Sunday, May 11, 2008
I just found the link on Netflix to view my rental history (hidden in plain sight on the queue page). I thought I would share some stats on my viewing history:
- I started renting in December 2005, and the first thing I returned was Stargate SG-1 Season 6 disc 2
- I stopped renting in May of 2007 (still paying for the service) because I got Murderball stuck in the DVD-ROM drive of my laptop and I didn't want to reboot to get it out. I finally rebooted in November, and started renting again. Six months uptime! I love my Mac :-)
- I don't remember renting these movies: Batman Begins, World in the Balance, The Future of Food, and Is Wal-Mart Good for America? All of these where rented just before I moved to Hawaii so maybe I was stressed out about that or something.
- I couldn't get through Videodrome (returned 04/28/08) because the special effects were just so bad. I refuse to give it a bad rating because it is weirdly original (just unwatchable).
- The worst movies I rented (all getting just one star) were Summer Catch, Weird Science, and Boa vs. Python (so bad it's really, really bad; though it does have one of the best kiss scenes ever)
- Those were not the worst movies I've ever seen. The top honor for that list goes to The Notebook, which I unfortunately subjected myself to in a theater surrounded by senseless, weeping women. It was not romantic, it was just insipid. I hate, HATE that movie.
- The best movie I rented, and my favorite all-time movie, was Eraserhead, which I finally rented in February of 2006. A poster for the movie was pinned up in the back room of the bookstore I worked at, so I had been curious about it for a couple of years.
- I have rented and returned 242 movies through Netflix (yikes! I need to get a life)
- To see 242 movies at current Honolulu ticket prices, the total cost would be $2,299.00!
- I paid approximately $420 to see those 242 movies over the course of 2 and half years (yikes! That's the cost of a longboard!)
- To buy those DVDs, I would have paid approximately $3,360. Phew. Of course, that would mean I would have a lot more useless crap lying around. Renting is much more environmentally friendly.
- In the same span of time, if I had paid for cable (proud to say I have never actually gotten cable service), it would have cost somewhere from $1,500 to $2,100.
posted by KaOs at
5/11/2008 02:49:00 AM
1 Comments:
Hi Katharine,
If you like the sort of Netflix related stats you blogged about, you should definitely take a look at FeedFlix. In addition to giving you stats and graphs to help you visualize your Netflix rental habits, you will also be easily able to share your Queue or Reviews with anyone on the net (just plug the link into your blog).
Try it out and let me know at feedback@feedflix.com what you think.
Regards,
Raghu Srinivasan
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