Reading through Ebert's Best 10 Movies of 2005 -- which actually includes about fifty movies total -- it occured to me that 1) I've been watching a lot more television than movies this year, and thus have an unusually long list of films that I'm looking forward to on DVD, which led me to 2) that there should be a one-click way to grab a movie (or list of movies) from a website, and put it in your Netflix queue, even if the movies aren't released on DVD yet.

Something like this may well exist already -- I don't even use Netflix, so it's all theoretical to me. But if it doesn't exist, it will soon.

Comments

[b e n m c c o r k l e]

sounds like flock needs a new extension...

[adam]

how bout a Greasemonkey extension?

[Dave Munger]

The problem I have with Netflix is the opposite: when I put something on the queue, it sounds great, but three months later when it actually arrives in my mailbox, I wonder "what was I thinking?" I think I'm going to have to wait for video-on-demand.

[Campbell Vertesi]

I'm sure there's a greasemonkey extension for that.

Interesting that you should mention watching more tv than movies lately... there's a lot of talk that that's where all the action is nowadays. Word in Hollywood is that movies have become so stale and formulaic, not to mention so locked into their content ratings, that there's no room left for innovation. All the real edgy stuff happens on cable channels, like HBO etc.

Try and think of a movie in the last year that was as edgy as "Sex and the City" was most every night. Even something like "Nip and Tuck" - not that I watch it, but that's really pushing the envelope! There's just not much going on like that in film.

Of course, I don't even have cable anymore; I watch everything at the artsy theatre up the street, so what do I know? :)

[John Branch]

Re. Campbell Vertesi's comment, the big American-produced films are going the same way the Broadway theater has gone, and the same way some fiction publishing has gone: bigger, costlier, fewer, all with the hope of producing the next big hit. But in all those fields, a lot of interesting stuff is being produced on smaller scales: off-off-Broadway theater (to confine myself to NYC), independent films and those that are virtually homemade, boutique fiction. However, this is another whole discussion: mass culture versus niches.

I'd guess that one reason Steven has been watching more TV is because TV has gotten more interesting; another reason is presumably that he was researching that part of his latest book.

[scitron]

I'd like to think that our expectations are lower when watching tv, but the truth is most films fail to satisfy. Although I haven't seen everything on Roger Ebert's list, I couldn't help but guffaw at many of his choices for top films of the year. BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN? Sorry, this well-intentioned exercise in homophobia taunting forgot to put it's best scenes on screen instead of off. CRASH is so mannered it's unwatchable. Give me a juicy episode of THE SOPRANOS or the always-clever ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT or CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM anytime!

[brian]

Would it kill you to drag your ass to the theater along with the rest of us? Or does there have to be a personal tech angle on all things in life?

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