unlikely that netflix and imdb both are not aware of this.. so what's next.. Amazon buying out Netflix? Hey, you never know..
Comments
Only 5 selections? I normally have 20-30. What I do is add more or less everything that I *might* be interested in to my queue and then fiddle with the order so the ones I feel like watching are at the top. I find the ratings on IMDB a lot better than the netflix ones, which often tend to be a bit bi-polar.
My exciting queue:
http://www.estey.com/netflix.html
Posted by: Gavin | September 30, 2003 09:18 AM
I do similar things as well. But I'm constantly adding to my NetFlix queue based on reviews I read in a variety of sources. I'll often add movies to my queue before they are released theatrically based on a newspaper review.
Another great source of movies is the AFI's top movies list or IMDB's list. My queue is still about 200 mivies because I've added so many movies from those lists.
Posted by: Michael | October 7, 2003 10:01 AM